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what these stories primarily indicate is that teaching is social and benefits from social scaffolding
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but i will also contest that i'm not as nervous as i should be because i'm pretty sure i'm right about this
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i did the thing and was very surprised to discover that i am fat and bald
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and then one day i get a call from john doerr bill berkman and al gore on the same day saying return david phone call
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so if i can make an analogy let's say that you were trying to tell the difference between a good restaurant a healthy restaurant and a sick restaurant and all you had was the list of ingredients that they had in their larder
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so what you can tell is you can tell the difference between an asian person and a european person by looking at their ingredients list
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i mean one day we would say and people were like foxes trotting
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the physics of movement doesn't really give a crap about your gender
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mountain roads day and night and even crooked lombard street in san francisco
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when you see a vulture like this the first thing that comes to your mind is these are disgusting ugly greedy creatures that are just after your flesh associated with politicians
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they really do
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do you know why because do not keep the environment clean
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recent studies have shown that in areas where there are no vultures carcasses take up to three to four times to decompose and this has huge ramifications for the spread of diseases
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the number of cases of rabies has increased tremendously in india
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i would say in some ways i change my gender about as often as i change my hairstyle
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it's the best return on investment they ever received
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i asked her to dance
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and while people may have the genitals of a male or a female the genitals don't determine your gender or even really your sexual identity
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it actually got so bad that somebody put our country up for sale on
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none of your media got it right
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from work or from home they took the day off and nothing worked in iceland
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but i can surely tell you that in my country much like on wall street and the city of london and elsewhere men were at the helm of the game of the financial sector and that kind of lack of diversity and sameness leads to disastrous problems
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and together we got through the eye of the financial storm in iceland without taking any direct losses to our equity or to the funds of our clients
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but in at the height of the sub prime and all the complicated financial structures it was quite opposite to the reckless risk taking behaviors that we saw on the market
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then just staying above the earth for one more second people are acting like idiots all across the country
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a couple of years ago broward county florida banned running at recess
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five inch fishing lure it's a big fishing lure with a three pronged hook in the back and outside it said harmful if swallowed
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he said hell we ain't got no rules around here we're trying to accomplish something
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if you run a business it's hard to do much of anything without calling your general counsel
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and our guide was a local science teacher
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she said life's too short i just can't keep going with this
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now we've been taught to believe that law is the foundation of freedom
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and the total of direct tort cost in this country is about two percent which is twice as much as in other countries but as taxes go hardly crippling
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then we can do something harder
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so we hired one
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and you go from being a healthy robust old male to someone that cannot breathe cannot move cannot speak
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i want to talk about it in the context of a story
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but if you go to alley yeah
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the people on alley are not the ones who shop at gucci
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he said that one of the reasons he invented bebop was that he was pretty sure that white musicians wouldn't be able to replicate the sound
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okay we'll move on
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she's looking at the seams
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well it turns out that it's actually not illegal
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because there's no copyright protection in this industry there's a very open and creative ecology of creativity
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i decided to set a world record in crawling
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the explosion had been caused by a water heater so nobody was hurt and ultimately it was not a big deal but later skip came up to me and said nice job caroline in this surprised sort of voice
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and to give you an idea of the suffer fest that i was undergoing the first lap around the high school track took minutes
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and i became curious
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and yet we adults act as if girls are more fragile and more in need of help and they can't handle as much
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but on that mountaintop waiting for the wind to come in just right i felt so many other things too exhilaration confidence
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now i'm not saying your girls must be firefighters or that they should be but i am saying that we are raising our girls to be timid even helpless and it begins when we caution them against physical risk
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hand me one of those waters i'm extremely dry
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i mean it's i have my friends therefore i am
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you know i mean it's nice thank you
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no i'm glad to have you parallel aging alongside me
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because especially people you've known a long time people you've spent time with i can see the spiritual essence inside them the tenderness the vulnerability
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women's friendships are like a renewable source of power
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we need to make ourselves independent from fossil fuels
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that we will be there will be more democracy and more jobs and more well being and it's women that are going to lead the way
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well yes you can if you move their food
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and when we realize that working on our inner life is working on our outer life and outer work is inner work we get down to what is real and shit gets done
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for a couple of years i had noticed a rash on the sides of elizabeth's neck that looked like prickly heat
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it turns out by chance this dermatologist also trained in ophthalmology
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what you see over here this yellow thing this is not a death ray
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welcome to the robotics mechanisms laboratory at virginia tech
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for those who probably know if you don't have any sensors and there's any disturbances you know what happens
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and the actual goal of is by the year we want to have full size autonomous robots play soccer against the human world cup champions and win
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and it's trying to show off its ability i'm macho i'm strong
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this is an actual dynamic simulation animation
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we call that the concept of passive dynamic locomotion
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we had so many motors aligning the joints and those kinds of things
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it stands for intelligent mobility platform with spoke system
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and just by the tactile information it successfully crosses over these types of terrains
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in other words we can't create supermodel mice
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and this is actually what it looks like hundreds of blood vessels all growing toward the center of the wound
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you will basically not be able to distinguish them and the exception of course will be guinness
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and the expensive pain medication worked better
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for women housework prevents breast cancer but for men shopping could make you impotent
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it's like a consenting intellectual activity
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but that's because people who eat fruit and and olive oil are freaks they're not normal they're like you they come to events like this
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that doesn't mean it's the vegetables or olive oil
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and i think that's the funniest epidemiology joke you will ever hear
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these are from the daily mail
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this one belongs to my dead cat hettie
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so red wine can help prevent breast cancer
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actually it turns out that your risk of breast cancer increases slightly with every amount of alcohol you drink
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i'm going to tell you about one trial which is probably the most well reported trial in the news media over the past decade
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that's an outrageous and ridiculous finding but it's true
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you can give the competing drug in too high a dose so people get side effects
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he used to keep a gorilla suit in the trunk of his car and he'd say it's for emergencies only
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and i was like whoa i guess we get to say anything out loud
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i was working as an internist and paul was finishing his training as a neurosurgeon when he started to lose weight
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we learned directly how to struggle through really tough medical decisions
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the email itself was from another very sexy european type ted curator chris anderson
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of course he was
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the hour from night to day
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groucho marx charlie you should have come to the first party
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there's a very cute example here from calvin and hobbes
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if this is confirmation bias there is so much confirmation i am biased
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and now all bets are off
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