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well does anything like that happen with human beings this is all on behalf of a cause other than one's own genetic fitness of course well it may already have occurred to you that islam means surrender or submission of self interest to the will of allah well it's ideas not worms that hijack our brains now am i saying that a sizable minority of the world's population has had their brain hijacked by parasitic ideas no it's worse than that most people have there are a lot of ideas to die for freedom if you're from new hampshire
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so let me just point out are like viruses that's what richard said back in and you might think well how can that be i mean a virus is you know it's stuff what's a made of yesterday was talking about viral telecommunications but what's a virus a virus is a string of nucleic acid with attitude
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then there's all the other that can't be pronounced there are different species of remember the shakers gift to be simple simple beautiful furniture and of course they're basically extinct now and one of the reasons is that among the creed of shaker dom is that one should be celibate not just the priests everybody well it's not so surprising that they've gone extinct
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and so i'm going to talk a little bit about that keeping in mind that we have a lot on the program here so you're out in the woods or you're out in the pasture and you see this ant crawling up this blade of grass it climbs up to the top and it falls and it climbs and it falls and it climbs trying to stay at the very top of the blade of grass what is this ant doing what is this in aid of what goals is this ant trying to achieve by climbing this blade of grass what's in it for the ant and the answer is nothing there's nothing in it for the ant
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and so i'm going to talk a little bit about that keeping in mind that we have a lot on the program here so you're out in the woods or you're out in the pasture and you see this ant crawling up this blade of grass it climbs up to the top and it falls and it climbs and it falls and it climbs trying to stay at the very top of the blade of grass what is this ant doing what is this in aid of what goals is this ant trying to achieve by climbing this blade of grass what's in it for the ant and the answer is nothing there's nothing in it for the ant well then why is it doing this is it just a fluke yeah it's just a fluke it's a lancet fluke it's a little brain worm
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just by a show of hands how many of you all have a robot at home not very many of you okay and actually of those hands if you don't include how many of you have a robot at home so a couple that's okay
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isn't about itself it's actually about humpback whales well technically it's about greenpeace an environmental organization that wanted to stop the japanese government's whaling campaign the whales were getting killed they wanted to put an end to it one of the ways they wanted to do it was to put a tracking chip inside one of the whales but to personify the movement they wanted to name it so in true web fashion they put together a poll where they had a bunch of very erudite very thoughtful cultured names i believe this is the farsi word for immortal i think this means divine power of the ocean in a polynesian language and then there was this mister splashy pants
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so it went from about five percent which was when this started to percent at the end of voting pretty impressive right we won mister splashy pants was chosen just kidding greenpeace actually wasn't that crazy about it because they wanted one of the more thoughtful names to win they said no just kidding we'll give it another week of voting well that got us a little angry so we changed it to fightin' splashy
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and the community really the rest of the internet really got behind this groups were created applications were created the idea was vote your conscience vote for mister splashy pants people were putting up signs in the real world about this whale
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this was the final vote percent of the votes to give you an idea of the landslide the next highest name pulled in three there was a clear lesson the internet loves mister splashy pants which is obvious it's a great name everyone wants to hear their news anchor say mister splashy pants
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what was cool were the repercussions greenpeace created an entire marketing campaign around it mister splashy pants shirts and pins an e card so you could send your friend a dancing splashy but even more important was that they accomplished their mission the japanese government called off their whaling expedition mission accomplished greenpeace was thrilled the whales were happy that's a quote
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basically the democratic front page of the best stuff on the web you find some interesting content say a ted talk submit it to and a community of your peers votes up if they like it down if they don't that creates the front page it's always rising falling a half million people visit every day but this isn't about it's about discovering new things that pop up on the web in the last four years we've seen all kinds of all kinds of trends get born right on our front page this isn't about itself it's actually about humpback whales
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and responded and all agreed so the voting started we got behind it ourselves we changed our logo for the day from the alien to splashy to help the cause
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but this wasn't really altruism just interest in doing something cool this is how the internet works this is that great big secret
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is how the internet works this is that great big secret the internet provides a level playing field your link is as good as your link which is as good as my link with a browser anyone can get to any website no matter your budget that is as long as you can keep net neutrality in place another important thing is it costs nothing to get content online there are so many publishing tools available it only takes a few minutes to produce something and the cost of is so cheap you might as well
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this summer i was back in ohio for a family wedding and when i was there there was a meet and greet with anna and elsa from frozen not the anna and elsa from frozen as this was not a disney sanctioned event these two entrepreneurs had a business of running princess parties your kid is turning five they'll come sing some songs sprinkle some fairy dust it's great and they were not about to miss out on the opportunity that was the phenomenon and that was frozen so they get hired by a local toy store kids come in on a saturday morning buy some disney get their picture taken with the princesses call it a day it's like santa claus without the seasonal restrictions
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and my three old niece samantha was in the thick of it she could care less that these two women were signing posters and coloring books as snow queen and princess ana with one n to avoid copyright lawsuits
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so by we get called to please and as we walk in it is a scene i can only describe you as saying it looked like norway threw up
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as we stood in line in an attempt to give my niece a better vantage point than the backside of the mother of number i put her up on my shoulders and she was instantly riveted by the sight of the princesses and as we moved forward her excitement only grew and as we finally got to the front of the line and number unfurled her poster to be signed by the princesses i could literally feel the excitement running through her body and let's be honest at that point i was pretty excited too
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and he said in spanish a girlfriend and she set down her fork and locked eyes with him and said in spanish yes a girlfriend that is all and his smug smile quickly dropped to one of maternal respect grabbed his plate walked off went back to work she never made eye contact with me
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people often say to me well ash i don't care i don't see race or religion or sexuality it doesn't matter to me
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i don't see race or religion or sexuality it doesn't matter to me i don't see it but i think the opposite of homophobia and racism and xenophobia is not love it's apathy if you don't see my gayness then you don't see me if it doesn't matter to you who i sleep with then you cannot imagine what it feels like when i walk down the street late at night holding her hand and approach a group of people and have to make the decision if i should hang on to it or if i should i drop it when all i want to do is squeeze it tighter and the small victory i feel when i make it by and don't have to let go and the incredible cowardice and disappointment i feel when i drop it if you do not see that struggle that is unique to my human experience because i am gay then you don't see me
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as individuals as allies as humans we need to be able to hold both things both the good and the bad the easy and the hard you don't learn how to hold two things just from the fluff you learn it from the grit and what if duality is just the first step what if through compassion and empathy and human interaction we are able to learn to hold two things and if we can hold two things we can hold four and if we can hold four we can hold eight and if we can hold eight we can hold hundreds we are complex individuals swirls of contradiction
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k performance company called lone twin lone twin had come to minto and worked with the residents and they had created these dances this australian indian girl she came out and started to dance on her front lawn and her father peered out the window to see what all the noise and commotion was about and he soon joined her and he was followed by her little sister and soon they were all dancing this joyous exuberant dance right there on their lawn
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understand this i think it kind of makes sense to look where we've come from modern arts festivals were born in the rubble of world war civic leaders created these annual events to celebrate culture as the highest expression of the human spirit in the edinburgh festival was born and was born and hundreds of others would follow in their wake the work they did was very very high art and stars came along like laurie anderson and merce cunningham and robert lepage who made work for this circuit and you had these seminal shows like the mahabharata and the monumental einstein on the beach but as the decades passed these festivals they really became the establishment and as the culture and capital accelerated the internet brought us all together high and low kind of disappeared a new kind of festival emerged the old festivals they continued to thrive but from brighton to rio to perth something new was emerging and these festivals were really different they're open these festivals because like in minto they understand that the dialogue between the local and the global is essential
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are explorers who better to show us the city anew artists can take us to a far flung part of the city that we haven't explored or they can take us into that building that we pass every day but we never went into an artist i think can really show us people that we might overlook in our lives back to back is an australian company of people with intellectual disabilities i saw their amazing show in new york at the staten island ferry terminal at rush hour
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i worked at electronics in the far future design research lab looking years into the future i explored the human skin and how technology can transform the body i worked on concepts like an electronic tattoo which is augmented by touch or dresses that blushed and shivered with light i started my own experiments these were the low tech approaches to the high tech conversations i was having these are q tips stuck to my roommate with wig glue
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a collaboration with a friend of mine bart hess he doesn't normally look like this and we used ourselves as models we transformed our apartments into our laboratories and worked in a very spontaneous and immediate way we were creating visual imagery provoking human evolution whilst i was at we discussed this idea of a maybe technology something that wasn't either switched on or off but in between a maybe that could take the form of a gas or a liquid and i became obsessed with this idea of blurring the perimeter of the body so you couldn't see where the skin ended and the near environment started
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such understated power here in these tottering dancers who exert stupendous effort on tasks most view as insignificant such quiet beauty here in these my soft voiced stiff limbed people such resolve masked by each placid face there is required in growing small so bent on such unbending grace thank you this one is called on donating my brain to science
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afternoon everybody i've got something to show you
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let's starting with sensing well the first project i wanted to share with you is actually one of the first projects by our lab it was four and a half years ago in italy and what we did there was actually use a new type of network at the time that had been deployed all across the world that's a cellphone network and use anonymous and aggregated information from that network that's collected anyway by the operator in order to understand how the city works the summer was a lucky summer it's when italy won the soccer world cup some of you might remember it was italy and france playing and then at the end the and anyway italy won at the end
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france scores italy scores halftime people make a quick call and go to the bathroom second half end of normal time first overtime second the in a moment italy wins yeah
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and if the car and the driver were good enough then you'd win the race now today if you want to win the race actually you need also something like this something that monitors the car in real time has a few thousand sensors collecting information from the car transmitting this information into the system and then processing it and using it in order to go back to the car with decisions and changing things in real time as information is collected
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and if the car and the driver were good enough then you'd win the race now today if you want to win the race actually you need also something like this something that monitors the car in real time has a few thousand sensors collecting information from the car transmitting this information into the system and then processing it and using it in order to go back to the car with decisions and changing things in real time as information is collected this is what in engineering terms you would call a real time control system and basically it's a system made of two components a sensing and an component what is interesting today is that real time control systems are starting to enter into our lives our cities over the past few years just have been blanketed with networks electronics they're becoming like computers in open air and as computers in open air they're starting to respond in a different way to be able to be sensed and to be if we fix cities actually it's a big deal
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and as computers in open air they're starting to respond in a different way to be able to be sensed and to be if we fix cities actually it's a big deal just as an aside i wanted to mention cities are only two percent of the earth's crust but they are percent of the world's population they are percent of the energy consumption up to percent of emissions so if we're able to do something with cities that's a big deal beyond cities all of this sensing and is entering our everyday objects that's from an exhibition that antonelli is organizing at moma later this year during the summer it's called talk to me well our objects our environment is starting to talk back to us
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i stumbled across this beautiful quote from the writings and it speaks to prayer it says that if you reach out in prayer and if your prayer is answered which is already very interesting that the pillars of your heart will become and i loved this idea of the inner and the outer like when you see someone and you say that person is radiant and i was thinking my gosh how could we make something architectural out of that where you create a building and it becomes alive with light like alabaster if you kiss it with light it becomes alive and i drew this sketch something with two layers translucent with structure in between capturing light maybe a pure form a single form of emanation that you could imagine would be all dome and everything we kept making was looking too much like an egg
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a blob so you search you all know this crazy search letting the process take you and you live for the surprises and i remember quite by accident i saw this little video of a plant moving in light and it made me think of movement reach this idea that the temple could have reach like this reach for the divine you can imagine also that movement within a circle could mean movement and stillness like the cosmos something you see in many places
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the school of architecture that i studied at some years ago happened to be across the street from the wonderful art gallery designed by the great architect louis kahn i love the building and i used to visit it quite often one day i saw the security guard run his hand across the concrete wall and it was the way he did it the expression on his face something touched me i could see that the security guard was moved by the building and that architecture has that capacity to move you i could see it and i remember thinking wow
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at school i was learning to design but here here was a reaction of the heart and it touched me to the core you know you aspire for beauty for for atmosphere the emotional response that's the realm of the ineffable and the immeasurable and that's what you live for a chance to try so in there was an open call for designs for the temple for south america
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more recently i wrote an article for esquire called about radical honesty and this is a movement where this is started by a psychologist in virginia who says that you should never ever lie except maybe during poker and golf his only exceptions and more than that whatever is on your brain should come out of your mouth so i decided i would try this for a month this was the worst month of my life
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henry novel so i won't ruin it but i love that one because that was an experiment about how much information one human brain could absorb although listening to kevin kelly you don't have to remember anything you can just it so i wasted some time there i love those experiments but i think that the most profound and life changing experiment that i've done is my most recent experiment where i spent a year trying to follow all of the rules of the bible the year of living and i undertook this for two reasons the first was that i grew up with no religion at all as i say in my book i'm jewish in the same way the olive garden is italian
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then i went down and i read several versions and i wrote down every single law that i could find and this was a very long list over rules and they range from the famous ones that i had heard of the ten commandments love your neighbor be fruitful and multiply so i wanted to follow those and actually i take my projects very seriously because i had twins during my year so i definitely take my projects seriously but i also wanted to follow the hundreds of arcane and obscure laws that are in the bible there is the law in you cannot shave the corners of your beard i didn't know where my corners were so i decided to let the whole thing grow and this is what i looked like by the end as you can imagine i spent a lot of time at airport security
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the bible says you cannot wear clothes made of mixed fibers so i thought sounds strange but i'll try it you only know if you try it i got rid of all my poly cotton t shirts the bible says that if two men are in a fight and the wife of one of those men grabs the testicles of the other man then her hand shall be cut off so i wanted to follow that rule
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so i had always thought you know you change your mind and you change your behavior but it's often the other way around you change your behavior and you change your mind so you know if you want to become more compassionate you visit sick people in the hospital and you will become more compassionate you donate money to a cause and you become emotionally involved in that cause so it really was cognitive psychology you know cognitive dissonance that i was experiencing the bible actually talks about cognitive psychology very primitive cognitive psychology in the proverbs it says that if you smile you will become happier which as we know is actually true the second type of rule that was difficult to obey was the rules that will get you into a little trouble in twenty america and perhaps the clearest example of this is stoning adulterers
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so i thought i would end by telling you just a couple of the take aways the bigger lessons that i learned from my year the first is thou shalt not take the bible literally this became very very clear early on because if you do then you end up acting like a crazy person and stoning adulterers or here's another example well that's another i did spend some time shepherding
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and these are the ultimate and it was fascinating because they were not stupid people at all i would wager that their is exactly the same as the average it's just that their faith is so strong in this literal interpretation of the bible that they distort all the data to fit their model and they go through these amazing mental gymnastics to accomplish this and i will say though the museum is gorgeous they really did a fantastic job if you're ever in kentucky there's you can see a movie of the flood and they have sprinklers in the ceiling that will sprinkle on you during the flood scenes so whatever you think of creationism and i think it's crazy they did a great job
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thou shall not stereotype this one happened because i spent a lot of time with various religious communities throughout america because i wanted it to be more than about my journey i wanted it to be about religion in america so i spent time with evangelical christians and hasidic jews and the amish i'm very proud because i think i'm the only person in america to out bible talk a jehovah's witness
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there's the phrase called cafeteria religion and the fundamentalists will use it in a denigrating way and they'll say oh it's just cafeteria religion you're just picking and choosing but my argument is what's wrong with cafeterias i've had some great meals at cafeterias i've also had some meals that make me want to dry heave so it's about choosing the parts of the bible about compassion about tolerance about loving your neighbor as opposed to the parts about homosexuality is a sin or intolerance or violence which are very much in the bible as well so if we are to find any meaning in this book then we have to really engage it and wrestle with it and i thought i'd end with just a couple more there's me reading the bible that's how i hailed taxicabs
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i thought i'd tell you a little about what i like to write and i like to immerse myself in my topics i just like to dive right in and become sort of a human guinea pig and i see my life as a series of experiments so i work for esquire magazine and a couple of years ago i wrote an article called my life where i hired a team of people in bangalore india to live my life for me so they answered my emails
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but i've become increasingly interested in religion i do think it's the defining issue of our time or one of the main ones and i have a son i want to know what to teach him so i decided to dive in head first and try to live the bible the second reason i undertook this is because i'm concerned about the rise of fundamentalism religious fundamentalism and people who say they take the bible literally which is according to some polls as high as or percent of america
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the second reason i undertook this is because i'm concerned about the rise of fundamentalism religious fundamentalism and people who say they take the bible literally which is according to some polls as high as or percent of america so i decided what if you really did take the bible literally i decided to take it to its logical conclusion and take everything in the bible literally without picking and choosing the first thing i did was i got a stack of bibles i had christian bibles i had jewish bibles a friend of mine sent me something called a hip hop bible where the twenty third psalm is rendered as the lord is all that as opposed to what i knew it as the lord is my shepherd then i went down and i read several versions and i wrote down every single law that i could find
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i will say it was an amazing year because it really was life changing and incredibly challenging and there were two types of laws that were particularly challenging the first was avoiding the little sins that we all commit every day you know i could spend a year not killing but spending a year not gossiping not not lying you know i live in new york and i work as a journalist so this was percent of my day i had to do it but it was really interesting because i was able to make some progress because i couldn't believe how much my behavior changed my thoughts
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i recommend it but this one is the bible says that you cannot touch women during certain times of the month and more than that you cannot sit on a seat where a woman has sat and my wife thought this was very offensive so she sat in every seat in our apartment and i had to spend much of the year standing until i bought my own seat and carried it around so you know i met with i went to the museum and these are the ultimate
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another lesson is that thou shalt give thanks and this one was a big lesson because i was praying giving these prayers of thanksgiving which was odd for an agnostic but i was saying thanks all the time every day and i started to change my perspective and i started to realize the hundreds of little things that go right every day that i didn't even notice that i took for granted as opposed to focusing on the three or four that went wrong so this is actually a key to happiness for me is to just remember when i came over here the car didn't flip over and i didn't trip coming up the stairs it's a remarkable thing
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third that thou shall have reverence this one was unexpected because i started the year as an agnostic and by the end of the year i became what a friend of mine calls a reverent agnostic which i love and i'm trying to start it as a movement so if anyone wants to join the basic idea is whether or not there is a god there's something important and beautiful about the idea of sacredness and that our rituals can be sacred the sabbath can be sacred this was one of the great things about my year doing the sabbath because i am a workaholic so having this one day where you cannot work it really that changed my life so this idea of sacredness whether or not there is a god
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thank you bless you bless you but it was interesting because i had some very preconceived notions about for instance evangelical christianity and i found that it's such a wide and varied movement that it is difficult to make generalizations about it there's a group i met with called the red letter christians and they focus on the red words in the bible which are the ones that jesus spoke that's how they printed them in the old bibles
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there's a group i met with called the red letter christians and they focus on the red words in the bible which are the ones that jesus spoke that's how they printed them in the old bibles and their argument is that jesus never talked about homosexuality they have a pamphlet that says here's what jesus said about homosexuality and you open it up and there's nothing in it so they say jesus did talk a lot about helping the outcasts helping poor people so this was very inspiring to me i recommend jim wallis and tony they're very inspiring leaders even though i disagree with much of what they say also thou shalt not disregard the irrational
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and the thing is if they're not harmful they're not to be completely dismissed because i learned that i was thinking i was doing all these rituals these biblical rituals separating my wool and linen and i would ask these religious people why would the bible possibly tell us to do this why would god care and they said we don't know but it's just rituals that give us meaning and i would say but that's crazy and they would say well what about you you blow out candles on top of a birthday cake if a guy from mars came down and saw here's one guy blowing out the fire on top of a cake versus another guy not wearing clothes of mixed fabrics would the martians say that guy he makes sense but that guy's so no i think that rituals are by nature irrational so the key is to choose the right rituals the ones that are not harmful but rituals by themselves are not to be dismissed and finally i learned that thou shall pick and choose and this one i learned because i tried to follow everything in the bible and i failed miserably
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this is communication technology for birds it looks like this when a bird lands on it they trigger a sound file this is actually in the whitney museum where there were six of them each of which had a different argument on it different sound file they said things like this recorded voice here's what you need to do go down there and buy some of those health food bars the ones you call bird food and bring it here and scatter it around there's a good person okay
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tick tick tick that's the sound of genetic mutations of the flu becoming a deadly human flu do you know what slows it down healthy sub populations of birds increasing biodiversity generally it is in your interests that i'm healthy happy well fed hence you could share some of your nutritional resources instead of monopolizing them that is share your lunch
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and what it is it's a twist on health because really what i'm trying to do now is redefine what counts as health it's a clinic like a health clinic at any other university except people come to the clinic with environmental health concerns and they walk out with prescriptions for things they can do to improve environmental health as opposed to coming to a clinic with medical concerns and walking out with prescriptions for pharmaceuticals it's a handy dandy quote from hippocrates of the hippocratic oath that says the greater part of the soul lays outside the body treatment of the inner requires treatment of the outer
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number one was asthma number two was developmental delays number three was increases in rare childhood cancers in the last eight to years number four and five were childhood obesity and diabetes related issues so all of those what's common about all of those the environment is implicated radically implicated right this is not the germs that were trained to deal with this is a different definition of health health that has a great advantage because it's external it's shared we can do something about it as opposed to internal genetically predetermined or individualized people who come to the clinic are called not patients but because they're too impatient to wait for legislative change to address local and environmental health issues and i meet them at the university i also have a few field offices that i set up in various places that provide an immersion in some of the environmental challenges we face i like this one from the belgian field office where we met in a roundabout precisely because the roundabout the headless social movement that informs much social transformation as opposed to the top down control of red light traffic intersections in this case of course the roundabout with that micro decisions being made in by people not being told what to do but of course affords greater throughput fewer accidents and an interesting model of social movement
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and eventually these big shot executives whip out their and they say they have to make really important phone calls and they head for the exits and they're just so uncomfortable when we track them down and ask them what's going on they say something like i'm just not the creative type but we know that's not true if they stick with the process if they stick with it they end up doing amazing things and they surprise themselves at just how innovative they and their teams really are so i've been looking at this fear of judgment that we have that you don't do things you're afraid you're going to be judged if you don't say the right creative thing you're going to be judged and i had a major breakthrough when i met the psychologist albert i don't know if you know albert but if you go to it says that he's the fourth most important psychologist in history you know like freud skinner somebody and
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and this was really disappointing to doug because before this time he was proud of what he did he was saving lives with this machine but it really hurt him to see the fear that this machine caused in kids about that time he was at the d school at stanford taking classes he was learning about our process about design thinking about empathy about iterative and he would take this new knowledge and do something quite extraordinary he would redesign the entire experience of being scanned and this is what he came up with
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you know and you're waiting for your turn to get the gamma rays you think of a lot of things mostly you think about am i going to survive and i thought a lot about what was my daughter's life going to be like without me but you think about other things i thought a lot about what was i put on earth to do what was my calling what should i do i was lucky because i had lots of options we'd been working in health and wellness and and the developing world so there were lots of projects that i could work on but then i decided and committed at this point to the thing i most wanted to do which was to help as many people as possible regain the creative confidence they lost along their way and if i was going to survive that's what i wanted to do i survived just so you know
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he was making a horse out of the clay our teacher kept under the sink and at one point one of the girls that was sitting at his table seeing what he was doing leaned over and said to him that's terrible that doesn't look anything like a horse
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he was making a horse out of the clay our teacher kept under the sink and at one point one of the girls that was sitting at his table seeing what he was doing leaned over and said to him that's terrible that doesn't look anything like a horse and brian's shoulders sank and he wadded up the clay horse and he threw it back in the bin i never saw brian do a project like that ever again and i wonder how often that happens you know it seems like when i tell that story of brian to my class a lot of them want to come up after class and tell me about their similar experience how a teacher shut them down or how a student was particularly cruel to them and then some kind of opt out of thinking of themselves as creative at that point and i see that opting out that happens in childhood and it moves in and becomes more ingrained even by the time you get to adult life
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he had developed this way this kind of methodology that ended up curing people in a very short amount of time like in four hours he had a huge cure rate of people who had phobias and we talked about snakes i don't know why we talked about snakes and fear of snakes as a phobia
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and it was really enjoyable really interesting he told me that he'd invite the test subject in and he'd say you know there's a snake in the next room and we're going to go in there to which he reported most of them replied hell no i'm not going in there certainly if there's a snake in there but has a step process that was super successful so he'd take people to this two way mirror looking into the room where the snake was and he'd get them comfortable with that
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can see united states in had a very low percentage infected but due to the big population still a sizable bubble there were quite many people infected in the united states and up there you see uganda they had almost five percent infected and quite a big bubble in spite of being a small country then and they were probably the most infected country in the world now what has happened now you have understood the graph and now in the next seconds we will play the epidemic in the world but first i have a new invention here
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so when we look at the pattern one thing comes out very clearly you see the blue bubbles and people say is very high in africa i would say is very different in africa you'll find the highest rate in the world in african countries and yet you'll find senegal down here the same rate as united states and you'll find madagascar and you'll find a lot of african countries about as low as the rest of the world it's this terrible simplification that there's one africa and things go on in one way in africa we have to stop that it's not respectful and it's not very clever to think that way i had the fortune to live and work for a time in the united states i found out that salt lake city and san francisco were different
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on the other hand try to say that this is not the case because there is a scientific consensus about this pattern now have done good data available finally about the spread of it could be it could be some virus types it could be that there is other things which makes transmission occur in a higher frequency after all if you are completely healthy and you have heterosexual sex the risk of infection in one intercourse is one in don't jump to conclusions now on how to behave tonight and so on
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and the size of these bubbles the size of the bubbles here that shows how many are infected in each country and the color is the continent now you can see united states in had a very low percentage infected but due to the big population still a sizable bubble
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so ready steady go first we have the fast rise in uganda and zimbabwe they went upwards like this in asia the first country to be heavily infected was thailand they reached one to two percent then uganda started to turn back whereas zimbabwe skyrocketed and some years later south africa had a terrible rise of frequency look india got many infected but had a low level
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then uganda started to turn back whereas zimbabwe skyrocketed and some years later south africa had a terrible rise of frequency look india got many infected but had a low level and almost the same happens here see uganda coming down zimbabwe coming down russia went to one percent in the last two to three years we have reached a steady state of epidemic in the world years it took but steady state doesn't mean that things are getting better it's just that they have stopped getting worse and it has the steady state is more or less one percent of the adult world population is infected it means to million people the whole of california every person that's more or less what we have today in the world
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so wherever you look the message it seems to me is the same that less is very often more that slower is very often better but that said of course it's not that easy to slow down is it i mean you heard that i got a speeding ticket while i was researching my book on the benefits of slowness and that's true but that's not all of it i was actually en to a dinner held by slow food at the time and if that's not shaming enough i got that ticket in italy and if any of you have ever driven on an italian highway you'll have a pretty good idea of how fast i was going
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so all of that said is it i guess is it possible that's really the main question before us today is it possible to slow down and i'm happy to be able to say to you that the answer is a resounding yes and i present myself as exhibit a a kind of reformed and rehabilitated speed i still love speed you know i live in london and i work as a journalist and i enjoy the buzz and the and the adrenaline rush that comes from both of those things i play squash and ice hockey two very fast sports and i wouldn't give them up for the world but i've also over the last year or so got in touch with my inner tortoise
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we used to read now we speed read we used to walk now we speed walk and of course we used to date and now we speed date and even things that are by their very nature slow we try and speed them up too
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we're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives on our health our diet our work our relationships the environment and our community and sometimes it takes a wake up call doesn't it to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them that we're living the fast life instead of the good life and i think for many people that wake up call takes the form of an illness you know a burnout or eventually the body says i can't take it anymore and throws in the towel or maybe a relationship goes up in smoke because we haven't had the time or the patience or the tranquility to be with the other person to listen to them and my wake up call came when i started reading bedtime stories to my son and i found that at the end of day i would go into his room and i just couldn't slow down you know i'd be speed reading the cat in the hat i'd be you know i'd be skipping lines here paragraphs there sometimes a whole page and of course my little boy knew the book inside out so we would quarrel and what should have been the most relaxing the most intimate the most tender moment of the day when a dad sits down to read to his son became instead this kind of battle of wills a clash between my speed and his slowness and this went on for some time until i caught myself scanning a newspaper article with tips for fast people
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you're the adult the fear is the child and you talk to the fear and you ask it what it wants what it needs how can this be made better how can the child feel stronger and you make a plan and you say okay now we're going back to sleep half past seven we're getting up and that's what we're going to do i had one of these a m episodes on sunday paralyzed with fear at coming to talk to you
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so in along with my mentors don burke and colonel we went to actually start this work in central africa to work with hunters in this part of the world and my job at that time i was a post doctoral fellow and i was really tasked with setting this up so i said to myself ok great we're gonna collect all kinds of specimens we're gonna go to all these different locations it's going to be wonderful you know i looked at the map i picked out sites i figured no problem
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often we run into obstacles this is us coming back from one of these very rural sites with specimens from individuals that we needed to get back to the lab within hours i like to show this shot this is who's the lead investigator in our cameroon site laughs at me when i show this photo because of course you can't see his face but the reason i like to show the shot is because you can see that he's about to solve this problem
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just a few quick before and after shots this was our laboratory before this is what it looks like now early on in order to ship our specimens we had to have dry ice to get dry ice we had to go to the breweries beg borrow steal to get these folks to give it to us now we have our own liquid nitrogen i like to call our laboratory the coldest place in central africa it might be and here's a shot of me this is the before shot of me
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so during the last years i've been working to actually study the earlier interface here what i've labeled viral chatter which was a term coined by my mentor don burke this is the idea that we can study the sort of of these viruses into human populations the movement of these agents over into humans and by capturing this moment we might be able to move to a situation where we can catch them early ok so this is a picture and i'm going to show you some pictures now from the field this is a picture of a central african hunter it's actually a fairly common picture one of the things i want you to note from it is blood that you see a tremendous amount of blood contact this was absolutely key for us
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this is a characterization of what it would look like if you could remove the water it gives you the false impression it's a map it is not a map in fact i have another version at my office and i ask people why are there mountains here on this area here but there are none over here and they go well gee i don't know saying is it a fracture zone is it a hot spot no no that's the only place a ship's been most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored we had more exploration ships down there during captain cook's time than now it's amazing all right so we're going to immerse ourselves in the percent of the planet because you know it's really naive to think that the easter bunny put all the resources on the continents
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we mounted an expedition to look for the missing heat and so we went along this mountain range in an area along galapagos rift and did we find the missing heat it was amazing these giant chimneys huge giant chimneys we went up to them with our submersible we wanted to get a temperature probe we stuck it in there looked at it it pegged off scale the pilot made this great observation that's hot
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none of it in our textbooks none of this in our textbooks we did not know about this life system we were not predicting it we stumbled on it looking for some missing heat so we wanted to accelerate this process we wanted to get away from this silly trip up and down on a submarine average depth of the ocean feet two and half hours to get to work in the morning two and half hours to get to home five hour commute to work three hours of bottom time average distance traveled one mile
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our country has two exploration programs one is nasa with a mission to explore the great beyond to explore the heavens which we all want to go to if we're lucky and you can see we have sputnik and we have saturn and we have other manifestations of space exploration well there's also another program in another agency within our government in ocean exploration it's in noaa the national oceanic and atmospheric administration
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well there's also another program in another agency within our government in ocean exploration it's in noaa the national oceanic and atmospheric administration and my question is this why are we ignoring the oceans here's the reason or not the reason but here's why i ask that question if you compare nasa's annual budget to explore the heavens that one year budget would fund budget to explore the oceans for years why why are we looking up is it because it's heaven and hell is down here is it a cultural issue why are people afraid of the ocean or do they just assume the ocean is just a dark gloomy place that has nothing to offer i'm going to take you on a trip on percent of the planet so buckle up ok and what we're going to do is we're going to immerse ourselves in my world and what i'm going to try i hope i make the following points i'm going to make it right now in case i forget
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and what i'm going to try i hope i make the following points i'm going to make it right now in case i forget everything i'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when i went to school and most of all it was not even in my college textbooks i'm a and all my earth science books when i was a student i had to give the wrong answer to get an a we used to ridicule continental drift it was something we laughed at we learned of marshall kay's cycle which is a bunch of crap in today's context it was a bunch of crap but it was the law of geology vertical tectonics
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what i'd like to do now in an act of warp speed storytelling is tell the story of how two projects evolved by adapting and improvising to the happenstance of the world the first story starts last year when we went to shanghai to do the competition for the danish national pavilion for the world expo in and we saw this guy he's the mascot of the expo and he looks strangely familiar in fact he looked like a building we had designed for a hotel in the north of sweden when we submitted it for the swedish competition we thought it was a really cool scheme but it didn't exactly look like something from the north of sweden the swedish jury didn't think so either so we lost but then we had a meeting with a chinese businessman who saw our design and said wow that's the chinese character for the word
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we even double checked and at the same time we got invited to exhibit at the shanghai creative industry week so we thought like this is too much of an opportunity so we hired a feng shui master we scaled the building up three times to chinese proportions and went to china
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that in the people's republic public school curriculum they have three fairy tales by an tu sheng or hans christian anderson as we call him so that means that all billion chinese have grown up with the emperor's new clothes the girl and the little mermaid it's almost like a fragment of danish culture integrated into chinese culture the biggest tourist attraction in china is the great wall the great wall is the only thing that can be seen from the moon the big tourist attraction in denmark is the little mermaid that can actually hardly be seen from the canal tours
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but to conclude if you want to see the mermaid from may to december next year don't come to copenhagen because she's going to be in shanghai if you do come to copenhagen you will probably see an installation by ai the chinese artist but if the chinese government intervenes it might even be a panda
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recently this was the view from my apartment onto this place where our client actually bought the neighbor site and he said that he was going to do an apartment block next to a parking structure and we thought rather than doing a traditional stack of apartments looking straight into a big boring block of cars why don't we turn all the apartments into put them on a podium of cars and because copenhagen is completely flat if you want to have a nice south facing slope with a view you basically have to do it yourself then we sort of cut up the volume so we wouldn't block the view from my apartment
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up in the sun you have a single layer of apartments that combine all the of a suburban lifestyle like a house with a garden with a sort of metropolitan view and a sort of dense urban location this is our first architectural model this is an aerial photo taken last summer and essentially the apartments cover the parking they are accessed through this diagonal elevator it's actually a stand up product from switzerland because in switzerland they have a natural need for diagonal elevators
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as an architect it's really hard to set the agenda you can't just say that now i'd like to do a sustainable city in central asia because that's not really how you get commissions you always have to sort of adapt and improvise to the opportunities and accidents that happen and the sort of turmoil of the world one last example is that recently we like last summer we won the competition to design a nordic national bank this was the director of the bank when he was still smiling
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recently has introduced optimism at a sort of time of global financial crisis and what we'd like to say with yes is more is basically trying to question this idea that the architectural avant garde is almost always negatively defined as who or what we are against the cliche of the radical architect is the sort of angry young man rebelling against the establishment or this idea of the misunderstood genius frustrated that the world doesn't fit in with his or her ideas rather than revolution we're much more interested in evolution this idea that things gradually evolve by adapting and improvising to the changes of the world in fact i actually think that darwin is one of the people who best explains our design process
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and quite often we sit in a design meeting and we discover that there is this great idea it doesn't really work in this context but for another client in another culture it could really be the right answer to a different question so as a result we never throw anything out we keep our office almost like an archive of architectural biodiversity you never know when you might need it and what i'd like to do now in an act of warp speed storytelling is tell the story of how two projects evolved by adapting and improvising to the happenstance of the world the first story starts last year when we went to shanghai to do the competition for the danish national pavilion for the world expo in and we saw this guy
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but like i said looked very familiar because he is actually the chinese character for people and they chose this mascot because the theme of the expo is better city better life sustainability and we thought sustainability has grown into being this sort of neo protestant idea that it has to hurt in order to do good you know you're not supposed to take long warm showers you're not supposed to fly on holidays because it's bad for the environment
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