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i've also had some meals that(2) make me want(2) to dry heave {BREATH} so {BREATH} it's about choosing the parts of the bible about compassion {BREATH} about tolerance about loving your(2) neighbor {BREATH} as opposed to the parts {SMACK} <sil> {UH} about <sil> homosexuality is a sin {UH} or intolerance or(2) violence {BREATH} which(2) are(2) very much in the bible as well <sil> so {NOISE} if we {NOISE} are(2) {NOISE} to(3) {NOISE} find any meaning in this book {BREATH} then {UH} we have(2) to(3) {UH} really {NOISE} engage it and wrestle with it {BREATH} and i thought i'd {UH} end <sil> with just(2) a couple more {NOISE} there's me reading(2) the bible {BREATH} that's how i hailed taxi cabs <sil> {NOISE} morning {NOISE} but {NOISE} it {BREATH} served well {NOISE} for(2) a(2) day so anyway {UH} thank you so much for letting me {NOISE} <sil> {COUGH} so <sil> and(2) it was about the year i spent reading(2) the(2) encyclopedia {BREATH} britannica {UH} from {NOISE} a(2) to(2) z {SMACK} in my quest to learn everything in the world {BREATH} or(2) {UH} more precisely from <sil> which(2) is a(2) type of east asian music {BREATH} all the way to(3) {NOISE} zwyiec {NOISE} which(2) {NOISE} is <sil> well i don't {UH} although listening(2) to kevin kelly you don't(2) have(2) to(2) remember anything you can just(2) {UH} google it so {BREATH} i wasted some time there {BREATH} i love those experiments {SMACK} but i think that(2) the most(2) profound and life changing {BREATH} experiment that i've {UH} done is my most(2) recent experiment {BREATH} <sil> i thought i'd tell you a little about {UH} what i like to write <sil> and {UH} i like to(3) {UH} immerse myself {SMACK} in my topics {UM} i just(2) like to {UH} dive {SMACK} right in and become {UH} sort of a human guinea pig {BREATH} and {UH} where(2) {UH} i {UH} spent a year {SMACK} trying to follow all of the {BREATH} rules of the bible <sil> the year of living biblically {SMACK} and {UH} i undertook this for(2) two reasons <sil> the <sil> first {SMACK} was that {UH} i grew up {BREATH} with no religion at all {BREATH} as i say in {UH} my book {BREATH} i'm(2) jewish <sil> in the same way {SMACK} the olive {NOISE} garden {NOISE} is italian <sil> {UH} so {COUGH} but i've become increasingly(2) interested in religion i do think it's the defining issue of our time or(2) one {UH} of {BREATH} the {NOISE} main ones {BREATH} and {UH} i have(2) a son i want to know(2) what(2) to teach him {BREATH} so i decided {SMACK} to(2) dive in head first and try <sil> to {BREATH} live(2) the bible {SMACK} the second reason {COUGH} i undertook this is because(2) i'm concerned about the rise {BREATH} of fundamentalism(2) religious fundamentalism {BREATH} and {UH} people who say <sil> what(2) if you really did take the bible literally {UH} i decided to take it to its logical {SMACK} conclusion {BREATH} and {UH} take {SMACK} everything in the bible literally <sil> {UM} without(2) picking and choosing {SMACK} the first thing i did {NOISE} was i got {UH} a(2) {UH} stack of <sil> bibles <sil> i had christian(3) bibles i {NOISE} had {BREATH} jewish bibles <sil> a friend of mine sent me something called a(2) {SMACK} hip hop bible {BREATH} where(2) the(2) twenty three rd psalm(2) is rendered as {BREATH} the lord is all that {BREATH} as opposed to(3) what(2) i knew it as the lord is my shepherd {SMACK} {NOISE} then {UH} i {NOISE} went down {COUGH} and {UH} i read {BREATH} several versions and(2) i wrote down <sil> every single law {BREATH} that i could find and this was(2) a very <sil> long list <sil> over seven <sil> hundred {BREATH} rules {BREATH} {NOISE} and {NOISE} they range from the famous ones that(2) i had heard of <sil> the ten commandments {BREATH} love your(2) neighbor {BREATH} be fruitful and(2) multiply <sil> so i wanted to follow those and actually(4) i take my projects very seriously because(2) {SMACK} i had twins during my year so i {UH} <sil> definitely <sil> take <sil> my {UH} projects(3) seriously {BREATH} but i also wanted(2) to follow <sil> the hundreds <sil> of arcane and obscure laws {UH} that are(2) in the bible {SMACK} {NOISE} there {UH} is <sil> the law(2) in leviticus you cannot(2) shave the corners of your(2) beard {BREATH} i didn't(4) know(2) where(2) my corners were(2) {SMACK} so i decided {BREATH} to let the whole {NOISE} thing grow {UH} and this is what(2) i looked like <sil> by the end {SMACK} as {UH} you can(2) imagine i spent a lot of time at <sil> airport security my wife {SMACK} wouldn't kiss me for(2) the last(2) two months {BREATH} so {UH} certainly the challenge was(2) {BREATH} there {UM} the bible says <sil> you cannot wear clothes made of mixed <sil> fibers {BREATH} so {UM} i thought <sil> sounds(2) strange but i'll try it {NOISE} you only know(2) i see my life as a series of experiments {BREATH} so {UH} i {NOISE} work for(2) esquire magazine and a couple of years(2) ago {BREATH} i wrote an(2) article called {NOISE} my <sil> outsourced life <sil> i <sil> got rid of all my poly cotton t shirts {BREATH} the {UH} bible {NOISE} says <sil> that {NOISE} if two men are in a fight {BREATH} and the wife <sil> of one of those men {BREATH} grabs <sil> the testicles {SMACK} of the other {NOISE} her hand shall be cut off {BREATH} so i wanted to follow that rule {NOISE} wife was standing nearby {COUGH} looking like {NOISE} she had a {NOISE} strong grip <sil> so {UH} <sil> {NOISE} there's {UH} another <sil> shot {NOISE} of <sil> my <sil> beard {BREATH} i will(2) say it was an(2) amazing year because(2) it really was life changing and incredibly challenging and there were(2) two types of laws <sil> were(2) particularly(2) challenging {BREATH} the {UH} first was avoiding the little sins that we all {NOISE} commit <sil> every(2) day {BREATH} know(2) i could spend a year not killing {BREATH} but spending a(2) year {BREATH} not gossiping <sil> not {UH} coveting {SMACK} not lying <sil> you know(2) i live(2) in new york {SMACK} and i work as(2) a journalist(2) {BREATH} so this was seventy {COUGH} five {BREATH} eighty percent of my {NOISE} but it was really interesting(3) because(2) {BREATH} i {NOISE} was able to(3) {BREATH} make some progress because(2) {BREATH} i couldn't believe how my <sil> behavior <sil> changed my thoughts {SMACK} this was(2) one(2) of the huge lessons of the year {BREATH} is that {BREATH} i almost pretended {SMACK} to be a better person {BREATH} and i became a little bit {NOISE} of a better person {BREATH} so <sil> {UH} i had always thought <sil> you know(2) you change your(2) mind and you change your behavior {BREATH} but it's often the other way round you change your(2) behavior and(2) you change your(2) mind <sil> so you know(2) if you want {BREATH} to become more compassionate {BREATH} you visit(2) sick people in the hospital {BREATH} and you will(2) become more compassionate {BREATH} where(2) i {BREATH} hired a team of people in bangalore <sil> india {BREATH} to live(2) my life for me {BREATH} so {UH} they answered my emails they answered my phone they argued with my wife {SMACK} for me {BREATH} and(2) <sil> they {UH} you donate money to(3) a cause {BREATH} and you become {NOISE} emotionally involved in that cause {BREATH} so it {UH} really was cognitive psychology {BREATH} <sil> {COUGH} that(2) if you smile <sil> you will(2) become happier which(2) {UH} as we know(2) {NOISE} is {SMACK} actually(3) true {BREATH} the second(2) type {UH} of <sil> rule that(2) was difficult to(3) obey <sil> was {NOISE} the(2) {BREATH} rules that(2) will get you into(2) a little trouble <sil> in twenty {NOISE} one(2) st(2) {NOISE} century {BREATH} america and {UH} <sil> the clearest example of this {BREATH} is <sil> stoning adulterers <sil> {NOISE} but {COUGH} it's {NOISE} a(2) {SMACK} big part of the bible so {COUGH} i {COUGH} <sil> had to address(2) {NOISE} <sil> i was able to stone one adulterer it happened {BREATH} i was in the park <sil> and i was dressed in my biblical(2) clothing {NOISE} sandals {BREATH} and {UH} a white(2) <sil> robe {SMACK} you know(2) because(2) again the outer see how dressing biblically affected(2) my mind {BREATH} up to me and(2) he said why(2) are(2) you dressed like that {BREATH} and i explained my project {BREATH} and he said <sil> well i am an(2) adulterer {UH} are you going to stone me <sil> and i said {BREATH} well that would be great {COUGH} <sil> and {UH} {NOISE} i {UH} took {NOISE} out a handful of {UH} stones from my pocket that i had been(2) carrying(3) around for(2) weeks <sil> hoping for(2) just this interaction(2) {COUGH} and {UH} you know(2) they were(2) pebbles {BREATH} out of my hand <sil> he was actually(4) an(2) elderly man mid seventies {SMACK} just so you know(2) {BREATH} but he's(2) still an(2) adulterer {BREATH} and still quite angry {SMACK} he grabbed them out of my hand and(2) threw them at my face <sil> and(2) i <sil> felt {UH} that i could <sil> eye for(2) an eye <sil> i could retaliate <sil> and throw one(2) back at {BREATH} him {BREATH} so that was my experience stoning {BREATH} and it did allow me to talk {NOISE} {UH} about {UM} in a more serious way <sil> these big issues {NOISE} how can the bible be so barbaric {NOISE} in some places and yet so {UM} incredibly wise in others {BREATH} it has all of these {NOISE} authors and {COUGH} editors {SMACK} over hundreds of years {NOISE} and it's sort of evolved(2) it's not {BREATH} a book {NOISE} that(2) was written {BREATH} and(2) {UM} came down from on high {UH} <sil> my son bedtime stories {BREATH} it <sil> was the best month of my life {SMACK} because(2) i {COUGH} just(2) sat back and i {UH} read(2) {NOISE} books and watched movies {BREATH} <sil> so {UH} i thought {NOISE} i would {UH} end by telling you just(2) a couple of the {BREATH} take away the bigger <sil> lessons that i learned from my year {BREATH} the {UM} first is {SMACK} thou shalt not take the bible literally {BREATH} this <sil> <sil> very very clear early on {BREATH} because(2) if you do {SMACK} then you end up acting like a(2) crazy person and(2) stoning adulterers {UH} or here <sil> well that's another i {UH} did spend some time shepherding {UM} it's {BREATH} a(2) {NOISE} very relaxing {UH} vocation i recommend it {BREATH} but this one(2) is {UH} and my wife thought this was very offensive so she sat <sil> in every seat <sil> in our apartment {BREATH} and i had to spend much of the year standing {SMACK} until i bought my {NOISE} own <sil> seat {BREATH} and {NOISE} carried(2) it around(2) <sil> {UH} so <sil> you know(2) i {UH} met with {UH} creationists i went to the creationists museum and these are the(2) ultimate literalists and {BREATH} it <sil> was(2) fascinating because(2) they were(2) not stupid people at all {BREATH} that(2) they distort <sil> all the data {BREATH} to(2) {NOISE} fit {BREATH} their model and {UH} they go through these amazing {SMACK} mental gymnastics {SMACK} to accomplish this {BREATH} and {UH} i will(2) say though <sil> was(2) a wonderful experience {BREATH} more recently {NOISE} i wrote an article for {NOISE} esquire called {BREATH} about {UH} radical {UH} honesty {SMACK} and this is a movement {BREATH} the museum <sil> is <sil> gorgeous {SMACK} they really did a fantastic job if {SMACK} you're ever in kentucky {BREATH} there's {NOISE} i think it's crazy {BREATH} they {NOISE} did a great job {UH} another lesson is that {UH} {UH} thou shalt give thanks <sil> and this one was {UH} a big {BREATH} lesson because(2) {BREATH} i was praying <sil> giving {NOISE} these {NOISE} prayers(2) of thanksgiving which(2) was odd for(2) an(2) agnostic {BREATH} but {UH} saying <sil> thanks {SMACK} all the time every(2) day and i {BREATH} started to {NOISE} change my perspective {BREATH} and i {NOISE} started to realize(2) {SMACK} the hundreds of <sil> little {UH} things that(2) go right {UH} every(2) day {BREATH} {NOISE} that(2) <sil> i didn't even notice(2) that(2) i took for granted(4) {BREATH} as opposed to focusing(2) on the three or(2) four {BREATH} that went wrong {BREATH} so this is actually(3) <sil> a key to happiness for(2) me {BREATH} is to(3) {UH} just(2) {NOISE} remember(2) when i came over here the car didn't(3) flip over {BREATH} and i didn't(3) trip coming up the stairs it's {NOISE} a remarkable thing {BREATH} this one(2) was {UH} unexpected because(2) i started the year as(3) an agnostic {BREATH} and by the(2) end of the year {UH} i became what(2) a {UH} friend of mine calls {NOISE} a(2) <sil> reverent <sil> agnostic <sil> which(2) i love {BREATH} a movement so if anyone wants to join {BREATH} the {UH} basic idea is whether(2) or(2) not there is a god {BREATH} there's something important {BREATH} and beautiful about the(2) idea <sil> of sacredness {BREATH} and that our rituals can(2) be sacred(2) {BREATH} the {UH} sabbath can be <sil> this was(2) one of the great things about my year {NOISE} doing the sabbath {BREATH} because(2) i am a(2) {UH} workaholic so having this one day where you cannot work {BREATH} it really <sil> that changed my life {BREATH} this is started by a(2) psychologist {BREATH} in virginia who says that {SMACK} you should {SMACK} never ever lie {BREATH} except maybe during poker and golf {UH} his only {UH} exceptions {BREATH} and(2) more than that {NOISE} journey i wanted(2) it to be about religion in america {BREATH} so i {UH} spent time with evangelical christians and hasidic(2) jews and(2) the(2) {UH} i'm very proud because(2) i think i'm(2) {BREATH} the only person in america to(3) {BREATH} out {UH} bible talk {NOISE} a jehovah's(3) witness <sil> <sil> thank {COUGH} you {COUGH} but it was <sil> because(3) i had some very preconceived notions about for(2) instance <sil> evangelical christianity and {UH} i found that it's {UH} such a wide {BREATH} <sil> and(2) varied movement that {BREATH} it is {NOISE} difficult {BREATH} to(2) make {UH} generalizations about it {UH} there's a group {BREATH} i met with(2) called the red letter christians <sil> and they focus(2) on(2) {BREATH} words in the {UM} bible {SMACK} which are the ones that(2) jesus spoke {SMACK} that's how they printed(3) <sil> them in the(2) old bibles {BREATH} and is {SMACK} that(2) jesus <sil> never talked about {BREATH} homosexuality {SMACK} they have(2) a pamphlet that(2) says {BREATH} here's(3) what(2) jesus said {COUGH} about homosexuality {SMACK} and you open it up and there's nothing in it {BREATH} so {UH} they say jesus did talk a lot {UH} about <sil> helping the(2) outcasts(2) helping {UH} poor {BREATH} people {COUGH} so {UM} this {NOISE} was(2) {BREATH} very {NOISE} inspiring {UH} to(2) {NOISE} me <sil> {NOISE} i {UH} recommend {UH} jim wallace and tony campolo {UH} they're <sil> very inspiring leaders {BREATH} even though i disagree {BREATH} with(2) much of what they say <sil> also <sil> thou shalt not i was shocked {NOISE} learning how much of my {BREATH} life {NOISE} is {NOISE} governed {SMACK} by irrational forces {SMACK} and <sil> the thing is <sil> if {SMACK} they're not harmful <sil> they're not to be {SMACK} completely dismissed {BREATH} because(2) <sil> i learned {SMACK} that {UH} i {BREATH} was thinking i was doing all these rituals these biblical(2) <sil> rituals {NOISE} separating my {NOISE} and(2) linen and {NOISE} i would ask these religious {UH} people {UM} why(2) {NOISE} would <sil> the bible possibly {SMACK} tell us to do this why would god care {BREATH} and they said {NOISE} we don't(2) know(2) but {NOISE} it's just rituals {BREATH} that(2) give {UH} us meaning {BREATH} and i {NOISE} would say {UM} but that's crazy {BREATH} and they would say {BREATH} well what(2) about you you {UH} blow out {BREATH} candles on(2) top of a birthday cake {UH} if a guy from mars {SMACK} came down and saw {COUGH} <sil> here's(3) one guy {BREATH} blowing {SMACK} out {NOISE} the {UM} fire on(2) top of a cake {BREATH} versus(2) another guy {BREATH} not wearing clothes of mixed fabrics {BREATH} would the martians say {BREATH} well that he(2) makes sense <sil> but that guy's(3) crazy {BREATH} so {UH} no i think that are(2) not harmful {BREATH} but {UM} rituals by themselves <sil> are not to be {UH} dismissed {BREATH} and finally <sil> i learned that thou shall pick and choose {BREATH} and this one(2) i learned because(2) <sil> i tried to follow everything in the bible {SMACK} and i failed miserably(2) <sil> because(2) you can't {BREATH} you have(2) to pick and choose and <sil> anyone who follows {UH} the bible {BREATH} is going to be picking and choosing {BREATH} the key {NOISE} is <sil> <sil> i do not recommend this at all {BREATH} to(2) give you a sense {UH} of {BREATH} the(2) experience {UH} the {UH} article was called {BREATH} i think you're fat <sil> to pick <sil> and choose the <sil> right parts {BREATH} there's the phrase called {UH} my argument is <sil> what's(2) wrong with cafeterias {BREATH} i've had some great meals at cafeterias <sil>
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we have indeed {NOISE} taken <sil> the best part of {NOISE} the meat <sil> so let's(2) look today <sil> at a set of photographs <sil> of a people who lost {UH} so that we could {NOISE} gain {COUGH} <sil> and(2) know(2) that when(4) you see these people's(3) faces <sil> that(2) these are(2) not just(2) images(2) of the lakota <sil> they stand for(2) all indigenous people {UH} on(2) this piece of paper <sil> is the history(2) the way i learned it <sil> from my lakota friends and family(2) {NOISE} <sil> i'm here today to(2) show my photographs <sil> of the lakota <sil> many of you may have(2) heard of the lakota <sil> or(2) <sil> at least the larger group of tribes <sil> called <sil> sixty six <sil> the beginning of the transcontinental(3) railroad <sil> a new(2) {NOISE} era <sil> we appropriated land for(2) trails and(2) trains to shortcut through the heart of the lakota nation <sil> the treaties were(2) out the window <sil> in response three tribes led by the lakota chief {SMACK} red cloud <sil> <sil> attacked and defeated the(2) u s army many times over <sil> i <sil> want to repeat(2) that part <sil> the lakota defeat {SMACK} the u s army <sil> {NOISE} sixty eight {COUGH} the second(2) fort laramie treaty <sil> clearly guarantees the sovereignty of the(2) great sioux nation <sil> and the lakotas ownership <sil> of the sacred black {NOISE} hills <sil> the lakota are one(2) of many tribes that were(2) moved off their land <sil> to prisoner(2) of war camps <sil> now called reservations <sil> the pine ridge reservation <sil> {NOISE} seventy {COUGH} one(2) <sil> the indian appropriation act <sil> makes all indians wards of the federal government <sil> in addition <sil> the military issued orders forbidding(2) western(2) indians from leaving reservations <sil> <sil> the move destroyed the reservations <sil> making it easier to(2) further subdivide {BREATH} and to sell {UH} with every passing generation <sil> most(2) of the surplus land <sil> i believe to be the most(2) important in this slide show <sil> this is the(2) year of the wounded(2) knee massacre <sil> to(2) this {NOISE} day <sil> this is the most medals of honor <sil> ever awarded(2) for(2) a single battle {UH} <sil> more medals of honor were(2) given(2) for(2) the indiscriminate slaughter <sil> of women and children <sil> than for(2) <sil> any battle <sil> in world war one(2) <sil> world war two <sil> korea(2) <sil> vietnam <sil> iraq <sil> or afghanistan <sil> <sil> the wounded(2) knee massacre {NOISE} is considered <sil> the(2) end of the(2) indian wars <sil> whenever(2) i visit the site of the mass grave at wounded(2) knee <sil> now if any of you have(2) ever heard of {NOISE} aim <sil> the(2) american(2) indian movement <sil> or {UH} of {UH} russell means <sil> or leonard peltier <sil> or of the stand off at oglala <sil> i see it not just(2) {NOISE} a(2) grave for(2) <sil> the lakota {UH} or for the sioux but <sil> as(3) a grave for(2) all indigenous peoples <sil> <sil> the holy man black elk said <sil> i did not know(2) then <sil> how much was ended(2) <sil> when(3) i look <sil> back {COUGH} now from(2) this high hill of my old age {SMACK} <sil> i can still see the butchered women and children <sil> lying {NOISE} heaped and scattered <sil> all along the crooked {SMACK} gulch <sil> when(3) i saw them with(2) eyes still young <sil> <sil> and(2) <sil> i can(2) see that(2) something else {NOISE} died {UH} there in the bloody mud <sil> and was buried in the blizzard <sil> a people's(3) {NOISE} dream {NOISE} died {UH} there <sil> and it was a beautiful dream <sil> with(2) <sil> <sil> this event <sil> a new(2) {NOISE} era in native american(2) history began(2) <sil> everything <sil> can be measured <sil> before(2) wounded(2) knee <sil> and after <sil> because(2) it was in this moment <sil> with the fingers {NOISE} on the triggers of the hotchkiss guns <sil> the court determined <sil> that when(4) the sioux were(2) resettled onto reservations {SMACK} and seven million {NOISE} acres of their land <sil> were(2) opened up to prospectors and homesteaders <sil> the terms of the second(2) fort laramie treaty <sil> had been(2) violated <sil> the court stated(2) <sil> that(2) the black {COUGH} hills were(2) <sil> illegally taken and(2) <sil> that(2) the(2) initial offering(2) price <sil> plus {NOISE} interest(5) {BREATH} should be paid to the sioux nation <sil> ten <sil> statistics about native population today <sil> more than a century <sil> after the massacre at wounded(2) knee <sil> reveal the legacy of colonization <sil> forced migration {BREATH} and treaty violations <sil> <sil> at least sixty percent of the homes on the reservation {BREATH} are infested(2) with(2) black {UH} mold <sil> more than ninety percent of the population {BREATH} lives(2) below the federal(2) poverty line <sil> the tuberculosis rate on pine ridge {BREATH} is approximately eight times higher than the(2) u s national average <sil> the infant mortality rate {SMACK} is the highest on this continent <sil> and is about three times higher than the(2) u s national average <sil> the last(2) chapter <sil> in {NOISE} any successful genocide <sil> is the one in which the(2) oppressor <sil> can remove their hands and say <sil> my god <sil> what are(2) these people doing to themselves(2) <sil> they're killing each other <sil> they're killing themselves(2) <sil> while we watch them(2) die {BREATH} <sil> this is how we came {NOISE} to own these united(2) states <sil> this is the legacy {SMACK} of manifest destiny <sil> prisoners are still born <sil> into prisoner of war camps <sil> long after the guards are(2) gone <sil> <sil> these are the bones left {NOISE} after the best meat <sil> has been(2) has {SMACK} been(3) taken <sil> <sil> a long time ago a series of events {SMACK} was set in motion <sil> by a(2) {UH} people who look like me <sil> by wasichu <sil> eager to(2) take the land {NOISE} and the water {UH} and(2) the gold in the hills <sil> <sil> {NOISE} those {SMACK} events led to(2) {NOISE} a {NOISE} domino effect that(2) has {NOISE} yet to(2) <sil> end <sil> as removed {NOISE} as(3) we the dominant society may feel <sil> what(2) is the(2) connection <sil> between these images of suffering {BREATH} and the history that i just read to you <sil> and how much of this history do you need to(2) {UH} own even <sil> is any of this your(2) responsibility today {COUGH} <sil> <sil> been(3) told that(2) there must be something we can do <sil> there must be some {BREATH} call to(2) {COUGH} action <sil> because(2) for(2) so long i've been(2) standing on the sidelines {SMACK} <sil> content(2) to(2) {NOISE} be a witness <sil> just {SMACK} taking photographs <sil> because(2) the solution seems so far in the {NOISE} past i needed nothing short <sil> of a time machine to(2) <sil> access them <sil> the suffering(2) of indigenous peoples <sil> is not <sil> a simple issue to fix <sil> it's not something everyone can get behind <sil> the way they get(2) behind helping haiti <sil> of {NOISE} ending {NOISE} aids <sil> or fighting a famine <sil> {NOISE} and invited(2) me again and again over five years <sil> but on(2) pine ridge <sil> i will always be what is called wasichu and(2) <sil> wasichu <sil> is a lakota word {BREATH} <sil> the fix {SMACK} as it's called <sil> may be much more difficult for the dominant society <sil> than(2) say a fifty dollar check <sil> or(2) church trip to paint some graffiti covered houses <sil> or a suburban family(2) {BREATH} donating a box of clothes(2) they don't even want(2) anymore <sil> so where(2) does(2) that leave us <sil> shrugging our shoulders in the dark {UH} <sil> the call to(2) {COUGH} action {UH} i offer today <sil> my ted wish <sil> is this <sil> honor the treaties <sil> give {NOISE} back {UH} the black {NOISE} hills <sil> it's not your(2) business(2) what(2) they do with them <sil> that(2) means {COUGH} non {NOISE} indian {COUGH} but another version of this word <sil> means the one who takes the best meat <sil> for(2) himself <sil> and that's what(2) i want to focus(2) on(2) <sil> the one(2) who takes the best part of <sil> the meat <sil> it means greedy <sil> <sil>
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{NOISE} and then as(2) the(2) ammonia re(2) evaporates and combines with the water <sil> back on the erstwhile hot side {BREATH} it creates a powerful cooling effect {BREATH} so it was a great idea {COUGH} that(2) <sil> didn't work at all {SMACK} it blew up {UM} because(2) using ammonia you get {SMACK} hugely high pressures if you {NOISE} heated them wrong {NOISE} it <sil> topped four hundred {NOISE} psi {BREATH} the ammonia was toxic it sprayed everywhere(2) <sil> but {UH} it {BREATH} was(2) kind of an(2) interesting thought <sil> {NOISE} so <sil> the great thing about two thousand and six is {BREATH} there's <sil> a lot of {UH} really great computational work you can(2) do {NOISE} so we {SMACK} <sil> got the whole {SMACK} thermodynamics department at stanford involved a(2) {BREATH} lot of computational fluid(2) dynamics we proved {BREATH} that most of the(2) ammonia refrigeration tables {SMACK} are {NOISE} wrong {BREATH} we {UH} found some non toxic refrigerants that worked at very low vapor pressures {BREATH} {NOISE} this {UH} is {BREATH} a work in process(2) {BREATH} based on(2) {UH} some comments that were(2) made at {SMACK} ted two years(2) ago <sil> about <sil> the(2) need for <sil> the {SMACK} <sil> put it into(2) a container {SMACK} and(2) <sil> it will refrigerate for(2) twenty four hours {SMACK} it looks like {COUGH} this {SMACK} this is the fifth prototype {COUGH} it's not quite done {SMACK} weighs about eight pounds
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<sil> we came up with(2) {UH} a list {COUGH} of <sil> they wanted <sil> band integration(2) {SMACK} that is the machine {COUGH} acting upon the band members {BREATH} specifically not the(2) other way around(2) {BREATH} they wanted the machine action {COUGH} to(3) follow the song {NOISE} feeling so as the song {NOISE} picks up emotion {BREATH} so {NOISE} should {COUGH} the(2) {NOISE} machine get grander <sil> in its process {BREATH} they wanted us to make use of the space {SMACK} so we have(2) this ten thousand sq ft warehouse we were(2) using divided between two floors {BREATH} it included an exterior loading dock we used all of that including a(2) giant {BREATH} hole {NOISE} in the floor that we actually(4) descended the camera(2) and cameraman through {BREATH} they wanted it messy and we were(2) happy to oblige <sil> hi there {SMACK} i'm(2) going to be talking a little bit {NOISE} about {UH} music {SMACK} machines {NOISE} and {COUGH} life the(2) machine itself would start the music {BREATH} so {COUGH} the machine would get(2) started <sil> it would travel some distance {SMACK} reacting along the way <sil> hit play on an(2) ipod or(2) a {UH} tape deck or(2) something that would start {UH} playback {BREATH} and the machine would maintain synchronization throughout {BREATH} and speaking of synchronization {COUGH} they wanted(2) it {SMACK} to sync to the rhythm <sil> and to hit specific beats along the way they wanted it to(2) <sil> end {SMACK} precisely on(2) time <sil> okay so {NOISE} now {UM} the(2) start to finish {BREATH} timing has to be perfect {BREATH} and they wanted(2) the(2) music to <sil> drop out at a certain point in the video {NOISE} and <sil> actual live {NOISE} audio from the machine to play part of the song <sil> and(2) as if that wasn't(2) enough all of these incredibly complicating things right {BREATH} they {UM} wanted(2) it <sil> in one(2) shot <sil> okay <sil> {UH} so {NOISE} just some statistics about sort of what(2) we went through in the process {COUGH} the machine itself has <sil> eighty nine <sil> distinct interactions(2) {BREATH} or(2) more specifically <sil> what we learned from(2) the creation of a very large and(2) complicated machine <sil> for <sil> a(2) music {SMACK} video <sil> some of you may {NOISE} recognize {UH} this image(2) {SMACK} this is the(2) opening frame <sil> of the video that we created(2) <sil> it took us {UH} eighty five <sil> takes <sil> to(3) {UH} get it {NOISE} on film {NOISE} to(3) our satisfaction {COUGH} of those {NOISE} eighty five takes <sil> only three {COUGH} actually(3) successfully completed(2) their {NOISE} we destroyed two pianos(2) <sil> and ten televisions in the process <sil> we went to home depot {NOISE} well over a hundred(4) times and(2) we lost one high heeled shoe {COUGH} when(3) {COUGH} one of our {NOISE} engineers heather knight <sil> left her {NOISE} high heeled shoe after a nice dinner {NOISE} and returned back to the build {BREATH} and {UH} left it in a pile of stuff and {UH} another engineer thought well that would be a(2) really(2) good thing to use(2) and(2) {COUGH} ended up <sil> using it as a really(2) nice trigger and {NOISE} it's actually(3) in the machine {SMACK} <sil> so what(2) did we learn from all of <sil> this well {UM} having completed(2) this we {NOISE} have the(2) opportunity to(2) step back and reflect on some of the things {BREATH} and we learned {UH} that <sil> small stuff stinks <sil> little balls {NOISE} in wooden <sil> tracks {BREATH} are really susceptible to(3) {NOISE} humidity and temperature and a little bit of dust {BREATH} and they fall(2) out of the tracks the(2) exact angles makes it hard to <sil> <sil> get(2) right <sil> and {UH} yet <sil> a bowling ball will always follow the same path it doesn't matter what temperature it is <sil> doesn't matter <sil> what's in its way {NOISE} it will pretty much get where(2) it needs to go {BREATH} <sil> but as(3) much as(2) the small stuff stinks we needed somewhere(2) to start so that(2) we would have(2) somewhere to go {BREATH} and so you have(2) to start with it you have(2) to focus(2) on it {BREATH} small stuff stinks <sil> <sil> what(2) else {UH} planning is incredibly important {COUGH} <sil> you know(2) we spent a lot of time <sil> ideating and {COUGH} even building some of these things <sil> it's been(2) said that {UH} no battle plan survives contact with the enemy {UM} i think our enemy was physics <sil> and {UH} she's {COUGH} a(2) {NOISE} cruel(2) mistress {NOISE} {NOISE} often we had to pull things out {UH} as a result because(2) of timing or aesthetics or whatever(2) {BREATH} and so while planning is important so is flexibility {BREATH} these are(2) all things {NOISE} that ended up not making it {BREATH} into the final machine <sil> {NOISE} be showing the video {COUGH} at the(2) end {COUGH} but {BREATH} before we do {UH} i want to talk a little bit about {UM} what it is that they wanted(2) <sil> now {UM} when(3) we first started talking to ok go <sil> the {UH} name of the song is this too shall pass real car {COUGH} near the end of the video the big real car <sil> works every(2) time there's no problem about it the {NOISE} little one(2) had a tendency to try to run off the track and {BREATH} that's a problem {NOISE} but you don't want to have(2) to reset the whole machine because(2) the lego car at the(2) end {SMACK} doesn't(2) work right so you put that up front so that {NOISE} if it fails at least {SMACK} you know(2) <sil> you {NOISE} don't have to reset the whole <sil> thing <sil> can(2) be {COUGH} were(2) incredibly difficult moments in the building of this thing <sil> months were(2) spent in this {SMACK} tiny cold warehouse {BREATH} and {NOISE} the wonderful elation {SMACK} that we this too shall pass <sil> {NOISE} we {COUGH} <sil> the(2) {COUGH} <sil> they've done {NOISE} <sil> we were(2) really excited(2) {COUGH} because(2) they expressed interest in building a machine {SMACK} that they could dance with(2) {BREATH} and we were(2) very excited(2) about this {BREATH} because {COUGH} of {UH} course they have(2) a history <sil> of {UH} dancing with machines {SMACK} <sil> we sort of started talking about what(2) it is that(2) they wanted(3) and they explained that(2) they wanted {UH} kind of a <sil> rube goldberg machine <sil> now {UH} for(2) those of you who don't(2) know(2) {COUGH} a rube goldberg machine {SMACK} is {NOISE} a(2) so we were(2) excited(2) by this idea {COUGH} and we started talking about {COUGH} exactly {COUGH} what {NOISE} it {COUGH} would look like {BREATH} and we {SMACK} came up with(2) some {NOISE} parameters <sil>
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and(2) i thought to myself <sil> wouldn't it be great {COUGH} if i had my own <sil> dodo skeleton <sil> and(2) so <sil> i {NOISE} want to point out here at this point that(2) {BREATH} my life {UH} obsessed {BREATH} by {NOISE} objects and the stories that(2) they tell {BREATH} and(2) <sil> this was the very latest one(2) so i began looking around(2) for to <sil> see if anyone sold a <sil> some kind of model that i could get {BREATH} and i found lots of reference material {BREATH} lots of lovely pictures {BREATH} no dice {SMACK} no dodo skeleton for me {COUGH} but the(2) damage had been done i had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons <sil> into(2) my creative projects folder <sil> it's a repository for(2) my brain {NOISE} everything that i could possibly be interested in <sil> any time i have an <sil> internet connection {BREATH} there's a sluice of {NOISE} stuff moving into there {COUGH} everything <sil> from(2) {BREATH} beautiful rings to(3) cockpit photos the key that(2) the marquis du lafayette sent to george washington to celebrate the storming of the {NOISE} {NOISE} russian nuclear launch key the one(2) on the top is the picture of the one(2) i found on {NOISE} ebay the one(2) on the bottom is the one i made for(2) myself {BREATH} because(2) i couldn't afford the one(2) on {NOISE} about four years(2) the new yorker published an(2) article(2) about a cache of dodo bones that was found {NOISE} in a {NOISE} pit {COUGH} on the(2) {NOISE} island {UH} of mauritius <sil> now the island of {NOISE} maybe <sil> yeah {NOISE} maybe i could make {NOISE} my own dodo <sil> skull <sil> <sil> i should point out at this time {NOISE} i'm(2) not a sculptor {BREATH} i'm <sil> a {NOISE} hard edged {SMACK} model maker you give me a drawing you give me a prop to replicate you give me a {SMACK} <sil> {UM} something like {COUGH} this my friend mike {UH} murnane sculpted this it's a(2) <sil> maquette for(2) star wars episode two {BREATH} this is not my thing {UH} i {COUGH} this is something other people do dragons soft(2) things <sil> however <sil> i felt like i had {NOISE} looked at enough photos {UH} of {NOISE} dodo skulls {BREATH} to(2) {COUGH} actually(3) be able to(3) {NOISE} understand the topology and perhaps replicate it {BREATH} i mean it couldn't be that difficult <sil> so {COUGH} i started(2) looking at {COUGH} the best photos i could find {BREATH} i grabbed all the reference <sil> and {NOISE} i found this lovely piece of reference this is {UH} someone selling this on {NOISE} ebay {BREATH} it was {UH} a woman's(2) clearly a woman a s hand hopefully a woman's(3) hand <sil> is a small island off the {NOISE} east coast of madagascar {NOISE} in the(2) indian ocean {BREATH} and {NOISE} it {NOISE} is the place {BREATH} where the dodo bird {BREATH} was(2) discovered <sil> as(2) size reference for(2) figuring out exactly how big the beak should be exactly how long {NOISE} et cetera et cetera {BREATH} and over a few hours {UH} i {COUGH} eventually(2) achieved what(2) was actually(4) a pretty {NOISE} reasonable(2) dodo skull and(2) i didn't(3) <sil> mean to continue <sil> i {COUGH} it's kind of like {COUGH} you know(2) you can(2) only clean a super messy room by picking up one thing at a time you can't {SMACK} think about the totality <sil> i wasn't(2) <sil> thinking about a dodo skeleton {BREATH} i just noticed that {COUGH} as i finished this skull the(2) {SMACK} armature wire(2) that(2) i had been(2) used to holding it up {COUGH} {NOISE} was(2) {BREATH} sticking out of the back just where(2) a spine would be and one(2) of the other things i'd been(2) interested in and obsessed with over the(2) years {SMACK} is spines and skeletons having collected a couple of hundred(3) {BREATH} <sil> i {COUGH} actually(3) understood the mechanics {COUGH} of {UH} vertebrae enough to kind of start to(2) <sil> imitate them(2) and so button by button {BREATH} vertebrae by vertebrae <sil> i built my way down <sil> and {UH} actually(4) by the end of the day i had a <sil> reasonable skull {BREATH} a {UH} moderately good {NOISE} vertebrae and half of a pelvis <sil> and(2) again {NOISE} i kept on going(2) {BREATH} looking for(2) more reference <sil> every bit of reference i could find drawings {SMACK} beautiful photos this guy i love this guy he put a dodo leg bones in {NOISE} a scanner with {UH} a ruler <sil> you can(2) see that i even made {COUGH} a(2) {COUGH} museum label for it that(2) includes a brief history(2) of the dodo and tap plastics made me although {NOISE} i didn't(3) photograph it {BREATH} a museum vitrine {NOISE} i don't have(2) the room for(2) this in my house {BREATH} but i had to finish {NOISE} what(2) i had started(2) <sil> and <sil> this <sil> actually(4) represented kind of a sea change to me {COUGH} again like i said my life has been about being fascinated {UH} by objects and the stories that(2) they tell and also {BREATH} making them for(2) myself {UH} obtaining them {UH} appreciating them {BREATH} and(2) {SMACK} extinguished <sil> all within about one(2) hundred and fifty years <sil> everyone was very excited(2) about this {BREATH} archeological find because(2) it meant {NOISE} that {BREATH} they might finally be able to assemble a single dodo skeleton see and(2) diving into them <sil> and {SMACK} in this folder creative projects {SMACK} there are <sil> tons of projects that(2) i'm(2) currently working on projects that i've already(2) worked on things that i might {COUGH} want to work on some day {BREATH} and things that(2) i may just(2) want to find and(2) buy and have(2) {UM} and <sil> and {NOISE} look at and touch {BREATH} {NOISE} but now there was potentially(2) this new category of things that i could sculpt <sil> that(2) was different that(2) {NOISE} i {NOISE} you know(2) i have(2) my own r two d two but that's {NOISE} honestly relative to(3) sculpting to me that's <sil> easy {BREATH} and so i went back and looked {BREATH} through my {NOISE} creative projects folder <sil> and <sil> i happened across {SMACK} the maltese falcon <sil> {COUGH} now this is funny <sil> for(2) me <sil> to(3) fall in love {UH} with an(2) object from a hammett novel because(2) if it's true that the world is divided into two types of people chandler people and(2) hammett people i am absolutely {BREATH} a chandler person but in this case {BREATH} it's not about <sil> it's not about the(2) author it's not about the book or the movie <sil> or the {NOISE} story {NOISE} it's about the object <sil> in and of itself <sil> and {NOISE} in {NOISE} this case {NOISE} this object <sil> is plays on {UH} a host of <sil> <sil> {NOISE} and it is very {NOISE} likely {NOISE} the object from(2) which(2) <sil> hammett drew his inspiration for the maltese falcon {BREATH} then there is the fictional bird {BREATH} the one(2) that hammett created(2) for(2) the book built {UH} out of words {BREATH} it is the(2) {NOISE} engine that(2) drives the plot {UH} of his book {NOISE} and {BREATH} also the movie in which(2) <sil> another object is created(2) a(2) prop that(2) has to <sil> represent the thing that(2) hammett created(2) out of words inspired by the kniphauser hawk {BREATH} and {NOISE} this {NOISE} represents the {NOISE} falcon in the movie and then {BREATH} there is this fourth {UM} level which(2) is while(2) museums all over the world have(2) dodo skeletons in their collection {BREATH} nobody(2) not {COUGH} even the(2) {NOISE} actual <sil> natural history(2) museum {UM} on the(2) island of mauritius has a skeleton that's made from the bones {UH} of a(2) single dodo {UH} <sil> a whole new {NOISE} object in the world {BREATH} the prop made for(2) the movie the {NOISE} representative of the thing {SMACK} becomes <sil> in its {NOISE} own right {BREATH} a whole {NOISE} other thing {NOISE} a(2) {NOISE} whole new {NOISE} object {BREATH} of desire <sil> <sil> and so i contacted <sil> an <sil> antiquarian bookseller <sil> who had the original christie's(3) catalogue and in it i {COUGH} found this magnificent(2) {COUGH} picture {BREATH} which included a size reference <sil> i was able to scan the picture {BREATH} blow it up to(3) exactly full size it was(2) made out of resin which(2) wasn't(2) a common material for(2) movie props about the time the movie was made {SMACK} it's funny to me that(2) it took a while {NOISE} to(3) authenticate it because {NOISE} i <sil> can(2) see it {NOISE} compared to(3) <sil> this thing and i can(2) tell you {SMACK} it's real <sil> it's the real thing it's made from the {UH} exact same <sil> mold that(2) this one is {BREATH} in {NOISE} this one because the(2) auction was actually(4) so controversial profiles in history(2) the(2) auction house that(2) sold this <sil> {NOISE} and <sil> other side elevation so now i had all the topology {BREATH} i needed(2) {BREATH} to replicate the maltese falcon what do they do how do you start something like that <sil> i {COUGH} really(2) don't(2) know(2) {UH} so what(2) i did was <sil> again {BREATH} like i did with the dodo skull i blew {NOISE} all my reference up to full size <sil> isn't exactly true {BREATH} the {COUGH} fact is is that(2) {UH} the british museum {NOISE} had a complete specimen {BREATH} of a dodo {NOISE} in their collection up until the(2) {NOISE} eighteenth century it was actually(2) mummified skin and all <sil> {NOISE} feather by feather <sil> detail(2) by detail(2) {BREATH} i {NOISE} worked out <sil> and <sil> achieved working in front of the television and super sculpey here's(3) me sitting next to my wife {BREATH} it's the(2) <sil> only picture i took of {COUGH} the {UH} entire process {BREATH} as i moved through i achieved <sil> so i went down to my shop <sil> and {NOISE} i {UM} molded(2) it <sil> and i cast it <sil> in {NOISE} resin(2) <sil> i ended up with this <sil> my maltese falcon {BREATH} and <sil> it's {SMACK} beautiful and i can {NOISE} state {NOISE} with authority at this point in time when(3) i'd finished it {BREATH} of {UH} all of the {NOISE} replicas out there and there is a few this is by far the most(2) <sil> accurate <sil> representation of the original maltese falcon than {NOISE} anyone has sculpted {BREATH} now {COUGH} the(2) original one i should tell you is sculpted by a(2) guy named fred sexton this is where(2) it gets weird {UH} <sil> but in a fit {NOISE} of space saving zeal they actually(4) cut off the head and(2) they cut off the feet and they burned the rest <sil> in a bonfire {COUGH} if <sil> you {COUGH} go look at their website today they'll actually(4) list these specimens saying {BREATH} the rest was {SMACK} lost {SMACK} in {NOISE} a(2) fire <sil> the los angeles county museum of art {NOISE} had {NOISE} a(2) plaster {UH} original of the maltese falcon one(2) of the(2) original six plasters i think made for(2) the movie {BREATH} stolen out of the(2) museum a lot of people thought it was a publicity(2) stunt for the movie {BREATH} john's(3) grill {BREATH} which actually(4) is seen briefly in the maltese falcon is still a {UH} viable san francisco {NOISE} eatery {BREATH} counted(4) amongst its regular customers elisha cook {COUGH} who played wilmer cook {SMACK} in the movie {BREATH} and {COUGH} he {NOISE} gave them(2) {BREATH} one of {NOISE} his original plasters of the maltese falcon and they had it in their {NOISE} cabinet {BREATH} for(2) {UH} about fifteen years {BREATH} until <sil> it {NOISE} got stolen in january of two thousand and seven it would seem that the(2) object of desire only comes into its own by disappearing repeatedly {BREATH} so here i had this falcon and it was lovely <sil> it <sil> looked really great {BREATH} it <sil> the {NOISE} light {COUGH} worked on it really well {NOISE} it was better than anything that i could <sil> achieve or obtain {COUGH} out in the world but there was a problem {BREATH} and the {NOISE} problem was was that the(2) entirety of the(2) object i wanted(2) the weight {BREATH} behind the(2) object {BREATH} this thing was made of {SMACK} resin(2) and it was too light <sil> {NOISE} there's this group online {NOISE} that i <sil> frequent(2) it's a <sil> group of {SMACK} prop crazies just like me called the replica props forum and it's people who trade {BREATH} make <sil> and travel in information(2) about movie props {BREATH} and it turned out that(2) one of the guys there {BREATH} a friend of mine that {NOISE} i {NOISE} never actually(2) met but befriended through some prop deals {BREATH} was the manager of a local foundry he took my master falcon pattern {BREATH} he actually(3) {NOISE} did <sil> lost wax casting in bronze for(2) me {SMACK} and this is the bronze i got back {BREATH} and this is after some acid etching the one(2) that i ended up with {BREATH} and this thing <sil> it's deeply deeply satisfying <sil> to me {SMACK} here i'm going {COUGH} to {BREATH} i going to put it out there {BREATH} later on tonight {SMACK} and you can(2) {UM} a {UH} i {COUGH} want(2) {NOISE} you to(2) {COUGH} pick it <sil> not quite the whole truth <sil> anyway <sil> the frontispiece <sil> of this article was this photo {BREATH} and i'm(2) one(2) of the people that(2) thinks that(2) tina brown <sil> was great {COUGH} for(2) bringing photos to the new yorker because(2) this photo <sil> yeah <sil> i {NOISE} there you {COUGH} can(2) {COUGH} see it's weighing in {COUGH} at {UH} twenty seven and(2) a half pounds {BREATH} that's half {BREATH} the weight of my dog {COUGH} huxley <sil> but there's a problem {COUGH} now {UH} <sil> here's(3) {NOISE} the {UM} most(2) {NOISE} recent progression {UH} of {UH} falcons on the far left is a piece of crap a {BREATH} replica i bought on {NOISE} ebay there's my {NOISE} somewhat(2) {UM} ruined(2) sculpey falcon because(2) {NOISE} i had to get it back out of the mold there's my first casting {BREATH} there's my master and there's {NOISE} my bronze <sil> that(2) happens when(2) you mold and cast things which is that(2) every(2) time you throw it into silicone and cast it in resin you {NOISE} lose a little bit of volume {NOISE} you lose a little bit of size {BREATH} and when(3) i held {COUGH} my bronze one {UH} up against my sculpey one(2) it was shorter by three quarters of an inch <sil> why(2) didn't i {COUGH} remember this why didn't(4) i start and make it bigger <sil> so {UH} what do i do i figure i have(2) two options <sil> one and blown this up big enough <sil> to(3) {NOISE} make a three d lithography {BREATH} master of this which(2) i will polish {BREATH} then i will send to(3) the(2) mold maker and then i will have(2) it done in bronze {NOISE} there are several people who own originals <sil> and i have(2) been(2) attempting to contact them(2) and reach them(2) {BREATH} hoping that they will let me spend few minutes in the presence of one(2) of the real birds maybe to take a picture or even to pull {NOISE} out {COUGH} the hand held {UH} laser scanner that i happen to {UH} own that(2) fits inside a cereal box <sil> and(2) could maybe without even touching their bird i swear {COUGH} get a {COUGH} perfect(2) three d scan and i'm(2) even willing to(2) sign pages saying that(2) i'll never let anyone else have(2) it except for(2) me in my office i promise i'll give them(2) one if they want it {BREATH} and completely rocked my world <sil> i {UM} became obsessed with the(2) object {NOISE} not just(2) the <sil> beautiful photograph itself and(2) the color the shallow depth of field the detail(2) that's visible {BREATH} the wire you can(2) see on the beak there that(2) the conservator used to put this skeleton together {BREATH} there's an(2) entire story here <sil> <sil> then maybe then {NOISE} i'll achieve the(2) end of this <sil> exercise but <sil> really(2) if we're all going to be honest with ourselves i have(2) to admit that(2) achieving the end of the(2) exercise was never the point of the(2) exercise to begin with {SMACK} was(2) it
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but diagnosing a brain disorder <sil> without actually(2) {NOISE} looking {NOISE} at <sil> the brain is analogous to {SMACK} treating {UH} a patient with a heart {UH} problem based on their physical symptoms without(2) {BREATH} even <sil> doing an {NOISE} ecg {NOISE} or(2) a chest x ray {SMACK} to(2) {NOISE} look at the heart {SMACK} <sil> it seemed <sil> so intuitive {SMACK} to me {BREATH} to(3) <sil> diagnose and(2) treat <sil> a brain disorder {UH} accurately <sil> it would be necessary <sil> to(2) {NOISE} look at <sil> the brain directly(2) {BREATH} <sil> {NOISE} looking at behavior alone <sil> can miss {SMACK} a vital <sil> piece of {SMACK} the puzzle {SMACK} and provide <sil> an <sil> incomplete or even a misleading picture {UH} of {SMACK} the child's(2) problems <sil> {NOISE} yet despite {UH} all {NOISE} the(2) advances(2) in medical(2) technology {BREATH} the diagnosis <sil> of brain disorders {NOISE} in <sil> one {NOISE} in six children <sil> still <sil> remained <sil> so {NOISE} limited(2) {SMACK} and(2) then i {NOISE} came across <sil> a team at {NOISE} harvard university <sil> that had taken one(2) such <sil> advanced medical(2) technology and finally {BREATH} applied it {SMACK} instead of <sil> in brain {NOISE} research {SMACK} towards(2) {SMACK} diagnosing brain disorders in children {SMACK} <sil> their groundbreaking technology {BREATH} records(3) the(2) {NOISE} eeg {NOISE} or the(2) <sil> electrical activity(2) {NOISE} of {SMACK} the brain <sil> in <sil> real time {SMACK} <sil> {NOISE} when(3) i {NOISE} was(2) ten years(2) old {BREATH} a(2) {UM} cousin of mine {COUGH} took me {NOISE} on a(2) {COUGH} tour {UH} of his medical(2) school <sil> allowing us to <sil> watch the brain <sil> as it performs various functions {BREATH} and then detect {NOISE} even the slightest abnormality <sil> in <sil> any of {SMACK} these functions vision <sil> attention {NOISE} language(2) {NOISE} a program called {NOISE} brain <sil> electrical {NOISE} activity(2) mapping {BREATH} then {NOISE} triangulates the source <sil> of {SMACK} that <sil> abnormality in the brain {BREATH} {COUGH} and another program called <sil> statistical probability mapping {BREATH} then {BREATH} performs mathematical calculations to determine(2) whether(2) <sil> any of these <sil> abnormalities are <sil> clinically(2) significant(2) {BREATH} allowing us to provide a much more <sil> accurate {BREATH} neurological diagnosis {SMACK} of the child's(3) symptoms {BREATH} and so i became the head of <sil> neurophysiology {BREATH} for(2) the clinical(2) {UM} arm {NOISE} of <sil> this team {SMACK} <sil> <sil> like to(2) tell you about one such child {SMACK} whose story was(2) also covered {UH} by {NOISE} abc {NOISE} news(2) <sil> seven year old justin(2) senigar <sil> and(2) as(2) a special {UH} treat {SMACK} he took me to the pathology lab {BREATH} and took <sil> a {NOISE} real human brain {BREATH} out of <sil> the jar <sil> and placed it in my hands {SMACK} <sil> came <sil> to(3) our clinic with this diagnosis {SMACK} of very severe autism {BREATH} like many autistic children {COUGH} his mind <sil> was <sil> locked <sil> inside his <sil> body {BREATH} there were(2) moments when(2) he would actually(4) space out {SMACK} for(2) seconds(2) at a time {BREATH} and the doctors told his parents {BREATH} he was(2) never going(2) to(2) be able to communicate {UH} or <sil> interact(2) socially {BREATH} and he would probably never have(2) too much language {SMACK} <sil> {NOISE} when(3) we used this groundbreaking {NOISE} eeg {NOISE} technology <sil> to(3) actually(4) {NOISE} look {SMACK} at justin(2)'s(2) <sil> brain <sil> the results were(2) startling <sil> <sil> it turned out that(2) justin(2) was almost certainly <sil> not <sil> autistic {BREATH} he was(2) suffering <sil> from {NOISE} brain seizures {SMACK} <sil> that(2) were(2) impossible to see with the naked eye {SMACK} but that were(2) actually(2) {SMACK} causing(2) symptoms {SMACK} that mimicked {SMACK} those of {NOISE} autism {SMACK} <sil> after justin(2) was given(2) anti(2) seizure medication <sil> the change in him {UH} was <sil> amazing {BREATH} within a period of sixty days {SMACK} his vocabulary went from two to three words {SMACK} to(3) three hundred(3) <sil> words {SMACK} <sil> <sil> and(2) his(2) communication and social interaction(2) were(2) improved so dramatically(2) {BREATH} that he was enrolled {BREATH} in {NOISE} a regular(2) school {BREATH} and even became {BREATH} a karate superchamp {BREATH} <sil> research shows {NOISE} that fifty percent <sil> of children {UH} almost fifty percent of children diagnosed with autism <sil> are actually(2) suffering <sil> from hidden {SMACK} brain seizures {SMACK} <sil> these {UM} are(2) the faces(2) <sil> of the children that <sil> i have(2) tested(2) {SMACK} with stories <sil> just <sil> like justin(2) <sil> all {NOISE} these children {BREATH} <sil> <sil> and there it was(3) <sil> the(2) <sil> seat of human consciousness <sil> the <sil> powerhouse of the(2) human body <sil> sitting <sil> in my hands {BREATH} came to(3) our clinic <sil> with a diagnosis of <sil> autism <sil> attention deficit disorder {BREATH} mental retardation {COUGH} language(2) problems {BREATH} instead scans <sil> revealed <sil> very {NOISE} specific(2) problems hidden within their brains <sil> that couldn't(2) <sil> possibly have(2) been(3) detected(2) <sil> by their {UH} behavioral(2) <sil> assessments {BREATH} so these eeg {NOISE} scans {SMACK} enabled(2) us to provide these children with a much more {NOISE} accurate <sil> neurological diagnosis {BREATH} and much more targeted {SMACK} treatment {SMACK} <sil> for(2) too {NOISE} long now <sil> children with developmental(2) disorders {SMACK} have(2) suffered from misdiagnosis {SMACK} while {NOISE} their {COUGH} real problems have(2) gone <sil> undetected <sil> and left to {UH} <sil> and(2) for(2) too long these children <sil> and(2) their <sil> parents have(3) suffered <sil> undue frustration <sil> and(2) desperation <sil> <sil> but we are now {UH} in a(2) new(2) {NOISE} era(2) {UH} of neuroscience {BREATH} one in which(2) we can(2) finally {NOISE} look <sil> directly(2) <sil> at {SMACK} brain function <sil> in real time <sil> with {SMACK} no risks and no side effects <sil> non invasively {BREATH} and find the <sil> true source <sil> of so many disabilities(2) <sil> in children <sil> <sil> so if i {NOISE} could inspire {NOISE} even <sil> a fraction of you in the(2) audience(2) today {SMACK} to share {NOISE} this pioneering <sil> diagnostic approach {SMACK} with even <sil> one <sil> parent whose child is suffering(2) {BREATH} from(2) a developmental(2) disorder then <sil> perhaps {NOISE} one more puzzle in one more brain will be solved <sil> one more mind {SMACK} will be unlocked {SMACK} and one more child who has been(3) misdiagnosed or even <sil> undiagnosed by the system <sil> and(2) that {NOISE} day i knew(2) <sil> that when(3) i {UH} grew up {BREATH} i was(2) going(2) to become {BREATH} a brain doctor(2) {NOISE} scientist something or the other <sil> will(2) finally realize his or her {UH} true potential {BREATH} while {NOISE} there's still {NOISE} time {BREATH} for(2) his or her brain to recover {BREATH} and <sil> all {COUGH} this <sil> by simply watching <sil> the child's(3) <sil> brainwaves {SMACK} thank you {SMACK} <sil> years later when(3) i <sil> finally <sil> grew up {BREATH} my dream came true {SMACK} and it was while(2) i was doing my ph d on the neurological causes(2) <sil> <sil> of dyslexia in children that i encountered(2) <sil> a(2) {NOISE} startling fact that i'd like to share with you all {NOISE} today <sil> <sil> it is <sil> estimated(2) <sil> that {UM} one {NOISE} in six children that's one {NOISE} in <sil> six children {SMACK} suffer {UH} from some {SMACK} developmental(2) disorder <sil> <sil> {NOISE} this is a disorder {BREATH} that {NOISE} retards <sil> mental development {NOISE} in the child and causes <sil> permanent {SMACK} mental {NOISE} impairments {BREATH} which(2) means that {NOISE} each and every(2) one of you here today knows at least one(2) child {COUGH} that(2) is suffering(2) {BREATH} from a developmental(2) <sil> disorder {UH} <sil> <sil> but here's(3) what really perplexed me <sil> despite {UH} the fact that(2) {UH} each <sil> and {NOISE} every one {COUGH} these disorders <sil> originates <sil> in the brain {BREATH} <sil> most(2) of {SMACK} these disorders {BREATH} are diagnosed <sil> solely {UH} on the basis(2) {SMACK} of <sil> observable behavior <sil> <sil>
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for(2) better {NOISE} or(2) worse we kids aren't hampered as(3) much when(3) it comes to thinking about reasons why not to do things {BREATH} kids can be <sil> full of inspiring aspirations and(2) hopeful thinking <sil> {NOISE} like {NOISE} my wish that no one(2) went hungry {BREATH} or that(2) everything were(2) free <sil> kind of utopia {SMACK} how many of you still dream like <sil> that and believe in the possibilities <sil> <sil> on the {UM} other hand {BREATH} we <sil> kids still dream about perfection {BREATH} and that's a good thing <sil> because(2) in order to(2) make {NOISE} anything a reality {BREATH} you have(2) to dream about it first {NOISE} <sil> in many ways {NOISE} our {NOISE} audacity to(3) imagine helps push the boundaries of possibility {BREATH} for(2) instance the museum of glass in tacoma washington my {NOISE} home state yoohoo washington {NOISE} now i want to(2) start with a question(2) when(4) was(2) the last(2) time you were(2) called childish {SMACK} for(2) {SMACK} kids like me being called childish {BREATH} can be a frequent(2) <sil> occurrence <sil> our inherent wisdom doesn't <sil> have(2) to be insiders knowledge(2) {BREATH} kids already do a lot of learning from adults(2) <sil> teachers and(2) students and i like this analogy {BREATH} it shouldn't just be a {NOISE} teacher at the head of the classroom telling students do this do that {BREATH} the {NOISE} students {BREATH} should teach their teachers {BREATH} <sil> <sil> learning between grown ups and kids should be reciprocal {BREATH} the reality unfortunately is a little {NOISE} different(2) <sil> and it has a lot to do with(2) trust {SMACK} or a lack of it <sil> don't(2) trust someone you place restrictions on them right {BREATH} if i doubt my older sister's(3) ability to pay back <sil> the ten percent interest(5) {NOISE} i established on her last loan {COUGH} i'm going to(3) withhold her ability {BREATH} to(2) get more money <sil> from(2) me until she {COUGH} pays it {COUGH} back {COUGH} {NOISE} true story by the way <sil> <sil> <sil> to(3) have(2) a prevalently restrictive {NOISE} attitude towards(2) {SMACK} kids from every {BREATH} don't do that don't do this in the school handbook {BREATH} to(2) restrictions on school internet use {SMACK} <sil> as(2) history points out regimes become <sil> oppressive when(3) they're fearful about keeping control {BREATH} and although adults(2) may not be quite at the level of totalitarian regimes kids {NOISE} have(2) no or very little say in making the rules {BREATH} when really the attitude should be reciprocal meaning {BREATH} that <sil> the(2) adult(2) population should learn <sil> and take into(2) account the wishes <sil> of the younger population {SMACK} <sil> now what's(2) {NOISE} even worse than(2) restriction {NOISE} is that adults often(2) {NOISE} underestimate(2) {SMACK} kids abilities {BREATH} we love challenges {BREATH} but when(3) expectations are low {UH} trust me we will sink to them <sil> to write from(2) the(2) <sil> age of four <sil> and when(3) i was(2) six my mom bought me my {UH} own laptop <sil> equipped with(2) {SMACK} microsoft word thank {SMACK} you bill gates and thank {NOISE} you ma {NOISE} i wrote over <sil> three hundred short stories on that little laptop {BREATH} and {NOISE} i {NOISE} wanted(2) to(2) {NOISE} get published {NOISE} <sil> many publishers were(2) not quite {NOISE} so encouraging(2) {BREATH} one large children's(3) publisher ironically saying that(2) they didn't(2) work with(2) {NOISE} children {SMACK} <sil> we are called childish <sil> which(2) really bothers me {NOISE} after all take a look at these events {SMACK} imperialism and colonization {BREATH} <sil> and(2) from there on {NOISE} it's gone to speaking at hundreds of schools keynoting to thousands(2) of educators {BREATH} and finally today {BREATH} speaking to you {BREATH} i {NOISE} appreciate your(2) attention today <sil> because(2) to(2) show that(2) you truly care {BREATH} you listen <sil> but {BREATH} <sil> {NOISE} just(2) like {NOISE} you <sil> really(2) {BREATH} the goal is not to turn kids into your(2) kind of adult(2) <sil> but rather better adults(2) {SMACK} than(2) you have been(2) which(2) may be a little challenging considering your(2) guys credentials(2) {BREATH} no matter your(2) position of place {NOISE} in life {SMACK} it is imperative {SMACK} to create opportunities for(2) children {BREATH} so that we can grow up {SMACK} to blow you away {SMACK} <sil> because(2) we {NOISE} are the leaders <sil> of tomorrow <sil> which(2) means we're going to be taking care of you when(3) <sil> you're old and(2) {NOISE} senile <sil> no just kidding <sil> world <sil> wars <sil> george w bush {NOISE} ask yourself(2) who {NOISE}'s(3) responsible <sil> {NOISE} really we are {NOISE} going(2) to(2) be the next generation the ones {SMACK} who will bring this world forward {BREATH} and in case you don't think that(2) this really(2) has meaning for(2) you <sil> {UH} now {COUGH} the world <sil> needs opportunities {BREATH} for <sil> new(2) leaders {SMACK} and new(2) ideas <sil> kids need opportunities <sil> to lead(2) {SMACK} and succeed <sil> {COUGH} what(2) have kids {NOISE} <sil> {NOISE} frank touched millions with(2) her powerful account of the holocaust {BREATH} ruby bridges(2) helped {NOISE} end segregation in the(2) united(2) states {BREATH} and <sil> most(2) recently charlie simpson <sil> to raise one hundred(3) and twenty thousand(2) pounds for haiti {BREATH} on his <sil> little <sil> bike <sil> so as(2) you can see evidenced by such examples <sil> age has {NOISE} absolutely nothing to do with(2) it <sil> the traits the word childish addresses(2) are seen so often(2) in adults(2) {BREATH} that we should abolish this <sil> age discriminatory word when(3) it comes to criticizing behavior {BREATH} associated(2) <sil> with irresponsibility {NOISE} say that(2) certain types of irrational <sil> thinking <sil> <sil> exactly what the world needs {BREATH} maybe you've 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i stand in these legs {COUGH} my {COUGH} hamstring and my <sil> glutes are contracted as(3) {COUGH} i {NOISE} would be had i had <sil> feet and were(2) standing on the ball of my {UM} feet <sil> it's a company in <sil> san diego called <sil> flex foot <sil> and i was(2) a(2) {NOISE} guinea pig <sil> and {UH} as i hope to continue to be in {COUGH} every(2) new(2) {NOISE} form of {UH} prosthetic <sil> limbs that come out <sil> {UH} but {NOISE} actually(4) these like i said are still the(2) actual(2) prototype i need to get some new ones because(2) <sil> the last(2) so these are(2) the sprint legs and i can(2) <sil> put my other <sil> <sil> {NOISE} your(2) mobility <sil> or {COUGH} you know(2) <sil> even fashion i {COUGH} mean i love the <sil> fact that i can(2) go in anywhere and {COUGH} pick out what i want and <sil> the shoes i want the {COUGH} skirts i want {COUGH} <sil> i'm {NOISE} hoping to try to {COUGH} bring <sil> these {NOISE} over here and make <sil> them {COUGH} accessible to {UH} a lot of people {BREATH} <sil> they're also {COUGH} silicon <sil> this is like a really <sil> basic <sil> basic <sil> prosthetic limb under(2) here {COUGH} it's like a barbie <sil> i mean {NOISE} it's just(2) {NOISE} stuck in this position <sil> so i {NOISE} have(2) <sil> to wear a two inch heel <sil> and {UH} i mean it's really {NOISE} it {UH} <sil> you can see it but {UH} like it really is there's veins <sil> on the feet <sil> and then my {COUGH} heel's(2) <sil> like <sil> pink <sil> you know(2) and {COUGH} my achilles <sil> tendon <sil> that(2) moves a little bit <sil> and {COUGH} it's {NOISE} really an amazing sort you know(2) <sil> that(2) <sil> they <sil> do these {COUGH} track <sil> meets with all disabled runners and i {COUGH} figured <sil> oh {COUGH} i don't know(2) about <sil> this {COUGH} but {NOISE} before i judge it <sil> let {UH} me go see what(2) it's all about {UH} so i {UM} booked myself a flight to <sil> boston in ninety <sil> five {COUGH} a(2) year and(2) two weeks ago <sil> and {COUGH} this is just a silicon {COUGH} piece of skin <sil> i {COUGH} mean {UH} what(2) {NOISE} happened was(2) two years(2) ago this man in <sil> belgium was(2) <sil> saying <sil> you know(2) {NOISE} god if i can(2) go to(2) madame tussauds wax <sil> museum and see <sil> {NOISE} we {COUGH} ha {COUGH} luckily {NOISE} the hotel was terrific they got <sil> these legs are(2) {UH} great i'm(2) doing {COUGH} i'm {NOISE} actually(4) going(2) back in a couple of weeks <sil> to(2) {COUGH} get some {COUGH} improvements i want to get legs like <sil> these made for(2) <sil> <sil> for(2) me <sil> panting and heaving {NOISE} and {UM} i <sil> had these legs that were(2) made of like a wood and <sil> plastic <sil> compound <sil> <sil> {NOISE} this {COUGH} and(2) know(2) what(2) i was expecting but {COUGH} you know(2) when(3) i {NOISE} saw {COUGH} a {UM} man {COUGH} who was(2) missing an {SMACK} entire leg <sil> go up to the high {NOISE} jump hop <sil> on one(2) leg to(2) the high jump and clear it at <sil> six feet <sil> two inches(2) {COUGH} dan o'brien jumped five eleven in ninety six in atlanta {COUGH} <sil> i {NOISE} mean if it just(2) gives you a(2) <sil> comparison of {COUGH} these are(2) {COUGH} you know(2) truly accomplished {COUGH} athletes <sil> without qualifying that word {COUGH} athlete {COUGH} and so i decided to(2) give this {NOISE} a(2) shot <sil> and {UH} don't have(2) <sil> any {NOISE} skill or(2) <sil> finesse <sil> going down that track {NOISE} you were(2) {UH} all over the(2) place {COUGH} we all <sil> saw {COUGH} how hard you were(2) working {NOISE} and {COUGH} so i decided to(2) <sil> call the <sil> track <sil> coach {NOISE} at georgetown and(2) {COUGH} i {NOISE} thank god i didn't(3) know(2) <sil> just(2) how {COUGH} huge this man is in the track and field world he's(3) coached <sil> thought we'd just(2) {COUGH} talk a little bit <sil> and(2) {COUGH} you know(2) the man's(3) office is {COUGH} lined from floor to {COUGH} ceiling with(2) <sil> all {NOISE} ran one(2) {COUGH} race and <sil> i {NOISE} i wanted her to <sil> tell {UH} all of you {COUGH} what makes her a distinctive athlete well we should <sil> meet <sil> first before we decide anything you know he(2)'s(3) <sil> thinking <sil> what(2) am i <sil> getting(2) {NOISE} myself into(2) <sil> so i met <sil> these <sil> posters {COUGH} and {UH} magazine covers of <sil> people he(2) {SMACK}'s(2) coached {COUGH} and we sat and(2) we got <sil> talking and it <sil> turned out to be a great partnership because(2) {COUGH} he'd never coached a disabled athlete so therefore he(2) had no <sil> <sil> {COUGH} on this trip <sil> so {UM} he <sil> started giving me {COUGH} four days a week of his lunch <sil> break {COUGH} his(2) {UM} free time that i would {UH} come up to the track and {NOISE} train with him(2) {COUGH} so {COUGH} that's how i met {COUGH} frank {COUGH} that was fall of {COUGH} ninety five and then {COUGH} by the winter rolling around(2) he said {COUGH} you know(2) you're(2) {COUGH} good {NOISE} enough <sil> you can(2) run <sil> on our women's(2) track <sil> team here {COUGH} and {COUGH} i said {COUGH} no {COUGH} come {COUGH} those of you who have(2) {COUGH} seen the <sil> picture in the <sil> little {UM} bio it might have <sil> given it away <sil> i'm(2) {COUGH} a double amputee <sil> why(2) don't(2) you tell them <sil> like <sil> on your(2) way to the olympics {COUGH} but {COUGH} a {UM} couple of memorable events happened at <sil> georgetown why(2) don't(2) you just(2) tell well {COUGH} you know(2) <sil> i'd {NOISE} won everything <sil> as(3) far as(3) the disabled meets everything i competed in <sil> i was <sil> born without(2) <sil> fibulas {COUGH} in both legs <sil> i was amputated at age one(2) {COUGH} and i've been {COUGH} running like hell {NOISE} better than you <sil> and {UH} i {COUGH} went {NOISE} out {COUGH} there {COUGH} and <sil> made it to the <sil> big {NOISE} east which {COUGH} was(2) {UH} sort {NOISE} of the championship <sil> race <sil> {NOISE} and(2) {COUGH} really really hot and it's the first {NOISE} i had <sil> just gotten these <sil> new(2) <sil> sprinting legs that(2) you see in {COUGH} that <sil> bio and {UM} {NOISE} i {COUGH} didn't(2) realize at that <sil> time that {COUGH} you know(2) the(2) amount of sweating that i would be doing in the {COUGH} sock it actually(4) {COUGH} acted(2) like a lubricant <sil> and i'd be <sil> kind <sil> of pistoning in the socket {COUGH} and {UM} at about eighty five meters of my one(2) hundred meters sprint <sil> in all my glory {COUGH} i <sil> came out of my leg {UM} like {NOISE} i almost came {UM} out of it <sil> in front of like <sil> five thousand <sil> people {COUGH} i {UH} i mean just(2) mortified {NOISE} and {COUGH} because(2) i was signed up for(2) the two hundred {NOISE} <sil> a(2) {COUGH} there's no way i'm(2) going {NOISE} two hundred meters {COUGH} and he just sat <sil> there <sil> and {UH} you <sil> know(2) my pleas {NOISE} fell on {UH} deaf ears <sil> thank god {COUGH} because(2) he {COUGH} was(2) like you {COUGH} know(2) {COUGH} the man's(2) from <sil> brooklyn {NOISE} he <sil>'s(3) a big {COUGH} <sil> <sil> i {COUGH} <sil> the(2) {UH} two years you've been running {SMACK} am no {UH} a year cheryl <sil> a(2) year {NOISE} and <sil> why don't(2) you tell them what happened <sil> right before(2) you {COUGH} go run your(2) race {NOISE} am {COUGH} okay {NOISE} well <sil> <sil> atlanta {UM} the paralympics {NOISE} just <sil> for(2) {UH} a <sil> little bit of clarification <sil> are the(2) olympics <sil> for(2) people with <sil> physical {UH} <sil> here {NOISE} we are like {COUGH} a week after the(2) olympics {BREATH} and <sil> down at atlanta {COUGH} and {NOISE} i'm(2) just(2) blown away by the <sil> fact <sil> that(2) <sil> you know(2) a(2) <sil> year ago i got out on(2) a gravel track and {COUGH} couldn't(2) run fifty meters {COUGH} and so here i am never lost {NOISE} i {NOISE} set new(2) <sil> records(2) at {NOISE} the u s nationals the olympic trials that may <sil> and(2) {COUGH} was(2) just {COUGH} you know(2) {UM} sure {NOISE} that i was <sil> coming home with <sil> the gold <sil> i was also the {COUGH} only <sil> planar <sil> foot <sil> so we {COUGH} can't get off on the springboard i {NOISE} said <sil> well i just(2) <sil> did it no one(2) told me that <sil> so {COUGH} it's <sil> funny i'm(2) three inches(2) {SMACK} within the world record(2) <sil> and {NOISE} kept on(2) from that <sil> point you know(2) so {UH} i'm(2) {UM} signed up in the long jump <sil> signed up <sil> no i made it <sil> for(2) the long jump and {COUGH} the(2) {UM} one(2) hundred meter <sil> and {COUGH} i'm sure of it you know(2) {NOISE} i made the front page of my hometown paper that i delivered <sil> for(2) six <sil> years you know(2) it was(2) like {NOISE} this {COUGH} is {NOISE} my <sil> time for(2) <sil> {UM} i was the first person in the world on(2) these legs i was the(2) guinea pig <sil> and {UH} what(2) kind of <sil> you know(2) who'm i running against here {UM} oh aimee we'll have(2) <sil> to(2) get(2) back to you on(2) that one(2) {COUGH} i wanted to find out <sil> times <sil> don't worry you're(2) <sil> you know(2) <sil> you're {COUGH} doing {UH} great <sil> this is <sil> twenty minutes before my {NOISE} <sil> <sil> students {COUGH} out of the nation {COUGH} every(2) year {COUGH} to {COUGH} get involved in international affairs and <sil> so {UH} i {COUGH} won a full ride <sil> to {COUGH} georgetown {NOISE} <sil> <sil> looking <sil> the next {COUGH} lane {COUGH} lane two {NOISE} is <sil> twelve <sil> point eight <sil> lane three is <sil> twelve <sil> point <sil> five {NOISE} {NOISE} which(2) <sil> one(2) of these is not {UM} like <sil> the(2) other {NOISE} <sil> five golds {COUGH} when i skied {COUGH} and everything i {COUGH} came in <sil> first <sil> and georgetown you know(2) that was great <sil> i was {COUGH} losing <sil> but <sil> it was the best training <sil> because(2) this was(2) atlanta(3) <sil> {UH} oh {NOISE} my god my whole family(3) {NOISE} you know(2) <sil> got in a van and drove {NOISE} down here from pennsylvania and {COUGH} you know(2) i was(2) the(2) only {SMACK} female {UH} u s sprinter <sil> so {UH} you know(2) they call us out <sil> and(2) you have one(2) {COUGH} minute(3) {COUGH} and {UH} when(3) {COUGH} i was(2) putting my {UH} blocks in my last <sil> card to play here is at least {NOISE} you know(2) if i'm(2) not going to beat these <sil> girls {NOISE} i'm(2) {NOISE} going {NOISE} to {NOISE} and {COUGH} i've {COUGH} been there for(2) {COUGH} four years(2) <sil> love it {COUGH} the rocky iv {NOISE} sensation of me versus(2) <sil> germany and <sil> you know(2) {NOISE} everyone else {NOISE} estonia and <sil> poland was in <sil> this {SMACK} heat <sil> and {COUGH} you know(2) the gun went off {COUGH} and {UM} you know(2) <sil> finishing <sil> last(2) {COUGH} and {COUGH} you know(2) {UH} fighting {NOISE} back tears(2) of <sil> frustration and {NOISE} aimee got <sil> there she decided <sil> that {UM} she's(3) kind of <sil> curious about track and <sil> field {COUGH} so she decided to call someone and start asking about it so why(2) don't(2) you tell i became a {UH} collegiate {NOISE} athlete {COUGH} you know(2) i became(2) an {COUGH} olympic athlete <sil> and {UM} it made me really think about how <sil> you know(2) the(2) achievement was {NOISE} getting there i mean the fact that(2) i set my {NOISE} sight <sil> just(2) a year and three months before that {UM} know(2) {UH} and their patience {SMACK} you {BREATH} know(2) <sil> to deal {NOISE} with <sil> me {COUGH} and {NOISE} that was <sil> like <sil> this collective glory that(2) <sil> there was {COUGH} you know(2) fifty people {COUGH} behind me <sil> that <sil> had {COUGH} joined in this incredible experience of going(2) to atlanta {COUGH} so i mean it's(2) <sil> i <sil> apply this sort of philosophy now to everything i {NOISE} do {UH} about <sil> like <sil> this you know(2) {COUGH} sitting back and realizing(2) the <sil> progression like {COUGH} how {BREATH} far you've {SMACK} come at <sil> this <sil> day {COUGH} to {NOISE} this goal it's <sil> important to focus on(2) a goal <sil> i think but {COUGH} you know(2) {UM} also recognize the <sil> progression on the way there and(2) how <sil> you've grown as(2) a person <sil> you know(2) {COUGH} that's <sil> the <sil> achievement {COUGH} i think {COUGH} that's the <sil> these are my {COUGH} cosmetic legs {COUGH} actually(3) {COUGH} and {COUGH} they're {COUGH} absolutely {COUGH} beautiful <sil> to(2) come up and(2) see them there {NOISE} are(2) {COUGH} hair follicles on {UH} them and <sil> i can(2) paint my toenails and {NOISE} <sil> {NOISE} ewing who {UH} played {COUGH} for(2) georgetown in the(2) eighties <sil> comes back <sil> every(2) summer {COUGH} and {UH} i had {UM} incessant <sil> fun {COUGH} making fun of {UH} him(2) in the training room <sil> because(2) he'd come in with <sil> {COUGH} he(2) as(2) {UH} i did anyway <sil> okay {NOISE} now {NOISE} these are my sprinting legs <sil> made of carbon graphite {NOISE} <sil> <sil> i {COUGH} said {NOISE} <sil> {NOISE} got {NOISE} <sil> {NOISE} different <sil> height am <sil> in these {COUGH} cheryl in {UH} these {COUGH} am {COUGH} i don't {NOISE} know(2) i {NOISE} don't {UH} think {BREATH} <sil> really {COUGH} stand {COUGH} on these legs {COUGH} she has to be moving <sil> <sil> {UM} silicon {NOISE} sock <sil> and <sil> so {UH} i {UH} run on these {UM} and {UH} and {COUGH} i'd {COUGH} never competed on {UM} a disabled <sil> level you know(2) {NOISE} i'd always competed against other {NOISE} able bodied athletes that's all i'd ever known in {NOISE} fact <sil> i'd never even met {COUGH} another amputee until i was(2) {COUGH} seventeen <sil> and {UM} i {COUGH} heard and {SMACK} other things that(2) <sil> i <sil> don't aren't(2) familiar with(2) {BREATH} and then one(2) eight year old said <sil> hey {UM} why wouldn't you want {UH} to {NOISE} <sil> <sil> and(2) {NOISE} the whole room including me was like <sil> yeah {BREATH} <sil> i went from(2) being a woman {BREATH} that these kids would have been trained {SMACK} to see {BREATH} as disabled {BREATH} <sil> to(3) {NOISE} somebody <sil> that(2) had potential that their bodies didn't have(2) yet {SMACK} somebody(2) that might even be super abled <sil> speaking to a group of about three hundred kids {BREATH} ages(2) six to(2) {NOISE} eight {NOISE} at a children's(3) museum {SMACK} and {NOISE} i brought with me {NOISE} a bag full of legs similar to the kinds of things you see up here and had them laid out on a table {BREATH} some of you <sil> actually(3) saw me <sil> at ted eleven years(2) ago {BREATH} and {UH} a lot of talk about how {NOISE} life changing this conference is <sil> for(2) both speakers and {SMACK} attendees and(2) i am no exception <sil> ted {NOISE} literally {BREATH} was the launch pad <sil> to the next {NOISE} decade of my life's(2) exploration(2) <sil> at the time {NOISE} the legs i presented(4) were(2) groundbreaking in prosthetics {BREATH} i had woven carbon fiber sprinting legs modeled after the hind leg of a cheetah {UH} which(2) you may have seen <sil> on stage yesterday <sil> <sil> and {UM} also these {BREATH} very life like <sil> intrinsically(2) painted(4) {SMACK} silicone legs <sil> so <sil> at the time it was my opportunity {SMACK} to put {COUGH} a call out to(2) {NOISE} innovators <sil> outside {SMACK} the traditional {NOISE} medical prosthetic community <sil> to come bring their talent to the science {SMACK} and to the {UH} art {BREATH} <sil> of building legs <sil> so {SMACK} that we can stop compartmentalizing <sil> form <sil> function {BREATH} and aesthetic {BREATH} and assigning them(2) different values {SMACK} <sil> {NOISE} well <sil> lucky for(2) me {BREATH} a lot of people answered that call {BREATH} and(2) <sil> the journey started(2) funny enough with(2) {BREATH} a ted conference attendee {SMACK} chee pearlman who <sil> hopefully is in the(2) audience somewhere(2) today {SMACK} she was the editor then of a(2) magazine called {UH} id <sil> and(2) she gave me {BREATH} a cover story <sil> on(2) the design of the cheetah legs around the world {NOISE} people <sil> would come up to me after the conference(2) after my talk {SMACK} men and women {BREATH} and <sil> the conversation would go something like this you're {NOISE} very attractive <sil> you don't(2) look disabled <sil> i thought well that's amazing because(2) <sil> i don't(2) feel <sil> <sil> and <sil> it {NOISE} really opened my eyes {NOISE} to(3) <sil> this conversation that could be explored about beauty <sil> what(2) does(2) a beautiful woman have(2) {BREATH} to look like <sil> sexy body and <sil> interestingly {BREATH} from an(2) identity(2) standpoint what does it mean <sil> to have(2) a disability <sil> the kids <sil> and {NOISE} from my {NOISE} experience {NOISE} you know(2) {NOISE} kids are naturally curious {BREATH} about what(2) they don't(2) know(2) or don't understand or(2) what(2) is <sil> foreign to them(2) {BREATH} i mean people <sil> pamela anderson has more prosthetic in her body than i do <sil> nobody(2) calls her disabled {COUGH} so this {NOISE} magazine through the hands of graphic designer peter saville went to(3) <sil> fashion designer alexander mcqueen <sil> and photographer nick knight <sil> who were(2) also {UH} interested {SMACK} in exploring that <sil> conversation {SMACK} so three months after ted i found myself <sil> on a plane <sil> to(2) london {BREATH} doing my first {COUGH} fashion shoot {SMACK} which(2) <sil> resulted in this {NOISE} cover {SMACK} fashion <sil> able {BREATH} three months after that <sil> i did my first runway show for(2) alexander mcqueen {BREATH} on a pair of {SMACK} hand carved {BREATH} wooden legs made from solid ash <sil> nobody(2) knew(2) <sil> everyone thought they were(2) wooden boots <sil> actually(4) i {NOISE} have(2) them on stage with(2) me <sil> <sil> <sil> into something that invites them to look <sil> and look a little longer and(2) maybe even understand {BREATH} <sil> i learned {SMACK} this {SMACK} firsthand(2) with <sil> my next adventure(2) {BREATH} the(2) artist {BREATH} matthew barney {NOISE} in his <sil> film {UM} opus called the {SMACK} the(2) cremaster cycle <sil> {NOISE} only learn to be frightened {SMACK} of those differences {SMACK} when an(2) adult(2) {NOISE} influences them(2) to behave that <sil> way {SMACK} and maybe censors that natural curiosity or(2) {BREATH} you know(2) reins in the question asking {UH} in the hopes of them(2) being polite {UH} little kids <sil> this is {NOISE} where(2) it really hit home {NOISE} for(2) {NOISE} me {SMACK} that <sil> my legs could be wearable sculpture {BREATH} and <sil> even at this point {BREATH} i started to move away {NOISE} from the need to replicate human ness <sil> as(3) the only <sil> aesthetic ideal <sil> so we {NOISE} made what(2) people <sil> lovingly referred(2) to(3) as glass legs even though they're {BREATH} actually(3) {COUGH} optically clear polyurethane <sil> a(2) k a(2) bowling ball {UH} material {BREATH} heavy {BREATH} then we made these legs {COUGH} that {NOISE} are(2) {UM} with a potato root system growing in them and beetroots out the top and(2) a {UM} very {NOISE} lovely brass toe {BREATH} that's a good close(2) up of that one(2) <sil> {COUGH} then another character was a half <sil> woman half cheetah a(2) {UH} little homage to my <sil> life as an athlete {SMACK} <sil> that(2) whipped(2) around(2) <sil> like a gecko {COUGH} and(2) <sil> then {UM} another {NOISE} pair of legs we collaborated(2) on were(2) these <sil> look like {COUGH} jellyfish {SMACK} legs {BREATH} also {UH} polyurethane {SMACK} and the(2) only {NOISE} purpose that(2) these <sil> legs can(2) serve outside the context of the film is {BREATH} to(3) {NOISE} <sil> so whimsy {BREATH} <sil> legs that various people have(2) made for(2) me {SMACK} and with them(2) i have(2) different negotiations(2) {BREATH} of the terrain under(2) my feet <sil> and i can(2) change my height {BREATH} i have(2) a variable of five different heights {BREATH} and(2) she looked at me and she said but {BREATH} <sil> so {NOISE} i just(2) pictured a {NOISE} first grade teacher out in the lobby with these {SMACK} unruly kids saying now whatever(2) {NOISE} you <sil> do {BREATH} don't stare at her legs {BREATH} but {NOISE} <sil> as(3) {NOISE} you want {COUGH} it <sil> and that's when i knew(2) <sil> that's when(3) i knew(2) that the conversation with(2) society {BREATH} has {COUGH} changed profoundly <sil> in this <sil> last(2) decade {SMACK} <sil> it is no longer a conversation {BREATH} about <sil> overcoming deficiency <sil> <sil> {SMACK} it's a conversation about {UH} limb <sil> doesn't represent(2) the need to <sil> replace(2) <sil> loss <sil> anymore it can(2) stand as(3) a symbol that the wearer <sil> has the power to(2) create whatever it is that(2) they want to create <sil> in that space <sil> {UH} so {NOISE} people that society once considered to be <sil> <sil> can now become the {UH} architects of their <sil> own {NOISE} identities <sil> and {SMACK} indeed {NOISE} continue to change those identities by {NOISE} designing their bodies {BREATH} from a place <sil> of empowerment <sil> <sil> and(2) what(2) is exciting to me {NOISE} so much <sil> right now <sil> is that {COUGH} by combining {BREATH} cutting edge technology <sil> robotics <sil> bionics {BREATH} with the(2) {NOISE} age old poetry <sil> {NOISE} that(2) {NOISE} if we want to discover the full potential(2) {BREATH} in our humanity <sil> {NOISE} we {NOISE} need to celebrate {BREATH} those <sil> heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all {BREATH} have(2) i think of shakespeare's(2) shylock <sil> that's <sil> the point {BREATH} that's why i was there {UM} i wanted to invite them(2) to(2) look and explore <sil> so {NOISE} i made a {COUGH} deal {SMACK} with(2) the(2) adults(2) {SMACK} that the kids could come in {BREATH} without any adults(2) for(2) two minutes <sil> on their own {BREATH} the doors open <sil> if you prick us do we not bleed {BREATH} <sil> {NOISE} and if you tickle us <sil> do we not laugh <sil> it is our humanity <sil> {NOISE} and(2) <sil> all the potential(2) within it {BREATH} <sil> that(2) makes us {UH} beautiful <sil> thank you <sil> the {NOISE} kids descend {BREATH} on this table {UH} of legs <sil> and they are poking and prodding and they're {BREATH} wiggling toes and they're {BREATH} trying to put their full weight on the sprinting leg to(2) see what(2) happens with that {SMACK} and i said kids really(2) quickly <sil> i {SMACK} woke up this morning <sil> i decided i wanted to be able to jump over a house <sil> dream up {UH} right now {BREATH} what kind of legs would you build me <sil> {NOISE} and immediately <sil> a voice {NOISE}
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i looked in the {UH} rearview mirror {SMACK} and <sil> all of a sudden it just(2) hit me {UH} there was no motorcade back there {BREATH} {NOISE} you've heard of phantom(2) limb pain <sil> this was a rented(2) ford taurus {SMACK} <sil> she {SMACK} took our order and then went to the couple in the booth next to us and she {BREATH} lowered her a series {UH} of <sil> the very next day but what it turned out to be {COUGH} was that my staff was extremely <sil> upset because <sil> one(2) <sil> of {UH} the <sil> wire(2) services <sil> the story began {BREATH} former vice president al gore announced in nigeria yesterday <sil> my wife tipper and(2) i have(2) opened a(2) low cost(2) family(2) {NOISE} <sil> {NOISE} shoney <sil>'s(2) {COUGH} and we are(2) running it ourselves {COUGH} tipper was saying one(2) more burger with fries <sil> talk about {NOISE} on(2) what many of you have(2) said {UH} you would like me to(3) elaborate on(2) what can(2) you do <sil> about {UM} the climate(2) {COUGH} crisis <sil> i {UH} want to start {COUGH} with(2) <sil> show some new images(2) {SMACK} and <sil> i'm going to recapitulate <sil> just(2) {UH} four {UH} or five {BREATH} now {NOISE} the slide show <sil> i update the slide show <sil> every(2) time i give it i add new <sil> images because(2) i learn more about it every time {COUGH} i give it <sil> it's {BREATH} like {NOISE} beachcombing you know(2) {BREATH} every(2) time the tide comes in and(2) out you find some more shells <sil> and(2) i say that sincerely {SMACK} partly because {COUGH} <sil> just {SMACK} in the last(2) two days we got the new(2) {UH} temperature records(2) in <sil> january {BREATH} this is just for(2) the(2) {SMACK} united states of america {BREATH} historical average for(2) january {NOISE} is thirty one(2) degrees {SMACK} last month was thirty nine <sil> {NOISE} point five degrees <sil> now {UH} i know(2) that you wanted(2) some more bad news about the(2) environment but these are the recapitulation {BREATH} slides and then i'm(2) going to go into new(2) {NOISE} material about {UH} what {NOISE} you can(2) do {BREATH} but i wanted to elaborate on a couple of these <sil> {NOISE} first of {SMACK} all {NOISE} this {UH} is <sil> where we're projected to go with(2) the u s contribution to global warming {SMACK} under(2) business as(3) usual <sil> need {NOISE} that {UH} a(2) cost(2) {NOISE} it's a(2) profit(2) {BREATH} the sign {BREATH} is wrong <sil> it's not negative {NOISE} it's positive {BREATH} these are investments that pay for themselves {BREATH} but they are also very effective {BREATH} in deflecting our path <sil> <sil> cars {COUGH} and trucks i talked about that in the slideshow {BREATH} but i want(2) you to put it in perspective {BREATH} it's an {NOISE} easy visible <sil> <sil> <sil> target(2) of {UH} concern <sil> and it should be {BREATH} but <sil> there {NOISE} is more global warming pollution that comes from(2) buildings {BREATH} than from cars and(2) trucks <sil> cars(2) and(2) trucks are very significant(2) {BREATH} and we have(2) the lowest standards in the world {BREATH} and so we should address(2) that but it's {SMACK} part of the puzzle <sil> other transportation {NOISE} efficiency {NOISE} is {COUGH} as important as cars and(2) trucks <sil> shows it {BREATH} carbon capture {NOISE} and sequestration that's what(2) ccs <sil> stands for {SMACK} is <sil> likely to become {BREATH} the killer app <sil> that(2) {UH} will(2) enable(2) us to <sil> to use <sil> fossil fuels {BREATH} in a(2) way that {COUGH} is <sil> safe <sil> not {BREATH} quite {NOISE} there yet <sil> ok {COUGH} now <sil> what(2) {NOISE} can you do <sil> <sil> {NOISE} reduce emissions in {NOISE} your home <sil> most of these <sil> expenditures(2) are also profitable {UH} <sil> a hybrid(2) <sil> use(2) light rail <sil> figure out some of the(2) other <sil> options that are(2) much <sil> better {UH} it's important <sil> be a green consumer <sil> you have(2) choices(2) <sil> with everything you buy <sil> between {SMACK} things that have(2) a(2) harsh {SMACK} effect <sil> or a much less harsh {NOISE} effect {BREATH} on(2) the {NOISE} global <sil> {NOISE} climate(2) {NOISE} crisis <sil> consider this <sil> make a decision to live(2) a(2) carbon neutral <sil> life {BREATH} those of you who are good at branding <sil> i'd love to(2) get your(2) advice(2) and help <sil> i flew on air force two {NOISE} for(2) <sil> eight years {COUGH} on(2) how to say this <sil> in a way that <sil> connects <sil> with the most(2) people {BREATH} it is {NOISE} easier than you think <sil> it really(2) is <sil> a lot of us in here have(2) made that decision <sil> and {COUGH} it is really(2) pretty easy {NOISE} reduce(3) {NOISE} your(2) <sil> carbon <sil> and(2) then <sil> purchase {NOISE} or acquire <sil> offsets <sil> for the remainder that you have(2) not completely reduced {BREATH} and <sil> what {UH} it {NOISE} means <sil> is elaborated {SMACK} at {COUGH} climatecrisis {UH} net <sil> there is a(2) <sil> carbon calculator <sil> now i have(2) to take off my shoes or(2) boots to get on(2) an(2) airplane <sil> on(2) this <sil> arcane science of carbon calculation {BREATH} to construct(2) a(2) consumer friendly {BREATH} carbon <sil> calculator <sil> you can {NOISE} very precisely {BREATH} calculate what your {NOISE} co two <sil> emissions are {BREATH} and then <sil> you {UH} will be given options to reduce(2) <sil> {NOISE} and {SMACK} by the time the movie comes out in may {NOISE} this will be updated(2) to two point zero {NOISE} and we will have(2) {COUGH} click through <sil> purchases {NOISE} of {NOISE} offsets <sil> <sil> next(2) consider making your(2) business carbon neutral {SMACK} again some of us have(2) done that {UH} and it's not as(2) hard as you think <sil> <sil> <sil> {UH} community(2) {NOISE} invest {COUGH} sustainably <sil> majora mentioned this <sil> listen {NOISE} if you <sil> have(2) invested money <sil> with managers <sil> who you compensate on(2) the basis of their {COUGH} annual performance {BREATH} don't ever again complain about <sil> quarterly(2) report <sil> ceo {COUGH} it <sil> talk about it {UH} <sil> the(2) movie comes out the movie is a(2) {SMACK} movie version {UH} of the slideshow {UH} i gave two nights ago except it's a lot more {NOISE} and(2) <sil> it comes out in may <sil> <sil> many of you here have(2) the opportunity {SMACK} to(3) ensure(2) that a lot of people see it <sil> {NOISE} consider {NOISE} sending <sil> somebody(2) {NOISE} to <sil> nashville {NOISE} pick well <sil> <sil> and(2) i am personally(2) going to train people to give <sil> this slideshow <sil> re(2) purposed with(2) <sil> some of the personal <sil> stories obviously replaced with a generic approach and {BREATH} it's not just(2) the slides it's what they mean and it's how they link together {BREATH} and so <sil> i'm going to be conducting a course this summer <sil> for(2) a group of people that(2) are nominated by <sil> different <sil> folks to come {BREATH} and then give it <sil> en(2) masse in communities {BREATH} all across the country and we're {NOISE} what(2) that's been(2) like for(2) me {COUGH} <sil> {UH} use(2) {UH} copyrights {SMACK} so that(2) <sil> young people can remix it {SMACK} <sil> we need republicans as(3) well {NOISE} this {NOISE} used to be a bipartisan(2) issue {BREATH} and i {NOISE} know(2) that(2) in this group {BREATH} it really is <sil> become politically active {BREATH} make our democracy work the way it's supposed to work <sil> it's {COUGH} a true story <sil> every bit of this is true {UH} <sil> support the idea {COUGH} of {UH} capping <sil> carbon dioxide {UH} emissions <sil> global warming pollution {SMACK} and trading {NOISE} <sil> as(2) long as the united states is out of the world system <sil> it's not a closed system {BREATH} once it becomes a closed system <sil> it's a closed system <sil> soon after tipper and i left the(2) <sil> <sil> you will have(2) legal liability <sil> if you do not {SMACK} <sil> urge {NOISE} your(2) ceo <sil> to(2) get the maximum {SMACK} income {BREATH} from reducing(2) and trading the carbon emissions that can(2) be avoided <sil> the market(2) will(2) work to solve this {SMACK} problem <sil> {SMACK} if we {COUGH} can accomplish this and in {NOISE} our(2) modern country the role of logic and reason {BREATH} no longer {BREATH} includes {NOISE} mediating between wealth and(2) power the way it once <sil> let's(3) rebrand global warming <sil> as many of you have suggested {BREATH} i like <sil> climate(2) crisis instead of climate collapse {UH} <sil> <sil> but again {NOISE} those of you who are(2) good at branding {BREATH} i need your(2) help on(2) this {NOISE} that's really {NOISE} true <sil> <sil> you very {NOISE} <sil> heard a couple of days ago <sil> <sil> {UM} about <sil> the value {UM} of <sil> have to(2) somehow {NOISE} understand <sil> {UH} that(2) history {BREATH} has presented(3) {UH} us <sil> with(2) {UH} a(2) choice <sil> {NOISE} figuring out how to save her life <sil> while(2) she was distracted(2) <sil> by the(2) amazing experience that(2) she was going(2) through <sil> we now have(2) a(2) culture of distraction <sil> but we have(2) {NOISE} a(2) planetary emergency <sil> and(2) {NOISE} we have(2) to find a way <sil> to create {SMACK} in the generation of those {BREATH} alive today <sil> a(2) sense {NOISE} of generational <sil> mission <sil> i wish i could find the words to convey this <sil> this was another hero generation <sil> that(2) brought democracy <sil> to(3) the planet <sil> another <sil> that ended slavery(2) {SMACK} <sil> we can do this on our house and dug the geothermal wells and(2) did {UM} all of that {BREATH} have the capacity <sil> at moments of great challenge <sil> to set aside the causes of distraction <sil> and rise to the challenge <sil> that history {SMACK} is presenting to(3) us <sil> other stuff {UH} sometimes i hear people <sil> by saying {COUGH} oh {BREATH} this is so terrible <sil> <sil> what(2) {NOISE} a burden we have(2) {SMACK} <sil> i would like to ask you to re(2) frame that <sil> {UH} but {NOISE} as important as(3) it is to change the light bulbs it is more important to change the laws {BREATH} and when we {NOISE} <sil> had the(2) opportunity <sil> to rise to(3) a challenge {SMACK} <sil> that(2) is worthy {NOISE} of {NOISE} our(3) <sil> best efforts <sil> challenge that can pull from(2) us <sil> more than we knew(2) we could do <sil> i <sil> think we ought to(3) approach this challenge {BREATH} with a(2) sense of profound {BREATH} joy <sil> and gratitude <sil> that(2) {NOISE} we {NOISE} are the generation <sil> about which <sil> a thousand years(2) from now <sil> <sil> {NOISE} and poets and singers <sil> will celebrate <sil> by saying {BREATH} they were(2) the ones so many people {UM} at ted {UH} there is {UH} deep {SMACK} pain {NOISE} that <sil> basically a design issue {UH} at the(2) end of the day a design issue on a voting form <sil> one(2) bad design issue meant that <sil> your voice wasn't(2) being heard like that {UH} in the last(3) eight years(2) in a position where(2) you could {BREATH} make these things come true <sil> you {UH} have <sil> no idea when(3) you look at {UH} what the leading candidates in your(2) own party <sil> are(2) doing now i mean {UH} are you excited(2) {NOISE} by <sil> their <sil> plans on <sil> global {NOISE} the answer to(2) {NOISE} the {NOISE} question {NOISE} is {NOISE} hard for(2) me because(3) <sil> on(2) the one(2) hand i think that we should feel <sil> really great about the fact {UH} that(2) the(2) {UH} and forward leaning position <sil> on(2) the climate crisis {SMACK} all three have(2) offered {SMACK} leadership {BREATH} and(2) all three are(2) very different from the(2) approach taken by the current(3) administration <sil> <sil> {NOISE} in {NOISE} order <sil> and i think that {NOISE} all three have(2) also been <sil> responsible in putting(2) forward {UH} plans and {BREATH} proposals {SMACK} to be <sil> optimistic about this we have(2) to become <sil> incredibly active {UH} as {BREATH} citizens {SMACK} in our democracy <sil> in {NOISE} the(2) <sil> campaign dialogue that as(3) illustrated(2) by the questions that was put together by the league of conservation voters by the way the(2) analysis of all the questions <sil> and by the way the debates have all been(2) sponsored {BREATH} by something {SMACK} that {NOISE} goes by the(2) orwellian label <sil> clean coal <sil> every single debate has been(2) sponsored by clean coal {BREATH} now {BREATH} even lower {NOISE} emissions {SMACK} <sil> the richness and fullness of {NOISE} the dialogue in our democracy has not laid the basis {BREATH} for the kind of bold <sil> that(2) is really(2) needed {BREATH} so they're saying the right things <sil> and they may {SMACK} whichever of them is elected {BREATH} may do the right <sil> thing {BREATH} but let me tell you {UH} only one out of one hundred senators <sil> was willing <sil> to vote to confirm <sil> {NOISE} to ratify {UH} that treaty <sil> whatever(2) {NOISE} the candidates(2) say <sil> has to be laid alongside {BREATH} what the people say {UH} <sil> this {SMACK} challenge {SMACK} is part {NOISE} of the fabric of our whole civilization {NOISE} co two is the(2) exhaling breath {BREATH} of our civilization literally(2) <sil> and(2) {NOISE} now we mechanized that process {BREATH} changing that pattern {BREATH} requires(2) <sil> a(2) scope <sil> a scale a speed {BREATH} of change that {NOISE} is beyond what we have(2) done {BREATH} in the past <sil> so that's why i began by saying <sil> be optimistic in what you do {BREATH} but be an <sil> active <sil> citizen {BREATH} demand {BREATH} change the light bulbs but change the laws {UM} <sil> change the {NOISE} global <sil> treaties {BREATH} we have(2) to speak up we have(2) to solve this {NOISE} democracy {BREATH} {NOISE} this {UH} we {NOISE} have(2) {UH} sclerosis <sil> in our democracy <sil> and we have(2) to change that use(2) the(2) internet go on(2) the internet <sil> {COUGH} connect with(2) people {BREATH} become very active as citizens {UH} have(2) a moratorium {NOISE} we shouldn't have(2) <sil> any new we have(2) to quickly build these renewable sources {BREATH} now {UM} nobody is talking {BREATH} on(2) {NOISE} that scale {SMACK} but i do believe {SMACK} that between now <sil> and november {BREATH} it is possible {BREATH} this alliance for(2) climate protection <sil> <sil> launch a nationwide campaign grassroots mobilization(2) television ads internet ads radio {BREATH} newspaper {UH} with partnerships with everybody from the girl <sil> scouts to the {BREATH} hunters and fishermen we need help <sil> your own <sil> personal role going(2) forward {NOISE} al {SMACK} is there something more than {SMACK} that(2) you would like {SMACK} to be doing <sil> i {NOISE} have(2) {SMACK} prayed <sil> that {UM} would be able to find <sil> the answer it does depend on(2) all of us <sil> but again <sil> not just(2) with the light {BREATH} bulbs <sil> most of us here <sil> are americans <sil> we have(2) a democracy <sil> we {SMACK} can {NOISE} change things <sil> but we have(2) to(2) {UH} actively <sil> change <sil> i have(2) {BREATH} given {UM} <sil> what's(2) needed {COUGH} really(2) {SMACK} is <sil> a higher level of {NOISE} consciousness <sil> and(2) that's hard to {UH} that's hard to create <sil> but it is coming {COUGH} <sil> if you want to go far <sil> go together <sil> we have(2) to go far {NOISE} thank you so much for(2) coming to ted {NOISE} the slide show that(2) {UH} i gave here {SMACK} two years(2) ago {UH} about two thousand times {BREATH} i'm <sil> giving {UH} a short {NOISE} slide show this morning <sil> that {UH} i'm giving for the {NOISE} very first time many years(2) ago when i was a young congressman i spent <sil> an(2) awful(2) lot of time dealing with(2) {UH} the challenge of nuclear <sil> arms control <sil> the nuclear arms race {SMACK} and the military historians taught me during that {BREATH} quest <sil> that <sil> military conflicts are typically {SMACK} <sil> put into three categories <sil> local battles <sil> regional or theater wars <sil> and(2) the rare but all important {SMACK} global <sil> world war <sil> a different {UH} organizational model <sil> environmental(2) challenges fall(2) into the same three categories {BREATH} and most of what(2) we think about are local environmental problems air pollution water pollution {BREATH} hazardous waste dumps <sil> but there are <sil> also regional <sil> environmental problems like acid rain from the midwest to the northeast and(2) from(2) {BREATH} western {UH} europe to the arctic(2) and {BREATH} <sil> not because venus is slightly closer to the sun it's three times hotter than mercury which(2) is right next to the {NOISE} you've seen this slide before but there's a change <sil> the(2) only two countries that(2) didn't ratify and(2) <sil> now <sil> there's only one {UM} <sil>
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{NOISE} these are(2) real <sil> objects now <sil> i'm(2) going to show you how it is {SMACK} done {COUGH} i've looped the film here so you can(2) get a very {BREATH} interesting experience {BREATH} i want you to(2) see <sil> how this illusion is constructed(2) {UM} and it's going to rotate {BREATH} so you see that(2) <sil> it's {NOISE} inside out {NOISE} now watch as(2) it {COUGH} rotates back {BREATH} how {NOISE} quickly your perception {SMACK} snaps <sil> {UH} talk my <sil> a new lecture just for(2) {SMACK} ted {BREATH} and i'm(2) going show you some <sil> illusions that we've created(2) for(2) ted {SMACK} and i'm(2) going to try to relate(2) this to happiness <sil> ok <sil> now <sil> watch it {COUGH} as {NOISE} it <sil> rotates back again {BREATH} and this is a very bright audience(2) <sil> all right <sil> see if {NOISE} you can(2) stop it from happening <sil> even though you know(2) one hundred(4) percent {BREATH} it's true that(2) <sil> <sil> you {NOISE} we're going to do it again {SMACK} no {NOISE} doubt about see if {NOISE} you can(2) stop it from happening <sil> it's {COUGH} difficult <sil> and(2) we can(2) violate {SMACK} your(2) {NOISE} <sil> in a whole variety of ways about <sil> representation about shape {BREATH} about color(2) {BREATH} and(2) so forth <sil> and it's very {COUGH} primal {UH} and(2) {BREATH} it's an {SMACK} interesting(3) question(2) to {NOISE} ponder {BREATH} why {NOISE} these things {SMACK} {NOISE} we {SMACK} find these things joyful why(2) would <sil> we find them(2) {SMACK} joyful {BREATH} so <sil> here's(3) something that lionel did a while(2) ago i like <sil> these sort of little {SMACK} things like <sil> this {SMACK} i was thinking about with happiness {BREATH} is what <sil> gives happiness {BREATH} or {UM} happiness which i equate with {SMACK} joy {BREATH} in my particular <sil> area {BREATH} and i think there's something very fundamental(2) {BREATH} and i was thinking about this {BREATH} ok we can(2) violate your(2) <sil> expectations about shape <sil> we can(2) violate {SMACK} your(2) {NOISE} expectations on {UH} representation {BREATH} what an {COUGH} image(2) {NOISE} represents what(2) do you see here <sil> see dolphins <sil> ok those people who {UM} raised their hands(2) <sil> afterwards the rest of the {NOISE} audience(2) go talk to them {COUGH} all right {COUGH} actually(3) {SMACK} this is the best example of priming {SMACK} by experience that i know(2) {SMACK} if {NOISE} you are {NOISE} a(2) child {BREATH} under(2) the {COUGH} age of {SMACK} ten {SMACK} who haven't(2) been(2) ruined(2) yet {SMACK} look at this <sil> image(2) {SMACK} and see dolphins {BREATH} now {NOISE} some of you adults(2) here are(2) saying <sil> <sil> dolphins what {UH} dolphins {COUGH} but {COUGH} in {COUGH} fact {COUGH} if {NOISE} you {UH} <sil> <sil> figure ground in other words the dark areas {SMACK} here <sil> i forgot(2) to ask for(2) {SMACK} a(2) pointer {BREATH} but {COUGH} if you reverse it you'll see a whole series {SMACK} of little dolphins {SMACK} by the way <sil> it's {NOISE} <sil> something like {COUGH} this {COUGH} can be <sil> {NOISE} because(2) this is after all talk about design {NOISE} {NOISE} this is done by saatchi and saatchi {SMACK} and they actually(4) got away with this {SMACK} ad <sil> in australia {SMACK} so if you look at this {SMACK} ad <sil> for beer <sil> all those people {UH} are in sort of <sil> provocative positions <sil> but they got it {UH} past {BREATH} and actually(4) won(2) the clio awards {BREATH} so {UH} it is funny {BREATH} to {NOISE} do these things <sil> this is the joke i did {COUGH} <sil> {UM} when(3) {SMACK} the {UM} the florida(3) ballot was going(2) around you know(2) count the dots for(2) {SMACK} gore count the dots for(2) bush {BREATH} count them again {SMACK} <sil> and(2) it's in terms of <sil> both illusions {COUGH} and {BREATH} movies that we go see and jokes and magic shows {BREATH} is that {BREATH} <sil> you can(2) violate <sil> your(2) <sil> expectations about experience {BREATH} here is this is something {UH} we're <sil> building for(2) you know(2) amusement parks and that kind of stuff <sil> now let's(2) take {NOISE} a(2) static image(2) <sil> can you see this {BREATH} do you see the middle section <sil> moving down <sil> and the {UH} outer sections moving up it's completely static <sil> a static image {NOISE} how many people see <sil> it's completely static {BREATH} <sil> right <sil> now {UH} when {SMACK} it's interesting(3) that when(3) we look at an(2) image {BREATH} we see {SMACK} you know(2) {UH} color <sil> depth <sil> texture <sil> and you can(2) look at this whole scene and <sil> analyze it you can(2) see the woman is in closer {BREATH} than the wall and(2) so forth but the whole thing is <sil> actually(3) {SMACK} flat {BREATH} and it was such a good trompe {UH} l'oeil {BREATH} that(2) people got {UH} irritated when(3) they {NOISE} tried to talk to the woman <sil> and she wouldn't respond(2) now {COUGH} you can make <sil> design mistakes <sil> like this building in new york {COUGH} so that {COUGH} when you <sil> see it from(2) this side {BREATH} it looks like the balconies {SMACK} tilt <sil> up {UH} and when(4) you walk(2) around to the {UH} other side {NOISE} it {SMACK} looks like the balconies {SMACK} <sil> go down <sil> so there <sil> are {BREATH} cases where(2) you have(2) {UH} mistakes in design that incorporate illusions {COUGH} or you {COUGH} take this particular(2) <sil> un retouched {COUGH} <sil> now {COUGH} interestingly enough i get a lot of emails from(2) people {BREATH} who say {SMACK} is there <sil> any perceptual difference {BREATH} between {BREATH} males and females <sil> and <sil> i really say no i mean women can(2) navigate through the world just as well as(2) males {SMACK} can {BREATH} and why(2) <sil> {NOISE} however this {NOISE} is one(2) {NOISE} illusion that(2) <sil> women can(2) {NOISE} consistently do better than males {BREATH} in matching which(2) head <sil> because(2) they {NOISE} rely on fashion cues they can(2) match the {NOISE} now <sil> getting to(3) a part i want to show {BREATH} design {BREATH} in illusions {COUGH} i believe that the first example of {NOISE} illusions {BREATH} being {SMACK} used {BREATH} purposely <sil> was by da vinci {BREATH} in this <sil> anamorphic {BREATH} image(2) of <sil> so that when(4) you saw from one(2) little angle <sil> was(2) like <sil> this {BREATH} and this little technique got popular in the sixteenth century <sil> and(2) {BREATH} the seventeenth century {BREATH} to disguise hidden meanings where(2) you could {BREATH} flip the {NOISE} image(2) like this {BREATH} but these are(2) <sil> early {BREATH} incorporations of illusions {BREATH} brought to(3) {NOISE} sort of hot {UH} point with hans(2) holbein's(3) {SMACK} ambassadors {UH} and hans(2) holbein <sil> worked for(3) henry {NOISE} <sil> <sil> this was {SMACK} hung on {UM} a wall where you could walk(2) down from the stair and you can(2) see this hidden skull <sil> {NOISE} right now i'm(2) going to show you {BREATH} some {SMACK} designers {BREATH} who with illusions to give that {COUGH} element {BREATH} of surprise {BREATH} one of my favorites is scott kim {SMACK} i worked with scott to create some <sil> illusions for ted <sil> i hope you will enjoy(2) <sil> we have(2) one here <sil> ted <sil> and happiness <sil> so we {UH} scott created this wonderful <sil> well there's {SMACK} analog and(2) digital(2) <sil> figure goes to ground {SMACK} <sil> and for(2) the musicians <sil> and of course since {BREATH} happiness we {NOISE} want <sil> joy <sil> to the world <sil> now another <sil> great <sil> designer he's(3) very well known in japan <sil> and(2) he just(2) builds some fantastic {BREATH} things {NOISE} this is simply amazing <sil> this is a pile of junk {BREATH} <sil> so <sil> what {UH} i'm(2) going to try and do in my lecture is a go a little bit {SMACK} further {BREATH} and see <sil> that(2) when(3) you {COUGH} view it from one particular(2) <sil> angle <sil> you see its reflection in the mirror <sil> as a {SMACK} perfect(2) piano <sil> to(3) violinist {SMACK} {NOISE} this is really wild {BREATH} {NOISE} this assemblage(2) of forks knives and spoons and(2) various cutlery {BREATH} welded together <sil> {UM} can(2) <sil> violate {SMACK} your(2) {NOISE} expectations {SMACK} in a pleasing way i mean sometimes <sil> expectations that(2) are(2) violated are not <sil> pleasant <sil> but i'm(2) going to try to do it {SMACK} in a pleasant {NOISE} way {BREATH} in a very <sil> primal way {BREATH} so i can(2) make {SMACK} the <sil> audience(2) here happy {SMACK} <sil> a shadow of a motorcycle <sil> you learn something in the sort of thing that i do {SMACK} which(2) is there are(2) people out there with a lot of {UH} time on their hands <sil> ken knowlton {SMACK} does(2) wonderful <sil> composite {SMACK} images(2) like <sil> creating jacques cousteau out of seashells {BREATH} un retouched seashells but just by rearranging them <sil> he(2) did <sil> einstein out of dice {SMACK} <sil> {NOISE} because {NOISE} after {SMACK} all {UH} einstein said {SMACK} god does(2) not play <sil> dice with the universe out of {UM} un retouched keyboards {SMACK} <sil> will shortz crossword puzzle <sil> <sil> john cederquist(2) does(2) these wonderful {UM} trompe {NOISE} i'm(2) going to skip ahead since i'm sort of running {COUGH} i want to show you {SMACK} quickly {SMACK} what i've {UM} created(2) <sil> <sil> some new type of illusions {BREATH} i've {COUGH} done something with(2) {UM} taking the pixar {UH} type <sil> illusions {BREATH} so you see these {SMACK} kids the same size here {BREATH} <sil> running {UM} down {COUGH} the hall {BREATH} the two table tops of the same size {BREATH} they're looking {SMACK} out <sil> two directions at <sil> once {BREATH} you have(2) a larger piece fitting in with a {NOISE} smaller {BREATH} <sil> and <sil> that's something for you to think about {BREATH} all right {BREATH} so you see larger pieces(2) {SMACK} fitting in within smaller pieces(2) here <sil> {NOISE} you can {NOISE} see the two kids are(2) looking out simultaneously out of two different directions(2) at once <sil> now can you believe these two table tops are(2) the same <sil> size <sil> and shape <sil> they are so if you measured them <sil> they would be {SMACK} <sil> as(2) i say <sil> those two figures are identical in size {COUGH} and(2) shape <sil> {NOISE} interesting(3) by {SMACK} doing so {UH} i'm(2) going to show you {BREATH} some <sil> ways that we can(2) violate {COUGH} your(2) <sil> expectations <sil> first of {COUGH} all i want to show you <sil> the particular(2) illusion here {BREATH} <sil> this in this sort of rendered fashion {SMACK} how much stronger(2) {BREATH} these {BREATH} illusions are {BREATH} any case {BREATH} i hope this has brought you a little joy and happiness {BREATH} and if you're interested in seeing more cool effects {BREATH} see me outside <sil> i'd {SMACK} be happy 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{NOISE} and(2) {COUGH} uses(3) that <sil> to come to a complete vision <sil> of who you are <sil> that {SMACK} is {COUGH} snobbery {BREATH} and(2) {COUGH} the dominant {UH} kind of snobbery that(2) exists(2) nowadays {BREATH} job(2) snobbery <sil> you encounter(2) it {UM} within minutes at a party {BREATH} when(2) you get asked(2) that famous {SMACK} iconic {SMACK} question {BREATH} of the(2) early twenty(2) {SMACK} one(2) st {NOISE} century what(2) do you do <sil> and(2) according to how you answer that question people are(2) either incredibly delighted to see you <sil> or look at their watch(2) <sil> and {UH} make their excuses {BREATH} now {COUGH} to(2) opposite of a snob <sil> is your mother <sil> {COUGH} not {NOISE} necessarily {COUGH} your(2) {NOISE} mother {UH} or indeed mine {BREATH} but as(2) it were the(2) ideal mother {UH} somebody(2) who doesn't care <sil> about your achievements but unfortunately most people are not {NOISE} our mothers {NOISE} these {NOISE} career crises {UM} often actually(2) on a sunday(2) evening just as(2) the sun is starting to set {SMACK} and the gap {SMACK} between {BREATH} my hopes for(2) myself <sil> and(2) the reality love in general respect {UH} they are(2) willing to accord us {BREATH} that will be strictly defined {BREATH} by {UH} our position in the social hierarchy {BREATH} and(2) that's {UH} a lot(2) of the reason why(2) we <sil> care so much about our careers <sil> and(2) indeed start caring so much <sil> about {SMACK} material goods {SMACK} you know(2) {NOISE} we're(3) often(2) told {BREATH} that(2) we live(2) in very materialistic {SMACK} times <sil> {NOISE} greedy people {BREATH} i don't think we are particularly(2) materialistic <sil> i think we {NOISE} live(2) in a society {BREATH} which has simply pegged <sil> certain <sil> emotional rewards {BREATH} to(3) <sil> the acquisition of material goods <sil> it's not the material goods we want {NOISE} it's the rewards we want {BREATH} and(2) that's a new(2) way of looking at luxury goods {BREATH} the next time you see somebody(2) driving a ferrari {BREATH} don't think this is somebody(2) who is greedy <sil> think this is somebody(2) who is incredibly vulnerable {BREATH} and(2) in need of love {BREATH} feel sympathy {NOISE} rather(2) than(2) contempt {BREATH} there are(2) {NOISE} other reasons {COUGH} there are(2) {NOISE} other reasons why from many sources that {NOISE} anyone can(2) achieve {NOISE} anything {BREATH} we've done away with the {NOISE} caste system {BREATH} we are now in a system where(2) <sil> anyone can(2) rise {BREATH} to <sil> any position {UH} they please <sil> and it's a beautiful {UH} idea {BREATH} along with that is a kind of spirit(2) of equality {SMACK} we're all basically equal <sil> there are no strictly {UH} defined {UH} kind of {UH} hierarchies {BREATH} there is one really(2) big problem with this {SMACK} and(2) that problem {NOISE} is <sil> envy <sil> envy <sil> of my life {BREATH} start to(3) {NOISE} diverge so painfully that i normally(2) end up {UH} weeping <sil> into a pillow {BREATH} i'm(2) mentioning all this {COUGH} <sil> real taboo to mention envy but if there is one <sil> dominant emotion <sil> in modern society that is <sil> envy {BREATH} and(2) it's {SMACK} linked {BREATH} to <sil> the spirit(2) <sil> of equality {BREATH} let me explain <sil> i think it would be very unusual(2) for(2) anyone here or(2) anyone watching {BREATH} to {UH} be envious of the queen of england {UH} even though {BREATH} she is {UM} much richer <sil> than any of you are {BREATH} and {UH} she's got a very large house {BREATH} the reason why(2) we don't(2) envy {UH} {NOISE} we {NOISE} can't relate to her {COUGH} and(2) when(4) you can't {NOISE} relate(2) to somebody(2) {SMACK} you don't(2) {NOISE} envy them(2) {BREATH} the closer two people are {NOISE} in {SMACK} age <sil> in <sil> background {BREATH} in <sil> the(2) {SMACK} process of identification(2) {BREATH} the more there is a danger of envy which is incidentally(2) why(2) {NOISE} none of you should {SMACK} ever go to a school reunion {BREATH} because(2) there is no {UH} {NOISE} stronger reference point {SMACK} than people {BREATH} one {NOISE} was at school with {BREATH} but the problem generally of modern society is that(2) it turns the whole world into a school <sil> everybody is wearing jeans everybody is the same <sil> and(2) yet they're not {BREATH} so there is a spirit(2) of equality {BREATH} combined with deep {SMACK} inequalities {BREATH} which makes for(2) a very {NOISE} can make for(2) a very {BREATH} stressful situation it's probably(2) <sil> as <sil> unlikely {BREATH} that(2) you would nowadays become as(2) rich and(2) famous as(2) bill gates {BREATH} as it was unlikely in the seventeenth century {BREATH} that you would accede {SMACK} to the ranks of the french aristocracy but the point is it doesn't(2) feel that way {BREATH} it's made to feel by magazines and other media outlets {BREATH} that(2) if you've got energy {BREATH} a few bright ideas about technology a(2) {NOISE} garage {COUGH} you {NOISE} i'm mentioning all this because i think this is not merely a personal problem <sil> you may think i'm(2) wrong in this {BREATH} but i think that(2) we {NOISE} live(2) in an age when our lives are(2) regularly punctuated {SMACK} by career crises by moments when {BREATH} what(2) we thought we knew(2) the first kind tells you {BREATH} you can(2) do it {SMACK} you can make it anything is possible {BREATH} and(2) the(2) other kind tell you {BREATH} how to <sil> cope {BREATH} with what(2) we politely call {BREATH} low self esteem {BREATH} or {UH} impolitely call feeling very bad about yourself <sil> a real correlationship {NOISE} a(2) real correlation between a society that tells people {COUGH} that(2) they can(2) do anything {BREATH} and(2) the(2) existence(2) of low self esteem <sil> so {BREATH} that's another way in which(2) something that(2) is quite positive {BREATH} can(2) have(2) a nasty {BREATH} kickback there is another reason <sil> why(2) {COUGH} we might be feeling more <sil> anxious(2) {NOISE} about our careers about our status(2) in the world today {BREATH} than(2) {UH} ever before {BREATH} and(2) it is again linked to something nice {BREATH} and(2) that nice thing {NOISE} is called meritocracy {SMACK} <sil> now {UH} everybody {SMACK} all politicians on left and(2) right {SMACK} agree that meritocracy is a great thing {BREATH} and(2) we should {SMACK} all be trying to make our societies <sil> really(2) really(2) meritocratic {BREATH} to get to the bottom <sil> also <sil> get to the bottom <sil> and(2) stay there {BREATH} in other words {BREATH} your position in life comes to seem not <sil> accidental(2) but {SMACK} merited <sil> and(2) deserved {UH} and(2) {BREATH} that makes {BREATH} failure {BREATH} seem much more crushing {BREATH} you know(2) {NOISE} in the middle ages {BREATH} in england {SMACK} when you met a very poor person {BREATH} that {UH} person would be described as(2) an(2) unfortunate <sil> literally(2) somebody who had not {SMACK} been(3) blessed by fortune <sil> an(2) <sil> unfortunate <sil> a real {NOISE} difference between an unfortunate {UH} and(2) a loser {UH} and(2) that shows {SMACK} four hundred years(2) of evolution(2) <sil> in society and about our lives about our careers comes into contact with {BREATH} a threatening(2) {UH} sort of reality <sil> it's perhaps {BREATH} easier now {UH} than ever before <sil> our(3) belief {SMACK} in {COUGH} who is responsible <sil> for our lives {BREATH} it's no longer the gods <sil> it's {SMACK} us <sil> we're(3) in the driving seat {BREATH} that's exhilarating if you're doing well {BREATH} and(2) very crushing <sil> if you're {UM} not {BREATH} it leads in the worst cases(2) {BREATH} in the(2) analysis(2) of <sil> a sociologist like <sil> emil durkheim {BREATH} it leads to(3) increased rates of suicide(2) {UH} there are(2) more suicides {SMACK} in developed {BREATH} individualistic countries than in <sil> any other part of the world and(2) some of the reason for that {COUGH} is that(2) people {BREATH} take what happens to them(2) {NOISE} extremely personally {BREATH} the {SMACK} own their success but they {NOISE} also {UH} {UH} their failure {BREATH} is there any relief {BREATH} from some of these pressures {SMACK} that(2) i've just been(3) outlining i think there is <sil> i just(2) want to turn to a few of {NOISE} them {BREATH} let's(2) take meritocracy {BREATH} this idea that everybody deserves to get where(2) they get to(3) <sil> i think it's a crazy {SMACK} idea <sil> completely crazy {NOISE} i will support <sil> any politician of left and(2) right {BREATH} with(2) <sil> any {NOISE} halfway decent meritocratic idea <sil> i am a meritocrat in that sense <sil> but i think it's insane to believe that we will <sil> ever {UH} make a society {BREATH} that is genuinely(2) <sil> meritocratic {SMACK} it's an impossible dream {BREATH} the(2) idea that we will make a society where(2) literally(2) <sil> everybody the good(2) at {UH} the {NOISE} top(2) and the bad at the bottom {BREATH} and(2) it's exactly {UH} done as it should be {BREATH} is impossible {BREATH} there are(2) simply too many random factors <sil> accidents <sil> accidents of <sil> birth {UH} accidents of {BREATH} things dropping on people's(3) heads {SMACK} illnesses etc {BREATH} we will never <sil> get to grade {SMACK} them {BREATH} to make a good living {BREATH} it's perhaps <sil> harder {UH} than ever before {BREATH} to stay calm <sil> to be free <sil> of career {BREATH} anxiety i want to {NOISE} look {BREATH} in modern english that would mean {BREATH} it's a sin to come to any view of who you should talk to(3) dependent {NOISE} on(2) their business card {BREATH} it's not the post <sil> that(2) should count {BREATH} and according to st augustine(2) it's only {NOISE} god {BREATH} who can(2) really(2) put everybody in their place and he's(3) going to do that on(2) the <sil> day of judgement with <sil> angels and(2) <sil> trumpets and the skies will open {BREATH} insane idea if you're a secularist person like me {BREATH} but something <sil> very valuable in that idea nevertheless <sil> in other words {BREATH} hold your horses(2) when(4) you're coming to judge people {BREATH} you don't(2) necessarily know(2) {BREATH} what someone's(2) true value is that is an {SMACK} unknown part {BREATH} of {SMACK} them(2) and(2) we shouldn't behave {BREATH} as though {UH} it is {NOISE} what(2) we fear {COUGH} is the judgement <sil> and(2) ridicule <sil> of {NOISE} others {SMACK} and it exists(3) <sil> you know {BREATH} the number one {UH} organ <sil> of ridicule <sil> nowadays is the newspaper <sil> and if you open the newspaper any day of <sil> the week it's full of people who've messed up their lives {BREATH} they've slept with the wrong person they've taken the wrong substance they've passed the wrong {NOISE} legislation {NOISE} whatever(2) it is {BREATH} and(2) then are fit {BREATH} for <sil> now if i may {BREATH} at some of the reasons why(2) {BREATH} we might be feeling <sil> anxiety {BREATH} about {UH} our careers why(2) we might be victims(2) {SMACK} of these career crises {BREATH} as {NOISE} tragic <sil> art <sil> as it developed <sil> in the theaters of ancient(2) greece {BREATH} in the fifth century b c {BREATH} was essentially an art form <sil> devoted(2) to tracing {BREATH} how {NOISE} people fail {BREATH} and {UM} {NOISE} also {NOISE} according them <sil> a level of sympathy {BREATH} which {SMACK} ordinary life {BREATH} would not necessarily {UH} accord them {BREATH} i remember {NOISE} a(2) {NOISE} few years ago i was thinking about all this and i went to see {BREATH} the sunday sport <sil> a <sil> tabloid newspaper that i {COUGH} don't {NOISE} recommend you {BREATH} to start reading(2) if you're not familiar with it already(2) {BREATH} i went to talk to them(2) {UH} about {SMACK} certain of the great tragedies <sil> of western art {SMACK} and(2) i wanted to see {BREATH} how they would seize the bare bones of certain stories if they came in {NOISE} as a news(2) item {UM} at the news(2) desk on a saturday afternoon {BREATH} so i told them about {NOISE} othello they had not heard of it but {NOISE} were(2) fascinated <sil> by {UH} <sil> to write the headline for the(2) {NOISE} story of othello they came up with {BREATH} love <sil> crazed <sil> immigrant(2) {SMACK} kills senators daughter {BREATH} splashed <sil> i gave them the {NOISE} plotline of {UM} madame bovary again a book they were(2) {NOISE} enchanted(2) to discover {BREATH} and they {NOISE} wrote shopaholic adulteress swallows <sil> arsenic {NOISE} after <sil> credit(2) {SMACK} <sil> then my favorite {COUGH} they really do have(2) a kind of genius all of their own these guys {UH} my favorite {UH} is sophocles {NOISE} oedipus the king {BREATH} sex with mum <sil> was blinding <sil> like at one end of the spectrum of sympathy {UH} you've {SMACK} got the tabloid newspaper at the other end of the spectrum {BREATH} you've {SMACK} got {SMACK} tragedy and tragic art {BREATH} and(2) i suppose i'm(2) arguing that(2) we should learn a little bit {NOISE} about what's(2) happening in tragic art {BREATH} it would be insane to(3) call hamlet <sil> a {UM} loser {UH} <sil> we're weeping <sil> softly(2) <sil> into(2) {SMACK} our pillows {BREATH} one of the reasons {UM} why {NOISE} we might be suffering <sil> is that we are surrounded(2) <sil> by <sil> snobs <sil> he(2) is not a loser {BREATH} though he <sil> has lost {BREATH} and(2) i think that is the message(2) <sil> of {SMACK} tragedy {BREATH} to(3) us <sil> and(2) why it's so very very {UH} important i think {BREATH} the other thing about modern society <sil> and why it causes(2) this anxiety <sil> is that we have(2) nothing at its center(2) <sil> that is non human <sil> we are the first society {BREATH} to be {NOISE} living in a world where(2) we don't(2) worship(2) {SMACK} anything {NOISE} other than ourselves {SMACK} we think very highly of ourselves and so we should we've put people on(2) the moon <sil> <sil> of extraordinary(2) things {BREATH} and(2) so we tend to worship(2) ourselves our heros are human {NOISE} <sil> that's a {BREATH} very new(2) situation {BREATH} most(2) other societies have had right at their center(2) the worship(2) of something transcendent <sil> a <sil> god {BREATH} a spirit(2) a natural force <sil> the universe whatever(2) it is {BREATH} something else that(2) is being worshiped {UH} we've slightly lost the habit of doing that which(2) is i think why(2) we're particularly(2) drawn to nature <sil> not for(2) the sake of our health {BREATH} though it's often presented(2) that way {BREATH} but because it's an escape {BREATH} from the human <sil> anthill {BREATH} it's an(2) escape from {BREATH} our own competition {UH} and(2) our own dramas {BREATH} and(2) that's why(2) we enjoy(2) looking at glaciers <sil> and(2) <sil> oceans {BREATH} and(2) contemplating the(2) <sil> from <sil> outside {BREATH} its {UH} perimeters {BREATH} etc <sil> we like to feel {UM} in contact with(2) something that(2) is non human {BREATH} and that is so deeply <sil> the screen who is very very successful {BREATH} certain ideas would immediately come to mind {BREATH} you {UH} would think that person might have made a lot(2) of money {BREATH} achieved renown <sil> in some field {BREATH} <sil> my own theory of success and i'm(2) somebody(2) who {NOISE} is very interested in success i really(2) {NOISE} want to be successful i'm always thinking how could i be more successful {BREATH} but {COUGH} as i get older {UH} i'm(2) <sil> also {BREATH} very nuanced <sil> about what that word success might {NOISE} an(2) insight that(2) i've had about success <sil> you can't {UM} be successful <sil> at <sil> everything {BREATH} we {UM} hear a lot(2) of {UH} talk about work life {SMACK} balance nonsense {BREATH} you can't {UM} have(2) it all <sil> you {NOISE} so <sil> any <sil> vision of success {BREATH} has(2) to admit {BREATH} what it's <sil> losing out {NOISE} on <sil> where the element of loss {NOISE} is {BREATH} and(2) i think {NOISE} any wise life {BREATH} will(2) {NOISE} accept(2) <sil> as(2) i say {BREATH} that(2) <sil> there is going to be an element where(2) we are(2) not succeeding {BREATH} and(2) the thing about {UH} a successful life {SMACK} is a {NOISE} lot of the time {UH} our ideas <sil> <sil> of what(2) it would mean to live(2) successfully {UH} are not {SMACK} our own {BREATH} they are(2) sucked in <sil> from other people {BREATH} chiefly {SMACK} if you're a man <sil> your father <sil> and(2) if you're a woman <sil> your mother {BREATH} when(3) we're told that(2) banking is a very respectable profession <sil> a lot of us want to go into banking {BREATH} when(3) {UM} banking is no longer so respectable {BREATH} we lose interest {UH} in banking {BREATH} we are highly {BREATH} open <sil> to suggestion {BREATH} so what(2) i want to argue {UH} for {NOISE} is not that(2) we should give up <sil> on our ideas of success {BREATH} but we should make sure {BREATH} that(2) they are our own {BREATH} we should focus(2) in on our ideas {BREATH} and {UH} make {UM} sure that(2) we <sil> own them {SMACK} that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions {BREATH} because(2) it's bad enough not getting <sil> what you want {BREATH} even worse {BREATH} to have(2) an(2) idea {SMACK} of what it is you want {BREATH} and(2) find out {SMACK} at the(2) end of a journey {BREATH} that(2) it isn't in fact {UH} what you wanted {UH} all along {BREATH} so {BREATH} i'm(2) going to end it there {BREATH} but <sil> what(2) i really want to(3) {UH} stress {SMACK} is {BREATH} by all means success {SMACK} yes {BREATH} but let's(2) accept(2) the {NOISE} strangeness of some of our ideas {BREATH} let's(2) probe away {BREATH} at our notions of success {BREATH} let's(2) make sure {BREATH} our ideas of success {SMACK} are {UH} truly <sil> our {UH} own {BREATH} thank you very much <sil> <sil> that was {SMACK} fascinating {COUGH} how do you <sil> reconcile {UH} this idea {BREATH} of {UM} someone being {UH} it {NOISE} being {NOISE} bad to think of someone as(2) a loser {UH} the idea that a lot(2) of people like of {BREATH} seizing {NOISE} control of your life {BREATH} and(2) {UM} that {SMACK} a society that <sil> encourages(2) that {BREATH} perhaps has(2) to have(2) some winners and(2) losers {SMACK} <sil> yes i think it's merely the {NOISE} randomness <sil> of {SMACK} the winning and losing process that(2) i wanted to stress because {BREATH} the(2) {NOISE} emphasis(2) nowadays is so much {NOISE} on(2) the justice {BREATH} of everything {SMACK} and(2) politicians {SMACK} always talk about justice(2) now i am a firm believer in justice {BREATH} i just think that(2) it is impossible <sil> <sil> so we should do <sil> everything we can {COUGH} we should do everything we can to pursue it <sil> but at the end of the day we should {SMACK} always remember that(2) whoever is facing us {BREATH} whatever has happened <sil> i mean do you believe that(2) you can(2) combine(2) <sil> your kind of {SMACK} kinder {UH} gentler philosophy of work {BREATH} with a successful {COUGH} economy {BREATH} or(2) {UM} do {UM} you {NOISE} think that {SMACK} you can(2) {NOISE}'t but it doesn't matter too {UM} much that we're {UH} putting(2) too much emphasis(2) on {NOISE} the nightmare {NOISE} thought {UH} is that(2) frightening(2) people <sil> is the best way to get work out of {SMACK} them {BREATH} and(2) {UH} that {UH} somehow {NOISE} the <sil> crueler the(2) environment the more people will rise to the challenge {UH} you want to think {NOISE} who would you like as(2) your ideal dad {BREATH} and(2) your ideal dad <sil> is somebody(2) {BREATH} who is tough <sil> but gentle(2) <sil> and(2) it's a very hard {NOISE} line {NOISE} to make {BREATH} we need fathers as it were the(2) exemplary father figures {UH} in society {BREATH}
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to actually(3) {NOISE} get any kind of picture <sil> on the world we live(2) in or on ourselves <sil> so what i'm(2) doing is measuring from the bottom <sil> of one image(2) to(3) the(2) <sil> bottom of {NOISE} the next image(2) about a fifth(2) of a second later <sil> <sil> like that <sil> and they're getting faster and(2) faster each time and(2) if i stack these guys {UH} then we see the differences(2) <sil> the(2) increase <sil> in the speed {COUGH} <sil> is constant <sil> and they say oh yeah constant acceleration we've {SMACK} done that {BREATH} already and how shall we <sil> and(2) verify that we actually(3) <sil> the ball and run the movie at the same time very cleverly by running a ball <sil> down backwards down the strings of his(2) {SMACK} lute {BREATH} i pulled out those apples to remind myself {SMACK} to(2) {NOISE} tell you that {BREATH} this is actually(3) <sil> this stuff {NOISE} works <sil> here <sil> gravity(2) here's(3) this <sil> increase the speed by something increase the ship's(3) <sil> speed {COUGH} if i {COUGH} start {UH} the little {UM} game here that(2) the kids have done {NOISE} it'll {NOISE} crash the <sil> but if i {UH} oppose {SMACK} gravity {SMACK} here we {NOISE} but in {NOISE} fact {COUGH} if you think of it <sil> children are the future we send to the future <sil> forget(2) about messages <sil> children are the future <sil> the problem you have(2) {SMACK} with(2) this summer we're going to build five {COUGH} million of these one(2) hundred dollar laptops <sil> and maybe {SMACK} fifty million next(2) year <sil> but <sil> we {NOISE} <sil> that means that <sil> we {NOISE} once again have(2) a thing where we can(2) put <sil> technology out {BREATH} but {SMACK} the(2) {SMACK} mentoring that(2) is required to go from(2) to draw {UH} is not that(2) you can't move your(2) hand {COUGH} but <sil> that {COUGH} the way your brain {SMACK} perceives {NOISE} images(2) <sil> dollars(2) so this is <sil> actually(3) cheap {BREATH} <sil> and(2) einstein said <sil> is faulty <sil> trying(2) to perceive images into objects(2) rather than(2) seeing what's(2) there and to prove it she says {BREATH} the(2) exact size and(2) shape {UH} of these tabletops <sil> is the same {NOISE} and {BREATH} i'm going to prove it to(3) you <sil> she does this with cardboard {UM} but since i have(2) an(2) expensive computer here <sil> <sil> <sil> rotate this little guy around(2) and <sil> {UM} now having seen that {UH} and(2) i've seen it hundreds of times because(2) i use(2) this in every(2) talk <sil> i give {UH} i still can't see that(2) they're the same size and shape and i {COUGH} doubt <sil> that(2) you can either(2) <sil> {NOISE} great way to start {UH} i think {SMACK} <sil> measure very very carefully and(2) if you measure very very carefully with(2) a stiff arm a straight edge you'll see that <sil> those two shapes are(2) exactly {UH} same size {NOISE} and {SMACK} the talmud <sil> saw {UH} this a long time ago {UH} saying we see things <sil> not as they are but as we are {BREATH} i certainly would like to know(2) what happened to the person who had that {NOISE} insight <sil> with my {COUGH} view of simplicity(2) is to {UM} <sil> back then {SMACK} if they actually(4) followed it {COUGH} to its ultimate <sil> conclusion <sil> <sil> what(2) we call reality is a kind of hallucination <sil> happening inside here it's a waking dream {SMACK} <sil> and understanding that(2) that {COUGH} is what(2) {UH} <sil> we actually(4) exist in one(2) of the biggest epistemological <sil> barriers(2) {UH} in human history <sil> and what(2) that means simple and understandable might {COUGH} not be actually(4) simple or understandable and {BREATH} things we think are(2) complex(2) might {COUGH} be made simple and(2) understandable <sil> take a look at ted here you are {SMACK} understanding {SMACK} why we're here <sil> what's going(2) on <sil> with no difficulty at all <sil> somehow we have(2) to understand ourselves to get around(2) our flaws {NOISE} we can(2) think of ourselves as(2) kind of a noisy channel <sil> the way i think of it is we can't <sil> learn to see until we admit we're(3) blind finding ways to see <sil> things and {UH} little additional parts for our brain <sil> made out of powerful ideas that(2) help us {SMACK} see the world in <sil> different ways {NOISE} and <sil> these are(2) in the form of sensory apparatus <sil> most importantly {NOISE} in <sil> the(2) ability to change perspective on <sil> things <sil> i'll talk about that {UH} a little bit it's this change in perspective {BREATH} and(2) what(2) it is we think we're perceiving <sil> that(2) has helped us make {SMACK} more <sil> not taught <sil> in {COUGH} any {NOISE} k through twelve {NOISE} curriculum in america that i'm(2) aware {UH} of {SMACK} <sil> one(2) of the things that(2) {SMACK} goes from simple to complex is when we do more {BREATH} <sil> <sil> the best ai(2) in the planet would find it <sil> complex and confusing <sil> and my little dog {UH} watson {SMACK} would find it simple and(2) understandable <sil> but would miss the point <sil> <sil> {NOISE} and {NOISE} in {UH} fact {SMACK} we can keep on doing it {SMACK} for(2) a very long time <sil> but {UH} murray gell mann yesterday talked about emergent properties <sil> another name for(2) them {UH} could be architecture as(3) a metaphor <sil> for(2) taking the same old {UM} material and <sil> <sil> non obvious non simple ways of combining it what(2) murray(2) was(2) talking about yesterday in the(2) <sil> fractal beauty {BREATH} of nature of having <sil> the descriptions at various levels be {UH} rather <sil> {UM} similar all goes down {UM} to(3) the(2) <sil> idea that the(2) elementary(3) particles {BREATH} are <sil> both sticky and stand offish {SMACK} <sil> and {UH} they're {NOISE} in violent motion {SMACK} <sil> those three things give rise to all the different levels {UH} so when(4) i saw the roslings {SMACK} <sil> in conveying complex ideas {SMACK} simply but then i had a {COUGH} thought {UH} of {BREATH} boy maybe it's too simple <sil> and(2) i put <sil> some {NOISE} effort in {SMACK} to try and check {SMACK} to see how well these <sil> simple portrayals {UH} of trends over time actually(3) {BREATH} matched up {UM} with {SMACK} <sil> {UM} some ideas {NOISE} and investigations from the side and(2) i {COUGH} found that(2) they matched up very well {BREATH} so the roslings have(2) been able to(3) {BREATH} do <sil> simplicity(2) {SMACK} {UM} without(2) removing what's important {SMACK} about the data(2) {BREATH} <sil> whereas(2) {UH} the(2) <sil> film yesterday that we saw of the simulation of the(2) inside of a cell as a <sil> former {UM} molecular biologist {BREATH} i didn't(3) like {COUGH} that at all <sil> not because(2) it wasn't beautiful or(2) anything but because(2) {NOISE} it misses(2) the thing that(2) most students fail {COUGH} to understand {BREATH} about molecular biology {BREATH} and that <sil> is why(2) {COUGH} is there <sil> any {SMACK} probability at all {UH} of {UH} two complex shapes finding each other just the right {COUGH} way so they combine(2) together and be catalyzed <sil> and(2) what we saw yesterday was <sil> every(2) reaction was fortuitous <sil> they just(2) swooped in the(2) air and bound and(2) something {NOISE} have a {UH} great {SMACK} time {UH} and of course if you're a speaker those molecules are spinning at the rate of about a million {NOISE} revolutions per second agitating back and forth <sil> their {NOISE} size <sil> every(2) two nanoseconds <sil> they're completely crowded together they're jammed they're bashing up against each other {SMACK} and if you don't understand that in your mental model of this stuff <sil> what(2) happens inside of a cell seems completely mysterious and fortuitous and i think that's {BREATH} exactly the wrong image(2) {BREATH} for {COUGH} when you're trying to teach science so another thing that we do is to(2) confuse <sil> adult(2) sophistication <sil> with the actual(2) understanding of some principle <sil> {UM} so <sil> a kid who's(3) fourteen in high school <sil> this version of the <sil> like hans(2) rosling <sil> direct(2) one one that(2) gives you more of the feeling <sil> of math {NOISE} is something closer to {SMACK} pythagoras own proof which(2) goes like {SMACK} this {SMACK} so here we have(2) {UH} this {SMACK} triangle and if we surround that <sil> a speaker {COUGH} finds this complex tricky {NOISE} but {UH} in <sil> hans(2) rosling's(3) <sil> case he had a secret(2) weapon {NOISE} yesterday literally <sil> c square with(2) <sil> three more {NOISE} triangles {SMACK} <sil> {NOISE} and(2) we copy that <sil> notice that we can(2) {SMACK} <sil> that is all you have(2) to do <sil> and(2) this kind of proof is the kind of proof <sil> now let's(3) <sil> go to young children <sil> {NOISE} this is a very unusual teacher <sil> who <sil> {UH} was a(2) kindergarten and first grade teacher but was a natural mathematician <sil> so she was like {BREATH} that jazz musician friend you have(2) who never studied <sil> music <sil> but is a terrific <sil> musician she just had a feeling for(2) math {UH} and <sil> here are her six year olds and she's got {COUGH} them {SMACK} <sil> making shapes {UH} out of a shape {BREATH} <sil> {UM} and(2) {SMACK} this teacher did on every(2) project was to have(2) {UH} the children <sil> act like first it was a creative arts project and then {UM} something like science so they'd created(2) these artifacts {BREATH} now she had them look at them <sil> in his sword swallowing {SMACK} act {NOISE} and i must say i thought of quite a(2) few objects that i might try to(2) swallow {SMACK} today and finally gave up {UH} and do this laborious which i thought {BREATH} <sil> for(2) a long time until she explained to(2) me was {BREATH} to slow them down <sil> so they'll think so they're cutting out the <sil> but the whole point of this thing is {NOISE} them to look at {COUGH} this chart {SMACK} and fill it out <sil> what(2) have(2) you noticed about what you did <sil> and so six year old lauren there {BREATH} noticed that(2) the first one took one <sil> and the(2) <sil> second(2) one(2) took three more {BREATH} <sil> and(2) the total was four on that one(2) the third one(2) took five {COUGH} more <sil> and(2) the total was nine on that one(2) and(2) then the next one {BREATH} so she saw {UH} right away that {BREATH} <sil> the(2) {SMACK} additional <sil> tiles that(2) you had to add around(2) the(2) edges was(2) <sil> always going to grow by two <sil> so she was very confident about how she made those numbers there {BREATH} and she could see {BREATH} that(2) these were(2) the square numbers up until about six <sil> so that's what(2) lauren did and then the teacher <sil> gillian ishijima had the(2) <sil> kids bring all of their projects up to the front of the room and(2) put them on the floor {BREATH} and everybody went <sil> batshit {BREATH} <sil> no matter what(2) the shapes were <sil> the growth law <sil> is the same <sil> and(2) the {UH} mathematicians and scientists(3) in the crowd will recognize {BREATH} these two progressions as(3) a first order <sil> discrete {COUGH} differential(2) equation and a second order discrete <sil> he(2) just did it and that was by six year olds so let's(2) take a look now <sil> how we might {NOISE} use(2) the computer for(2) some of this <sil> {NOISE} wonderful {BREATH} thing {NOISE} so {UH} puck <sil> meant <sil> {NOISE} and(2) {NOISE} so <sil> the <sil> first idea here is <sil> just to show you the kind of things that(2) children {BREATH} <sil> do {SMACK} i'm(2) using the {SMACK} software(2) that we're putting(2) on the(2) {SMACK} one(2) {UH} hundred dollar laptop <sil> so i'd like to draw a little {COUGH} <sil> not only are we fools in the pejorative sense but that we're easily fooled {NOISE} in fact <sil> what shakespeare was pointing out {UH} is we go to the theater in order to(2) be fooled <sil> so we're actually(4) looking forward to(3) it <sil> and(2) {SMACK} here's(3) a little behavior car forward {SMACK} <sil> each time i {COUGH} click it car <sil> turn {BREATH} if i want to make a little script to do this over and over again i just drag these guys out {UM} <sil> goes straight that's a bit of a revelation for(2) nine year olds <sil> a little bit like kissing your(2) sister as far {NOISE} as {BREATH} driving a car so the kids want to do a steering wheel(2) {BREATH} <sil> so they draw a steering wheel(2) <sil> we'll <sil> there and to(2) just(2) drop it into the script here <sil> and now i can(2) <sil> steer the car with the <sil> steering wheel(2) we get <sil> a(2) visual pattern of what(2) <sil> these nine year olds called {NOISE} acceleration <sil> so how did the children do science {SMACK} <sil> to the(2) {NOISE} we go to magic shows in order to be fooled <sil> {COUGH} not {NOISE} and(2) <sil> this makes {BREATH} <sil> many things fun <sil> but it makes <sil> it difficult <sil> {UH} 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and(2) that bio reactor will lay down in the wound(2) bed {BREATH} the gun that(2) you see there {NOISE} sprays cells <sil> <sil> {NOISE} that's {SMACK} going(2) to spray {UM} cells over {UH} that(2) area the reactor will serve {COUGH} to fertilize the environment {SMACK} deliver other things as(2) well at the same time {BREATH} and therefore we will {NOISE} that lawn <sil> as(2) opposed to try the sodding approach it's a completely <sil> different(2) way of doing it <sil> <sil> so my eighteen minutes is up so let me finish up {UH} with {COUGH} some good(2) news(2) {SMACK} and maybe a little bit of bad news <sil> the good news(2) <sil> is that this is happening today it's very powerful work clearly the images kind of get that across {BREATH} it's incredibly difficult because(2) it's highly inter disciplinary <sil> this is the complete <sil> antithesis <sil> of regenerative medicine {BREATH} this is not {UM} regenerative medicine <sil> regenerative medicine is what business week {SMACK} put up when(3) they did a story about regenerative medicine not too long ago {BREATH} the(2) idea <sil> a number of governments <sil> and(2) a number of regions have(3) recognized <sil> that this {NOISE} is a(2) new(2) way to treat disease the japanese government were(2) perhaps the first when(4) they decided to invest first three billion <sil> {NOISE} european <sil> union {COUGH} same thing <sil> china <sil> the same thing china just launched a national tissue engineering center(2) {BREATH} the first year budget was two hundred and(2) fifty million us(2) dollars(2) {BREATH} in the(2) united states we've had a somewhat(2) different approach {BREATH} we <sil> and be in the real world {BREATH} as(2) president {BREATH} we've had a {COUGH} different approach and the(2) approach has basically been(3) to(2) just sort of fund things as they come along but there's been(3) no strategic {SMACK} investment {BREATH} to bring all of the {COUGH} necessary things to bear {BREATH} and(2) focus(2) them <sil> in a(2) careful way {BREATH} and(2) i'm going to finish up with a quote {UH} maybe a little <sil> cheap {NOISE} shot {UH} at <sil> the {UH} director of the nih who's(3) a very charming man {BREATH} to try and convince him {UH} that(2) it was(2) time <sil> to(3) <sil> take just(2) a little piece of that twenty(2) seven point five billion dollars(2) get {COUGH} next(2) year {BREATH} and <sil> focus(2) it {SMACK} in a(2) strategic way {NOISE} to make sure we can(2) accelerate the pace at which(2) these things get to patients(2) <sil> and(2) at the(2) end of a(2) very testy meeting <sil> what the(2) nih director said is your vision {NOISE} is larger than our appetite {SMACK} i'd like to close(2) by saying <sil> that(2) no one's(2) going to change our(2) vision {SMACK} but together we can(2) change his(2) appetite <sil> thank {UH} is that <sil> instead of figuring out how to(3) <sil> ameliorate symptoms with devices and(2) drugs and(2) the like and i'll come back to that <sil> theme a few times <sil> <sil> {NOISE} instead {BREATH} of {NOISE} doing that(2) we {NOISE} will(2) regenerate lost function of the body {UH} by regenerating the function of organs and(2) damaged(2) tissue {SMACK} so that at the(2) end of the treatment <sil> you are the same as(2) you were(2) at the beginning of the {NOISE} you today {NOISE} about {UH} hopefully {SMACK} converting fear {SMACK} into hope {BREATH} when {UH} we go to the physician {SMACK} <sil> this is a good idea very few {NOISE} good(2) ideas <sil> are truly novel <sil> and this is just the same {BREATH} if you {NOISE} look {NOISE} back in history(2) <sil> charles(2) lindbergh {COUGH} who was better known for(3) flying airplanes {BREATH} was actually(4) one(2) of the first people along with alexis carrel one(2) of the nobel laureates from(2) <sil> rockefeller {BREATH} we've come a long way since then i'm going to share with you some of the(2) exciting work <sil> that's going(2) on(2) {BREATH} but before doing that {COUGH} what i'd like to do is share my depression about the health care system and(2) the need {SMACK} for(2) this with you <sil> <sil> many of the talks yesterday {BREATH} talked about {UH} improving the quality of life and(2) {NOISE} reducing(3) poverty and essentially today when(3) we go to the doctor(2)'s(3) office and we walk(2) in there are(2) words that we just don't want to(2) hear {BREATH} there are(2) words that we're(2) truly afraid {UH} and you can(2) basically see that(2) {COUGH} the richer a country is {BREATH} the <sil> older the {UH} people are within it <sil> why is this important <sil> and(2) why is this a particularly(2) dramatic challenge right now <sil> if {UH} the {NOISE} average age of your(2) population is thirty(2) <sil> then the(2) {COUGH} average(3) <sil> kind of disease that(2) you have(2) to treat {NOISE} is maybe a broken ankle every(2) now and again maybe a little bit of {NOISE} if the average age in your(2) country is forty five to fifty five {BREATH} now the {UH} average person is looking at diabetes early onset diabetes heart failure coronary artery disease <sil> {NOISE} workers {UH} per retiree {BREATH} forty one people <sil> who were(2) <sil> basically {COUGH} outside of being really sick {SMACK} paying for {BREATH} the one(2) retiree <sil> who was <sil> experiencing debilitating disease in two {NOISE} thousand {SMACK} and <sil> ten {NOISE} two workers <sil> per retiree in the(2) u s and this is matched in {COUGH} every {BREATH} industrialized wealthy country {BREATH} in the world <sil> how can(2) you actually(3) afford <sil> to treat {SMACK} patients(2) when the reality of getting old looks like this this is <sil> age versus(2) cost(2) of {SMACK} health care <sil> and you can(2) see <sil> that(2) right {UH} around(2) <sil> age forty five forty to forty five {BREATH} there's a sudden spike in the(2) {NOISE} cost of health care {BREATH} it's actually(2) quite interesting(3) if you do the right studies <sil> you can(2) look at how much you as(2) an individual spend on your(2) own health care plotted(2) over your lifetime {BREATH} and(2) about seven years before you're about to die there's a spike {BREATH} and {UH} you can(2) actually(3) {COUGH} we won't get into that <sil> there are {UH} very {COUGH} few things <sil> very few things that(2) you can(2) really(2) do <sil> that will change the way that(2) you can(2) treat <sil> these kinds of diseases <sil> and {UH} experience what i would call {BREATH} healthy {NOISE} aging <sil> <sil> i'd suggest there are four things and none of these things {BREATH} include an insurance system or(2) a legal system all those things do is change {SMACK} who pays {BREATH} they don't actually(3) change what {UH} the actual cost of the treatment {UH} one(2) thing you can(2) do is not treat {SMACK} you can(2) ration health care {SMACK} we won't talk about that anymore it's too depressing <sil> you can(2) prevent {NOISE} obviously a lot of monies <sil> should be put {NOISE} into prevention <sil> but perhaps most(2) {SMACK} interesting(3) to(2) me anyway and(2) most(2) important {BREATH} is the(2) idea {BREATH} of {UH} diagnosing {NOISE} a {NOISE} <sil> and(2) then {COUGH} treating the disease to(2) cure the disease <sil> instead {NOISE} of {NOISE} treating a symptom think of it in terms of {UH} <sil> ten twenty(2) thirty(2) forty years {BREATH} and {NOISE} we do ok <sil> insulin's(3) a {UH} pretty good therapy but eventually(2) it stops working {BREATH} and(2) diabetes leads to(3) {COUGH} a predictable {UH} onset(2) {UH} of debilitating disease <sil> why(2) couldn't we just(2) inject the pancreas with(2) something <sil> to regenerate the pancreas {COUGH} early on in the disease perhaps even before <sil> it was symptomatic <sil> and it might {COUGH} be a(2) little bit expensive {COUGH} at the time {UM} that we did it {BREATH} but if it worked <sil> we would truly be able to do something different {BREATH} this video <sil> i think gets across the {SMACK} concept <sil> that i'm(2) talking about {UH} quite dramatically(2) {BREATH} this is a newt {SMACK} re(2) growing its limb <sil> if a newt {SMACK} can(2) do this kind of thing why can't {UM} we <sil> i'll actually(3) show you some {NOISE} more important features about limb regeneration {NOISE} in a moment {BREATH} what(2) i want to lay out {UH} for(2) you today is {SMACK} a different(2) way of thinking about how to treat debilitating disease {BREATH} why it's important <sil> why without it perhaps our health care system will melt down <sil> if <sil> you think it already(2) {UM} but {UH} what we're talking about {COUGH} in regenerative medicine {SMACK} is doing {NOISE} this <sil> in every(2) organ system of the body <sil> tissues <sil> and {COUGH} for(2) {UH} organs themselves {BREATH} <sil> so today <sil>'s reality is that(2) if we get sick {BREATH} the message is we will treat your(2) symptoms {BREATH} and you need to adjust to(3) a new(2) way of life <sil> <sil> i would {UH} pose to you that(2) tomorrow <sil> and when(3) tomorrow is we could debate <sil> but {UH} it's within the foreseeable future {BREATH} we will(2) talk about regenerative rehabilitation(2) {BREATH} a limb prosthetic up here similar actually(3) to the one(2) that(2) {UH} the soldier that's come back from iraq there are(2) three hundred(2) and(2) seventy(2) soldiers {BREATH} that(2) have come back from iraq {SMACK} that(2) have lost limbs {BREATH} {NOISE} imagine if instead {UH} of <sil> facing that <sil> they could actually(4) face the regeneration of that limb it's a wild {UH} concept {BREATH} i'll show you where(2) we are <sil> at {UH} the moment {UH} in <sil> working towards that concept {BREATH} but it's applicable again to every(2) organ system how can(2) we do that <sil> the way to do that {NOISE} is to develop a conversation with the body we need to learn to speak the body's language {BREATH} and(2) to switch on processes {BREATH} that we knew(2) how to do when(3) we were(2) a fetus <sil> a mammalian(2) fetus if it loses(2) a limb <sil> during(3) the first trimester of pregnancy {BREATH} will re(2) {NOISE} grow that {NOISE} so our {UH} dna has the capacity(2) <sil> to do these kinds of wound(2) healing mechanisms it's a(2) natural process {BREATH} but {COUGH} it is lost <sil> as {NOISE} we {NOISE} age <sil> in a(2) child <sil> so to <sil> engage {SMACK} in that conversation with the body we need to speak the body's(3) language(2) <sil> and there are certain tools in our {UH} toolbox that(2) allow us to do this {BREATH} today {BREATH} i'm going to(2) give you an example of {BREATH} three of these <sil> tools {BREATH} through which(2) to converse with the body {BREATH} the first is cellular therapies {BREATH} clearly {SMACK} <sil> {NOISE} we heal ourselves in a natural process using cells to do most of the work {BREATH} therefore if we can(2) find the right cells {BREATH} and implant them in the body {SMACK} they may do the healing <sil> and(2) {COUGH} where(2) we are {UH} clinically(2) today and where(2) we might {NOISE} go tomorrow and(2) what(2) some of the {COUGH} hurdles are <sil> and we're going to do {COUGH} all of that {COUGH} in {NOISE} eighteen minutes <sil> {NOISE} then we might {COUGH} be able to have(2) those materials {SMACK} induce the body to heal itself {BREATH} and finally we may be able to use(2) smart {UM} devices {BREATH} that(2) will <sil> offload the work of the body {BREATH} and allow it to(2) {NOISE} if you threw away all the cells <sil> and if you did that in a way that(2) allowed it to remain biologically active <sil> may contain {UH} all of the necessary factors and(2) signals {BREATH} that(2) would signal the body to(2) heal itself and(2) he asked a very important question {COUGH} he asked the question <sil> if i take that material <sil> which(2) is a(2) natural material {BREATH} that(2) usually induces healing in the small intestine {BREATH} and(2) i place it somewhere(2) else <sil> on a person's(3) body {UH} <sil> would it give a(2) tissue specific response(2) or would it make small intestine if i {COUGH} tried to make a new(2) {NOISE} ear(2) <sil> i wouldn't be telling you this story <sil> if it {UH} wasn't compelling {BREATH} the picture i'm(2) about to(2) show you <sil> is a(2) compelling picture <sil> {UH} however for those of you that {UH} are(2) {UH} even the slightest bit squeamish {SMACK} even though you may not like to {UH} admit it in front of your(2) friends the lights are(2) down {COUGH} this is a(2) good time to look at your(2) feet {BREATH} check your blackberry {BREATH} do {NOISE} anything other than(2) look at the screen what(2) i'm about to(2) show you {COUGH} <sil> i want to start with {UM} this slide because(2) this slide sort of tells the story the way science magazine thinks of it {BREATH} this was an {NOISE} issue from two thousand and two <sil> is a diabetic ulcer <sil> and although it's {NOISE} good(2) to laugh before we look at this this is the reality of diabetes i think a lot of times we hear about diabetics diabetic ulcers {BREATH} we just don't(2) connect {BREATH} the {NOISE} ulcer with <sil> the(2) {NOISE} eventual treatment which is amputation if you can't {SMACK} heal it so i'm {UM} going to put the slide up now {COUGH} it won't be up for long <sil> this is a(2) diabetic ulcer <sil> it's {NOISE} tragic {SMACK} the treatment for(2) this is amputation this is an {UH} older lady she has {SMACK} cancer of the liver {UH} as(2) well as(2) diabetes {BREATH} and has decided to(3) die {NOISE} with what s left of her body intact <sil> and {UH} this lady decided after a year {UH} of attempted treatment of that ulcer {BREATH} that(2) she would try {NOISE} this {UH} new(2) therapy that(2) steve invented <sil> that's what(2) {COUGH} the wound(2) looked like <sil> eleven weeks later {BREATH} that material contained <sil> only natural signals <sil> and(2) that material induced the body to switch {SMACK} back on(2) a(2) healing response {BREATH} that(2) it didn't have(2) {COUGH} before {BREATH} there's going to be a(2) couple more distressing slides for those of you i'll {UH} let you know(2) when(4) you can(2) look again <sil> <sil> {NOISE} this is a horse <sil> the horse is not in pain <sil> if the horse was in pain i wouldn't show you this slide <sil> the horse just(2) has another nostril that's developed because(2) of a riding accident <sil> just a few weeks after treatment in this case taking that material turning it into a gel <sil> {NOISE} that(2) they <sil> published {SMACK} with {BREATH} a lot of different(2) articles on the bionic human it was basically a(2) regenerative medicine {NOISE} issue {BREATH} regenerative medicine is an(2) extraordinarily simple <sil> and(2) packing that area and then repeating the treatment a few times {BREATH} and the horse heals up and if you took an(2) ultrasound of that area {BREATH} it would look great a dolphin <sil> where(2) the fin's been(3) re(2) attached there are now {NOISE} four hundred(3) thousand(2) patients around the world {BREATH} who have(3) used that material <sil> to heal their {UM} could you regenerate a limb <sil> darpa just gave steve fifteen million dollars(2) to lead(2) {UH} an <sil> eight institution <sil> project to begin the process of asking that question {BREATH} and i'll show you the fifteen million dollar(2) picture <sil> {NOISE} this is a seventy(2) eight year old man who's(3) lost the(2) end of his(2) fingertip remember that i mentioned before the {NOISE} children who lose their fingertips {BREATH} after treatment <sil> that's what(2) it looks like <sil> <sil> this <sil> is happening today {COUGH} this is clinically(2) relevant <sil> today <sil> there are materials which(2) do this {BREATH} there are the heart {UH} patches {SMACK} but {NOISE} could you <sil> go a little further could you say instead of using material can(2) i {COUGH} take some cells along with the material <sil> and remove a damaged(2) piece of tissue put <sil> a(2) {NOISE} bio degradable material on(2) there {BREATH} you can(2) see here a little bit of heart muscle beating in a dish {BREATH} this was done by <sil> now i'm going to show you cell based to show you here <sil> is stem cells {UH} being removed from the hip of a patient <sil> again if you're squeamish you {NOISE} don't want to watch but this one(2)'s(2) kind of cool {BREATH} <sil> {NOISE} this is a bypass operation <sil> just(2) like what al gore had {SMACK} with a {NOISE} <sil> in this {COUGH} case at the end of the bypass operation you're going to see the stem cells from the <sil> patient that(2) {NOISE} were(2) {NOISE} removed at the <sil> beginning of the procedure {BREATH} being injected(2) directly into the heart of the patient <sil> <sil> and(2) i'm standing up <sil> here because(2) at one point i'm going to show you <sil> that(2) everybody can(2) understand {BREATH} it's simply accelerating the pace at which(2) the body heals itself {BREATH} to a clinically(2) relevant <sil> just(2) how {UH} early this technology is here {NOISE} go the stem cells right into the {UM} beating heart of the {SMACK} patient {COUGH} and(2) if you look really carefully it's going to be right around(2) this {COUGH} point <sil> you'll actually(2) see a {COUGH} back {BREATH} flush <sil> you see the cells coming back out {SMACK} <sil> we need all sorts of new(2) technology new(2) devices {NOISE} to get {COUGH} the cells to the {NOISE} right {COUGH} place {COUGH} at {UH} the right {COUGH} time <sil> <sil> <sil> just(2) a little bit of data(2) <sil> a tiny bit of data(2) this was a randomized {SMACK} trial at this time this {NOISE} was an(2) n of twenty(2) now there's an n of about one(2) hundred(2) <sil> these are(2) now {NOISE} two years out <sil> the <sil> coolest thing would be is if you could diagnose the disease early <sil> and(2) prevent the(2) onset of the disease to a bad state {BREATH} this is the same procedure but now done minimally invasively <sil> with only three holes in the body {BREATH} where they're taking the heart {BREATH} and simply injecting stem cells through a laparoscopic(2) <sil> procedure there go the cells we don't have(2) time to <sil> {NOISE} go into {NOISE} all {NOISE} of {NOISE} those {BREATH} details but basically <sil> that works too <sil> you can(2) take {NOISE} patients(2) who are {UH} less sick <sil> and bring them back to an(2) almost {NOISE} asymptomatic state <sil> through that {BREATH} kind of therapy <sil> here's another example of stem cell therapy that(2) isn't(2) quite {UH} clinical yet but i think very soon will be {SMACK} so we know(2) how to do this {NOISE} in many of the ways that(2) are(2) up there {UH} we {NOISE} know(2) that(2) if we have(2) a damaged(2) hip you can(2) put an artificial hip in {BREATH} and this is the idea that(2) science magazine used on their front cover it's a great source of stem cells {SMACK} stem cells {UH} are {UH} packed {SMACK} in that liposuction fluid(2) so you could go in you could get your(2) tummy tuck <sil> out comes the liposuction fluid(2) {SMACK} and in this case {COUGH} the stem cells are(2) isolated(2) {BREATH} and turned into neurons <sil> all done <sil> in the lab <sil> and i think fairly soon you will see <sil> patients(2) being treated with their own <sil> fat {COUGH} derived or adipose derived <sil> stem cells <sil> i talked before about the(2) use of devices to dramatically(2) change the way we treat <sil> disease here's(3) just one(2) example before i close(2) up <sil> this is equally tragic we very {COUGH} abiding and {UH} heartbreaking partnership with our colleagues at the(2) institute for(2) surgical research in the us(2) army {BREATH} who have(2) to treat {SMACK} the(2) now {UH} eleven thousand(2) <sil> kids that(2) have come back from iraq {BREATH} many of those patients(2) are(2) very severely burned and if there's anything that's been(3) learned about {UH} burn it's that we don't know(2) how to <sil> treat {NOISE} it <sil> everything that <sil> is done to treat burn basically we do a sodding {UH} approach {BREATH} we <sil> make something over here {UH} and then we transplant it onto the site of the wound(2) and we try and(2) get the two to take <sil> in this case here {UH} a new(2) <sil> wearable bio reactor {COUGH} has been(3) designed <sil> it should {NOISE} be tested(2) clinically(2) later this year {UH} at {UH} isr {BREATH} by {NOISE} joerg gerlach in pittsburgh <sil>
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i went one(2) step further and said why(2) do we have(2) to stick {SMACK} with the stodgy lawyers and just {BREATH} have(2) {UH} a <sil> paper document let's(2) go online <sil> {UM} people might need {SMACK} help in computation working with the harvard business school <sil> you'll see this example when(3) you talk about minimum payment {SMACK} {SMACK} if {UH} you spent sixty <sil> two dollars for(2) a meal <sil> the longer you {NOISE} take to pay out {UH} that loan you see {SMACK} over a period of time using the minimum payment <sil> it's {UH} ninety nine <sil> dollars and seventeen cents(2) {BREATH} how about that do you think your(2) bank is going to show that to people {BREATH} <sil> but it's going to work it's more effective than(2) just computational aids {SMACK} and what(2) about {COUGH} terms like {UM} over the limit <sil> {UH} perhaps a stealth thing {BREATH} define it in context tell people what(2) it means {SMACK} when you put it in plain english(2) {SMACK} {NOISE} changing the content {BREATH} and one(2) of the things i'm most(2) proud of is this agreement <sil> for {UH} ibm <sil> it's a grid it's <sil> so basically {SMACK} we have public leaders <sil> public officials who are(2) out of control <sil> they are(2) writing <sil> bills that are(2) {UH} unintelligible <sil> and {UH} out of these bills are(2) going to come {NOISE} maybe forty {COUGH} thousand <sil> pages of regulations {SMACK} total <sil> complexity <sil> at such and(2) such a date {UH} ibm has responsibilities you have responsibilities {BREATH} received(3) very favorably {SMACK} by <sil> business {SMACK} running through this {SMACK} typical letter that they had {BREATH} i ran it through my simplicity lab it's pretty unintelligible all the(2) {SMACK} the document in red {SMACK} are not intelligible {SMACK} we looked at doing over one(2) <sil> thousand letters that cover <sil> seventy percent of {NOISE} irs transactions in <sil> plain english(2) they have been tested(2) in the laboratory <sil> when(3) i run it through my lab {UH} this {SMACK} heat mapping shows <sil> everything {UH} that(2) is intelligible {BREATH} and the {UH} irs has introduced the program {BREATH} <sil> are(2) a couple of things going on(2) right now <sil> that i <sil> want to bring to your(2) attention {BREATH} there is <sil> a lot of discussion now about {UH} a <sil> consumer financial(2) protection agency {SMACK} and(2) {SMACK} how to mandate simplicity(2) {SMACK} we see all this complexity(2) {SMACK} <sil> no way <sil> that we should allow {UH} government to <sil> communicate the way they communicate {BREATH} there is no way we should do business with companies {SMACK} that {UM} <sil> so {UH} how are(2) we going to change the world {UH} make {SMACK} clarity transparency and {NOISE} simplicity(2) a national priority <sil> which(2) has a dramatically(2) {NOISE} negative impact on our life <sil> if you're a veteran {COUGH} coming back {COUGH} from(2) {UH} iraq {UH} or(2) vietnam {BREATH} you {UH} <sil> face a <sil> blizzard of {SMACK} paperwork to get(2) your(2) benefits if you're trying(2) to get a small business loan <sil> you face a blizzard of paperwork {BREATH} what(2) {NOISE} are(2) we going to do about it {BREATH} i define simplicity(2) {BREATH} as a means to(3) achieving clarity {COUGH} transparency {SMACK} and empathy <sil> building humanity(2) {NOISE} into(2) <sil> communications {UH} i've been(2) <sil> simplifying things for thirty years {BREATH} i come out of the(2) {UH} advertising and design business {SMACK} my focus <sil> is {UH} understanding {SMACK} you people {BREATH} and how you {NOISE} interact with(2) the government to get your(2) benefits {BREATH} how you interact with(2) corporations to decide {COUGH} whom you're going to do business with(2) <sil> and(2) how you {NOISE} view brands {SMACK} so very quickly {COUGH} when <sil> president(2) obama said <sil> i {UH} don't(2) see why we can't have {COUGH} a {UH} one page {SMACK} plain english(2) {SMACK} consumer credit(2) agreement {BREATH} so i locked myself in a room <sil> figured out the content {BREATH}
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i don't have(2) to tell you the(2) internet {SMACK} have(2) come tumbling(2) down {BREATH} and of course <sil> the(2) iron curtains have come tumbling(2) down <sil> now all of this has been tremendous {SMACK} for the world <sil> and(2) perhaps most(2) remarkably <sil> at the beginning {UH} of the twenty first century {BREATH} really for(2) the first time {COUGH} in modern history <sil> <sil> {NOISE} growth extended to(3) almost <sil> all <sil> parts <sil> of the world <sil> <sil> <sil> never <sil> before {COUGH} in human history <sil> <sil> have so many people been(2) raised out of such great poverty {SMACK} as happened in china <sil> china is the world's(3) greatest anti poverty program over the last(2) three decades <sil> <sil> {UH} africa has been(3) the(2) <sil> area of the world most(2) <sil> resistant <sil> to growth {BREATH} and we can(2) see the(2) {NOISE} tragedy of africa(2) {UH} in the first few bars here {BREATH} growth was negative {BREATH} we saw growth <sil> in africa {BREATH} and i think as(2) you'll see {NOISE} there's reasons for optimism {BREATH} because(2) i believe that the best {COUGH} is yet to come <sil> now why <sil> on the cutting edge today <sil> it's new ideas which(2) are(2) driving growth {BREATH} and by that i mean <sil> it's <sil> products {SMACK} for(2) which(2) the(2) research and development costs are(2) really high and the manufacturing costs <sil> are low the first world war <sil> {NOISE} more than {NOISE} ever before it is these types of ideas which(2) are(2) driving growth {BREATH} on the cutting edge {BREATH} now ideas have(2) this amazing property <sil> <sil> the great depression <sil> the second(2) world war <sil> and the rise of the communist(2) nations <sil> as(2) he who lights his(2) candle at mine <sil> receives light <sil> without darkening(2) me <sil> or(2) to put it slightly differently(2) <sil> one apple feeds one man <sil> but an(2) idea <sil> can(2) feed the world <sil> <sil> now this is not new this is practically(2) {NOISE} not new to tedsters this is practically(2) the model of ted {BREATH} what is new <sil> is that <sil> the(2) {NOISE} greater function of ideas <sil> <sil> is {SMACK} going to drive growth <sil> even more than ever before {SMACK} this provides a reason why(2) {BREATH} trade and globalization are(2) even more important more powerful than ever before {BREATH} and are(2) going(2) to(2) {NOISE} increase growth <sil> more than ever before {BREATH} and to explain why(2) this is so i have(2) a question <sil> {NOISE} suppose {NOISE} that(2) there are(2) two diseases(2) <sil> one of them is rare the other one(2) is common <sil> but <sil> if they are(2) not treated(2) they are(2) equally severe <sil> if you had to choose <sil> which would you rather(2) have(2) the {UH} common disease <sil> or the rare disease <sil> {NOISE} common {COUGH} the common i think that's absolutely right {NOISE} why(2) {BREATH} because(2) there are(2) more {NOISE} drugs to treat common diseases(2) than there are to treat rare diseases {BREATH} the reason for(2) this is incentives <sil> and(2) each one of these forces split {COUGH} the world <sil> tore the world apart {BREATH} divided the world <sil> and <sil> they threw up walls <sil> it costs(2) about the same <sil> to(3) produce a(2) new drug {BREATH} whether(2) that drug treats one(2) thousand people one hundred(4) thousand people <sil> or a million people {BREATH} but the revenues(2) are much greater if the drug treats a million people {BREATH} so the(2) incentives <sil> are much larger to(3) produce drugs {UH} <sil> which(2) {BREATH} treat more people {BREATH} to(3) put this differently(2) <sil> larger markets <sil> save lives {NOISE} think {UH} about <sil> the {SMACK} following if china and india {UM} were(2) as rich {SMACK} as the united(2) states is today {BREATH} the market for(2) cancer drugs would be {SMACK} eight times larger than it is now {SMACK} <sil> now we are not there yet but it is happening(2) <sil> <sil> as(2) <sil> other countries become richer <sil> the demand for(2) these pharmaceuticals {BREATH} is going(2) to(2) increase tremendously and that means an <sil> increase incentive(2) to do research and(2) development {BREATH} which <sil> benefits <sil> everyone <sil> in the world <sil> action movies have(2) larger budgets than(2) comedies {BREATH} it's because(2) {UH} action movies translate(2) easier into other languages and(2) other cultures {BREATH} so the market for(2) those movies is larger people are(2) willing to(3) invest more and(2) the budgets are(2) larger <sil> alright {NOISE} well {SMACK} if {NOISE} larger markets(2) increase the(2) incentive(2) {SMACK} to produce new ideas <sil> how do we maximize <sil> that incentive(2) {BREATH} <sil> {NOISE} having <sil> one <sil> world <sil> market(2) <sil> by globalizing the world {UM} the way i like to put this <sil> is {BREATH} one idea {UH} ideas are(2) meant to be shared {BREATH} so one(2) idea <sil> can(2) serve <sil> one world <sil> one market <sil> {UH} political {NOISE} walls <sil> trade walls transportation walls {BREATH} communication walls <sil> iron {COUGH} curtains {BREATH} which divided peoples <sil> one(2) idea one(2) world {COUGH} one market {SMACK} <sil> can we create new(2) ideas that's one reason <sil> {NOISE} trade <sil> how else can(2) we create new ideas {BREATH} well more {NOISE} idea creators <sil> <sil> idea creators they come from all {UM} walks of life {NOISE} artists and(2) innovators many of the people you've seen {NOISE} on this stage {BREATH} i'm(2) going to focus on scientists(3) and engineers {UH} because(2) i have(2) some data(2) on that and i'm(2) a data(2) person {BREATH} <sil> {UM} now {BREATH} today <sil> less than(2) one {SMACK} of one percent <sil> of the world's(3) population <sil> are scientists(2) {SMACK} and <sil> engineers {BREATH} the(2) u s {UH} is losing <sil> its idea leadership <sil> and(2) for(2) that i am very grateful <sil> that is a(2) good thing <sil> it is {NOISE} fortunate that we are(2) becoming less of an(2) idea leader {BREATH} because(2) for(2) too long <sil> the united(2) states and a handful of other developed countries have shouldered the(2) entire burden {BREATH} of research and development <sil> <sil> <sil> but consider the following <sil> if the world as(2) a whole were(2) as wealthy <sil> as the united(2) states is now {BREATH} there would be more than five times as(2) many scientists(3) and engineers {BREATH} contributing <sil> ideas which(2) {SMACK} benefit <sil> everyone <sil> which are shared <sil> by <sil> everyone {BREATH} i think {UH} of the(2) {NOISE} great indian {NOISE} mathematician {NOISE} and(2) nations <sil> it was only in <sil> the second half <sil> of the twentieth century {BREATH} that we slowly began to(3) pull {NOISE} ourselves {UH} out {UH} of this <sil> abyss <sil> how many ramanujans <sil> are <sil> there {NOISE} in {NOISE} india today {BREATH} toiling in the fields {BREATH} barely able to feed themselves <sil> when they {SMACK} could be <sil> feeding the world <sil> {NOISE} now we're(2) not there yet but it {NOISE} is going(2) to happen {NOISE} in this century {BREATH} the {NOISE} real tragedy of the last century <sil> <sil> is this <sil> if you think about {UH} the world {NOISE}'s(2) population {NOISE} as a(2) giant computer a massively parallel processor {BREATH} then the great tragedy has been <sil> that billions <sil> of our processors have(2) been(2) <sil> off {NOISE} but in this century <sil> china is coming on line <sil> india is coming on(2) line <sil> is coming on line {BREATH} we will(2) see an einstein in africa {UH} in this century <sil> think what(2) this means {BREATH} this means we {UH} all benefit <sil> when another country gets(2) <sil> rich <sil> need a greater demand for(2) ideas those larger markets i was talking about earlier {BREATH} and a(2) greater supply {UH} <sil> of ideas for the world <sil> now you can(2) see {NOISE} some of the reasons why i'm optimistic century <sil> than(2) you expect to see {NOISE} in a(2) year <sil> today {UH} trade walls began(2) to come tumbling(2) down <sil> here are(2) some data on(2) {UH} tariffs starting at forty percent {BREATH} coming down to less than five percent we globalized the world {NOISE} average(2) gdp per capita {COUGH} in the world will be two hundred(4) thousand dollars(2) {BREATH} that's not u s gdp <sil> per capita which(2) will be over a million {BREATH} but world gdp per capita <sil> two hundred(4) thousand dollars(2) {BREATH} that's not that far <sil> we won't make it {UH} but some of our grandchildren probably will(2) {BREATH} and i should say <sil> i {UH} think this is a rather(2) modest {UH} prediction <sil> in kurzweilian {UH} terms this is gloomy <sil> {COUGH} growth <sil> alright {COUGH} what(2) about problems {SMACK} what about <sil> a(2) {UH} great depression <sil> {NOISE} well {NOISE} let's(2) {NOISE} take a look <sil> let's(2) take a look at the great depression <sil> we went off a cliff {SMACK} but we recovered(2) <sil> <sil> in fact <sil> in the second half {UH} of the twentieth century <sil> growth was even higher than <sil> anything you would have {SMACK} predicted <sil> upon the first half of the twentieth century {BREATH} so growth can(2) wash(2) away <sil> even what(2) appears to be <sil> a(2) great <sil> depression <sil> that(2) mean <sil> it means that we extended cooperation(2) <sil> across {UH} national boundaries {BREATH} we made the world more {NOISE} <sil> alright what(2) else <sil> oil {UH} oil <sil> this was a big {UH} topic when(4) i was writing up my notes {NOISE} oil was one(2) hundred(4) {NOISE} and(2) {NOISE} forty {NOISE} dollars <sil> per {BREATH} barrel {UH} so people were(2) asking a question(2) {NOISE} the(2) were(2) saying {UH} is {NOISE} china drinking our milkshake {BREATH} {NOISE} and(2) {NOISE} there is some {UH} truth to this in the sense that <sil> we {NOISE} have(2) something of a finite resource and(2) <sil> moreover <sil> as(2) everyone {COUGH} knows {SMACK} look {UH} it's {NOISE} energy not oil which(2) counts {BREATH} and {COUGH} higher {NOISE} oil to overcome an increase in the price of oil today <sil> than ever in the past {BREATH} because(2) of what i'm(2) talking about <sil> one idea <sil> one world <sil> one market(2) so i'm(2) optimistic <sil> so long as we hew to these two ideas {BREATH} to keep globalizing world markets keep extending cooperation(2) <sil> across national boundaries(2) {BREATH} and keep investing in education <sil> now the(2) united(2) states has a(2) {NOISE} particularly(2) important role <sil> to play {NOISE} in this <sil> to {BREATH} keep {UM} our {NOISE} education system <sil> globalized <sil> to keep {NOISE} our education system open to students from all over the world {BREATH} because(2) {NOISE} our education system <sil> is the candle <sil> <sil> that other students come to(3) to light {NOISE} their {NOISE} own candles <sil> now remember here what(2) jefferson said <sil> {NOISE} jefferson <sil> said when(3) they {NOISE} come {SMACK} and {NOISE} light <sil> their candles <sil> at ours <sil> that(2) {UH} they gain light {SMACK} and we {SMACK} are not darkened <sil> {NOISE} because(2) the(2) truth {UH} is <sil> <sil> so {COUGH} <sil> my view is <sil> be optimistic {BREATH} spread the(2) ideas {NOISE} spread the light <sil> thank you {COUGH} {NOISE} today(2) a container ship {SMACK} can carry one(2) hundred and fifty thousand tons it can be manned with a smaller crew {COUGH} and unloaded faster than(2) ever before <sil> <sil>
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to seventy(2) <sil> percent {UH} at the(2) end of voting <sil> which(2) is pretty impressive right we won mister splashy pants was chosen {BREATH} hmm <sil> just kidding okay so greenpeace actually(4) wasn't that crazy about it because(2) they wanted(2) one(2) of their more thoughtful names to win so they said no no just(2) kidding we'll give it another week of voting {BREATH} well {UH} that <sil> got us a little angry so we changed it to fightin splashy <sil> <sil> community really <sil> and the rest of the(2) internet rather really got behind this facebook groups were(2) getting(2) created <sil> facebook applications were(2) getting created <sil> the idea was {BREATH} vote {NOISE} your(2) conscience vote for(2) mister splashy pants {BREATH} and(2) people were(2) putting up signs in the {NOISE} real world {COUGH} about {UH} this whale {COUGH} is obvious it's a great name everyone wants to hear their news(2) anchor say mister splashy pants {COUGH} and i think that's what helped drive this <sil> but {UH} what(2) was cool was the repercussions now for(2) greenpeace was they created(2) an entire marketing campaign around {UH} it <sil> they sell mister splashy pants shirts and(2) pins {BREATH} they even created(2) an {NOISE} e card so you could send your friend a dancing splashy <sil> was(2) even <sil> more important was the fact that they actually(4) accomplished their mission {SMACK} the {BREATH} japanese government called off their whaling(2) expedition {BREATH} mission accomplished greenpeace was thrilled the whales(2) were(2) happy <sil> that's a quote {BREATH} this wasn't(2) really out of altruism this was just(2) out of interest <sil> in doing something cool and(2) {BREATH} this is kind of how the(2) internet works {UH} this is that <sil> great big secret(2) <sil> and(2) one(2) of the great lessons that(2) greenpeace actually(4) learned was that it's okay <sil> to lose control <sil> it's okay to(2) take yourself(2) a little less seriously {BREATH} given(2) that <sil> even though it's a very serious cause <sil> you could ultimately achieve your(2) final goal {UH} <sil> {UH} and that's {NOISE} the final message that i want to share with all of you that {BREATH} you can(2) do well online but no longer is the message going to be coming from just the top down {UH} if you want to succeed {NOISE} you've got to be okay <sil> to just(2) lose {SMACK} control <sil> thank you {UH} <sil> is actually(3) {BREATH} about discovering new(2) things that pop up on the web {UH} because(2) in the last four years we've seen {NOISE} all kinds(2) of memes all kinds of trends get(2) born <sil> right on our front page <sil> on(2) their whaling(2) campaign {BREATH} these humpback whales were(2) getting(2) <sil> killed <sil> they wanted to <sil> put an end to it {BREATH} and one(2) of the ways they wanted to do it was to put a tracking chip inside one of these humpback whales(2) <sil> i believe this is a farsi word {BREATH} for(2) immortal {BREATH} i think this means divine power <sil> of the ocean <sil> in a polynesian language(2) {BREATH} and {UH} then there was this mister <sil> splashy pants {SMACK} <sil> {NOISE} and this this was {NOISE} special {NOISE} mister pants or splashy to(3) his(2) friends {UM} was very popular on the(2) internet in fact someone on(2) reddit <sil> thought oh what a great thing we should all vote this up {NOISE} and you know(2)
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TED-LIUM Long-Form Speaker Dataset (Release 1, 100 Speakers)
This dataset is a derived version of TED-LIUM Release 1 that consolidates audio segments for 100 unique speakers into long-form WAV files. The goal is to provide a long-context speech dataset suitable for training or evaluating models on speaker-specific, continuous speech data.
🔍 Description
- Source: TED-LIUM Release 1
- Speakers: 100 (randomly selected)
- Segments: Merged per speaker across all available talks
- Split: Train
- Audio Format: 16-bit mono WAV
- Sampling Rate: 16,000 Hz
- Language: English
📁 Dataset Structure
Each example contains:
audio: Long-form audio (.wav) with all of a speaker’s utterances mergedtext: Full transcript merged from all segments of that speakerspeaker_id: Normalized speaker name (e.g.,Al_Gore)
🛠 How It Was Constructed
- Loaded TED-LIUM Release 1 using Hugging Face Datasets.
- Normalized speaker IDs by stripping suffixes (e.g.,
Al_Gore_01→Al_Gore). - Merged all audio segments and transcripts for each speaker.
- Selected 100 unique speakers (due to memory constraints).
- Saved merged
.wavfiles and transcripts into a Hugging Face-compatible dataset.
✅ Intended Use
- Long-context speech recognition
- Speaker adaptation and diarization research
- Pretraining or evaluating speech models on speaker-specific data
📜 Citation
@inproceedings{rousseau2012tedlium,
title={TED-LIUM: an Automatic Speech Recognition dedicated corpus},
author={Rousseau, Anthony and Del{\'e}glise, Paul and Est{\`e}ve, Yannick},
booktitle={Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)},
pages={125--129},
year={2012}
}
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