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9503
the middle class now pours all of its time and energy and resources into its kids even though the middle class has less and less of those things to give
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9507
let me show you how
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9508
it's fucking freezing
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9510
he had been there and watched it go off
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9532
alright
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9533
and that's absolutely correct
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9538
and of course it's your stuff if it's broken
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9540
leonard bernstein said two things are necessary for great achievement a plan and not quite enough time
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9541
we need more of the courage of drag queens and astronauts
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9542
is all of a sudden becoming a tool for improving productivity
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9544
and there were a lot of tents
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9546
well that's just the price of progress we say
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9547
we are now very comfortable imagining unimaginable technological achievement
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9549
it's time we set foot into that dimension and came out about the fact that we have dreams there too
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9580
i particularly like the little penguin in the back
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9581
a force more powerful is a video game that while you're playing it it teaches you how to engage in non violent insurrection and regime change
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9583
one of them is that every society has an ecological footprint
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9584
now this this is a baby the cutest animal offspring in the animal kingdom
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9585
let me tell you this is not a
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9587
this is the lowland the species i work with the largest terrestrial mammal of south america
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9589
so if you came here to talk about how french coffee will spread happiness in our brains that's a go
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9590
the most obvious visual thing on stage is the speaker
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9592
for the second phase of the trials we just had different sizes small medium large and extra large
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9594
and those are usually the basic scientists the bottom is usually the surgeons
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9595
yet we're still dealing with a lot of the same challenges as many decades ago
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9596
medicine is doing a better job of keeping us alive
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9600
he checked into a
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9601
they said these are pathological curves and we don't have to discuss them
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9602
so i got a fulbright scholarship to just travel around africa for a year asking people why they were building which is a great job if you can get it
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9603
so some of these things i'd wander around the streets of dakar asking people what's the algorithm what's the rule for making this and they'd say well we just make it that way because it looks pretty stupid
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9605
and there's no particular reason why we have to start with this seed shape we can use any seed shape we like
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9606
again we just take these lines and replace them with the whole shape
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9608
so here's a little fractal model for it
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9609
this is in the mountains near the nigerian border in cameroon
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9616
i could be as short as five feet or as tall as i'd like
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9619
now i made sure to shave my legs last night because i knew i'd be showing them off
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9621
as you can see my legs are
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9622
a world in which the paralyzed could walk via body
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9624
we also took robotic tools here's a circle that goes around the biological limb
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9625
with this framework we've produced limbs that are the most comfortable limbs i've ever worn
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9626
they tend to prefer the puppet who has the same food tastes that they have and worse they actually prefer puppets who punish the puppet with the different food taste
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9629
the chair could collapse if you sit on it the apple might be poison the dog might not bark and in fact this is my dog tessie who doesn't bark
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9630
but lions are very clever
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9631
since i was a small boy i used to work in my room for the whole day and i even took apart my mom's new radio and that day she almost killed me but i learned a lot about electronics
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9632
the lights flash and trick the lions into thinking i was walking around the but i was sleeping in my bed
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9633
ca electric fence but i know electric fences are already invented but i want to make mine
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9635
they kill our livestock
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9636
and i think this is why the nairobi national park lions are few
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9637
as you can see the solar panel charges the battery and the battery supplies the power to the small indicator box
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9638
so i put the lights
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9639
so one year ago i was just a boy in the savanna grassland herding my father's cows and i used to see planes flying over and i told myself that one day i'll be there inside
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9640
weighing one to billion times the mass of our own sun these galactic black holes are devouring material at a rate of upwards of times more than your average black hole
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9641
here i'm showing an artist's conception of a
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9643
now she harbored all sorts of sentiments and emotions towards me at the time but love was not amongst them
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9644
now organized crime has been around for a very long time i hear you say and these would be wise words indeed
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9645
now it's time for full disclosure
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9648
so our metaphors equate the experience of loving someone to extreme violence or illness
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9650
in the book of exodus alone there are references to which is the word that the bible uses for the vengeance of an angry god
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9654
i must really be doing this love thing right
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9655
this study from used blood tests to confirm that the serotonin levels of the newly in love very closely resembled the serotonin levels of people who had been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder
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9656
and in fact and maybe you've heard this speaking going through a breakup is a lot like going through cocaine withdrawal which i find reassuring
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9657
that sounds terrible
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9658
falling is accidental it's uncontrollable
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9659
and to think this through i want to focus on one metaphor in particular which is the idea of love as madness
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9660
while i can no longer remember what that argument was about i very clearly remember how i felt watching him leave
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9661
we made up
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9662
but the good news is it doesn't always last that long usually from a few months to a couple of years
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9663
they argue that metaphors really do shape the way we experience the world and that they can even act as a guide for future actions like self fulfilling prophecies
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9667
or that relationship was shorter than i had planned but it was still kind of beautiful
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9682
the age of the universe between now and the big bang is a hundred billion in dog years
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9685
that kind of makes sense to us
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9709
this is about twice the of the united kingdom soon will be more considering where this country is going
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9710
you got to question everything that is told to you including what i just told you today
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9713
she was my childhood friend
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9714
she also embraced violence
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9715
in the the turnover of the red brigades on a yearly basis was seven million dollars
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9716
so there's the guy on offense without the ball the ball and he goes next to the guy guarding the guy with the ball and he kind of stays there and they both move and stuff happens and ta da it's a pick
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9718
but for you we recreated that moment at our weekly basketball game about weeks ago
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9719
the crowd goes wild
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9720
i'm not going to tell you how many times it took us to make that happen
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9723
but there are things that for example basketball coaches want to know
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9724
we taught it things like passes shots and rebounds
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9725
basically things only professionals know
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9726
it really depends on the exact timing the distances the locations and that's what makes it hard
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9728
i won't go into details about what led to a decision i made but let's just say it involved alcohol cigarettes other substances and a woman
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9729
this man was very drunk and he was very interested in my camera until he noticed the women who handled him with smiles and at the ready of course
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9730
in i traveled to three war zones
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9731
in i went to liberia where a group of my friends and i did an independent self funded film still in progress on a very legendary and brutal war lord named general butt naked
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9734
so what happens here the second story also to illustrate another concept is called shifting waistline
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9757
ok so multi health systems is a software company and i hope that nobody here in this room ever comes into contact with that software because if you do it means you're in prison
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9758
many of you will
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9760
i'll have it out later for tech demos
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9762
he wants to engineer success
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9765
even the most data savvy companies get it wrong
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9766
so even the most data savvy companies amazon and they sometimes get it wrong
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9767
you put all of these bits and pieces back together again to come to your conclusion
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9771
now i am the first to acknowledge that statistics has got somewhat of an image problem
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9772
the official figures show actually it's nearer to three quarters
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9775
it was a long held ambition of mine to bring down a statistics website due to public demand
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9777
he got for his own area
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