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it's fully automated you walk towards it and the seat lifts the seat is there's a water jet that cleans you there's an air jet that dries you you get up it flushes by itself the lid closes it self cleans not only is it a technological leap forward but i really do believe it's a bit of a cultural leap forward i mean a no hands no toilet paper toilet and i want to get one of these
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this was another one i could not get a of tom cruise supposedly owns this bed there's a little plaque on the end that you know each buyer gets their name engraved on it
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to try this one the maker of it let me and my wife spend the night in the manhattan showroom lights glaring in off the street and we had to hire a security guard and all these things but anyway we had a great night's sleep and you spend a third of your life in bed i don't think it's that bad of a deal
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the original owner of the bottle turned out to be one of the most enthusiastic wine buffs of the century lafitte is one of the greatest wines in the world the prince of any wine cellar now that's about all the videotape that remains of an event that set off the longest running mystery in the modern wine world
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now that's about all the videotape that remains of an event that set off the longest running mystery in the modern wine world and the mystery existed because of a gentleman named hardy in he announced to his friends in the wine world that he had made this incredible discovery some workmen in paris had broken through a brick wall and happened upon this hidden cache of wines apparently the property of thomas jefferson he wouldn't reveal the exact number of bottles he would not reveal exactly where the building was and he would not reveal exactly who owned the building the mystery persisted for about years it finally began to get resolved in because of this guy
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a lot of the kobe beef that you see in the u s is not the real thing it may come from cattle but it's not from the original appalachian hyogo prefecture in japan there are very few places in the u s where you can try real kobe and one of them is wolfgang restaurant cut in los angeles i went there and i ordered the eight ounce rib eye for dollars and it arrived and it was tiny
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they did give me a tour though and this hotel suite is square feet it has views it has four balconies it was designed by the architect i m pei
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it's almost like a home medical center and that is the direction that japanese toilet technology is heading in this one does not have those bells and whistles but for pure functionality it's pretty much the best the and to try this i couldn't get a but i did go into the manhattan showroom of the manufacturer toto and they have a bathroom off of the showroom that you can use which i used
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there was one object that i could not get my hands on and that was the blanc the blanc is probably the most wine of the century and blanc is kind of an unusual wine for bordeaux in having a significant percentage of the cabernet franc grape
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the blanc is probably the most wine of the century and blanc is kind of an unusual wine for bordeaux in having a significant percentage of the cabernet franc grape and was a legendary vintage especially in the right bank of bordeaux and just together that vintage and that chateau took on this aura that eventually kind of gave it this following but it's years old there's not much of it left what there is of it left you don't know if it's real it's considered to be the most faked wine in the world not that many people are looking to pop open their one remaining bottle for a journalist so i'd about given up trying to get my hands on one of these
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so i'd about given up trying to get my hands on one of these i'd put out feelers to retailers to auctioneers and it was coming up empty and then i got an email from a guy named desai desai is a u c riverside theoretical physicist who also happens to be the preeminent organizer of rare wine tastings and he said i've got a tasting coming up where we're going to serve the blanc and it was going to be a double vertical it was going to be vintages of blanc and vintages of yquem and it was an invitation you do not refuse i went
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it was three days four meals and at lunch on saturday we opened the and you know it had this fragrant softness and it smelled a little bit of linseed oil and then i tasted it and it you know had this kind of unctuous richness which is characteristic of that wine that it sort of resembles port in a lot of ways there were people at my table who thought it was you know fantastic there were some people who were a little less impressed and i wasn't that impressed
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there were some people who were a little less impressed and i wasn't that impressed and i don't call my palate a palate so it doesn't necessarily mean something that i wasn't impressed but i was not the only one there who had that reaction and it wasn't just to that wine any one of the wines served at this tasting if i'd been served it at a dinner party it would have been you know the wine experience of my lifetime and incredibly memorable but drinking great wines over three days they all just blurred together and it became almost a grueling experience and i just wanted to finish by mentioning a very interesting study which came out earlier this year from some researchers at stanford and and they gave subjects the same wine labeled with different price tags a lot of people you know said that they liked the more expensive wine more it was the same wine but they thought it was a different one that was more expensive
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or if you take the woman who created save the children years ago she was so appalled by what was happening in austria as a result of the first world war and what was happening to children who were part of the defeated families of austria that in britain she wanted to take action but she had to go house to house leaflet to leaflet to get people to attend a rally in the royal albert hall that eventually gave birth to save the children an international organization that is now fully recognized as one of the great institutions in our land and in the world but what more could she have done if shed had the modern means of communications available to her to create a sense that the injustice that people saw had to be acted upon immediately now look at whats happened in the last years in in president estrada a million people each other about the corruption of that regime eventually brought it down and it was of course called the coup de text
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it cannot be run by elites its got to be run by listening to the public opinions of peoples who are who are communicating with each other around the world years ago the problem we had to solve was slavery years ago i suppose the main problem in a country like ours was how young people children had the right to education years ago in most countries in europe the pressure was for the right to vote years ago the pressure was for the right to social security and welfare in the last years we have seen fascism anti semitism racism apartheid discrimination on the basis of sex and gender and sexuality all these have come under pressure because of the campaigns that have been run by people to change the world i was with nelson mandela a year ago when he was in london i was at a concert that he was attending to mark his birthday and for the creation of new resources for his foundation i was sitting next to nelson mandela i was very privileged to do so when amy came onto the stage
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amy said nelson mandela and i have a lot in common my husband too has spent a long time in prison
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but i think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world we now have the capacity to find common ground with people who we will never meet but who we will meet through the internet and through all the modern means of communication that we now have the capacity to organize and take collective action together to deal with the problem or an injustice that we want to deal with and i believe that this makes this a unique age in human history and it is the start of what i would call the creation of a truly global society
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i noticed that at recess she was the girl who picked the other girls to be on her team it was very obvious from the beginning that she was a leader this is on the way home and that's north korea up along the hill this is up along the they would actually cover the windows every night so that light couldn't be seen because the south korean government has said for years that the north koreans may invade at any time so the closer you were to north korea the more terrifying it was very often at school i'd be taking pictures and she would whisper into her ears and then look at me and say stop and i would stand at attention and all the girls would crack up and it was sort of a little joke
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i went off on assignment and came back a week later and father keane said i've got to talk to you about i said oh god now what and he takes me into this room closes the door and says i have children here in the orphanage and it's total bedlam there's clothes there's kids three adults and kids you can imagine and he said the second day she was here she made up a list of all of the names of the older kids and the younger kids and she assigned one of the older kids to each of the younger kids and then she set up a work detail list of who cleaned the orphanage on what day and he said she's telling me that i'm messy and i have to clean up my room and he said i don't know who raised her but she's running the orphanage and she's been here three days
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kodak hired natasha to be a translator for them at the olympics in korea her future husband jeff was working for canon cameras and met natasha at the olympic village this is her first trip back to korea so there's her uncle this is her half sister she went back to the village that's her best friend's mother and i always thought that was a very annie hall kind of outfit
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some of you have heard the story before but in fact there's somebody in the audience who's never heard this story in front of an audience before so i'm a little more nervous than i normally am telling this story i used to be a photographer for many years in i was working for time magazine and i was given a three day assignment to photograph children children who had been fathered by american all over southeast asia and then abandoned children all over asia i had never heard the word before i spent a few days photographing children in different countries and like a lot of photographers and a lot of journalists i always hoped that when my pictures are published they might actually have an effect on a situation instead of just documenting it so i was so disturbed by what i saw and i was so unhappy with the article that ran afterwards that i decided i would take six months off
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so i was so disturbed by what i saw and i was so unhappy with the article that ran afterwards that i decided i would take six months off i was years old i decided i would find six children in different countries and actually go spend some time with the kids and try to tell their story a little bit better than i thought i had done for time magazine in the course of doing the story i was looking for children who hadn't been photographed before and the pearl buck foundation told me that they worked with a lot of americans who were donating money to help some of these kids and a man told me who ran the pearl buck foundation in korea that there was a young girl who was years old being raised by her grandmother and the grandmother had never let any westerners see her every time any westerners came to the village she hid the girl of course i was immediately intrigued
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and i was paying for this myself so i asked the translator if it would be ok if i stayed for the week i had a sleeping bag the family had a small shed on the side of the house so i said could i sleep in my sleeping bag in the evenings and i just told the little girl whose name was lee that if i ever did anything to embarrass her she didn't speak a word of english although she looked very american she could put up her hand and say stop and i would stop taking pictures then my translator left i couldn't speak a word of korean this is the first night i met her mother was still alive she was not raising her her grandmother was raising her and what struck me immediately was how in love the two of these people were
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my journey to coming here today started in that's me with the funny gloves i was and going on a peace walk what i didn't know though was most of those people standing there with me were moonies
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and i then became a i started going out on cases and after about five years of doing this i was arrested for kidnapping most of the cases i went out on were called involuntary what happened was that the family had to get their loved ones some safe place somehow and so they took them to some safe place and we would come in and talk to them usually for about a week and so after this happened i decided it was a good time to turn my back on this work and about years went by
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when i wrote my book i started writing the book i wrote a first chapter i thought it was fabulous it was chock full of data and figures i had three pages on matrilineal tribes and their sociological patterns my husband read it and he was like this is like eating your wheaties
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i think that one of the most striking parts about the book and in my opinion one of the reasons it's hit such a nerve and is resonating around the world is that you are personal in the book and that you do make it clear that while you've observed some things that are very important for other women to know that you've had the same challenges that many others of us have as you faced the hurdles and the barriers and possibly the people who don't believe the same so talk about that process deciding you'd go public with the private part and then you would also put yourself in the position of something of an expert on how to resolve those challenges after i did the ted talk what happened was you know i never really expected to write a book i'm not an author i'm not a writer and it was viewed a lot and it really started impacting people's lives i got this great one of the first letters i got was from a woman who said that she was offered a really big promotion at work and she turned it down and she told her best friend she turned it down and her best friend said you really need to watch this ted talk and so she watched this ted talk and she went back the next day she took the job she went home and she handed her husband the grocery list
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now we have all over the world women are called bossy there is a word for bossy for little girls in every language there's one it's a word that's pretty much not used for little boys because if a little boy leads there's no negative word for it it's expected but if a little girl leads she's bossy now i know there aren't a lot of men here but bear with me if you're a man you'll have to represent your gender please raise your hand if you've been told you're too aggressive at work
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okay get ready gentlemen if you're a woman please raise your hand if you've ever been told you're too aggressive at work
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happiest moments i had in this whole journey is after the book came out i stood on a stage with john chambers the of cisco he read the book he stood on a stage with me he invited me in front of his whole management team men and women and he said i thought we were good at this i thought i was good at this and then i read this book and i realized that we my company we have called all of our senior women too aggressive and i'm standing on this stage and i'm sorry and i want you to know we're never going to do it again can we send that to a lot of other people that we know and so john is doing that because he believes it's good for his company and so this kind of acknowledgement of these biases can change it and so next time you all see someone call a little girl bossy you walk right up to that person big smile and you say that little girl's not bossy that little girl has executive leadership skills
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you did focus in the book and the reason as you said in writing it was to create a dialogue about this i mean let's just put it out there face the fact that women are in a time when we have more open doors and more opportunities are still not getting to the leadership positions so in the months that have come since the book in which lean in focused on that and said here are some of the challenges that remain and many of them we have to own within ourselves and look at ourselves what has changed have you seen changes well there's certainly more dialogue which is great but what really matters to me and i think all of us is action so everywhere i go they're mostly men say to me you're costing me so much money because all the women want to be paid as much as the men and to them i say i'm not sorry at all
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you been surprised by the global nature of the message because i think when the book first came out many people thought well this is a really important handbook for young women on their way up they need to look at this anticipate the barriers and recognize them put them out in the open have the dialogue about it but that it's really for women who are that doing that pursuing the corporate world and yet the book is being read as you say in rural and developing countries what part of that has surprised you and perhaps led to a new perspective on your part the book is about self confidence and about equality and it turns out everywhere in the world women need more self confidence because the world tells us we're not equal to men everywhere in the world we live in a world where the men get and and women get or i've never met a man who's been asked how he does it all
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i came out of college over years ago and i thought that all of my peers were men and women all the people above me were all men but that would change because your generation had done such an amazing job fighting for equality equality was now ours for the taking and it wasn't because year after year i was one of fewer and fewer and now often the only woman in a room and i talked to a bunch of people about should i give a speech at about women and they said oh no no
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women are more aggressive than men of course not it's just that we judge them through a different lens and a lot of the character traits that you must exhibit to perform at work to get results to lead are ones that we think in a man he's a boss and in a woman she's bossy and the good news about this is that we can change this by acknowledging it one of the happiest moments i had in this whole journey is after the book came out i stood on a stage with john chambers the of cisco he read the book
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all right all right so more than just explosions chemistry is everywhere have you ever found yourself at a restaurant spacing out just doing this over and over some people nodding yes recently i showed this to my students and i just asked them to try and explain why it happened the questions and conversations that followed were fascinating check out this video that maddie from my period three class sent me that evening
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you know questions and curiosity like are magnets that draw us towards our teachers and they transcend all technology or buzzwords in education but if we place these technologies before student inquiry we can be robbing ourselves of our greatest tool as teachers our students' questions
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want to talk to you a little bit about why the visions of jeremy who would like to ban these sorts of technologies or of the bill joys who would like to relinquish them are actually to follow those paths would be such a tragedy for us i'm focusing on biology the biological sciences the reason i'm doing that is because those are going to be the areas that are the most significant to us the reason for that is really very simple it's because we're flesh and blood we're biological creatures and what we can do with our biology is going to shape our future and that of our children and that of their children whether we gain control over aging whether we learn to protect ourselves from alzheimer's and heart disease and cancer i think that shakespeare really put it very nicely and i'm actually going to use his words in the same order that he did
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and pretty soon it's going to be possible to avoid virtually all genetic diseases in that way as that becomes possible this is going to move from something that is used by those who have infertility problems and are already doing in vitro fertilization to the wealthy who want to protect their children to just about everybody else and in that process that's going to morph from being just for diseases to being for lesser vulnerabilities like risk of manic depression or something to picking personalities temperaments traits these sorts of things of course there is going to be genetic engineering directly going in it's a little bit further away but not that far away going in and altering the genes in the first cell in an embryo the way i suspect it will happen is using artificial chromosomes and extra chromosomes so we go from to or and one that is not heritable because who would want to pass on to their children the archaic enhancement modules that they got years earlier from their parents it's a joke of course they wouldn't want to do that they'll want the new release those kinds of loose analogies with computers and with programming are actually much deeper than that
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i don't have any slides i'm just going to talk about where that's likely to carry us and you know i saw all the visions of the first couple of sessions it almost made me feel a little bit guilty about having an uplifting talk about the future it felt wrong to do that in some way
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and then from hour to hour we rot and rot and thereby hangs a tale life is short you know and we need to think about planning a little bit we're all going to eventually even in the developed world going to have to lose everything that we love when you're beginning to rot a little bit all of the videos crammed into your head all of the extensions that extend your various powers are going to being to seem a little secondary
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accurate representation of the actual replication machine that's occurring right now inside your body at least biology so entering the production line from the left hand side and it hits this collection these miniature biochemical machines that are pulling apart the strand and making an exact copy so comes in and hits this blue doughnut shaped structure and it's ripped apart into its two strands one strand can be copied directly and you can see these things off to the bottom there but things aren't so simple for the other strand because it must be copied backwards so it's thrown out repeatedly in these loops and copied one section at a time creating two new molecules now you have billions of this machine right now working away inside you copying your with exquisite fidelity it's an accurate representation and it's pretty much at the correct speed for what is occurring inside you i've left out error correction and a bunch of other things
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to show you are the astonishing molecular machines that create the living fabric of your body now molecules are really really tiny and by tiny i mean really they're smaller than a wavelength of light so we have no way to directly observe them but through science we do have a fairly good idea of what's going on down at the molecular scale so what we can do is actually tell you about the molecules but we don't really have a direct way of showing you the molecules
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one way around this is to draw pictures and this idea is actually nothing new scientists have always created pictures as part of their thinking and discovery process they draw pictures of what they're observing with their eyes through technology like telescopes and microscopes and also what they're thinking about in their minds i picked two well known examples because they're very well known for expressing science through art and i start with galileo who used the world's first telescope to look at the moon and he transformed our understanding of the moon
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just asked to go and shoot this film called elizabeth and we're all talking about this great english icon and saying she's a fantastic woman she does everything how are we going to introduce her so we went around the table with the studio and the producers and the writer and they came to me and said what do you think and i said i think she's dancing and i could see everybody looked at me somebody said
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is a problem because the warming heats up the frozen ground around the arctic ocean where there is a massive amount of frozen carbon which when it thaws is turned into methane by microbes compared to the total amount of global warming pollution in the atmosphere that amount could double if we cross this tipping point already in some shallow lakes in alaska methane is actively bubbling up out of the water professor katey walter from the university of alaska went out with another team to another shallow lake last winter
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we're beginning to see a sea change here are the ones that have been cancelled in the last few years with some green alternatives proposed however there is a political battle in our country and the coal industries and the oil industries spent a quarter of a billion dollars in the last calendar year promoting clean coal which is an oxymoron that image reminded me of something
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at we view climate change as a very serious threat to our business that's why we've made it our primary goal to spend a large sum of money on an advertising effort to help bring out and complicate the truth about coal the fact is coal isn't dirty we think it's clean smells good too so don't worry about climate change leave that up to us
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last year i showed these two slides so that demonstrate that the arctic ice cap which for most of the last three million years has been the size of the lower states has shrunk by percent but this understates the seriousness of this particular problem because it doesn't show the thickness of the ice the arctic ice cap is in a sense the beating heart of the global climate system it expands in winter and contracts in summer the next slide i show you will be a rapid fast forward of what's happened over the last years the permanent ice is marked in red
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and one reason is this enormous heat sink heats up greenland from the north this is an annual melting river but the volumes are much larger than ever this is the river in southwest greenland if you want to know how sea level rises from land base ice melting this is where it reaches the sea
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this is the river in southwest greenland if you want to know how sea level rises from land base ice melting this is where it reaches the sea these flows are increasing very rapidly at the other end of the planet antarctica the largest mass of ice on the planet last month scientists reported the entire continent is now in negative ice balance and west antarctica cropped up on top some under sea islands is particularly rapid in its melting that's equal to feet of sea level as is greenland in the himalayas the third largest mass of ice at the top you see new lakes which a few years ago were glaciers percent of all the people in the world get half of their drinking water from that melting flow
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not just give it word service believe that things will work out as they should providing we do what we should i think our tendency is to hope things will turn out the way we want them to much of the time but we don't do the things that are necessary to make those things become reality i worked on this for some years and i think it helped me become a better teacher but it all revolved around that original definition of success you know a number of years ago there was a major league baseball umpire by the name of george moriarty he spelled moriarty with only one i'd never seen that before but he did big league baseball players they're very perceptive about those things and they noticed he had only one in his name you'd be surprised how many also told him that that was one more than he had in his head at various times
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sometimes i'm asked who was the best player i had or the best teams i can never answer that as far as the individuals are concerned i was asked one time about that and they said suppose that you in some way could make the perfect player what would you want and i said well i'd want one that knew why he was at to get an education he was a good student really knew why he was there in the first place but i'd want one that could play too i'd want one to realize that defense usually wins championships and who would work hard on defense but i'd want one who would play offense too i'd want him to be and look for the pass first and not shoot all the time and i'd want one that could pass and would pass
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want that and i wanted them to be able to shoot from the outside i wanted them to be good inside too
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if you get too engrossed and involved and concerned in regard to the things over which you have no control it will adversely affect the things over which you have control then i ran across this simple verse that said at god's to confess a poor soul knelt and bowed his head
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and dad would read poetry to us so i always liked it
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i love poetry and always had an interest in that somehow maybe it's because dad used to read to us at night by coal oil lamp we didn't have electricity in our farm home and dad would read poetry to us so i always liked it and about the same time i ran across this one verse i ran across another one someone asked a lady teacher why she taught and after some time she said she wanted to think about that then she came up and said they ask me why i teach and i reply could i find such splendid there sits a statesman strong unbiased wise another daniel webster silver tongued a doctor sits beside him whose quick steady hand may mend a bone or stem the life blood's flow and there a builder upward rise the arch of a church he builds wherein that minister may speak the word of god and lead a stumbling soul to touch the christ
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they ask me why i teach and i reply could i find such splendid there sits a statesman strong unbiased wise another daniel webster silver tongued a doctor sits beside him whose quick steady hand may mend a bone or stem the life blood's flow and there a builder upward rise the arch of a church he builds wherein that minister may speak the word of god and lead a stumbling soul to touch the christ and all about a gathering of teachers farmers merchants laborers those who work and vote and build and plan and pray into a great tomorrow and i may say i may not see the church or hear the word or eat the food their hands may grow but yet again i may and later i may say i knew him once and he was weak or strong or bold or proud or gay i knew him once but then he was a boy they ask me why i teach and i reply could i find such splendid and i believe the teaching profession it's true you have so many youngsters and i've got to think of my youngsters at attorneys dentists and doctors many many teachers and other professions and that gives you a great deal of pleasure to see them go on i always tried to make the youngsters feel that they're there to get an education number one basketball was second because it was paying their way and they do need a little time for social activities but you let social activities take a little precedence over the other two and you're not going to have any very long
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is a brine shrimp you probably know it better as a sea monkey it's small and it typically lives alone but it can gather in these large red swarms that span for meters and these form because of a parasite these shrimp are infected with a a is effectively a long living gut with genitals at one end and a hooked mouth at the other as a freelance journalist i sympathize
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the and the gordian worm are not alone they are part of an entire cavalcade of mind controlling parasites of fungi viruses and worms and insects and more that all specialize in subverting and overriding the wills of their hosts now i first learned about this way of life through david trials of life about years ago and then later through a wonderful book called parasite rex by my friend carl zimmer and i've been writing about these creatures ever since few topics in biology me more it's like the parasites have subverted my own brain because after all they are always compelling and they are delightfully macabre when you write about parasites your lexicon swells with phrases like devoured alive and bursts out of its body
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of fish a flock of birds many animals gather in large groups that are among the most wonderful spectacles in the natural world but why do these groups form the common answers include things like seeking safety in numbers or hunting in packs or gathering to mate or breed and all of these explanations while often true make a huge assumption about animal behavior that the animals are in control of their own actions that they are in charge of their bodies and that is often not the case this is a brine shrimp
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it castrates them it changes their color from transparent to bright red it makes them live longer and as biologist nicolas rode has found it makes them swim in groups why because the like many other parasites has a complicated life cycle involving many different hosts the shrimp are just one step on its journey its ultimate destination is this the greater flamingo only in a flamingo can the reproduce so to get there it manipulates its shrimp hosts into forming these conspicuous colored swarms that are easier for a flamingo to spot and to devour and that is the secret of the swarm
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especially common were tiny worms that specialize in castrating their hosts like this unfortunate snail now a single is tiny microscopic but collectively they weighed as much as all the fish in the estuaries and three to nine times more than all the birds and remember the gordian worm that i showed you the cricket thing one japanese scientist called sato found that in one stream these things drive so many crickets and grasshoppers into the water that the drowned insects make up some percent of the diet of local trout manipulation is not an oddity it is a critical and common part of the world around us and scientists have now found hundreds of examples of such manipulators and more they're starting to understand exactly how these creatures control their hosts and this is one of my favorite examples this is the emerald cockroach wasp and it is a truth universally acknowledged that an emerald cockroach wasp in possession of some fertilized eggs must be in want of a cockroach when she finds one she stabs it with a stinger that is also a sense organ this discovery came out three weeks ago
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my neurosurgery part of my brain was missing and i had to deal with that it wasn't the grey matter but it was the gooey part dead center that makes key hormones and immediately after my surgery i had to decide what amounts of each of over a dozen powerful chemicals to take each day because if i just took nothing i would die within hours every day now for years every single day i've had to try to decide the combinations and mixtures of chemicals and try to get them to stay alive there have been several close calls but luckily i'm an experimentalist at heart so i decided i would experiment to try to find more optimal dosages because there really isn't a clear road map on this that's detailed i began to try different mixtures and i was blown away by how tiny changes in dosages dramatically changed my sense of self my sense of who i was my thinking my behavior towards people one particularly dramatic case for a couple months i actually tried dosages and chemicals typical of a man in his early and i was blown away by how my thoughts changed
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so when i was eight years old a new girl came to join the class and she was so impressive as the new girl always seems to be she had vast quantities of very shiny hair and a cute little pencil case super strong on state capitals just a great speller and i just with jealousy that year until i hatched my devious plan so one day i stayed a little late after school a little too late and i lurked in the girls' bathroom when the coast was clear i emerged crept into the classroom and took from my teacher's desk the grade book and then i did it i fiddled with my rival's grades just a little just demoted some of those a's all of those a's
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what does jealousy like jealousy likes information jealousy likes details jealousy likes the vast quantities of shiny hair the cute little pencil case jealousy likes photos that's why is such a hit
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the novel is very good at describing how jealousy trains us to look with intensity but not accuracy in fact the more intensely jealous we are the more we become residents of fantasy and this is why i think jealousy doesn't just provoke us to do violent things or illegal things jealousy prompts us to behave in ways that are wildly inventive now i'm thinking of myself at eight i concede but i'm also thinking of this story i heard on the news a old michigan woman was caught creating a fake account from which she sent vile hideous messages to herself for a year for a year a year and she was trying to frame her ex new girlfriend and i have to confess when i heard this i just reacted with admiration
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i don't understand why i felt so great doing it i felt great
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i don't understand where the idea came from i don't understand why i felt so great doing it i felt great i don't understand why i was never caught i mean it should have been so blatantly obvious i was never caught but most of all i am baffled by why did it bother me so much that this little girl this tiny little girl was so good at spelling jealousy baffles me it's so mysterious and it's so pervasive we know babies suffer from jealousy
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we forget how pitiless he is i mean these are books that virginia woolf said were tough as cat gut i don't know what cat gut is but let's assume it's formidable
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because perception is grounded in our experience right the brain takes meaningless information and makes meaning out of it which means we never see what's there we never see information we only ever see what was useful to see in the past all right which means when it comes to perception we're all like this frog
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now i want to tell you a story about seeing differently and all new perceptions begin in the same way they begin with a question the problem with questions is they create uncertainty now uncertainty is a very bad thing it's a bad thing if you're not sure that's a predator it's too late
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puzzle we came up with was an if then rule we asked the bees to learn not just to go to a certain color but to a certain color flower only when it's in a certain pattern they were only rewarded if they went to the yellow flowers if the yellow flowers were surrounded by the blue or if the blue flowers were surrounded by the yellow now there's a number of different rules the bees can learn to solve this puzzle the interesting question is which what was really exciting about this project was we and beau had no idea whether it would work it was completely new and no one had done it before including adults
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duh duh right and the methods it says then we put the bees into the fridge smiley face
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your eyes because it's moving in register with the boat say i'm standing still your brain cannot deal with the uncertainty of that information and it gets ill the question why is one of the most dangerous things you can do because it takes you into uncertainty and yet the irony is the only way we can ever do anything new is to step into that space
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now if you look at these five ways of being these are the exact same ways of being you need in order to be a good scientist science is not defined by the method section of a paper it's actually a way of being which is here and this is true for anything that is creative so if you add rules to play you have a game that's actually what an experiment is so armed with these two ideas that science is a way of being and experiments are play we asked can anyone become a scientist and who better to ask than to old children because they're experts in play so i took my bee arena down to a small school in devon and the aim of this was to not just get the kids to see science differently but through the process of science to see themselves differently
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now here i want to share the stage with someone quite special right she was one of the young people who was involved in this study and she's now one of the youngest published scientists in the world right she will now once she comes onto stage will be the youngest person to ever speak at ted right now science and asking questions is about courage now she is the personification of courage because she's going to stand up here and talk to you all so amy would you please come up so amy's going to help me tell the story of what we call the bees project and first she's going to tell you the question that they came up with so go ahead amy thank you beau
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what was the feedback like well it was published two days before christmas downloaded times in the first day right it was the editors' choice in science which is a top science magazine it's forever freely accessible by biology letters it's the only paper that will ever be freely accessible by this journal
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this project was really exciting for me because it brought the process of discovery to life and it showed me that anyone and i mean anyone has the potential to discover something new and that a small question can lead into a big discovery changing the way a person thinks about something can be easy or hard it all depends on the way the person feels about change but changing the way i thought about science was surprisingly easy once we played the games and then started to think about the puzzle i then realized that science isn't just a boring subject and that anyone can discover something new you just need an opportunity my opportunity came in the form of beau and the bee project
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i'm a painter i make large scale figurative paintings which means i paint people like this but i'm here tonight to tell you about something personal that changed my work and my perspective it's something we all go through and my hope is that my experience may be helpful to somebody to give you some background on me i grew up the youngest of eight yes eight kids in my family i have six older brothers and a sister to give you a sense of what that's like when my family went on vacation we had a bus
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since then i've made a career of painting people in water bathtubs and showers were the perfect enclosed environment it was intimate and private and water was this complicated challenge that kept me busy for a decade i made about of these paintings some of them six to eight feet like this one for this painting i mixed flour in with the to make it cloudy and i floated cooking oil on the surface and stuck a girl in it and when i lit it up it was so beautiful i couldn't wait to paint it i was driven by this kind of impulsive curiosity always looking for something new to add vinyl steam glass i once put all this vaseline in my head and hair just to see what that would look like don't do that
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my would drive us all over town to our various after school activities not in the bus we had a regular car too she would take me to art classes and not just one or two she took me to every available art class from when i was eight to because that's all i wanted to do she even took a class with me in new york city now being the youngest of eight i learned a few survival skills
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now being the youngest of eight i learned a few survival skills rule number one don't let your big brother see you do anything stupid so i learned to be quiet and neat and careful to follow the rules and stay in line but painting was where i made the rules that was my private world by i knew i really wanted to be an artist my big plan was to be a waitress to support my painting so i continued honing my skills
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these are all the first cloned animals of their type so in the lower right here you have dolly the first cloned sheep now happily stuffed in a museum in edinburgh ralph the rat the first cloned rat cc the cat for cloned cat the first cloned dog for seoul national university puppy created in south korea by the very same man that some of you may remember had to end up resigning in disgrace because he claimed he had cloned a human embryo which he had not he actually was the first person to clone a dog which is a very difficult thing to do because dog are very plastic this is the first cloned horse it's a horse cloned in italy a real gold ring of cloning because there are many horses that win important races who are in other words the equipment to put them out to stud has been removed but if you can clone that horse you can have both the advantage of having a run in the race and his identical genetic duplicate can then be put out to stud these were the first cloned calves the first cloned grey wolves and then finally the first cloned piglets alexis carrel janie and
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so we are now at the stage where we are creating creatures for our own purposes this is a mouse created by charles vacanti of the university of massachusetts he altered this mouse so that it was genetically engineered to have skin that was less to human skin put a polymer scaffolding of an ear under it and created an ear that could then be taken off the mouse and transplanted onto a human being genetic engineering coupled with polymer coupled with this is where we are in this process finally not that long ago craig venter created the first artificial cell where he took a cell took a synthesizer which is a machine created an artificial genome put it in a different cell the genome was not of the cell he put it in and that cell then reproduced as the other cell in other words that was the first creature in the history of the world that had a computer as its parent it did not have an organic parent and so asks the economist the first artificial organism and its consequences so you may have thought that the creation of life was going to happen in something that looked like that
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today i want to talk about design but not design as we usually think about it i want to talk about what is happening now in our scientific biotechnological culture where for really the first time in history we have the power to design bodies to design animal bodies to design human bodies in the history of our planet there have been three great waves of evolution the first wave of evolution is what we think of as darwinian evolution so as you all know species lived in particular ecological niches and particular environments and the pressures of those environments selected which changes through random mutation in species were going to be preserved then human beings stepped out of the darwinian flow of evolutionary history and created the second great wave of evolution which was we changed the environment in which we evolved
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so as you all know species lived in particular ecological niches and particular environments and the pressures of those environments selected which changes through random mutation in species were going to be preserved then human beings stepped out of the darwinian flow of evolutionary history and created the second great wave of evolution which was we changed the environment in which we evolved we altered our ecological niche by creating civilization and that has been the second great couple years years flow of our evolution by changing our environment we put new pressures on our bodies to evolve whether it was through settling down in agricultural communities all the way through modern medicine we have changed our own evolution now we're entering a third great wave of evolutionary history which has been called many things intentional evolution evolution by design very different than intelligent design whereby we are actually now intentionally designing and altering the physiological forms that inhabit our planet so i want to take you through a kind of whirlwind tour of that and then at the end talk a little bit about what some of the implications are for us and for our species as well as our cultures because of this change now we actually have been doing it for a long time
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so i washed up on a dublin ferry port about years ago a professional foreigner if you like and i'm sure you've all had this experience before yeah you arrive in a new city and your brain is trying to make sense of this new place once you find your base your home you start to build this cognitive map of your environment it's essentially this virtual map that only exists in your brain all animal species do it even though we all use slightly different tools us humans of course we don't move around marking our territory by scent like dogs we don't run around emitting ultrasonic squeaks like bats we just don't do that although a night in the temple bar district can get pretty wild
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first we move along linear typically we find a main street and this main street becomes a linear strip map in our minds but our mind keeps it pretty simple yeah every street is generally perceived as a straight line and we kind of ignore the little twists and turns that the streets make when we do however make a turn into a side street our mind tends to adjust that turn to a angle this of course makes for some funny moments when you're in some old city layout that follows some sort of circular city logic yeah maybe you've had that experience as well let's say you're on some spot on a side street that projects from a main cathedral square and you want to get to another point on a side street just like that the cognitive map in your mind may tell you aris go back to the main cathedral square take a turn and walk down that other side street but somehow you feel adventurous that day and you suddenly discover that the two spots were actually only a single building apart now i don't know about you but i always feel like i find this or this inter dimensional portal
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that we do to make a place our own is we attach meaning and emotions to the things that we see along those lines if you go to the irish countryside and you ask an old lady for directions brace yourself for some elaborate irish storytelling about all the landmarks yeah she'll tell you the pub where her sister used to work and go past that church where i got married that kind of thing so we fill our cognitive maps with these markers of meaning what's more we abstract repeat patterns and recognize them we recognize them by the experiences and we abstract them into symbols and of course we're all capable of understanding these symbols
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so it's no big surprise that the big information design icon of the last century the pinnacle of showing everybody how to get from a to b the london underground map was not designed by a or a city planner it was designed by an engineering draftsman in the harry beck applied the principles of schematic diagram design and changed the way public transport maps are designed forever now the very key to the success of this map is in the omission of less important information and in the extreme simplification so straightened streets corners of and degrees but also the extreme geographic distortion in that map if you were to look at the actual locations of these stations you'd see they're very different but this is all for the clarity of the public tube map if you say wanted to get from park station to great portland street the tube map would tell you take the tube go to baker street change over take another tube of course what you don't know is that the two stations are only about a hundred meters apart now we've reached the subject of public transport and public transport here in dublin is a somewhat touchy subject
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so when i stepped off the boat years ago i tried to make sense of that because exploring a city on foot only gets you so far but when you explore a foreign and new public transport system you will build a cognitive map in your mind in pretty much the same way typically you choose yourself a rapid transport and in your mind this is perceived as a straight line and like a pearl necklace all the stations and stops are nicely and neatly aligned along the line and only then you start to discover some local bus that would fill in the gaps and that allow for those inter dimensional portal shortcuts so i tried to make sense and when i arrived i was looking for some information leaflets that would help me crack this system and understand it and i found those brochures
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they were not geographically distorted they had a lot of omission of information but unfortunately the wrong information say in the city center there were never actually any lines that showed the
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his part of my ancestry has been farmers he's part of this ethnic minority called the greeks
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no we do two important things to make a place our own first we move along linear typically we find a main street and this main street becomes a linear strip map in our minds but our mind keeps it pretty simple yeah every street is generally perceived as a straight line and we kind of ignore the little twists and turns that the streets make when we do however make a turn into a side street our mind tends to adjust that turn to a angle
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you might add little symbols along the way and when you look at what you've just drawn you realize it does not resemble a street map
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now call me old fashioned but i think a public transport map should have lines because that's what they are yeah they're little pieces of string that wrap their way through the city center or through the city if you will the greek guy inside of me feels if i don't get a line it's like entering the labyrinth of the without having ariadne giving you the string to find your way so the outcome of my academic research loads of questionnaires case studies and looking at a lot of maps was that a lot of the problems and shortcomings of the public transport system here in dublin was the lack of a coherent public transport map a simplified coherent public transport map because i think this is the crucial step to understanding a public transport network on a physical level but it's also the crucial step to make a public transport network on a visual level so i teamed up with a gentleman called james leahy a civil engineer and a recent master's graduate of the sustainable development program at and together we drafted the simplified model network which i could then go ahead and visualize so here's what we did
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we did we distributed these rapid transport corridors throughout the city center and extended them into the outskirts rapid because we wanted them to be served by rapid transport vehicles they would get exclusive road use where possible and it would be high quantity high quality transport james wanted to use bus rapid transport for that rather than light rail for me it was important that the vehicles that would run on those rapid transport corridors would be visibly distinguishable from local buses on the street now we could take out all the local buses that ran alongside those rapid transport means any gaps that appeared in the outskirts were filled again
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now we could take out all the local buses that ran alongside those rapid transport means any gaps that appeared in the outskirts were filled again so in other words if there was a street in an outskirt where there had been a bus we put a bus back in only now these buses wouldn't run all the way to the city center but connect to the nearest rapid transport mode one of these thick lines over there so the rest was merely a couple of months of work and a couple of fights with my girlfriend of our place constantly being clogged up with maps and the outcome one of the outcomes was this map of the greater dublin area i'll zoom in a little bit this map only shows the rapid transport connections no local bus very much in the metro map style that was so successful in london and that since has been exported to so many other major cities and therefore is the language that we should use for public transport maps what's also important is with a simplified network like this it now would become possible for me to tackle the ultimate challenge and make a public transport map for the city center one where i wouldn't just show rapid transport connections but also all the local bus streets and the likes and this is what a map like this could look like i'll zoom in a little bit in this map i'm including each transport mode so rapid transport bus dart tram and the likes
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so here's how this works brains are like muscles when they get active they need increased blood flow to supply that activity and lucky for us blood flow control to the brain is local so if a bunch of neurons say right there get active and start firing then blood flow increases just right there so functional picks up on that blood flow increase producing a higher response where neural activity goes up so to give you a concrete feel for how a functional experiment goes and what you can learn from it and what you can't let me describe one of the first studies i ever did we wanted to know if there was a special part of the brain for recognizing faces and there was already reason to think there might be such a thing based on this phenomenon of that i described a moment ago but nobody had ever seen that part of the brain in a normal person so we set out to look for it so i was the first subject i went into the scanner i lay on my back i held my head as still as i could while staring at pictures of faces like these and objects like these and faces and objects for hours so as somebody who has pretty close to the world record of total number of hours spent inside an scanner i can tell you that one of the skills that's really important for research is bladder control
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neurologist nothing okay i'm going to do it one more time look at my face one two three you just turned into somebody else your face your nose got it went to the left you almost looked like somebody i'd seen before but somebody different that was a trip
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