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14,217 | so a second line of inquiry that we use to track changes in the adolescent brain is using functional to look at changes in brain activity across age so i'll just give you an example from my lab so in my lab we're interested in the social brain that is the network of brain regions that we use to understand other people and to interact with other people so i like to show a photograph of a soccer game to illustrate two aspects of how your social brains work so this is a soccer game | 1 |
14,218 | about teenagers they're parodied sometimes even demonized in the media for their kind of typical teenage behavior they take risks they're sometimes moody they're very self conscious i have a really nice anecdote from a friend of mine who said that the thing he noticed most about his teenage daughters before and after puberty was their level of embarrassment in front of him so he said before puberty if my two daughters were messing around in a shop i'd say stop messing around and i'll sing your favorite song and instantly they'd stop messing around and he'd sing their favorite song after puberty that became the threat | 1 |
14,220 | so this is a model of the human brain and this is prefrontal cortex right at the front prefrontal cortex is an interesting brain area it's proportionally much bigger in humans than in any other species and it's involved in a whole range of high level cognitive functions things like decision making planning planning what you're going to do tomorrow or next week or next year inhibiting inappropriate behavior so stopping yourself saying something really rude or doing something really stupid it's also involved in social interaction understanding other people and self awareness so studies looking at the development of this region have shown that it really undergoes dramatic development during the period of adolescence | 0 |
14,221 | studies looking at the development of this region have shown that it really undergoes dramatic development during the period of adolescence so if you look at gray matter volume for example gray matter volume across age from age four to years increases during childhood which is what you can see on this graph it peaks in early adolescence the arrows indicate peak gray matter volume in prefrontal cortex you can see that that peak happens a couple of years later in boys relative to girls and that's probably because boys go through puberty a couple of years later than girls on average and then during adolescence there's a significant decline in gray matter volume in prefrontal cortex now that might sound bad but actually this is a really important developmental process because gray matter contains cell bodies and connections between cells the and this decline in gray matter volume during prefrontal cortex is thought to correspond to pruning the elimination of unwanted this is a really important process it's partly dependent on the environment that the animal or the human is in and the that are being used are strengthened and that aren't being used in that particular environment are pruned away | 0 |
14,222 | this region is more active in adolescents when they make these social decisions and think about other people than it is in adults and this is actually a meta analysis of nine different studies in this area from labs around the world and they all show the same thing that activity in this medial prefrontal cortex area decreases during the period of adolescence and we think that might be because adolescents and adults use a different mental approach a different cognitive strategy to make social decisions and one way of looking at that is to do behavioral studies whereby we bring people into the lab and we give them some kind of behavioral task and i'll just give you another example of the kind of task that we use in my lab | 0 |
14,224 | so anyway who am i i usually say to people when they say what do you do i say i do hardware because it sort of conveniently encompasses everything i do and i recently said that to a venture capitalist casually at some valley event to which he replied how quaint | 1 |
14,225 | so this talk is going to be about how do we make things and what are the new ways that we're going to make things in the future now ted sends you a lot of spam if you're a speaker about do this do that and you fill out all these forms and you don't actually know how they're going to describe you and it flashed across my desk that they were going to introduce me as a futurist and i've always been nervous about the term futurist because you seem doomed to failure because you can't really predict it and i was laughing about this with the very smart colleagues i have and said you know well if i have to talk about the future what is it and george homsey a great guy said oh the future is amazing it is so much stranger than you think we're going to reprogram the bacteria in your gut and we're going to make your poo smell like peppermint | 1 |
14,227 | if it's elliptical you can make an lens you then put a membrane on that and you apply pressure so that's part of the extra program and literally with only those two inputs so the shape of your boundary condition and the pressure you can define an infinite number of lenses that cover the range of human refractive error from minus to plus eight up to four of cylinder and then literally you now pour on a monomer you know i'll do a julia childs here this is three minutes of light and you reverse the pressure on your membrane once you've cooked it pop it out i've seen this video but i still don't know if it's going to end right | 1 |
14,228 | and i sort of really was dumbstruck and i really should have said something smart and now i've had a little bit of time to think about it i would have said well you know if we look at the next years and we've seen all these problems in the last few days most of the big issues clean water clean energy and they're interchangeable in some respects and cleaner more functional materials they all look to me to be hardware problems this doesn't mean we should ignore software or information or computation and that's in fact probably what i'm going to try and tell you about so this talk is going to be about how do we make things and what are the new ways that we're going to make things in the future | 0 |
14,229 | so you may think that's sort of really crazy but there are some pretty amazing things that are happening that make this possible so this isn't my work but it's work of good friends of mine at mit this is called the registry of standard biological parts this is headed by drew endy and tom knight and a few other very very bright individuals basically what they're doing is looking at biology as a programmable system literally think of proteins as that you can string together to execute a program | 0 |
14,230 | basically what they're doing is looking at biology as a programmable system literally think of proteins as that you can string together to execute a program now this is actually becoming such an interesting idea this is a state diagram that's an extremely simple computer this one is a two bit counter so that's essentially the computational equivalent of two light switches and this is being built by a group of students at zurich for a design competition in biology and from the results of the same competition last year a university of texas team of students programmed bacteria so that they can detect light and switch on and off | 0 |
14,231 | and this is being built by a group of students at zurich for a design competition in biology and from the results of the same competition last year a university of texas team of students programmed bacteria so that they can detect light and switch on and off so this is interesting in the sense that you can now do if statements in materials in structure this is a pretty interesting trend because we used to live in a world where everyone's said glibly form follows function but i think i've sort of grown up in a world you listened to neil yesterday i was in a lab associated with his where it's really a world where information defines form and function i spent six years thinking about that but to show you the power of art over science this is actually one of the cartoons i write these are called i work with a fabulous illustrator called nick took me six years at mit and about that many pages to describe what i was doing and it took him one page and so this is our muse tucker | 0 |
14,242 | i'd like to start with a simple question why do the poor make so many poor decisions i know it's a harsh question but take a look at the data the poor borrow more save less smoke more exercise less drink more and eat less why well the standard explanation was once summed up by the british prime minister margaret thatcher and she called poverty a personality defect | 1 |
14,243 | the time for small thoughts and little nudges is past i really believe that the time has come for radical new ideas and basic income is so much more than just another policy it is also a complete rethink of what work actually is and in that sense it will not only free the poor but also the rest of us nowadays millions of people feel that their jobs have little meaning or significance a recent poll among employees in countries found that only percent of workers actually like their job and another poll found that as much as percent of british workers have a job that they think doesn't even need to exist it's like brad pitt says in fight club too often we're working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need | 1 |
14,245 | i'm a historian and if history teaches us anything it is that things could be different there is nothing inevitable about the way we structured our society and economy right now ideas can and do change the world and i think that especially in the past few years it has become abundantly clear that we cannot stick to the status quo that we need new ideas i know that many of you may feel pessimistic about a future of rising inequality xenophobia and climate change but it's not enough to know what we're against we also need to be for something martin luther king didn't say i have a nightmare | 1 |
14,246 | a lack of character basically now i'm sure not many of you would be so blunt but the idea that there's something wrong with the poor themselves is not restricted to mrs thatcher some of you may believe that the poor should be held responsible for their own mistakes and others may argue that we should help them to make better decisions but the underlying assumption is the same there's something wrong with them | 0 |
14,248 | and it was an experiment with farmers you should know that these farmers collect about percent of their annual income all at once right after the harvest this means that they're relatively poor one part of the year and rich the other the researchers asked them to do an test before and after the harvest what they subsequently discovered completely blew my mind the farmers scored much worse on the test before the harvest the effects of living in poverty it turns out correspond to losing points of now to give you an idea that's comparable to losing a night's sleep or the effects of alcoholism a few months later i heard that eldar a professor at princeton university and one of the authors of this study was coming over to holland where i live | 0 |
14,249 | a few months later i heard that eldar a professor at princeton university and one of the authors of this study was coming over to holland where i live so we met up in amsterdam to talk about his revolutionary new theory of poverty and i can sum it up in just two words scarcity mentality it turns out that people behave differently when they perceive a thing to be scarce and what that thing is doesn't much matter whether it's not enough time money or food you all know this feeling when you've got too much to do or when you've put off breaking for lunch and your blood sugar takes a dive this narrows your focus to your immediate lack to the sandwich you've got to have now the meeting that's starting in five minutes or the bills that have to be paid tomorrow so the long term perspective goes out the window | 0 |
14,250 | anyway the question i think people should talk about and it's absolutely taboo is how many people should there be and i think it should be about million or maybe million and then notice that a great many of these problems disappear if you had million people properly spread out then if there's some garbage you throw it away preferably where you can't see it and it will rot or you throw it into the ocean and some fish will benefit from it the problem is how many people should there be and it's a sort of choice we have to make most people are about inches high or more and there's these cube laws so if you make them this big by using i suppose then you could have a thousand times as many | 1 |
14,251 | but lots of people now live to or unless they shake hands too much or something like that and so maybe if we lived years we could accumulate enough skills and knowledge to solve some problems so that's one way of going about it and as i said we don't know how hard that is it might be after all most other mammals live half as long as the chimpanzee so we're sort of three and a half or four times have four times the longevity of most mammals and in the case of the primates we have almost the same genes we only differ from chimpanzees in the present state of knowledge which is absolute hogwash maybe by just a few hundred genes what i think is that the gene counters don't know what they're doing yet and whatever you do don't read anything about genetics that's published within your lifetime or something | 1 |
14,254 | this is a problem of such and such a type and therefore there's a certain way or ways of thinking that are good for that problem so i think the future main problem of psychology is to classify types of predicaments types of situations types of obstacles and also to classify available and possible ways to think and pair them up so you see it's almost like a pavlovian we lost the first hundred years of psychology by really trivial theories where you say how do people learn how to react to a situation what i'm saying is after we go through a lot of levels including designing a huge messy system with thousands of ports we'll end up again with the central problem of psychology saying not what are the situations but what are the kinds of problems and what are the kinds of strategies how do you learn them how do you connect them up how does a really creative person invent a new way of thinking out of the available resources and so forth so i think in the next years if we can get rid of all of the traditional approaches to artificial intelligence like neural nets and genetic algorithms and rule based systems and just turn our sights a little bit higher to say can we make a system that can use all those things for the right kind of problem some problems are good for neural nets we know that others neural nets are hopeless on them genetic algorithms are great for certain things i suspect i know what they're bad at and i won't tell you | 1 |
14,257 | and i haven't the foggiest idea of where you find the ones that don't handshake because they must be hiding and the people who avoid that have percent less infectious disease or something or maybe it was and a quarter percent so if you really want to solve the problem of epidemics and so forth let's start with that and since i got that idea i've had to shake hundreds of hands and i think the only way to avoid it is to have some horrible visible disease and then you don't have to explain how do we improve education well the single best way is to get them to understand that what they're being told is a whole lot of nonsense and then of course you have to do something about how to moderate that so that anybody can so they'll listen to you pollution energy shortage environmental diversity poverty | 0 |
14,258 | and there's one solution that's probably only a few years off you know you have chromosomes if you're lucky you've got from each parent sometimes you get an extra one or drop one out but so you can skip the grandparent and great grandparent stage and go right to the great | 0 |
14,259 | you know you have chromosomes if you're lucky you've got from each parent sometimes you get an extra one or drop one out but so you can skip the grandparent and great grandparent stage and go right to the great and you have people and you give them a scanner or whatever you need and they look at their chromosomes and each of them says which one he likes best or she no reason to have just two sexes any more even so each child has parents and i suppose you could let each group of parents have children wouldn't that be enough and then the children would get plenty of support and nurturing and mentoring and the world population would decline very rapidly and everybody would be totally happy is a little further off in the future and there's this great novel that arthur clarke wrote twice called against the fall of night and the city and the stars they're both wonderful and largely the same except that computers happened in between | 0 |
14,260 | kenneth apple of course it is how do we know it because of data you look at supermarket sales you look at supermarket sales of pies that are frozen and apple wins no contest the majority of the sales are apple but then supermarkets started selling smaller pies and suddenly apple fell to fourth or fifth place why what happened okay think about it when you buy a pie the whole family has to agree and apple is everyone's second favorite | 1 |
14,262 | these proteins are very negatively charged they can pull calcium out of the environment and put down a layer of calcium and then carbonate calcium and carbonate it has the chemical sequences of amino acids which says this is how to build the structure here's the sequence here's the protein sequence in order to do it so an interesting idea is what if you could take any material you wanted or any element on the periodic table and find its corresponding sequence then code it for a corresponding protein sequence to build a structure but not build an abalone shell build something that nature has never had the opportunity to work with yet and so here's the periodic table i absolutely love the periodic table every year for the incoming freshman class at mit i have a periodic table made that says welcome to mit now you're in your element | 1 |
14,264 | so he came to visit my lab and looked around it was a great visit and then afterward i said sir i want to give you the periodic table in case you're ever in a bind and need to calculate molecular weight | 1 |
14,266 | looked at it and said thank you i'll look at it periodically | 1 |
14,267 | battery that we grew in my lab we engineered a virus to pick up carbon one part of the virus grabs a carbon the other part of the virus has a sequence that can grow an electrode material for a battery and then it wires itself to the current collector and so through a process of selection evolution we went from being able to have a virus that made a crummy battery to a virus that made a good battery to a virus that made a record breaking high powered battery that's all made at room temperature basically at the that battery went to the white house for a press conference and i brought it here you can see it in this case that's lighting this led now if we could scale this you could actually use it to run your which is kind of my dream to be able to drive a virus powered car | 1 |
14,273 | if you look at biology there's many structures like antibodies proteins and you've heard about that are nature already gives us really exquisite structures on the nano scale what if we could harness them and convince them to not be an antibody that does something like what if we could convince them to build a solar cell for us here are some examples natural shells natural biological materials the abalone shell here if you fracture it you can look at the fact that it's there's diatoms made out of and there are bacteria that make small single domain magnets used for navigation what all these have in common is these materials are structured at the nano scale and they have a sequence that codes for a protein sequence that gives them the blueprint to be able to build these really wonderful structures now going back to the abalone shell the abalone makes this shell by having these proteins | 0 |
14,274 | but you don't always have to go down to the depths of the ocean to see a light show like this you can actually see it in surface waters this is some shot by dr mike latz at scripps institution of a dolphin swimming through plankton and this isn't someplace exotic like one of the bays in puerto rico this was actually shot in san diego harbor and sometimes you can see it even closer than that because the heads on ships that's toilets for any land lovers that are listening are flushed with unfiltered seawater that often has plankton in it so if you stagger into the head late at night and you're so toilet hugging sick that you forget to turn on the light you may think that you're having a religious experience | 1 |
14,275 | now we used to think that the different shape of the lure was to attract different types of prey but then stomach content analyses on these fish done by scientists or more likely their graduate students have revealed that they all eat pretty much the same thing so now we believe that the different shape of the lure is how the male recognizes the female in the world because many of these males are what are known as dwarf males this little guy has no visible means of self support he has no lure for attracting food and no teeth for eating it when it gets there his only hope for existence on this planet is as a | 1 |
14,278 | time with their so that i could test it and we could figure out you know for example which colors of red light we had to use so that we could see the animals but they couldn't see us get the electronic jellyfish working and you can see just what a shoestring operation this really was because we cast these blue in epoxy and you can see in the epoxy mold that we used the word is still visible needless to say when it's together like this there were a lot of trials and tribulations getting this working but there came a moment when it all came together and everything worked and remarkably that moment got caught on film by photographer mark richards who happened to be there at the precise moment that we discovered that it all came together that's me on the left my graduate student at the time erika raymond and lee fry who was the engineer on the project and we have this photograph posted in our lab in a place of honor with the caption engineer satisfying two women at once | 1 |
14,279 | in the spirit of jacques cousteau who said people protect what they love i want to share with you today what i love most in the ocean and that's the incredible number and variety of animals in it that make light my addiction began with this strange looking diving suit called wasp that's not an acronym just somebody thought it looked like the insect it was actually developed for use by the offshore oil industry for diving on oil rigs down to a depth of feet right after i completed my ph d i was lucky enough to be included with a group of scientists that was using it for the first time as a tool for ocean exploration we trained in a tank in port and then my first open ocean dive was in santa barbara channel it was an evening dive | 0 |
14,280 | we trained in a tank in port and then my first open ocean dive was in santa barbara channel it was an evening dive i went down to a depth of feet and turned out the lights and the reason i turned out the lights is because i knew i would see this phenomenon of animals making light called but i was totally unprepared for how much there was and how spectacular it was i saw chains of jellyfish called that were longer than this room pumping out so much light that i could read the dials and gauges inside the suit without a flashlight and puffs and billows of what looked like luminous blue smoke and explosions of sparks that would swirl up out of the thrusters just like when you throw a log on a campfire and the embers swirl up off the campfire but these were icy blue embers it was breathtaking now usually if people are familiar with at all it's these guys it's fireflies and there are a few other land dwellers that can make light some insects earthworms fungi but in general on land it's really rare | 0 |
14,281 | with at all it's these guys it's fireflies and there are a few other land dwellers that can make light some insects earthworms fungi but in general on land it's really rare in the ocean it's the rule rather than the exception if i go out in the open ocean environment virtually anywhere in the world and i drag a net from feet to the surface most of the animals in fact in many places to percent of the animals that i bring up in that net make light this makes for some pretty spectacular light shows now i want to share with you a little video that i shot from a submersible i first developed this technique working from a little single person submersible called deep and then adapted it for use on the johnson sea link which you see here so mounted in front of the observation sphere there's a a three foot diameter hoop with a screen stretched across it and inside the sphere with me is an intensified camera that's about as sensitive as a fully dark adapted human eye albeit a little fuzzy | 0 |
14,282 | so mounted in front of the observation sphere there's a a three foot diameter hoop with a screen stretched across it and inside the sphere with me is an intensified camera that's about as sensitive as a fully dark adapted human eye albeit a little fuzzy so you turn on the camera turn out the lights that sparkle you're seeing is not luminescence that's just electronic noise on these super intensified cameras you don't see luminescence until the submersible begins to move forward through the water but as it does animals bumping into the screen are stimulated to now when i was first doing this all i was trying to do was count the numbers of sources i knew my forward speed i knew the area and so i could figure out how many hundreds of sources there were per cubic meter but i started to realize that i could actually identify animals by the type of flashes they produced and so here in the gulf of maine at feet i can name pretty much everything you're seeing there to the species level | 0 |
14,283 | he ground it up and he managed to get out a couple of chemicals one the enzyme he called the substrate he called after lucifer the that terminology has stuck but it doesn't actually refer to specific chemicals because these chemicals come in a lot of different shapes and forms in fact most of the people studying today are focused on the chemistry because these chemicals have proved so incredibly valuable for developing antibacterial agents cancer fighting drugs testing for the presence of life on mars detecting pollutants in our waters which is how we use it at orca in the nobel prize in chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluorescent protein that was isolated from the chemistry of a jellyfish and it's been equated to the invention of the microscope in terms of the impact that it has had on cell biology and genetic engineering | 0 |
14,284 | let me give you a quick snapshot of what malicious code is capable of today right now every second eight new users are joining the internet today we will see individual new computer viruses we will see new infected and just to kind of tear down a myth here lots of people think that when you get infected with a computer virus it's because you went to a porn site right well actually statistically speaking if you only visit porn sites you're safer people normally write that down by the way | 1 |
14,285 | notice that after a couple of seconds i get redirected that website address at the top there which you can just about see com the browser crashes as it hits one of these exploit packs and up pops fake this is a virus pretending to look like software and it will go through and it will scan the system have a look at what its popping up here it creates some very serious alerts oh look a child porn proxy server we really should clean that up what's really insulting about this is not only does it provide the attackers with access to your data but when the scan finishes they tell you in order to clean up the fake viruses you have to register the product now i liked it better when viruses were free | 1 |
14,286 | i'm going to be showing some of the latest and nastiest creations so basically please don't go and download any of the viruses that i show you some of you might be wondering what a specialist looks like and i thought i'd give you a quick insight into my career so far it's a pretty accurate description this is what someone that specializes in and hacking looks like so today computer viruses and trojans designed to do everything from stealing data to watching you in your to the theft of billions of dollars | 0 |
14,287 | do they look like well many of you have the image don't you of the spotty teenager sitting in a basement hacking away for notoriety but actually today are wonderfully professional and organized in fact they have product you can go online and buy a hacking service to knock your business competitor check out this one i found | 0 |
14,288 | about percent of all the people i said i meant about percent of all the people who need tb treatment are now getting it in just months up from zero when we started percent of the children in need of an infant feeding program to prevent malnutrition and early death are now getting the food supplements they need to stay alive and to grow we've started the first malaria treatment programs they've ever had there patients admitted to a hospital that was destroyed during the genocide that we have renovated along with four other clinics complete with solar power generators good lab technology we now are treating people a month despite the fact that almost percent of the aids patients are now treated at home and the most important thing is because we've implemented paul farmer's model using community health workers we estimate that this system could be put into place for all of rwanda for between five and six percent of and that the government could sustain that without depending on foreign aid after five or six years and for those of you who understand healthcare economics you know that all wealthy countries spend between nine and percent of on health care except for the united states we spend but that's a story for another day | 1 |
14,289 | i thought in getting up to my ted wish i would try to begin by putting in perspective what i try to do and how it fits with what they try to do we live in a world that everyone knows is interdependent but insufficient in three major ways it is first of all profoundly unequal half the world's people still living on less than two dollars a day a billion people with no access to clean water two and a half billion no access to sanitation a billion going to bed hungry every night one in four deaths every year from aids tb malaria and the variety of infections associated with dirty water percent of them under five years of age even in wealthy countries it is common now to see inequality growing in the united states since we've had five years of economic growth five years of productivity growth in the workplace but median wages are stagnant and the percentage of working families dropping below the poverty line is up by four percent the percentage of working families without health care up by four percent | 0 |
14,291 | anxiety at all i'm someone who's never been able to answer the question what do you want to be when you grow up see the problem wasn't that i didn't have any interests it's that i had too many in high school i liked english and math and art and i built and i played guitar in a punk band called frustrated telephone operator maybe you've heard of us | 1 |
14,292 | if you can relate to my story and to these feelings i'd like you to ask yourself a question that i wish i had asked myself back then ask yourself where you learned to assign the meaning of wrong or abnormal to doing many things i'll tell you where you learned it you learned it from the culture we are first asked the question what do you want to be when you grow up when we're about five years old and the truth is that no one really cares what you say when you're that age | 1 |
14,293 | it's considered an innocuous question posed to little kids to elicit cute replies like i want to be an astronaut or i want to be a ballerina or i want to be a pirate insert halloween costume here | 1 |
14,295 | but what if you're someone who isn't wired this way what if there are a lot of different subjects that you're curious about and many different things you want to do well there is no room for someone like you in this framework and so you might feel alone you might feel like you don't have a purpose and you might feel like there's something wrong with you there's nothing wrong with you what you are is a | 1 |
14,297 | but then i would become interested in something else something totally unrelated and i would dive into that and become all consumed and i'd be like yes i found my thing and then i would hit this point again where i'd start to get bored and eventually i would let it go but then i would discover something new and totally different and i would dive into that this pattern caused me a lot of anxiety for two reasons the first was that i wasn't sure how i was going to turn any of this into a career i thought that i would eventually have to pick one thing deny all of my other passions and just resign myself to being bored the other reason it caused me so much anxiety was a little bit more personal i worried that there was something wrong with this and something wrong with me for being unable to stick with anything | 0 |
14,299 | that is combining two or more fields and creating something new at the intersection sha hwang and rachel drew from their shared interests in data visualization travel mathematics and design when they founded | 0 |
14,300 | that is combining two or more fields and creating something new at the intersection sha hwang and rachel drew from their shared interests in data visualization travel mathematics and design when they founded is a company that creates custom geographically inspired jewelry sha and rachel came up with this unique idea not despite but because of their eclectic mix of skills and experiences innovation happens at the intersections that's where the new ideas come from and with all of their backgrounds are able to access a lot of these points of intersection the second superpower is rapid learning when become interested in something we go hard | 0 |
14,301 | and perhaps more importantly the world needs us thank you | 0 |
14,302 | online misogyny is a global gender rights tragedy and it is imperative that it ends girls' and women's voices and our allies' voices are constrained in ways that are personally economically professionally and politically damaging and when we curb abuse we will expand freedom i am a kentucky basketball fan so on a fine march day last year i was doing one of the things i do best i was cheering for my wildcats the daffodils were blooming but the referees were not blowing the whistle when i was telling them to | 1 |
14,307 | she enjoyed every second of it oh lord jesus thank you jesus may your grace and mercy shine so i wrote this feminist op ed it is entitled forget your team it is your online gender violence toward girls and women that can kiss my righteous ass | 1 |
14,310 | yes she does i did a great job with my talk yes you did i have a right to be here yes you do i'm really cute | 1 |
14,311 | discretion is advised ashley judd stupid fucking slut you can't sue someone for calling them a if you can't handle the internet fuck off whore i wish ashley judd would die a horrible death she is the absolute worst | 0 |
14,312 | three of my players were bleeding so i did the next best thing i dirty play can kiss my team's free throw making a bloodied players so far it is for me to be treated in the ways i've already described to you it happens to me every single day on social media platforms such as and since i joined in misogyny and have amply demonstrated they will dog my every step | 0 |
14,316 | i want to say a word about revenge porn part of what came out of this tweet was my getting connected with allies and other activists who are fighting for a safe and free internet we started something called the speech project curbing abuse expanding freedom and that website provides a critical forum because there is no global legal thing to help us figure this out but we do provide on that website a standardized list of definitions because it's hard to attack a behavior in the right way if we're not all sharing a definition of what that behavior is and i learned that revenge porn is often dangerously misapplied | 0 |
14,318 | this distinction between virtual and real is specious because guess what that actually happened to me once when i was a child and so that tweet brought up that trauma and i had to do work on that but you know what we do we take all of this hate speech and we it and we code it and we give that data so that we understand the of it when i get porn when it's about political affiliation when it's about age when it's about all of it we're going to win this fight there are a lot of solutions thank goodness i'm going to offer just a few and of course i challenge you to create and contribute your own | 0 |
14,320 | in a wimbledon final match these two guys fight it out each one has got two games it can be anybody's game what they have sweated so far has no meaning one person wins the tennis etiquette is both the players have to come to the net and shake hands the winner boxes the air and kisses the ground throws his shirt as though somebody is waiting for it | 1 |
14,321 | to discover compassion you need to be compassionate to discover the capacity to give and share you need to be giving and sharing there is no shortcut it is like swimming by swimming | 1 |
14,322 | you learn cycling by cycling you learn cooking by cooking having some sympathetic people around you to eat what you cook | 1 |
14,324 | there is no verb for compassion but you have an adverb for compassion that's interesting to me you act compassionately but then how to act compassionately if you don't have compassion that is where you fake you fake it and make it this is the mantra of the united states of america | 1 |
14,325 | a human child is born and for quite a long time is a consumer it cannot be consciously a contributor it is helpless it doesn't know how to survive even though it is endowed with an instinct to survive it needs the help of mother or a foster mother to survive it can't afford to doubt the person who tends the child | 0 |
14,326 | it has to totally surrender that implies a lot of trust that implies the trusted person won't violate the trust as the child grows it begins to discover that the person trusted is violating the trust it doesn't know even the word violation therefore it has to blame itself a wordless blame which is more difficult to really resolve the wordless self blame | 0 |
14,327 | as the child grows to become an adult so far it has been a consumer but the growth of a human being lies in his or her capacity to contribute to be a contributor one cannot contribute unless one feels secure one feels big one feels i have enough to be compassionate is not a joke it's not that simple one has to discover a certain bigness in oneself that bigness should be centered on oneself not in terms of money not in terms of power you wield not in terms of any status that you can command in the society but it should be centered on oneself the self you are self aware | 0 |
14,328 | that bigness should be centered on oneself not in terms of money not in terms of power you wield not in terms of any status that you can command in the society but it should be centered on oneself the self you are self aware on that self it should be centered a bigness a wholeness otherwise compassion is just a word and a dream you can be compassionate occasionally more moved by empathy than by compassion thank god we are empathetic when somebody's in pain we pick up the pain in a wimbledon final match these two guys fight it out each one has got two games | 0 |
14,329 | when he comes to the net you see his whole face changes it looks as though he's wishing that he didn't win why empathy that's human heart no human heart is denied of that empathy | 0 |
14,370 | our sun will not collapse to a black hole it's not massive enough but there are tens of thousands of black holes in our galaxy and if one were to eclipse the milky way this is what it would look like we would see a shadow of that black hole against the hundred billion stars in the milky way galaxy and its luminous dust lanes and if we were to fall towards this black hole we would see all of that light around it and we could even start to cross into that shadow and really not notice that anything dramatic had happened it would be bad if we tried to fire our rockets and get out of there because we couldn't anymore than light can escape but even though the black hole is dark from the outside it's not dark on the inside because all of the light from the galaxy can fall in behind us and even though due to a relativistic effect known as time dilation our clocks would seem to slow down relative to galactic time it would look as though the evolution of the galaxy had been sped up and shot at us right before we were crushed to death by the black hole it would be like a near death experience where you see the light at the end of the tunnel but it's a total death experience | 1 |
14,371 | we know that as it falls in it gets faster and it gets louder and eventually we're going to hear the little guy just fall into the bigger guy then it's gone now i've never heard it that loud it's actually more dramatic at home it sounds kind of anticlimactic it's sort of like ding ding ding this is another sound from my group no i'm not showing you any images because black holes don't leave behind helpful trails of ink and space is not painted showing you the curves but if you were to float by in space on a space holiday and you heard this you want to get moving | 1 |
14,372 | i want to ask you all to consider for a second the very simple fact that by far most of what we know about the universe comes to us from light we can stand on the earth and look up at the night sky and see stars with our bare eyes the sun burns our peripheral vision we see light reflected off the moon and in the time since galileo pointed that rudimentary telescope at the celestial bodies the known universe has come to us through light across vast eras in cosmic history and with all of our modern telescopes we've been able to collect this stunning silent movie of the universe these series of snapshots that go all the way back to the big bang | 0 |
14,373 | and yet the universe is not a silent movie because the universe isn't silent i'd like to convince you that the universe has a soundtrack and that soundtrack is played on space itself because space can wobble like a drum it can ring out a kind of recording throughout the universe of some of the most dramatic events as they unfold now we'd like to be able to add to a kind of glorious visual composition that we have of the universe a sonic composition and while we've never heard the sounds from space we really should in the next few years start to turn up the volume on what's going on out there so in this ambition to capture songs from the universe we turn our focus to black holes and the promise they have because black holes can bang on space time like on a drum and have a very characteristic song which i'd like to play for you some of our predictions for what that song will be like now black holes are dark against a dark sky | 0 |
14,374 | i said we can shorten the column we can spread it out to cover the couch i can put it so that one ear hears one speaker the other ear hears the other that's true sound when you listen to stereo on your home system your both ears hear both speakers turn on the left speaker sometime and notice you're hearing it also in your right ear so the stage is more restricted the sound stage that's supposed to spread out in front of you because the sound is made in the air along this column it does not follow the inverse square law which says it drops off about two thirds every time you double the distance every time you go from one meter for instance to two meters that means you go to a rock concert or a symphony and the guy in the front row gets the same level as the guy in the back row now all of a sudden isn't that terrific so we've been as i say very successful very lucky in having companies catch the vision of this from cars car makers who want to put a stereo system in the front for the kids and a separate system in the back oh no the kids aren't driving today | 1 |
14,375 | actually i haven't had breakfast yet a stereo system in the front for mom and dad and maybe there's a little player in the back for the kids and the parents don't want to be bothered with that or their rap music or whatever so again this idea of being able to put sound anywhere you want to is really starting to catch on it also works for transmitting and communicating data it also works five times better underwater we've got the military have just deployed some of these into iraq where you can put fake troop movements quarter of a mile away on a hillside | 1 |
14,376 | i invented a plasma antenna to shift gears looked up at the ceiling of my office one day i was working on a ground penetrating radar project and my physicist came in and said we have a real problem we're using very short wavelengths we've got a problem with the antenna ringing when you run very short wavelengths like a tuning fork the antenna resonates and there's more energy coming out of the antenna than there is the from the ground that we're trying to analyze taking too much processing i says why don't we make an antenna that only exists when you want it turn it on turn it off that's a fluorescent tube refined i just sold that for a million and a half dollars cash i took it back to the pentagon after it got declassified when the patent issued and told the people back there about it and they laughed and then i took them back a demo and they bought | 1 |
14,377 | i became an inventor by accident i was out of the air force in no no that's not true i went in in came out in was working at the university of washington and i came up with an idea from reading a magazine article for a new kind of a phonograph tone arm now that was before cassette tapes c d s any of the cool stuff we've got now and it was an arm that instead of and as it went across the record went straight a radial linear tracking tone arm and it was the hardest invention i ever made but it got me started and i got really lucky after that | 0 |
14,379 | my patent about the invention i call this hypersonic sound i'm going to play it for you in a couple minutes but i want to make an analogy before i do to this i usually show this hypersonic sound and people will say that's really cool but what's it good for and i say what is the light bulb good for sound light i'm going to draw the analogy when edison invented the light bulb pretty much looked like this hasn't changed that much light came out of it in every direction before the light bulb was invented people had figured out how to put a behind it focus it a little bit put lenses in front of it focus it a little bit better ultimately we figured out how to make things like lasers that were totally focused | 0 |
14,394 | it turns out that there are remarkable signs of progress out there often in the most unexpected places and they've convinced me that our great global challenges may not be so unsolvable after all not only are there theoretical fixes those fixes have been tried they've worked and they offer hope for the rest of us i'm going to show you what i mean by telling you about how three of the countries i visited canada indonesia and mexico overcame three supposedly impossible problems their stories matter because they contain tools the rest of us can use and not just for those particular problems but for many others too when most people think about my homeland canada today if they think about canada at all they think cold they think boring they think polite they think we say sorry too much in our funny accents and that's all true | 1 |
14,396 | but canada's also important because of its triumph over a problem currently tearing many other countries apart immigration consider canada today is among the world's most welcoming nations even compared to other immigration friendly countries its per capita immigration rate is four times higher than france's and its percentage of foreign born residents is double that of sweden meanwhile canada admitted times more syrian refugees in the last year than did the united states and now canada is taking even more and yet if you ask canadians what makes them proudest of their country they rank multiculturalism a dirty word in most places second ahead of hockey hockey | 1 |
14,397 | the thing to know about that first trudeau is that he was very different from canada's previous leaders he was a french speaker in a country long dominated by its english elite he was an intellectual he was even kind of groovy i mean seriously the guy did yoga he hung out with the beatles | 1 |
14,399 | so at this point you may be thinking ok tepperman if the fixes really are out there like you keep insisting then why aren't more countries already using them it's not like they require special powers to pull off i mean none of the leaders we've just looked at were superheroes they didn't accomplish anything on their own and they all had plenty of flaws take indonesia's first democratic president wahid this man was so powerfully that he once fell asleep in the middle of his own speech | 1 |
14,400 | look it's not that i don't see the problems i read the same headlines that you do | 0 |
14,401 | why do i say this it's not like i'm particularly optimistic by nature but something about the media's constant doom mongering with its fixation on problems and not on answers has always really bugged me so a few years ago i decided well i'm a journalist i should see if i can do any better by going around the world and actually asking folks if and how they've tackled their big economic and political challenges and what i found astonished me it turns out that there are remarkable signs of progress out there often in the most unexpected places and they've convinced me that our great global challenges may not be so unsolvable after all | 0 |
14,403 | and what that did was greatly increase the odds that newcomers would contribute to the economy then part two trudeau created the world's first policy of official multiculturalism to promote integration and the idea that diversity was the key to canada's identity | 0 |
14,404 | the years that followed ottawa kept pushing this message but at the same time ordinary canadians soon started to see the economic the material benefits of multiculturalism all around them and these two influences soon combined to create the passionately open minded canada of today let's now turn to another country and an even tougher problem islamic extremism in the people of indonesia took to the streets and overthrew their longtime dictator suharto it was an amazing moment but it was also a scary one with million people indonesia is the largest muslim majority country on earth it's also hot huge and unruly made up of islands where people speak close to a thousand languages | 0 |
14,406 | the story starts i was at a friend's house and she had on her shelf a copy of the manual which is the manual of mental disorders it lists every known mental disorder and it used to be back in the a very slim pamphlet and then it got bigger and bigger and bigger and now it's pages long and it lists currently mental disorders so i was leafing through it wondering if i had any mental disorders and it turns out i've got | 1 |
14,409 | i'm kidding i'm not kidding i'm kidding and i've got and i think it's actually quite rare to have both and generalized anxiety disorder because tends to make me feel very anxious anyway i was looking through this book wondering if i was much crazier than i thought i was or maybe it's not a good idea to diagnose yourself with a mental disorder if you're not a trained professional or maybe the psychiatry profession has a kind of strange desire to label what's essentially normal human behavior as a mental disorder i didn't know which of these was true but i thought it was kind of interesting and i thought maybe i should meet a critic of psychiatry to get their view which is how i ended up having lunch with the scientologists | 1 |
14,410 | i began to yawn uncontrollably around kempton park which apparently is what dogs also do when anxious they yawn uncontrollably and we got to and i got taken through gate after gate after gate after gate into the wellness center which is where you get to meet the patients it looks like a giant hampton inn it's all peach and pine and calming colors and the only bold colors are the reds of the panic buttons and the patients started drifting in and they were quite overweight and wearing sweatpants and quite docile looking and brian the scientologist whispered to me they're medicated which to the scientologists is like the worst evil in the world but i'm thinking it's probably a good idea | 1 |
14,412 | and his clinician said to me if you want to know more about psychopaths you can go on a psychopath spotting course run by robert hare who invented the psychopath checklist so i did i went on a psychopath spotting course and i am now a certified and i have to say extremely adept psychopath spotter so here's the statistics one in a hundred regular people is a psychopath so there's people in his room fifteen of you are psychopaths although that figure rises to four percent of and business leaders so i think there's a very good chance there's about or psychopaths in this room it could be carnage by the end of the night | 1 |
14,419 | and he said what and i said a psychopath and i said i've got a list of psychopathic traits in my pocket can i go through them with you and he looked intrigued despite himself and he said okay go on and i said okay grandiose sense of self worth which i have to say would have been hard for him to deny because he was standing under a giant oil painting of himself | 1 |
14,420 | he said well you've got to believe in you and i said manipulative he said that's leadership | 1 |
14,422 | and after years in they let him go they decided that he shouldn't be held indefinitely because he scores high on a checklist that might mean that he would have a greater than average chance of recidivism so they let him go and outside in the corridor he said to me you know what jon everyone's a bit psychopathic he said you are i am well obviously i am i said what are you going to do now he said i'm going to go to belgium there's a woman there that i fancy but she's married so i'm going to have to get her split up from her husband | 1 |
14,426 | and he wasn't overweight he was in very good physical shape and he wasn't wearing sweatpants he was wearing a pinstripe suit and he had his arm outstretched like someone out of the apprentice he looked like a man who wanted to wear an outfit that would convince me that he was very sane | 0 |
14,427 | yep absolutely i beat someone up when i was and i was in prison awaiting trial and my said to me know what you have to do fake madness | 0 |
14,428 | yep absolutely i beat someone up when i was and i was in prison awaiting trial and my said to me know what you have to do fake madness tell them you're mad you'll get sent to some cushy hospital nurses will bring you pizzas you'll have your own playstation i said well how did you do it he said well i asked to see the prison psychiatrist and i'd just seen a film called in which people get sexual pleasure from crashing cars into walls so i said to the psychiatrist get sexual pleasure from crashing cars into walls | 0 |
14,429 | nurses will bring you pizzas you'll have your own playstation i said well how did you do it he said well i asked to see the prison psychiatrist and i'd just seen a film called in which people get sexual pleasure from crashing cars into walls so i said to the psychiatrist get sexual pleasure from crashing cars into walls and i said what else he said oh yeah i told the psychiatrist that i wanted to watch women as they died because it would make me feel more normal i said where'd you get that from he said oh from a biography of ted bundy that they had at the prison library anyway he faked madness too well he said and they didn't send him to some cushy hospital | 0 |
14,432 | home i emailed his clinician anthony maden i said what's the story and he said yep we accept that tony faked madness to get out of a prison sentence because his hallucinations that had seemed quite cliche to begin with just vanished the minute he got to however we have assessed him and we've determined that what he is is a psychopath and in fact faking madness is exactly the kind of cunning and manipulative act of a psychopath it's on the checklist cunning manipulative so faking your brain going wrong is evidence that your brain has gone wrong | 0 |
14,433 | and in fact faking madness is exactly the kind of cunning and manipulative act of a psychopath it's on the checklist cunning manipulative so faking your brain going wrong is evidence that your brain has gone wrong and i spoke to other experts and they said the pinstripe suit classic psychopath speaks to items one and two on the checklist superficial charm and grandiose sense of self worth and i said well but why didn't he hang out with the other patients classic psychopath it speaks to and also lack of empathy so all the things that had seemed most normal about tony was evidence according to his clinician that he was mad in this new way he was a psychopath and his clinician said to me if you want to know more about psychopaths you can go on a psychopath spotting course run by robert hare who invented the psychopath checklist so i did | 0 |
14,435 | but i did notice something happening to me the day i was with al dunlap whenever he said anything to me that was kind of normal like he said no to juvenile delinquency he said he got accepted into west point and they don't let delinquents in west point he said no to many short term marital relationships he's only ever been married twice admittedly his first wife cited in her divorce papers that he once threatened her with a knife and said he always wondered what human flesh tasted like but people say stupid things to each other in bad marriages in the heat of an argument and his second marriage has lasted years so whenever he said anything to me that just seemed kind of non psychopathic i thought to myself well i'm not going to put that in my book | 0 |
14,436 | admittedly his first wife cited in her divorce papers that he once threatened her with a knife and said he always wondered what human flesh tasted like but people say stupid things to each other in bad marriages in the heat of an argument and his second marriage has lasted years so whenever he said anything to me that just seemed kind of non psychopathic i thought to myself well i'm not going to put that in my book and then i realized that becoming a psychopath spotter had kind of turned me a little bit psychopathic because i was desperate to shove him in a box marked psychopath i was desperate to define him by his edges and i realized my god this is what i've been doing for years it's what all journalists do we travel across the world with our in our hands and we wait for the gems and the gems are always the outermost aspects of our personality | 0 |
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