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6798
now if those books are not lost to history then they are somewhere in a library and many of those books have been getting retrieved from the libraries and digitized by which has scanned million books to date
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that gives us a time series of how frequently this particular sentence was used over time
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and so i might say yesterday i throve
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we are losing interest in the past more rapidly
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and of course what we're seeing is the fact marc chagall was a jewish artist in nazi germany
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and we just divide one by the other to produce something we call a suppression index
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6804
people talked about it twice less as it should have been
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except is a lens on biology through the window of the sequence of bases in the human genome
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we have to make this available for people
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the average taxi is going and a half miles per hour on our city streets and it turns out it stays that way for the entire day
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these are the top grossing fire hydrants in terms of parking tickets
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the will boast how many miles of subway track there are
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so they go back to their raw data they count they add they calculate and then they put out reports and those reports will have numbers like this
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my friend danny hillis says kind of a similar one he says technology is anything that doesn't work yet
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6814
when king henry of england died he had things in his house but that was the entire wealth of england so
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6815
that's actually my son right here
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6816
in the united states there is a state of the union address given by every president since
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we would die by the billions and very quickly the wolves would get us we would be defenseless we would be unable to grow enough food or find enough food
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and if you go there you say hey everybody's really healthy
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6820
this little chap here he stood there for five minutes motionless
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6821
and i needed a subject that felt extraordinary
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6822
understandably they weren't too happy with our line of questioning and let's just say we received our fair share of alternative facts
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but she's in constant pain
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i've got two questions for you
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6828
that's extremely unlikely
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there you go it's tails
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6831
i'm pretty sure there are at least seven companies you've interacted with today
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6833
these whistle blowers risk their careers their friendships to bring out the truth about their companies
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6837
meet immanuel kant century german philosopher superstar
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6839
it's interesting
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6840
so before any one goes out of sync i'll just put those right there
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in fact i'll try to explain today that sync is maybe one of if not one of the most perhaps the most pervasive drive in all of nature
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6843
so these are not particularly intelligent creatures and yet as we'll see they exhibit beautiful ballets
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6852
i don't know if y'all noticed that
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6854
and testing to simulate a person in a wetsuit in the water with a predatory shark in a natural environment is actually a lot harder than you might think
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6856
the incident of shark engagements on humans is escalating worldwide
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6858
let's start with theater
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6859
theater awakens our senses and opens the door to our imagination
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so not only has the fly not got the nectar from the mimic plant it's also if you look very closely just at the head end you can see that it's got a bit of pollen that it would be transmitting to another plant if only some botanist hadn't come along and stuck it to a blue piece of card
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6861
this flower with its black dots they might look like black dots to us but if i tell you to a male insect of the right species that looks like two females who are really really hot to trot
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so it's deceiving on two levels fabulous
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and they get inside and they get it all on
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now the way that plants transmit that information is through pollen
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6866
so all the grasses which means all of the cereal crops and most of the trees have wind borne pollen
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6867
plants have evolved to create little landing strips here and there for bees that might have lost their way
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what it showed me is that there's a grassroots movement going on of socially responsible designers who really believe that this world has got a lot smaller and that we have the opportunity not the responsibility but the opportunity to really get involved in making change
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i'm not sure what they're smoking
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6873
if you're ever ever in india go use this toilet
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and what we need is something that replicates me globally because i haven't slept in seven years
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6875
my mom once said there's nothing worse than being all mouth and no trousers
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6876
but when i went to architecture school it seemed that i was a black sheep in the family
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6878
but i live in bozeman montana go up to the north plains on the reservations or go down to alabama or mississippi pre katrina and i could have shown you places that have far worse conditions than many developing countries that i've been to
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so we began to get involved in projects there and i'll talk about some others
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all problems are local
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6881
we can talk about but that's another talk
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6882
there are no slides so you'll just have to be content with me
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6883
i want to tell you that
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and nobody knows except a few smart people
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this is the africa of opportunity
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this arrest occurred because there was cooperation between the london metropolitan police and the economic and financial crimes commission of nigeria led by one of our most able and courageous people mr
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and therefore when you hear about the corrupt africa corruption all the time i want you to know that the people and the governments are trying hard to fight this in some of the countries and that some successes are emerging
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all the time when they talk about it you immediately think about africa
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because if we can get the billion dollars sitting out there back it may be far more for some of these countries than all the aid that is being put together
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which is ironic because i'm a capitalist
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i would like for them to fire the boss that's me
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however if you are a celebrity or an athlete and you're listening to this please feel free to bring your money
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6899
my white grandmother was born on her family's plantation in arkansas in
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6901
you may not have heard of worker ownership but it's been an incredible tool for black economic liberation for a century and it's also working all over the world right now
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stands for the los angeles union cooperative initiative and our objective is to create more worker owned businesses here in los angeles
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he figured out the system
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and about three years ago i started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness by reaching out into the open source software community to create new digital tools for magic tools that could eventually be shared with other artists to start them off further on in the process and to get them to the poetry faster
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6906
it's very ingenious as all freudian arguments are but didn't make much sense because i have seen the same delusion a patient having the same delusion about his pet poodle
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6907
right now you try using the freudian explanation there
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6909
you don't even have to be jewish
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6911
so i hit on a way of doing this for three dollars but don't tell my funding agencies
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6912
so i said ok this proves my theory about learned paralysis and the critical role of visual input but i'm not going to get a nobel prize for getting somebody to move his phantom limb
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6913
i said what's gone i thought maybe the mirror box was gone
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ok
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well it's one or two mutants
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sorry about that
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so you can then map function onto structure and then find out what the doing to generate that particular function
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and that's been called the face area in the brain because when it's damaged you can no longer recognize people's faces
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she's some other woman pretending to be my mother
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and then as you grow up the cortex develops and inhibits these latent sexual urges towards your mother
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it's a lovely example of the sort of thing we do take a bizarre seemingly incomprehensible neural psychiatric syndrome and say that the standard freudian view is wrong that in fact you can come up with a precise explanation in terms of the known neural anatomy of the brain
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ok the reason is there's a separate pathway going from the hearing centers in the brain to the emotional centers and that's not been cut by the accident
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he knows that the arm is not there but nevertheless it's a compelling sensory experience for the patient
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but when we were looking at the case sheets what we found was these people with the paralyzed phantom limbs the original arm was paralyzed because of the peripheral nerve injury
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6938
in the words of samuel johnson remarriage is the triumph of hope over experience
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and i just want to make it absolutely clear that he's a really bad example of the optimism bias because he is in fact uniquely talented
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we can't all be better than everyone else
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still think it's about percent
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after that everything goes back to normal i assure you
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some people say the secret to happiness is low expectations
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and they found that when people with high expectations succeed they attribute that success to their own traits
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mental note on that one
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what we do as street skaters is you have these tricks say i'm working on or a primo that you guys know this stuff now
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and another example of how the context changed and the creative process for me and for most skaters is you go you get out of the car you check for security you check for stuff
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so next oh mind you
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next these guys very similar community that's extremely conducive to innovation
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