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10557
would they wonder who i was i thought
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10559
my wife as i said she grew up outside of boston
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10562
the nearest land was antarctica and the nearest people would be those manning the european space station above me
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10563
that's what it's like in the southern ocean
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10564
no one wears trousers with a quite that high in this day and age
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10566
finally i bought a tiny dinghy
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10567
just like in my dreams there were amazing parts and tough parts
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10584
when it's degrees below zero
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10591
i have never forgiven him for that thing i made up in my head
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10592
i will be swimming around in you for the rest of your life i told my slightly horrified sister
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10595
i'll never forget the magic that would happen when a woman stopped resisting the pain and opened
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10596
albert einstein called this state this dimension only being
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10600
we didn't have the kind of the relationship where we talked about the deeper stuff but like many siblings and like people in all kinds of relationships we were hesitant to tell our truths to reveal our wounds to admit our wrongdoings
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10602
i was paid in love
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10632
but sometimes i try to put myself in that position
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10636
and in fact you could say that the expansion of the empire was really sort of one long drawn out militarized shopping spree really
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10637
but anyway this is it's food at the center of life at the center of family life being celebrated being enjoyed people taking time for it
humorous
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10638
we live in places like this as if they're the most natural things in the world forgetting that because we're animals and that we need to eat we're actually as dependent on the natural world as our ancient ancestors were
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10639
by it's estimated that twice the number of us are going to be living in cities
serious
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10644
he'd always walk up to his airplane in a kind of saunter devil saunter flick the cigarette away grab the girl waiting here give her a kiss
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10648
she said but it's too high
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10652
it did mine
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10653
you had to learn about aeronautics
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10654
well the act of drawing airplanes led me to when i had the opportunity to choose a course in school led me to sign up for aeronautical engineering
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10656
and i couldn't choose airplanes because they had gotten sort of at that point even though i'd done a lot of airplane work on the interiors
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10658
so it causes a lot of inner conflict you know like part of me likes me part of me hates me
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10659
because if you only have the iranian passport you're kind of limited to the countries you can go to with open arms you know syria venezuela north korea
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10663
i was in dubai
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10665
and i got it in my head that all the indians must be workers
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10666
until you forget
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10667
in fact most people who get it don't even know they've had it
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10703
this first one internet zero up here this is a web server that has the cost and complexity of an tag about a dollar that can go in every light bulb and doorknob and this is getting commercialized very quickly
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10704
fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded
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10709
they know
humorous
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10710
it feels like the united nations here
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10713
you must be doing something right
humorous
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10714
so it was the spread of tuberculosis and the spread of cholera that i was responsible for inhibiting
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10715
i had been traveling to one country after another
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10716
i grabbed hold of it sat down and ate my breakfast with my pigs
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10717
this is the result of my hobby which is unofficial bin inspections
humorous
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10720
i thought my goodness what taboo have i broken how have i insulted my host he pointed at three grains of rice at the bottom of my bowl and he said clean
humorous
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10721
this guy has thrashed me at my own game
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10722
we knew that during the war
humorous
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10723
i went to the local baker and took their stale bread
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10724
so i took the food supply of every single country and i compared it to what was actually likely to be being consumed in each country
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10725
as a country gets richer it invests more and more in getting more and more surplus into its shops and restaurants and as you can see most european and north american countries fall between and percent of the nutritional requirements of their populations
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10726
a country like america has four times the amount of food that it needs
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10727
but what we have to recognize now is that we are reaching the ecological limits that our planet can bear and when we chop down forests as we are every day to grow more and more food when we extract water from depleting water reserves when we emit fossil fuel emissions in the quest to grow more and more food and then we throw away so much of it we have to think about what we can start saving
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10732
so that's probably a bit of a counter intuitive idea so i'll say it again let it sink in if we want to solve problems like hunger poverty climate change global conflict obesity i believe that we need to aspire to play games online for at least billion hours a week by the end of the next decade
humorous
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10733
this picture pretty much sums up why i think games are so essential to the future survival of the human species
humorous
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10734
this is a gamer who's on the verge of something called an epic win
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10735
first of all for children in the united states hours is the exact amount of time you will spend in school from fifth grade to high school graduation if you have perfect attendance
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10737
okay we can do that
humorous
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10738
you know jerry bruckheimer movies you form a dream team you've got the astronaut the scientist the ex convict and they all have something to do to save the world
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10739
some of you might be thinking that's a lot of time to spend playing games
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10740
this is a gamer on the verge of an epic win
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10741
good
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10742
but i also mean good as in motivated to do something that matters inspired to collaborate and to cooperate
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10744
they never give you a challenge you can't achieve
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10745
you guys have heard of leveling up strength intelligence
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10746
and up to around age or these functions are all intact and as i look at the young audience here in the room we're all still fine
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10747
so we teach them over several days to find this space on these cues in the space and you can compare this for humans to finding your car in a parking lot after a busy day of shopping
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10748
they didn't find it
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10749
but we usually have to wait until the person dies to get the brain and look at how it really changed through age or in a disease
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10752
great creativity can spread tolerance champion freedom make education seem like a bright idea
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10753
science is clever but great creativity is something less more magical
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10754
take a tune sing high when they sing low sing fast when they sing slow and you've got a new tune
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10756
spoiler alert unlocking your phone by sliding an icon with your finger
humorous
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10757
i'm going to destroy android because it's a stolen product
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10758
now the grey album is a
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10759
i think everything is a and i think this is a better way to conceive of creativity
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10765
we had to deal with images from films like the day after tomorrow
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10766
and the audience for such a long time was in a position where they didn't have any way of affecting news or making any change
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10770
but that doesn't prevent them from both being completely false
humorous
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10772
and that's despite the fact that a supernova is so bright so brilliant an event that it would kill you stone dead at a range of several light years
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10773
originally meant quasi stellar object which means things that look a bit like stars
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10774
it would be a bit like experiencing a supernova explosion but at point blank range and for millions of years at a time
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10775
or is it now actually that's just another parochial misconception
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10779
if you've been punched on the nose then the science of medicine does not consist of teaching you how to avoid punches
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10781
and that is how un typical this place is
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10782
that is the growth of knowledge
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10786
and the limiting factor there and here is not resources because they're plentiful but knowledge which is scarce
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10787
now i don't think that probability is the right category to discuss this issue in but i do agree with him about this we can survive and we can fail to survive
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10788
so let me now apply this to a current controversy not because i want to advocate any particular solution but just to illustrate the kind of thing i mean
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10789
so it's already too late to avoid it and it probably has been too late to avoid it ever since before anyone realized the danger
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10793
so look you don't have to like what they do but you do have to respect the entrepreneurial nature of their endeavors
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10795
there is also a widely held belief that by blaming an attack on a nation state you are putting regulators at bay at least for a period of time
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10798
the answer is the first poem was generated by an algorithm called that was created back in the and the second poem was written by a guy called frank o'hara who happens to be one of my favorite human poets
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10799
therefore according to the logic of the reverse turing test gertrude stein is a computer
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10802
have a go poem little fly thy summer's play my thoughtless hand has away
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10803
so let's try another test
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10804
if shivering is a form of meditation then i would consider myself a monk
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10805
i was hooked
humorous
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10806
and once we got there the vehicles were just as creative snowmobiles six wheel soviet troop carriers and a couple of super sketchy helicopter flights
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10809
the air a brisk with windchill and i could literally feel the blood trying to leave my hands feet and face and rush to protect my vital organs
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10811
but there was just this one problem
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10812
so if i was going to find perfect waves it was probably going to happen somewhere cold where the seas are notoriously rough and that's exactly where i began to look
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10813
and i told myself there's not a chance you're getting out of the water
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10821
so i spent the next years reading about crows in my spare time
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10822
and in return we just tried to kill them all the time
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