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4446
i think that they thought that it was a soft issue
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4447
but it was one of the first times that i didn't have to cook lunch myself
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4449
my wife understandably thinks i'm rather morbid to begin my day with scrambled eggs and a let's see who died today
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4451
this one is of the amazing lee kuan yew
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4468
but then i thought well in case of a fire i might be the last one to ignite
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4471
we're looking at a lot of compounds but recently been quite interested in the flame the flame that are in many many things that we use in our everyday life from the cushions in the chairs we're all sitting on to the plastic casings of our computers our television sets and so on
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4472
we call it propaganda gardening
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4475
it's called vegetable tourism and believe it or not people come from all over the world to poke around in our raised beds even when there's not much growing
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4477
so three and a half years ago a few of us sat around a kitchen table and we just invented the whole thing
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4478
and this is a of exhibition gardens and edible and bee friendly sites and the story of and it's a that we designed that takes people through the whole of our town past our cafes and our small shops through our market not just to and fro from the supermarket and we're hoping that in changing people's footfall around our town we're also changing their behavior
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4479
and because we were doing that some local academics said you know we could help design a commercial horticulture course for you
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4482
suddenly we're seeing actions on the ground from local government
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4483
there are so many things you can do but ultimately this is about something really simple
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4484
taking a long walk by yourself during which you devise a foolproof scheme for robbing tiffany's is serious
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4485
and as you get older and more decrepit you sort of inch along on this sort of depressing long staircase leading you into oblivion
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4486
i just thought it was you know completely boring
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4488
and then inexpensive signage
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4489
and of course they couldn't have been because it's in the wrong spot
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4490
i keep that for evidence
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4493
be serious it says
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4494
that's because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness which is rare but more comfortable to endorse solemnity which is commonplace
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4496
perfection happens during solemn play
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4500
tristan a west point track star who always ran and road marched with no socks and had shoes whose smell proved it
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4501
they would put pounds of weight on their backs and board the helicopter for an operation and they would come back and watch a movie called bridesmaids
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4502
and they would talk about some of the lighter moments of being women out on the special operations front lines including the which was a tool that let you pee like a guy although it's said to have had only a percent accuracy rate out there
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4503
and she was also famous for walking up to a rope climbing it using only her arms and then shuffling away and apologizing because she knew she was supposed to use both her arms and her legs as the rangers had trained them
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4504
america would never kill its way to the end of its wars it argued
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4505
so the call went out
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4506
full of women who were as fierce and as fit as they were and as driven to make a difference
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4507
women live in the and every single day and these women brought that to this mission as well
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4518
this is how my brain works by the way
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4521
anyway
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4522
do not put this in your coffee
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4524
i'm not going to propose don't worry
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4525
and she said yes
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4528
i got a bit of gray hair started to dress in black like a true architect
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4529
and so we decided to build to realize the famous yes but chair
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4531
but look at number three creativity number two critical thinking number one complex problem solving all the things a robot or a computer is really bad at
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4532
left image is a good day saturday
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4533
we live five to six years shorter children have lung cancer when they're six years old
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4535
new ideas pop up
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4537
the electricity that we generate is used for the lighting or the booth
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4538
it goes wrong
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4539
and others were mesmerized
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4541
all right thank you
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4544
and this map is also accurate
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4546
i just want to portray them in a way that their grandchildren are going to look at their grandfather and they're going to be like whoa my grandfather is as cool as
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4547
we were crazy about music
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4549
so we set off on a mission to travel the world and look for the people we finally termed as the
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4550
we had zero reporting and zero filmmaking experience
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4552
i had to come up with a strategy so that i could just pee in peace
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4553
she recognized prince from television and soon i had an audience of other hairdressers interested in meeting me
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4559
his parents disowned him and accused him of bringing great shame to the royal family
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4562
david wasn't ashamed of who he was
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4566
in contrast of course we have the hippo generation
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4567
it's like the blind leading the clueless
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4568
that characterization in my view is even more charitable
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4571
there is one particular quote a lesotho chief once said that here in lesotho we've got two problems rats and the government
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4573
now we're talking about a continent that is not poor
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4574
look at africa's begging bowl
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4575
put that aside
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4577
the richest people in africa are heads and ministers and quite often the chief bandit is the head himself
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4598
i would run into the living room jump up on the couch rip the cushions off throw them on the floor scream at the top of my lungs and run out because i was the incredible hulk
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4600
and that's pretty much my response
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4601
immediately death sweat
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4603
so i bought a month's worth of classes
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4605
and i thought this would be great fun
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4606
my inability to swim has been one of my greatest humiliations and embarrassments
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4607
more specifically i want you to feel like you're capable of becoming an excellent long distance swimmer a world class language learner and a tango champion
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4609
even did lessons with olympians nothing helped
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4610
this is my multitasking activity result
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4611
so nowadays everyone could produce his mono product
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4613
it was a tuesday
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4615
when this picture appeared that well known scientific journal the new york times wrote in its editorial mars is uninteresting
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4616
but let me start with a viking photograph
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4618
also known as oxygen ions those bind to our cause it to mutate and cause us to get old and lose our hair
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4619
so you age because you rust out
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4620
i mean after all we're not trees and most of us are not lobsters
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4621
i say might because with revolutionary ideas most are flat wrong and even those that are right seldom have the impact that we want them to have
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4622
sanitation no
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4623
the doctor's symptoms were identical to those of the mothers who were dying
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4624
i was having a really bad day
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4626
well there wasn't much else to do in the spinal ward so we did
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4628
she said that's nice dear
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4629
is that a problem i made a booking and weeks later my friend chris and my mom drove me out to the airport all pounds of me covered in a plaster body cast in a baggy pair of overalls
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4631
didn't know how on earth i'd ever pass a medical
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4632
and mom said she was forever following me wiping off my fingerprints
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4639
i broke my collarbone
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4640
come on
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4644
i was an athlete
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4648
but you're going to get home and realize how different life is
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4651
outside of this room more than a third of us smile more than times per day whereas less than percent of us smile less than five
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4653
so i suppose you're not going to be able to kick me off the stage since you asked the question
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4656
ok
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4660
but the ends of all those balloon trips were you know something seemed to go wrong every time and on that particular occasion the more experienced balloonist who was with me jumped and left me holding on for dear life
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4662
in fact i think our airline took a full page ad at the time saying you know come on richard there are better ways of crossing the atlantic
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4669
it's actually a nickname given to priests in the eighteenth century
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4670
please
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4671
so our key witness argued that it was actually never mind the priest here's the sex pistols
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4672
and if i see you know if i fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one which it wasn't years ago then i'd think well you know maybe i can create the kind of airline that i'd like to fly on
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