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5824
step over the threshold of your door into your foyer your hallway whatever's on the other side and appreciate the quality of the light
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5825
walk past him into your living room
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5826
these people must be freaks of nature
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5827
we've all trained ourselves to perform these utterly miraculous feats of memory using a set of ancient techniques techniques invented years ago in greece the same techniques that cicero had used to memorize his speeches that medieval scholars had used to memorize entire books
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5828
this is a guy called e
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5829
these technologies have made our modern world possible but they've also changed us
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5832
it is entirely from all of the other memories floating around in your skull
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5833
the entire art of what is going on in these memory contests and the entire art of remembering stuff better in everyday life is figuring out ways to transform capital b bakers into lower case b bakers to take information that is lacking in context in significance in meaning and transform it in some way so that it becomes meaningful in the light of all the other things that you have in your mind
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5839
i said i'd be there in about two years
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5840
all the students sat around and they went
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5841
my sister said maybe i should leave you alone because you seem to be doing a lot better when not saying anything
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5842
and as i walked off a little bit they'd say yeah and shut up too
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5843
and i could see my father yeah he really is crazy
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5844
and it was a big thing in my little community of point reyes station in inverness california because there were only about people there in the winter this was back in now
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5845
and so on my birthday i decided because i argued so much and i talk so much that i was going to stop speaking for just one day one day to give it a rest
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5846
and then i would launch in
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5847
and so i decided id better do this for another day and another day and another day until finally i promised myself for a year i would keep quiet because i started learning more and more and i needed to learn more
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5850
i was fully aware that for someone as secular as i am just asking it could be seen as pure chutzpah
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5855
this is a different kind of boy and a different kind of girl
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5856
the prison warden looking equally indifferent said any trouble just press the red buzzer and we'll be around as soon as we can
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5857
i looked up at the red buzzer far behind joe on the opposite wall
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5858
perhaps detecting my concern he leaned forward and said as reassuringly as he could ah don't worry about the buzzer it doesn't work anyway
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5859
i remember my cousin sasha two years old at the time looking through a picture book and licking one finger and flicking the page with the other hand licking one finger and flicking the page with the other hand
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5860
it looks and feels like it sounds wormwood
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5862
it was as though they knew the words but not the music of empathy
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5863
people like joe have a deficit in a brain area called the
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5864
now i spent a lot of time in my garage over the next weeks and months and also in my kitchen much to the dismay of my wife
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5865
okay
humorous
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5866
so i'm just going to put that in there
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5870
okay
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5872
so we just switch off us governments and aid agencies
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5873
that really stuck with me
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5874
so that's definitely going to get through those holes
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5875
so someone's done that up
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5879
of course in this day and age the trick is not to let each tree be obscured by that bush in washington that can get can get in the way
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5880
it's this is what i have done because i'm excited by it because it's a wonderful thing and it's done something for me and of course it's accomplished a great deal
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5881
and of course that makes sense because hope is an abstract phenomenon it's an abstract idea it's not a concrete word
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5882
this is not a plan either this is illegal
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5883
i'm not a geriatrician
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5884
she hasn't actually achieved anything
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5886
and in fact i am sitting on this stage looking like i do in this wheelchair and you are probably kind of expecting me to inspire you
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5887
and these images there are lots of them out there they are what we call inspiration porn
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5889
i wasn't doing anything that was out of the ordinary at all
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5890
and in the past few years we've been able to propagate this lie even further via social media
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5891
they are not things to do with our bodies
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5893
i want to live in a world where we value genuine achievement for disabled people and i want to live in a world where a kid in year in a melbourne high school is not one bit surprised that his new teacher is a wheelchair user
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5910
and i'd get a terse response oh that's worse
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5912
he said if the only tool you have is a hammer everything starts to look like a nail
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5913
this is van quach
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5914
and this first hotel that i bought motel was a pay hour no tell motel in the inner city of san francisco
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5915
because vivian knew what it was like to be far away from home
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5930
from my home in california i shaved charlie in atlanta
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5931
by the way check out my sweet ride
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5932
i inspected the solar panels on our roof
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5933
all work and no fun makes for a dull quadriplegic so we also find time to play friendly games of robot soccer
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5935
my six siblings and i were good kids but caused our fair share of trouble
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5936
i worked and studied hard to move up the career ladder eventually becoming a chief financial officer in silicon valley a job i really enjoyed
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5937
i can surf the web exchange email with people and destroy my friend steve cousins in online word games
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5938
and our hope is that by providing these tools that you'll be able to think of better ways to provide movement for the disabled to provide care for our aging population to help better educate our children to think about what the new types of middle class jobs could be for the future to both monitor and protect our environment and to explore the universe
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5939
it is up to us all of us to decide how robotics will be used for good or for evil for simply replacing people or for making people better for allowing us to do and enjoy more
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5954
and this is the poster
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5956
but i chose a different story for my life
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5957
so a single idea from the human mind it could start a groundswell it could be a flash point for a movement and it can actually rewrite our future
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5958
every time we go to maui we go to the dealer there and he turns these great big posters
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5959
i really think they have the power to change the world when you communicate effectively through them
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5960
although there was a century newspaper editor who defined it rather better when he said a is a fellow who seeks office regardless of party platform or principle and who when he wins gets there by the sheer force of monumental
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5963
president is there on borrowed time just waiting for the senate to spring into action
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5967
and you know it could have worked
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5968
they got their title of respectability
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5969
politicians try to pick and use words to shape and control reality but in fact reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality
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5970
i know that i'm incredibly nervous and excited to be up here which is greatly inhibiting my ability to keep it cool
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5973
and the poem began anderson cooper is a gorgeous man
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5974
no anderson you're the god
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5976
okay there's a few that chocolate can't fix
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5977
because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times it's sent away
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5978
baby i'll tell her remember your momma is a worrier and your poppa is a warrior and you are the girl with small hands and big eyes who never stops asking for more
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5981
and then suing the state of texas and its governor rick perry to prevent them from executing stroman exactly like most people shot in the face do
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5982
people are looking for scapegoats
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5983
then on september that tattooed man enters the mart
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5984
the is frogs at home don't pay attention to that
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5985
she transformed into a supernova and in the process releasing a tremendous amount of energy the rest of the galaxy and emitting in one second the same amount of energy our sun will release in days
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6000
i started turning it over in my head and i realized wait a minute my head actually fits inside this thing
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6005
all the time they wear it at dinner they wear it to bed
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6007
now that i've oversold it here's a picture of the armor that i made
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6008
i didn't have an easy time finding friends to play with and i ended up making a lot of my own play
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6010
and it's so beautiful to watch
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6012
ah ah ah like that
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6013
somebody grabs my hand and they put a coin back into it
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6015
and we're making it our own
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6017
our backs are arched our knees are bent our toes are curled our elbows are and our fingers are curved backwards
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6018
and some even accused me of feigning the whole thing to push and i quote my feminist agenda of man hating
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6020
i got back to my local station and i began the walk home
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6025
i'm brilliant at this
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6028
he's not laughing yet
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6030
we're not canadian
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6031
in other words when it comes to laughter you and me baby ain't nothing but mammals
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6032
so here we've got some laughter for you
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6033
i have no idea
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6035
that's the same for humans
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6036
and when we laugh with people we're hardly ever actually laughing at jokes
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