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15,000 | he should because the problem with all that poop lying around is that poop carries passengers 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... | 0 |
15,002 | diarrhea is the second biggest killer of children worldwide and you've probably been asked to care about things like or t b or measles but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together it's a very potent weapon of mass destruction and the cost to the world is immense billion dollars lost every y... | 0 |
15,005 | and here's the suit again this is using the front loader that you'll see in a second and i want to play you a video of the actual launch a great place to launch balloons but it's a fantastic place to land under a parachute especially when you're going to land miles away from the place you started that's a helium truck ... | 1 |
15,006 | you can see the top you can see the balloon up there that's where the helium is this is dave clearing the airspace with the for miles and there we go | 1 |
15,007 | that's me waving with my left hand the reason i'm waving with my left hand is because on the right hand is the emergency cutaway | 1 |
15,008 | my team forbade me from using my right hand so the trip up is beautiful it's kind of like earth in reverse | 1 |
15,009 | so now i'm down low right now and you can basically see the parachute come out right there at this point i'm very happy that there's a parachute out i thought i was the only one happy but it turns out mission control was really happy as well the really nice thing about this is the moment i opened i had a close of frien... | 1 |
15,015 | you have a scuba tank you have a wetsuit you have visibility and that scuba is exactly this system and we're going to launch it into the stratosphere three years later this is what we have we've got an amazing suit that was made by dover dover was the company that made all of the apollo suits and all of the activity su... | 0 |
15,016 | they had never sold a suit commercially only to the government but they sold one to me which i am very grateful for up here we have a parachute this was all about safety everyone on the team knew that i have a wife and two small children and and i wanted to come back safely so there's a main parachute and a reserve par... | 0 |
15,019 | interesting here because if you look i'm right over the airport and i'm probably at feet but immediately i'm about to go into a stratospheric wind of over miles an hour this is my flight director telling me that i had just gone higher than anybody else had ever gone in a balloon and i was about feet from release this i... | 0 |
15,020 | everyone needs a coach it doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player a tennis player a gymnast or a bridge player | 1 |
15,022 | here you go we all need people who will give us feedback that's how we improve unfortunately there's one group of people who get almost no systematic feedback to help them do their jobs better and these people have one of the most important jobs in the world i'm talking about teachers when melinda and i learned how lit... | 0 |
15,023 | that's how we improve unfortunately there's one group of people who get almost no systematic feedback to help them do their jobs better and these people have one of the most important jobs in the world i'm talking about teachers when melinda and i learned how little useful feedback most teachers get we were blown away ... | 0 |
15,024 | the thought of what ray anderson calls tomorrow's child asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and tuna and and coral reefs and the living ocean while there still was time well now is that time i hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and in ... | 1 |
15,025 | did i say that i guess i did for me as a scientist it all began in when i first tried scuba it's when i first got to know fish swimming in something other than lemon slices and butter i actually love diving at night you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime diving day and night was really easy for me... | 0 |
15,026 | put them together so that in each pair of country one has twice the child mortality of the other and this means that it's much bigger a difference than the uncertainty of the data i won't put you at a test here but it's turkey which is highest there poland russia pakistan and south africa and these were the results of ... | 1 |
15,027 | when i was compiling the report i really realized my discovery i have shown that swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees | 1 |
15,028 | because the chimpanzee would score half right if i gave them two bananas with sri lanka and turkey they would be right half of the cases but the students are not there the problem for me was not ignorance it was preconceived ideas i did also an unethical study of the professors of the karolinska institute that hands ou... | 1 |
15,030 | n statistics that have been available here we go can you see there it's china there moving against better health there improving there all the green latin american countries are moving towards smaller families your yellow ones here are the arabic countries and they get longer life but not larger families the africans a... | 1 |
15,031 | and even more policy makers and the corporate sectors would like to see how the world is changing now why doesn't this take place why are we not using the data we have we have data in the united nations in the national statistical agencies and in universities and other non governmental organizations because the data is... | 1 |
15,032 | this is what we would like to see isn't it the publicly funded data is down here and we would like flowers to grow out on the net and one of the crucial points is to make them and then people can use the different design tool to animate it there and i have pretty good news for you i have good news that the present new ... | 1 |
15,036 | but when you get that opportunity you get a little nervous i thought these students coming to us actually have the highest grade you can get in swedish college systems so i thought maybe they know everything i'm going to teach them about so i did a pre test when they came | 0 |
15,037 | and they said the world is still and and is western world and is third world and what do you mean with western world i said well that's long life and small family and third world is short life and large family so this is what i could display here | 0 |
15,039 | i put fertility rate here number of children per woman one two three four up to about eight children per woman we have very good data since about on the size of families in all countries the error margin is narrow here i put life expectancy at birth from years in some countries up to about years and there was really a ... | 0 |
15,040 | in the here you have bangladesh still among the african countries but now bangladesh it's a miracle that happens in the the start to promote family planning they move up into that corner and in the we have the terrible epidemic that takes down the life expectancy of the african countries and all the rest of them move u... | 0 |
15,041 | let me make a comparison directly between the united states of america and vietnam america had small families and long life vietnam had large families and short lives and this is what happens the data during the war indicate that even with all the death there was an improvement of life expectancy by the end of the year... | 0 |
15,042 | there's no gap between rich and poor any longer this is a myth there's a little hump here | 0 |
15,056 | so when my twin brother was born he decided to tinker with the spelling of name he said if mae west can be m why can't be k so he changed spelling now had a baby boy called a couple of weeks ago he decided to spell or rather misspell with an a e you know my grandfather died many years ago when i was little but his love... | 1 |
15,058 | name it i'm on it i've started outsourcing my memory to the digital world you know but that comes with a problem it's so easy to think of technology as a metaphor for memory but our brains are not perfect storage devices like technology we only remember what we want to at least i do and i rather think of our brains as ... | 1 |
15,059 | turned out next morning i wrote a letter to both of them and replied and came and launched my very first show years ago and what a bang it started my career with you know when we think of time in this way we can curate not only the future but also the past this is a picture of my family and that is my wife she's the co... | 1 |
15,060 | our parents think we're cuckoo because you know we both come from families that really look up to humility and wisdom but we both like to live larger than life i believe in the concept of a yogi be a dude before you can become an ascetic | 0 |
15,061 | our friends think we're mad our parents think we're cuckoo because you know we both come from families that really look up to humility and wisdom but we both like to live larger than life i believe in the concept of a yogi be a dude before you can become an ascetic this is me being a rock star even if it's in my own ho... | 0 |
15,062 | i never really believed in legacy what am i going to leave behind i'm an artist until i made a cartoon about it caused so much trouble for me i was so upset you know a cartoon that was meant to be a cartoon of the week ended up staying so much longer now i'm in the business of creating art that will definitely even out... | 0 |
15,064 | i don't know your name audience member howard howard howard i'm sitting next to howard i don't know howard obviously and he's going i hope you're not next | 1 |
15,065 | amazing amazing performance i kind of erased everything in my brain to follow that let me start some place i'm interested i kind of do the same thing but i don't move my body | 1 |
15,066 | because really all i'm interested in always as an architect is the way things are produced because that's what i do right and it's not based on an a notion i have no interest at all in conceiving something in my brain and saying this is what it looks like in fact somebody mentioned ewan maybe it was you in your introdu... | 1 |
15,067 | i work with more or less inert matter and i organize it and well it's also a bit different because an architect versus let's say a dance company finally is a negotiation between one's private world one's conceptual world the world of ideas the world of aspirations of inventions with the relationship of the exterior wor... | 0 |
15,068 | and to be an architect somehow you have to negotiate between left and right and you have to negotiate between this very private place where ideas take place and the outside world and then make it understood i can start any number of places because this process is also i think very different from some of the morning ses... | 0 |
15,069 | but basically what we do is we try to give coherence to the world we make physical things buildings that become a part in an process they make cities and those things are the reflection of the processes and the time that they are made and what i'm doing is attempting to synthesize the way one sees the world and the ter... | 0 |
15,071 | m a m not working around a m i go to bed in low spirits then a few hours later waking up and go ah it's time to get the kids to school what is this there was this voice in my head i swear take the second term to the other side transform and invert in | 1 |
15,073 | what is it that we find so sexy in math after all it seems to be dull and abstract just numbers and computations and rules to apply mathematics may be abstract but it's not dull and it's not about computing it is about reasoning and proving our core activity it is about imagination the talent which we most praise it is... | 0 |
15,075 | you've got to do cars in the rain you've got to do cars in the snow that's by the way is a presentation we made to our board of directors we haul their butts out in the snow too you want to know cars outside well you've got to stand outside to do this and because these are artists they have very artistic temperaments a... | 1 |
15,076 | group of engineers worked in germany and the idea was they would work separately on this problem of what's the successor to the they would come together compare notes then they would work apart come together and they would produce together a monumental set of diverse opinions that didn't pollute each other's ideas but ... | 1 |
15,079 | point you're going to see a picture of michelangelo this is completely different than automobiles automobiles are self moving things right elevators are automobiles and they're not very emotional they solve a purpose and certainly automobiles have been around for years and have made our lives functionally a lot better ... | 0 |
15,081 | cars are a sculpture did you know this that every car you see out there is sculpted by hand many people think well it's computers and it's done by machines and stuff like that well they reproduce it but the originals are all done by hand it's done by men and women who believe a lot in their craft and they put that same... | 0 |
15,082 | so is founded on the principle of universal darwinism darwin had this amazing idea indeed some people say it's the best idea anybody ever had isn't that a wonderful thought that there could be such a thing as a best idea anybody ever had do you think there could audience no | 1 |
15,083 | because the idea was so simple and yet it explains all design in the universe i would say not just biological design but all of the design that we think of as human design it's all just the same thing happening what did darwin say i know you know the idea natural selection but let me just paraphrase the origin of speci... | 1 |
15,084 | there's one word i love on that slide what do you think my favorite word is audience chaos chaos no what mind no audience without no not without | 1 |
15,088 | what is this all about i suppose it's there to tell you that somebody's cleaned the place and it's all lovely and you know actually all it tells you is that another person has potentially spread germs from place to place | 1 |
15,089 | but then a long time later billions of years later we got the second the that was dangerous all right think of the big brain how many mothers do we have here you know all about big brains they are dangerous to give birth to are agonizing to give birth to | 1 |
15,092 | is a dangerous child for any species to let loose on its planet by the time you realize what's happening the child is a toddler up and causing havoc and it's too late to put it back we humans are earth's species we're the ones who let the second out of its box and we can't push it back in we're seeing the consequences ... | 0 |
15,093 | and another pages later and if the very few that survive pass onto their offspring whatever it was that helped them survive then those offspring must be better adapted to the circumstances in which all this happened than their parents were you see the idea if if if then he had no concept of the idea of an algorithm but... | 0 |
15,094 | must must this is what makes it so amazing you don't need a designer or a plan or foresight or anything else if there's something that is copied with variation and it's selected then you must get design appearing out of nowhere | 0 |
15,096 | but that it will get copied if it can regardless of the consequences it doesn't care about the consequences because it can't because it's just information being copied | 0 |
15,098 | this is information copied with variation and selection this is design process going on he wanted a name for the new so he took the greek word which means that which is imitated remember that that's the core definition that which is imitated and abbreviated it to just because it sounds good and made a good an effective... | 0 |
15,101 | and what about oh i can't see any interesting here all right everyone who's got some interesting for me oh well your earrings i don't suppose you invented the idea of earrings you probably went out and bought them there are plenty more in the shops that's something that's passed on from person to person all the stories... | 0 |
15,113 | and yet i would like to think that i am more than my genes what do you guys think are you more than your genes audience yes yes i think some people agree with me i think we should make a statement i think we should say it all together all right i'm more than my genes all together everybody i am more than my genes sebas... | 1 |
15,117 | so one way of trying to test the theory is to look for such chains inside but it won't be easy because they're not going to look like this they're going to be scrambled up so we'll have to use our computers to try to unscramble the chain and if we can do that the sequence of the neurons we recover from that will be a p... | 1 |
15,118 | what a mess have you ever tried to wire up a system as complex as this i hope not but if you have you know it's very easy to make a mistake the branches of neurons are like the wires of the brain can anyone guess what's the total length of wires in your brain i'll give you a hint it's a big number | 1 |
15,122 | well so far only one is known that of this tiny worm its modest nervous system consists of just neurons and in the and a team of scientists mapped all connections between the neurons in this diagram every node is a and every line is a connection this is the of the worm c your is far more complex than this because your ... | 0 |
15,123 | what's in that information we don't know for sure but there are theories since the century have speculated that maybe your memories the information that makes you you maybe your memories are stored in the connections between your brain's neurons and perhaps other aspects of your personal identity maybe your personality... | 0 |
15,124 | and so now you can see why i proposed this hypothesis i am my i didn't ask you to chant it because it's true i just want you to remember it and in fact we don't know if this hypothesis is correct because we have never had technologies powerful enough to test it finding that worm took over a dozen years of tedious labor... | 0 |
15,125 | you can recognize them instantly by their fantastic shapes they extend long and delicate branches and in short they look like trees but this is just a single in order to find we have to see all the neurons at the same time so let's meet bobby who works in the laboratory of jeff lichtman at harvard university bobby is h... | 0 |
15,159 | delighted to be here and to talk to you about a subject dear to my heart which is beauty i do the philosophy of art aesthetics actually for a living i try to figure out intellectually philosophically psychologically what the experience of beauty is what sensibly can be said about it and how people go off the rails in t... | 0 |
15,160 | so it turns out that mathematics is a very powerful language it has generated considerable insight in physics in biology and economics but not that much in the humanities and in history i think there's a belief that it's just impossible that you cannot quantify the doings of mankind that you cannot measure history but ... | 1 |
15,163 | i'm guessing that's not what you expected and it's not what i expected either and thank goodness i realized that an asian man was not my mom before i hugged him because that would have been so awkward recognizing people isn't one of my strengths due to a genetic visual impairment that has no correction or cure as a res... | 1 |
15,165 | yes they are no they're not yes they are and how do you know you can't see but i know what a straight line looks like i had snapped a picture during our back and forth and presented him the evidence that proved i was right | 0 |
15,167 | three wishes well i can't do much about africa i'm a tech i'm into medical gadgetry which is mostly high tech stuff like mr bono talked about the first wish is to use the epilepsy responsive called for responsive that's a brilliant acronym for the treatment of other brain disorders well if we're going to do it for epil... | 1 |
15,168 | the second wish is at the present time the clinical trials of magnetic stimulators that's what means device to treat migraine headaches appears to be quite successful well that's the good news the present portable device is far from designed both as to human factors as appearance i think she said it looks like a gun a ... | 1 |
15,169 | and that is the second wish and of the prize money that ted was so generous to give me i am donating dollars to the people to get on with the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder and i'm making another available for a company to optimize the design of the device for migraines and that's how i'll use my prize mone... | 1 |
15,170 | have a couple of ideas to begin with as a starting point for discussion with the ted group a major part of the problem is the nature of the written extent of informed consent that the patient or spouse must read and sign for example i asked the epilepsy people what are they using for informed consent would you believe ... | 1 |
15,171 | annual incidence million americans mortality people dying each year about half of them have permanent damage to their heart that will cause them to have very bad problems later on thus people either have died or have significant damage to their heart muscle symptoms are often denied by the patient particularly us men b... | 0 |
15,172 | mortality people dying each year about half of them have permanent damage to their heart that will cause them to have very bad problems later on thus people either have died or have significant damage to their heart muscle symptoms are often denied by the patient particularly us men because we are very brave we are ver... | 0 |
15,174 | so we have to try these devices out because the won't just let us use them on people unless we try it out first and the best model for this happens to be pigs and what we tried with the pig was external electrodes on the skin like you see in an emergency room and i'm going to show you why they don't work very well and ... | 0 |
15,175 | it doesn't take much every layperson could see that difference and computers can be programmed to easily detect it then look at that after three minutes we see that the signal that's actually in the heart we can use it to tell people that they're having a heart attack even before they have symptoms so we can save their... | 0 |
15,176 | it's got one knob and every morning i hop on it and yes i've got a challenge as you might see and i put my challenge on but the thing is that it's made this simple that whenever i hop on it sends my data to health as well and it's collected by my general practitioner as well so he can see what's my problem in weight no... | 1 |
15,178 | we started asking some questions what if we could reorganize the medical care system what if we could have community members like be a part or even be the center of our medical team what if could help us bring health care from clinics in cities to the doorsteps of her neighbors was when i met her and despite her amazin... | 1 |
15,179 | b took prince and his mother to the river got in a canoe and paddled for four hours to get to the hospital later after prince was discharged a b taught mom how to feed baby a food supplement a few months ago a b took me to visit prince and he's a chubby little guy | 1 |
15,180 | i want to share with you something my father taught me no condition is permanent it's a lesson he shared with me again and again and i learned it to be true the hard way here i am in my fourth grade class this is my yearbook picture taken in my class in school in monrovia liberia my parents migrated from india to west ... | 0 |
15,181 | my parents migrated from india to west africa in the and i had the privilege of growing up there i was nine years old i loved kicking around a soccer ball and i was a total math and science geek i was living the kind of life that really any child would dream of but no condition is permanent on christmas eve in civil wa... | 0 |
15,185 | money in fact is the most successful story ever invented and told by humans because it is the only story everybody believes not everybody believes in god not everybody believes in human rights not everybody believes in nationalism but everybody believes in money and in the dollar bill take even osama bin laden he hated... | 1 |
15,186 | in the book if i understand it correctly you argue that the amazing breakthroughs that we are experiencing right now not only will potentially make our lives better but they will create and i quote you new classes and new class struggles just as the industrial revolution did can you elaborate for us yes in the industri... | 1 |
15,189 | usually we look for the difference between us and all the other animals on the individual level we want to believe i want to believe that there is something special about me about my body about my brain that makes me so superior to a dog or a pig or a chimpanzee but the truth is that on the individual level i'm embarra... | 0 |
15,193 | in contrast humans normally gather there in tens of thousands and what we get is not chaos usually what we get is extremely sophisticated and effective networks of cooperation all the huge achievements of humankind throughout history whether it's building the pyramids or flying to the moon have been based not on indivi... | 0 |
15,194 | you could get a humphrey bogart sandwich the students went there in advance and arranged that they'd all order feynman sandwiches one after another they came in and ordered feynman sandwiches feynman loved this story he told me this story and he was really happy and laughing when he finished the story i said to him dic... | 1 |
15,196 | did we talk about well what do you talk about when you talk about minds there's one obvious thing to talk about can a machine become a mind can you build a machine that thinks like a human being that is conscious we sat around and talked about this we of course never resolved it but the trouble with the philosophers is... | 1 |
15,197 | and the man was incredibly curious and he wanted to understand what it was and why it was that there was this funny connection and one day we were walking we were in france in les we were up in the mountains and feynman said to me leonardo the reason he called me leonardo is because we were in europe and he was practic... | 1 |
15,198 | and eyes just opened up he went off like a lightbulb and he said that he had had basically exactly the same relationship with his father in fact he had been convinced at one time that to be a good physicist it was very important to have had that kind of relationship with your father i apologize for the sexist conversat... | 1 |
15,201 | he sat down and i imagine he had nothing more than a simple piece of paper and a pencil and he tried to write down and did write down the simplest function that he could think of which had the boundary conditions that the wave function vanish when things touch and is smooth in between he wrote down a simple thing so si... | 1 |
15,202 | you just get to think of it as a population of frozen this was the key to analyzing these experiments extremely effective somebody said the word revolution is a bad word i suppose it is so i won't say revolution but it certainly evolved very very deeply our understanding of the proton and of particles beyond that well ... | 1 |
15,203 | i decided when i was asked to do this that what i really wanted to talk about was my friend richard feynman i was one of the fortunate few that really did get to know him and enjoyed his presence and i'm going to tell you about the richard feynman that i knew i'm sure there are people here who could tell you about the ... | 0 |
15,204 | he was a man of many many parts he was of course foremost a very very very great scientist he was an actor you saw him act i also had the good fortune to be in those lectures up in the balcony they were fantastic he was a philosopher he was a drum player | 0 |
15,205 | he was a philosopher he was a drum player he was a teacher par excellence richard feynman was also a showman an enormous showman he was brash irreverent he was full of macho a kind of macho one upmanship he loved intellectual battle he had a gargantuan ego but the man had somehow a lot of room at the bottom | 0 |
15,207 | he always made me feel smart how can somebody like that make you feel smart somehow he did he made me feel smart he made me feel he was smart he made me feel we were both smart and the two of us could solve any problem whatever and in fact we did sometimes do physics together we never published a paper together but we ... | 0 |
15,208 | he loved to win win these little macho games we would sometimes play and he didn't only play them with me but with all sorts of people he would almost always win but when he didn't win when he lost he would laugh and seem to have just as much fun as if he had won i remember once he told me a story about a joke the stud... | 0 |
15,209 | the truth of the matter is that a feynman sandwich had a load of ham but absolutely no baloney what feynman hated worse than anything else was intellectual pretense false sophistication jargon i remember sometime during the dick and i and sidney coleman would meet a couple of times up in san francisco at some very rich... | 0 |
15,211 | they were so happy they had met the great man they had been instructed by the great man they had an enormous amount of fun having their faces shoved in the mud and it was something special i realized there was something just extraordinary about feynman even when he did what he did dick he was my friend i did call him d... | 0 |
15,212 | we try to do whatever we can to provide some assistance some protection some comfort we have to we can't do otherwise it's what makes us feel i don't know simply human that's a picture of me the day of my release months after my release i met the then french prime minister the second thing he told me you were totally i... | 1 |
15,213 | i cannot forget them their names were andrei fernanda fred hans nancy sheryl and the list is longer for many their existence their humanity has been reduced to statistics coldly recorded as security incidents for me they were colleagues belonging to that community of humanitarian aid workers that tried to bring a bit o... | 0 |
15,214 | i was asked as a consultant to see a woman in her retired english professor who had pancreatic cancer i was asked to see her because she had pain nausea vomiting when i went to see her we talked about those symptoms and in the course of that consultation she asked me whether i thought that medical marijuana might help ... | 1 |
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