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5665
of course the milk can is his
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5666
and one day i had a oh well the other way
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5667
i use a lot of metal in my work and i have a hard time connecting with the craft
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5668
i was given an opportunity to design an exhibit for the unions of america and canada in washington and i did it on the condition that they become my partners in the future and help me with all future metal buildings etc
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5669
and herman miller has this philosophy of having a place a people place
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5670
and they end up looking like stone
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5671
and so stanley did the little dome thing
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5672
and so i decided to put him in a depression
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5673
in boston we had that old building on the left
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5674
in barcelona on las for some film festival i did the hollywood sign going and coming made a building out of it and they built it
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5675
i just joined the points
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5676
and we started with the stream and built the house along the stream dammed it up to make a lake
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5677
and so we finally ended up making it
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5678
in this case we learned how to detail it
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5680
he's at home having tea
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5681
the second reason is we cannot keep doing animal experimentation forever and we have to embody all our data and all our knowledge into a working model
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5682
was fatter than a telephone directory busy pumping hot air into the bubble
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5685
it's the mental equivalent of the full body massage
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5686
you're going to have to fuck up really badly to make it bad
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5692
yes it's a little boring but some people kind of get into the zen of it
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5693
one is what's on the boston public library
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5694
later when this chapter appeared in our textbooks our biology teacher skipped the subject
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5697
parents and teachers were comfortable in talking about periods to young girls using the book and sometimes even boys were interested in reading it
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5698
so please be period positive
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5700
and in some parts of this number is as high as nine out of girls being unaware of it
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5701
so when i started getting my periods i began with using rags
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5702
i was not allowed to touch or eat pickles
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5703
and in the absence of any intervention it is the myth and misconception that propagate from generation to generation
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5705
as adam smith said no man ever saw a dog make a fair exchange of a bone with another dog
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5706
they made his silly outfits like this and they did his silly or whatever
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5707
it's the one thing we insist on doing for ourselves is reproduction
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5709
one is an hand axe from half a million years ago of the kind made by homo
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5710
it just tells you they were both designed to fit the human hand
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5711
and there's another difference too which is the object on the left is made from one substance
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5714
jim was
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5716
i'm sorry to say that
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5717
i suggested we should have occupy death
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5719
i don't promise anything
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5723
this is john hunter hospital
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5724
and if that wasn't bad enough of course all of this is rapidly progressing towards the fact that many of you in fact about one in of you at this point will die in intensive care
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5726
i've never been so nervous and i do this when i'm nervous i just realized
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5727
all these people that had sort of flexible daily hours and an interest in the english word i hope to have an interest in the english language but i'm not speaking it well right now
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5728
and we looked around and somebody else said well you should sell supplies to the working buccaneer
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5730
the only problem especially for the adults working at who hadn't necessarily bought into all of this when they signed up was that there was just the one bathroom
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5733
you can see the time in all five boroughs of new york in the back
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5734
the echo park time travel mart whenever you are we're already then
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5736
my mom was a teacher my sister became a teacher and after college so many of my friends went into teaching
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5738
it used to be in my kitchen in brooklyn
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5739
so we rented this space
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5741
these are some signs that we have all over the place practical joking with pirates
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5744
you know it's been proven that to hours a year with one attention a student can get one grade level higher
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5745
but there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different
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5746
without flowering plants there would be no clever fruit eating primates giving ted talks
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5747
they're a great model for flies
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5748
i think we have to compare we have to compare the size of the brain with what the brain can do
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5749
and then something happened when i started to work on flies
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5750
so at least you'll admit that if fruit flies are not as clever as mice they're at least as clever as pigeons
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5751
now i have carefully cropped this sequence to be exactly the duration of a human eye blink so in the time that it would take you to blink your eye the fly has seen this looming predator estimated its position initiated a motor pattern to fly it away beating its wings at times a second as it does so
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5752
well the problem was in thinking that the insect wings function in the way that aircraft wings work
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5754
they have antennae that sense odors and detect wind detection
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5755
one of the most sophisticated sensors a fly has is a structure called the
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5756
and the other cool thing is not only can we move the camera around we can also control time so i can slide this jog dial here to shuttle time forward and now we can see what a sunset on the would look like and they get one every minutes
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5759
we go from this view out to the stars
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5764
it had to have a rider and it had to participate in cavalry charges
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5765
and we sent it off to the national theatre hoping that they believed that we created something that worked
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5766
here is the plan
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5767
you see the string tendon from the hyena the front leg automatically pulls the hoop up
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5769
his mother was a puppeteer
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5771
so this production was seen by tom morris of the national theatre in london
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5772
so we made a model
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5773
this is in the national theatre studio the place where they cook new ideas
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5774
you're going to find some interesting analogies in this physiology
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5775
she's just laid it down nice and tidy
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5777
and not enough is being done about this
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5778
and one of the things that you see is that male line the mortality is going down down down down down
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5779
heart disease kills more women at all ages than breast cancer
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5780
we seem to be fixated on this romanticized idea that every poor peasant in africa is an entrepreneur
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5781
but why pan african the scramble for africa during the berlin conference of where quite frankly we africans were not exactly consulted resulted in massive fragmentation and many sovereign states with small populations liberia four million cape verde
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5782
consider these two alternative scenarios
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5783
we hope to aid this fight for economic freedom by building world class businesses creating indigenous wealth providing jobs that we so desperately need and hopefully helping achieve this
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5787
we work in groups in big cities and in small villages
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5788
the one i liked the best is someone could download my sequence go back to the lab synthesize some fake ellen and plant it at a crime scene
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5791
we make things grow
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5793
now it could happen but i'm not going to plan my life around it
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5798
and this seems like a tall order especially if you want a succulent tomato
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5799
not moose but water
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5804
if you have a compass on venus and mars congratulations you're lost
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5806
so venus is too hot mars is too cold and earth is just right
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5808
here's one of my favorite pictures of mars
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5811
the magnetic field may gather energy from the solar wind that allows even more atmospheric escape to happen
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5812
so i've posed a problem for you here but i don't have a solution yet
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5814
now visualize a pack of overweight on bicycles
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5815
this was a bunch of guys and a few ladies widely varying in both age and upkeep
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5816
it will prove to the world that anybody can do this
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5817
we spent an afternoon together in the salt lake city public library memorizing phone books which was
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5818
he used a similar technique to memorize the precise order of random binary digits in half an hour
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5819
so how does this work let's say that you've been invited to ted center stage to give a speech and you want to do it from memory and you want to do it the way that cicero would have done it if he had been invited to years ago
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5820
and you'd come up with some sort of crazy ridiculous unforgettable image to remind you that the first thing you want to talk about is this totally bizarre contest
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5821
the problem was that a memory contest is a pathologically boring event
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5822
this is me wearing my standard competitive training kit
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