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1,874 | what makes this even more challenging is that we're going to need to grow all this food with less and when i say less i mean a number of things less oil for example most reputable geologists believe that we've already reached peak oil production in the world now you might not think in terms of oil and food as being lin... | 0 |
1,875 | we'll also need to grow more food with less farmland here the pressures differ from one place to the next in the global south we're seeing whereas in the north we're seeing suburban sprawl we'll also have to grow more food with less climate stability and less genetic diversity now this is really important we need our g... | 0 |
1,876 | the truth is something quite different now what's become even more troublesome of late is that even the foods that ought to be healthy aren't always so and we're starting to lose confidence in our food system i think the bigger it becomes and the more complex it becomes and we've seen this time and time again this is a... | 0 |
1,877 | so we have this sort of shopper's dilemma right now we have all of these different foods foods in the average big box grocery store but we have less confidence in those foods and we have less confidence in the actors that are putting those foods on the shelves i think we need to redefine what good food is this is an in... | 0 |
1,878 | in addition to redefining what good food is i think we need to redefine our living spaces instead of seeing this as a yard we need to think of it more as like a full service that's in fact my yard and that's how i look at it that's what we transformed our yard into and i think a really key message is this one gardens g... | 0 |
1,880 | but there's still so much more that needs to be done and i think this slide sort of captures where we need to go we need a road map and i picked this slide for a reason | 0 |
1,881 | i think one place we could start is we could look at the tax code we're already using the tax code to encourage green transport and green shelter | 0 |
1,883 | but we can do it the technology is certainly there in addition to that i think we need another type of infrastructure it would be good if we could all get together i think if we've learned anything through the ted experience it's that there is power when we bring people together and i think we need to bring people toge... | 0 |
1,884 | jack geiger who had written to congratulate me on health leads and to share as he said a bit of historical context in dr geiger founded one of the first two community health centers in this country in a brutally poor area in the mississippi delta and so many of his patients came in presenting with malnutrition that be ... | 1 |
1,885 | showed up the first day ready to make coffee and photocopies but was paired with this righteous deeply inspired attorney named jeff purcell who thrust me onto the front lines from the very first day and over the course of nine months i had the chance to have dozens of conversations with low income families in boston wh... | 0 |
1,886 | smack can mean kiss as in air kisses as in lip smacking but that can lead to smack as in hit as in domestic abuse because sexual attraction can seem threatening the red that means fertility can also mean poison oleander is poisonous and usages like smack for kiss or hit can help us see how our assumptions can make us b... | 1 |
1,887 | i read poetry all the time and write about it frequently and take poems apart to see how they work because i'm a word person i understand the world best most fully in words rather than say pictures or numbers and when i have a new experience or a new feeling i'm a little frustrated until i can try to put it into words ... | 0 |
1,888 | update you will recall i introduced you guys to the tracker it's like a water dowsing device it's just a hollow piece of plastic with an antenna that swivels around and you walk around and it points to things like if you're looking for marijuana in students' lockers it'll point right to somebody oh sorry | 1 |
1,889 | pretty sexy feet i must say maybe a little and of course the ambiguous figures that seem to flip flop back and forth it turns out what you're thinking about a lot influences what you tend to see and you see the lamp here i know because the lights on here of course thanks to the environmentalist movement we're all sensi... | 1 |
1,895 | so what i want to talk about today is belief i want to believe and you do too and in fact i think my thesis here is that belief is the natural state of things it is the default option we just believe we believe all sorts of things belief is natural disbelief skepticism science is not natural it's more difficult | 0 |
1,897 | we find patterns we make those connections whether it's dog here associating the sound of the bell with the food and then he to the sound of the bell or whether it's a rat in which he's having an association between his behavior and a reward for it and therefore he repeats the behavior in fact what skinner discovered i... | 0 |
1,901 | com where you can actually buy collections of sheep you can't pick individual sheep but you can buy a single plate block of stamps as a commodity and juxtaposed against this grid you see actually by rolling over each individual one the humanity behind this hugely mechanical process i think there's something really inte... | 1 |
1,902 | that gives you an idea of the different types of motivations and dedication and there were people that contributed to the project or were unique ip addresses so about how many people contributed but only one of them out of the said this | 1 |
1,907 | you can also toggle between altitude for model and manufacturer see again the diversity and you can scroll around and see some of the different airports and the different patterns that they have this is up the east coast you can see some of the chaos that's happening in new york with the air traffic controllers having ... | 0 |
1,909 | we turned to the tech sector there's been quite a lot of innovations there just to name one the internet we hoped it could produce growth and indeed it changed our lives it made big waves in the media the service the entertainment spaces but it hasn't done much for productivity actually what's surprising is that produc... | 1 |
1,910 | growth is fading away and it's a big deal our global economy stops growing and it's not new growth has actually declined for the last years if we continue like this we need to learn how to live in a world with no growth in the next decade this is scary because when the economy doesn't grow our children don't get better... | 0 |
1,914 | with ms help i ended up returning to school i even finished my credits on time and graduated with my class but ms russ said to me right before graduation victor i'm so proud of you i knew you could do it now it's time to go to college | 1 |
1,917 | so we went out to test these ideas in the community of watts in la with young people that had been pushed out of school william was one of them william was the kind of kid that had been given every label he had dropped out he was a gang member a criminal and when we met him he was very resistant but i remember what ms ... | 1 |
1,920 | i wasn't ready but she understood one basic principle about young people like me we're like oysters we're only going to open up when we're ready and if you're not there when we're ready we're going to clam back up ms russ was there for me she was culturally relevant she respected my community my people my family | 0 |
1,921 | russ was there for me she was culturally relevant she respected my community my people my family i told her a story about my uncle ruben he would take me to work with him because i was broke and he knew i needed some money he collected glass bottles for a living four in the morning on a school day we'd throw the glass ... | 0 |
1,922 | the first let's get rid of our deficit perspective in education these people come from a culture of violence a culture of poverty these people are at risk these people are truant | 0 |
1,940 | truth be told i have never found a role model i could truly identify with my mother's generation wasn't into professional leadership there were some encouraging men along the way but none knew the demands and pressures i was facing pressures that got particularly acute when i had my own two beautiful children and altho... | 1 |
1,941 | time stood still for a long while and all i could think and repeat in the chaos of my brain was you can forget about that partnership leila it's just never going to happen it took me a couple of days to fully absorb this incident and its implications but once i did i reached three conclusions one that these were his is... | 1 |
1,942 | if you look at my calendar you will see every working day one and a half hours from to time blocked and called family time this is sacred time i have done this ever since was a baby i do everything in my power to protect this time so that i can be home by then to spend quality time with my children asking them about th... | 1 |
1,943 | are these people it was an innocent question from my young daughter around the time when she was three we were walking along with my husband in one of abu big fancy malls was peering at a huge poster standing tall in the middle of the mall it featured the three rulers of the united arab emirates as she tucked in my sid... | 0 |
1,944 | we were walking along with my husband in one of abu big fancy malls was peering at a huge poster standing tall in the middle of the mall it featured the three rulers of the united arab emirates as she tucked in my side i bent down and explained that these were the rulers of the who had worked hard to develop their nati... | 0 |
1,945 | there is this word that everybody is touting as the key to success resilience well what exactly is resilience and how do you develop it i believe resilience is simply the ability to transform shit into fuel in my previous job well before my current firm i was working with a man we will call john i had teamed up with jo... | 0 |
1,946 | it's sort of your classic idea of a heat ray it goes out to a really long distance compared to any of these other sorts of things anybody who is hit with this feels a sudden burst of heat and just wants to get out of the way it is a lot more sophisticated than a microwave oven but it basically is boiling the water mole... | 1 |
1,948 | and you can't actually find them very easily for individual australian states i could only find these this is from an australian institute of criminology report you can see in the fine print at the top police shooting deaths means not just people shot by police but people who have shot themselves in the presence of pol... | 1 |
1,949 | next two years were the years they studied anyone want to take a stab at the number of times given how they've introduced this the number of times police in queensland used spray in that period hundreds one three a thousand is getting better explicitly introduced as an alternative to the use of lethal force an alternat... | 1 |
1,952 | i checked the reports on this one i looked at it i was really surprised apparently she took up a more threatening position in her bed | 1 |
1,954 | there's a bunch of reasons why we send military personnel rather than police to do these jobs if australia had to send people tomorrow to west papua for example we don't have police officers hanging around that could go tomorrow and we do have soldiers that could go so when we have to send someone we send the military ... | 0 |
1,955 | there's a range of places you'd think those things would be really useful for example when you've got military checkpoints if people are approaching these checkpoints and the military personnel are unsure if this person's hostile or not say this person approaching here and they say is this a suicide bomber or not is so... | 0 |
1,956 | if people are approaching these checkpoints and the military personnel are unsure if this person's hostile or not say this person approaching here and they say is this a suicide bomber or not is something hidden under their clothes what's going to happen they don't know if the person is hostile or not if the person doe... | 0 |
1,959 | started to investigate some of those issues and have a look at the way police use nonlethal weapons when they're introduced and some of the problems that might arise out of those sorts of things when they actually do introduce them and of course being australian i started looking at stuff in australia knowing from my o... | 0 |
1,962 | said no it's a simple solution one of your students must have been passing by showed them how to use the mouse so i said yeah that's possible so i repeated the experiment i went miles out of delhi into a really remote village where the chances of a passing software development engineer was very little | 1 |
1,963 | there was no place to stay so i stuck my computer in i went away came back after a couple of months found kids playing games on it when they saw me they said we want a faster processor and a better mouse | 1 |
1,964 | so i said how on earth do you know all this and they said something very interesting to me in an irritated voice they said you've given us a machine that works only in english so we had to teach ourselves english in order to use it | 1 |
1,965 | so i started publishing i published everywhere i wrote down and measured everything and i said in nine months a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the west i'd seen it happen over and over and over again but i was curious to know what else... | 1 |
1,966 | important but it's all in english so they said how can we understand such big english words and diagrams and chemistry so by now i had developed a new pedagogical method so i applied that i said i haven't the foggiest idea | 1 |
1,968 | why did they create a system like that because it was needed there was an age in the age of empires when you needed those people who can survive under threat when you're standing in a trench all alone if you could have survived you're okay you've passed if you didn't you failed but the age of empires is gone what happe... | 1 |
1,970 | going to be the future of learning i do have a plan but in order for me to tell you what that plan is i need to tell you a little story which kind of sets the stage i tried to look at where did the kind of learning we do in schools where did it come from and you can look far back into the past but if you look at presen... | 0 |
1,971 | it came from about years ago and it came from the last and the biggest of the empires on this planet the british empire imagine trying to run the show trying to run the entire planet without computers without telephones with data handwritten on pieces of paper and traveling by ships but the victorians actually did it w... | 0 |
1,973 | so that's a pretty strong comment there i said schools as we know them now they're obsolete i'm not saying they're broken it's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken it's not broken it's wonderfully constructed | 0 |
1,974 | it's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken it's not broken it's wonderfully constructed it's just that we don't need it anymore it's outdated what are the kind of jobs that we have today well the clerks are the computers they're there in thousands in every office and you have people who guide thos... | 0 |
1,977 | a short glimpse from those years that's the first day at the hole in the wall on your right is an eight to his left is his student she's six and he's teaching her how to browse | 0 |
1,979 | so then people said well how far will it go where does it stop i decided i would destroy my own argument by creating an absurd proposition i made a hypothesis a ridiculous hypothesis tamil is a south indian language and i said can tamil speaking children in a south indian village learn the biotechnology of replication ... | 0 |
1,980 | for those of you who understand computers our right hemisphere functions like a parallel processor while our left hemisphere functions like a serial processor the two do communicate with one another through the corpus which is made up of some million fibers but other than that the two are completely separate because th... | 1 |
1,986 | that's not the card it took me minutes to get one inch down inside of that stack of cards in the meantime for minutes the hemorrhage is getting bigger in my left hemisphere i do not understand numbers i do not understand the telephone but it's the only plan i have so i take the phone pad and i put it right here i take ... | 1 |
1,989 | on the morning of the hemorrhage i could not walk talk read write or recall any of my life i essentially became an infant in a woman's body | 0 |
1,991 | our right human hemisphere is all about this present moment it's all about right here right now our right hemisphere it thinks in pictures and it learns through the movement of our bodies information in the form of energy streams in simultaneously through all of our sensory systems and then it explodes into this enormo... | 0 |
1,993 | our left hemisphere is designed to take that enormous collage of the present moment and start picking out details and more details about those details it then categorizes and organizes all that information associates it with everything in the past we've ever learned and projects into the future all of our possibilities... | 0 |
1,996 | then like any other consumer product you would demand to know what you're paying for when you buy medicines you get a list of side effects when you buy a higher educational product you should have a warning label that allows consumers to choose make informed choices when you buy a car it tells you how many miles per ga... | 1 |
1,998 | today million americans are indebted for their passage to the new economy too poor to pay their way through college they now owe lenders more than one trillion us dollars they do find what jobs they can get to pay off a debt that is secured on their person in america even a bankrupt gambler gets a second chance but it ... | 0 |
2,004 | solution for that is to make roads out of porous asphalt porous asphalt a material that we use now in most of the highways in the netherlands it has pores and water can just rain through it so all the rainwater will flow away to the sides and you have a road that's easy to drive on so no splash water anymore also the n... | 1 |
2,005 | that this is a very nice road it's made of asphalt and asphalt is a very nice material to drive on but not always especially not on these days as today when it's raining a lot then you can have a lot of splash water in the asphalt and especially if you then ride with your bicycle and pass these cars then that's not ver... | 0 |
2,010 | is the main broadcast control room a technical installation so large it can broadcast over channels simultaneously and this is how the building stands in beijing today its first broadcast live was the london olympics after it had been completed from the outside for the beijing olympics and you can see at the very tip o... | 1 |
2,011 | for much of the past century architecture was under the spell of a famous doctrine form follows function had become ambitious manifesto and detrimental straitjacket as it liberated architecture from the decorative but condemned it to utilitarian rigor and restrained purpose of course architecture is about function but ... | 0 |
2,012 | as young as i look i am growing older faster than he seven to one is the ratio they tend to say whatever the number i will pass him one day and take the lead the way i do on our walks in the woods and if this ever manages to cross his mind it would be the sweetest shadow i have ever cast on snow or grass thank you and ... | 1 |
2,013 | i don't know if you've noticed but there's been a spate of books that have come out lately contemplating or speculating on the cognition and emotional life of dogs do they think do they feel and if so how so this afternoon in my limited time i wanted to take the guesswork out of a lot of that by introducing you to two ... | 0 |
2,016 | like any major city that place is a lot of things many of which are highly contradictory our public transportation doesn't quite work so we have these privately owned bright yellow buses that regularly cause accidents luxury car showrooms line badly maintained and often flooded roads street evangelism is only slightly ... | 1 |
2,018 | forced evictions are incredibly violent and of course unconstitutional and yet they happen so often in so many of our cities because the first thing we are taught to forget about poor people is that they are people we believe that a home is a thing a person absolutely has a right to unless the person is poor and the ho... | 1 |
2,020 | was one of the first to be targeted i first heard of after the demolition started when i visited in november i met magdalene she is a now homeless woman whose surname means the world is blind son basil was one of over people who were shot drowned or presumed dead in that land grab standing outside her shelter i saw the... | 0 |
2,021 | son basil was one of over people who were shot drowned or presumed dead in that land grab standing outside her shelter i saw the two white sand football fields where basil used to play spread all around us were the ruins of schools churches a primary health center shops thousands of homes young children enthusiasticall... | 0 |
2,023 | our realities may differ but our rights don't the lagos state government like far too many on our continent pays lip service to ideas of inclusion while acting as though progress can only be achieved by the exploitation and even elimination of groups it considers expendable people living with disabilities who hawk or b... | 0 |
2,050 | he arrives on the small hill dripping with water he stands there and he looks across at the island sado and he scans across the ocean and he looks at the sky then he says to himself very quietly turbulent the sea stretching across to sado the milky way was a brilliant man he said more with less than any human that i ha... | 1 |
2,051 | for a moment what i need to do is project something on the screen of your imagination we're in century japan on the west coast and a little wizened monk is hurrying along near midnight to the crest of a small hill he arrives on the small hill dripping with water he stands there and he looks across at the island sado an... | 0 |
2,054 | and when we open our hearts to the opportunities the opportunities invite us to do something and that is the third look and then go and really do something and what we can do is whatever life offers to you in that present moment mostly it's the opportunity to enjoy but sometimes it's something more difficult but whatev... | 1 |
2,062 | thank you when i was asked to do this i was also asked to look at all ted talks that i had given chronologically the first one was actually two hours the second one was an hour and then they became half hours and all i noticed was my bald spot getting bigger | 1 |
2,063 | we started wired magazine some people i remember we shared the reception desk periodically and some parent called up irate that his son had given up sports illustrated to subscribe for wired and he said are you some porno magazine or something and couldn't understand why his son would be interested in wired at any rate... | 1 |
2,065 | can we switch to the video disc which is in play mode i'm really interested in how you put people and computers together we will be using the tv screens or their equivalents for electronic books of the future music crosstalk very interested in touch sensitive displays high tech high touch not having to pick up your fin... | 0 |
2,070 | of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods you know we're often told that we live in very materialistic times that we're all greedy people i don't think we are particularly materialistic i think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional ... | 1 |
2,072 | and it's a beautiful idea along with that is a kind of spirit of equality we're all basically equal there are no strictly defined hierarchies there is one really big problem with this and that problem is envy envy it's a real taboo to mention envy but if there's one dominant emotion in modern society that is envy and i... | 1 |
2,073 | closer two people are in age in background in the process of identification the more there's a danger of envy which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with the problem of modern society is it turns the whole world... | 1 |
2,074 | if you open the newspaper any day of the week it's full of people who've messed up their lives they've slept with the wrong person taken the wrong substance passed the wrong piece of legislation whatever it is and then are fit for ridicule in other words they have failed and they are described as losers now is there an... | 1 |
2,075 | i went to talk to them about certain of the great tragedies of western art i wanted to see how they would seize the bare bones of certain stories if they came in as a news item at the news desk on a saturday afternoon i mentioned othello they'd not heard of it but were fascinated | 1 |
2,078 | they normally happen these career crises often actually on a sunday evening just as the sun is starting to set and the gap between my hopes for myself and the reality of my life starts to diverge so painfully that i normally end up weeping into a pillow i'm mentioning all this i'm mentioning all this because i think th... | 0 |
2,079 | there are other reasons why it's perhaps harder now to feel calm than ever before one of these and it's paradoxical because it's linked to something that's rather nice is the hope we all have for our careers never before have expectations been so high about what human beings can achieve with their lifespan we're told f... | 0 |
2,082 | everybody all politicians on left and right agree that meritocracy is a great thing and we should all be trying to make our societies really really in other words what is a society a society is one in which if you've got talent and energy and skill you will get to the top nothing should hold you back it's a beautiful i... | 0 |
2,083 | you know in the middle ages in england when you met a very poor person that person would be described as an unfortunate literally somebody who had not been blessed by fortune an unfortunate nowadays particularly in the united states if you meet someone at the bottom of society they may be described as a loser there's a... | 0 |
2,084 | there any relief from some of these pressures that i've been outlining i think there is i just want to turn to a few of them let's take meritocracy this idea that everybody deserves to get where they get to i think it's a crazy idea completely crazy i will support any politician of left and right with any halfway decen... | 0 |
2,087 | in a way if you like at one end of the spectrum of sympathy you've got the tabloid newspaper at the other end of the spectrum you've got tragedy and tragic art and i suppose i'm arguing that we should learn a little bit about what's happening in tragic art it would be insane to call hamlet a loser he is not a loser tho... | 0 |
2,089 | about three seconds ago i've been for about years and when i first started i would sit down with people and say hey let's talk years out and they'd say great and i've been seeing that time horizon get shorter and shorter and shorter so much so that i met with a two months ago and i said we started our initial conversat... | 1 |
2,090 | these are scale problems the issue though is we can't solve them using the mental models that we use right now to try and solve these problems yes a lot of great technical work is being done but there is a problem that we need to solve for a before if we want to really move the needle on those big problems short right ... | 1 |
2,093 | now the reality is for a lot of these problems there are some technical fixes a lot of them i call these technical fixes sandbag strategies so you know there's a storm coming the levee is broken no one's put any money into it you surround your home with sandbags and guess what it works storm goes away the water level g... | 1 |
2,094 | but here's a problem with these issues they stack up on top of us because the only way we know how to do something good in the world is if we do it between our birth and our death that's what we're programmed to do if you go to the self help section in any bookstore it's all about you which is great unless you're deali... | 1 |
2,095 | so we sit down and literally all i want to do is just eat and chill and my kids have a completely and totally different idea of what we're going to be doing and so my first idea is my sandbag strategy right it's to go into my pocket and take out the and give them frozen or some other bestselling game thing and then i s... | 1 |
2,096 | you don't have to give it to me but think in your head and what you're probably going to see is the dominant cultural lens that dominates our thinking about the future right now technology so when we think about the problems we always put it through a technological lens a tech a techno utopia and there's nothing wrong ... | 1 |
2,098 | we pretty much have eradicated global polio we did the transcontinental railroad the marshall plan | 0 |
2,099 | we did the panama canal we pretty much have eradicated global polio we did the transcontinental railroad the marshall plan and it's not just big physical infrastructure problems and issues women's suffrage the right to vote but in our short time where everything seems to happen right now and we can only think out past ... | 0 |
2,101 | first thinking i love the philosophers plato socrates i was raised on them but they all did one thing that didn't actually seem like a big deal until i really started kind of looking into this and they all took as a unit of measure for their entire reality of what it meant to be virtuous and good the single lifespan fr... | 0 |
2,103 | what i'm saying is we have to rethink our base assumption about only looking at the future in one way only looking at it through the dominant lens because our problems are so big and so vast that we need to open ourselves up | 0 |
2,104 | that's why i do everything in my power not to talk about the future i talk about futures it opens the conversation again so when you're sitting and thinking about how do we move forward on this major issue it could be at home it could be at work it could be again on the global stage don't cut yourself off from thinking... | 0 |
2,107 | it's a verb it requires action | 0 |
2,108 | designing a game we speak to physical therapists at first to understand what movement patients need to do we then make that a video game to give patients simple motivating objectives to follow but the software is very and physical therapists can also create their own exercises using the software my physical therapist r... | 1 |
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