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Another world was opening up around this time: performance and dancing.
It's super-real and it's happening around you.
These guys down on Wall Street, Marco Polo and Cherokee Nation, they're eight microseconds behind all these guys going into the empty buildings being hollowed out up around the Carrier Hotel.
This doesn't mean that intervention around the world is a disaster.
And I carry this around as a symbol, really, of the challenge and also the hope.
If you close your eyes right now in this room, you're aware of the size of the room from the reverberation and the bouncing of the sound off the surfaces; you're aware of how many people are around you, because of the micro-noises you're receiving.
It's light, and light has been around for many millions of years.
And then you have these millions of street lamps deployed around the world.
And this cumulative cultural adaptation, as anthropologists call this accumulation of ideas, is responsible for everything around you in your bustling and teeming everyday lives.
But in fact, it turns out that some time around 200,000 years ago, when our species first arose and acquired social learning, that this was really the beginning of our story, not the end of our story.
And so some time around 200,000 years ago, our species confronted this crisis.
Had we chosen this option, sometime around 200,000 years ago, we would probably still be living like the Neanderthals were when we first entered Europe 40,000 years ago.
And this is why our species has prospered around the world while the rest of the animals sit behind bars in zoos, languishing.
But when our species arose about 200,000 years ago, sometime after that we quickly walked out of Africa and spread around the entire world, occupying nearly every habitat on Earth.
As we spread out around the world, we developed thousands of different languages.
And so it seems that we use our language, not just to cooperate, but to draw rings around our cooperative groups and to establish identities, and perhaps to protect our knowledge and wisdom and skills from eavesdropping from outside.
And that communication, that connectivity around the world, that globalization now raises a burden.
If 27 individuals from those 27 member states sat around table, speaking their 23 languages, some very simple mathematics will tell you that you need an army of 253 translators to anticipate all the pairwise possibilities.
There are lots and lots of ways of measuring time, but a really bizarre base 60 system known as hours and minutes and seconds is nearly universal around the world.
Actually, these stories compelled me around the world, and I've been to over 60 countries.
I know that the abscess that grew around my wound after the operation, the 16 ounces of puss, is the contaminated Gulf of Mexico, and there were oil-drenched pelicans inside me and dead floating fish.
EA: Estimates of how many innocent people are locked up range between one and four percent, which maybe doesn't sound like a lot, except that it amounts to around 87,000 people: mothers, fathers, sons locked up, often for decades, for crimes they did not commit.
These public defenders receive around 30 percent less funding than district attorneys do, and they often have caseloads far outnumbering what the American Bar Association recommends.
But instead of looking at the scenery around him, seeing the beautiful vistas and noticing the cool ocean breezes, he was driving fast and contemplating driving off that bridge.
Well, we want to, for example, give it to students right around finals season.
And it is possible, of course, to increase the density of the communities around us.
All around the world, we're seeing more and more people embrace this walkshed life.
Do they connect us back to the ecosystems around us by, for example, connecting us to rivers and allowing for restoration?
And consequently, we can see the result all around us.
In just over two years of operations, we've found over 1,200 potential new planetary systems around other stars.
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