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So after some guided trial and error, the child will discover, with or without help, that he or she can duplicate the original figure and then take the result, transpose it, glue it to the original and then proceed [with] what we did before: cut, rearrange, paste — oops— paste and glue, and tile.

Now this transformation has doubled the area of the original figure, and therefore we have just learned that the area of the triangle equals the area of this rectangle divided by two.

There's something very different about it, something we should figure out what is good about how we did it, even in this new era.

But I would listen to people, hear their issues, draw in the sand, try to figure things out, and it was kind of hard to figure out what I was doing.

Now, capturing and correlating the trails of information that we leave in different places is a massive challenge, but one we're being asked to figure out.

There was a nude woman in the lower foreground, and on the hillside in the back, there was a figure of the mythological god Bacchus, and he said, "What is this?"

And whether it's in the expression of a Greek sculpture that reminds you of a friend, or a dog pooping in the corner of a tapestry, or, to bring it back to my tutor Pietro, those dancing figures who are indeed knocking back the wine, and that nude figure in the left foreground.

Say this to the confused teenager in your life who is just trying to figure out what, even, what?

And this caused me to scratch my head, because as I went back through his several-hundred-page book, I couldn't find a single figure, chart, table, reference or footnote.

They've dug a basement, and they've built a spy center to try and run algorithms and figure out which ones of us are troublesome, and if any of us complain about that, we're arrested for terrorism.

I started out by trying to figure out what romantic love was by looking at the last 45 years of the psychological research and as it turns out, there's a very specific group of things that happen when you fall in love.

It was consuming so much of our time after hours on weekends that we thought, we either need to close this down or figure a way to fund Movember so that I could quit my job and go and spend more time in the organization and take it to the next level.

It's really interesting when you try and figure a way to fund a fundraising organization built off growing mustaches.

You need to figure a way to bring this campaign across here and make it work."

So I'm an academic at MIT, and I'm a mechanical engineer, so I can do things like look at the type of terrain you want to travel on, and figure out how much resistance it should impose, look at the parts we have available and mix and match them to figure out what sort of gear trains we can use, and then look at the power and force you can get out of your upper body to analyze how fast you should be able to go in this chair as you put your arms up and down the levers.

You don't plan the details, and people will figure out what to do, how to adapt to this new framework.

Now, 20 percent, well, that's a fairly huge figure, you might think, but you've still got 80 percent left of the problem, right?

If we can understand this, then maybe we can figure out how people can be so happy with this.

Well, so we did this huge interview survey with lots of travel services, and tried to figure out who changed, and where did they go?

So we did another interview survey, tried to figure out why people changed their mind, and what type of group changed their minds?

But there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that, no rehabilitation at all in prison, no one to help them write a business plan, figure out a way to translate the business concepts they intuitively grasp into legal enterprises, no access to the Internet, even.

The best thing we can do is figure out ways to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons, because if we don't, they're not going to learn any new skills that's going to help them, and they'll be right back.

And the figure plummets down to less than one homicide per 100,000 people per year in seven or eight European countries.

They're helping us figure out what is the best angle to take and what is the stuff that they want to hear.

Way too much money, I just can't even go there, with lawyers, trying to figure out how this is different, who's responsible to whom, and the result was that we were able to provide owners protection for their own driving records and their own history.

So how'd they figure this out?

But that's not stopping us from trying to figure it out anyway.

When I was writing my first novel, "The Age Of Miracles," I spent months trying to figure out what would happen if the rotation of the Earth suddenly began to slow down.

Foreign policy, you can figure that out by watching, I don't know, Rachel Maddow or somebody, but — (Laughter) — I want to talk about young people and structure, young people and structure.

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