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6,648 | but the mongols get there first the books and the solution get thrown in the tigris river some librarians escape and over the course of days and weeks they dip the stones into the tigris and suck up that collective wisdom that we all think is lost to civilization those stones have been smuggled as three prayer beads of stones each through arabia into andalusia in spain where they're safe for years but in two important things happen the first is the fall of granada the last muslim enclave in europe the second is columbus finally gets funded to go to india but he gets lost | 1 |
6,649 | number one we have a thing within islam that you don't leave a boy and a girl alone together because the third person is temptation or the devil right i think that's there in all cultures right but this is not about religion it's not about proselytizing there's this very strong social message that needs to get to kind of the deepest crevices of intolerance and the only way to get there is to kind of play the game and so this is the way i dealt with it they work in teams of three two boys and a girl two girls and a boy three boys three girls no problem and the swiss psychoanalyst carl jung also spoke about the importance of the number three in all cultures so i figure i'm covered well i got accused in a few that i was actually sent by the pope to preach the trinity and catholicism in the middle east so you you believe who you want | 1 |
6,651 | al is the hidden so al is hidden but she's a superhero i came home to my wife and i said i created a character after you my wife is a saudi from yemeni roots and she said show me so i showed this she said that's not me i said look at the eyes they're your eyes | 1 |
6,653 | and he said hi i said happy new year he said thank you we had a baby i said congratulations like i care right so when's the article coming out he said islam and cartoon that's not timely you know maybe next week next month next year but you know it'll come out so a few days after that what happens what happens is the world erupts in the danish cartoon controversy i became timely | 1 |
6,655 | it was an orthodox jewish community but what breaks my heart and what's alarming is that in those two interviews the people around who were interviewed as well refer to that behavior as in other words good hindus and good jews don't act this way this is islam's influence on hinduism and judaism but what do the students in kuwait say they said it's us and this is dangerous it's dangerous when a group self identifies itself as extreme this is one of my sons who's a doo addict you can tell by the glasses there he actually called me a meddling kid the other day | 1 |
6,656 | and i was in my office working and he came in baba i want you to come with me i want my toy yes just go away he left his doo in his house i said go away i'm working i'm busy and what did then is he sat there he tapped his foot on the floor at three and a half and he looked at me and he said baba i want you to come with me to my office in my house i have work to do | 1 |
6,657 | and with the that is what we aim to do you know i think that there's a big parallel between bending the crucifix out of shape and creating swastikas and when i see pictures like this of parents or uncles who think it's cute to have a little child holding a koran and having a suicide bomber belt around them to protest something the hope is by linking enough positive things to the koran that one day we can move this child from being proud in the way they're proud there to that and i think i think the can and will achieve its mission as an undergrad at tufts university we were giving away free falafel one day and you know it was middle east day or something and people came up and picked up the culturally resonant image of the falafel ate it and you know talked and left and no two people could disagree about what the word free was and what the word falafel was behind us free falafel you know | 1 |
6,658 | in october the justice league of america will be teaming up with the icons like batman superman wonder woman and their colleagues will be teaming up with icons jabbar jami and their colleagues it's a story of intercultural intersections and what better group to have this conversation than those that grew out of fighting fascism in their respective histories and as fascism took over europe in the an unlikely reaction came out of north america as christian iconography got changed and swastikas were created out of crucifixes batman and superman were created by jewish young men in the united states and canada also going back to the bible consider this like the prophets all the superheroes are missing parents | 0 |
6,659 | these are clearly biblical archetypes and the thinking behind that was to create positive globally resonating storylines that could be tied to the same things that other people were pulling mean messages out of because then the person that's using religion for the wrong purpose just becomes a bad man with a bad message and it's only by linking positive things that the negative can be this is the kind of thinking that went into creating the the references the attributes of allah in the koran things like generosity and mercy and foresight and wisdom and dozens of others that no two people in the world would disagree about it doesn't matter what your religion is even if you're an atheist you don't raise your kid telling him you know make sure you lie three times a day | 0 |
6,660 | thirty three go on the silk road to china south asia and southeast asia and are spread between europe the middle east and africa and now it's and there are heroes from different countries now it's very easy to assume that those books because they were from a library called bait al were muslim books but that's not the case because the caliph that built that library his name was al he was al son he had told his advisers get me all the scholars to translate any book they can get their hands onto into arabic and i will pay them its weight in gold after a while his advisers complained | 0 |
6,661 | he had told his advisers get me all the scholars to translate any book they can get their hands onto into arabic and i will pay them its weight in gold after a while his advisers complained they said your highness the scholars are cheating they're writing in big handwriting to take more gold to which he said let them be because what they're giving us is worth a lot more than what we're paying them so the idea of an open architecture an open knowledge is not new to my neck of the desert the concept centers on something called the stones is arabic for light so these stones a few kind of rules in the game number one you don't choose the stone the stone chooses you | 0 |
6,662 | is arabic for light so these stones a few kind of rules in the game number one you don't choose the stone the stone chooses you there's a king arthur element to the storyline okay number two all of the when they first get their stone or their power abuse it they use it for self interest and there's a very strong message in there that when you start abusing your stone you get taken advantage of by people who will exploit your powers okay number three the stones all have within them a mechanism that self updates now there are two groups that exist within the muslim world everybody believes the koran is for all time and all place some believe that means that the original interpretation from a couple thousand years ago is what's relevant today | 0 |
6,663 | everybody believes the koran is for all time and all place some believe that means that the original interpretation from a couple thousand years ago is what's relevant today i don't belong there then there's a group that believes the koran is a living breathing document and i captured that idea within these stones that self update now the main bad guy does not want these stones to update so he's trying to get them to stop updating he can't use the stones but he can stop them and by stopping them he has more of a fascist agenda where he gets some of the to work for him they're all wearing cookie cutter same color uniforms they're not allowed to individually express who they are and what they are and he controls them from the top down whereas when they work for the other side eventually when they find out this is the wrong person they've been manipulated they actually each one has a different colorful kind of dress and the last point about the stones is this | 0 |
6,665 | opened a theme park through a license in kuwait a year and a half ago called the village theme park square feet rides all with our characters a couple back licenses in spain and turkey but the biggest thing we've done to date which is just amazing is that we've done a animated series which is done for global audiences in fact we're already going to be in the u s and turkey we know it's which is going to be very high quality written in hollywood by the writers behind ben and spiderman and star wars clone wars in this clip i'm about to show you which has never been seen in the public before there is a struggle two of the characters jabbar the one with the muscles and the one that can use light are actually wearing the cookie cutter fascist gray uniform because they're being manipulated they don't know ok and they're trying to get another member of the to join them | 0 |
6,666 | two of the characters jabbar the one with the muscles and the one that can use light are actually wearing the cookie cutter fascist gray uniform because they're being manipulated they don't know ok and they're trying to get another member of the to join them so there's a struggle within the team so if we can get the lights the dana i can't see where to grab hold i need more light what's happening there's too much darkness | 0 |
6,667 | i won't send any more commandos in until i know it's safe dr it's time to go miklos must download file contents i can't forget auntie dana i can't do this without you but i can't help | 0 |
6,669 | then what about the rest of us don't we deserve to be saved don't i now tell me which way to go that way threat imminent stay away from me | 0 |
6,678 | but i didn't start out wanting to be a part of somebody's crime reduction strategy i was had my first church if you would have asked me what my ambition was i would have told you i wanted to be a pastor i wanted a church i wanted my own television ministry i wanted my own clothing line | 1 |
6,682 | after about a year of my membership went up about members so was way down the road but seriously if you'd have said what is your ambition i would have said just to be a good pastor to be able to be with people through all the passages of life to preach messages that would have an everyday meaning for folks and in the african american tradition to be able to represent the community that i serve but there was something else that was happening in my city and in the entire metro area and in most metro areas in the united states and that was the homicide rate started to rise precipitously and there were young people who were killing each other for reasons that i thought were very trivial like bumping into someone in a high school hallway and then after school shooting the person | 0 |
6,683 | but there was something else that was happening in my city and in the entire metro area and in most metro areas in the united states and that was the homicide rate started to rise precipitously and there were young people who were killing each other for reasons that i thought were very trivial like bumping into someone in a high school hallway and then after school shooting the person someone with the wrong color shirt on on the wrong street corner at the wrong time and something needed to be done about that it got to the point where it started to change the character of the city you could go to any housing project for example like the one that was down the street from my church and you would walk in and it would be like a ghost town because the parents wouldn't allow their kids to come out and play even in the summertime because of the violence you would listen in the neighborhoods on any given night and to the untrained ear it sounded like fireworks but it was gunfire you'd hear it almost every night when you were cooking dinner telling your child a bedtime story or just watching tv and you can go to any emergency room at any hospital and you would see lying on young black and latino men shot and dying | 0 |
6,688 | i'd like to tell you about two games of chess the first happened in in which garry kasparov a human lost to deep blue a machine to many this was the dawn of a new era one where man would be dominated by machine but here we are years on and the greatest change in how we relate to computers is the not hal the second game was a freestyle chess tournament in in which man and machine could enter together as partners rather than adversaries if they so chose at first the results were predictable | 0 |
6,690 | it's from about to million years ago it's an era known as the time of the giants so for the first time in the history of life lignin evolves that's the hard stuff that trees are made of so trees effectively invent their own trunks at this time and they get really big bigger and bigger and pepper the earth releasing oxygen releasing oxygen releasing oxygen such that the oxygen levels are about twice as high as what they are today and this rich air supports massive insects huge spiders and with a wingspan of about centimeters to breathe this air is really clean and really fresh it doesn't so much have a flavor but it does give your body a really subtle kind of boost of energy it's really good for hangovers | 1 |
6,691 | now this air comes with an ethical dimension as well humans made this air but it's also the most potent greenhouse gas that has ever been tested its warming potential is times that of carbon dioxide and it has that longevity of to generations so this ethical confrontation is really central to my work it has another quite surprising quality it changes the sound of your voice quite dramatically | 1 |
6,693 | if i asked you to picture the air what do you imagine most people think about either empty space or clear blue sky or sometimes trees dancing in the wind and then i remember my high school chemistry teacher with really long socks at the blackboard drawing diagrams of bubbles connected to other bubbles and describing how they vibrate and collide in a kind of frantic soup but really we tend not to think about the air that much at all we notice it mostly when there's some kind of unpleasant sensory intrusion upon it like a terrible smell or something visible like smoke or mist but it's always there | 0 |
6,694 | but really we tend not to think about the air that much at all we notice it mostly when there's some kind of unpleasant sensory intrusion upon it like a terrible smell or something visible like smoke or mist but it's always there it's touching all of us right now it's even inside us our air is immediate vital and intimate and yet it's so easily forgotten so what is the air it's the combination of the invisible gases that envelop the earth attracted by the earth's gravitational pull and even though i'm a visual artist i'm interested in the invisibility of the air | 0 |
6,699 | in the space that used to house one transistor we can now fit one billion that made it so that a computer the size of an entire room now fits in your pocket you might say the future is small as an engineer i'm inspired by this miniaturization revolution in computers as a physician i wonder whether we could use it to reduce the number of lives lost due to one of the fastest growing diseases on earth cancer now when i say that what most people hear me say is that we're working on curing cancer | 0 |
6,700 | went to my professor's office to ask for an extension on the memo assignment and i began as i had the night before and he eventually brought me to the emergency room once there someone i'll just call and his whole team of goons swooped down lifted me high into the air and slammed me down on a metal bed with such force that i saw stars then they strapped my legs and arms to the metal bed with thick leather straps a sound came out of my mouth that i'd never heard before half groan half scream barely human and pure terror then the sound came again forced from somewhere deep inside my belly and scraping my throat raw this incident resulted in my involuntary hospitalization one of the reasons the doctors gave for me against my will was that i was gravely disabled to support this view they wrote in my chart that i was unable to do my yale law school homework i wondered what that meant about much of the rest of new haven | 1 |
6,703 | terribly wrong flew out to new haven to be with me now i'm going to quote from some of my writings i opened the door to my studio apartment steve would later tell me that for all the times he had seen me psychotic nothing could have prepared him for what he saw that day for a week or more i had barely eaten i was gaunt i walked as though my legs were wooden | 0 |
6,714 | now if you have a little girl and she goes and writes to well not so little medium little tries to do research on barbie and she'll come to encarta one of the main online encyclopedias this is what you'll find out about barbie this is it there's nothing more to the definition including manufacturers plural now more commonly produce ethnically diverse dolls like this black barbie which is vastly better than what you'll find in the encyclopedia com which is barbie klaus | 1 |
6,715 | we do it all the time it's that it's the first time that it's having major economic impact what characterizes them is decentralized authority you don't have to ask permission as you do in a property based system may i do this it's open for anyone to create and innovate and share if they want to by themselves or with others because property is one mechanism of coordination but it's not the only one instead what we see are social for all of the critical things that we use property and contract in the market information flows to decide what are interesting problems who's available and good for something motivation structures remember money isn't always the best motivator if you leave a check after dinner with friends you don't increase the probability of being invited back and if dinner isn't entirely obvious think of sex | 1 |
6,717 | by years later by doing the same thing starting what was experienced as a daily paper would come to cost two and a half million dollars two and a half million years that's the critical change that is being inverted by the net and that's what i want to talk about today and how that relates to the emergence of social production starting with newspapers what we saw was high cost as an initial requirement for making information knowledge and culture which led to a stark bifurcation between producers who had to be able to raise financial capital just like any other industrial organization and passive consumers that could choose from a certain set of things that this industrial model could produce now the term information society information economy for a very long time has been used as the thing that comes after the industrial revolution but in fact for purposes of understanding what's happening today that's wrong because for years we've had an information economy it's just been industrial which means those who were producing had to have a way of raising money to pay those two and a half million dollars and later more for the telegraph and the radio transmitter and the television and eventually the mainframe | 0 |
6,718 | yves welcome it is quite amazing those sequences were shot over the last three years in various moments of your activities and there were many many others so it's possible to fly almost like a bird what is it like to be up there it's fun it's fun | 1 |
6,719 | it was about years ago when i discovered free falling when you go out of an airplane you are almost naked you take a position like that and especially when you take a tracking position you have the feeling that you are flying and that's the nearest thing to the dream you have no machine around you you are just in the element it's very short and only in one direction | 1 |
6,720 | yeah two meter span ultra stable profile four little engines kilos thrust each turbines working with kerosene harness parachute my only instruments are an altimeter and time i know i have about eight minutes fuel so i just check before it's finished | 1 |
6,721 | we saw the crossing of the gibraltar strait where you lost control and then you dived down into the clouds and in the ocean so that was one of those cases where you let the wings go right yeah i did try in the clouds but you lose orientation completely so i did try to take again a climb altitude i thought okay i will go out but most probably i did something like that | 1 |
6,723 | see maybe come back here this is risky stuff indeed people have died trying to do this kind of thing and you don't look like a crazy guy you're a swiss airline pilot so you're rather a checklist kind of guy i assume you have standards yeah i have no checklist for that | 1 |
6,725 | of the flight is actually you jump off a plane or a helicopter and you go on a dive and accelerate the engines and then you basically take off mid air somewhere and then the landing as we have seen arriving on this side of the channel is through a parachute so just as a curiosity where did you land when you flew over the grand canyon did you land on the rim down at the bottom it was down on the bottom and i came back afterward on the sled of the helicopter back but it was too stony and full of cactus on top | 1 |
6,727 | instead of jumping off a plane yes yes with the final goal to take off but with initial speed really i go step by step it seems a little bit crazy but it's not it's possible to start already now it's just too dangerous | 1 |
6,728 | music by moby grand canyon many of the tests are conducted while yves is strapped onto the wing because body is an integral part of the aircraft wind tunnel tests the wing has no steering controls no flaps no rudder yves uses his body to steer the wing | 0 |
6,730 | english channel crossing commentator one there he goes there is yves and i think the wing is open so our first critical moment it's open he is down | 0 |
6,731 | commentator one there's that degree turn he's out over the channel there is yves there is no turning back now | 0 |
6,732 | he's out over the channel there is yves there is no turning back now he is over the english channel and under way ladies and gentlemen a historic flight has begun national geographic commentator two and as he approaches the ground he's going to pull down on those to flare slow himself down just a little bit and then come in for a nice landing commentator one there he is yves has landed in england and now he's in edinburgh | 0 |
6,735 | and you're not piloting there is no handle no steering nothing it is purely your body and the wings become part of the body and vice versa that's really the goal because if you put in steering then you reinvent the airplane and i wanted to keep this freedom of movement and it's really like the kid playing the airplane | 0 |
6,736 | that's really the goal because if you put in steering then you reinvent the airplane and i wanted to keep this freedom of movement and it's really like the kid playing the airplane i want to go down like that and up i climb i turn it's really pure flying it's not steering it's flight what kind of training do you do you personally for that actually i try to stay just fit i don't do special physical training | 0 |
6,738 | and you know i got a lot of popularity i don't play sports i'm really bad at sports i don't have the fanciest gadgets at home i'm not on top of the class so for me cartooning gave me a sense of identity i got popular but i was scared i'd get caught again so what i did was i quickly put together a collage of all the teachers i had drawn glorified my school principal put him right on top and gifted it to him he had a good laugh at the other teachers and put it up on the notice board | 1 |
6,740 | this is a fashion show we held in london the best collaboration of course is with children they are ruthless they are honest but they're full of energy and fun this is a work a library i designed for the robin hood foundation and i must say i spent time in the bronx working with these kids and in exchange for me working with them they taught me how to be cool i don't think i've succeeded but they've taught me they said stop saying sorry say my bad | 1 |
6,741 | she'd come every two months to visit me and then i said i'm the man i'm the man and i have to reciprocate i have to travel seven oceans and i have to come and see you i did that twice and i went broke so then i said nets what do i do she said why don't you send me your paintings my dad knows a bunch of rich guys we'll try and con them into buying it and then but it turned out after i sent the works to her that her dad's friends like most of you are geeks i'm joking | 1 |
6,742 | what we did was we rented a little van and we drove all over the east coast trying to sell it she contacted anyone and everyone who was willing to buy my work she made enough money she sold off the whole collection and made enough money to move me for four years with lawyers a company everything and she became my manager that's us in new york notice one thing we're equal here something happened along the line | 1 |
6,743 | works also turned autobiographical at this point something else happened a very very dear friend of mine came out of the closet and in india at that time it was illegal to be gay and it's disgusting to see how people respond to a gay person i was very upset i remember the time when my mother used to dress me up as a little girl that's me there because she wanted a girl and she has only boys | 1 |
6,744 | i moved back to new york my work has changed everything about my work has become more whimsical this one is called what the fuck was i thinking it talks about mental incest you know i may appear to be a very nice clean sweet boy but i'm not i'm capable of thinking anything but i'm very civil in my action i assure you | 1 |
6,745 | thanks to a really boring lecture i started my teachers in school and you know i got a lot of popularity i don't play sports | 0 |
6,746 | i have to tell you a little bit about my family that's my mother i love her to bits | 0 |
6,748 | held that i was i got the best lawyer in town my older brother and i sat him down and i said pa from today onwards i've decided i'm going to be disciplined i'm going to be curious i'm going to learn something new every day i'm going to be very hard working and i'm not going to depend on you emotionally or financially and he was very impressed he was all tearing up ready to hug me and i said hold that thought i said can i quit school then but to cut a long story short i quit school to pursue a career as a cartoonist i must have done about caricatures | 0 |
6,749 | but to cut a long story short i quit school to pursue a career as a cartoonist i must have done about caricatures i would do birthday parties weddings divorces anything for anyone who wanted to use my services but most importantly while i was traveling i taught children cartooning and in exchange i learned how to be spontaneous and mad and crazy and fun when i started teaching them i said let me start doing this professionally when i was i started my own school however an year old trying to start a school is not easy unless you have a big patron or a big supporter so i was flipping through the pages of the times of india when i saw that the prime minister of india was visiting my home town bangalore | 0 |
6,750 | i was flipping through the pages of the times of india when i saw that the prime minister of india was visiting my home town bangalore and you know just like how every cartoonist knows bush here and if you had to meet bush it would be the funnest thing because his face was a delight i had to meet my prime minister i went to the place where his helicopter was about to land i saw layers of security i caricatured my way through three layers by just impressing the guards but i got stuck i got stuck at the third and what happened was to my luck i saw a nuclear scientist at whose party i had done cartoons | 0 |
6,751 | i was hesitant to include this in my presentation because this cartoon was published soon after what was for me a very naive observation turned out to be a disaster that evening i came home to hundreds of hate mails hundreds of people telling me how they could have lived another day without seeing this i was also asked to leave the organization a organization in america that for me was my lifeline that's when i realized you know cartoons are really powerful art comes with responsibility | 0 |
6,752 | they produced flyers they called offices they checked schedules they were meeting with secretaries they produced an election forum booklet for the entire town to learn more about their candidates they invited everyone into the school for an evening of conversation about government and politics and whether or not the streets were done well and really had this robust experiential learning the older teachers more experienced looked at me and went oh there she is that's so cute she's trying to get that done | 1 |
6,753 | i have been teaching for a long time and in doing so have acquired a body of knowledge about kids and learning that i really wish more people would understand about the potential of students in my grandmother bottom left for you guys over here graduated from the eighth grade she went to school to get the information because that's where the information lived it was in the books it was inside the teacher's head and she needed to go there to get the information because that's how you learned fast forward a generation this is the one room schoolhouse oak grove where my father went to a one room schoolhouse and he again had to travel to the school to get the information from the teacher stored it in the only portable memory he has which is inside his own head and take it with him because that is how information was being transported from teacher to student and then used in the world | 0 |
6,754 | i think that judgment requires us to look at three things are they competent are they honest are they reliable and if we find that a person is competent in the relevant matters and reliable and honest we'll have a pretty good reason to trust them because they'll be trustworthy but if on the other hand they're unreliable we might not i have friends who are competent and honest but i would not trust them to post a letter because they're forgetful i have friends who are very confident they can do certain things but i realize that they overestimate their own competence and i'm very glad to say i don't think i have many friends who are competent and reliable but extremely dishonest | 1 |
6,755 | the second is an aim we should have more trust and the third is a task we should rebuild trust | 0 |
6,756 | okay so why can that be why is that well think about it this way who changed i mean the percent of the car drivers that disappeared surely they must be discontent in a way and where did they go if we can understand this then maybe we can figure out how people can be so happy with this well so we did this huge interview survey with lots of travel services and tried to figure out who changed and where did they go and it turned out that they don't know themselves | 1 |
6,757 | i'm here to talk about congestion namely road congestion road congestion is a pervasive phenomenon it exists in basically all of the cities all around the world which is a little bit surprising when you think about it i mean think about how different cities are actually i mean you have the typical european cities with a dense urban core good public transportation mostly not a lot of road capacity | 0 |
6,759 | now that makes me pause for just a couple reasons first of all for exceptions there are a lot of them and they're important secondly when we talk about men who are succeeding we rightly consider them icons or pioneers or innovators to be emulated and when we talk about women they are either exceptions to be dismissed or aberrations to be ignored and finally there is no society anywhere in all the world that is not changed except by its most exceptional so why wouldn't we celebrate and elevate these change makers and job creators rather than overlook them this topic of resilience is very personal to me and in many ways has shaped my life my mom was a single mom who worked at the phone company during the day and sold tupperware at night so that i could have every opportunity possible we shopped double coupons and and consignment stores and when she got sick with stage four breast cancer and could no longer work we even applied for food stamps and when i would feel sorry for myself as nine or year old girls do she would say to me my dear on a scale of major world tragedies yours is not a three | 1 |
6,760 | i couldn't do it and nobody i knew had done it i went to my aunt who survived years of beatings at the hand of her husband and escaped a marriage of abuse with only her dignity intact and she told me never import other people's limitations and when i complained to my grandmother a world war veteran who worked in film for years and who supported me from the age of that i was terrified that if i turned down a plum assignment at for a fellowship overseas i would never ever ever find another job she said i'm going to tell you two things first of all no one turns down a fulbright and secondly mcdonald's is always hiring | 1 |
6,761 | not invest in victims we invest in survivors and in ways both big and small the narrative of the victim shapes the way we see women you can't count what you don't see and we don't invest in what's invisible to us but this is the face of resilience six years ago i started writing about women entrepreneurs during and after conflict | 0 |
6,762 | i set out to write a compelling economic story one that had great characters that no one else was telling and one that i thought mattered and that turned out to be women i had left news and a career i loved at the age of for business school a path i knew almost nothing about none of the women i had grown up with in maryland had graduated from college let alone considered business school but they had hustled to feed their kids and pay their rent and i saw from a young age that having a decent job and earning a good living made the biggest difference for families who were struggling so if you're going to talk about jobs then you have to talk about entrepreneurs | 0 |
6,763 | my first business was a dressmaking business i started under the taliban and that was actually an excellent business because we provided jobs for women all around our neighborhood and that's really how i became an entrepreneur think about this here were girls who braved danger to become breadwinners during years in which they couldn't even be on their streets | 0 |
6,764 | in set up its long term horizon program which contained one cornerstone which would be a mission to a comet in parallel a small mission to a comet what you see here was launched and in flew by the comet of halley with an armada of other spacecraft from the results of that mission it became immediately clear that comets were ideal bodies to study to understand our solar system and thus the rosetta mission was approved in and originally it was supposed to be launched in but a problem arose with an ariane rocket however our p r department in its enthusiasm had already made delft blue plates with the name of the wrong comets so i've never had to buy any china since that's the positive part | 1 |
6,765 | and of course it's the first satellite to go beyond the orbit of jupiter on solar cells now this sounds more heroic than it actually is because the technology to use radio isotope thermal generators wasn't available in europe at that time so there was no choice but these solar arrays are big this is one wing and these are not specially selected small people they're just like you and me | 1 |
6,766 | so what do you do you use gravitational slingshots where you pass by a planet at very low altitude a few thousand kilometers and then you get the velocity of that planet around the sun for free we did that a few times we did earth we did mars we did twice earth again and we also flew by two asteroids and then in we got so far from the sun that if the spacecraft got into trouble we couldn't actually save the spacecraft anymore so we went into hibernation everything was switched off except for one clock here you see in white the trajectory and the way this works you see that from the circle where we started the white line actually you get more and more and more elliptical and then finally we approached the comet in may and we had to start doing the rendezvous maneuvers on the way there we flew by earth and we took a few pictures to test our cameras this is the moon rising over earth and this is what we now call a which at that time by the way that word didn't exist | 1 |
6,767 | then we got in the vicinity of the comet and these were the first pictures we saw the true comet rotation period is and a half hours so this is accelerated but you will understand that our flight dynamics engineers thought this is not going to be an easy thing to land on we had hoped for some kind of spud like thing where you could easily land but we had one hope maybe it was smooth no that didn't work either | 1 |
6,769 | i'd like to take you on the epic quest of the rosetta spacecraft to escort and land the probe on a comet this has been my passion for the past two years in order to do that i need to explain to you something about the origin of the solar system when we go back four and a half billion years there was a cloud of gas and dust in the center of this cloud our sun formed and ignited along with that what we now know as planets comets and asteroids formed | 0 |
6,770 | in the center of this cloud our sun formed and ignited along with that what we now know as planets comets and asteroids formed what then happened according to theory is that when the earth had cooled down a bit after its formation comets massively impacted the earth and delivered water to earth they probably also delivered complex organic material to earth and that may have the emergence of life you can compare this to having to solve a puzzle and not a puzzle afterwards the big planets like jupiter and saturn they were not in their place where they are now and they interacted gravitationally and they swept the whole interior of the solar system clean and what we now know as comets ended up in something called the kuiper belt which is a belt of objects beyond the orbit of neptune and sometimes these objects run into each other and they gravitationally deflect and then the gravity of jupiter pulls them back into the solar system and they then become the comets as we see them in the sky the important thing here to note is that in the meantime the four and a half billion years these comets have been sitting on the outside of the solar system and haven't changed deep frozen versions of our solar system | 0 |
6,772 | once the whole problem was solved we left earth in to the newly selected comet this comet had to be specially selected because a you have to be able to get to it and b it shouldn't have been in the solar system too long this particular comet has been in the solar system since that's the first time when it was deflected by jupiter and it got close enough to the sun to start changing so it's a very fresh comet rosetta made a few historic firsts | 0 |
6,773 | rosetta made a few historic firsts it's the first satellite to orbit a comet and to escort it throughout its whole tour through the solar system closest approach to the sun as we will see in august and then away again to the exterior it's the first ever landing on a comet we actually orbit the comet using something which is not normally done with spacecraft normally you look at the sky and you know where you point and where you are in this case that's not enough we navigated by looking at landmarks on the comet we recognized features boulders craters and that's how we know where we are respective to the comet | 0 |
6,774 | you can learn a great deal about deception by studying this very even though it's a very simple trick probably many of you in the room know this trick what happens is this i hold the knife in my hand i say i'm going to grab hold of my wrist to make sure nothing goes up or down my sleeve that is a lie the reason i'm holding onto my wrist is because that's actually the secret of the illusion in a moment when my hand moves from facing you to being away from you this finger right here my index finger is just going to shift from where it is to a position pointing out like this nice one someone who didn't have a childhood is out there | 1 |
6,776 | i'm not a doctor or a researcher so this to me was an astonishing thing it turns out that if you administer a placebo in the form of a white pill that's like aspirin shaped it's just a round white pill it has some certain measurable effect but if you change the form that you give the placebo in like you make a smaller pill and color it blue and stamp a letter into it it is actually measurably more effective even though neither one of these things has any pharmaceutical they're sugar pills but a white pill is not as good as a blue pill | 1 |
6,781 | i'm just going to hold the knife in my fist like this i'll get my sleeve back and to make sure nothing goes up or down my sleeve i'm just going to squeeze my wrist right here that way you can see that at no time can anything travel as long as i'm squeezing there nothing can go up or down my sleeve and the object of this is quite simple i'm going to open my hand and hopefully if all is well my pure animal magnetism will hold the knife in fact it's held so tightly in place that i can shake it and the knife does not come off nothing goes up or down my sleeve no trickery and you can examine everything | 0 |
6,783 | these dosages have something to do with it and the form has something to do with it and if you want the ultimate in placebo you've go to the needle right a syringe with some inert a couple ccs of some inert something and you inject this into a patient well this is such a powerful image in their mind it's so much stronger than the white pill it's a really this graph well i'll show it to you some other time when we have slides the point is the white pill is not as good as the blue pill is not as good as the capsule is not as good as the needle | 0 |
6,784 | everyone knows that a picture is worth a thousand words but we at harvard were wondering if this was really true | 1 |
6,786 | we took a page out of and we said stand back we're going to try science | 1 |
6,787 | now we're thinking what data can we release well of course you want to take the books and release the full text of these five million books now and jon in particular told us a little equation that we should learn so you have five million that is five million authors and five million plaintiffs is a massive lawsuit so although that would be really really awesome again that's extremely extremely impractical | 1 |
6,789 | two rows from this table of two billion entries what you're seeing is year by year frequency of thrived and throve over time now this is just two out of two billion rows so the entire data set is a billion times more awesome than this slide | 1 |
6,790 | now there are many other pictures that are worth billion words for instance this one if you just take influenza you will see peaks at the time where you knew big flu epidemics were killing people around the globe if you were not yet convinced sea levels are rising so is atmospheric and global temperature you might also want to have a look at this particular n gram and that's to tell nietzsche that god is not dead although you might agree that he might need a better publicist | 1 |
6,791 | get at some pretty abstract concepts with this sort of thing for instance let me tell you the history of the year pretty much for the vast majority of history no one gave a damn about in in in no one cared through the and no one cared suddenly in the there started to be a buzz people realized that was going to happen and it could be big | 1 |
6,792 | they couldn't stop talking about all the things they did in all the things they were planning to do in all the dreams of what they wanted to accomplish in in fact was so fascinating that for years thereafter people just kept talking about all the amazing things that happened in finally in someone woke up and realized that had gotten somewhat pass | 1 |
6,793 | advice so for those of you who seek to be famous we can learn from the most famous political figures authors actors and so on so if you want to become famous early on you should be an actor because then fame starts rising by the end of your you're still young it's really great now if you can wait a little bit you should be an author because then you rise to very great heights like mark twain for instance extremely famous but if you want to reach the very top you should delay gratification and of course become a politician so here you will become famous by the end of your and become very very famous afterward so scientists also tend to get famous when they're much older like for instance biologists and physics tend to be almost as famous as actors one mistake you should not do is become a mathematician | 1 |
6,794 | i'm going to do my best work when i'm in my but guess what nobody will really care | 1 |
6,795 | so people want to be their best put their best foot forward but it turns out in the century people didn't really care about that at all they didn't want to be their best they wanted to be their so what happened is of course this is just a mistake it's not that strove for mediocrity it's just that the s used to be written differently kind of like an f now of course didn't pick this up at the time so we reported this in the science article that we wrote but it turns out this is just a reminder that although this is a lot of fun when you interpret these graphs you have to be very careful and you have to adopt the base standards in the sciences people have been using this for all kinds of fun purposes | 1 |
6,797 | what you really want to do is to get to the awesome yet practical part of this space so it turns out there was a company across the river called who had started a project a few years back that might just enable this approach they have digitized millions of books so what that means is one could use computational methods to read all of the books in a click of a button | 0 |
6,798 | these authors have been striving to write books and this became considerably easier with the development of the printing press some centuries ago since then the authors have won on million distinct occasions publishing books now if those books are not lost to history then they are somewhere in a library and many of those books have been getting retrieved from the libraries and digitized by which has scanned million books to date | 0 |
6,799 | we said well instead of releasing the full text we're going to release statistics about the books so take for instance a gleam of happiness it's four words we call that a four gram we're going to tell you how many times a particular four gram appeared in books in all the way up to that gives us a time series of how frequently this particular sentence was used over time | 0 |
6,800 | what do they tell us well the individual n grams measure cultural trends let me give you an example let's suppose that i am thriving then tomorrow i want to tell you about how well i did and so i might say yesterday i throve | 0 |
6,801 | because now we've got these nice charts and because we have these nice charts we can measure things we can say well how fast does the bubble burst and it turns out that we can measure that very precisely equations were derived graphs were produced and the net result is that we find that the bubble bursts faster and faster with each passing year we are losing interest in the past more rapidly | 0 |
6,802 | and this looks like the normal trajectory of a famous person he gets more and more and more famous except if you look in german if you look in german you see something completely bizarre something you pretty much never see which is he becomes extremely famous and then all of a sudden plummets going through a nadir between and before rebounding afterward and of course what we're seeing is the fact marc chagall was a jewish artist in nazi germany | 0 |
6,803 | these signals are actually so strong that we don't need to know that someone was censored we can actually figure it out using really basic signal processing here's a simple way to do it well a reasonable expectation is that somebody's fame in a given period of time should be roughly the average of their fame before and their fame after so that's sort of what we expect and we compare that to the fame that we observe and we just divide one by the other to produce something we call a suppression index | 0 |
6,804 | and we compare that to the fame that we observe and we just divide one by the other to produce something we call a suppression index if the suppression index is very very very small then you very well might be being suppressed if it's very large maybe you're benefiting from propaganda now you can actually look at the distribution of suppression indexes over whole populations so for instance here this suppression index is for people picked in english books where there's no known suppression it would be like this basically tightly centered on one what you expect is basically what you observe this is distribution as seen in germany very different it's shifted to the left people talked about it twice less as it should have been | 0 |
6,805 | this is distribution as seen in germany very different it's shifted to the left people talked about it twice less as it should have been but much more importantly the distribution is much wider there are many people who end up on the far left on this distribution who are talked about times fewer than they should have been but then also many people on the far right who seem to benefit from propaganda this picture is the hallmark of censorship in the book record so is what we call this method it's kind of like except is a lens on biology through the window of the sequence of bases in the human genome | 0 |
6,806 | it's kind of like except is a lens on biology through the window of the sequence of bases in the human genome is similar it's the application of massive scale data collection analysis to the study of human culture here instead of through the lens of a genome through the lens of digitized pieces of the historical record the great thing about is that everyone can do it why can everyone do it everyone can do it because three guys jon matt gray and will brockman over at saw the prototype of the viewer and they said this is so fun we have to make this available for people | 0 |
6,808 | when's rush hour in new york city it can be pretty bothersome when is rush hour exactly and i thought to myself these cabs aren't just numbers these are recorders driving around in our city streets recording each and every ride they take there's data there and i looked at that data and i made a plot of the average speed of taxis in new york city throughout the day you can see that from about midnight to around in the morning speed increases and at that point things turn around and they get slower and slower and slower until about in the morning when they end up at around and a half miles per hour the average taxi is going and a half miles per hour on our city streets and it turns out it stays that way for the entire day | 1 |
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