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8701
and today the ideas behind this speech of racial equality and tolerance are so noncontroversial that my daughters study the speech in third grade
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8704
this is the posture of ladies who are not this is the posture of ladies who are
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8705
this is one of the most popular viral advertisement of last year known as the optical inch by
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8708
this project which i call the enough already will mute the tv anytime any of these over exposed personalities is mentioned
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8710
this is called because there's an ball with a fi module in the plant and it's measuring the well being of the plant and it's creating a account where you can actually interact with the plant
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8712
or somebody made a chair that when somebody
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8724
and we it with we are the premier science university in the world because of british like hubris
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8725
so why is it blue on cloudy days ah see
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8726
and they're questions that i've asked of science television producers of audiences of science educators so that's science teachers and also of seven and i find that the seven do marginally better than the other audiences which is somewhat surprising
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8729
and in the video a group of researchers go to mit on graduation day
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8730
and because the probability of me throwing it just right is very low given everybody watching me what we're going to do instead is show you a video that we shot last night
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8731
that one over there for example has aspirations to become a flying on broadway
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8732
skills learned include how to carry loads how to cope with disturbances and in general how to interact with the physical world
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8733
each flying machine uses onboard sensors to determine its location in space and onboard computation to determine what its actions should be
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8734
well here is one such way
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8735
just then with a loud bang the heavens opened
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8742
and the girl's going to notice me right here
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8744
she goes back to reading her book which is unfortunately titled rape
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8745
and we'll act as if it's just an unfortunate mistake we've made forgetting our pants on this cold january day
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8746
she doesn't know she's being filmed
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8747
that's exactly what i needed today and then exited without revealing what had happened and went in all different directions
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8749
we don't need a reason
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8750
you know hans the mick jagger of ted
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8751
and eventually they'll have evolved to such a high peak of perfection that they will make us all their pets if of course they haven't already done so
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8752
but he doesn't know whether it's an infection whether it's to do with malnutrition
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8753
he said he heard suspicious laughter
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8754
and i have to say if you think baby pandas are cute this is cuter
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8756
you just can't rely on the people out there to help you with this
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8757
but in the some countries caught up
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8767
no one's laughing
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8771
people talked
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8786
there's a flying turkey under a tree
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8787
as a kid i knew them as calamari mostly
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8788
now here's a male on the left and a female on the right and the male has managed to split his coloration so the female only always sees the kinder gentler squid in him
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8790
and then this last one one of my favorites this design
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8791
here we're going to see one backing into a crevice and watch his tentacles he just pulls them in makes them look just like algae
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8792
here's an octopus
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8802
but mine really are
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8804
a little known secret in american history is that the only american institution created specifically for people of color is the american slave trade and some would argue the prison system but that's another topic for another ted talk
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8807
and then they'd say almost suspiciously but they're brand new
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8809
public education keeping poor kids poor since
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8812
i wasn't supposed to have fully biology or chemistry labs school buses that brought me door freshly prepared school lunches or even air conditioning
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8818
i'm a psychologist but rest assured i will not bring it to the
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8819
and apparently epstein aced the test therefore the article
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8820
the word is it's a combination of puzzled and pissed off
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8821
as they went from the first building to the second each of them passed a man who was bent over and moaning clearly in need
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8822
this studies the circuitry in two people's brains that activates while they interact
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8826
thank you very much
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8827
put simply i want to create a new reality a reality where technology brings us infinitely closer to each other a reality where people not devices are the center of everything
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8829
we've barely discovered charcoal and started drawing the first stick figures in our cave
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8831
ooh
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8832
it shows very well that eyes can hear and this is interesting to me because technology allows us to present sound to the eyes in ways that accentuate the strength of the eyes for seeing sound such as the removal of time
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8834
and that's what i want to talk about today
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8838
they expect them to evaporate
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8839
but what happens as this occurs is that we lose our magnetic field around the earth over the period of about years and that means that all these cosmic rays and particles that are to come streaming at us from the sun that this field protects us from are well basically we're gonna fry
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8840
obviously we don't want one of those
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8842
there's no reason why we shouldn't start now
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8844
what can we do about this and this is my scariest
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8845
the worst thing we can do is say jeez i got enough to worry about without worrying about an asteroid
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8846
so we went out looking for solutions to ways that the world might end tomorrow and lo and behold we found them
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8847
there are really serious calamities staring us in the eye that we're in the same kind of denial about that we were about terrorism and what could've happened on september
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8848
we are all much healthier than we were years ago
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8850
it's ridiculous
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8852
and the chance that some of it isn't more intelligent than ours is also a remote idea
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8854
they said we've been looking at the oceans for a long time now and we want to tell you they're not in trouble they're near collapse
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8855
there's really a tree like that out there
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8861
ok
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8862
but my friends it's so much worse than that
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8864
well that's wrong at so many different levels
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8865
in my experience the only difference between morning people and evening people is that those people that get up in the morning early are just horribly smug
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8866
if you're an average sort of person percent of your life will be spent asleep which means that if you live to then years will have been spent entirely asleep
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8868
you don't drink
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8869
all of those combine and they send projections down to the brain stem here
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8871
so there's good evidence for the whole restoration hypothesis
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8873
what's turned out to be really exciting is that our ability to come up with novel solutions to complex problems is hugely enhanced by a night of sleep
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8880
we're almost done
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8881
we can think of these very aggressive forms of cancer as kind of in a comic book
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8882
this looks very different than any sand on earth that i've ever seen and i've seen a lot of sand on earth believe me
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8883
but to really see the details of the bee and really appreciate what it is you have to look a little bit closer
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8884
i wanted to just talk for one minute about the future of biotechnology because i think i know very little about that i'm not a biologist so everything i know about it can be said in one minute
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8886
when people have this technology in their hands you have a do biotech kit grow your own grow your dog grow your own cat
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8887
so the farmers go out at night with heavily armed jeeps and shine the headlights and anything that doesn't look like a sheep you shoot
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8889
if we don't find them then we can create them ourselves
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8891
the town was burned down it was in the middle of winter and it was a very very severe winter
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8892
and it's open to us to introduce a new way of doing that and that's what i'll talk about for minutes or whatever the time remains
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8893
it's not only cold but very dry
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8894
so we would love to explore europa to go down through the ice find out who is swimming around in the ocean whether there are fish or seaweed or sea monsters whatever there may be that's exciting or
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8896
it's quite likely that it would move out of the ocean onto the surface just as it did on the earth
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8897
you can imagine that the plants growing up like kelp through cracks in the ice growing on the surface
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8898
the only reason these people buy touch tone phones is because you can't buy rotary phones anymore
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8900
by the way he gave the i have a dream speech not the i have a plan speech
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8901
they're just like everyone else
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8903
i call it the golden circle
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8904
it's just driving
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8905
what we're really good at is basically wasting time
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8906
thank you
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8907
you can almost think of it as sort of like gravity
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8908
so we have many ongoing tendencies right now and i think one of the chief among them is this tendency to make things smarter and smarter
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8909
human pilots only flew it seven to eight minutes the rest of the time the ai was driving
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8910
and we feel like some of that difficulty was because of this false advertisement around parenting
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