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A lot of the time, what they are expressing is not illness, but insight, and one comes to think what's really extraordinary is that most of us know about those existential questions and they don't distract us very much.
And from that, you can do things like reconstructing this extraordinary journey of that city that managed to have a sustainable development over a thousand years, managing to have all the time a form of equilibrium with its environment.
Again, Venice is extraordinary for that.
Those extraordinary elephants with their little, sort of strange, sinister expressions and Greta Garbo eyelashes, with these golden tusks and so on.
It has an extraordinary lightness and yet, it is also amazing balanced.
In London, for example, with these extraordinary buildings that have been appearing over the last few years.
And one of them is the extraordinary social complexity of the animals around us, and today I want to tell you a few stories of animal complexity.
And so step one on this journey is we organized, and we created this extraordinary underground network of amazing women who opened shelters, and if they didn't open a shelter, they opened their home so that women and children could be safe.
We had bake sales, we had car washes, and we did everything we could do to fundraise, and then at one point we said, you know, it's time that we went to the federal government and asked them to pay for these extraordinary services that are saving people's lives.
The one thing about this is it gives us extraordinary leverage.
And when these four cells work together in health and harmony, they create an extraordinary symphony of electrical activity, and it is this electrical activity that underpins our ability to think, to emote, to remember, to learn, move, feel and so on.
And human stem cells are these extraordinary but simple cells that can do two things: they can self-renew or make more of themselves, but they can also become specialized to make bone, liver or, crucially, nerve cells, maybe even the motor nerve cell or the myelin cell.
We're just beginning to understand what exact function these cells have, but what it implies is that the brain is capable of extraordinary change way into adulthood.
We know that the brain is capable of extraordinary change, and the best way to achieve that, even in adults, is to change and modulate our environment.
We biologically inspired this robot, named RHex, built by these extraordinary engineers over the last few years.
Mark Cutkosky at Stanford University, one of my collaborators, is an extraordinary engineer who developed this technique called Shape Deposition Manufacturing, where he can imbed claws right into an artificial foot.
It's extraordinary to me that in this day and age, one of the most mature, oldest technologies in the human timeline, the shoe, still gives us blisters.
Bionics also allows for extraordinary athletic feats.
It was about six weeks before I gave my TED Talk, and I was so grateful to Chris that he asked me to give this TED Talk, not because I had the chance to talk to you, although that was great, but because it pulled me out of an extraordinary depression.
We are on the threshold of extraordinary advances, born of our drive to unveil the mysteries of life.
Though stunting vocal growth can produce an extraordinary musical range, naturally developing voices are already capable of incredible variety.
And they can do this in part because they have extraordinary exoskeletons.
But then, something extraordinary happened: the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions.
A lot of us are not aware of the extraordinary successes of the Millennium Development Goals, several of which have achieved their targets long before the due date.
That proves that this species of humanity is capable of achieving extraordinary progress if it really acts together and it really tries hard.
Somehow, the family survives for 16 months, and then, by extraordinary luck, and the passionate heart of a young American man, Sasha Chanoff, who manages to put her in a U.S. rescue plane, Rose Mapendo and her nine children end up in Phoenix, Arizona, where they're now living and thriving.
1976, Air France was hijacked, taken to Entebbe, and the Israelis not only did an extraordinary rescue, they did it partly because they had practiced on a physical model of the airport, because they had built the airport, so they built a model in the desert, and when they arrived at Entebbe, they knew where to go because they had actually been there.
Ordinary women who did extraordinary things with the greatest of their courage, wisdom and humility.
And I realized, in this moment of revelation, that what these two men were revealing was the secret of their extraordinary success, each in his own right.
I'll try to use an approach that's slightly materialistic, but it also attempts to convey that, in nature, there is extraordinary philosophy and harmony.
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