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12,826 | their job is to get things done and if they don't they're out of a job mayor nutter of philadelphia said we could never get away here in philadelphia with the stuff that goes on in washington the paralysis the non action the inaction why because potholes have to get filled because the trains have to run because kids have to be able to get to school and that's what we have to do and to do that is about pragmatism in that deep american sense reaching outcomes washington beijing paris as world capitals are anything but pragmatic but real city mayors have to be pragmatists they have to get things done they have to put ideology and religion and ethnicity aside and draw their cities together we saw this a couple of decades ago when teddy kollek the great mayor of jerusalem in the and the was besieged one day in his office by religious leaders from all of the backgrounds christian prelates rabbis they were arguing with one another about access to the holy sites and the squabble went on and on and kollek listened and listened and he finally said gentlemen spare me your sermons and i will fix your sewers | 1 |
12,827 | democracy is in trouble no question about that and it comes in part from a deep dilemma in which it is embedded it's increasingly irrelevant to the kinds of decisions we face that have to do with global a cross border problem with a transnational problem with markets and immigration something that goes beyond national borders with terrorism with war all now cross border problems in fact we live in a century world of interdependence and brutal interdependent problems and when we look for solutions in politics and in democracy we are faced with political institutions designed years ago autonomous sovereign nation states with jurisdictions and territories separate from one another each claiming to be able to solve the problem of its own people twenty transnational world of problems and challenges century world of political institutions in that dilemma lies the central problem of democracy and like many others i've been thinking about what can one do about this this asymmetry between century challenges and archaic and increasingly dysfunctional political institutions like nation states | 0 |
12,828 | each card represents a phase of the lunar cycles so over here is low tide and over here is high tide and in the middle is the moon the moon is one of the most potent symbols of magic there are two colors in a deck of cards there is the color red and the color black representing the constant change from day to night marco i did not know you could do that | 1 |
12,830 | whoa well to this i just say no no actually in german it's nein nein | 1 |
12,831 | good morning so magic is an excellent way for staying ahead of the reality curve to make possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow as a cyber magician i combine elements of illusion and science to give us a feel of how future technologies might be experienced you've probably all heard of project glass it's new technology you look through them and the world you see is augmented with data names of places monuments buildings maybe one day even the names of the strangers that pass you on the street | 0 |
12,832 | it's new technology you look through them and the world you see is augmented with data names of places monuments buildings maybe one day even the names of the strangers that pass you on the street so these are my illusion glasses they're a little bigger they're a prototype and when you look through them you get a glimpse into the mind of the cyber illusionist let me show you what i mean all we need is a playing card any card will do | 0 |
12,834 | this moment and thousands of other moments special for us were captured in our home because in every room in the house if you looked up you'd see a camera and a microphone and if you looked down you'd get this bird's eye view of the room here's our living room the baby bedroom kitchen dining room and the rest of the house and all of these fed into a disc array that was designed for a continuous capture so here we are flying through a day in our home as we move from sunlit morning through incandescent evening and finally lights out for the day over the course of three years we recorded eight to hours a day amassing roughly a quarter million hours of multi track audio and video so you're looking at a piece of what is by far the largest home video collection ever made | 1 |
12,835 | hey come here can you do it oh boy can you do it baby yeah dr ma he's walking | 1 |
12,836 | imagine if you could record your life everything you said everything you did available in a perfect memory store at your fingertips so you could go back and find memorable moments and relive them or sift through traces of time and discover patterns in your own life that previously had gone undiscovered well that's exactly the journey that my family began five and a half years ago this is my wife and collaborator and on this day at this moment we walked into the house with our first child our beautiful baby boy and we walked into a house with a very special home video recording system man okay | 0 |
12,837 | countless moments of unsolicited natural moments not posed moments are captured there and we're starting to learn how to discover them and find them but there's also a scientific reason that drove this project which was to use this natural longitudinal data to understand the process of how a child learns language that child being my son and so with many privacy provisions put in place to protect everyone who was recorded in the data we made elements of the data available to my trusted research team at mit so we could start teasing apart patterns in this massive data set trying to understand the influence of social environments on language acquisition so we're looking here at one of the first things we started to do this is my wife and i cooking breakfast in the kitchen and as we move through space and through time a very everyday pattern of life in the kitchen in order to convert this opaque hours of video into something that we could start to see we use motion analysis to pull out as we move through space and through time what we call space time worms | 0 |
12,840 | ten years ago i wrote a book which i entitled our final century question mark my publishers cut out the question mark | 1 |
12,842 | my theme was this our earth has existed for million centuries but this one is special it's the first where one species ours has the planet's future in its hands over nearly all of earth's history threats have come from nature disease earthquakes asteroids and so forth but from now on the worst dangers come from us and it's now not just the nuclear threat in our interconnected world network breakdowns can cascade globally air travel can spread worldwide within days and social media can spread panic and rumor literally at the speed of light we fret too much about minor hazards improbable air crashes carcinogens in food low radiation doses and so forth but we and our political masters are in denial about catastrophic scenarios the worst have thankfully not yet happened indeed they probably won't | 0 |
12,848 | so i didn't always make my living from music for about the five years after graduating from an upstanding liberal arts university this was my day job | 1 |
12,850 | i painted myself white one day stood on a box put a hat or a can at my feet and when someone came by and dropped in money i handed them a flower and some intense eye contact and if they didn't take the flower i threw in a gesture of sadness and longing as they walked away | 1 |
12,851 | so i had the most profound encounters with people especially lonely people who looked like they hadn't talked to anyone in weeks and we would get this beautiful moment of prolonged eye contact being allowed in a city street and we would sort of fall in love a little bit and my eyes would say thank you i see you and their eyes would say nobody ever sees me thank you i would get harassed sometimes people would yell at me from their cars | 1 |
12,852 | this is in london people would bring home cooked food to us all over the world backstage and feed us and eat with us this is in seattle fans who worked in museums and stores and any kind of public space would wave their hands if i would decide to do a last minute spontaneous free gig this is a library in auckland on saturday i for this crate and hat because i did not want to them from the east coast and they showed up care of this dude chris from newport beach who says hello i once where in melbourne can i buy a pot and a nurse from a hospital drove one right at that moment to the cafe i was in and i bought her a and we sat there talking about nursing and death and i love this kind of random closeness which is lucky because i do a lot of in mansions where everyone in my crew gets their own room but there's no wireless and in punk squats everyone on the floor in one room with no toilets but with wireless clearly making it the better option | 1 |
12,854 | i once asked an opening band of mine if they wanted to go out into the crowd and pass the hat to get some extra money something that i did a lot and as usual the band was psyched but there was this one guy in the band who told me he just couldn't bring himself to go out there it felt too much like begging to stand there with the hat and i recognized his fear of is this fair and get a job and meanwhile my band is becoming bigger and bigger we sign with a major label and our music is a cross between punk and cabaret it's not for everybody well maybe it's for you | 1 |
12,855 | we sign and there's all this hype leading up to our next record and it comes out and it sells about copies in the first few weeks and the label considers this a failure i was like isn't that a lot they said no the sales are going down it's a failure and they walk off right at this same time i'm signing and hugging after a gig and a guy comes up to me and hands me a bill and he says i'm sorry i burned your cd from a friend | 1 |
12,857 | i had no idea how perfect a real education i was getting for the music business on this box and for the economists out there you may be interested to know i actually made a pretty predictable income which was shocking to me given i had no regular customers but pretty much bucks on a tuesday bucks on a friday it was consistent and meanwhile i was touring locally and playing in nightclubs with my band the dresden dolls this was me on piano a genius drummer | 0 |
12,858 | and meanwhile i was touring locally and playing in nightclubs with my band the dresden dolls this was me on piano a genius drummer i wrote the songs and eventually we started making enough money that i could quit being a statue and as we started touring i really didn't want to lose this sense of direct connection with people because i loved it so after all of our shows we would sign autographs and hug fans and hang out and talk to people and we made an art out of asking people to help us and join us and i would track down local musicians and artists and they would set up outside of our shows and they would pass the hat and then they would come in and join us onstage so we had this rotating smorgasbord of weird random circus guests and then came along and made things even more magic because i could ask instantly for anything anywhere so i would need a piano to practice on and an hour later i would be at a fan's house this is in london people would bring home cooked food to us all over the world backstage and feed us and eat with us this is in seattle | 0 |
12,859 | my crew once pulled our van up to a really poor miami neighborhood and we found out that our host for the night was an old girl still living at home and her family were all undocumented immigrants from honduras and that night her whole family took the couches and she slept together with her mom so that we could take their beds and i lay there thinking these people have so little is this fair and in the morning her mom taught us how to try to make tortillas and wanted to give me a bible and she took me aside and she said to me in her broken english your music has helped my daughter so much thank you for staying here | 0 |
12,863 | i asked them and through the very act of asking people i'd connected with them and when you connect with them people want to help you it's kind of for a lot of artists they don't want to ask for things but it's not easy it's not easy to ask and a lot of artists have a problem with this asking makes you vulnerable and i got a lot of criticism online after my went big for continuing my crazy practices specifically for asking musicians who are fans if they wanted to join us on stage for a few songs in exchange for love and tickets and beer and this was a doctored image that went up of me on a website | 0 |
12,864 | this was a ninja master level fan connection because what i was really saying here was i trust you this much should i show me for most of human history musicians artists they've been part of the community connectors and openers not untouchable stars celebrity is about a lot of people loving you from a distance but the internet and the content that we're freely able to share on it are taking us back | 0 |
12,865 | connectors and openers not untouchable stars celebrity is about a lot of people loving you from a distance but the internet and the content that we're freely able to share on it are taking us back it's about a few people loving you up close and about those people being enough so a lot of people are confused by the idea of no hard sticker price they see it as an unpredictable risk but the things i've done the the street the doorbell i don't see these things as risk i see them as trust now the online tools to make the exchange as easy and as instinctive as the street they're getting there but the perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive but more important to ask without shame my music career has been spent trying to encounter people on the internet the way i could on the box | 0 |
12,866 | i was the only human being in an area one half times the size of america five half thousand square miles more than people have climbed everest people have stood on the moon including me only four people have skied solo to the north pole and i think the reason for that thank you i think the reason for that is that it's it's well it's as chris said bonkers it's a journey that is right at the limit of human capability i skied the equivalent of marathons back to back miles in weeks and i was dragging all the food i needed the supplies the equipment sleeping bag one change of underwear everything i needed for nearly three months | 1 |
12,868 | i went back to live with my mum i was physically exhausted mentally an absolute wreck considered myself a failure in a huge amount of debt personally to this expedition and lying on my sofa day in day out watching daytime tv my brother sent me a text message an it was a quote from the simpsons it said you tried your hardest and failed miserably the lesson is don't even try | 1 |
12,871 | we were stuck there for days there was a kind of vodka fueled pay dispute between the helicopter pilots and the people that owned the helicopter so we were stuck we couldn't move finally morning of day we got the all clear loaded up the helicopters two helicopters flying in tandem dropped me off at the edge of the pack ice we had a frantic sort of minutes of filming photography while the helicopter was still there i did an interview on the satellite phone and then everyone else climbed back into the helicopter wham the door closed and i was alone and i don't know if words will ever quite do that moment justice all i could think about was running back up to the door banging on the door and saying look guys i haven't quite thought this through | 1 |
12,873 | did a sort of video diary piece took a few photos i got my satellite phone out i warmed the battery up in my armpit i dialed three numbers i dialed my mum i dialed my girlfriend i dialed the of my sponsor and i got three | 1 |
12,874 | it's a special feeling the entire planet is rotating beneath my feet the the whole world underneath me i finally got through to my mum she was at the queue of the supermarket she started crying she asked me to call her back | 1 |
12,876 | the co pilot was a lady called monica she sat there in a sort of hand knitted jumper they were the least macho people i've ever met but they made my day troy was smoking a cigarette on the ice we took a few photos he climbed up the ladder he said just just get in the back he threw his cigarette out as he got on the front and i climbed in the back | 1 |
12,877 | he put his hand on the throttle monica very gently put her hand sort of on top of his i thought god here we go we're we're this is all or nothing rammed it forwards bounced down the runway just took off one of the skis just clipped a pressure ridge at the end of the runway banking i could see into the cockpit troy battling the controls and he just took one hand off reached back flipped a switch on the roof of the cockpit and it was the fasten seat belt sign you can see on the wall | 1 |
12,878 | and they turned around headed back to the coast and all five of them died on the return journey since then no one has ever skied this was years ago since then no one has ever skied from the coast of antarctica to the pole and back every south pole expedition you may have heard about is either flown out from the pole or has used vehicles or dogs or kites to do some kind of crossing no one has ever made a return journey so that's the plan two of us are doing it that's pretty much it one final thought before i get to the toilet bit is is i have a and i meant to scan this and i've forgotten but i have a i have a school report i was years old and it's framed above my desk at home it says ben lacks sufficient impetus to achieve anything worthwhile | 1 |
12,881 | this was like my polar apprenticeship we were trying to ski from this group of islands up here to the north pole and the thing that fascinates me about the north pole geographic north pole is that it's slap bang in the middle of the sea this is about as good as maps get and to reach it you've got to ski literally over the frozen crust the floating skin of ice on the ocean | 0 |
12,882 | and the thing that fascinates me about the north pole geographic north pole is that it's slap bang in the middle of the sea this is about as good as maps get and to reach it you've got to ski literally over the frozen crust the floating skin of ice on the ocean i'd spoken to all the experts i'd read lots of books i studied maps and charts but i realized on the morning of day one that i had no idea exactly what i'd let myself in for i was years old no one my age had attempted anything like this and pretty quickly almost everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong we were attacked by a polar bear on day two | 0 |
12,883 | no one my age had attempted anything like this and pretty quickly almost everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong we were attacked by a polar bear on day two i had frostbite in my left big toe we started running very low on food we were both pretty hungry losing lots of weight some very unusual weather conditions very difficult ice conditions we had decidedly low tech communications we couldn't afford a satellite phone so we had radio you can see two ski poles sticking out of the roof of the tent | 0 |
12,884 | we couldn't afford a satellite phone so we had radio you can see two ski poles sticking out of the roof of the tent there's a wire dangling down either side that was our radio antenna we had less than two hours two way communication with the outside world in two months ultimately we ran out of time we'd skied miles we were just over miles left to go to the pole and we'd run out of time we were too late into the summer the ice was starting to melt we spoke to the russian helicopter pilots on the radio and they said look boys you've run out of time | 0 |
12,885 | we were just over miles left to go to the pole and we'd run out of time we were too late into the summer the ice was starting to melt we spoke to the russian helicopter pilots on the radio and they said look boys you've run out of time we've got to pick you up and i felt that i had failed wholeheartedly i was a failure the one goal the one dream i'd had for as long as i could remember i hadn't even come close and skiing along that first trip i had two imaginary video clips that i'd replay over and over again in my mind when the going got tough just to keep my motivation going the first one was reaching the pole itself i could see vividly i suppose being filmed out of the door of a helicopter there was kind of rock music playing in the background and i had a ski pole with a union jack you know flying in the wind | 0 |
12,887 | two norwegians did it as a team in no one's done it solo very famous very accomplished italian mountaineer reinhold messner tried it in and he was rescued after a week he described this expedition as times as dangerous as everest so for some reason this was what i wanted to have a crack at but i knew that even to stand a chance of getting home in one piece let alone make it across to canada i had to take a radical approach this meant everything from perfecting the off sub toothbrush to working with one of the world's leading nutritionists in developing a completely new revolutionary nutritional strategy from scratch calories a day and the expedition started in february last year big support team we had a film crew a couple of logistics people with us my girlfriend a photographer | 0 |
12,889 | i had to pull one leave it and go back and get the other one literally scrambling through what's called pressure ice the ice had been smashed up under the pressure of the currents of the ocean the wind and the tides nasa described the ice conditions last year as the worst since records began and it's always drifting the pack ice is always drifting i was skiing into for nine out of the weeks i was alone last year and i was drifting backwards most of the time my record was minus miles i got up in the morning took the tent down skied north for seven half hours put the tent up and i was two and a half miles further back than when i'd started | 0 |
12,890 | the weather is just appalling oh drifted back about five miles in the last last night later in the expedition the problem was no longer the ice it was a lack of ice open water i knew this was happening | 0 |
12,891 | it was a lack of ice open water i knew this was happening i knew the was warming i knew there was more open water and i had a secret weapon up my sleeve this was my little bit of bio mimicry polar bears on the ocean move in dead straight lines if they come to water they'll climb in swim across it so we had a dry suit developed i worked with a team in norway based on a sort of survival suit i suppose that helicopter pilots would wear that i could climb into | 0 |
12,892 | ten years ago we first came to rio to shoot a documentary about life in the now we learned that are informal communities they emerged over the years when immigrants from the countryside came to the cities looking for work like cities within the cities known for problems like crime poverty and the violent drug war between police and the drug gangs so what struck us was that these were communities that the people who lived there had built with their own hands without a master plan and like a giant work in progress where we're from in holland everything is planned we even have rules for how to follow the rules | 1 |
12,893 | he said you know everybody here would pretty much love to have their houses plastered and painted it's when a house is finished so he introduced us to the right people and and became our crew we picked three houses in the center of the community and we start here we made a few designs and everybody liked this design of a boy flying a kite the best so we started painting and the first thing we did was to paint everything blue and we thought that looked already pretty good but they hated it the people who lived there really hated it they said what did you do you painted our house in exactly the same color as the police station | 1 |
12,894 | so we quickly went ahead and we painted the boy and then we thought we were finished we were really happy but still it wasn't good because the little kids started coming up to us and they said you know there's a boy flying the kite but where is his kite we said uh it's art you know you have to imagine the kite | 1 |
12,895 | so encouraged by this success we went back to rio for a second project and we stumbled upon this street it was covered in concrete to prevent mudslides and somehow we saw a sort of river in it and we imagined this river to be a river in japanese style with carp swimming upstream so we decided to paint that river and we invited rob who is a tattoo artist and he specialized in the japanese style so little did we know that we would spend almost an entire year painting that river together with and and who lived nearby and we even moved into the neighborhood when one of the guys that lived on the street elias told us that we could come and live in his house together with his family which was fantastic unfortunately during that time another war broke out between the police and the drug gangs we learned that during those times people in communities really stick together during these times of hardship but we also learned a very important element the importance of barbecues | 1 |
12,896 | were talking about the scale of this because this painting was incredibly big and it was detailed and this process almost drove us completely insane ourselves but we figured that maybe during this process all the time that we had spent in the neighborhood was maybe actually even more important than the painting itself so after all that time this hill this idea was still there and we started to make sketches models and we figured something out we figured that our ideas our designs had to be a little bit more simple than that last project so that we could paint with more people and cover more houses at the same time and we had an opportunity to try that out in a community in the central part of rio which is called santa marta and we made a design for this place which looked like this and then we got people to go along with it because turns out that if your idea is ridiculously big it's easier to get people to go along with this | 1 |
12,897 | so the last day of filming we ended up in vila and we were sitting down and we had a drink and we were overlooking this hill with all these houses and most of these houses looked unfinished and they had walls of bare brick but we saw some of these houses which were plastered and painted and suddenly we had this idea what would it look like if all these houses would be plastered and painted and then we imagined one big design one big work of art who would expect something like that in a place like this so we thought would that even be possible so first we started to count the houses but we soon lost count but somehow the idea stuck | 0 |
12,898 | a friend he ran an ngo in vila his name was and he also liked the idea he said you know everybody here would pretty much love to have their houses plastered and painted it's when a house is finished so he introduced us to the right people and and became our crew we picked three houses in the center of the community and we start here | 0 |
12,900 | so now we had painted a whole street how about we do this whole hill now we started looking for funding but instead we just ran into questions like how many houses are you going to paint how many square meters is that how much paint are you going to use and how many people are you going to employ and we did try for years to write plans for the funding and answer all those questions but then we thought in order to answer all those questions you have to know exactly what you're going to do before you actually get there and start and maybe it's a mistake to think like that it would lose some of the magic that we had learned about that if you go somewhere and you spend time there you can let the project grow organically and have a life of its own so what we did is we decided to take this plan and strip it away from all the numbers and all the ideas and presumptions and just go back to the base idea which was to transform this hill into a giant work of art and instead of looking for funding we started a campaign and in a little over a month more than people put together and donated over dollars so for us this was an amazing moment because now because now we finally had the freedom to use all the lessons that we had learned and create a project that was built the same way that the favela was built from the ground on up bottom up with no master plan | 0 |
12,901 | so we went back and we employed angelo and he's a local artist from vila very talented guy and he knows almost everybody there and then we employed elias our former landlord who invited us into his house and he's a master of construction together with them we decided where to start we picked this spot in vila and houses are being plastered as we speak and the good thing about them is that they are deciding which houses go next they're even printing t shirts they're putting up banners explaining everything to everybody and talking to the press this article about angelo appeared so while this is happening we are bringing this idea all over the world | 0 |
12,902 | and so these are the trolley guys the existing transportation monopoly at the time they were clearly not happy about the jitney juggernaut and so they got to work and they went to cities across the country and got regulations put in place to slow down the growth of the jitney and there were all kinds of regulations there were licenses often they were pricey in some cities if you were a jitney driver you were required to be in the jitney for hours a day in other cities they required two jitney drivers for one jitney but there was a really interesting regulation which was they had to put a backseat light install it in every jitney to stop a new pernicious innovation which they called | 1 |
12,904 | today i wanted to well this morning i want to talk about the future of human driven transportation about how we can cut congestion pollution and parking by getting more people into fewer cars and how we can do it with the technology that's in our pockets and yes i'm talking about not self driving cars but to get started we've got to go back over years because it turns out there was an uber way before uber and if it had survived the future of transportation would probably already be here so let me introduce you to the jitney | 0 |
12,906 | with a simple request i'd like all of you to pause for a moment you wretched and take stock of your miserable existence | 1 |
12,907 | now that was the advice that st benedict gave his rather startled followers in the fifth century it was the advice that i decided to follow myself when i turned up until that moment i had been that classic corporate warrior i was eating too much i was drinking too much i was working too hard and i was neglecting the family and i decided that i would try and turn my life around in particular i decided i would try to address the thorny issue of work life balance so i stepped back from the workforce and i spent a year at home with my wife and four young children but all i learned about work life balance from that year was that i found it quite easy to balance work and life when i didn't have any work | 1 |
12,908 | so i went back to work and i've spent these seven years since struggling with studying and writing about work life balance and i have four observations i'd like to share with you today the first is if society's to make any progress on this issue we need an honest debate but the trouble is so many people talk so much rubbish about work life balance all the discussions about flexi time or dress down fridays or paternity leave only serve to mask the core issue which is that certain job and career choices are fundamentally incompatible with being meaningfully engaged on a day basis with a young family now the first step in solving any problem is acknowledging the reality of the situation you're in and the reality of the society that we're in is there are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet screaming desperation where they work long hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don't need to impress people they don't like | 1 |
12,909 | the second observation i'd like to make is we need to face the truth that governments and corporations aren't going to solve this issue for us we should stop looking outside it's up to us as individuals to take control and responsibility for the type of lives that we want to lead if you don't design your life someone else will design it for you and you may just not like their idea of balance it's particularly important this isn't on the world wide web is it i'm about to get fired it's particularly important that you never put the quality of your life in the hands of a commercial corporation now i'm not talking here just about the bad companies the of the human soul as i call them | 1 |
12,910 | the third observation is we have to be careful with the time frame that we choose upon which to judge our balance before i went back to work after my year at home i sat down and i wrote out a detailed step description of the ideal balanced day that i aspired to and it went like this wake up well rested after a good night's sleep have sex walk the dog have breakfast with my wife and children have sex again | 1 |
12,911 | it's in their nature it's in their it's what they do even the good well intentioned companies on the one hand putting childcare facilities in the workplace is wonderful and enlightened on the other hand it's a nightmare it just means you spend more time at the bloody office we have to be responsible for setting and enforcing the boundaries that we want in our life the third observation is we have to be careful with the time frame that we choose upon which to judge our balance | 0 |
12,912 | do three hours' work play a sport with a friend at lunchtime do another three hours' work meet some mates in the pub for an early evening drink drive home for dinner with my wife and kids meditate for half an hour | 0 |
12,913 | and to be balanced i believe we have to attend to all of those areas not just do stomach crunches now that can be daunting because people say bloody hell mate i haven't got time to get fit you want me to go to church and call my mother and i understand | 0 |
12,914 | you want me to go to church and call my mother and i understand i truly understand how that can be daunting but an incident that happened a couple of years ago gave me a new perspective my wife who is somewhere in the audience today called me up at the office and said nigel you need to pick our youngest son harry up from school because she had to be somewhere else with the other three children for that evening so i left work an hour early that afternoon and picked harry up at the school gates we walked down to the local park messed around on the swings played some silly games i then walked him up the hill to the local cafe and we shared a pizza for two then walked down the hill to our home and i gave him his bath and put him in his batman pajamas | 0 |
12,915 | because she had to be somewhere else with the other three children for that evening so i left work an hour early that afternoon and picked harry up at the school gates we walked down to the local park messed around on the swings played some silly games i then walked him up the hill to the local cafe and we shared a pizza for two then walked down the hill to our home and i gave him his bath and put him in his batman pajamas i then read him a chapter of roald dahl's james and the giant peach i then put him to bed tucked him in gave him a kiss on his forehead and said goodnight mate and walked out of his bedroom as i was walking out of his bedroom he said dad i went yes mate he went dad this has been the best day of my life ever i hadn't done anything hadn't taken him to disney world or bought him a playstation now my point is the small things matter | 0 |
12,916 | so i kind of believe that we're in like the cave painting era of computer interfaces like they're very kind of they don't go as deep or as emotionally engaging as they possibly could be and i'd like to change all that hit me ok so i mean this is the kind of status quo interface right it's very flat kind of rigid and ok so you could sex it up and like go to a much more mac you know but really it's the kind of same old crap we've had for the last you know years | 1 |
12,918 | and so one kind of information space that i take inspiration from is my real desk it's so much more subtle so much more visceral you know what's visible what's not and i'd like to bring that experience to the desktop so i kind of have a this is it's kind of like a new approach to desktop computing | 0 |
12,922 | like everybody else i was entranced yesterday by the animal session robert full and frans lanting and others the beauty of the things that they showed the only slight jarring note was when jeffrey katzenberg said of the mustang the most splendid creatures that god put on this earth now of course we know that he didn't really mean that but in this country at the moment you can't be too careful | 1 |
12,924 | it's fair to say that american biologists are in a state of war the war is so worrying at present with court cases coming up in one state after another that i felt i had to say something about it if you want to know what i have to say about darwinism itself i'm afraid you're going to have to look at my books which you won't find in the bookstore outside | 1 |
12,926 | the arguments of so called id theorists are the same old arguments that had been refuted again and again since darwin down to the present day there is an effective evolution lobby coordinating the fight on behalf of science and i try to do all i can to help them but they get quite upset when people like me dare to mention that we happen to be atheists as well as they see us as rocking the boat and you can understand why lacking any coherent scientific argument for their case fall back on the popular phobia against atheism teach your children evolution in biology class and they'll soon move on to drugs grand larceny and sexual pre version | 1 |
12,928 | because they expose the lie that is as a matter of fact tantamount to atheism people like me on the other hand rock the boat but here i want to say something nice about it's not a thing i often do so listen carefully | 1 |
12,931 | but here i only want to make the point that the elegance of darwinism is corrosive to religion precisely because it is so elegant so so powerful so economically powerful it has the sinewy economy of a beautiful suspension bridge the god theory is not just a bad theory | 0 |
12,932 | he was he was good | 0 |
12,933 | he meant me not that one everybody gets absolutely frantic about it because you're not allowed to say these things yet when you look at it rationally there's no reason why those ideas shouldn't be as open to debate as any other except that we've agreed somehow between us that they shouldn't be and that's the end of the quote from douglas | 0 |
12,934 | in a reporter asked george bush sr whether he recognized the equal citizenship and patriotism of americans who are atheists mr bush's reply has become infamous no i don't know that atheists should be considered citizens nor should they be considered patriots this is one nation under god bush's bigotry was not an isolated mistake blurted out in the heat of the moment and later retracted he stood by it in the face of repeated calls for clarification or withdrawal | 0 |
12,936 | the survey that i quoted which is the aris survey didn't break down its data by socio economic class or education or anything else but a recent article by paul g bell in the magazine provides some straws in the wind as you know is an international organization for people with very high and from a meta analysis of the literature bell concludes that i quote of studies carried out since on the relationship between religious belief and one's intelligence or educational level all but four found an inverse connection that is the higher one's intelligence or educational level the less one is likely to be religious well i haven't seen the original studies and i can't comment on that meta analysis but i would like to see more studies done along those lines | 0 |
12,937 | on the contrary they'll demonstrate that atheists are often the kinds of people who could serve as decent role models for your children the kinds of people an advertising agent could use to recommend a product the kinds of people who are sitting in this room there should be a snowball effect a positive feedback such that the more names we have the more we get there could be non threshold effects when a critical mass has been obtained there's an abrupt acceleration in recruitment | 0 |
12,940 | i think the best of the available alternatives for atheist is simply non it lacks the strong connotation that there's definitely no god and it could therefore easily be embraced by teapot or tooth fairy it's completely compatible with the god of the physicists when atheists like stephen hawking and albert einstein use the word god they use it of course as a metaphorical shorthand for that deep mysterious part of physics which we don't yet understand non will do for all that yet unlike atheist it doesn't have the same phobic hysterical responses but i think actually the alternative is to grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself precisely because it is a taboo word carrying of hysterical phobia | 0 |
12,942 | the other thing was that conflicts decreased there were many conflicts on the continent many of you are aware of that but they came down and our leaders even managed to dampen some coups new types of conflicts have emerged and i'll refer to those later so based on all this there's also some differentiation on the continent that i want you to know about because even as the doom and gloom is here there are some countries d'ivoire kenya ethiopia tanzania and senegal are performing relatively well at the moment but what did we do wrong let me mention eight things you have to have more things wrong than right | 1 |
12,943 | the narrative of a rising africa is being challenged about years ago i spoke about an africa an africa of hope and opportunity an africa of entrepreneurs an africa very different from the africa that you normally hear about of death poverty and disease and that what i spoke about became part of what is known now as the narrative of the rising africa i want to tell you two stories about this rising africa the first has to do with rwanda a country that has gone through many trials and tribulations and rwanda has decided to become the technology hub or a technology hub on the continent | 0 |
12,944 | but there are a lot of challenges for this and first of all what do we even study skeletons are ubiquitous they're found all over the place but of course all of the soft tissue has decomposed and the skeleton itself has limited health information mummies are a great source of information except that they're really geographically limited and limited in time as well are fossilized human feces and they're actually extremely interesting you can learn a lot about ancient diet and intestinal disease but they are very rare | 1 |
12,945 | probably not but people like me do i'm an archeological geneticist at the center for evolutionary medicine at the university of zurich and i study the origins and evolution of human health and disease by conducting genetic research on the skeletal and mummified remains of ancient humans and through this work i hope to better understand the evolutionary vulnerabilities of our bodies so that we can improve and better manage our health in the future there are different ways to approach evolutionary medicine and one way is to extract human from ancient bones and from these extracts we can reconstruct the human genome at different points in time and look for changes that might be related to adaptations risk factors and inherited diseases | 0 |
12,946 | i was years old inside of a bowling alley an arcade game and upon exiting the building a security guard grabbed my arm so i ran i ran down the street and i jumped on top of a fence and when i got to the top the weight of quarters in my book bag pulled me back down to the ground so when i came to the security guard was standing on top of me and he said next time you little punks steal something you can carry | 1 |
12,950 | i mean i can actually now for the first time in my life read the feeling that i got from it was amazing and then at feeling myself feeling confident i remembered what the og told me so i picked up the business section of the newspaper i wanted to find these rich white folks | 1 |
12,957 | and then one day i was talking to somebody and he was telling me about this robbery that we could do and we did it the reality was that i was growing up in the strongest financial nation in the world the united states of america while i watched my mother stand in line at a blood bank to sell her blood for dollars just to try to feed her kids she still has the needle marks on her arms to day to show for that so i never cared about my community they didn't care about my life everybody there was doing what they were doing to take what they wanted the drug dealers the robbers the blood bank | 0 |
12,958 | and it was the first time that i saw a glimpse of hope a future he gave me this brief description of what stocks were but it was just a glimpse i mean how was i supposed to do it i couldn't read write or spell the skills that i had developed to hide my illiteracy no longer worked in this environment i was trapped in a cage prey among predators fighting for freedom i never had | 0 |
12,961 | financial illiteracy is a disease that has crippled minorities and the lower class in our society for generations and generations and we should be furious about that ask yourselves this how can percent of the american population be financially illiterate in a nation driven by financial prosperity our access to justice our social status living conditions transportation and food are all dependent on money that most people can't manage it's crazy it's an epidemic and a bigger danger to public safety than any other issue according to the california department of corrections over percent of those incarcerated have committed or have been charged with money related crimes robberies burglaries fraud larceny extortion and the list goes on | 0 |
12,962 | today i brought two recent projects as an example of this both projects are in emerging countries one in ethiopia and another one in tunisia and also they have in common that the different analyses from different perspectives becomes an essential part of the final piece of architecture the first example started with an invitation to design a multistory shopping mall in ethiopia's capital city addis ababa and this is the type of building we were shown as an example to my team and myself of what we had to design at first the first thing i thought was i want to run away | 1 |
12,963 | after seeing a few of these buildings there are many in the city we realized that they have three very big points first these buildings they are almost empty because they have very large shops where people cannot afford to buy things second they need tons of energy to perform because of the skin treatment with glass that creates heat in the inside and then you need a lot of cooling in a city where this shouldn't happen because they have really mild weather that ranges from to degrees the whole year and third is that their image has nothing to do with africa and with ethiopia it is a pity in a place that has such rich culture and traditions | 0 |
12,964 | if there is a cone of light coming into my eye what do i see a circle a ring it's called an einstein ring einstein predicted that ok now it will only be a perfect ring if the source the and the eyeball in this case are all in a perfectly straight line if they're slightly skewed we'll see a different image now you can do an experiment tonight over the reception ok to figure out what that image will look like because it turns out that there is a kind of lens that we can devise that has the right shape to produce this kind of effect we call this gravitational lensing and so this is your instrument ok | 1 |
12,965 | but ignore the top part it's the base that i want you to concentrate ok so actually at home whenever we break a i save the bottom take it over to the machine shop we shave it off and i have a little gravitational lens ok so it's got the right shape to produce the lensing and so the next thing you need to do in your experiment is grab a napkin i grabbed a piece of graph paper i'm a physicist | 1 |
12,966 | as a particle physicist i study the elementary particles and how they interact on the most fundamental level for most of my research career i've been using such as the electron accelerator at stanford university just up the road to study things on the smallest scale but more recently i've been turning my attention to the universe on the largest scale because as i'll explain to you the questions on the smallest and the largest scale are actually very connected so i'm going to tell you about our twenty view of the universe what it's made of and what the big questions in the physical sciences are at least some of the big questions so recently we have realized that the ordinary matter in the universe and by ordinary matter i mean you me the planets the stars the galaxies the ordinary matter makes up only a few percent of the content of the universe | 0 |
12,968 | i think the intuition that inequality is divisive and socially corrosive has been around since before the french revolution what's changed is we now can look at the evidence we can compare societies more and less equal societies and see what inequality does i'm going to take you through that data and then explain why the links i'm going to be showing you exist but first see what a miserable lot we are | 1 |
12,969 | this is social mobility it's actually a measure of mobility based on income basically it's asking do rich fathers have rich sons and poor fathers have poor sons or is there no relationship between the two and at the more unequal end fathers' income is much more important in the u k usa and in scandinavian countries fathers' income is much less important there's more social mobility and as we like to say and i know there are a lot of americans in the audience here if americans want to live the american dream they should go to denmark | 1 |
12,970 | this shows you life expectancy against gross national income how rich countries are on average and you see the countries on the right like norway and the usa are twice as rich as israel greece portugal on the left and it makes no difference to their life expectancy at all there's no suggestion of a relationship there but if we look within our societies there are extraordinary social in health running right across society this again is life expectancy | 0 |
12,973 | so just to give you an idea of the level of trust in this community let me tell you what it was like to register a domain name in the early days now it just so happened that i got to register the third domain name on the internet so i could have anything i wanted other than com and symbolics com so i picked think com but then i thought you know there's a lot of really interesting names out there maybe i should register a few extras just in case and then i thought nah that wouldn't be very nice | 1 |
12,974 | there's actually only about people on each page because we have the name address and telephone number of every single person and in fact everybody's listed twice because it's sorted once by name and once by email address obviously a very small community there were only two other on the internet then i knew them both we didn't all know each other but we all kind of trusted each other and that basic feeling of trust permeated the whole network and there was a real sense that we could depend on each other to do things | 0 |
12,975 | that attitude of only taking what you need was really what everybody had on the network in those days and in fact it wasn't just the people on the network but it was actually kind of built into the protocols of the internet itself so the basic idea of i p or internet protocol and the way that the the algorithm that used it were fundamentally from each according to their ability to each according to their need and so if you had some extra bandwidth you'd deliver a message for someone if they had some extra bandwidth they would deliver a message for you you'd kind of depend on people to do that and that was the building block it was actually interesting that such a communist principle was the basis of a system developed during the cold war by the defense department but it obviously worked really well and we all saw what happened with the internet | 0 |
12,977 | oklahoma city started in the most unique way imaginable back on a spring day in the federal government held what they called a land run they literally lined up the settlers along an imaginary line and they fired off a gun and the settlers roared across the countryside and put down a stake and wherever they put down that stake that was their new home and at the end of the very first day the population of oklahoma city had gone from zero to and our planning department is still paying for that the citizens got together on that first day and elected a mayor and then they shot him | 1 |
12,978 | now you know the lists i'm talking about the media and the internet love to rank cities and in oklahoma city we'd never really been on lists before so i thought it was kind of cool when they came out with these positive lists and we were on there we weren't anywhere close to the top but we were on the list we were somebody best city to get a job best city to start a business best downtown oklahoma city and then came the list of the most obese cities in the country and there we were now i like to point out that we were on that list with a lot of really cool places | 1 |
12,979 | you know these are cities that typically you're not embarrassed to be associated with but nonetheless i didn't like being on the list and about that time i got on the scales and i weighed pounds and then i went to this website sponsored by the federal government and i typed in my height i typed in my weight and i pushed enter and it came back and said obese i thought what a stupid website | 1 |
12,980 | well i finally decided i needed to lose weight and i knew i could because i'd done it so many times before so i simply stopped eating as much i had always exercised that really wasn't the part of the equation that i needed to work on but i had been eating calories a day and i cut it to calories a day and the weight came off i lost about a pound a week for about weeks along the way though i started examining my city its culture its infrastructure trying to figure out why our specific city seemed to have a problem with obesity and i came to the conclusion that we had built an incredible quality of life if you happen to be a car | 1 |
12,981 | you literally can get a speeding ticket during rush hour in oklahoma city and as a result people tend to spread out land's cheap we had also not required developers to build sidewalks on new developments for a long long time we had fixed that but it had been relatively recently and there were literally or more homes into our inventory in neighborhoods that had virtually no level of and as i tried to examine how we might deal with obesity and was taking all of these elements into my mind i decided that the first thing we need to do was have a conversation you see in oklahoma city we weren't talking about obesity and so on new year's eve of i went to the zoo and i stood in front of the elephants and i said this city is going on a diet and we're going to lose a million pounds well that's when all hell broke loose | 1 |
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