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we were on the list as the fittest city in the united states our state health statistics are doing better granted we have a long way to go health is still not something that we should be proud of in oklahoma city but we seem to have turned the cultural shift of making health a greater priority and we love the idea of the demographics of highly educated twentysomethings people with choices choosing oklahoma city in large numbers we have the lowest unemployment in the united states probably the strongest economy in the united states and if you're like me at some point in your educational career you were asked to read a book called the grapes of wrath oklahomans leaving for california in large numbers for a better future when we look at the demographic shifts of people coming from the west it appears that what we're seeing now is the wrath of grapes
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the shopping cart was invented in oklahoma city the parking meter invented in oklahoma city you're welcome
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having an economy though that relates to commodities can give you some ups and some downs and that was certainly the case in oklahoma city's history in the when it appeared that the price of energy would never retreat our economy was soaring and then in the early it cratered quickly the price of energy dropped our banks began to fail before the end of the decade banks had failed in the state of oklahoma there was no bailout on the horizon our banking industry our oil and gas industry our commercial real estate industry were all at the bottom of the economic scale
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and i had this huge closet full of clothes and i could only wear a third of it at any one time and only i knew which part of the closet i could wear but it all seemed fairly normal going through it 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
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our city limits are enormous square miles but miles is less than minutes you literally can get a speeding ticket during rush hour in oklahoma city and as a result people tend to spread out
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this is a city that's wanting to do something about it and so they started helping us drive traffic to the website now the web address was
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now the web address was com and i appeared on the ellen degeneres show one weekday morning to talk about the initiative and on that day visits were placed to our website people were signing up and so the pounds started to add up and the conversation that i thought was so important to have was starting to take place it was taking place inside the homes mothers and fathers talking about it with their kids it was taking place in churches churches were starting their own running groups and their own support groups for people who were dealing with obesity suddenly it was a topic worth discussing at schools and in the workplace and the large companies they typically have wonderful wellness programs but the medium sized companies that typically fall between the cracks on issues like this they started to get engaged and used our program as a model for their own employees to try and have contests to see who might be able to deal with their obesity situation in a way that could be proactively beneficial to others
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this is in long island new york the only thing that might tip you off is the round window on the inside it's a recreation of a century japanese tea house the man imported all the materials from japan and he hired a japanese carpenter to build it in the traditional style it has no nails or screws all the joints are hand carved and hand here is another pretty typical scene this is a suburban las vegas neighborhood but you open one of the garage doors and there is a professional size boxing ring inside
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here's what the childhood looks like we keep them safe and sound and fed and watered and then we want to be sure they go to the right schools that they're in the right classes at the right schools and that they get the right grades in the right classes in the right schools but not just the grades the scores and not just the grades and scores but the accolades and the awards and the sports the activities the leadership we tell our kids don't just join a club start a club because colleges want to see that and check the box for community service i mean show the colleges you care about others
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that is not what i'm saying what i'm saying is when we treat grades and scores and accolades and awards as the purpose of childhood all in furtherance of some hoped for admission to a tiny number of colleges or entrance to a small number of careers that that's too narrow a definition of success for our kids and even though we might help them achieve some short term wins by like they get a better grade if we help them do their homework they might end up with a longer childhood when we help what i'm saying is that all of this comes at a long term cost to their sense of self what i'm saying is we should be less concerned with the specific set of colleges they might be able to apply to or might get into and far more concerned that they have the habits the mindset the skill set the wellness to be successful wherever they go what i'm saying is our kids need us to be a little less obsessed with grades and scores and a whole lot more interested in childhood providing a foundation for their success built on things like love and chores
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there's a certain style of parenting these days that's getting in the way i guess what i'm saying is we spend a lot of time being very concerned about parents who aren't involved enough in the lives of their kids and their education or their upbringing and rightly so but at the other end of the spectrum there's a lot of harm going on there as well where parents feel a kid can't be successful unless the parent is protecting and preventing at every turn and hovering over every happening and micromanaging every moment and steering their kid towards some small subset of colleges and careers
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coaxing them to just jump a little higher and soar a little farther day after day after day and when they get to high school they don't say well what might i be interested in studying or doing as an activity they go to counselors and they say what do i need to do to get into the right college and then when the grades start to roll in in high school and they're getting some b's or god forbid some c's they frantically text their friends and say has anyone ever gotten into the right college with these grades and our kids regardless of where they end up at the end of high school they're breathless they're brittle
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our kids regardless of where they end up at the end of high school they're breathless they're brittle they're a little burned out they're a little old before their time wishing the grown ups in their lives had said what you've done is enough this effort you've put forth in childhood is enough and they're withering now under high rates of anxiety and depression and some of them are wondering will this life ever turn out to have been worth it well we parents we parents are pretty sure it's all worth it we seem to behave it's like we literally think they will have no future if they don't get into one of these tiny set of colleges or careers we have in mind for them or maybe maybe we're just afraid they won't have a future we can brag about to our friends and with stickers on the backs of our cars yeah
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i was born in a family full of colors my father is the son of a maid from whom he inherited an intense dark chocolate tone he was adopted by those who i know as my grandparents the matriarch my grandma has a porcelain skin and cotton like hair my grandpa was somewhere between a vanilla and strawberry yogurt tone like my uncle and my cousin my mother is a cinnamon skin daughter of a native brazilian with a pinch of hazel and honey and a man who is a mix of coffee with milk but with a lot of coffee she has two sisters one in a toasted peanut skin and the other also adopted more on the beige side like a pancake
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by helping in the kitchen at a friend's party people thought i was the maid i was even treated like a prostitute just because i was walking alone on the beach with european friends and many times visiting my grandma or friends in upper class buildings i was invited not to use the main elevator because in the end with this color and this hair i cannot belong to some places in some way i get to used to it and accept part of it however something inside of me keeps revolving and struggling years later i married a spaniard but not any spaniard i chose one with the skin color of a lobster when
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it was exciting and creative but i never understood the unique flesh colored pencil i was made of flesh but i wasn't pink
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since then a new question started to chase me what will be the color of your children as you can understand this is my last concern but thinking about it with my previous background my story led me to make my personal exercise as a photographer and that is how was born is a pursuit to highlight our true colors rather than the untrue white red black or yellow associated with race
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it is very fashionable and proper to speak about food in all its forms all its colors aromas and tastes but after the food goes through the digestive system when it is thrown out as crap it is no longer fashionable to speak about it it is rather revolting i'm a guy who has graduated from bullshit to full shit
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open is rampant seventy percent of india in the open they sit there out in the open with the wind on their sails hiding their faces exposing their bases and sitting there in pristine glory percent of india and if you look at the world total percent of all the crap that is thrown into the open is by indians a fantastic distinction i don't know if we indians can be proud of such a distinction
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on the most part we were producing for rural kitchens we produce in india by using animal manure which usually in india is called cow dung but as the gender sensitive person that i am i would like to call it bullshit but realizing later on how important were sanitation and the disposal of crap in a proper way we went into the arena of sanitation eighty percent of all diseases in india and most developing countries are because of poor quality water and when we look at the reason for poor quality water you find that it is our abysmal attitude to the disposal of human waste
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together with a lot of villages we began to talk about how to really address this situation of sanitation and we came together and formed a project called mantra mantra stands for movement and action network for transformation of rural areas so we are speaking about transformation transformation in rural areas villages that agree to implement this project they organize a legal society where the general body consists of all members who elect a group of men and women who implement the project and later on who look after the operation and maintenance they decide to build a toilet and a shower room
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and this is where we are today now could we look here instead at the economic situation in the world and i would like to show that against child survival we'll swap the axis here you have child mortality that is survival four kids dying there dying there and this is per capita on this axis and this was and if i go back in time i've added some historical statistics here we go here we go here we go not so much statistics years ago some countries still had statistics we are looking down in the archive and when we are down into there is only austria and sweden that can produce numbers
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and behind the health is the educational level and there's a lot of infrastructure things and general human resources are there now we can take away this and i would like to show you the rate of speed the rate of change how fast they have gone and we go back to and i want to look at japan and i want to look at sweden and the united states and i'm going to stage a race here between this sort of yellowish ford here and the red toyota down there and the brownish volvo
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here we go the toyota has a very bad start down here you can see and the united states ford is going off road there and the volvo is doing quite fine this is the war the toyota got off track and now the toyota is coming on the healthier side of sweden can you see that and they are taking over sweden and they are now healthier than sweden that's the part where i sold the volvo and bought the toyota
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and let me show you my own sort of family history we made these graphs here and this is the same thing money down there and health you know and this is my family this is sweden when my great was born sweden was like sierra leone today and this is when great grandma was born and sweden was like mozambique and this is when my grandma was born she took care of me as a child so i'm not talking about statistic now now it's oral history in my family that's when i believe statistics when it's grandma verified statistics
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it's interesting to see the enormous diversity within sub saharan africa i told you last year i'll tell you again my mother was born in egypt and i who am i i'm the mexican in the family and my daughter she was born in chile and the grand daughter was born in singapore now the healthiest country on this earth it bypassed sweden about two to three years ago with better child survival but they're very small you know they're so close to the hospital we can never beat them out in these forests
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and how do they live if we look at the bed here we can see that they sleep on a rug on the floor this is what poverty line is percent of the family income is just to cover the energy needs the food for the day this is two to five dollars you have a bed and here it's a much nicer bedroom you can see i lectured on this for ikea and they wanted to see the sofa immediately here
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in years they've gone from a pre medieval situation to a very decent ago europe with a functioning nation and state i would say that sub saharan africa has done best in the world during the last years because we don't consider where they came from it's this stupid concept of developing countries that puts us argentina and mozambique together years ago and says that mozambique did worse we have to know a little more about the world i have a neighbor who knows types of wine he knows everything he knows the name of the grape the temperature and everything i only know two types of wine red and white
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so three things have happened u n opened their statistic databases and we have a new version of the software up working as a beta on the net so you don't have to download it any longer and let me repeat what you saw last year the bubbles are the countries here you have the fertility rate the number of children per woman and there you have the length of life in years this is those were the industrialized countries those were developing countries at that time there was a we and them
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so this is what happens in the world if we play the entire world how they got slowly richer and richer and they add statistics isn't it beautiful when they get statistics you see the importance of that and here children don't live longer the last century was bad for the kids in europe because most of this statistics is europe it was only by the turn of the century that more than percent of the children survived their first year this is india coming up with the first data from india and this is the united states moving away here earning more money and we will soon see china coming up in the very far end corner here and it moves up with mao tse tung getting health not getting so rich
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they are on the money side all the time and down in the united states was a neighbor of india present contemporary india and that means united states was richer but lost more kids than india is doing today proportionally and look here compare to the of today the of today has almost the same economy as the united states during the first world war but we have to bring united states forward quite a while to find the same health of the united states as we have in the about here the health of the united states is the same as the and this is the drama of this world which many call globalized is that asia arabic countries latin america are much more ahead in being healthy educated having human resources than they are economically there's a discrepancy in what's happening today in the emerging economies
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i then went on wondering whether i could actually replace her image so i got a look alike of diana and posed her in the right positions and angles and created something that was in or existed in the public imagination so people were wondering was she going to marry was she in love with him was she pregnant did she want his baby was she pregnant when she died so i created this image of diana and their imaginary mixed race child and this image came out which caused a huge public outcry at the time i then went on to make more comments on the media and press imagery so i started making reference to media imagery made it grainy shot through doorways and so on and so forth to titillate the public or the viewer further in terms of trying to make the viewer more aware of their own voyeurism so this is an image of diana looking at camilla kissing her husband and this was a sequence of images
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so in my bag i have a coffee mug that i bought a couple of years ago it's a reusable mug it has all these things printed on it look at some of the things that are on it that it says this one cup can be used again and again this one cup may inspire others to use one too this one cup helps save the planet i had no idea this plastic cup was so powerful
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i believe big institutions have unique potential to create change and i believe that we as individuals have unique power to influence the direction that those institutions take now these beliefs did not come naturally to me because trusting big institutions not really part of my family legacy my mother escaped north korea when she was years old to do so she had to elude every big institution in her life repressive governments occupying armies and even armed border patrols later when she decided she wanted to emigrate to the united states she had to defy an entire culture that said the girls would never be the best and brightest only because her name happens to sound like a boy's was she able to finagle her way into the government immigration exam to come to the united states
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actually the country with more telephones is the soviet union and the data referred to after the country reported very impressive statistics on telephones the country collapsed that's not too good the picture there is khrushchev i know that in he no longer ruled the soviet union but that's the best picture that i can find
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my topic is economic growth in china and india and the question i want to explore with you is whether or not democracy has helped or has hindered economic growth you may say this is not fair because i'm selecting two countries to make a case against democracy actually exactly the opposite is what i'm going to do i'm going to use these two countries to make an economic argument for democracy rather than against democracy the first question there is why china has grown so much faster than india
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now i should mention that nathaniel refuses treatment because when he was treated it was with shock therapy and and handcuffs and that scar has stayed with him for his entire life but as a result now he is prone to these schizophrenic episodes the worst of which can manifest themselves as him exploding and then disappearing for days wandering the streets of skid row exposed to its horrors with the torment of his own mind unleashed upon him and nathaniel was in such a state of agitation when we started our first lesson at walt disney concert hall he had a kind of manic glint in his eyes he was lost and he was talking about invisible demons and smoke and how someone was poisoning him in his sleep and i was afraid not for myself but i was afraid that i was going to lose him that he was going to sink into one of his states and that i would ruin his relationship with the violin if i started talking about scales and and other exciting forms of didactic violin pedagogy
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and in a miracle he lifted his own violin and he started playing by ear certain snippets of violin concertos which he then asked me to complete mendelssohn tchaikovsky and we started talking about music from bach to beethoven and brahms bruckner all the b's from all the way up to
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i really am honored to be here and as chris said it's been over years since i started working in africa my first introduction was at the airport on a sweaty ivory coast morning i had just left wall street cut my hair to look like margaret mead given away most everything that i owned and arrived with all the essentials some poetry a few clothes and of course a guitar because i was going to save the world and i thought i would just start with the african continent but literally within days of arriving i was told in no uncertain terms by a number of west african women that africans didn't want saving thank you very much least of all not by me i was too young unmarried i had no children didn't really know africa and besides my french was pitiful and so it was an incredibly painful time in my life and yet it really started to give me the humility to start listening
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things have changed yet not in education why why is it that when we had rotary phones when we were having folks being crippled by polio that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now and if you come up with a plan to change things people consider you radical they will say the worst things about you i said one day well look if the science says this is science not me that our poorest children lose ground in the summertime you see where they are in june and say okay they're there you look at them in september they've gone down you say so i heard about that in when i was at the ed school at harvard i said oh wow this is an important study because it suggests we should do something
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here's what we know we know that the problem begins immediately right this idea zero to three my wife yvonne and i we have four kids three grown ones and a old that's a longer story
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i believe you need data you need information because you work at something you think it's working and you find out it's not working i mean you're educators you work you say you think you've got it great no and you find out they didn't get it but here's the problem with testing the testing that we do we're going to have our test in new york next week is in april you know when we're going to get the results back maybe july maybe june and the results have great data they'll tell you raheem really struggled couldn't do two digit multiplication so great data but you're getting it back after school is over and so what do you do you go on vacation
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in my older years i've become somewhat of a clairvoyant i can predict school scores you take me to any school i'm really good at inner city schools that are struggling and you tell me last year percent of those kids were on grade level and i say okay what's the plan what did we do from last year to this year you say we're doing the same thing i'm going to make a prediction
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we'll spend a trillion dollars without blinking an eye when the safety of america is threatened we will spend any amount of money the real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that they can take our place and be the leaders of the world when it comes to thinking and technology and democracy and all that stuff we care about i dare say it's a pittance what it would require for us to really begin to solve some of these problems so once we do that i'll no longer be angry
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this is why i'm excited but i'm angry this year there are going to be millions of our children that we're going to needlessly lose that we could right now we could save them all you saw the quality of the educators who were here do not tell me they could not reach those kids and save them i know they could it is absolutely possible
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they were closed for lunch hour now who can bank between and the unemployed they don't need banks they got no money in the banks who created that business model right and it went on for decades you know why because they didn't care it wasn't about the customers it was about bankers they created something that worked for them
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i thought i knew something they said it was the agrarian calendar and people had but let me tell you why that doesn't make sense
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why don't we why don't we because our business has refused to use science science you have bill gates coming out and saying look this works right we can do this how many places in america are going to change none none okay yeah there are two
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the further to the right you go the greater the income inequality on the vertical axis are nine social and health metrics the more you go up that the worse the problems are and those metrics include life expectancy teenage pregnancy literacy social mobility just to name a few now those of you in the audience who are americans may wonder well where does the united states rank where does it lie on that chart and guess what we're literally off the chart yes that's us with the greatest income inequality and the greatest social problems according to those metrics now here's a macro forecast that's easy to make and that's that gap between the wealthiest and the poorest it will get closed history always does it it typically happens in one of three ways either through revolution higher taxes or wars none of those are on my bucket list
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this is a story about capitalism it's a system i love because of the successes and opportunities it's afforded me and millions of others i started in my trading commodities cotton in particular in the pits and if there was ever a free market free this was it where men wearing ties but acting like gladiators fought literally and physically for a profit fortunately i was good enough that by the time i was i was able to move into the upstairs world of money management where i spent the next three decades as a global macro trader and over that time i've seen a lot of crazy things in the markets and i've traded a lot of crazy and unfortunately i'm sad to report that right now we might be in the grips of one of the most disastrous certainly of my career and one consistent is never end well
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i'm not sure if any of you have noticed but i'm fat not the muttered back kind or the seemingly harmless chubby or cuddly i'm not even the more sophisticated voluptuous or kind let's not it i am the capital f kind of fat i am the elephant in the room when i walked out on stage some of you may have been thinking this is going to be hilarious because everybody knows that fat people are funny
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or you may have been thinking where does she get her confidence from because a confident fat woman is almost unthinkable the fashion conscious members of the audience may have been thinking how fabulous i look in this beth ditto dress thank you very much whereas some of you might have thought black would have been so much more slimming
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synchronized swim team i started with a group of friends in sydney the impact of seeing a bunch of defiant fat women in flowery swimming caps and bathers throwing their legs in the air without a care should not be underestimated
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may have worried that you ate after last night and that you really should renew your gym membership these judgments are insidious they can be directed at individuals and groups and they can also be directed at ourselves and this way of thinking is known as like any form of systematic oppression is deeply rooted in complex structures like capitalism patriarchy and racism and that can make it really difficult to see let alone challenge we live in a culture where being fat is seen as being a bad person lazy greedy unhealthy irresponsible and morally suspect
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and i'm not alone i am part of an international community of people who choose to rather than passively accepting that our bodies are and probably always will be big we actively choose to flourish in these bodies as they are today people who honor our strength and work with not against our perceived limitations people who value health as something much more holistic than a number on an outdated chart instead we value mental health self worth and how we feel in our bodies as vital aspects to our overall well being people who refuse to believe that living in these fat bodies is a barrier to anything really there are doctors academics and who have written countless volumes on the many facets of this complex subject
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throughout my career i have learned that fat bodies are inherently political and unapologetic fat bodies can blow people's minds when director kate champion of acclaimed dance theater company force majeure asked me to be the artistic associate on a work featuring all fat dancers i literally jumped at the opportunity and i mean literally nothing to lose is a work made in collaboration with performers of size who drew from their lived experiences to create a work as varied and authentic as we all are and it was as far from ballet as you could imagine the very idea of a fat dance work by such a prestigious company was to put it mildly controversial because nothing like it had ever been done on mainstream dance stages before anywhere in the world
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a comment so absurd that it is funny but it also speaks to the panic the literal terror that the fear of fat can evoke it is this fear that's feeding the diet industry which is keeping so many of us from making peace with our own bodies for waiting to be the after photo before we truly start to live our lives because the real elephant in the room here is fat activism refuses to indulge this fear by advocating for self determination and respect for all of us we can shift society's reluctance to embrace diversity and start to celebrate the myriad ways there are to have a body
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chris anderson asked me if i could put the last years of anti poverty campaigning into minutes for ted that's an englishman asking an irishman to be succinct
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there are all kinds of benefits to this for a start you won't have to listen to an insufferable little jumped up jesus like myself how about that and it's just around the corner i mean it's about three rolling stones farewell concerts away
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i said chris that would take a miracle he said bono wouldn't that be a good use of your messianic complex so yeah then i thought let's go even further than years let's go back before christ three millennia to a time when at least in my head the journey for justice the march against inequality and poverty really began three thousand years ago civilization just getting started on the banks of the nile some slaves jewish shepherds in this instance smelling of sheep shit i guess proclaimed to the pharaoh sitting high on his throne we your majesty ness are equal to you
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the pharaoh replies oh no you your have got to be kidding and they say no no that's what it says here in our holy book cut to our century same country same pyramids another people spreading the same idea of equality with a different book this time it's called the crowds are gathered in square they turn a social network from virtual to actual and kind of the century
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so that was all very exciting but we want to do better there's a lot of information in those nerve signals and we wanted to get more you can move each finger you can move your thumb your wrist can we get more out of it so we did some experiments where we saturated our poor patients with zillions of electrodes and then had them try to do two dozen different tasks from wiggling a finger to moving a whole arm to reaching for something and recorded this data and then we used some algorithms that are a lot like speech recognition algorithms called pattern recognition see
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so today i would like to talk with you about which is the popular term for the science of replacing part of a living organism with a device or a robot it is essentially the stuff of life meets machine and specifically i'd like to talk with you about how is evolving for people with arm amputations this is our motivation arm amputation causes a huge disability i mean the functional impairment is clear
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all of a sudden congress taps you on the shoulder and says no no no no no you can't do that you say let me try this way the senate comes and says uh uh we don't think you can do that you say perhaps let me print some money i think the economy needs a stimulus the central bank governor will think you're crazy you might get impeached for that but if you become the president of zimbabwe and you say you know i really like this job i think i'd like to stay in it forever
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the age of four because of the coup my family had to leave my native home of ghana and move to the gambia as luck would have it six months after we arrived they too had a military coup i vividly remember being woken up in the middle of the night and gathering the few belongings we could and walking for about two hours to a safe house for a week we slept under our beds because we were worried that bullets might fly through the window then at the age of eight we moved to botswana
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then at the age of eight we moved to botswana this time it was different there were no coups everything worked great education they had such good infrastructure that even at the time they had a fiber optic telephone system long before it had reached western countries the only thing they didn't have is that they didn't have their own national television station and so i remember watching tv from neighboring south africa and watching nelson mandela in jail being offered a chance to come out if he would give up the apartheid struggle but he didn't
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it is the network and in my case the network has been important in media because i get to connect to people isn't it amazing through that i connect to people and the way that i've been doing it has been multifaceted for example i get people to dress up their vacuum cleaners
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in the audience was asked to find a childhood photograph of themselves and restage it as an adult this is the same person top photo james bottom photo jennifer poignant this was a mother's day gift
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that song thank you so that song somebody told me that it was at a baseball game in kansas city in the end it was one of the top on a whole bunch of music streaming services and so i said let's put this together in an album and the audience came together and they designed an album cover and i said if you put it all on this i'm going to deliver it to him if you can figure out who this person is because all i had was his name ray and this little piece of audio and the fact that his daughter was upset in two weeks they found him i received and email and it said hi i'm ray i heard you were looking for me
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anyways here's the thing is it reminds me of this which is a sign that you see in amsterdam on every street corner and it's sort of a metaphor for me for the virtual world i look at this photo and he seems really interested in what's going on with that button but it doesn't seem like he is really that interested in crossing the street
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but the truth is life is being lived there when they smile right you've seen people stop all of a sudden life is being lived there somewhere up in that weird dense network and this is it right to feel and be felt it's the fundamental force that we're all after we can build all sorts of environments to make it a little bit easier but ultimately what we're trying to do is really connect with one other person and that's not always going to happen in physical spaces it's also going to now happen in virtual spaces and we have to get better at figuring that out i think of the people that build all this technology in the network a lot of them aren't very good at connecting with people this is kind of like something i used to do in third grade
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i was harboring all this kind of awful experience and this pain inside of me and it started to eat away at my psyche and i was protecting the project from it i realized i was protecting it i didn't want this special little group of photographs to get sullied in some way so what i did i took all those emails and i put them together into something called which was an template made out of this sort of vile stuff and i asked people to send me beautiful things made out of the
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somebody said you have to listen to this and this is what came to me
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so i was so moved by this this is incredible this was connecting right this was at a distance realizing that someone was feeling something wanting to affect them in a particular way using media to do it putting it online and realizing that there was a greater impact
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this was connecting right this was at a distance realizing that someone was feeling something wanting to affect them in a particular way using media to do it putting it online and realizing that there was a greater impact this was incredible this is what i wanted to do so the first thing i thought of is we have to thank him and i asked my audience i said listen to this piece of audio we have to it he's got a great voice it's actually in the key of b flat and have to do something with it
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great so it was incredible that song thank you so that song somebody told me that it was at a baseball game in kansas city in the end it was one of the top on a whole bunch of music streaming services and so i said let's put this together in an album
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and i promise you if you take that walk inside you come to a moment where something comes back and hits you in the face and i collected those moments the photos inside and the memories specifically our conversation started with me saying bored and her replying i'm bored i eat pretzels
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and i collected those moments the photos inside and the memories specifically our conversation started with me saying bored and her replying i'm bored i eat pretzels i remember this distinctly because it came up a lot right after he told me and my brother he was going to be separating from my mom i remember walking to a convenience store and getting a cherry cola they used some of the artist footage a close up of chad's shoes in the middle of the highway i guess the shoes came off when he was hit he slept over at my house once and he left his pillow it had written in magic marker on it he died long after he left the pillow at my house but we never got around to returning it
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and amazingly one week in church when i really didn't want to be there and i was in the back of the room being by doing math problems i heard this man say this if we can get the children to participate in this peaceful demonstration here in birmingham we can show america that even children know the difference between right and wrong and that children really do want to get the best possible education and i looked up and said who is that man and they said his name was dr martin luther king and i said to my parents i've got to go i want to go i want to be a part of this and they said absolutely not
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and so i begin with a story about my childhood we all are products of our childhood experiences it's hard for me to believe that it's been years since i had the experience of being a ninth grade kid in birmingham alabama a kid who loved getting a's a kid who loved math who loved to read a kid who would say to the teacher when the teacher said here are problems to the class this little fat kid would say give us more
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so we started a separate line of research doing driver state modeling and now using a series of three cameras we can detect if a driver is looking forward looking away looking down on the phone or having a cup of coffee we can predict the accident and we can predict who which cars are in the best position to move out of the way to calculate the safest for everyone fundamentally these technologies exist today i think the biggest problem that we face is our own willingness to share our data i think it's a very disconcerting notion this idea that our cars will be watching us talking about us to other cars that we'll be going down the road in a sea of gossip but i believe it can be done in a way that protects our privacy just like right now when i look at your car from the outside i don't really know about you if i look at your license plate number i don't really know who you are i believe our cars can talk about us behind our backs
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let's face it driving is dangerous it's one of the things that we don't like to think about but the fact that religious icons and good luck charms show up on dashboards around the world betrays the fact that we know this to be true car accidents are the leading cause of death in people ages to in the united states leading cause of death and percent of these accidents have nothing to do with drugs or alcohol so what happens no one can say for sure but i remember my first accident i was a young driver out on the highway and the car in front of me i saw the brake lights go on
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so what happens no one can say for sure but i remember my first accident i was a young driver out on the highway and the car in front of me i saw the brake lights go on i'm like okay all right this guy is slowing down i'll slow down too i step on the brake but no this guy isn't slowing down this guy is stopping dead stop dead stop on the highway it was just going to zero i slammed on the brakes i felt the abs kick in and the car is still going and it's not going to stop and i know it's not going to stop and the air bag deploys the car is totaled and fortunately no one was hurt
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and in fact america was the first country that ever did mail delivery queens and in fact it's part of the postal code that you have to deliver queens by mail in order to make sure that we have enough bees in this country if you don't just want a queen you can buy actually a three pound package of bees which comes in the mail and of course the postal office is always very concerned when they get you know your three pound packages of bees and you can install this in your hive and replace that dead out so it means that beekeepers are very good at replacing dead outs and so they've been able to cover those losses so even though we've lost percent of the colonies every year the same number of colonies have existed in the country at about million colonies now those losses are tragic on many fronts and one of those fronts is for the beekeeper and it's really important to talk about beekeepers first because beekeepers are among the most fascinating people you'll ever meet if this was a group of beekeepers you would have everyone from the card carrying member who's you know live free or die to the you know the self expressed quirky san francisco backyard pig farmer
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the top and are what we call they're not truly social because only the queen is over winter we also have the sweat bees and these are little gems flying around they're like tiny little flies and they fly around and then you have another type of bee which we call which is a very fancy way of saying bad minded murdering what's the word i'm looking for murdering audience bee dennis bee okay thanks
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we know that there are these mites that have introduced and caused a lot of losses and we also have this new phenomenon which i talked about last year colony collapse disorder and here we see a picture on top of a hill in central valley last december and below you can see all these out yards or temporary yards where the colonies are brought in until february and then they're shipped out to the almonds and one documentary writer who was here and looked at this two months after i was here described this not as but as a graveyard with these empty white boxes with no bees left in them now i'm going to sum up a year's worth of work in two sentences to say that we have been trying to figure out what the cause of this is and what we know is that it's as if the bees have caught a flu and this flu has wiped through the population of bees in some cases and in fact in most cases in one year this flu was caused by a new virus to us or newly identified by us called israeli acute paralysis virus it was called that because a guy in israel first found it and he now regrets profoundly calling it that disease because of course there's the implication
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and this flu has wiped through the population of bees in some cases and in fact in most cases in one year this flu was caused by a new virus to us or newly identified by us called israeli acute paralysis virus it was called that because a guy in israel first found it and he now regrets profoundly calling it that disease because of course there's the implication but we think this virus is pretty ubiquitous it's also pretty clear that the bees sometimes catch other viruses or other flus and so the question we're still struggling with and the question that keeps us up at night is why have the bees suddenly become so susceptible to this flu and why are they so susceptible to these other diseases and we don't have the answer to that yet and we spend a lot of time trying to figure that out we think perhaps it's a combination of factors we know from the work of a very large and dynamic working team that you know we're finding a lot of different pesticides in the hive and surprisingly sometimes the healthiest hives have the most pesticides and so we discover all these very strange things that we can't begin to understand and so this opens up the whole idea of looking at colony health
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but as far as being a performer i'm also diagnosed bipolar i that as a positive because the crazier i get onstage the more entertaining i become when i was in san francisco i had my breakthrough manic episode in which i thought i was jesus christ maybe you thought that was scary but actually there's no amount of drugs you can take that can get you as high as if you think you're jesus christ
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your call and everyone's somewhere in the middle everyone's somewhere in the middle so maybe you know there's no such thing as crazy and being diagnosed with a mental illness doesn't mean you're crazy but maybe it just means you're more sensitive to what most people can't see or feel maybe no one's really crazy
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is the double raindrop of all my sculptures it's the most talkative it adds together the interference pattern from two raindrops that land near each other instead of expanding circles they're expanding all the sculptures move by mechanical means do you see how there's three peaks to the yellow sine wave right here i'm adding a sine wave with four peaks and turning it on eight hundred two liter soda bottles oh yea
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usually i like working in my shop but when it's raining and the driveway outside turns into a river then i just love it and i'll cut some wood and drill some holes and watch the water and maybe i'll have to walk around and look for washers you have no idea how much time i spend this is the double raindrop of all my sculptures it's the most talkative it adds together the interference pattern from two raindrops that land near each other
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i'm here to give you your recommended dietary allowance of poetry and the way i'm going to do that is present to you five animations of five of my poems and let me just tell you a little bit of how that came about because the mixing of those two media is a sort of unnatural or unnecessary act but when i was united states poet laureate and i love saying that
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narration budapest my pen moves along the page like the snout of a strange animal shaped like a human arm and dressed in the sleeve of a loose green sweater i watch it sniffing the paper ceaselessly intent as any that has nothing on its mind but the grubs and insects that will allow it to live another day it wants only to be here tomorrow dressed perhaps in the sleeve of a plaid shirt nose pressed against the page writing a few more dutiful lines while i gaze out the window and imagine budapest or some other city where i have never been so that makes it seem a little easier writing is not actually as easy as that for me but i like to pretend that it comes with ease one of my students came up after class an introductory class and she said you know poetry is harder than writing which i found both erroneous and profound
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a friend of mine has a slogan he's another poet he says that if at first you don't succeed hide all evidence you ever tried
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the dead are always looking down on us they say while we are putting on our shoes or making a sandwich they are looking down through the glass bottom boats of heaven as they row themselves slowly through eternity they watch the tops of our heads moving below on earth and when we lie down in a field or on a couch drugged perhaps by the hum of a warm afternoon they think we are looking back at them which makes them lift their oars and fall silent and wait like parents for us to close our eyes i'm not sure if other poems will be animated it took a long time i mean it's rather uncommon to have this marriage a long time to put those two together but then again it took us a long time to put the wheel and the suitcase together
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when i was him back then i was approached by j walter thompson the ad company and they were hired sort of by the sundance channel and the idea was to have me record some of my poems and then they would find animators to animate them and i was initially resistant because i always think poetry can stand alone by itself attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases and the poem if it's written with the ear already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed and surely if you're reading a poem that mentions a cow you don't need on the facing page a drawing of a cow
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thank you and the last poem is called the dead i wrote this after a friend's funeral but not so much about the friend as something the kept saying as all tend to do which is how happy the deceased would be to look down and see all of us assembled and that to me was a bad start to the afterlife having to witness your own funeral and feel gratified so the little poem is called the dead
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four years ago today exactly actually i started a fashion called style rookie last september of i started an online magazine for teenage girls called com my name's and the title of my talk is still figuring it out and the ms paint quality of my slides was a total creative decision in keeping with today's theme and has nothing to do with my inability to use
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i was ending middle school starting high school i'm a sophomore now and i was trying to reconcile all of these differences that you're told you can't be when you're growing up as a girl you can't be smart and pretty you can't be a feminist who's also interested in fashion you can't care about clothes if it's not for the sake of what other people usually men will think of you so i was trying to figure all that out and i felt a little confused and i said so on my and i said that i wanted to start a website for teenage girls that was not this kind of one dimensional strong character empowerment thing because i think one thing that can be very alienating about a misconception of feminism is that girls then think that to be a feminist they have to live up to being perfectly consistent in your beliefs never being insecure never having doubts having all of the answers and this is not true and actually reconciling all the contradictions i was feeling became easier once i understood that feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion a conversation a process and this is a spread from a zine that i made last year when i i mean i think i've let myself go a bit on the illustration front since
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after three books on this it got to be a bit much in a way my wife and i adore our children and i began climbing trees with my kids as just something to do with them using the so called climbing technique with ropes you use ropes to get yourself up into the crown of a tree children are incredibly adept at climbing trees that's my son oliver they don't seem to suffer from the same fear of heights that humans do
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