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13237
it adds together the interference pattern from two raindrops that land near each other
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13238
but when i was united states poet laureate and i love saying that
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13240
one of my students came up after class an introductory class and she said you know poetry is harder than writing which i found both erroneous and profound
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13241
he says that if at first you don't succeed hide all evidence you ever tried
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13244
but then again it took us a long time to put the wheel and the suitcase together
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13245
and surely if you're reading a poem that mentions a cow you don't need on the facing page a drawing of a cow
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13250
so the little poem is called the dead
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13252
my name's and the title of my talk is still figuring it out and the ms paint quality of my slides was a total creative decision in keeping with today's theme and has nothing to do with my inability to use
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and this is not true and actually reconciling all the contradictions i was feeling became easier once i understood that feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion a conversation a process and this is a spread from a zine that i made last year when i i mean i think i've let myself go a bit on the illustration front since
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13254
they don't seem to suffer from the same fear of heights that humans do
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13255
and it would be a lovely thing to be able to wave to someone and have all our wave at the same time
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13257
in recent historic times about percent of the coast redwood forest was cut down especially in a series of bursts of intense liquidation logging clear cutting that took place in the through the early
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13260
you know it's heartbreaking
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13261
i don't know whether i should be saying that in an open forum but i was really impressed
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13263
i said you know your marriage is the subject of global obsession
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13264
it's all about the truth
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13267
trying to tell the world what we were seeing brought us accusations of bias of siding with one side of not seeing the whole side and just you know trying to tell one story
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13268
so that is where for me i understood that objectivity means giving all sides an equal hearing and talking to all sides but not treating all sides equally not creating a forced moral equivalence or a factual equivalence
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13271
i mean people have written about this phenomenon
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13284
we busted a lot of balloons
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13285
i have the incredible good fortune to work at a factory
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13287
if that had been a dog i would have laid him out
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13288
it's a difficult choice right rear end owner
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13289
we don't take the dog's point of view into account
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13293
and since i'm a big list maker i actually listed them all
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13295
so you could drive up into the mountains freely blasting the police on the new sony walkman
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13296
or they had this apple by yoko ono that of course later on was you know made into the label for the beatles
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13297
now what i took away from the exhibit was that maybe with the exception of the most of the pieces in there were actually about the visualization of happiness and not about happiness
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13298
you know that's not a big deal to accomplish
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13299
you're just in there watching the incredible subtle changes of color in the sky
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13300
try not to get stuck doing the same thing or try not get stuck behind the computer all day
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13301
and then we did one more of these
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13302
well i hadn't thought of that one
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13303
and when i try to explain my work to her she waved away all the details and she said neil there's only one question that really matters
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13304
people wonder you know how do you have time to do this and so on
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13305
we had an amazing childhood
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13306
and how can you avoid being annoyed by her i just take off my and i don't hear anything
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13307
i know he doesn't hear well because i've heard him do karaoke
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13308
and when it comes to sensory restoration we're still very far away from being able to provide beauty
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13309
now i'd like to impress upon you how unusual it is that we can hear music
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13310
because imagine my motivation standing between this strong healthy crowd
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13311
there's this quote when push comes to shove you gotta do what you love even if it's not a good idea
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13315
i frequently ask how many have heard of any other political party and there's always just scattered hands in the audience compared to this first question which is one half to two thirds
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13317
they had six million between them and we beat them
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13318
you can see this most clearly when you take away someone's watch and you shut them into a bunker deep underground for a couple of months
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13319
we evolved as a species near the equator and so we're very well equipped to deal with hours of daylight and hours of darkness
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13320
i get a great sense of comfort from looking at an excel spreadsheet even very simple ones
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13321
and these faults would release these petrochemical fumes from underneath the earth's crust and the oracle literally sat right above these faults inhaling enormous amounts of ethylene gas these fissures
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13324
they enjoyed it
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13325
it would take a couple of days and then eventually she would come out of it giving you her predictions as your answer
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13327
so because of all of this our oracle is a billion industry
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13328
i study and i advise companies on the patterns of how people use technology and one of my interest areas is data
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13329
so i did things like working as a street vendor selling dumplings to construction workers
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13330
if your name was harry baker then our names would be the same
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13331
so i thought i'd start with a love poem about prime numbers
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13332
that reaction is why i didn't
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13339
it was people from all around the world speaking in their native languages to be judged by five french strangers
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13340
and we could watch paper tv and it would all be pay
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13342
if you weren't here it would be pretty much like the sound check yesterday
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13348
maybe pop up purple paper people
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13354
and a paper population is no different
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13356
we decided to do something that was the very opposite of everything we'd been taught to do as journalists share
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13357
is coming he used to say
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13358
they'd been using the address to register their offshore company
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13359
shortly after we published i got a three word text from johannes has arrived
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13360
it represented the biggest cache of inside information into the tax haven system that anyone had ever seen
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13361
giant corporations operate on a global level
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13362
and this has plunged journalism into crisis forcing those institutions to reexamine how they function
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13364
and it's pretty incredible because i took my there and he was like yeah do you want an upgrade yes
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13365
so
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13366
so before i start i want to talk about a little anecdote a little story about a man i met once in
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13367
it's actually happening in all parts of the country
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13368
and no this isn't burning man or san francisco
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13369
now chimpanzees are well known for their aggression
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13370
it might be the evolutionary origin of the phrase she's got him by the balls
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13373
they live in the depths of the jungle and it has been very difficult to study them
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13375
play is the glue that binds us together
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13376
the secret is that play is the key to these capacities
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13377
in times when it seems least appropriate to play it might be the times when it is most urgent
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13379
computer a young boy is holding a baseball bat
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13380
computer a man riding a horse down a street next to a building
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13381
li this is a three child describing what she sees in a series of photos
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13382
we have made fabulous cameras but we have not delivered sight to the blind
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13383
why is this so hard you may ask
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13386
and its the first time had a job where im afraid to go away because of everything going to happen in this week when im here
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13387
im in entertain amaze mode
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13388
so in such a relational universe if you come upon something ordered and structured like this device here or that device there or something beautiful like all the living things all of you guys in the room guys in physics by the way is a generic term men and women
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13389
and i also think that science will never go away and im finishing on this line
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13390
and i want to talk about three stages in that evolution
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13391
so that is both aristotelian cosmology and in a certain sense medieval society
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13392
in a newtonian universe no center thank you
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13393
now in the century we had a revolution that was initiated at the beginning of the century and which is still going on
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13394
when you're in the middle of the sea under a hundred foot crane trying to lower eight tons down to the sea floor you start to wonder whether i shouldn't have taken up watercolor painting instead
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13395
one sculpture became two
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13397
and by the way that's me
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13399
now in this search we were trying to actually find the dry limit for life on earth a place so dry that nothing was able to survive in it
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13401
so you can kind of see how misleading averages can be
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13402
and they're certainly not inscrutable if you really wanted to test these numbers on volume you could grab a bottle and try it for yourself
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13403
a poll might speak to a couple hundred people maybe a thousand or if you're l'oreal trying to sell skin care products in then you spoke to women to claim that they work
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13404
but before i do i just want to clarify which numbers i'm talking about here
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