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14,801 | can you feel it de yeah actually this was the first time i felt applause on the vest it's nice it's like a massage | 1 |
14,802 | we are built out of very small stuff and we are embedded in a very large cosmos and the fact is that we are not very good at understanding reality at either of those scales and that's because our brains haven't evolved to understand the world at that scale instead we're trapped on this very thin slice of perception rig... | 0 |
14,803 | this is light waves electromagnetic radiation that bounces off objects and it hits specialized receptors in the back of our eyes but we're not seeing all the waves out there in fact what we see is less than a of what's out there so you have radio waves and microwaves and x rays and gamma rays passing through your body ... | 0 |
14,806 | so we already know that we can marry our technology to our biology because there are hundreds of thousands of people walking around with artificial hearing and artificial vision so the way this works is you take a microphone and you digitize the signal and you put an electrode strip directly into the inner ear or with ... | 0 |
14,807 | now how do we understand that well here's the big secret your brain is not hearing or seeing any of this your brain is locked in a vault of silence and darkness inside your skull all it ever sees are electrochemical signals that come in along different data cables and this is all it has to work with and nothing more no... | 0 |
14,808 | the revolution in education is happening in our schools with adults who provide love structure support and knowledge these are the things that inspire children but it is not an easy task and there are high demands within an education system that is not perfect but i have a dynamic group of educators who collaborate as ... | 1 |
14,809 | in my goal was simple open a school to close a prison now to some this was an audacious goal because our school is located in the brownsville section of brooklyn one of the most underserved and violent neighborhoods in all of new york city like many urban schools with high poverty rates we face numerous challenges like... | 0 |
14,810 | children assume permission in a very different way children live on things they live under things they live around things and so their spatial awareness relationship and their thinking around storage is totally different so the first thing you have to do this is graham the designer is sort of put yourself in their shoe... | 1 |
14,811 | it's this and i think this is a particularly lovely solution so you know it's a totally different way of looking at the situation it's a completely solution apart from the fact that teddy's probably not loving it | 1 |
14,812 | actually that's hello in bauer for the hysterical amongst us one of the threads that seems to have come through loud and clear in the last couple of days is this need to reconcile what the big wants the big being the organization the system the country and what the small wants the individual the person and how do you b... | 0 |
14,813 | i call this first chapter for the brits in the room the blinding glimpse of the bleeding obvious often the good ideas are so staring that you kind of miss them and i think a lot of times what we do is just sort of hold the mirror up to our clients and sort of go duh you know look what's really going on and rather than ... | 0 |
14,824 | here's the go that we built together that's me behind the wheel with my sister and my best friend at the time and one day he came home when i was about years old and at the dinner table he announced that for our next project we were going to build a robot a robot now i was thrilled about this because at school there wa... | 1 |
14,827 | so they could see what she was seeing but then more importantly they could participate by interacting with each other and coming up with ideas about what she should do next and where she should go and then conveying those to the tele actor so we got a chance to take the tele actor to the awards in san francisco and tha... | 1 |
14,829 | we were totally surprised we had no idea that would happen and he was great he just gave her a big hug in return and it worked out great but that night as we were packing up i asked the tele actor how did the tele directors decide that they would give a kiss to sam donaldson and she said they hadn't she said when she w... | 1 |
14,830 | so the success of the tele actor that night was due to the fact that she was a wonderful actor she knew when to trust her instincts and so that project taught me another lesson about life which is that when in doubt improvise | 1 |
14,831 | and the field of robotics has gotten much better over time nowadays high school students can build robots like the industrial robot my dad and i tried to build but it's very now and now i have a daughter named odessa she's eight years old and she likes robots too maybe it runs in the family | 1 |
14,832 | so dad continued to do this kind of work by hand and a few years later he was diagnosed with cancer | 0 |
14,833 | you see what the robot we were trying to build was telling him was not about doing the heavy lifting it was a warning about his exposure to the toxic chemicals he didn't recognize that at the time and he contracted leukemia and he died at the age of i was devastated by this and i never forgot the robot that he and i tr... | 0 |
14,834 | and i never forgot the robot that he and i tried to build when i was at college i decided to study engineering like him and i went to carnegie mellon and i earned my in robotics i've been studying robots ever since so what i'd like to tell you about are four robot projects and how they've inspired me to be a better hum... | 0 |
14,835 | so rather than have it fight or do industrial work we decided to build a planter put the robot into the center of it and we called it the and we had put a camera in the of the hand of the robot and we wrote some special scripts and software so that anyone in the world could come in and by clicking on the screen they co... | 0 |
14,836 | this was right about the time that i was offered a position here at berkeley and when i got here i looked up hubert dreyfus who's a world renowned professor of philosophy and i talked with him about this and he said this is one of the oldest and most central problems in philosophy | 0 |
14,837 | so because we were interested more in the system design and the user interface than in the hardware we decided that rather than have a robot replace the human to go to the party we'd have a human replace the robot we called it the tele actor we got a human someone who's very outgoing and gregarious and she was outfitte... | 0 |
14,838 | so it's very common that some of the needles penetrate sensitive organs and as a result the needles damage these organs cause damage which leads to trauma and side effects | 0 |
14,839 | so by questioning this assumption that all the needles have to be parallel this project also taught me an important lesson when in doubt when your path is blocked pivot and the last project also has to do with medical robotics | 0 |
14,850 | so what we proposed was let's create a new body let's create a robotic vest and that's exactly why juliano could kick that ball just by thinking because he was wearing the first brain controlled robotic vest that can be used by paraplegic quadriplegic patients to move and to regain feedback that was the original idea y... | 1 |
14,851 | but what brazil wanted to do is to showcase a completely different country a country that values science and technology and can give a gift to millions million people around the world that cannot move any longer because of a spinal cord injury well we went to the brazilian government and to and proposed well let's have... | 1 |
14,852 | well we took this to a little higher limit by getting monkeys to collaborate mentally in a brain net basically to donate their brain activity and combine them to move the virtual arm that i showed you before and what you see here is the first time the two monkeys combine their brains synchronize their brains perfectly ... | 1 |
14,853 | on june precisely at in a balmy winter afternoon in so paulo brazil a typical south american winter afternoon this kid this young man that you see celebrating here like he had scored a goal juliano pinto years old accomplished a magnificent deed despite being paralyzed and not having any sensation from mid chest to the... | 0 |
14,854 | he was an athlete before the lesion he's a para athlete right now he's going to be in the paralympic games i hope in a couple years but what the spinal cord lesion did not rob from juliano was his ability to dream and dream he did that afternoon for a stadium of about people and an audience of close to a billion watchi... | 0 |
14,855 | brain machine interface is not rocket science it's just brain research it's nothing but using sensors to read the electrical that a brain is producing to generate the motor commands that have to be downloaded to the spinal cord so we projected sensors that can read hundreds and now thousands of these brain cells simult... | 0 |
14,862 | once upon a time at the age of i was a student at st john's medical college in bangalore i was a guest student during one month of a public health course and that changed my mindset forever the course was good but it was not the course content in itself that changed the mindset it was the brutal realization the first m... | 1 |
14,863 | you see i was a study nerd i loved statistics from a young age and i studied very much in sweden i used to be in the upper quarter of all courses i attended but in st john's i was in the lower quarter and the fact was that indian students studied harder than we did in sweden they read the textbook twice or three times ... | 1 |
14,864 | but i will start with a historical background and you can see my map if i get it up here you know i will start at was a year of great technological advancement in the west that was the year when queen victoria was able for the first time to communicate with president buchanan through the transatlantic cable and they we... | 1 |
14,865 | the geographical macro geographical difference is not so big pradesh the biggest of the states here is poorer and has a lower health than the rest of india kerala is flying on top there matching united states in health but not in economy and here maharashtra with is forging forward now in india the big inequities are w... | 1 |
14,867 | this is japan coming up you see japan did it like that we add japan to it and there is no doubt that fast catch up can take place can you see here what japan did japan did it like this until full catch up and then they follow with the other high income economies but the real projections for those ones i would like to g... | 1 |
14,868 | what i'm really worried about is war will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy and a shift of power away from where it has been the last to to years back to asia and will asia be able to handle that new position of being in charge of being the most mighty and the governors of the w... | 1 |
14,869 | it's not the statistics although i tried to make it funny and i will now here onstage try to predict when that will happen that asia will regain its dominant position as the leading part of the world as it used to be over thousands of years | 0 |
14,870 | those are nice words but i got sort of curious of what he meant with liberty and liberty for whom and we will think about that when we look at the wider picture of the world in because was also watershed year in the history of asia was the year when the courageous uprising against the foreign occupation of india was de... | 0 |
14,871 | in china was the victory in the opium war by the british forces and that meant that foreigners as it said in the treaty were allowed to trade freely in china it meant paying with opium for chinese goods and in japan was the year when japan had to sign the harris treaty and accept trade on favorable condition for the u ... | 0 |
14,873 | and we will see you know look here india was here china was here japan was there united states and united kingdom was richer over there and i will start the world like this india was not always like this level actually if we go back into the historical record there was a time hundreds of years ago when the income per p... | 0 |
14,874 | actually if we go back into the historical record there was a time hundreds of years ago when the income per person in india and china was even above that of europe but had already been many many years of foreign domination and india had been de industrialized and you can see that the countries who were growing their e... | 0 |
14,875 | it's the new century now health is getting better united kingdom united states but careful now we are approaching the first world war and the first world war you know we'll see a lot of deaths and economical problems here united kingdom is going down and now comes the spanish flu also and then after the first world war... | 0 |
14,876 | what is truer than truth answer the story i'm a storyteller i want to convey something that is truer than truth about our common humanity all stories interest me and some haunt me until i end up writing them certain themes keep coming up justice loyalty violence death political and social issues freedom i'm aware of th... | 1 |
14,877 | one of the organizers of the olympic ceremony of the opening ceremony called me and said that i had been selected to be one of the flag bearers i replied that surely this was a case of mistaken identity because i'm as far as you can get from being an athlete actually i wasn't even sure that i could go around the stadiu... | 1 |
14,880 | lives here isn't it always true heart is what drives us and determines our fate that is what i need for my characters in my books a passionate heart i need mavericks dissidents adventurers outsiders and rebels who ask questions bend the rules and take risks people like all of you in this room nice people with common se... | 1 |
14,881 | and by doing so she has changed the soil the weather in some places in africa and of course the economic conditions in many villages and mam a cambodian activist who fights passionately against child prostitution when she was years old her grandfather sold her to a brothel she told us of little girls raped by men who b... | 1 |
14,882 | sophia is over and she looks great she's sexy slim and tall with a deep tan now how can you have a deep tan and have no wrinkles i don't know when asked in a tv interview how could she look so good she replied posture my back is always straight and i don't make old people's noises | 1 |
14,883 | sophia is over and she looks great she's sexy slim and tall with a deep tan now how can you have a deep tan and have no wrinkles i don't know when asked in a tv interview how could she look so good she replied posture my back is always straight and i don't make old people's noises so there you have some free advice fro... | 1 |
14,884 | at some point around midnight we were summoned to the wings of the stadium and the loudspeakers announced the olympic flag and the music started by the way the same music that starts here the aida march sophia loren was right in front of me she's a foot taller than i am not counting the hair | 1 |
14,887 | in swahili means great love the protagonists of my books are strong and passionate women like rose i don't make them up there's no need for that i look around and i see them everywhere i have worked with women and for women all my life i know them well i was born in ancient times at the end of the world in a patriarcha... | 1 |
14,889 | we had a memorable fight feminism is dated yes for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage prostitution forced labor they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed they have no control o... | 1 |
14,891 | they all deserved to win but there's the element of luck a speck of snow an inch of ice the force of the wind can determine the result of a race or a game however what matters most more than training or luck is the heart only a fearless and determined heart will get the gold medal | 0 |
14,892 | and by doing so she has changed the soil the weather in some places in africa and of course the economic conditions in many villages and mam a cambodian activist who fights passionately against child prostitution when she was years old her grandfather sold her to a brothel | 0 |
14,893 | so here's a tale of passion the year is the place is a prison camp for tutsi refugees in congo by the way percent of all refugees and displaced people in the world are women and girls we can call this place in congo a death camp because those who are not killed will die of disease or starvation | 0 |
14,894 | by the way percent of all refugees and displaced people in the world are women and girls we can call this place in congo a death camp because those who are not killed will die of disease or starvation the protagonists of this story are a young woman rose and her children she's pregnant and a widow soldiers have forced ... | 0 |
14,896 | the place is a small women's clinic in a village in bangladesh the year is jenny is a young american dental hygienist who has gone to the clinic as a volunteer during her three week vacation she's prepared to clean teeth but when she gets there she finds out that there are no doctors no dentists and the clinic is just ... | 0 |
14,897 | she's not licensed for that she has never done it she risks a lot and she's terrified she doesn't even have the proper instruments but fortunately she has brought some jenny has a brave and passionate heart she murmurs a prayer and she goes ahead with the operation at the end the relieved patient kisses her hands that ... | 0 |
14,898 | the next morning when she comes again to the so called clinic her first patient is waiting for her with her husband the woman's face looks like a watermelon it is so swollen that you can't even see the eyes the husband furious threatens to kill the american jenny is horrified at what she has done but then the translato... | 0 |
14,899 | they are the poorest of the poor although women do two thirds of the world's labor they own less than one percent of the world's assets they are paid less than men for the same work if they're paid at all and they remain vulnerable because they have no economic independence and they are constantly threatened by exploit... | 0 |
14,900 | she talks with the women and explains that the land is barren because they have cut and sold the trees she gets the women to plant new trees and water them drop by drop in a matter of five or six years they have a forest the soil is enriched and the village is saved the poorest and most backward societies are always th... | 0 |
14,902 | what kind of world do we want this is a fundamental question that most of us are asking does it make sense to participate in the existing world order we want a world where life is preserved and the quality of life is enriched for everybody not only for the privileged in january i saw an exhibit of fernando paintings at... | 0 |
14,903 | but given a choice i would rather have the warrior hearts of mam jenny and rose i want to make this world good not better but to make it good why not it is possible look around in this room all this knowledge energy talent and technology | 0 |
14,904 | for the first time i was exposed to the internet social media cars that talk like kitt from knight rider but the thing that fascinated me the most was phone technology see when i went to prison our car phones were this big and required two people to carry them so imagine what it was like when i first grabbed my little ... | 1 |
14,905 | see when i went to prison our car phones were this big and required two people to carry them so imagine what it was like when i first grabbed my little blackberry and i started learning how to text but the thing is the people around me they didn't realize that i had no idea what all these abbreviated texts meant like u... | 1 |
14,906 | twenty three years ago at the age of i shot and killed a man i was a young drug dealer with a quick temper and a semi automatic pistol but that wasn't the end of my story in fact it was beginning and the years since is a story of acknowledgment apology and atonement but it didn't happen in the way that you might imagin... | 0 |
14,907 | see like many of you growing up i was an honor roll student a scholarship student with dreams of becoming a doctor but things went dramatically wrong when my parents separated and eventually divorced the actual events are pretty straightforward at the age of i got shot three times standing on the corner of my block in ... | 0 |
14,918 | and then i waited and then i had that funny feeling where i wondered if i crossed the line so i sent out a few other about my own country and a few other african countries i'm familiar with and then i waited again but this time i read through almost every tweet i had ever to convince myself no to remind myself that i'm... | 1 |
14,920 | of course this luxury was not available to everybody so this meant that if you were a teenage girl in botswana and you wanted to have fun on the internet one you had to tweet in english two you had to follow more than just the three other people you knew online you had to follow south africans ghanaians nigerians and s... | 1 |
14,922 | it began with one question if africa was a bar what would your country be drinking or doing i kicked it off with a guess about south africa which wasn't exactly according to the rules because south africa's not my country but alluding to the country's continual attempts to build a society after being ravaged for decade... | 0 |
14,925 | my mother's country is the kingdom of swaziland it's a very very small country also in southern africa it is africa's last complete monarchy so it's been ruled by a king and a royal family in line with their tradition for a very long time on paper these countries seem very different and when i was a kid i could see the... | 0 |
14,942 | boys are percent more likely than girls to drop out of school in canada five boys drop out for every three girls girls outperform boys now at every level from elementary school to graduate school there's a percent differential between getting and all graduate programs with guys falling behind girls two thirds of all st... | 1 |
14,943 | and the problem is the industry is supplying it jane mcgonigal told us last year that by the time a boy is he's played hours of video games most of that in isolation as you remember cindy gallop said men don't know the difference between making love and doing porn the average boy now watches porn video clips a week and... | 1 |
14,944 | so the effect very quickly is it's a new kind of arousal boys' brains are being digitally rewired in a totally new way for change novelty excitement and constant arousal that means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes which are analog static passive they're also totally out of sync in romantic relationshi... | 1 |
14,945 | so today i want us to reflect on the demise of guys guys are flaming out academically they're wiping out socially with girls and sexually with women other than that there's not much of a problem so what's the data so the data on dropping out is amazing boys are percent more likely than girls to drop out of school | 0 |
14,946 | and this is two kinds it's a social awkwardness the old shyness was a fear of rejection it's a social awkwardness like you're a stranger in a foreign land they don't know what to say they don't know what to do especially one with the opposite sex | 0 |
14,948 | that was so painful and confusing that all you wanted to do was learn as much as you could to make sense of it all when i was a close family friend who was like an uncle to me passed away from pancreatic cancer when the disease hit so close to home i knew i needed to learn more so i went online to find answers using th... | 1 |
14,949 | the sensor would have to be inexpensive rapid simple sensitive selective and minimally invasive now there's a reason why this test hasn't been updated in over six decades and that's because when we're looking for pancreatic cancer we're looking at your bloodstream which is already abundant in all these tons and tons of... | 1 |
14,950 | and these are pretty cool because they only react with one specific protein but they're not nearly as interesting as carbon and so then i was sitting in class and suddenly it hit me i could combine what i was reading about carbon with what i was supposed to be thinking about antibodies essentially i could weave a bunch... | 0 |
14,960 | and over the course of that week this feeling got worse and worse and i started to become convinced that something was there in my little guest house haunting me and i started to hear these sounds this whoosh kind of whisper like something passing through me i called my best friend claire and said i know this is going ... | 1 |
14,961 | so i said ok and i went and i bought sage i had never done this before so i set the sage on fire waved it about and said go away this is my house i live here you don't live here but the feeling stayed nothing got better and then i started to think ok well now this thing is probably just laughing at me because it hasn't... | 1 |
14,962 | carbon monoxide poisoning is when you have a gas leak leaking into your home i looked it up and the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include a pressure on your chest auditory hallucinations whoosh and an unexplained feeling of dread so that night i called the gas company i said i have an emergency i need you to co... | 1 |
14,963 | now i believe there are two kinds of truth and it's taken me a while to get to this place but i think this is right so hear me out i think there is outer truth and there's inner truth so if you say to me there was a man named jesus and he once existed that's outer truth right and we can go and look at the historical re... | 1 |
14,966 | eight years ago i was haunted by an evil spirit i was at the time and i was living in a tiny house behind someone else's house in los angeles it was this guest house it had kind of been dilapidated not taken care of for a long time and one night i was sitting there and i got this really spooky feeling kind of the feeli... | 0 |
14,969 | they came out i said i suspect a gas leak they brought their carbon monoxide detector and the man said it's a really good thing that you called us tonight because you could have been dead very soon thirty seven percent of americans believe in haunted houses and i wonder how many of them have been in one and how many of... | 0 |
14,970 | so that haunting story has led me to my job i'm an investigator and i'm an investigator in two senses i'm an investigative journalist and i'm also an investigator of the claims of the paranormal and claims of the spiritual and that means a few things sometimes that means that i'm pretending to need an so i can get yes ... | 0 |
14,971 | because as soon as we have these scientific explanations we know to give up the ghost we use these things as for things that we can't explain we don't believe them because of evidence we believe them because of a lack of evidence so there is a group in los angeles called the independent investigations group or the and ... | 0 |
14,972 | talk to you a little bit about fear and the cost of fear and the age of fear from which we are now emerging i would like you to feel comfortable with my doing that by letting you know that i know something about fear and anxiety i'm a jewish guy from new jersey | 1 |
14,974 | but the world's coming apart all of a sudden there are going to be massive regulatory changes and massive issues associated with conflict and massive issues associated with security and privacy and we haven't even gotten to the next set of issues which are philosophical issues if you can't vote if you can't have a job ... | 1 |
14,975 | please applaud that thank you but i also grew up in a time where there was something to fear we were brought out in the hall when i was a little kid and taught how to put our coats over our heads to protect us from global thermonuclear war now even my seven brain knew that wasn't going to work | 0 |
14,977 | on september guys took over four airplanes and flew them into a couple of buildings they exacted a horrible toll it is not for us to minimize what that toll was but the response that we had was clearly disproportionate disproportionate to the point of verging on the unhinged we rearranged the national security apparatu... | 0 |
14,984 | than you are suppose i said that with just a few changes in your genes you could get a better memory more precise more accurate and quicker or maybe you'd like to be more fit stronger with more stamina would you like to be more attractive and self confident how about living longer with good health or perhaps you're one... | 1 |
14,986 | what will come in the future are we at some kind of evolutionary as a species or are we destined to become something different something perhaps even better adapted to the environment now let's take a step back in time to the big bang billion years ago the earth the solar system about four and a half billion years the ... | 1 |
14,987 | i have to confess when i was a college undergraduate i thought okay death for sex it seemed pretty reasonable at the time but with each passing year i've come to have increasing doubts i've come to understand the sentiments of george burns who was performing still in las vegas well into his and one night there's a knoc... | 1 |
14,988 | i came to realize as a physician that i was working toward a goal which was different from the goal of evolution not necessarily contradictory just different i was trying to preserve the body i wanted to keep us healthy i wanted to restore health from disease i wanted us to live long and healthy lives evolution is all ... | 1 |
14,990 | creativity how many people would choose creativity raise your hands let me see a few probably about as many as there are creative people here that's very good how many would opt for memory quite a few more how about fitness a few less what about longevity ah the majority | 0 |
14,993 | do you realize that we can take advantage and commandeer the machinery of a common bacterium to produce the protein of human insulin used to treat diabetics this is not like human insulin this is the same protein that is chemically indistinguishable from what comes out of your pancreas and speaking of bacteria do you r... | 0 |
14,995 | to go back to that toilet it wasn't a particularly fancy toilet it wasn't as nice as this one from the world toilet organization that's the other | 1 |
14,996 | fifty communicable diseases like to travel in human shit all those things the eggs the cysts the bacteria the viruses all those can travel in one gram of human feces how well that little boy will not have washed his hands he's barefoot he'll run back into his house and he will contaminate his drinking water and his foo... | 1 |
14,998 | get despondent about the state of sanitation even though these are pretty exciting times because we've got the bill and melinda gates foundation reinventing the toilet which is great we've got matt damon going on bathroom strike which is great for humanity very bad for his colon but there are things to worry about it's... | 1 |
14,999 | billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet they don't have a bucket or a box forty percent of the world with no adequate toilet and they have to do what this little boy is doing by the side of the airport expressway which is called open or poo in the open | 0 |
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