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i spent two years there writing on oil spills no one was interested in oil spills but something happened exxon valdez and i was the only one in the united states writing on oil spills my dad came out again he said i don't know how you do this son i mean you don't ride in cars you talk my sister said maybe i should leave you alone because you seem to be doing a lot better when not saying anything
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i worked for the was made a u n goodwill ambassador i wrote regulations for the united states i mean i wrote oil spill regulations years ago if someone had said to me john do you really want to make a difference yeah i want to make a difference he said you just start walking east get out of your car and just start walking east and as i walked off a little bit they'd say yeah and shut up too
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imagine if you were quiet for years and your mother was out in the audience say my dad said to me one ill explain that but i turned around because i recognize where my voice was coming from i heard my voice in years so i turned around and i looked and i said god who's saying what im thinking and then i realized it was me you know and i kind of laughed and i could see my father yeah he really is crazy
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i heard my voice in years so i turned around and i looked and i said god who's saying what im thinking and then i realized it was me you know and i kind of laughed and i could see my father yeah he really is crazy well i want to take you on this journey and the journey i believe is a metaphor for all of our journeys even though this one is kind of unusual i want you to think about your own journey my journey began in when i witnessed two oil tankers collide beneath the golden gate and a half a million gallons of oil spilled into the bay it disturbed me so much that i decided that i was going to give up riding and driving in motorized vehicles a big thing in california and it was a big thing in my little community of point reyes station in inverness california because there were only about people there in the winter this was back in now
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she said if you were happy son you have to say it mothers are like that and so on my birthday i decided because i argued so much and i talk so much that i was going to stop speaking for just one day one day to give it a rest
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on my birthday i decided because i argued so much and i talk so much that i was going to stop speaking for just one day one day to give it a rest and so i did i got up in the morning and i say a word and i have to tell you it was a very moving experience because for the first time i began listening in a long time and what i heard it kind of disturbed me because what i used to do when i thought i was listening was i would listen just enough to hear what people had to say and think that i could i knew what they were going to say and so i stopped listening and in my mind i just kind of raced ahead and thought of what i was going to say back while they were still finishing up and then i would launch in
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so on this first day i actually listened and it was very sad for me because i realized that for those many years i had not been learning i was i thought i knew everything i and so i decided id better do this for another day and another day and another day until finally i promised myself for a year i would keep quiet because i started learning more and more and i needed to learn more
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five years ago for instance i found myself waking each morning in misty seattle to what i knew was an impossible question what actually happened one desert night half the world and almost half of history away what happened that is on the night in the year when muhammad received the first revelation of the koran on a mountain just outside mecca this is the core mystical moment of islam and as such of course it defies empirical analysis yet the question wouldn't let go of me i was fully aware that for someone as secular as i am just asking it could be seen as pure chutzpah
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boys and it's a serious problem with boys their culture isn't working in schools and i'm going to share with you ways that we can think about overcoming that problem first i want to start by saying this is a boy and this is a girl and this is probably what you think of as a boy and a girl if i gender for you today then you can dismiss what i have to say so i'm not going to do that i'm not interested in doing that this is a different kind of boy and a different kind of girl
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so i'd like to speak about change and especially about emotional change growing up i was always intrigued by how people change my mother a clinical psychotherapist would occasionally see patients at home in the evening she would shut the door to the living room and i imagined magical things happened in that room at the age of five or six i would creep up in my pajamas and sit outside with my ear glued to the door on more than one occasion i fell asleep and they had to push me out of the way at the end of the session and i suppose that's how i found myself walking into the secure interview room on my first day at wormwood joe sat across a steel table and greeted me with this blank expression the prison warden looking equally indifferent said any trouble just press the red buzzer and we'll be around as soon as we can
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i sat down the heavy metal door slammed shut behind me i looked up at the red buzzer far behind joe on the opposite wall
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i looked at joe perhaps detecting my concern he leaned forward and said as reassuringly as he could ah don't worry about the buzzer it doesn't work anyway
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step back normally acquiring moral behavior is simply part of growing up like learning to speak at the age of six months virtually every one of us is able to differentiate between animate and inanimate objects at the age of months most children are able to imitate the purposeful actions of others so for example your mother raises her hands to stretch and you imitate her behavior at first this isn't perfect i remember my cousin sasha two years old at the time looking through a picture book and licking one finger and flicking the page with the other hand licking one finger and flicking the page with the other hand
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i'd like you to imagine this place it looks and feels like it sounds wormwood
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they failed to show a physical response it was as though they knew the words but not the music of empathy
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they failed to show a physical response it was as though they knew the words but not the music of empathy so we wanted to look closer at this to use to image their brains that turned out to be not such an easy task imagine transporting a collection of clinical psychopaths across central london in shackles and handcuffs in rush hour and in order to place each of them in an scanner you have to remove all metal objects including shackles and handcuffs and as i learned all body after some time however we had a tentative answer these individuals were not just the victims of a troubled childhood there was something else people like joe have a deficit in a brain area called the
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the days and weeks that followed people fleeing to the hills being forced to drink contaminated water or face death that really stuck with me then a few months later hurricane katrina slammed into the side of america okay i thought here's a first world country let's see what they can do day one nothing day two nothing do you know it took five days to get water to the superdome people were shooting each other on the streets for tv sets and water that's when i decided i had to do something now i spent a lot of time in my garage over the next weeks and months and also in my kitchen much to the dismay of my wife
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we're in the fine city of oxford so someone's done that up fine city of oxford so what i've done is i've gone and got some water from the river and the river thames that flow through here and this is the water but i got to thinking you know if we were in the middle of a flood zone in bangladesh the water wouldn't look like this so i've gone and got some stuff to add into it and this is from my pond have a smell of that mister cameraman okay
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we're just going to pour that in there ugh okay we've got some runoff from a sewage plant farm so i'm just going to put that in there
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now as soon as i pop the teat sterile drinking water is going to come out i've got to be quick okay ready there we go mind the electrics that is safe sterile drinking water cheers there you go chris what's it taste of delicious okay
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but what if it wasn't what if it was from a source like this then statistics would actually say that half of you would now be suffering with diarrhea i talked a lot in the past about statistics and the provision of safe drinking water for all but they just don't seem to get through and i think i've worked out why it's because using current thinking the scale of the problem just seems too huge to contemplate solving so we just switch off us governments and aid agencies
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it's because using current thinking the scale of the problem just seems too huge to contemplate solving so we just switch off us governments and aid agencies well today i'd like to show you that through thinking differently the problem has been solved by the way since i've been speaking another people around the world are suffering now with diarrhea and four children have just died i invented lifesaver bottle because i got angry i like most of you was sitting down the day after christmas in when i was watching the devastating news of the asian tsunami as it rolled in playing out on tv the days and weeks that followed people fleeing to the hills being forced to drink contaminated water or face death that really stuck with me
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okay now for the science bit before lifesaver the best hand filters were only capable of filtering down to about the smallest bacteria is about so a bacteria is going to get through a hole the smallest virus on the other hand is about so that's definitely going to get through those holes
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so a bacteria is going to get through a hole the smallest virus on the other hand is about so that's definitely going to get through those holes lifesaver pores are so nothing is getting through okay i'm going to give you a bit of a demonstration would you like to see that i spent all the time setting this up so i guess i should we're in the fine city of oxford so someone's done that up
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so if we are to be the world's healer every disadvantaged person in this world including in the united states becomes our patient every disadvantaged nation and perhaps our own nation becomes our patient so it's fun to think about the etymology of the word patient it comes initially from the latin to endure or to suffer so you go back to the old indo european root again and what do you find the indo european stem is pronounced we would spell it p n and lo and behold mirabile it is the same root as the word compassion comes from p n so the lesson is very clear the lesson is that our patient the world and the disadvantaged of the world that patient deserves our compassion but beyond our compassion and far greater than compassion is our moral imagination and our identification with each individual who lives in that world not to think of them as a huge forest but as individual trees of course in this day and age the trick is not to let each tree be obscured by that bush in washington that can get can get in the way
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have i heard during these last four days this is my third visit to ted one was to and one as you've heard was a regular ted two years ago i've heard what i consider an extraordinary thing that i've only heard a little bit in the two previous and what that is is an interweaving and an an intermixing of a sense of social responsibility in so many of the talks global responsibility in fact appealing to enlightened self interest but it goes far beyond enlightened self interest one of the most impressive things about what some perhaps of the speakers have been talking about is the realization as you listen to them carefully that they're not saying well this is what we should do this is what i would like you to do it's this is what i have done because i'm excited by it because it's a wonderful thing and it's done something for me and of course it's accomplished a great deal
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and when i did i thought well i'd better look this word up in the dictionary so sarah and i my wife walked over to the public library which is four blocks away on pacific street and we got the and we looked in there and there are definitions of hope none of which really hits you between the eyes as being the appropriate one and of course that makes sense because hope is an abstract phenomenon it's an abstract idea it's not a concrete word
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starts with a plan most people say i'd like to die at home eighty percent of americans die in a hospital or a nursing home saying we'd like to die at home is not a plan a lot of people say if i get like that just shoot me this is not a plan either this is illegal
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a good end of life and i'm talking about the very end i'm talking about dying we all think a lot about how to live well i'd like to talk about increasing our chances of dying well i'm not a geriatrician
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i grew up in a very small country town in victoria i had a very normal low key kind of upbringing i went to school i hung out with my friends i fought with my younger sisters it was all very normal and when i was a member of my local community approached my parents and wanted to nominate me for a community achievement award and my parents said that's really nice but there's kind of one glaring problem with that she hasn't actually achieved anything
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and that's when it dawned on me this kid had only ever experienced disabled people as objects of inspiration we are not to this kid and it's not his fault i mean that's true for many of us for lots of us disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our we're not real people we are there to inspire and in fact i am sitting on this stage looking like i do in this wheelchair and you are probably kind of expecting me to inspire you
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the past few years we've been able to propagate this lie even further via social media you may have seen images like this one the only disability in life is a bad attitude or this one your excuse is invalid indeed or this one before you quit try these are just a couple of examples but there are a lot of these images out there you know you might have seen the one the little girl with no hands drawing a picture with a pencil held in her mouth you might have seen a child running on carbon fiber prosthetic legs and these images there are lots of them out there they are what we call inspiration porn
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and they were right you know i went to school i got good marks i had a very low key after school job in my hairdressing salon and i spent a lot of time watching buffy the vampire slayer and dawson's creek yeah i know what a contradiction but they were right you know i wasn't doing anything that was out of the ordinary at all
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well ladies and gentlemen i'm afraid i'm going to disappoint you dramatically i am not here to inspire you i am here to tell you that we have been lied to about disability yeah we've been sold the lie that disability is a bad thing capital b capital t it's a bad thing and to live with a disability makes you exceptional it's not a bad thing and it doesn't make you exceptional and in the past few years we've been able to propagate this lie even further via social media
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they are there so that you can look at them and think that things aren't so bad for you to put your worries into perspective and life as a disabled person is actually somewhat difficult we do overcome some things but the things that we're overcoming are not the things that you think they are they are not things to do with our bodies
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no amount of standing in the middle of a bookshop and radiating a positive attitude is going to turn all those books into braille it's just not going to happen i really want to live in a world where disability is not the exception but the norm i want to live in a world where a old girl sitting in her bedroom watching buffy the vampire slayer isn't referred to as achieving anything because she's doing it sitting down i want to live in a world where we don't have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning i want to live in a world where we value genuine achievement for disabled people and i want to live in a world where a kid in year in a melbourne high school is not one bit surprised that his new teacher is a wheelchair user
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but also back then remember we stopped eating french fries in this country well not exactly of course not we started eating freedom fries and we started boycotting anything that was french well my name of my company joie de so i started getting these letters from places like alabama and orange county saying to me that they were going to boycott my company because they thought we were a french company and i'd write them back and i'd say what a minute we're not french we're an american company we're based in san francisco and i'd get a terse response oh that's worse
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but all of those questions are tangible they're about demographics they're about where you live how many people you live with and whether you own your home or not that's about it we're not asking meaningful metrics we're not asking important questions we're not asking anything that's intangible abe maslow said long ago something you've heard before but you didn't realize it was him he said if the only tool you have is a hammer everything starts to look like a nail
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i'm going to talk about the simple truth in leadership in the century in the century we need to actually look at and what i'm actually going to encourage you to consider today is to go back to our school days when we learned how to count but i think it's time for us to think about what we count because what we actually count truly counts let me start by telling you a little story this is van quach
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me start by telling you a little story this is van quach she came to this country in from vietnam she changed her name to vivian because she wanted to fit in here in america her first job was at an inner city motel in san francisco as a maid i happened to buy that motel about three months after vivian started working there so vivian and i have been working together for years with the youthful idealism of a old in i started my company and i called it joie de a very impractical name because i actually was looking to create joy of life and this first hotel that i bought motel was a pay hour no tell motel in the inner city of san francisco
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with the youthful idealism of a old in i started my company and i called it joie de a very impractical name because i actually was looking to create joy of life and this first hotel that i bought motel was a pay hour no tell motel in the inner city of san francisco as i spent time with vivian i saw that she had sort of a joie de in how she did her work it made me question and curious how could someone actually find joy in cleaning toilets for a living so i spent time with vivian and i saw that she didn't find joy in cleaning toilets her job her goal and her calling was not to become the world's greatest toilet scrubber what counts for vivian was the emotional connection she created with her fellow employees and our guests and what gave her inspiration and meaning was the fact that she was taking care of people who were far away from home because vivian knew what it was like to be far away from home
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one day i was lying in bed watching cnn when i was amazed by professor charlie kemp of the healthcare robotics lab at georgia tech demonstrating a robot i emailed charlie and steve cousins of willow garage and we formed the robots for humanity project for about two years robots for humanity developed ways for me to use the as my body surrogate i shaved myself for the first time in years from my home in california i shaved charlie in atlanta
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i opened my refrigerator on my own i began doing tasks around the house i saw new and previously unthinkable possibilities to live and contribute both for myself and others in my circumstance all of us have disabilities in one form or another for example if either of us wants to go miles an hour both of us will need an device called a car your disability doesn't make you any less of a person and neither does mine by the way check out my sweet ride
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last year hsiao of willow garage connected with me chad jenkins chad showed me how easy it is to purchase and fly aerial drones it was then i realized that i could also use an aerial drone to expand the worlds of bedridden people through flight giving a sense of movement and control that is incredible using a mouse cursor i control with my head these web interfaces allow me to see video from the robot and send control commands by pressing buttons in a web browser with a little practice i became good enough with this interface to drive around my home on my own i could look around our garden and see the grapes we are growing i inspected the solar panels on our roof
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i went even further by seeing if i could use a head mounted display the rift as modified by fighting walrus to have an experience controlling the drone with chad's group at brown i regularly fly drones around his lab several times a week from my home miles away all work and no fun makes for a dull quadriplegic so we also find time to play friendly games of robot soccer
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my mom was a homemaker my six siblings and i were good kids but caused our fair share of trouble
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my mom was a homemaker my six siblings and i were good kids but caused our fair share of trouble after high school i left home to study and learn more about the world i went to notre dame university and graduated with degrees in accounting and german including spending a year of study in austria later on i earned an at stanford i married my high school sweetheart jane i am lucky to have her together we raised four wonderful children i worked and studied hard to move up the career ladder eventually becoming a chief financial officer in silicon valley a job i really enjoyed
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head tracking devices sold commercially by the company convert my tiny head movements into cursor movements and enable my use of a regular computer i can surf the web exchange email with people and destroy my friend steve cousins in online word games
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all right we still have a little ways to go with that but i think it shows the promise what makes henry's story amazing is it's about understanding henry's needs understanding what people in henry's situation need from technology and then also understanding what advanced technology can provide and then bringing those two things together for use in a wise and responsible way what we're trying to do is democratize robotics so that anybody can be a part of this we're providing affordable off robot platforms such as the a r drone dollars the suitable technologies beam only dollars along with open source robotics software so that you can be a part of what we're trying to do and our hope is that by providing these tools that you'll be able to think of better ways to provide movement for the disabled to provide care for our aging population to help better educate our children to think about what the new types of middle class jobs could be for the future to both monitor and protect our environment and to explore the universe
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i would have died it is up to us all of us to decide how robotics will be used for good or for evil for simply replacing people or for making people better for allowing us to do and enjoy more
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every time we go to maui we go to the dealer there and he turns these great big posters i love them they all have one idea and one really clear visual that conveys the idea they are about the size of a mattress they're really big they're not as thick as a mattress but they're big and the guy will tell the story as he turns the pages and this one time i was flanked by my two kids and he turns the page and this poster is underneath and right when i lean forward and say oh my god i love this poster both of my kids jumped back and they are like oh my god mom it's you and this is the poster
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what i knew i knew that i was born for more than this and right at the point in the story of my life i had a choice i could let all these things push me down and i could let all my ideas die inside of me i could just say you know life is too hard to change the world it's just too tough but i chose a different story for my life
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it's really really great to be here you have the power to change the world im not saying that to be you really have the power to change the world deep inside of you every single one of you has the most powerful device known to man and that's an idea so a single idea from the human mind it could start a groundswell it could be a flash point for a movement and it can actually rewrite our future
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but an idea is powerless if it stays inside of you if you never pull that idea out for others to contend with it will die with you now maybe some of you guys have tried to convey your idea and it wasn't adopted it was rejected and some other mediocre or average idea was adopted and the only difference between those two is in the way it was communicated because if you communicate an idea in a way that resonates change will happen and you can change the world in my family we collect these vintage european posters every time we go to maui we go to the dealer there and he turns these great big posters
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like fire it up the thing i loved about this poster was the irony here's this chick all fired up headed into battle as the standard bearer and she's holding these little baking spices like something so seemingly insignificant though she's willing to risk you know life and limb to promote this thing so if you are to swap out those little baking spices with a presentation yeah it's me pretty fired up i was fired up about presentations back when it wasn't cool to be fired up about presentations i really think they have the power to change the world when you communicate effectively through them
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favorite words in the whole of the oxford english dictionary is just because it sounds so good and what means is a dishonest politician although there was a century newspaper editor who defined it rather better when he said a is a fellow who seeks office regardless of party platform or principle and who when he wins gets there by the sheer force of monumental
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the senate did not cave in instead they agreed to use the title president for now but they also wanted it absolutely set down that they didn't agree with it from a decent respect for the opinions and practice of civilized nations whether under republican or forms of government whose custom it is to annex through the office of the chief magistrate titles of respectability not bloody president and that in the intercourse with foreign nations the majesty of the people of the united states may not be by an appearance of i e we don't want to look like bloody weirdos now you can learn three interesting things from this first of all and this is my favorite is that so far as i've ever been able to find out the senate has never formally endorsed the title of president president is there on borrowed time just waiting for the senate to spring into action
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this was debated in congress for ages and ages and there were all sorts of suggestions on the table which might have made it i mean some people wanted him to be called chief magistrate washington and other people his highness george washington and other people protector of the liberties of the people of the united states of america washington not that catchy some people just wanted to call him king it was tried and tested they weren't even being they had the idea that you could be elected king for a fixed term and you know it could have worked
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you can still be waiting years later but the third thing you can learn and this is the really important one the point i want to leave you on is that the title president of the united states of america doesn't sound that humble at all these days does it something to do with the slightly over nuclear warheads he has at his disposal and the largest economy in the world and a fleet of drones and all that sort of stuff reality and history have endowed that title with grandeur and so the senate won in the end they got their title of respectability
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and also the senate's other worry the appearance of well it was a back then but now do you know how many nations have a president a hundred and forty seven all because they want to sound like the guy who's got the nuclear warheads etc and so in the end the senate won and the house of representatives lost because nobody's going to feel that humble when they're told that they are now the president of the united states of america and that's the important lesson i think you can take away and the one i want to leave you with politicians try to pick and use words to shape and control reality but in fact reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality
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all right so i want you to take a moment and i want you to think of three things that you know to be true they can be about whatever you want technology entertainment design your family what you had for breakfast the only rule is don't think too hard okay ready go okay so here are three things i know to be true i know that jean luc godard was right when he said that a good story has a beginning a middle and an end although not necessarily in that order i know that i'm incredibly nervous and excited to be up here which is greatly inhibiting my ability to keep it cool
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charlotte was very good at writing lists but she refused to write any poems miss she'd say i'm just not interesting i don't have anything interesting to say so i assigned her list after list and one day i assigned the list things i should have learned by now number three on charlotte's list was i should have learned not to crush on guys three times my age i asked her what that meant and she said miss it's kind of a long story and i said charlotte it sounds pretty interesting to me and so she wrote her first poem a love poem unlike any i had ever heard before and the poem began anderson cooper is a gorgeous man
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did you see him on minutes racing michael phelps in a pool nothing but swim trunks on diving in the water determined to beat this swimming champion after the race he tossed his wet cloud white hair and said a god no anderson you're the god
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so the first time she realizes that wonder woman isn't coming i'll make sure she knows she doesn't have to wear the cape all by herself because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal believe me i've tried and baby i'll tell her don't keep your nose up in the air like that i know that trick i've done it a million times you're just smelling for smoke so you can follow the trail back to a burning house so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire to see if you can save him or else find the boy who lit the fire in the first place to see if you can change him but i know she will anyway so instead i'll always keep an extra supply of chocolate and rain boots nearby because there is no heartbreak that chocolate can't fix okay there's a few that chocolate can't fix
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but that's what the rain boots are for because rain will wash away everything if you let it i want her to look at the world through the underside of a glass bottom boat to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind because that's the way my mom taught me that there'll be days like this there'll be days like this my momma said when you open your hands to catch and wind up with only blisters and bruises when you step out of the phone booth and try to fly and the very people you want to save are the ones standing on your cape when your boots will fill with rain and you'll be up to your knees in disappointment and those are the very days you have all the more reason to say thank you because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times it's sent away
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there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times it's sent away you will put the wind in win some lose some you will put the star in starting over and over and no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute be sure your mind lands on the beauty of this funny place called life and yes on a scale from one to over trusting i am pretty damn naive but i want her to know that this world is made out of sugar it can crumble so easily but don't be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it baby i'll tell her remember your momma is a worrier and your poppa is a warrior and you are the girl with small hands and big eyes who never stops asking for more
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you see late in eight years after that shooting had gone on his own journey a pilgrimage to mecca amid its crowds he felt immense gratitude but also duty he recalled promising god as he lay dying in that if he lived he would serve humanity all his days then he'd gotten busy relaying the bricks of a life now it was time to pay his debts and he decided upon reflection that his method of payment would be an intervention in the cycle of vengeance between the muslim and western worlds and how would he intervene by forgiving stroman publicly in the name of islam and its doctrine of mercy and then suing the state of texas and its governor rick perry to prevent them from executing stroman exactly like most people shot in the face do
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said the pale tattooed man where are you from it's september days after the worst attack on america since world war everyone wonders about the next plane people are looking for scapegoats
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and in the dallas mini mart a dallas mini part surrounded by tire shops and strip joints a bangladeshi immigrant works the register back home was a big man an air force officer but he dreamed of a fresh start in america if he had to work briefly in a mini mart to save up for i t classes and his wedding in two months so be it then on september that tattooed man enters the mart
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so listening to this brought something to the ear besides the obvious burst when i examine the very strong low frequency regions or bass line i'm zooming into the bass line now we noted characteristic of electrically charged gasses like the solar wind and i want you to hear what i heard you will hear it as a very fast decrease in volume and because you're sighted i'm giving you a red line indicating what intensity of light is being converted into sound the is frogs at home don't pay attention to that
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once there was a star like everything else she was born grew to be around times the mass of our sun and lived for a very long time exactly how long people cannot really tell just like everything in life she reached the end of her regular star days when her heart the core of her life exhausted its fuel but that was no end she transformed into a supernova and in the process releasing a tremendous amount of energy the rest of the galaxy and emitting in one second the same amount of energy our sun will release in days
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i didn't have an easy time finding friends to play with and i ended up making a lot of my own play i made a lot of my own toys it began with ice cream there was a baskin robbins in my hometown and they served ice cream from behind the counter in these giant five gallon cardboard tubs and someone told me i was eight years old someone told me that when they were done with those tubs they washed them out and kept them in the back and if you asked they would give you one it took me a couple of weeks to work up the courage but i did and they did they gave me one i went home with this beautiful cardboard tub i was trying to figure out what i could do with this exotic material metal ring top and bottom i started turning it over in my head and i realized wait a minute my head actually fits inside this thing
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it was the armor the armor in excalibur was beautiful to me these were literally knights in shining mirror polished armor and moreover the knights in excalibur wear their armor everywhere all the time they wear it at dinner they wear it to bed
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so i went back to my favorite material the gateway drug for making corrugated cardboard and i made myself a suit of armor replete with the neck shields and a white horse now that i've oversold it here's a picture of the armor that i made
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there's this fact that i love that i read somewhere once that one of the things that's contributed to homo success as a species is our lack of body hair that our our combined with our invention of clothing gives us the ability to modulate our body temperature and thus be able to survive in any climate we choose and now we've evolved to the point where we can't survive without clothing and it's more than just utility now it's a communication everything that we choose to put on is a narrative a story about where we've been what we're doing who we want to be i was a lonely kid i didn't have an easy time finding friends to play with and i ended up making a lot of my own play
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more than that they rehearse their costumes at comic con or any other con you don't just take pictures of people walking around you go up and say hey i like your costume can i take your picture and then you give them time to get into their pose they've worked hard on their pose to make their costume look great for your camera and it's so beautiful to watch
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so i put together a no face costume and i wore it on the floor at comic con and i very carefully practiced no gestures i resolved i would not speak in this costume at all when people asked to take my picture i would nod and i would shyly stand next to them they would take the picture and then i would secret out from behind my robe a chocolate gold coin and at the end of the photo process i'd make it appear for them ah ah ah like that
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and people were freaking out holy crap gold from no face oh my god this is so cool and i'm feeling and i'm walking the floor and it's fantastic and about minutes in something happens somebody grabs my hand and they put a coin back into it
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i can see through the mouth i can see people's shoes i can hear what they're saying and i can see their feet but the third time someone gives me back a coin i want to know what's going on so i sort of tilt my head back to get a better view and what i see is someone walking away from me going like this and then it hits me it's bad luck to take gold from no face in the film spirited away bad luck befalls those who take gold from no face this isn't a performer audience relationship this is we are all of us on that floor injecting ourselves into a narrative that meant something to us and we're making it our own
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or the art of khmer classical dance is more than years old it was developed as a prayer in movement for rain and fertility and a prosperity that this meant for an agricultural society dancers who were both men and women were offered to temples where they served as living bridges between heaven and earth their dancing bodies carried the prayers of the people up to the gods and the will of the deities was delivered back through them to the people and the land there are a lot of curves in khmer dance our backs are arched our knees are bent our toes are curled our elbows are and our fingers are curved backwards
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worrying too is the tendency for some reactions to injustice to build even more walls being quick to point fingers with the hope of providing easy solutions to complex problems one british tabloid on the publication of my letter branded a headline stating oxford student launches online campaign to shame attacker but the campaign never meant to shame anyone it meant to let people speak and to make others listen divisive were quick to create even more injustice commenting on my ethnicity or class to push their own prejudiced agendas and some even accused me of feigning the whole thing to push and i quote my feminist agenda of man hating
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it was april last year i was on an evening out with friends to celebrate one of their birthdays we hadn't been all together for a couple of weeks it was a perfect evening as we were all reunited at the end of the evening i caught the last underground train back to the other side of london the journey was smooth i got back to my local station and i began the walk home
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now both talking and breathing has a mortal enemy and that enemy is laughter because what happens when you laugh is those same muscles start to contract very regularly and you get this very marked sort of zig and that's just squeezing the air out of you it literally is that basic a way of making a sound you could be stamping on somebody it's having the same effect you're just squeezing air out and each of those contractions ha gives you a sound and as the contractions run together you can get these spasms and that's when you start getting these things happening i'm brilliant at this
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he's cold he's about to get wet he's got swimming trunks on got a towel ice what might possibly happen video starts serious mood and his friends are already laughing they are already laughing hard he's not laughing yet
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the thing i really like about that is it's all very serious until he jumps onto the ice and as soon as he doesn't go through the ice but also there isn't blood and bone everywhere his friends start laughing and imagine if that had played him out with him standing there going no seriously heinrich i think this is broken we wouldn't enjoy watching that that would be stressful or if he was running around with a visibly broken leg laughing and his friends are going heinrich i think we need to go to the hospital now that also wouldn't be funny the fact that the laughter works it gets him from a painful embarrassing difficult situation into a funny situation into what we're actually enjoying there and i think that's a really interesting use and it's actually happening all the time for example i can remember something like this happening at my father's funeral we weren't jumping around on the ice in our underpants we're not canadian
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it was a very basic reaction to find some reason we can do this we can laugh together we're going to get through this we're going to be okay and in fact all of us are doing this all the time you do it so often you don't even notice it everybody underestimates how often they laugh and you're doing something when you laugh with people that's actually letting you access a really ancient evolutionary system that mammals have evolved to make and maintain social bonds and clearly to regulate emotions to make ourselves feel better it's not something specific to humans it's a really ancient behavior which really helps us regulate how we feel and makes us feel better in other words when it comes to laughter you and me baby ain't nothing but mammals
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at the time though i didn't understand anything of that i just cared about the laughter and actually as a neuroscientist i've come to care about it again and it is a really weird thing to do what i'm going to do now is just play some examples of real human beings laughing and i want you think about the sound people make and how odd that can be and in fact how primitive laughter is as a sound it's much more like an animal call than it is like speech so here we've got some laughter for you
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and finally we have this is a human female laughing and laughter can take us to some pretty odd places in terms of making noises audio laughing she actually says oh my god what is that in french we're all kind of with her i have no idea
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now in terms of the science of laughter there isn't very much but it does turn out that pretty much everything we think we know about laughter is wrong so it's not at all unusual for example to hear people to say humans are the only animals that laugh nietzsche thought that humans are the only animals that laugh in fact you find laughter throughout the mammals it's been well described and well observed in primates but you also see it in rats and wherever you find it humans primates rats you find it associated with things like that's the same for humans
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in fact you find laughter throughout the mammals it's been well described and well observed in primates but you also see it in rats and wherever you find it humans primates rats you find it associated with things like that's the same for humans you find it associated with play and all mammals play and wherever you find it it's associated with interactions so robert provine who has done a lot of work on this has pointed out that you are times more likely to laugh if you are with somebody else than if you're on your own and where you find most laughter is in social interactions like conversation so if you ask human beings when do you laugh they'll talk about comedy and they'll talk about humor and they'll talk about jokes if you look at when they laugh they're laughing with their friends and when we laugh with people we're hardly ever actually laughing at jokes
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if you look at when they laugh they're laughing with their friends and when we laugh with people we're hardly ever actually laughing at jokes you are laughing to show people that you understand them that you agree with them that you're part of the same group as them you're laughing to show that you like them you might even love them you're doing all that at the same time as talking to them and the laughter is doing a lot of that emotional work for you something that robert provine has pointed out as you can see here and the reason why we were laughing when we heard those funny laughs at the start and why i was laughing when i found my parents laughing is that it's an enormously contagious effect you can catch laughter from somebody else and you are more likely to catch laughter off somebody else if you know them so it's still modulated by this social context
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interestingly you see something quite similar with chimpanzees chimpanzees laugh differently if they're being tickled than if they're playing with each other and we might be seeing something like that here involuntary laughter laughter being different from social laughter they're acoustically very different the real laughs are longer they're higher in pitch when you start laughing hard you start squeezing air out from your lungs under much higher pressures than you could ever produce voluntarily for example i could never pitch my voice that high to sing also you start to get these sort of contractions and weird whistling sounds all of which mean that real laughter is extremely easy or feels extremely easy to spot in contrast posed laughter we might think it sounds a bit fake
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you come across this idea it's not true i've traveled the whole length and breadth of this country i have found no evidence that americans don't get irony it's one of those cultural myths like the british are reserved
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but it's not true americans don't get irony but i just want you to know that that's what people are saying about you behind your back you know so when you leave living rooms in europe people say thankfully nobody was ironic in your presence
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because it's leaving millions of children behind now i can see that's not a very attractive name for legislation millions of children left behind i can see that what's the plan we propose to leave millions of children behind and here's how it's going to work and it's working beautifully
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the first is this that human beings are naturally different and diverse can i ask you how many of you have got children of your own okay or grandchildren how about two children or more right and the rest of you have seen such children
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children are not for the most part suffering from a psychological condition they're suffering from childhood
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but teaching is a creative profession teaching properly conceived is not a delivery system you know you're not there just to pass on received information great teachers do that but what great teachers also do is mentor stimulate provoke engage you see in the end education is about learning if there's no learning going on there's no education going on and people can spend an awful lot of time discussing education without ever discussing learning the whole point of education is to get people to learn an old friend of mine actually very old he's dead
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class sizes are smaller than in many countries and there are hundreds of initiatives every year to try and improve education the trouble is it's all going in the wrong direction there are three principles on which human life flourishes and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure
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what schools are encouraged to do is to find out what kids can do across a very narrow spectrum of achievement one of the effects of no child left behind has been to narrow the focus onto the so called stem disciplines they're very important i'm not here to argue against science and math
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