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I think that was a pretty good indication about my future career as an investigative journalist, and what I've seen from being in this access to information
field
for so long is that it used to be quite a niche interest, and it's gone mainstream.
In my own
field
of investigative journalism, we're also having to start thinking globally, so this is a site called Investigative Dashboard.
So right now, in my lab, we're combining state-of-the-art bat
field
biology, going out and catching the long-lived bats, with the most up-to-date, modern molecular technology to understand better what it is that they do to stop aging as we do.
The major thing that inspired me, that led me on this path, that made me a filmmaker eventually, was traveling folk theater that would come through the town and I would go off and see these great battles of good and evil by two people in a school
field
with no props but with a lot of, you know, passion, and hashish as well, and it was amazing.
So because we tested it with wheelchair users, with wheelchair manufacturers, we got that feedback from them, not just articulating their problems, but articulating their solutions, and worked together to go back to the drawing board and make a new design, which we brought back to East Africa in '09 that worked a lot better than a normal wheelchair on rough terrain, but it still didn't work well indoors because it was too big, it was heavy, it was hard to move around, so again with that user feedback, we went back to the drawing board, came up with a better design, 20 pounds lighter, as narrow as a regular wheelchair, tested that in a
field
trial in Guatemala, and that advanced the product to the point where we have now that it's going into production.
Now what's powerful about this model is when you bring together all these stakeholders that represent each link in the chain from inception of an idea all the way to implementation in the field, that's where the magic happens.
And this picture was taken in India in our last
field
trial, where we had a 90-percent adoption rate where people switched to using our Leveraged Freedom Chair over their normal wheelchair, and this picture specifically is of Ashok, and Ashok had a spinal injury when he fell out of a tree, and he had been working at a tailor, but once he was injured he wasn't able to transport himself from his house over a kilometer to his shop in his normal wheelchair.
I've cracked stages in Soweto, buried abortion babies in potter's
field
and still managed to keep a smile on my face, so whatever you curse at me to your caddyshack go-for-this, go-for-that assistant when I walk out that door, whatever slander you send my way, your mother.
Well, this is another trend in the
field.
By combining tissue engineering techniques with microfluidics, the
field
is actually evolving towards just that, a model of the entire ecosystem of the body, complete with multiple organ systems to be able to test how a drug you might take for your blood pressure might affect your liver or an antidepressant might affect your heart.
Now I don't just mean in the
field
of daft macho Edwardian style derring-do, but also in the fields of pancreatic cancer, there is something addictive about this, and in my case, I think polar expeditions are perhaps not that far removed from having a crack habit.
So we've done
field
trials now in the Cayman Islands, a small one in Malaysia, and two more now in Brazil.
I'm talking instead about threats that are headed our way, but they're wrapped in a special energy
field
that polarizes us, and therefore paralyzes us.
It's as though you're moving an electrical wire through a magnetic
field
that generates current.
They could rearrange themselves, form bipartisan committees, but as the moral electromagnet got cranked up, the force
field
increased, Democrats and Republicans were pulled apart.
So we have this
field
of science that's all about slime and color changes.
Radical openness is still a distant future in the
field
of school education.
But I want to tell you the story of PISA, OECD's test to measure the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds around the world, and it's really a story of how international comparisons have globalized the
field
of education that we usually treat as an affair of domestic policy.
They took up the challenge, and Korea was able to double the proportion of students achieving excellence in one decade in the
field
of reading.
We have an electromagnetic
field
around the Earth, and it's constantly bombarded by high-energy particles, like protons.
This is an amazingly unregulated
field.
Number five, one of my favorites: reversal of the Earth's magnetic
field.
Scientists think now our magnetic
field
may be diminished by about five percent.
So far, our atmosphere has done, and our magnetic
field
has done pretty well protecting us from this.
Now, many brilliant economists have spent their entire lives working on this question, and as a
field
we've made a tremendous amount of headway and we understand a lot about this.
We started with a superstar monkey called Aurora that became one of the superstars of this
field.
When I saw that graph I knew there is a way to level the playing
field.
But that could just be because the submersible has a wider
field
of view.
But I also felt like I saw more animals working with the Tiburon than the Ventana, two vehicles with the same
field
of view but different propulsion systems.
So imagine how something like this could help revolutionize your
field
of work.
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