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823 | we took a sheet of paper with random letters and we asked people to find pairs of letters that were identical next to each other that was the task people did the first sheet then we asked if they wanted to do another for a little less money the next sheet for a little bit less and so on and so forth and we had three co... | 1 |
824 | the good news is that by simply looking at something that somebody has done scanning it and saying uh huh that seems to be quite sufficient to dramatically improve people's motivations so the good news is that adding motivation doesn't seem to be so difficult the bad news is that eliminating motivations seems to be inc... | 1 |
825 | i don't know about you but every time i assemble one of those it takes me much longer it's much more it's much more confusing i put things in the wrong way i can't say i enjoy those pieces i can't say i enjoy the process but when i finish it i seem to like those ikea pieces of furniture more than i like other ones | 1 |
827 | now you had to break the eggs and add them you had to measure the milk and add it mixing it now it was your cake now everything was fine | 1 |
829 | so for some people we gave the same task for some people we made it harder by hiding the instructions at the top of the sheet we had little diagrams of how you fold for some people we just eliminated that so now this was tougher what happened well in an objective way the now was uglier it was more difficult now when we... | 1 |
830 | this extra effort into it and they loved it even less because in reality it was even uglier than the first version | 1 |
831 | of course this tells you something about how we evaluate things now think about kids imagine i asked you how much would you sell your kids for your memories and associations and so on most people would say for a lot a lot of money | 1 |
833 | but imagine this was slightly different imagine if you did not have your kids and one day you went to the park and you met some kids they were just like your kids and you played with them for a few hours and when you were about to leave the parents said hey by the way just before you leave if you're interested they're ... | 1 |
834 | how much would you pay for them now most people say not that much and this is because our kids are so valuable not just because of who they are but because of us because they are so connected to us and because of the time and connection by the way if you think ikea instructions are not good what about the instructions ... | 1 |
835 | it suggests that we care about the fight about the challenge it suggests that there's all kinds of other things that motivate us to work or behave in all kinds of ways | 0 |
836 | and for me personally i started thinking about this after a student came to visit me this was one of my students from a few years earlier and he came one day back to campus and he told me the following story he said that for more than two weeks he was working on a presentation he was working in a big bank and this was ... | 0 |
838 | and to start with we created a little experiment in which we gave people and we asked them to build with and for some people we gave them and we said hey would you like to build this for three dollars we'll pay you three dollars for it and people said yes and they built with these and when they finished we took it we p... | 0 |
839 | it's not worth it for me this was what we called the meaningful condition people built one after another after they finished every one of them we put them under the table and we told them that at the end of the experiment we will take all these we will disassemble them we will put them back in the boxes and we will use... | 0 |
842 | now what happens when you compare these two conditions the first thing that happened was that people built many more eleven in the meaningful condition versus seven in the condition and by the way we should point out that this was not big meaning people were not curing cancer or building bridges people were building fo... | 0 |
843 | now we had another version of this experiment in this other version of the experiment we didn't put people in this situation we just described to them the situation much as i am describing to you now and we asked them to predict what the result would be what happened people predicted the right direction but not the rig... | 0 |
844 | there was one other piece of data we looked at if you think about it there are some people who love and some people who don't and you would speculate that the people who love would build more even for less money because after all they get more internal joy from it and the people who love less would build less because t... | 0 |
846 | this was a group within the software company that was put in a different building and they asked them to innovate and create the next big product for this company and the week before i showed up the of this big software company went to that group engineers and canceled the project and i stood there in front of of the m... | 0 |
847 | they said the could have asked them to present to the whole company about their journey over the last two years and what they decided to do he could have asked them to think about which aspect of their technology could fit with other parts of the organization he could have asked them to build some next generation proto... | 0 |
848 | now along derek and i met when he was four and a half years old and at first derek i thought you were mad to be honest because when you played the piano you seemed to want to play every single note on the keyboard and also you had this little habit of hitting me out of the way so as soon as i tried to get near the pian... | 1 |
851 | going to l a soon and it's a milestone because it means that derek and i will have spent over hours on long haul flights together which is quite interesting isn't it derek very interesting adam yes long haul flights yes you may think hours is a long time to keep talking but derek does it effortlessly now then | 1 |
852 | i promise there won't be too much of me talking and a lot of derek playing but i thought it would just be nice to recap on how derek got to where he is today it's amazing now because he's so much bigger than me but when derek was born he could have fitted on the palm of your hand he was born three and a half months pre... | 0 |
853 | but that was the end of the bad news because when derek came home from the hospital his family decided to employ the redoubtable nanny who was going to look after you derek really for the rest of your childhood and great insight really was to think here's a child who can't see music must be the thing for derek and sure... | 0 |
878 | this is just a sack of chemicals that is able to have this interesting and complex lifelike behavior if we count the number of chemicals in that system actually including the water that's in the dish we have five chemicals that can do this so then we put these together in a single experiment to see what they would do a... | 1 |
879 | so then i repeated this experiment a bunch of times and one time something very interesting happened so i added these together to the system and a and b fused together to form a hybrid ab that didn't happen before there it goes there's a ab now in this system ab likes to dance around for a bit while b does the fusing o... | 1 |
880 | so we're able to then see the self assembly of these oil droplet bodies again that we've seen previously and the black spots inside of there represent this kind of black tar this diverse very complex organic black tar and we put them into one of these experiments as you've seen earlier and then we watch lively movement... | 1 |
881 | there has been a huge divide between what people consider to be non living systems on one side and living systems on the other side so we go from say this beautiful and complex crystal as non life and this rather beautiful and complex cat on the other side over the last hundred and fifty years or so science has kind of... | 0 |
882 | what we're going to be talking about here tonight are experiments done on this sort of non living end of this spectrum so actually doing chemical experiments in the laboratory mixing together ingredients to make new structures and that these new structures might have some of the characteristics of living systems really... | 0 |
885 | but here i'm being told that the piece of music is very quick i'm being told where to play on the drum i'm being told which part of the stick to use and i'm being told the dynamic and i'm also being told that the drum is without snares snares on snares off so therefore if i translate this piece of music we have this id... | 1 |
886 | however what i have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music everything that there isn't time to learn from a teacher or to talk about even from a teacher but it's the things you notice when you're not actually with your instrument that in fact become so interesting and that you want to explore thr... | 1 |
888 | i asked you to clap maybe i can do this if i can just say please clap and create the sound of thunder i'm assuming we've all experienced thunder now i don't mean just the sound i mean really listen to that thunder within yourselves and please try to create that through your clapping try just please try snow | 1 |
889 | snow have you ever heard snow no well then stop clapping | 1 |
890 | again try again snow see you're awake rain | 1 |
891 | so heavens what was i to do i no longer required the sticks i wasn't allowed to have these sticks i had to basically look at this particular drum see how it was made what these little lugs did what the snares did turned it upside down experimented with the shell experimented with the head experimented with my body expe... | 1 |
892 | that's my only real aim in life and it sounds quite simple but actually it's quite a big big job because you know when you look at a piece of music for example if i just open my little motorbike bag we have here hopefully a piece of music that is full of little black dots on the page | 0 |
893 | and i read the music so technically i can actually read this i will follow the instructions the tempo markings the dynamics i will do exactly as i'm told and so therefore because time is short if i just played you literally the first maybe two lines or so it's very straightforward there's nothing too difficult about th... | 0 |
894 | but in a way you know it's the same if i look at you and i see a nice bright young lady with a pink top on i see that you're clutching a teddy bear etc etc so i get a basic idea as to what you might be about what you might like what you might do as a profession etc etc however that's just the initial idea i may have th... | 0 |
895 | is simply not enough and i think what herbie said please listen listen we have to listen to ourselves first of all if i play for example holding the stick where literally i do not let go of the stick you'll experience quite a lot of shock coming up through the arm and you feel really quite believe it or not detached fr... | 0 |
896 | holding it tightly i feel strangely more detached if i just simply let go and allow my hand my arm to be more of a support system suddenly i have more dynamic with less effort much more and i just feel at last one with the stick and one with the drum and i'm doing far far less so in the same way that i need time with t... | 0 |
899 | can be felt with just the tiniest part of your finger there and so what we would do is that i would put my hands on the wall of the music room and together we would listen to the sounds of the instruments and really try to connect with those sounds far far more broadly than simply depending on the ear because of course... | 0 |
900 | does the happiest man in the world look like he certainly doesn't look like me he looks like this his name is ricard so how do you get to be the happiest man in the world well it turns out there is a way to measure happiness in the brain and you do that by measuring the relative activation of the left prefrontal cortex... | 1 |
901 | the third ingredient is to focus on inner development and personal growth leadership training in for example places a lot of emphasis on the inner qualities such as self awareness self mastery empathy and compassion because we believe that leadership begins with character we even created a seven week curriculum on emot... | 1 |
903 | and learning about gave me a new angle to look at my work brain scan shows that compassion is not a chore compassion is something that creates happiness | 0 |
908 | but what exactly is spider silk spider silk is almost entirely protein nearly all of these proteins can be explained by a single gene family so this means that the diversity of silk types we see today is encoded by one gene family so presumably the original spider ancestor made one kind of silk and over the last millio... | 1 |
909 | spider silks also have a lot of potential for their anti ballistic capabilities silks could be incorporated into body and equipment armor that would be more lightweight and flexible than any armor available today in addition to these applications of spider silks personally i find studying spider silks just fascinating ... | 1 |
911 | to put that number into perspective here's a graph comparing the species of spiders to the species of primates there are two orders of magnitude more spiders than primates spiders are also extremely old on the bottom here this is the geologic and the numbers on it indicate millions of years from the present so the zero... | 0 |
913 | each of these silk fibers exits from the spigot and if you were to trace the fiber back into the spider what you would find is that each spigot connects to its own individual silk gland a silk gland kind of looks like a sac with a lot of silk proteins stuck inside so if you ever have the opportunity to dissect an orb s... | 0 |
914 | so these are the dark ages and the dark ages are the time between when you put away the lego for the last time as a kid and you decide as an adult that it is okay to play with a kid's toy started out with my then four oh should buy the kid some lego that stuff's cool walked into the lego store bought him this it's tota... | 1 |
915 | i turn to my wife and said who are we buying this for she's like oh us i'm like okay all right that's cool pretty soon it got a little bit out of control the dining room looked like this you walk there and it hurts so we took a room downstairs in the basement that had been used as sort of an abu annex | 1 |
917 | i was like yeah i suppose we are so then once you do that you're like oh crap where am i going to put all this so you go to the container store and spend an enormous amount of money and then you start this crazy sorting process that never it's just nuts whatever | 0 |
919 | there's a whole programming language and robotics tool so if you want to teach someone how to program kid adult whatever it is and the guy that made this he made a slot machine out of lego and i don't mean he made lego that looked like a slot machine i mean he made a slot machine out of lego the insides were lego there... | 0 |
920 | kids could be entrepreneurs as well i'm a big part of a couple organizations called the organization and the young presidents' organization i just came back from speaking in barcelona at the global conference and everyone i met over there who's an entrepreneur struggled with school i have out of the signs of attention ... | 1 |
921 | fit into this other system and try to become a student sorry entrepreneurs aren't students we fast track we figure out the game i stole essays i cheated on exams i hired kids to do my accounting assignments in university for consecutive assignments but as an entrepreneur you don't do accounting you hire accountants so ... | 1 |
922 | i was forced to get a paper at years old i didn't want a paper but my dad said that's your next business not only did he get me one but i had to get two he wanted me to hire someone to deliver half the papers which i did then i realized collecting tips is how you made all the money so i'd collect tips and get payment i... | 1 |
923 | get kids to stand up in front of groups and talk even if it's just in front of their friends and do plays and have speeches those are entrepreneurial traits you want to be nurturing show kids what bad customers or bad employees look like show them grumpy employees when you see grumpy customer service point it out say b... | 1 |
927 | two years ago i was the highest rated lecturer at entrepreneurial master's program it was a speaking event in front of groups of entrepreneurs from around the world when i was in grade two i won a citywide speaking competition but nobody had ever said hey this kid's a good speaker | 0 |
928 | it was a speaking event in front of groups of entrepreneurs from around the world when i was in grade two i won a citywide speaking competition but nobody had ever said hey this kid's a good speaker he can't focus but he loves walking around and getting people energized no one said get him a coach in speaking they said... | 0 |
929 | we're missing that opportunity because no one ever says hey be an entrepreneur entrepreneurs are people we have a lot of them in this room who have ideas and passions or see these needs in the world and decide to stand up and do it and we put everything on the line to make that stuff happen we have the ability to get t... | 0 |
931 | starting these companies it's these random few people even in popular literature the only book i've ever found and this should be on all your reading lists the only book i've ever found that makes the entrepreneur a hero is atlas shrugged everything else in the world looks at entrepreneurs and says we're bad people i l... | 0 |
934 | and so one tuesday morning last june there we were woke up in the morning the mountain was covered with snow that was a great time to go up and visit our weather station which again thanks to mitch kapor we're building up there and it's a pretty interesting scene this is on the left there the joyful lady is pat irwin w... | 1 |
936 | but your emotional affect goes up which is great for having a mythic experience whether you want to or not in fact danny hillis can estimate altitude by how much math he can't do in his head | 1 |
937 | in fact there he is that's alexander rose first ascent of the western face to mount washington and a solo ascent at that this discovery changed everything about our sense of these cliffs and what to do with them we realized that we had to name this thing that alexander discovered how about crevice no | 1 |
938 | welcome to feet let me explain why we are here and why some of you have a pine cone close to you once upon a time i did a book called how buildings learn today's event you might call how mountains teach a little background for years i've been trying to figure out how to hack civilization so that we can get long term th... | 0 |
939 | so we have the long now foundation in san francisco it's an incubator for about a dozen projects all having to do with continuity over the long term our core project is a rather ambitious folly i suppose a mythic undertaking to build a clock that can really keep good time for that long a period and the design problems ... | 0 |
941 | design problem for today is going to be how do you house an eventual monumental clock like this so it can really tick save time beautifully for centuries well this was the first solution alexander rose came up with this idea of a tower with continuous sloping ramps and it looked like a way to go until you start thinkin... | 0 |
943 | so we got to thinking if you can't put things safely in a building where can you safely put them we thought ok underground how about underground with a view underground in a place that's really solid so the obvious answer was we need a mountain you don't want just any mountain you need absolutely the right mountain if ... | 0 |
946 | they've made a selection they've chosen a project by daniel the enfant terrible of the moment of architecture child prodigy piano player he started on the and moved to a little more serious issue a bigger instrument and now to an even larger instrument upon which to work his particular brand of magic as you see here he... | 1 |
948 | it's a big deal it sounds big it sounds important it sounds solid it sounds american serious male and that kind of fight has gone on back and forth in architecture all the time i mean it goes on in our private lives too every single day we all want to go out and buy an audi don't we everyone here must own one or at lea... | 1 |
950 | it's exciting and there's music playing all of the time and then suddenly it's over and it's only taken five minutes and you want to go back and do it again but i really appreciate being here | 0 |
953 | how many of you saw usa today today there it is looks like that there's the world trade center site on the front cover they've made a selection they've chosen a project by daniel the enfant terrible of the moment of architecture | 0 |
954 | this was a scheme by a team called think a new york based team and then there was that one which was the scheme this one this is going to be the new world trade center a giant hole in the ground with big buildings falling into it now i don't know what you think but i think this is a pretty stupid decision because what ... | 0 |
956 | and you peak out likewise with solar especially here in california we're discovering that the solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze square miles of southern california desert well as an environmentalist we would rather that didn't happen it's okay on out agricultural land wonderful on roo... | 1 |
958 | fifteen percent of the entire u s has wind at fast enough speeds to be cost competitive and there's much more solar than there is wind there's plenty of resource you can make it reliable okay so thank you mark so if you were in palm springs | 1 |
959 | the debate is over the proposition what the world needs now is nuclear energy true or false and before we have the debate i'd like to actually take a show of hands on balance right now are you for or against this so those who are yes raise your hand for | 0 |
960 | true or false and before we have the debate i'd like to actually take a show of hands on balance right now are you for or against this so those who are yes raise your hand for okay hands down those who are against raise your hands okay i'm reading that at about to in favor at the start which means we're going to take a... | 0 |
968 | so my favorite example is from this study that was published this year in the proceedings of the national academies if you this you'll find it it's four pages easy to read and they looked at just people's likes so just the things you like on and used that to predict all these attributes along with some other ones and i... | 1 |
970 | this is an figure one sheet no cuts folding only hundreds of folds this too is and this shows where we've gone in the modern world naturalism detail you can get horns antlers even if you look close hooves and it raises a question what changed and what changed is something you might not have expected in an art which is ... | 1 |
971 | but if we follow the laws of we can put these patterns into another fold that itself might be something very very simple but when we put it together we get something a little different this fish scales again it is one uncut square only folding and if you don't want to fold scales you can back off and just do a few thin... | 1 |
972 | and here's where the dead people start to help us out because lots of people have studied the problem of packing circles i can rely on that vast history of mathematicians and artists looking at disc and arrangements and i can use those patterns now to create shapes so we figured out these rules whereby you pack circles... | 1 |
973 | it's so simple that a computer could do it and you say well you know how simple is that but computers you need to be able to describe things in very basic terms and with this we could so i wrote a computer program a bunch of years ago called and you can download it from my website it's free it runs on all the major pla... | 1 |
974 | this tree frog has toes actually lots of people in now put toes into their models toes have become an because everyone's doing it you can make multiple subjects so these are a couple of instrumentalists the guitar player from a single square the bass player from a single square and if you say well but the guitar bass t... | 1 |
975 | my talk is flapping birds and space telescopes and you would think that should have nothing to do with one another but i hope by the end of these minutes you'll see a little bit of a relation it ties to so let me start what is most people think they know what is | 0 |
976 | so let me start what is most people think they know what is it's this flapping birds toys catchers that sort of thing and that is what used to be but it's become something else it's become an art form a form of sculpture the common theme what makes it is folding is how we create the form you know it's very old this is ... | 0 |
977 | you know it's very old this is a plate from it shows these women playing with these toys if you look close it's this shape called a crane every japanese kid learns how to fold that crane so this art has been around for hundreds of years and you would think something that's been around that long so restrictive folding o... | 0 |
978 | take your problem and turn it into a problem that someone else has solved and use their solutions and i want to tell you how we did that in revolves around crease patterns the crease pattern shown here is the underlying blueprint for an figure and you can't just draw them arbitrarily they have to obey four simple laws | 0 |
979 | and you can't just draw them arbitrarily they have to obey four simple laws and they're very simple easy to understand the first law is two you can color any crease pattern with just two colors without ever having the same color meeting the directions of the folds at any vertex the number of mountain folds the number o... | 0 |
1,000 | so this is a work called the sun shadow and it was almost like a sheet of paper like a cutout of a childlike drawing of an oil spill or a sun and from the front this object appeared to be very strong and robust and from the side it almost seemed very weak so people would walking into the room and they'd almost ignore i... | 1 |
1,001 | today i'm going to take you through glimpses of about eight of my projects done in collaboration with danish artist we call ourselves and rao and we live and work in india i'd like to begin with my very first object which i call the uncle phone and it was inspired by my uncle's peculiar habit of constantly asking me to... | 0 |
1,022 | the deadline for the show arrived my paints didn't i had to do something this fishing village was famous for sculpture so i tried bronze casting but to make large forms was too heavy and expensive i went for a walk on the beach watching the fishermen bundle their nets into mounds on the sand i'd seen it every day but t... | 1 |
1,024 | this story is about taking imagination seriously fourteen years ago i first encountered this ordinary material used the same way for centuries today i'm using it to create permanent billowing voluptuous forms the scale of hard edged buildings in cities around the world i was an unlikely person to be doing this i never ... | 0 |
1,025 | i discovered their soft surfaces revealed every ripple of wind in constantly changing patterns i was mesmerized i continued studying craft traditions and collaborating with artisans next in lithuania with lace makers i liked the fine detail it gave my work but i wanted to make them larger to shift from being an object ... | 0 |
1,026 | for people in poor countries it's less than one ton it's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet and somehow we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero it's been constantly going up it's only various economic changes that have even flattened it at all so we have to go from rapidly rising... | 1 |
1,028 | them involved in the idea of you know there are people who live with mosquitoes with energy all i could come up with is this i decided that releasing fireflies would be my contribution to the environment here this year so here we have some natural fireflies i'm told they don't bite in fact they might not even leave tha... | 1 |
1,030 | i'm going to talk today about energy and climate and that might seem a bit surprising because my full time work at the foundation is mostly about vaccines and seeds about the things that we need to invent and deliver to help the poorest two billion live better lives but energy and climate are extremely important to the... | 0 |
1,033 | and there's certainly uncertainty about how bad those effects will be but they will be extremely bad i asked the top scientists on this several times do we really have to get down to near zero can't we just cut it in half or a quarter and the answer is until we get near to zero the temperature will continue to rise and... | 0 |
1,034 | this is my first time at ted normally as an advertising man i actually speak at ted evil which is ted's secret sister that pays all the bills it's held every two years in burma and i particularly remember a really good speech by kim jong il on how to get teens smoking again | 1 |
1,035 | i'm just an ad man but it strikes me as a slightly unimaginative way of improving a train journey merely to make it shorter now what is the hedonic opportunity cost on spending six billion pounds on those railway tracks here is my naive advertising man's suggestion what you should in fact do is employ all of the world'... | 1 |
1,036 | is another naive advertising man's question again and this shows that engineers medical people scientific people have an obsession with solving the problems of reality when actually most problems once you reach a basic level of wealth in society most problems are actually problems of perception so i'll ask you another ... | 1 |
1,038 | but actually the point of placebo education is interesting how many problems of life can be solved actually by tinkering with perception rather than that tedious hardworking and messy business of actually trying to change reality here's a great example from history i've heard this attributed to several other kings but ... | 1 |
1,039 | the prussian peasantry said we can't even get the dogs to eat these damn things they are absolutely disgusting and they're good for nothing there are even records of people being executed for refusing to grow potatoes so he tried plan b he tried the marketing solution which is he declared the potato as a royal vegetabl... | 1 |
1,041 | i can't verify that fully but it does not matter there is your environmental problem solved by the way guys all convicted child molesters have to drive a porsche cayenne | 1 |
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