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about seven or eight years ago i went to a cocktail party this is when the band had hit our first machine so things were really cranking we had just made about dollars in one year through sales and brand deals and stuff like that and this guy comes up to me and says hey jack what do you do i said i'm a musician and he just sobered up immediately and he stuck out his hand put a hand on my shoulder and in a real earnest very nice voice he was like i hope you make it someday
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but there was one big problem making money as a creative person in was super weird first of all the business models were changing all the time so our dollars of annual download income was about to be replaced by about dollars of streaming income steams paid less than and then as more and more creators started popping up online there was just more competition for these five figure brand deals that had kept the band afloat for years and to top it all off our videos themselves the creative stuff that we made that our fans loved and appreciated that were actually contributing value to the world those videos were generating almost zero dollars of income for us this is an actual snapshot of my dashboard from a period that shows one million views and dollars of ad earnings for those views the whole machine in that took art online and money was totally it doesn't matter if you're a newspaper or an institution or an independent creator
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about years ago humans figured out how to record sound onto a wax cylinder that was the beginning of the phonograph right around the same time we figured out how to record light onto a piece of photographic paper celluloid the beginning of film and television for the first time you could store art on a thing which was amazing art used to be completely ephemeral so if you missed the symphony you just didn't get to hear the orchestra
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if i liked a boy i would ask opinion died in the notorious plane crash in nigeria in december of almost exactly seven years ago was a person i could argue with laugh with and truly talk to he was also the first person to call me a feminist i was about fourteen we were at his house arguing both of us bristling with half bit knowledge from books that we had read i don't remember what this particular argument was about but i remember that as i argued and argued looked at me and said you know you're a feminist it was not a compliment
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i did not know exactly what this word feminist meant and i did not want to know that i did not know so i brushed it aside and i continued to argue and the first thing i planned to do when i got home was to look up the word feminist in the dictionary now fast forward to some years later i wrote a novel about a man who among other things beats his wife and whose story doesn't end very well while i was promoting the novel in nigeria a journalist a nice well meaning man told me he wanted to advise me and for the nigerians here i'm sure we're all familiar with how quick our people are to give unsolicited advice he told me that people were saying that my novel was feminist and his advice to me and he was shaking his head sadly as he spoke was that i should never call myself a feminist because feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot find husbands
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so i decided to call myself a happy feminist then an academic a nigerian woman told me that feminism was not our culture and that feminism wasn't african and that i was calling myself a feminist because i had been corrupted by western books which amused me because a lot of my early readings were decidedly i think i must have read every single mills boon romance published before i was sixteen and each time i tried to read those books called the feminist classics i'd get bored and i really struggled to finish them but anyway since feminism was un african i decided that i would now call myself a happy african feminist at some point i was a happy african feminist who does not hate men and who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels for herself but not for men
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but my teacher would also give you a cane to hold in your hand while you walk around and patrol the class for now of course you were not actually allowed to use the cane but it was an exciting prospect for the nine me i very much wanted to be the class monitor and i got the highest score on the test then to my surprise my teacher said that the monitor had to be a boy she had forgotten to make that clear earlier because she assumed it was
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surprised and asked why is he thanking me i didn't give him the money then i saw realization dawn on face the man believed that whatever money i had had ultimately come from louis because louis is a man men and women are different we have different hormones we have different sexual organs we have different biological abilities women can have babies men can't at least not yet
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physically stronger than women there's slightly more women than men in the world about percent of the world's population is female but most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men the late kenyan nobel peace laureate put it simply and well when she said the higher you go the fewer women there are in the recent us elections we kept hearing of the lilly ledbetter law and if we go beyond the nicely alliterative name of that law it was really about a man and a woman doing the same job being equally qualified and the man being paid more because he's a man so in the literal way men rule the world and this made sense a thousand years ago because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival the physically stronger person was more likely to lead and men in general are physically stronger of course there are many exceptions
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and i've never forgotten that incident i often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else now take my dear friend louis for example
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we have evolved but it seems to me that our ideas of gender had not evolved some weeks ago i walked into a lobby of one of the best nigerian hotels i thought about naming the hotel but i thought i probably shouldn't
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anger has a long history of bringing about positive change but in addition to being angry i'm also hopeful because i believe deeply in the ability of human beings to make and remake themselves for the better gender matters everywhere in the world but i want to focus on nigeria and on africa in general because it is where i know and because it is where my heart is
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gender matters everywhere in the world but i want to focus on nigeria and on africa in general because it is where i know and because it is where my heart is and i would like today to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world a fairer world a world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves and this is how to start we must raise our daughters differently we must also raise our sons differently we do a great disservice to boys on how we raise them we stifle the humanity of boys we define masculinity in a very narrow way masculinity becomes this hard small cage and we put boys inside the cage we teach boys to be afraid of fear we teach boys to be afraid of weakness of vulnerability
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i mean the loss of virginity is usually a process that involves recently a young woman was gang raped in a university in nigeria i think some of us know about that and the response of many young nigerians both male and female was something along the lines of this yes rape is wrong but what is a girl doing in a room with four boys now if we can forget the horrible inhumanity of that response these nigerians have been raised to think of women as inherently guilty and they have been raised to expect so little of men that the idea of men as savage beings without any control is somehow acceptable we teach girls shame
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i wish i had not worn that ugly suit that day i've actually banished it from my closet by the way had i then the confidence that i have now to be myself my students would have benefited even more from my teaching because i would have been more comfortable and more fully and more truly myself
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he will always be remembered by those of us who loved him and he was right that day many years ago when he called me a feminist i am a feminist
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is not a religious garment nor is it a religious statement instead it's a diverse cultural statement that we choose to wear now i remember a few years ago a journalist asked dr who's sitting here president of qatar university who by the way is a woman he asked her whether she thought the hindered or infringed her freedom in any way her answer was quite the contrary instead she felt more free more free because she could wear whatever she wanted under the she could come to work in her pajamas and nobody would care
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the same way qatar is trying to grow its national museums through an organic process from within our mission is of cultural integration and independence we don't want to have what there is in the west we don't want their collections we want to build our own identities our own fabric create an open dialogue so that we share our ideas and share yours with us in a few days we will be opening the arab museum of modern art we have done extensive research to ensure that arab and muslim artists and arabs who are not muslims not all arabs are muslims by the way but we make sure that they are represented in this new institution this institution is government backed and it has been the case for the past three decades we will open the museum in a few days and i welcome all of you to get on qatar airways and come and join us
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growing up as a boy we were taught that men had to be tough had to be strong had to be courageous dominating no pain no emotions with the exception of anger and definitely no fear that men are in charge which means women are not that men lead and you should just follow and do what we say that men are superior women are inferior that men are strong women are weak that women are of less value property of men and objects particularly sexual objects i've later come to know that to be the collective socialization of men better known as the man box see this man box has in it all the ingredients of how we define what it means to be a man now i also want to say without a doubt there are some wonderful wonderful absolutely wonderful things about being a man but at the same time there's some stuff that's just straight up twisted and we really need to begin to challenge look at it and really get in the process of redefining what we come to know as manhood this is my two at home kendall and jay they're and kendall's months older than jay there was a period of time when my wife her name is tammie and i we just got real busy and whip bam boom kendall and jay
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so i run right upstairs as he opens the door he says to me do you want some now i immediately knew what he meant because for me growing up at that time and our relationship with this man box do you want some meant one of two things sex or drugs and we weren't doing drugs now my box my card my man box card was immediately in jeopardy two things one i never had sex we don't talk about that as men you only tell your dearest closest friend sworn to secrecy for life the first time you had sex for everybody else we go around like we've been having sex since we were two there ain't no first time
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now kendall on the other hand and like i said he's only months older than her he'd come to me crying it's like as soon as i would hear him cry a clock would go off i would give the boy probably about seconds which means by the time he got to me i was already saying things like why are you crying hold your head up look at me explain to me what's wrong tell me what's wrong i can't understand you why are you crying and out of my own frustration of my role and responsibility of building him up as a man to fit into these guidelines and these structures that are defining this man box i would find myself saying things like just go in your room just go on go on in your room
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this is something like a new definition ever given in policing in india the power to prevent because normally it was always said power to detect and that's it or power to punish but i decided no it's a power to prevent because that's what i learned when i was growing up how do i prevent the and never make it more than so this was how it came into my service and it was different from the men i didn't want to make it different from the men but it was different because this was the way i was different and i redefined policing concepts in india i'm going to take you on two journeys my policing journey and my prison journey what you see if you see the title called car held this was the first time a prime minister of india was given a parking ticket
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let me begin with my parents i'm a product of this visionary mother and father many years ago when i was born in the and didn't belong to girls in india they belonged to boys
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so for me everything started many many years ago when i met the first printer the concept was fascinating a printer needs three elements a bit of information some raw material some energy and it can produce any object that was not there before i was doing physics i was coming back home and i realized that i actually always knew a printer and everyone does it was my mom
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so we predicted that he's the subject is we predict his age the subject is we predict his eye color too dark we predict his skin color we are almost there that's his face now the reveal moment the subject is this person
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so the number of atoms the file that i will save in my thumb drive to assemble a little baby will actually fill an entire titanic of thumb drives multiplied times this is the miracle of life
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now you can run some numbers and that happens to be quite an astonishing number so the number of atoms the file that i will save in my thumb drive to assemble a little baby will actually fill an entire titanic of thumb drives multiplied times this is the miracle of life every time you see from now on a pregnant lady she's assembling the biggest amount of information that you will ever encounter forget big data forget anything you heard of this is the biggest amount of information that exists but nature fortunately is much smarter than a young physicist and in four billion years managed to pack this information in a small crystal we call we met it for the first time in when rosalind franklin an amazing scientist a woman took a picture of it but it took us more than years to finally poke inside a human cell take out this crystal it and read it for the first time
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every one of you what makes me me and you you is just about five million of these half a book for the rest we are all absolutely identical
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it's consuming food in a way in which we'll still have a planet in which kids will grow up to be healthy and which really tries to mitigate all the negative impacts we're seeing it really is just a new idea i mean people toss around sustainability but we have to figure out what sustainability is in less than years you know just in a few generations we've gone from being being percent percent farmers to less than percent of farmers we now live in a country that has more prisoners than farmers million prisoners million farmers and we spend dollars on average a year keeping a prisoner in prison and school districts spend dollars a year feeding a child it's no wonder you know we have criminals
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my thing with school lunch is it's a social justice issue i'm the director of nutrition services for the berkeley unified school district i have employees and locations kids i'm doing meals a day and i've been doing it for two years trying to change how we feed kids in america and that's what i want to talk to you a little bit about today these are some of my kids with a salad bar
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worldwide telescope takes the best images from the world's greatest telescopes on earth and in space and has woven them seamlessly to produce a holistic view of the universe it's going to change the way we do astronomy it's going to change the way we teach astronomy and i think most importantly it's going to change the way we see ourselves in the universe if we were having this ted meeting in our grandparents' day that might not be so big a claim in for example you weren't allowed to drink if you were a woman you weren't allowed to vote and if you looked up at the stars and the milky way on a summer night what you saw was thought to be the entire universe in fact the head of harvard's observatory back then gave a great debate in which he argued that the milky way galaxy was the entire universe harvard was wrong big time
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so microsoft this is a project that worldwide telescope is dedicated to jim gray who's our colleague and a lot of his work that he did is really what makes this project possible it's a labor of love for us and our small team and we really hope it will inspire kids to explore and learn about the universe so basically kids of all ages like us and so worldwide telescope will be available this spring it'll be a free download thank you craig mundie and it'll be available at the website org which is something new and so what you've seen today is less than a fraction of one percent of what is in here and in the ted lab we have a tour that was created by a six named benjamin that will knock your socks off
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we can see all the way out to the edge of the observable universe all the way back in time almost to the moment of the big bang itself we can see across the entire spectrum of light revealing worlds that had previously been invisible we see these magnificent star nurseries where nature has somehow arranged for just the right numbers and just the right sizes of stars to be born for life to arise we see alien worlds we see alien solar systems now and still counting and they're not like us we see black holes at the heart of our galaxy in the milky way and elsewhere in the universe where time itself seems to stand still but until now our view of the universe has been disconnected and fragmented and i think that many of the marvelous stories that nature has to tell us have fallen through the cracks
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i want to just briefly mention three reasons why my colleagues and i in astronomy and in education are so excited about the worldwide telescope and why we think it's truly first it enables you to experience the universe the worldwide telescope for me is a kind of magic carpet that lets you navigate through the universe where you want to go second you can tour the universe with astronomers as your guides and i'm not talking here about just experts who are telling you what you're seeing but really people who are passionate about the various nooks and crannies of the universe who can share their enthusiasm and can make the universe a welcoming place and third you can create your own tours you can share them with friends you can create them with friends and that's the part that i think i'm most excited about because i think that at heart we are all storytellers and in telling stories each of us is going to understand the universe in our own way
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although we've identified a number of different olfactory and taste receptors in the kidney we've only just begun to tease out their different functions and to figure out which chemicals each of them responds to similar investigations lie ahead for many other organs and tissues only a small minority of receptors has been studied to date this is exciting stuff it's revolutionizing our understanding of the scope of influence for one of the five senses and it has the potential to change our understanding of some aspects of human physiology it's still early but i think we've picked up on the scent of something we're following
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how many different scents do you think you can smell and maybe even identify with accuracy one study estimates that humans can detect up to one trillion different odors a trillion
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by the end of this year there'll be nearly a billion people on this planet that actively use social networking sites the one thing that all of them have in common is that they're going to die while that might be a somewhat morbid thought i think it has some really profound implications that are worth exploring what first got me thinking about this was a post authored earlier this year by derek k miller who was a science and technology journalist who died of cancer and what miller did was have his family and friends write a post that went out shortly after he died here's what he wrote in starting that out
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so i think that's a really important point which is we had backed away from contraceptives as a global community we knew that million women were saying they wanted access to contraceptives even the contraceptives we have here in the united states and we weren't providing them because of the political controversy in our country and to me that was just a crime and i kept looking around trying to find the person that would get this back on the global stage and i finally realized i just had to do it and even though i'm catholic i believe in contraceptives just like most of the catholic women in the united states who report using contraceptives and i shouldn't let that controversy be the thing that holds us back we used to have consensus in the united states around contraceptives and so we got back to that global consensus and actually raised billion dollars around exactly this issue for women bill this is your graph what's this about well my graph has numbers on it
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traditional wisdom is that it's pretty hard for married couples to work together how have you guys managed it yeah i've had a lot of women say to me i really don't think i could work with my husband that just wouldn't work out you know we enjoy it and we don't this foundation has been a coming to for both of us in its continuous learning journey and we don't travel together as much for the foundation actually as we used to when bill was working at microsoft we have more trips where we're traveling separately but i always know when i come home bill's going to be interested in what i learned whether it's about women or girls or something new about the vaccine delivery chain or this person that is a great leader he's going to listen and be really interested and he knows when he comes home even if it's to talk about the speech he did or the data or what he's learned i'm really interested and i think we have a really collaborative relationship but we don't every minute together that's for sure
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which of you was the key instigator here or was it symmetrical bill gates well i think we were excited that there'd be a phase of our life where we'd get to work together and figure out how to give this money back at this stage we were talking about the poorest and could you have a big impact on them were there things that weren't being done there was a lot we didn't know our is pretty incredible when we look back on it but we had a certain enthusiasm that that would be the phase the post microsoft phase would be our philanthropy which bill always thought was going to come after he was so he hasn't quite hit yet so some things change along the way so it started there but it got accelerated so that was and it was really before the foundation itself started yeah in we read an article about diseases killing so many kids around the world and we kept saying to ourselves well that can't be
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and so we started gathering scientists and started learning about population learning about vaccines learning about what had worked and what had failed and that's really when we got going was in late so you've got a big pot of money and a world full of so many different issues how on earth do you decide what to focus on well we decided that we'd pick two causes whatever the biggest inequity was globally and there we looked at children dying children not having enough nutrition to ever develop and countries that were really stuck because with that level of death and parents would have so many kids that they'd get huge population growth and that the kids were so sick that they really couldn't be educated and lift themselves up so that was our global thing and then in the u s both of us have had amazing educations and we saw that as the way that the u s could live up to its promise of equal opportunity is by having a phenomenal education system and the more we learned the more we realized we're not really fulfilling that promise and so we picked those two things and everything the foundation does is focused there
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i would be there to talk to them about childhood vaccines and they would bring the conversation around to but what about the shot i get which is an injection they were getting called depo provera which is a contraceptive and i would come back and talk to global health experts and they'd say oh no contraceptives are stocked in in the developing world well you had to dig deeper into the reports and this is what the team came to me with which is to have the number one thing that women tell you in africa they want to use stocked out more than days a year explains why women were saying to me i walked kilometers without my husband knowing it and i got to the clinic and there was nothing there and so condoms were stocked in in africa because of all the aids work that the u s and others supported but women will tell you over and over again i can't negotiate a condom with my husband i'm either suggesting he has aids or i have aids and i need that tool because then i can space the births of my children and i can feed them and have a chance of educating them melinda you're roman catholic and you've often been embroiled in controversy over this issue and on the abortion question on both sides really
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hi norman they look like they're about to get into a cage match right and they did it was minutes long and they talked about syria that's what wanted to talk about he's increasingly calling the shots he's the one willing to do stuff there there's not a lot of mutual like or trust but it's not as if the americans are telling him what to do how about when the whole are getting together surely when the leaders are all onstage then the americans are pulling their weight uh oh
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they had been more opposed to the united states for decades increasingly they're coming back we see that in argentina we see it with the openness in cuba we will see it in venezuela when falls we will see it in brazil after the impeachment and when we finally see a new legitimate president elected there the only place you see that is moving in another direction is the unpopularity of mexican president pea nieto there you could actually see a slip away from the united states over the coming years the us election matters a lot on that one too
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finally back to the united states what do i think about us because there are a lot of upset people not here at i know but in the united states my god after months of campaigning we should be upset i understand that but a lot of people are upset because they say washington's broken we don't trust the establishment we hate the media heck even like me are taking it on the chin look i do think we have to recognize my fellow campers that when you are being chased by the bear in the global context you need not outrun the bear you need to only outrun your fellow campers
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hi george hi norman they look like they're about to get into a cage match right and they did it was minutes long and they talked about syria that's what wanted to talk about
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xi seems fine angela merkel has she always does that look she always does that but is telling turkish president what to do and is like what's going on over there you see and the problem is it's not a the problem is it's a g zero world that we live in a world order where there is no single country or alliance that can meet the challenges of global leadership the doesn't work the all of our friends that's history
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so why what are the implications why are we here well we're here because the united states we spent two trillion dollars on wars in iraq and afghanistan that were failed we don't want to do that anymore we have large numbers of middle and working classes that feel like they've not benefited from promises of globalization so they don't want to see it particularly and we have an energy revolution where we don't need opec or the middle east the way we used to we produce all that right here in the united states
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we could take all of the data that the cars have seen over time the hundreds of thousands of pedestrians cyclists and vehicles that have been out there and understand what they look like and use that to infer what other vehicles should look like and other pedestrians should look like and then even more importantly we could take from that a model of how we expect them to move through the world so here the yellow box is a pedestrian crossing in front of us here the blue box is a cyclist and we anticipate that they're going to nudge out and around the car to the right here there's a cyclist coming down the road and we know they're going to continue to drive down the shape of the road here somebody makes a right turn and in a moment here somebody's going to make a u turn in front of us and we can anticipate that behavior and respond safely now that's all well and good for things that we've seen but of course you encounter lots of things that you haven't seen in the world before and so just a couple of months ago our vehicles were driving through mountain view and this is what we encountered this is a woman in an electric wheelchair chasing a duck in circles on the road
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soon can we bring it out well it's hard to say because it's a really complicated problem but these are my two boys my oldest son is and that means in four and a half years he's going to be able to get his driver's license my team and i are committed to making sure that doesn't happen thank you
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so in karl benz invented the automobile later that year he took it out for the first public test drive and true story crashed into a wall for the last years we've been working around that least reliable part of the car the driver we've made the car stronger we've added seat belts we've added air bags and in the last decade we've actually started trying to make the car smarter to fix that bug the driver now today i'm going to talk to you a little bit about the difference between patching around the problem with driver assistance systems and actually having fully self driving cars and what they can do for the world
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it's kind of unbelievable cars are sold to us like this but really this is what like right it's not sunny it's rainy and you want to do anything other than drive and the reason why is this traffic is getting worse in america between and the vehicle miles traveled increased by percent we grew by six percent of roads so it's not in your brains traffic really is substantially worse than it was not very long ago and all of this has a very human cost so if you take the average commute time in america which is about minutes you multiply that by the million workers we have that turns out to be about six billion minutes wasted in commuting every day
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be clear i don't hold anything against the silver spoon getting into and graduating from an elite university takes a lot of hard work and sacrifice but if your whole life has been engineered toward success how will you handle the tough times one person i hired felt that because he attended an elite university there were certain assignments that were beneath him like temporarily doing manual labor to better understand an operation eventually he quit but on the flip side what happens when your whole life is destined for failure and you actually succeed i want to urge you to interview the i know a lot about this because i am a before i was born my father was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and he couldn't hold a job in spite of his brilliance our lives were one part cuckoo's nest one part and one part a beautiful mind
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finally there are relationships people who overcome adversity don't do it alone somewhere along the way they find people who bring out the best in them and who are invested in their success having someone you can count on no matter what is essential to overcoming adversity i was lucky in my first job after college i didn't have a car so i across two bridges with a woman who was the president's assistant she watched me work and encouraged me to focus on my future and not dwell on my past along the way i've met many people who've provided me brutally honest feedback advice and these people don't mind that i once worked as a singing waitress to help pay for college
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many of them had experienced early hardships anywhere from poverty abandonment death of a parent while young to learning disabilities alcoholism and violence the conventional thinking has been that trauma leads to distress and there's been a lot of focus on the resulting dysfunction but during studies of dysfunction data revealed an unexpected insight that even the worst circumstances can result in growth and transformation a remarkable and phenomenon has been discovered which scientists call post traumatic growth in one study designed to measure the effects of adversity on children at risk among a subset of children who experienced the most severe and extreme conditions fully one third grew up to lead healthy successful and productive lives in spite of everything and against tremendous odds they succeeded one third take this resume this guy's parents give him up for adoption
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so this is me when i was years old i hope you see the resemblance and i was also an activist and i have been an activist all my life i had this really funny childhood where i around the world meeting world leaders and noble prize winners talking about third world debt as it was then called and demilitarization i was a very very serious child
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it's remarkable and this reflects the extraordinary strength of the emerging indian middle class and the power that their mobile phones bring
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the internet is home to two billion people or percent of the world's population it allows us to contribute and to be heard as individuals it allows us to amplify our voices and our power as a group but it too had humble beginnings in the internet was but a dream a few sketches on a piece of paper and then on october the first packet switched message was sent from to sri the first two letters of the word that's all that made it through an l and an o and then a buffer overflow crashed the system
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if you want to know how ask yourself this question what would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail if you really ask yourself this question you can't help but feel uncomfortable i feel a little uncomfortable because when you ask it you begin to understand how the fear of failure constrains you how it keeps us from attempting great things and life gets dull amazing things stop happening sure good things happen but amazing things stop happening now i should be clear i'm not encouraging failure i'm discouraging fear of failure because it's not failure itself that constrains us
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the short story was about my life as a competitive swimmer and about my home life and a little bit about how grief and loss can make you insane the prize was a trip to new york city to meet big time editors and agents and other authors so kind of it was the wannabe writer's dream right you know what i did the day the letter came to my house because i'm me i put the letter on my kitchen table i poured myself a giant glass of vodka with ice and lime and i sat there in my underwear for an entire day just staring at the letter i was thinking about all the ways i'd already screwed my life up who the hell was i to go to new york city and pretend to be a writer who was i i'll tell you i was a misfit like legions of other children i came from an abusive household that i narrowly escaped with my life i already had two failed marriages underneath my belt i'd flunked out of college not once but twice and maybe even a third time that i'm not going to tell you about
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and i'd done an episode of rehab for drug use and i'd had two lovely in jail so i'm on the right stage
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it's one of my favorite words because it's so literal i mean it's a person who sort of missed fitting in or a person who fits in badly
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i mean it's a person who sort of missed fitting in or a person who fits in badly or this a person who is poorly adapted to new situations and environments i'm a card carrying misfit and i'm here for the other misfits in the room because i'm never the only one i'm going to tell you a misfit story somewhere in my early the dream of becoming a writer came right to my doorstep actually it came to my mailbox in the form of a letter that said i'd won a giant literary prize for a short story i had written the short story was about my life as a competitive swimmer and about my home life and a little bit about how grief and loss can make you insane
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i brought with me today a baby diaper you'll see why in a second baby diapers have interesting properties they can swell enormously when you add water to them an experiment done by millions of kids every day
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is a view taken on the summit ridge itself this is on the way toward the summit on that bridge all the climbers here are climbing and the reason is because the drop off is so sheer on either side that if you were roped to somebody you'd wind up just pulling them off with you so each person climbs individually and it's not a straight path at all it's very difficult climbing and there's always the risk of falling on either side if you fall to your left you're going to fall feet into nepal if you fall to your right you're going to fall feet into tibet so it's probably better to fall into tibet because you'll live longer
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ok this is mount everest it's feet high i've been there six times four times i did work with national geographic making tectonic plate measurements twice i went with nasa doing remote sensing devices it was on my fourth trip to everest that a comet passed over the mountain hyakutake and the told us then that was a very bad omen and we should have listened to them everest is an extreme environment there's only one third as much oxygen at the summit as there is at sea level
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so as i said neurosurgery comes from a long tradition it's been around for about years in there used to be neurosurgery and there were these neurosurgeons that used to treat patients and they were trying to they knew that the brain was involved in neurological and psychiatric disease they didn't know exactly what they were doing not much has changed by the way
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sometimes the patients were a little bit reluctant to go through this because you can tell that the holes are made partially and then i think there was some and then they left very quickly and it was only a partial hole and we know they survived these procedures but this was common there were some sites where one percent of all the skulls have these holes and so you can see that neurologic and psychiatric disease is quite common and it was also quite common about years ago now in the course of time we've come to realize that different parts of the brain do different things
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so when moto opened in people didn't really know what to expect a lot of people thought that it was a japanese restaurant and maybe it was the name maybe it was the logo which was like a japanese character but anyway we had all these requests for japanese food which is really not what we did and after about the ten thousandth request for a maki roll we decided to give the people what they wanted so this picture is an example of printed food and this was the first foray into what we like to call flavor transformation so this is all the ingredients all the flavor of you know a standard maki roll printed onto a little piece of paper so our diners started to get bored with this idea and we decided to give them the same course twice so here we actually took an element from the maki roll and and took a picture of a dish and then basically served that picture with the dish so this dish in particular is basically champagne with seafood the champagne grapes that you see are actually carbonated grapes a little bit of seafood and some and the picture actually tastes exactly like the dish
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that's not it though instead of making foods that look like things that you wouldn't eat we decided to make ingredients look like dishes that you know so this is a plate of nachos the difference between our nachos and the other guy's nachos is that this is actually a dessert so the chips are candied the ground beef is made from chocolate and the cheese is made from a shredded mango sorbet that gets shredded into liquid nitrogen to look like cheese and after doing all of this and of this of these ingredients we realized that it was pretty cool because as we served it we learned that the dish actually behaves like the real thing where the cheese begins to melt so when you're looking at this thing in the dining room you have this sensation that this is actually a plate of nachos and it's not really until you begin tasting it that you realize this is a dessert and it's just kind of like a mind ripper
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talk about flavor transformation and let's actually make some cool stuff you see a cow with its tongue hanging out what i see is a cow about to eat something delicious what is that cow eating and why is it delicious so the cow basically eats three basic things in their feed corn beets and barley and so what i do is i actually challenge my staff with these crazy wild ideas can we take what the cow eats remove the cow and then make some hamburgers out of that and basically the reaction tends to be kind of like this
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so the key thing to remember here is we don't really care what this tuna really is as long as it's good for you and good for the environment it doesn't matter but where is this going how can we take this idea of tricking your and leapfrog it into something that we can do today that could be a disruptive food technology so here's the next challenge i told the staff let's just take a bunch of wild plants think of them as food ingredients as long as they're non poisonous to the human body go out around chicago sidewalks take it blend it cook it and then have everybody flavor trip on it at moto let's charge them a boatload of cash for this and see what they think
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so when moto opened in people didn't really know what to expect a lot of people thought that it was a japanese restaurant and maybe it was the name maybe it was the logo which was like a japanese character but anyway we had all these requests for japanese food which is really not what we did and after about the ten thousandth request for a maki roll we decided to give the people what they wanted
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let's talk about flavor transformation and let's actually make some cool stuff you see a cow with its tongue hanging out what i see is a cow about to eat something delicious
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so after about a day of chris and i staring at each other we came up with something that was pretty close to the hamburger patty and as you can see it basically forms like hamburger meat this is made from three ingredients beets barley corn and so it actually cooks up like hamburger meat looks and tastes like hamburger meat and not only that but it's basically removing the cow from the equation so replicating food taking it into that next level is where we're going
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it still freaks me out every time i eat it but it has a unique ability to mask certain taste receptors on your tongue so that primarily sour taste receptors so normally things that would taste very sour or tart somehow begin to taste very sweet you're about to eat a lemon and now it tastes like lemonade let's just stop and think about the economic benefits of something like that
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i am a climate scientist and i hate weather i have spent too much time in california and i strongly feel that weather should be optional
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if global warming triggers cloud changes that make for a less powerful greenhouse or a more effective then that would enhance the cooling power of clouds it would act in opposition to global warming and that's what's happening in those climate models that project relatively muted warming but climate models struggle with clouds and this uncertainty it goes both ways clouds could help us out with global warming they could also make it worse now we know that climate change is happening because we can see it rising temperatures melting shifts in rainfall patterns and you might think that we could also see it in the clouds but here's something else unfortunate clouds are really hard to see i see everybody from the pacific northwest is like i have some suggestions for you
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but in order to do climate science we need to see all of the clouds everywhere for a very long time and that's what makes it hard now nothing sees more clouds than a satellite not even a british person
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now there are still uncertainties here we don't know for sure what the future holds but we are sending our kids there and they are never coming back i want them to be prepared for what they'll face and that is why it is so important to keep our earth observing satellites up there and to hire diverse and smart and talented people who do not hate clouds to improve the climate models but uncertainty is not ignorance we don't know everything but we don't know nothing and we know what carbon dioxide does i started my career as an astrophysicist so you can believe me when i say that this is the greatest place in the universe other planets might have liquid water on earth we have whiskey
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we don't know how they're going to react as the planet heats up and hidden in that uncertainty might be hope maybe just maybe clouds could slow down global warming and buy us a little bit more time to get our act together which would be very convenient right now i mean even i could put up with a few more cloudy days if clouds saved the planet
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now we are sure about some things carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas we're emitting a lot of it and the planet is heating up case closed but i still go to work every day it turns out that there is a lot that we don't understand about climate change in particular we haven't answered what seems to be a very fundamental question we know it's going to get hot but we don't know exactly how hot it's going to get
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now in my line of work i encounter many very charming people on the internet who like to tell me that climate models are all wrong and i would just like to say no kidding seriously i get paid to complain about climate models but we don't want models to be perfect we want them to be useful i mean think about it a computer simulation that's able to exactly reproduce all of reality that's not a climate model that's the matrix so models are not crystal balls they're research tools and the ways in which they're wrong can actually teach us a lot for example different climate models are largely able to capture the warming that we've seen so far
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for example different climate models are largely able to capture the warming that we've seen so far but fast forward to the end of the century under a business scenario and climate models don't really agree anymore yeah they're all warming that's just basic physics but some of them project catastrophe more than five times the warming we've seen already and others are literally more chill so why don't climate models agree on how warm it's going to get well to a large extent it's because they don't agree on what clouds will do in the future and that is because just like me computers hate clouds
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with my dad that turned out to be letting him fill out forms he was a college professor at a state school he knows what paperwork looks like he'll sign his name on every line he'll check all the boxes he'll put numbers in where he thinks there should be numbers but it got me thinking what would my caregivers do with me i'm my father's daughter i read i write i think about global health a lot would they give me academic journals so i could scribble in the margins would they give me charts and graphs that i could color so i've been trying to learn to do things that are hands on i've always liked to draw so i'm doing it more even though i'm really very bad at it i am learning some basic i can make a really great box
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not alone there's about million people globally living with some kind of dementia and by they're expecting that to double to million that's a lot of people dementia scares us the confused faces and shaky hands of people who have dementia the big numbers of people who get it they frighten us and because of that fear we tend to do one of two things we go into denial it's not me it has nothing to do with me it's never going to happen to me or we decide that we're going to prevent dementia and it will never happen to us because we're going to do everything right and it won't come and get us
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the american physical society had this beautiful poster encouraging students of color to become physicists it was striking to me because it featured a young black girl probably around years old looking studiously at some physics equations i remember thinking i was looking directly back at the little girl who first dared to dream this dream i immediately wrote to the society and requested my personal copy of the poster which to this day still hangs in my office i described to them in the email my educational path and my desire to find myself again in pursuit of the they directed me to the fisk vanderbilt university bridge program itself an intersection of the master's and degrees at two institutions after two years out of school they accepted me into the program and i found myself again on the path to the after receiving my master's at fisk i went on to yale to complete my once i was physically occupying the space that would ultimately give way to my childhood aspirations i anticipated a smooth glide to the
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great things happen at intersections in fact i would argue that some of the most interesting things of the human experience occur at the intersections in the space where by i mean the space in between there's freedom in that in between freedom to create from the of not not a new self definition some of the great intersections of the world come to mind like the arc de triomphe in paris or times square in new york city both bustling with the excitement of a seemingly endless stream of people other intersections like the edmund pettus bridge in selma alabama or canfield drive and copper creek court in ferguson missouri also come to mind because of the tremendous energy at the intersection of human beings ideologies and the ongoing struggle for justice beyond the physical landscape of our planet some of the most famous celestial images are of intersections
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president on it in the other case it didn't what the hell difference should it make the difference is that when you lost the ticket you say to yourself i'm not paying twice for the same thing you compare the cost of the play now dollars to the cost that it used to have dollars and you say it's a bad deal comparing with the past causes many of the problems that behavioral economists and psychologists identify in people's attempts to assign value but even when we compare with the possible instead of the past we still make certain kinds of mistakes and i'm going to show you one or two of them one of the things we know about comparison that when we compare one thing to the other it changes its value so in this fellow george bush for those of us who were kind of on the liberal side of the political spectrum didn't seem like such a great guy suddenly we're almost longing for him to return
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is gift this is a direct quote and if it looks like greek to you it's because well it's greek but the simple english translation much less precise but it captures the gist of what bernoulli had to say was this the expected value of any of our actions that is the goodness that we can count on getting is the product of two simple things the odds that this action will allow us to gain something and the value of that gain to us in a sense what bernoulli was saying is if we can estimate and multiply these two things we will always know precisely how we should behave now this simple equation even for those of you who don't like equations is something that you're quite used to here's an example if i were to tell you let's play a little coin toss game and i'm going to flip a coin and if it comes up heads i'm going to pay you dollars but you have to pay four dollars for the privilege of playing with me most of you would say sure i'll take that bet because you know that the odds of you winning are one half the gain if you do is dollars that multiplies to five and that's more than i'm charging you to play so the answer is yes
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there are two kinds of errors people make when trying to decide what the right thing is to do and those are errors in estimating the odds that they're going to succeed and errors in estimating the value of their own success now let me talk about the first one first calculating odds would seem to be something rather easy there are six sides to a die two sides to a coin cards in a deck you all know what the likelihood is of pulling the ace of spades or of flipping a heads
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i happen to notice you all have some thumbs you're not using so i think we should kind of get some more involved and if we had just four people we would do it just like this and we would try and wrestle both thumbs at the same time perfect now if we had more people in the room instead of just wrestling in a closed node we might reach out and try and grab some other people and in fact that's what we're going to do right now we're going to try and get all something like i don't know thumbs in this room connected in a single node and we have to connect both levels so if you're up there you're going to be reaching down and reaching up now before we get started this is great
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today i am going to teach you how to play my favorite game massively multiplayer thumb wrestling it's the only game in the world that i know of that allows you the player the opportunity to experience positive emotions in seconds or less this is true so if you play this game with me today for just one single minute you will get to feel joy relief love surprise pride curiosity excitement awe and wonder contentment and creativity all in the span of one minute so this sounds pretty good right now you're willing to play in order to teach you this game i'm going to need some volunteers to come up onstage really quickly and we're going to do a little hands on demo
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sounds pretty good right now you're willing to play in order to teach you this game i'm going to need some volunteers to come up onstage really quickly and we're going to do a little hands on demo while they're coming up i should let you know this game was invented years ago by an artists' collective in austria named so thank you okay so most people are familiar with traditional two person thumb wrestling sunni let's just remind them one two three four i declare a thumb war and we wrestle and of course sunni beats me because she's the best now the first thing about massively multiplayer thumb wrestling we're the gamer generation there are a billion gamers on the planet now so we need more of a challenge
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does this sound familiar to you now in those situations wouldn't it be great if there was a button on your dashboard that you could push and the car would get you home safely now that's been the promise of the self driving car the autonomous vehicle and it's been the dream since at least when general motors showcased this idea at their booth at the world's fair now it's been one of those dreams that's always seemed about years in the future now two weeks ago that dream took a step forward when the state of nevada granted self driving car the very first license for an autonomous vehicle clearly establishing that it's legal for them to test it on the roads in nevada now california's considering similar legislation and this would make sure that the autonomous car is not one of those things that has to stay in vegas
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you may push the car to the limits not because you're driving too fast but because you've hit an icy patch of road conditions have changed in those situations we want a car that is capable enough to avoid any accident that can physically be avoided i must confess there's kind of a third motivation as well you see i have a passion for racing in the past i've been a race car owner a crew chief and a driving coach although maybe not at the level that you're currently expecting one of the things that we've developed in the lab we've developed several vehicles is what we believe is the world's first autonomously drifting car it's another one of those categories where maybe there's not a lot of competition
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now in my lab at stanford we've been working on autonomous cars too but with a slightly different spin on things you see we've been developing robotic race cars cars that can actually push themselves to the very limits of physical performance now why would we want to do such a thing well there's two really good reasons for this first we believe that before people turn over control to an autonomous car that autonomous car should be at least as good as the very best human drivers now if you're like me and the other percent of the population who know that we are above average drivers you understand that's a very high bar
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i guess it goes without saying that we've had a lot of fun doing this but in fact there's something else that we've developed in the process of developing these autonomous cars we have developed a tremendous appreciation for the capabilities of human race car drivers as we've looked at the question of how well do these cars perform we wanted to compare them to our human counterparts and we discovered their human counterparts are amazing
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as we've looked at the question of how well do these cars perform we wanted to compare them to our human counterparts and we discovered their human counterparts are amazing now we can take a map of a race track we can take a mathematical model of a car and with some we can actually find the fastest way around that track we line that up with data that we record from a professional driver and the resemblance is absolutely remarkable yes there are subtle differences here but the human race car driver is able to go out and drive an amazingly fast line without the benefit of an algorithm that compares the trade off between going as fast as possible in this corner and shaving a little bit of time off of the straight over here not only that they're able to do it lap after lap after lap they're able to go out and consistently do this pushing the car to the limits every single time it's extraordinary to watch you put them in a new car and after a few laps they've found the fastest line in that car and they're off to the races
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it's a hard term to define in so far as it has a very wide application i can love jogging i can love a book a movie i can love i can love my wife
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