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The American dream of individual land ownership turned out to be a very clever way to divide the reservation until nothing was left.
I thought I was very clever.
It turns out we're a pretty clever species.
I'm going to get vacuums and furnaces and drag stuff out of the ground and get things hot and poison and pollute ... But I got this hard thing!" (Laughter) "I'm so clever!"
You're so clever, but you're not as clever as a clam.
That's the experience of a clever ride.
Now the really clever bit is what they did with the cardboard waste.
And so they were very clever about the way that they packaged car-sharing.
This one's clever.
It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.
A funnel plot is a very clever way of spotting if small negative trials have disappeared, have gone missing in action.
We worry more about how we're judged and seen by others, whether we're regarded as attractive, clever, all that kind of thing.
And though young people from the Arab world were pretty successful in bringing down three dictators, shaking the region, kind of persuading the clever kings from Jordan and Morocco to do substantial reforms, it is yet to be seen what will be the outcome.
Roger and his team were working on a way to detect cancer, and they had a very clever molecule that they had come up with.
OK? (Applause) And I'm going to challenge the women to come up with really clever, creative ways of getting guys into the gardens, too.
We're going to watch Elizabeth Gilbert five times because what she says is so clever," you'd feel cheated.
Beethoven was a very clever entrepreneur.
Pretty clever, right?
So it means that you can actually embed pretty clever algorithms and lots of other kinds of extendable ideas into really simple devices.
It's about how our brain is tricked into seeing a persistence of vision that creates a motion picture, and one of the things I had to do is, we — Sasha Baron Cohen is a very clever, very smart guy, comedian, wanted to basically do an homage to the kind of the Buster Keaton sort of slapstick things, and he wanted his leg brace to get caught on a moving train.
It certainly is not clever, and it's not original.
He's a clever chap, so he knows that when he hits the cue ball, he could write you an equation and tell you exactly where the red ball is going to hit the sides, how fast it's going and where it's going to end up.
Perhaps most clever of all, though, and least obvious, by flipping the data on its head, the researchers were able to deeply explore the coordination networks in Syria that were ultimately responsible for receiving and transporting the foreign fighters to the border.
Now this particular transformation did not change the area of the original figure, so a six-year-old who plays with this has just discovered a clever algorithm to compute the area of any given parallelogram.
New York City is incredibly vulnerable to storms, as you can see from this clever sign, and to sea level rise, and to storm surge, as you can see from the subway flooding.
I thought it was very clever.
Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.
And it turns out that the insects flap their wings in a very clever way, at a very high angle of attack that creates a structure at the leading edge of the wing, a little tornado-like structure called a leading edge vortex, and it's that vortex that actually enables the wings to make enough force for the animal to stay in the air.
What's clever is the way the fly flaps it, which of course ultimately is controlled by the nervous system, and this is what enables flies to perform these remarkable aerial maneuvers.
So at least you'll admit that if fruit flies are not as clever as mice, they're at least as clever as pigeons.
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