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1 | the mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works and it tells us our reality is continually branching into different possibilities just like a coral it's a weird thing for us humans to wrap our minds around since we only ever get to experience one possibility this quantum weirdness was first described by erwin and his cat the cat likes this version better | 1 |
3 | but physics does tell us what particles can be produced these particles must have just as much mass and energy as is carried in by the proton and any particles more massive than this energy limit aren't produced and remain invisible to us this is why this new particle accelerator is so exciting it's going to push this energy limit seven times beyond what's ever been done before so we're going to get to see some new particles very soon but before talking about what we might see let me describe the particles we already know of there's a whole zoo of subatomic particles most of us are familiar with electrons a lot of people in this room make a good living pushing them around | 1 |
4 | electron also has a neutral partner called the neutrino with no electric charge and a very tiny mass in contrast the up and down quarks have very large masses and combine in threes to make the protons and neutrons inside atoms all of these matter particles come in and right handed varieties and have partners that carry opposite charges these familiar particles also have less familiar second and third generations which have the same charges as the first but have much higher masses these matter particles all interact with the various force particles the electromagnetic force interacts with electrically charged matter via particles called photons there is also a very weak force called rather the weak force | 1 |
5 | circles and other geometrical figures of course when other physicists and i actually work on this stuff the mathematics can resemble a dark labyrinth but it's reassuring that at the heart of this mathematics is pure beautiful geometry joined with quantum mechanics this mathematics describes our universe as a growing coral with particles interacting at every location in all possible ways according to a beautiful pattern and as more of the pattern comes into view using new machines like the large collider we may be able to see whether nature uses this pattern or a different one this process of discovery is a wonderful adventure to be involved in if the finds particles that fit this pattern that will be very very cool if the finds new particles but they don't fit this pattern well that will be very interesting but bad for this theory and of course bad for me personally | 1 |
7 | predicting how nature works is a very risky game this theory and others like it are long shots one does a lot of hard work knowing that most of these ideas probably won't end up being true about nature that's what doing theoretical physics is like there are a lot of in this regard new physics theories are a lot like start up companies as with any large investment it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out but in science if something isn't working you have to toss it out and try something else now the only way to maintain sanity and achieve happiness in the midst of this uncertainty is to keep balance and perspective in life i've tried the best i can to live a balanced life | 1 |
9 | work on comes to nothing i still know i've lived a good life and i try to live in beautiful places for most of the past ten years i've lived on the island of maui a very beautiful place now it's one of the greatest mysteries in the universe to my parents how i managed to survive all that time without engaging in anything resembling full time employment | 1 |
10 | going to let you in on that secret this was a view from my home office on maui and this is another and another and you may have noticed that these beautiful views are similar but in slightly different places that's because this used to be my home and office on maui | 1 |
11 | down to the smallest possible scales so the way these things are explained in quantum field theory is all possibilities are expanding and developing at once and this is why i use the analogy to coral and in this way the way that comes in is it will be as a shape that's attached at each point in the space time and as i said the way the shape twists the directional along which way the shape is twisting as it moves over this curved surface is what the elementary particles are themselves so through quantum field theory they manifest themselves as points and interact that way i don't know if i'll be able to make this any clearer | 1 |
12 | actually for the next minutes i'm going to do the best i can to describe the beauty of particle physics without equations it turns out there's a lot we can learn from coral a coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal each coral head consists of thousands of individual polyps | 0 |
13 | it turns out there's a lot we can learn from coral a coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal each coral head consists of thousands of individual polyps these polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors if we imagine this to be a coral we can single out an individual and ask him a reasonable question we can ask how exactly he got to be in this particular location compared to his neighbors if it was just chance or destiny or what now after admonishing us for turning the temperature up too high he would tell us that our question was completely stupid these corals can be kind of mean you see and i have surfing scars to prove that but this polyp would continue and tell us that his neighbors were quite clearly identical copies of him that he was in all these other locations as well but experiencing them as separate individuals | 0 |
15 | this seems weird to us because each of us only experiences an individual existence and we don't get to see other branches it's as if each of us like here are a kind of coral branching into different possibilities the mathematics of quantum mechanics tells us this is how the world works at tiny scales it can be summed up in a single sentence everything that can happen does that's quantum mechanics but this does not mean everything happens the rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't what physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles and things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced | 0 |
16 | this enormous machine the large collider at cern in geneva has a circumference of miles and when it's operating draws five times as much power as the city of monterey we can't predict specifically what particles will be produced in any individual collision quantum mechanics tells us all possibilities are realized but physics does tell us what particles can be produced | 0 |
17 | the strong force acts between quarks which carry a different kind of charge called color charge and come in three different varieties red green and blue you can blame murray gell mann for these names they're his fault finally there's the force of gravity which interacts with matter via its mass and spin the most important thing to understand here is that there's a different kind of charge associated with each of these forces these four different forces interact with matter according to the corresponding charges that each particle has | 0 |
18 | these four different forces interact with matter according to the corresponding charges that each particle has a particle that hasn't been seen yet but we're pretty sure exists is the higgs particle which gives masses to all these other particles the main purpose of the large collider is to see this higgs particle and we're almost certain it will but the greatest mystery is what else we might see and i'm going to show you one beautiful possibility towards the end of this talk now if we count up all these different particles using their various spins and charges there are that's a lot of particles to keep track of and it seems strange that nature would have so many elementary particles | 0 |
19 | that's a lot of particles to keep track of and it seems strange that nature would have so many elementary particles but if we plot them out according to their charges some beautiful patterns emerge the most familiar charge is electric charge electrons have an electric charge a negative one and quarks have electric charges in thirds so when two up quarks and a down quark are combined to make a proton it has a total electric charge of plus one these particles also have which have opposite charges now it turns out the electric charge is actually a combination of two other charges and weak charge if we spread out the and weak charge and plot the charges of particles in this two dimensional charge space the electric charge is where these particles sit along the vertical direction | 0 |
20 | now it turns out the electric charge is actually a combination of two other charges and weak charge if we spread out the and weak charge and plot the charges of particles in this two dimensional charge space the electric charge is where these particles sit along the vertical direction the electromagnetic and weak forces interact with matter according to their and weak charge which make this pattern this is called the unified model and it was put together back in the reason most of us are only familiar with electric charge and not both of these is because of the higgs particle the higgs over here on the left has a large mass and breaks the symmetry of this pattern it makes the weak force very weak by giving the weak particles a large mass since this massive higgs sits along the horizontal direction in this diagram the photons of electromagnetism remain and interact with electric charge along the vertical direction in this charge space so the electromagnetic and weak forces are described by this pattern of particle charges in two dimensional space | 0 |
22 | for example this weak force particle and its can be created in a collision in further interactions the charges must always balance one of the weak particles could decay into an electron and an and these three still add to zero total charge nature always keeps a perfect balance so these patterns of charges are not just pretty they tell us what interactions are allowed to happen and we can rotate this charge space in four dimensions to get a better look at the strong interaction which has this nice hexagonal symmetry in a strong interaction a strong force particle such as this one interacts with a colored quark such as this green one to give a quark with a different color charge this red one and strong interactions are happening millions of times each second in every atom of our bodies holding the atomic nuclei together | 0 |
40 | he purchased his own plane ticket and went to the village where this had occurred and he was confronted by this scene a line of coffins coming down a hill relatives wailing he later he told me how overwhelmed he felt and didn't know what to do so he took out his phone like any one of us might and snapped that picture and it out and voila that picture went viral and broke the censorship and forced mass media to cover it so when a year later turkey's protests happened it started as a protest about a park being razed but became an anti authoritarian protest it wasn't surprising that media also censored it but it got a little ridiculous at times when things were so intense when cnn international was broadcasting live from istanbul cnn turkey instead was broadcasting a documentary on penguins now i love penguin documentaries but that wasn't the news of the day an angry viewer put his two screens together and snapped that picture and that one too went viral and since then people call turkish media the penguin media | 1 |
41 | so recently we heard a lot about how social media helps empower protest and that's true but after more than a decade of studying and participating in multiple social movements i've come to realize that the way technology empowers social movements can also paradoxically help weaken them this is not inevitable but overcoming it requires diving deep into what makes success possible over the long term and the lessons apply in multiple domains now take turkey's park protests july which i went back to study in the field was key to its organizing it was everywhere in the park well along with a lot of tear gas | 0 |
43 | this is my favorite place on earth de in bolivia and when it's covered in a thin layer of water it reflects the clouds there are days when you feel as if you're floating among the clouds but there are days when the horizon disappears there's no longer a top or a bottom you feel immersed in something bigger it was there that one night i woke up from a dream and i saw that the stars were also reflected on the water | 0 |
45 | i turn out to be the son you wanted when i was born did i meet your expectations you've exceeded my expectations sweetie because sure you have these fantasies of what your child's going to be like but you have made me grow so much as a parent because you think well i was the one who made you a parent you were the one who made me a parent that's a good point | 1 |
46 | and i love you i love you i love you when a guy is happily married no matter what happens at work no matter what happens in the rest of the day there's a shelter when you get home there's a knowledge knowing that you can hug somebody without them throwing you downstairs and saying get your hands off me being married is like having a color television set you never want to go back to black and white | 1 |
50 | in fact i could see them through the window lying on the dining room table where i had left them so i quickly ran around and tried all the other doors and windows and they were locked tight i thought about calling a locksmith at least i had my cellphone but at midnight it could take a while for a locksmith to show up and it was cold i couldn't go back to my friend jeff's house for the night because i had an early flight to europe the next morning and i needed to get my passport and my suitcase so desperate and freezing cold i found a large rock and i broke through the basement window cleared out the shards of glass i crawled through i found a piece of cardboard and taped it up over the opening figuring that in the morning on the way to the airport i could call my contractor and ask him to fix it this was going to be expensive but probably no more expensive than a middle night locksmith so i figured under the circumstances i was coming out even now i'm a neuroscientist by training and i know a little bit about how the brain performs under stress it releases that raises your heart rate it adrenaline levels and it clouds your thinking so the next morning when i woke up on too little sleep worrying about the hole in the window and a mental note that i had to call my contractor and the freezing temperatures and the meetings i had upcoming in europe and you know with all the in my brain my thinking was cloudy but i didn't know it was cloudy because my thinking was cloudy | 1 |
52 | so i raced home in the snow and ice minutes got my passport raced back to the airport i made it just in time but they had given away my seat to someone else so i got stuck in the back of the plane next to the bathrooms in a seat that wouldn't on an eight hour flight well i had a lot of time to think during those eight hours and no sleep | 1 |
53 | and i started wondering are there things that i can do systems that i can put into place that will prevent bad things from happening or at least if bad things happen will minimize the likelihood of it being a total catastrophe so i started thinking about that but my thoughts didn't crystallize until about a month later i was having dinner with my colleague danny the nobel prize winner and i somewhat told him about having broken my window and you know forgotten my passport and danny shared with me that he'd been practicing something called prospective hindsight | 1 |
54 | i had just driven home it was around midnight in the dead of montreal winter i had been visiting my friend jeff across town and the thermometer on the front porch read minus degrees and don't bother asking if that's celsius or fahrenheit minus is where the two scales meet it was very cold and as i stood on the front porch fumbling in my pockets i found i didn't have my keys in fact i could see them through the window lying on the dining room table where i had left them so i quickly ran around and tried all the other doors and windows and they were locked tight i thought about calling a locksmith at least i had my cellphone but at midnight it could take a while for a locksmith to show up and it was cold | 0 |
55 | it's something that he had gotten from the psychologist gary klein who had written about it a few years before also called the pre mortem now you all know what the postmortem is whenever there's a disaster a team of experts come in and they try to figure out what went wrong right well in the pre mortem danny explained you look ahead and you try to figure out all the things that could go wrong and then you try to figure out what you can do to prevent those things from happening or to minimize the damage so what i want to talk to you about today are some of the things we can do in the form of a pre mortem some of them are obvious some of them are not so obvious | 0 |
56 | around the home designate a place for things that are easily lost now this sounds like common sense and it is but there's a lot of science to back this up based on the way our spatial memory works there's a structure in the brain called the that evolved over tens of thousands of years to keep track of the locations of important things where the well is where fish can be found that stand of fruit trees where the friendly and enemy tribes live the is the part of the brain that in london taxicab drivers becomes enlarged it's the part of the brain that allows squirrels to find their nuts and if you're wondering somebody actually did the experiment where they cut off the olfactory sense of the squirrels and they could still find their nuts | 0 |
57 | it's the part of the brain that allows squirrels to find their nuts and if you're wondering somebody actually did the experiment where they cut off the olfactory sense of the squirrels and they could still find their nuts they weren't using smell they were using the this exquisitely evolved mechanism in the brain for finding things but it's really good for things that don't move around much not so good for things that move around so this is why we lose car keys and reading glasses and passports so in the home designate a spot for your keys a hook by the door maybe a decorative bowl for your passport a particular drawer for your reading glasses a particular table if you designate a spot and you're scrupulous about it your things will always be there when you look for them | 0 |
59 | i think the only thing less happy is the grass that we did probably damage quite badly you get an idea of the thrust here when i try to hold them horizontally and somewhat fail that's around kilos of thrust there we were quite impressed with that we thought we were getting somewhere so there's only one sensible way to go from there you get four | 1 |
61 | it really didn't work did it trying things and learning by failing at them most of the time and that included failing by falling over if you notice we've got five engines here not to be put off by the fact one was in maintenance still had a go | 1 |
62 | line so again good learning we learned not to do that again this was a blind alley | 1 |
63 | this was three on each arm that was ridiculous that was kilos on each arm again struck that one off | 1 |
66 | that was the point where this endeavor went from i'm really not sure this is going to work to oh my god it does work from there on we then refined it but we carried on falling over a lot falling over like i say is definitely the best way to learn after a while we starting really refining the layout of all of this and you'll see that's stability and control there's no wires there or anything that's a combination of us refining the technology including with a tupperware box on the back for the electronics and actually learning the balance and control i'm now going to save your ears for the next short piece and talk over it after a while the jet engine noise is a bit annoying | 0 |
68 | well i don't think anybody's going to go down to walmart or take the kids to school in any of this stuff for a while but the team at gravity are building some awesome technology that's going to make this look like child's play we're working on some things that will seek to bring this unusual experience of flight to a wider audience beyond the events and displays we're doing we're even starting to look for pilots two and three if there's any volunteers i've got this vision it sounds audacious but let's just stick it out there that one day maybe we can rise up above a beach fly up and down the coastline of it rise up a bit higher with some of the safety kit we're working on to make this achievable then over the horizon comes a hercules with the ramp down as it comes past you start picking up speed and see if we can intercept from the rear not the front that would be a mistake and then try and land in the back | 0 |
69 | but this is also if i take a big step back from this this is also a very personal journey for me back to that lovely photo or photo in a picture sadly my father took his own life when i was and left an awful lot of unfulfilled ambition he was a wonderful inventor a maverick creator and i'd just like to think if it was possible if he was looking down he would be he'd certainly be smiling at some of the things we've done here i think so it's a tribute to him | 0 |
70 | and i said ok you guys spent the whole summer on this right no we all took internships just in case it doesn't work out all right but you're going to go in full time once you graduate not exactly we've all lined up backup jobs six months go by it's the day before the company launches and there is still not a functioning website you guys realize the entire company is a website that's literally all it is so i obviously declined to invest and they ended up naming the company parker | 1 |
71 | so the first reason that i passed on parker was they were really slow getting off the ground now you are all intimately familiar with the mind of a well i have a confession for you i'm the opposite i'm a yes that's an actual term you know that panic you feel a few hours before a big deadline when you haven't done anything yet i just feel that a few months ahead of time | 1 |
72 | so this started early when i was a kid i took nintendo games very seriously i would wake up at start playing and not stop until i had mastered them eventually it got so out of hand that a local newspaper came and did a story on the dark side of nintendo starring me | 1 |
75 | no she was one of our most creative students and as an organizational psychologist this is the kind of idea that i test so i challenged her to get some data she goes into a bunch of companies she has people fill out surveys about how often they procrastinate then she gets their bosses to rate how creative and innovative they are and sure enough the like me who rush in and do everything early are rated as less creative than people who procrastinate moderately so i want to know what happens to the chronic she was like i don't know they didn't fill out my survey | 1 |
76 | we asked people to generate new business ideas and then we get independent readers to evaluate how creative and useful they are and some of them are asked to do the task right away others we randomly assign to procrastinate by dangling minesweeper in front of them for either five or minutes and sure enough the moderate are percent more creative than the other two groups now minesweeper is awesome but it's not the driver of the effect because if you play the game first before you learn about the task there's no creativity boost it's only when you're told that you're going to be working on this problem and then you start procrastinating but the task is still active in the back of your mind that you start to incubate procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas to think in nonlinear ways to make unexpected leaps so just as we were finishing these experiments i was starting to write a book about originals and i thought this is the perfect time to teach myself to procrastinate while writing a chapter on procrastination so i and like any self respecting i woke up early the next morning and i made a to do list with steps on how to procrastinate | 1 |
77 | what you see is that the first movers had a failure rate of percent compared with only percent for the look at waiting to build a social network until after and look at waiting for years after altavista and yahoo it's much easier to improve on somebody else's idea than it is to create something new from scratch so the lesson i learned is that to be original you don't have to be first you just have to be different and better but that wasn't the only reason i passed on parker they were also full of doubts they had backup plans lined up and that made me doubt that they had the courage to be original because i expected that originals would look something like this | 1 |
78 | now on the surface a lot of original people look confident but behind the scenes they feel the same fear and doubt that the rest of us do they just manage it differently let me show you this is a depiction of how the creative process works for most of us | 1 |
82 | de is when you look at something you've seen many times before and all of a sudden see it with fresh eyes it's a screenwriter who looks at a movie script that can't get the green light for more than half a century in every past version the main character has been an evil queen but jennifer lee starts to question whether that makes sense she rewrites the first act the villain as a tortured hero and frozen becomes the most successful animated movie ever so there's a simple message from this story when you feel doubt don't let it go | 1 |
83 | but i have some good news for you you are not going to get judged on your bad ideas a lot of people think they will if you look across industries and ask people about their biggest idea their most important suggestion percent of them stayed silent instead of speaking up they were afraid of embarrassing themselves of looking stupid but guess what originals have lots and lots of bad ideas tons of them in fact take the guy who invented this do you care that he came up with a talking doll so creepy that it scared not only kids but adults too no you celebrate thomas edison for pioneering the light bulb | 1 |
84 | seven years ago a student came to me and asked me to invest in his company he said i'm working with three friends and we're going to try to disrupt an industry by selling stuff online and i said ok you guys spent the whole summer on this right no we all took internships just in case it doesn't work out all right but you're going to go in full time once you graduate not exactly | 0 |
85 | they were recently recognized as the world's most innovative company and valued at over a billion dollars and now my wife handles our investments why was i so wrong to find out i've been studying people that i come to call originals originals are nonconformists people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them | 0 |
86 | to find out i've been studying people that i come to call originals originals are nonconformists people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them they are people who stand out and speak up originals drive creativity and change in the world they're the people you want to bet on and they look nothing like i expected i want to show you today three things i've learned about recognizing originals and becoming a little bit more like them so the first reason that i passed on parker was they were really slow getting off the ground now you are all intimately familiar with the mind of a | 0 |
87 | no here are our results you actually do see that the people who wait until the last minute are so busy goofing off that they don't have any new ideas and on the flip side the people who race in are in such a frenzy of anxiety that they don't have original thoughts either there's a sweet spot where originals seem to live why is this maybe original people just have bad work habits | 0 |
89 | as aaron sorkin put it you call it procrastinating i call it thinking and along the way i discovered that a lot of great originals in history were take leonardo da vinci he toiled on and off for years on the mona lisa he felt like a failure he wrote as much in his journal but some of the diversions he took in optics transformed the way that he modeled light and made him into a much better painter what about martin luther king jr | 0 |
90 | but some of the diversions he took in optics transformed the way that he modeled light and made him into a much better painter what about martin luther king jr the night before the biggest speech of his life the march on washington he was up past rewriting it he's sitting in the audience waiting for his turn to go onstage and he is still scribbling notes and crossing out lines when he gets onstage minutes in he leaves his prepared remarks to utter four words that changed the course of history i have a dream that was not in the script by delaying the task of finalizing the speech until the very last minute he left himself open to the widest range of possible ideas and because the text wasn't set in stone he had freedom to improvise procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity but it can be a virtue for creativity | 0 |
91 | procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity but it can be a virtue for creativity what you see with a lot of great originals is that they are quick to start but they're slow to finish and this is what i missed with parker when they were dragging their heels for six months i looked at them and said you know a lot of other companies are starting to sell glasses online they missed the first mover advantage but what i didn't realize was they were spending all that time trying to figure out how to get people to be comfortable ordering glasses online and it turns out the first mover advantage is mostly a myth look at a classic study of over product categories comparing the first movers who created the market with the who introduced something different and better | 0 |
92 | now in my research i discovered there are two different kinds of doubt there's self doubt and idea doubt self doubt is paralyzing it leads you to freeze but idea doubt is energizing it motivates you to test to experiment to refine just like did | 0 |
94 | musk told me recently he didn't expect tesla to succeed he was sure the first few launches would fail to make it to orbit let alone get back but it was too important not to try and for so many of us when we have an important idea we don't bother to try but i have some good news for you you are not going to get judged on your bad ideas a lot of people think they will if you look across industries and ask people about their biggest idea their most important suggestion percent of them stayed silent instead of speaking up | 0 |
95 | if you look across fields the greatest originals are the ones who fail the most because they're the ones who try the most take classical composers the best of the best why do some of them get more pages in encyclopedias than others and also have their compositions more times one of the best predictors is the sheer volume of compositions that they generate the more output you churn out the more variety you get and the better your chances of stumbling on something truly original even the three icons of classical music bach beethoven mozart had to generate hundreds and hundreds of compositions to come up with a much smaller number of masterpieces | 0 |
96 | why do some of them get more pages in encyclopedias than others and also have their compositions more times one of the best predictors is the sheer volume of compositions that they generate the more output you churn out the more variety you get and the better your chances of stumbling on something truly original even the three icons of classical music bach beethoven mozart had to generate hundreds and hundreds of compositions to come up with a much smaller number of masterpieces now you may be wondering how did this guy become great without doing a whole lot i don't know how wagner pulled that off but for most of us if we want to be more original we have to generate more ideas the parker founders when they were trying to name their company they needed something sophisticated unique with no negative associations to build a retail brand and they tested over possibilities before they finally put together and parker so if you put all this together what you see is that originals are not that different from the rest of us they feel fear and doubt they procrastinate | 0 |
118 | now it turns out research tells us that solving is as primal as eating and sleeping from birth we are wired to solve in one study newborns still in the hospital were shown patterns patterns like this circle cross circle cross and then the pattern was changed triangle square and by tracking an infant's gaze we know that newborns as young as a day old can notice and respond to disruptions in order it's remarkable so from infancy through old age the urge to solve unites us all and i even found this photo on of pop star katy perry solving a crossword puzzle with her morning coffee like | 1 |
120 | you can see my name above the grid i'm going to give this to you gwen to take a look and i will also put it up on the screen now let's take a look at another piece of the puzzle if you look at the first clue for it starts with the letter c for corrupt and just below that we have an o for outfielder and if you keep reading the first letters of the clues down you get cobalt horse amber owl silver ox red donkey and emerald rooster that's pretty cool right it's the new york times but wait wait wait wait wait oh gwen do you recall how i forgot my purple marker and you were unable to color the sheep well if you keep reading starting with it says oh by the way the sheep can be left blank | 1 |
121 | and magic i work in what most people think are two distinct fields but i believe they are the same i am both a magician and a new york times crossword puzzle constructor which basically means i've taken the world's two hobbies and combined them into one career and i believe that magic and puzzles are the same because they both key into one of the most important human drives the urge to solve human beings are wired to solve to make order out of chaos it's certainly true for me | 0 |
122 | certainly true for me i've been solving my whole life high school consisted of epic scrabble matches in the cafeteria and not really talking to girls and then at about that time i started learning magic tricks and definitely not talking to girls there's nothing like starting a conversation with hey did you know that is worth points in scrabble but back then i noticed an intersection between puzzles and illusion when you do the crossword puzzle or when you watch a magic show you become a solver and your goal is to try to find the order in the chaos the chaos of say a black puzzle grid a mixed up bag of scrabble tiles or a shuffled pack of playing cards and today as a points and an illusion designer i create that chaos i test your ability to solve | 0 |
123 | but many other cultures have their signature puzzles as well china gives us which would test abilities to form shapes from the jumbled pieces chaos order | 0 |
125 | think of what this got them they could outsource all their problems protection from predators food finding | 1 |
127 | and i want to turn now briefly to talk about that book which i've read you've all got a copy and you've just heard the man and what i want to do now is say a bit about this book from the design standpoint because i think it's actually a brilliant book first of all the goal and you heard just now what the goal is it's to bring purpose to the lives of millions and he has succeeded is it a good goal in itself i'm sure we all agree it is a wonderful goal he's absolutely right there are lots of people out there who don't have purpose in their life and bringing purpose to their life is a wonderful goal i give him an a on this | 1 |
128 | is the goal achieved yes thirty million copies of this book al gore eat your heart out | 1 |
129 | i don't have to tell you this you just heard the man excellent insights into human psychology wise advice on every page moreover he invites us to look under the hood i really appreciated that for instance he has an appendix where he explains his choice of translations of different bible verses the book is clear vivid accessible beautifully just enough repetition that's really important every time you read it or say it you make another copy in your brain | 1 |
131 | but of course god got a lot of help this is the ancestor of cattle | 0 |
133 | now why am i talking about cows because i want to say that much the same thing is true of religions religions are natural phenomena they're just as natural as cows they have evolved over millennia they have a biological base just like the they have become domesticated and human beings have been redesigning their religions for thousands of years this is ted and i want to talk about design because what i've been doing for the last four years really since the first time you saw me some of you saw me at ted when i was talking about religion and in the last four years i've been working just about non stop on this topic and you might say it's about the reverse engineering of religions | 0 |
134 | because what i've been doing for the last four years really since the first time you saw me some of you saw me at ted when i was talking about religion and in the last four years i've been working just about non stop on this topic and you might say it's about the reverse engineering of religions now that very idea i think strikes terror in many people or anger or anxiety of one sort or another and that is the spell that i want to break i want to say no religions are an important natural phenomenon we should study them with the same intensity that we study all the other important natural phenomena like global warming as we heard so eloquently last night from al gore today's religions are brilliantly designed brilliantly designed they are immensely powerful social institutions and many of their features can be traced back to earlier features that we can really make sense of by reverse engineering and as with the cow there's a mixture of evolutionary design designed by natural selection itself and intelligent design more or less intelligent design and redesigned by human beings who are trying to redesign their religions | 0 |
135 | don't do book talks at ted but i'm going to have just one slide about my book because there is one message in it which i think this group really needs to hear and i would be very interested to get your responses to this it's the one policy proposal that i make in the book at this time when i claim not to know enough about religion to know what other policy proposals to make and it's one that echoes remarks that you've heard already today here's my proposal i'm going to just take a couple of minutes to explain it education on world religions for all of our children in primary school in high school in public schools in private schools and in home schooling so what i'm proposing is just as we require reading writing arithmetic american history so we should have a curriculum on facts about all the religions of the world about their history about their creeds about their texts their music their their prohibitions their requirements and this should be presented factually straightforwardly with no particular spin to all of the children in the country | 0 |
136 | i'm delighted to be here i'm honored by the invitation and thanks i would love to talk about stuff that i'm interested in but unfortunately i suspect that what i'm interested in won't interest many other people first off my badge says i'm an astronomer i would love to talk about my astronomy but i suspect that the number of people who are interested in transfer in non gray and polarization of light in jupiter's upper atmosphere are the number of people who'd fit in a bus shelter so i'm not going to talk about that | 1 |
137 | i feel that there's a massive and bizarre idea going around that we have to bring more computers into schools my idea is no no get them out of schools and keep them out of schools and i'd love to talk about this but i think the argument is so obvious to anyone who's hung around a fourth grade classroom that it doesn't need much talking about but i guess i may be very wrong about that and everything else that i've said so don't go back and read my dissertation it probably has lies in it as well having said that i outlined my talk about five minutes ago | 1 |
139 | the d in ted of course stands for design just two weeks ago i made you know i've been making small medium and big klein bottles for the trade but what i've just made and i'm delighted to show you first time in public here this is a klein bottle wine bottle which although in four dimensions it shouldn't be able to hold any fluid at all it's perfectly capable of doing so because our universe has only three spatial dimensions and because our universe is only three spatial dimensions it can hold fluids so it's highly that one's the cool one that was a month of my life but although i would love to talk about with you i'm not going to | 1 |
140 | now so i know the frequency it's i measure its wavelength all i need now is to flip on another beam and the bottom beam is me talking right so anytime i talk you'd see it on the screen i'll put it over here and as i move this away from the source you'll notice the spiral the slinky moves we're going through different nodes of the wave coming out this way those of you who are physicists i hear you rolling your eyes but bear with me | 1 |
142 | he wants to clunk me over the head i'm saying i got to clear out of here i go running across campus quick as i can i duck into hayes hall it's one of these bell tower buildings the chasing me chasing me up the first floor second floor third floor chases me into this room the to the bell tower i slam the door behind me climb up go past this place where i see a pendulum ticking and i'm thinking oh yeah the square root of the length is proportional to its period | 1 |
144 | the first time you do something it's science the second time it's engineering a third time it's just being a technician i'm a scientist once i do something i do something else so i'm not going to talk about that nor am i going to talk about what i think are obvious statements from my first book silicon snake oil or my second book nor am i going to talk about why i believe computers don't belong in schools | 0 |
145 | i'm supposed to talk about the future yes oh right and my feeling is asking me to talk about the future is bizarre because i've got gray hair and so it's kind of silly for me to talk about the future in fact i think that if you really want to know what the future's going to be if you really want to know about the future don't ask a technologist a scientist a physicist no don't ask somebody who's writing code | 0 |
146 | no if you want to know what society's going to be like in years ask a kindergarten teacher they know in fact don't ask just any kindergarten teacher ask an experienced one they're the ones who know what society is going to be like in another generation i don't nor i suspect do many other people who are talking about what the future will bring certainly all of us can imagine these cool new things that are going to be there | 0 |
148 | but that's not what i'm going to talk about i'd love to talk about it it'd be fun but i want to talk about what i'm doing now what am i doing now oh the other thing that i think i'd like to talk about is right over here right over here is that visible what i'd like to talk about is one sided things i would dearly love to talk about things that have one side because i love mobius loops i not only love mobius loops but i'm one of the very few people if not the only person in the world that makes klein bottles right away i hope that all of your eyes glaze over | 0 |
151 | and i brought all that video back into the physical world by printing it out on these long strips of ink jet paper and cutting out the forms now i invented my own form of the which removes the drum and replaces the slits with a video camera and this was very exciting for me because it meant that i could make these physical objects and i could make films from those objects that's me riding on my bicycle | 1 |
152 | instead of spending hours a day with my face plastered to a screen i was having these little adventures with our new family and shooting video along the way and it was kind of a symbiosis of art and life and i think that it's no mistake that translates into wheel of life but film and video does flatten sculpture so i tried to imagine a way that animated sculpture could be experienced as such and also a completely kind of animated sculpture and that's where i came up with the idea for the tunnel you walk through with a handheld strobe and wherever you point the flashlight the animation pops to life i plan to finish this project in the next to years | 1 |
153 | a long time ago i was a professional animator eric dyer animator and at night i would make my own experimental films and i was spending a lot of time way too much time in front of a screen for work that would be presented on a screen and i had this great need to get my hands back on the work again | 0 |
154 | but i did build a half scale prototype it's covered in velcro and i could lay inside on this bridge and stick animated sequences to the walls and test stuff out people would comment that it reminded them of an and that medical connection spoke to me because at the age of i was diagnosed with a degenerative retinal condition that's slowly taking my vision away and i'd never responded to that in my work so i responded to it in this piece called implant it is an imaginary super magnified medical device that fits around the optic nerve | 0 |
156 | and that's the norwegian media in a nutshell not much drama a few years back norway's public tv channel decided to broadcast live coverage of a seven hour train ride seven hours of simple footage a train rolling down the tracks norwegians more than a million of them according to the ratings loved it a new kind of reality tv show was born and it goes against all the rules of tv engagement there is no story line no script no drama no climax and it's called slow tv for the past two months norwegians have been watching a cruise ship's journey up the coast and there's a lot of fog on that coast executives at norway's national broadcasting service are now considering broadcasting a night of knitting nationwide on the surface it sounds boring because it is but something about this tv experiment has gripped norwegians so we sent the listening post's marcela pizarro to oslo to find out what it is but first a warning viewers may find some of the images in the following report disappointing | 1 |
158 | actually it turned out to be seven hours and minutes due to a signal failure at the last station we had four cameras three of them pointing out to the beautiful nature some talking to the guests some information train announcement we will arrive at station th and that's about it but of course also the tunnels gave us the opportunity to do some archives narrator in norwegian then a bit of flirting while the food is digested the last downhill stretch before we reach our destination we pass station then a new tunnel | 1 |
159 | it will fit for the train spotters in norway we brought it on air in november but no this was far more attractive this is the five biggest tv channels in norway on a normal friday and if you look at over here look what happened when they put on the bergen railway show million norwegians watched part of this program and another funny thing when the host on our main channel after they have got news for you she said and on our second channel the train has now nearly reached station thousands of people just jumped on the train on our second channel like this | 1 |
160 | so this is not the first time had been on board a ship this is back in when the technical managers have suits and ties and rolled all its equipment on board a ship and meters out of the shore transmitting the signal back and in the machine room they talked to the machine guy and on the deck they have splendid entertainment so being on a ship it's not the first time but five and a half days in a row and live we wanted some help and we asked our viewers out there what do you want to see what do you want us to film how do you want this to look do you want us to make a website what do you want on it and we got some answers from you out there and it helped us a very lot to build the program so in june of us went on board the coastal ship and we set off i have some really strong memories from that week and it's all about people this guy for instance he's head of research at the university in and i will show you a piece of cloth this one | 1 |
162 | narrator in norwegian run it up and down this is norway's most important drill right now it regulates the height of a bow camera in live production one of that capture great shots from the ms nord norge eight wires keep the camera stable cameraman i work on different camera solutions they're just tools used in a different context another camera is this one it's normally used for sports it made it possible for us to take close up pictures of people away like this one | 1 |
163 | but it's a long program so some watched part of it like the prime minister some watched a little bit more it says i haven't used my bed for five days and he's years old and he hardly slept he kept watching because something might happen though it probably won't | 1 |
165 | this is the last project it's the peep show it's hours of on a tv screen actually days on the web we have made hours of live salmon fishing it actually took three hours before we got the first fish and that's quite slow we have made hours of boat ride into the beautiful canal and we have made another train ride with the northern railway and because this we couldn't do live we did it in four seasons just to give the viewer another experience on the way so our next project got us some attention outside norway this is from the colbert report on comedy central i've got my eye on a wildly popular program from norway called national firewood night which consisted of mostly people in parkas chatting and chopping in the woods and then eight hours of a fire burning in a fireplace | 1 |
166 | and get this almost percent of the norwegian population tuned in percent so when wood fire and wood chopping can be that interesting why not knitting so on our next project we used more than eight hours to go live from a sheep to a sweater and jimmy kimmel in the show he liked that jimmy kimmel even the people on the show are falling asleep and after all that the actually failed to break the world record they did not succeed but remember the old norwegian saying it's not whether you win or lose that counts in fact nothing counts and death is coming for us all | 1 |
167 | i have only got minutes to explain something that lasts for hours and days so i'd better get started let's start with a clip from al listening post norway is a country that gets relatively little media coverage even the elections this past week passed without much drama and that's the norwegian media in a nutshell not much drama | 0 |
168 | and then follows an eight minute story on al about some strange tv programs in little norway al cnn how did we get there we have to go back to when one of my colleagues got a great idea where do you get your ideas in the lunchroom | 0 |
170 | it was so nice to see all the thousands of and users discussing the same view talking to each other as if they were on the same train together and especially i like this one it's a old man he's watched all the program and at the end station he rises up to pick up what he thinks is his luggage and his head hit the curtain rod and he realized he is in his own living room so that's strong and living tv | 0 |
171 | so that's strong and living tv four hundred and thirty six minute by minute on a friday night and during that first night the first message came why be a chicken why stop at when you can expand that to minute by minute and do the journey in norway the coastal ship journey from bergen to almost kilometers covering most of our coast it has old very interesting history and literally takes part in life and death along the coast so just a week after the bergen railway we called the company and we started planning for our next show we wanted to do something different the bergen railway was a recorded program so when we sat in our editing room we watched this picture it's all l station we saw this journalist | 0 |
173 | did we do this yes we took a conference room on board the we turned it into a complete tv control room we made it all work of course and then we took along cameras this is one of them this is my sketch from february and when you give this sketch to professional people in the norwegian broadcasting company you get some cool stuff back | 0 |
174 | everything went well we also could take pictures of people waving at us people along the thousands of them and they all had a phone in their hand and when you take a picture of them and they get the message now we are on tv dad they start waving back this was waving tv for five and a half days and people get so extremely happy when they can send a warm message to their loved ones it was also a great success on social media | 0 |
176 | so why does this stand out this is so completely different to other tv programming we take the viewer on a journey that happens right now in real time and the viewer gets the feeling of actually being there actually being on the train on the boat and knitting together with others and the reason i think why they're doing that is because we don't edit the timeline it's important that we don't edit the timeline and it's also important that what we make slow tv about is something that we all can relate to that the viewer can relate to and that somehow has a root in our culture this is a picture from last summer when we traveled the coast again for seven weeks | 0 |
177 | it's important that we don't edit the timeline and it's also important that what we make slow tv about is something that we all can relate to that the viewer can relate to and that somehow has a root in our culture this is a picture from last summer when we traveled the coast again for seven weeks and of course this is a lot of planning this is a lot of logistics so this is the working plan for people last summer but more important is what you don't plan you don't plan what's going to happen you have to just take your cameras with you it's like a sports event you rig them and you see what's happening so this is actually the whole running order for hours just written on one page | 0 |
196 | i was years old i was a kid and he said to me i remember this like yesterday he was a great guy but he said to me kid go to school or go open a falafel stand we're not really interested in these kinds of new adventures we're not interested in your help and he threw me out of the room i don't need your help he said i was a very stubborn kid as you see now i'm walking around like crazy | 1 |
197 | this is an this is the fastest way to reach any medical emergency it has everything an ambulance has except for a bed you see the defibrillator you see the equipment we all saw the tragedy that happened in boston | 0 |
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