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i wish i could spend half an hour telling you about how we almost died on this dive but what's important in this picture is that you have a piece of multi year ice that big chunk of ice up in the corner in that one single piece of ice you have species of microorganisms and in the spring when the sun returns to the ice ...
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i went up to the front of the tank and he's just staring at me and he had little horns come up above his eyes so i went right up to the front of the tank i was three or four inches from the front glass and the octopus was sitting on a perch a little rock and he came off the rock and he also came down right to the front...
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i first became fascinated with octopus at an early age i grew up in mobile alabama somebody's got to be from mobile right and mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers forming this beautiful delta and the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes birds...
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it seriously threatens the livelihoods of millions of people and especially in africa and china and it is largely an issue that we've created for ourselves through unsustainable use of scarce resources so we get climate change we get droughts increased crashing food systems water scarcity famine forced migration politi...
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it's a bit funny to be at a conference dedicated to things not seen and present my proposal to build a long wall across the entire african continent about the size of the great wall of china this would hardly be an invisible structure and yet it's made from parts that are invisible or near invisible to the naked eye ba...
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but i don't really believe in architectural problems i only believe in opportunities which is why i'll show you a threat and an architectural response the threat is my response is a sandstone wall made from bacteria and solidified sand stretching across the desert now sand is a magical material of beautiful contradicti...
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y'all like that let me show you how we used to do it get it pops go ahead when i was growing up in the
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yeah i remember that's when she was a little baby we would do something like this i remember that all right pops pops pops chill out chill out hold up hold up hold up y'all remember the video this is like a little payback or something for million people calling me the loser
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how many of you out there suffer from yes ha ha ha ha now sometimes you might last longer than minutes or even shorter but i think we all suffer from it and do you have the accompanying guilt for me i look at the paintings on the wall and i think somebody has decided to put them there thinks they're good enough to be o...
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she's in the studio with him for a long time these paintings took a long time to make they would have spent the time alone all that time she's wearing his wife's pearl earring she's gorgeous she obviously loves him she's conflicted and does the wife know maybe not and if she doesn't well that's the story
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he's a man a servant an older servant looking at this younger servant saying look at me i want to warn you about what you're about to go through please look at me and he never does and that lack of resolution the lack of resolution in girl with a pearl earring we don't know if she's happy or sad i've written an entire ...
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i'm going to tell you about an affliction i suffer from and i have a funny feeling that quite a few of you suffer from it as well when i'm walking around an art gallery rooms and rooms full of paintings after about or minutes i realize i'm not thinking about the paintings i'm not connecting to them instead i'm thinking...
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the thing is i think we should give ourselves a break if you think about going into a restaurant when you look at the menu are you expected to order every single thing on the menu no you select if you go into a department store to buy a shirt are you going to try on every single shirt and want every single shirt of cou...
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what made me do it at school i will admit this academically i couldn't express myself so i was more or less classed as nothing my world was seen as less so i decided i didn't really want to be a part of that world i thought i need to retreat into something else so when my mother used to take me to school she thought i ...
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so i'm sitting there thinking and as i looked down on the ground i noticed there was some ants running around and i went into this little fantasy world and i thought these ants are they looking for the queen ant or do they need somewhere to live so i thought perhaps if i made these ants some apartments they'll move in
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i say yes they're all for you and they moved in and decided not to pay me any rent
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when i discovered that i had this gift i wanted to experiment with this world that we can't see so i realized that there was more to life than just everything that we see around us that's huge so i started to educate myself on this molecular level and as i got older i continued i showed my mother my mother told me to t...
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so to cut a long story short i went home went underneath the microscope and i crushed up a piece of glass crushed it up and underneath the microscope there were of glass some of them were quite jagged so i was crushing up these pieces of glass which as you can see that's the actual frame of the house and the actual roo...
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and i looked at it beneath the microscope and some of it was flat so i decided to slice these up with the tool that i make by i sharpen the end of a needle into a blade and then i actually slow down my whole nervous system and then i work between my heartbeat i have one half seconds to actually move and at the same tim...
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so after i've done the same thing then i have to paint it and after i've actually sculpted them i have to paint them i experimented with a i found a dead fly and i plucked the hair off the head decided to make a paintbrush
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and we use the word nothing nothing doesn't exist because there is always something
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what made me do this work i shall go into my story this all started when i was age five what made me do it at school i will admit this academically i couldn't express myself so i was more or less classed as nothing
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at that age obviously i couldn't express it that way but i told her i didn't feel right and then she just said you're going back to school tomorrow
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so what i did like i said come back to the glass i found these little bits of glass and i had to make them square so i'm thinking how can i do this so what i did i got an broke the edge of an off
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so i didn't think he was going to throw bart off i think he was just warning him actually
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and sometimes they turn into little catapults and things go up in the air and you know all different things happen but i had to make a little barrier going around it out of cellophane to stop it moving then static electricity set in and it went and i'm trying to remove it and the static is interfering with everything
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and they go meow ow even though they get on our nerves i would never kill an insect because all creatures great and small there is a hymn that says that so what i decided to do is to pluck fine hair out of my face and i looked at it underneath the microscope
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and then i went and then she went ok he's not mad yeah to actually do this thing the actual chariot is made of gold i had a gold ring and i cut off a little flake of gold and i bent it and made it into the chariot and the horse is made from nylon
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that ship there that's made from gold and i normally rig it with the web of a money spider but i had to rig it with strands of glue because the web of the spider it was sending me insane because i couldn't get the web to move off and that's gold and it's constructed i built it
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not a metaphorical one the way we use it today but a literal magic spell associated with witches and gypsies and to some extent celtic magic and over the years around the turn of the century it started to take on this other kind of deception this definition for any artificial interest in or association with an object t...
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now this was kindly lent to me by jeff from last year this is underneath jeff's desk this is what the real world of computers lamps electrical appliances of all kinds looks like but if you look in a catalog particularly a catalog of modern beautiful objects for your home it looks like this there are no cords look next ...
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and it comes in a male form too very glamorous not only can he shoot drive drink you know he drinks wine there actually is a little wine in there and of course always wears a tuxedo
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magazine well it's certainly not this one this is the least glamorous magazine on the newsstand it's all about sex tips sex tips are not glamorous and drew barrymore for all her wonderful charm is not glamorous either but there is a glamour of industry
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okay you are the people to whom my talk will be of practical value
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those tribal societies which constituted all human societies for most of human history are far more diverse than are our modern recent big societies all big societies that have governments and where most people are strangers to each other are inevitably similar to each other and different from tribal societies tribes c...
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but they had an amazing freedom which was they didn't have to make any money from it the internet has no business plan never did no no firm responsible singly for building it instead it's folks getting together to do something for fun rather than because they were told to or because they were expecting to make a mint o...
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that's why the mascot of internet engineering if it had one is said to be the because the fur ratio of the is far too large for it to be able to fly and yet mysteriously somehow the bee flies i'm pleased to say that thanks to massive government funding about three years ago we finally figured out how bees fly
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so what is this bizarre architecture configuration that makes the network sing and be so unusual well to move data around from one place to another again it's not like a package courier it's more like a mosh pit
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we have a hijacking of this is not a drill it's not just the of engineers i promise something is up in pakistan and they came together to help find the problem and fix it so it's kind of like if your house catches on fire the bad news is there is no fire brigade the good news is random people from nowhere put out the f...
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number two if a man named came up to you in and said i've got a great idea we start with seven articles that anybody can edit anything at any time and we'll get a great encyclopedia eh right dumbest idea ever
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jimbo's idea was for it was going to be totally traditional he would pay people money because he was feeling like a good guy and the money would go to the people and they would write the articles the was introduced so others could make suggestions on edits as almost an afterthought a back room and then it turns out the...
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number one tendentious editing by user apologies if you're here today i'm not taking sides attacking me for reverting here is my favorite a long story
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that's what keeps afloat at all times is approximately minutes away from utter destruction right there are crawling it trying to turn every article into an ad for a rolex watch
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we see it on all over the place i mean this is a business week cover wow are going to change your business i know they look silly and sure they look silly they start off on all sorts of goofy projects this is my favorite goofy com
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in the real world we see filtering of this sort taking place in pakistan and we now have means that we can build like this system so that people can report the filtering as they encounter it and it's no longer just a i don't know i couldn't get there i guess i'll move on but suddenly a collective consciousness about wh...
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i don't know as a simple example we could run a test here how many people have ever i know how many people have within the past years right so what has changed it's not better public transportation so that's one reason to think that we might be going in the wrong direction but i want to give you three examples to try t...
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so example number one the internet itself these are three of the founders of the internet they were actually high school classmates together at the same high school in suburban los angles in the you might have had a french club or a debate club they had a let's build a global network club and it worked out very well th...
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no one pays you to do this it's just part of your neighborly duty and in a way that's exactly how packets move around the internet sometimes in as many as or hops with the intervening entities that are passing the data around having no particular contractual or legal obligation to the original sender or to the receiver...
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now of course in a mosh pit it's hard to specify a destination you need a lot of trust but it's not like i'm trying to get to pensacola please so the internet needs addressing and directions it turns out there is no one overall map of the internet instead again it is as if we are all sitting together in a theater but w...
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is how internet addressing and actually work this is a system that relies on kindness and trust which also makes it very delicate and vulnerable in rare but striking instances a single lie told by just one entity in this honeycomb can lead to real trouble so for example last year the government of pakistan asked its in...
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well this one in pakistan chose to effectuate the block for its subscribers in a rather unusual way it advertised the way that you might be asked if you were part of the internet to declare what you see near you it advertised that near it in fact it had suddenly awakened to find that it was that's right it said i am wh...
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they're realizing that they have to take responsibility for what they do and has embraced this some of you may remember star wars kid the poor teenager who filmed himself with a golf ball retriever acting as if it were a light saber the film without his permission or even knowledge at first found its way onto the inter...
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the film without his permission or even knowledge at first found its way onto the internet hugely viral video extremely popular totally to him now it being encyclopedic and all had to do an article about star wars kid every article on has a corresponding discussion page and on the discussion page they had extensive arg...
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here is just a snapshot of some of them they eventually decided not unanimously by any means not to include his real name despite the fact that nearly all media reports did they just didn't think it was the right thing to do it was an act of kindness and to this day the page for star wars kid has a warning right at the...
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but then you hit this one image removed at request of owner
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we've got a climate crisis so we went around the table to talk about what we should do the conversation came to my old daughter mary she said i agree with everything that's been said i'm scared and i'm angry and then she turned to me and said dad your generation created this problem you'd better fix it wow all the conv...
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and wal mart has committed they're going to sell another million light bulbs in the coming year but it's not easy consumers don't really like these light bulbs the light's kind of funny they won't dim takes a while for them to start up but the pay off is really enormous million compact fluorescent light bulbs means tha...
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shortly after i saw that we had some friends over for dinner with the family the conversation turned to global warming and everybody agreed there's a real problem we've got a climate crisis
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and so my partners and i we set off on this mission to learn more to try to do much more so we mobilized we got on airplanes
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we went to brazil we went to china and to india to bentonville arkansas to washington d c and to sacramento and so what i'd like to do now is to tell you about what we've learned in those journeys because the more we learned the more concerned we grew you know my partners at kleiner and i were compulsive and so when we...
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but here comes nature that provides us with a good spider this is a predatory mite just as small as a spider mite one two millimeters long not more than that running quickly hunting chasing the spider mites and here you can see this lady in action on your left hand side just sucks the body fluids on the left hand side ...
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aphids it's springtime now in israel when temperatures rise sharply you can see those bad ones those aphids all over the plants in your in your lantana in the young fresh foliage of the so called spring flush by the way with aphids you have only females like amazons females giving rise to females giving rise to other f...
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and here comes the salvation through this parasitic wasp here we are not talking about a predator here we are talking a parasite not a two legged parasite but an eight legged parasite of course this is a parasitic wasp again two millimeters long slender a very quick and sharp flier and here you can see this parasite in...
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is all natural this is all natural this is not fiction nothing at all again in your backyard in your backyard
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i'm a bug lover myself not from childhood by the way but rather late when i majoring in zoology at tel aviv university i kind of fell in love with bugs and then within zoology i took the course or the discipline of entomology the science of insects and then i thought to myself how can i be practical or help in the scie...
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well let's go hand by hand and browse through just a few examples what is a pest what damage does it actually inflict on the plant and what is the natural enemy the biological control agent or the good bug that we're talking about in general i'm going to talk about insects and spiders or mites let us call them insects ...
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have something in common their interests in business lie on or near the earth's surface the odd one out is an astronomer and i am one of that strange breed
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we know our universes are united though links between left and right the everyday world is determined by atoms how they stick together to make molecules stars are fueled by how the nuclei in those atoms react together and as we've learned in the last few years galaxies are held together by the gravitational pull of so ...
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and in fact we are midway it would take as many human bodies to make up the sun as there are atoms in each of us the geometric mean of the mass of a proton and the mass of the sun is kilograms within a factor of two of the mass of each person here well most of you anyway the science of complexity is probably the greate...
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i'll talk first as an astronomer and then as a worried member of the human race but let's start off by remembering that darwin showed how we're the outcome of four billion years of evolution and what we try to do in astronomy and cosmology is to go back before simple beginning to set our earth in a cosmic context and l...
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this was the impact that happened last week on a comet if they'd sent a nuke it would have been rather more spectacular than what actually happened last monday so that's another project for nasa that's mars from the european mars express and at new year this artist's impression turned into reality when a parachute land...
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that looks like a coastline it is indeed but the ocean is liquid methane the temperature minus degrees centigrade if we go beyond our solar system we've learned that the stars aren't points of light each one is like a sun with a retinue of planets orbiting around it and we can see places where stars are forming like th...
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on a still bigger scale we see entire galaxies of stars we see entire ecosystems where gas is being recycled and to the these galaxies are just the atoms as it were of the large scale universe this picture shows a patch of sky so small that it would take about patches like it to cover the full moon in the sky through a...
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because as soon as you hear the word dutchman which is an archaic word nobody calls dutch people anymore but as soon as you hear dutchman you get this picture of the kid with his finger in the dike preventing the thing from falling and flooding holland and so on and so the entire issue is by the use of dutchman now if ...
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sometimes in the middle of a resistant problem i write down things that i know about it but you can see the beginning of an idea there because you can see the word new emerging from the old that's what happens there's a relationship between the old and the new the new emerges from the context of the old and then i did ...
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on a work by piero in this case that remarkable painting that's in the the duke of who faces his consort battista once i realized that i could take some liberties with the subject i did the following series of drawings that's the real piero della francesca one of the greatest portraits in human history and these i'll j...
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the phrase is expresses the current inclusiveness that surrounds art making a sort of ain't what you do it's the way that you do notion the shadow of falls across the central part of the poster a poetic event that occurs as the shadow man isolates the word hidden in the word the four hats shown in the poster suggests h...
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and the one that i did not submit which i still like i wanted to use the same phrase there were wonderful experiments by bruno on some years ago sort of see how far you could go and still be able to read them and that idea stuck in my head but then i took the pieces that i had taken off and put them at the bottom
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bruno suzanne just a curiosity what you're wearing is not random suzanne lee no this is one of the jackets you grew yes it is it's probably part of the project's still in process because this one is actually in front of your eyes
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so as a fashion designer i've always tended to think of materials something like this or this or maybe this but then i met a biologist and now i think of materials like this green tea sugar a few microbes and a little time i'm essentially using a recipe which is a symbiotic mix of bacteria yeasts and other micro organi...
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and this was our first attempt starting with the digital information of the genome of phi it's a small virus that kills bacteria we designed the pieces went through our error correction and had a molecule of about letters the exciting phase came when we took this piece of inert chemical and put it in the bacteria and t...
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when we first this genome in the standard of accuracy was one error per base pairs we actually found on it errors had we used that original sequence it never would have been able to be booted up part of the design is designing pieces that are letters long that have to overlap with all the other pieces to build smaller ...
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we are seeking normal human brains there's a lot of criteria by which we're selecting these brains we want to make sure that we have normal humans between the ages of to they died a somewhat natural death with no injury to the brain no history of psychiatric disease no drugs on board we do a toxicology and we're very c...
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we chart it we've described it we've drawn it we've mapped it now just like the physical maps of our world that have been highly influenced by technology think maps think the same thing is happening for brain mapping through transformation so let's take a look at the brain most people when they first look at a fresh hu...
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if it's see it for a long enough time i actually do something about it and the very last one is a billboard this is our roof in new york the roof of the studio this is newsprint plus that lie on the newsprint we let that lie around in the sun as you all know newsprint yellows significantly in the sun after a week we to...
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we're doing changing media this is a projection that can see the viewer as the viewer walks by you can't help but actually ripping that spider web apart
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i'm a a filmmaker and a butcher and i'll explain how these identities come together it started four years ago when a friend and i opened our first ramadan fast at one of the busiest mosques in new york city crowds of men with beards and were swarming the streets it was an agent's wet dream
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and as these birds walk played at film festivals and theaters internationally i finally had my feet planted at home in new york and with all the extra time and still no real money my wife tasked me to cook more for us and whenever i'd go to the local butcher to purchase some meat something felt off for those that don't...
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for years i'd seen photos of this space being documented as a lifeless and cold monolith much like the stereotypical image painted of the american muslim experience frustrated by this myopic view my friend and i had this crazy idea let's break our fast at a different mosque in a different state each night of ramadan an...
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they are a visceral response to the businesses and curators who work hard to oversimplify my beliefs and my community and the only way to beat their machine is to play by different rules we must fight with an inventive approach with the trust with the access with the love that only we can bring we must reclaim our beli...
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hello leo leo this is cookie monster can you find cookie monster leo cookie monster is very bad he's very bad leo cookie monster is very very bad he's a scary monster he wants to get your cookies
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so one of the things we really wanted to look at was not how much weight people lost but really how long they interacted with the robot because the challenge is not losing weight it's actually keeping it off and the longer you could interact with one of these interventions well that's indicative potentially of longer t...
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people would name the robots they would dress the robots
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ever since i was a little girl seeing star wars for the first time i've been fascinated by this idea of personal robots and as a little girl i loved the idea of a robot that interacted with us much more like a helpful trusted sidekick something that would delight us enrich our lives and help us save a galaxy or two i k...
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but robots are still not in our home ironically and i remember thinking about all the reasons why that was the case but one really struck me robotics had really been about interacting with things not with people certainly not in a social way that would be natural for us and would really help people accept robots into o...
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yeah look it's got a little blue light in it too i almost lost it this week so kismet interacted with people like kind of a non verbal child or pre verbal child which i assume was fitting because it was really the first of its kind it didn't speak language but it didn't matter this little robot was somehow able to tap ...
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by adding an element of embellishment reporters call this making shit up
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but these studies also reveal that communication relies on a common ground and we have to be really worried as a society if we lose this common ground and our ability to speak with people that are slightly different than us because we let a few very strong media channels take control of the mic and manipulate and contr...
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imagine that you invented a device that can record my memories my dreams my ideas and transmit them to your brain that would be a game changing technology right but in fact we already possess this device and it's called human communication system and effective storytelling to understand how this device works we have to...
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ok so now let's look into your brain and see what's happening when you listen to these kinds of stories and let's start simple let's start with one listener and one brain area the auditory cortex that processes the sounds that come from the ear and as you can see in this particular brain area the responses are going up...
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