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the traits the word childish addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking
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so let's do it
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and now they're going to be poured back into the egg
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because the desire to win the game is so strong more than percent of children will peek as soon as we leave the room
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looks like many of you are terrible detectors of children's lies
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well it turns out all of the three beliefs are wrong
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mind reading is the ability to know that different people have different knowledge about the situation and the ability to differentiate between what i know and what you know
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2353
hillary's completely gone
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the news continues to give us a picture where men outnumber women in nearly all occupational categories except two students and homemakers
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now i know you're all distracted so i'll take that off
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2358
this was its issue in april
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now here's a secret you probably know already your stories are constructed
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this time it adds another byline to it with erica goode
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the global media monitoring project has found that stories by female reporters are more likely to challenge stereotypes than those by male reporters
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chris anderson the editor of wired defended his choice and said there aren't enough women prominent women in technology to sell a cover to sell an issue
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this is an important point to consider because much of our foreign policy now revolves around countries where the treatment of women is an issue such as afghanistan
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in fact the more inspired a story makes me feel very often the more nervous i get
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when asked to describe their lives what is interesting is how few people said mess
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i don't think anyone said my life is a reality tv show
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for instance just to get out of bed in the morning you tell yourself the story that your job is really important what you're doing is really important and maybe it is but i tell myself that story even when it's not
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i won't be
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you're like hey a free story and you end up buying the product because the product and the story go together
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story a is buy this car and you will have beautiful romantic partners and a fascinating life
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they contain a lot of information
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as a simple rule of thumb just imagine that every time you're telling a good versus evil story you're basically lowering your by ten points or more
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so when i'm really doing something that is actually just a waste of time in my mess of a life i'm too tied into my story that got me out of bed and ideally i ought to have some very complex story map in my mind you know with and a matrix of computation and the like but that is not how stories work
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i'm not sure i was the bad guy in the sense of having evil intent but it was very hard for me to get away with that story
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you can never get out of the pattern of thinking in terms of stories but you can improve the extent to which you think in stories and make some better decisions
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2381
there is a gabriel garcia marquez memoir living to tell the tale that we use memory in stories to make sense of what we've done to give meaning to our lives to establish connections with other people
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2382
you've all done it
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now polls show that men tell twice as many lies as women assuming the women they asked told the truth
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and i'm going to use them to tell you a little bit about my favorite subject deception
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so it's interesting for me when i'm looking for someone who can really talk to me and talk to an audience about these things that probably one of the most important people in the world who can discuss toxicity in babies is expert in frogs
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now my wife tells me and i'm sure penelope can as well that there's nothing more painful than childbirth which that i'll never experience i can't really argue that but i would guess that a dozen chicken eggs in my testicle would probably be somewhere in the top five
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in canada we're now looking at one in canadian children with asthma
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but what does is it turns on an enzyme the machinery if you will that converts testosterone into estrogen
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what's interesting is in fact the same company that sold us million pounds of the breast cancer promoter now sells us the blocker the exact same company
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2398
that was an essay i wrote when i was years old and i got a b
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there is also the uncertainty principle which is part of quantum mechanics as i understand it
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and so i am going to just throw in string theory here and just say that creative people are and there are levels i think of anxiety
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now in the nature area we look at whether or not we are innately equipped with something perhaps in our brains some abnormal chromosome that causes this muse like effect
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and then i also wasn't really shining in a certain area that i wanted to be and you know you look at those scores and it wasn't bad but it was not certainly predictive that i would one day make my living out of the artful arrangement of words
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and my mother believed that something had gone wrong and she was gonna find out what it was and she was gonna fix it
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in fact one of the voices actually dictated the answers during the exam which technically possibly counts as cheating
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but i was skilled at hiding it and from the outside appeared to be someone with everything to hope for and aspire to
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and you know that chris would say thank you
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one of the things about appearing later on in the ted week is that gradually as the days go by all the other speakers cover most of what you were going to say
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and so this morning i thought oh well i'll just do a card trick
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and somebody was talking about metaphors on monday
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no no not going to do it
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i stayed thrilled until i got home threw the helmet onto my bed fell down onto my bed and realized inside there was an inscription
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at first blush you think hey it's crazy what could you possibly gain we created what we like to call
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now if there is anyone here from american airlines please consider doing your christmas party here
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again just a couple people are required
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so eventually we have found ourselves in a totally marginalized position way over here
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now something else happened
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now if we do this i believe we can go back years and start agency social engineering back into architecture
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this is the moment in which you as the architect and your client can begin to inject vision and agency
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but i promise you with enough brain power and enough passion and enough commitment you will arrive at conclusions that will transcend convention and will simply be something that you could not have initially or individually conceived of
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the curator said to me that's ridiculous you know this is new york this chair will be empty nobody has time to sit in front of you
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and then after you finish you get a certificate of accomplishment so get home and frame it if you want
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and if you fall asleep which is very possible because it's been a long day you're going to be transported to the parking lot
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counting rice will be another thing
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2430
some of the objects are a glass of water a coat a shoe a rose
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people would give me the glass of water to drink they'd give me the rose
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and another person took the pistol and they started a fight
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and i looked at myself in the mirror and i had a piece of gray hair
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here's the section on the all important emergency stop switch
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it's a lot of fun
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that's the scourge of daycare centers everywhere it's like basically
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2437
so i mean we wanted it to work
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2438
well doesn't have canine distemper that's probably good
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i took a bunch of these small like the common cold like polio and so on and i just broke them down into small segments
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and so we can encapsulate these regions of ultra conservation through evolution how these viruses evolved by just choosing elements or elements in these regions to represent on our chip as detection reagents
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now if the sequences match they'll stick together and so we can look at spots
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and then when my mom noticed she got really upset
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and this was what my notebooks looked like in law school
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the nigerian in me was like nah
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you see the are an ethnic group from the southwestern part of nigeria and i was always fascinated by these stories
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as a child i thought she was born with them with beautiful black lines and detailed symbols
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so in this one you see the map of africa you see the questions you see crying and there you see syringes plugged into africa and the natural resources being drained out
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maybe a few hours on sunday
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it's just not true
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of course these people don't really look like scientists because they're much too happy
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and indeed this is actually true for most scientists as well outside of their own specialties
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so there are many famous examples in the history of science of scientists doing exactly this
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so i said to myself with all these hundred other boys this is where i belong
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and i stayed
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she latched on to the word chicken which isn't the best but certainly is not the worst
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would you describe it as a whirlwind romance no no no
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yes
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i'm not sure people would describe it entirely that way
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now if any of you guys would ever come to our house in tucson for the first time gabby would usually go up to the freezer and pull out the piece of tupperware that has the real skull
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we have a lot of connections with prisons apparently
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i called her back and that's when she told me that gabby had been shot in the head
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she understands everything but the communication is just very difficult because when you look at the picture the part of your brain where those communication centers are are on the left side of your head which is where the bullet passed through
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no one is closer to chancellor merkel than the swiss diplomats
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2481
if people are spying on us it stands to reason that they have to listen to what we are saying
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they weren't as sophisticated as those used by the americans and the british
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the academy of arts joined the project and so we built another large antenna on their rooftop exactly between the listening posts of the and the
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