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Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.

But we're giving them practice becoming independent, which of course is our ultimate goal.

Now we know that desertification is caused by livestock, mostly cattle, sheep and goats, overgrazing the plants, leaving the soil bare and giving off methane.

Outside, we'd have to rehearse running away, or learn to stay still like statues, giving no clues that we were there.

I want to talk about how the things we've been taught to think about giving and about charity and about the nonprofit sector, are actually undermining the causes we love, and our profound yearning to change the world.

Charitable giving has remained stuck in the U.S., at two percent of GDP, ever since we started measuring it in the 1970s.

I said that charitable giving is two percent of GDP in the United States.

But if we could move charitable giving from two percent of GDP, up just one step to three percent of GDP, by investing in that growth, that would be an extra 150 billion dollars a year in contributions, and if that money could go disproportionately to health and human services charities, because those were the ones we encouraged to invest in their growth, that would represent a tripling of contributions to that sector.

CA: Reed, you signed the Giving Pledge a few years ago, you're committed to giving away more than half of your fortune during your lifetime.

So the uninformed player's challenge is to say, "Is this guy really being fair or are they giving me a very low offer in order to get me to think that there's only one or two dollars available to split?" in which case they might reject it and not come to a deal.

So there's some tension here between trying to get the most money but trying to goad the other player into giving you more.

So this is like a management-labor negotiation in which the workers don't know how much profits the privately held company has, right, and they want to maybe hold out for more money, but the company might want to create the impression that there's very little to split: "I'm giving you the most that I can."

I remember giving three IVs, bandaging several wounded.

And most important, giving them a chance to build that community with faculty pulling them into the work and our assessing what works and what does not work.

We need to understand software as well as just giving someone hardware.

So I mean the kind of speech that you see someone giving in an old movie where they clear their throat, and they go, "Ahem, ladies and gentlemen," and then they speak in a certain way which has nothing to do with casual speech.

And because violent extremism isn't confined to any one language, religion or ideology, the Redirect Method is now being deployed globally to protect people being courted online by violent ideologues, whether they're Islamists, white supremacists or other violent extremists, with the goal of giving them the chance to hear from someone on the other side of that journey; to give them the chance to choose a different path.

But aside from giving away our poker bluffs, what if dimensions of data from someone's thermal response gave away a glow of interpersonal interest?

If you're ever on a bad first date, just reference this talk, and I don't think you'll have to worry about your potential suitor giving you another call.

In 1967, 13 years after he figured that out, he figured out something else, which is that the democratic circle was not complete by just giving the people the classics.

And you've never read a study from MIT that says giving your kid dance instruction is going to help them do algebra better, but you will give that kid dance instruction, and you will be thrilled that that kid wants to do dance instruction, and it will make your day.

They recognize that you can't improve education if you don't pick great people to teach and keep giving them constant support and professional development.

Best friends are great for giving rides to the airport, but twentysomethings who huddle together with like-minded peers limit who they know, what they know, how they think, how they speak, and where they work.

So I'm going to look at four questions that people ask that maybe stand in the way of them giving.

He's already earning enough so that he's giving a six-figure sum to effective charities and still leaving himself with enough to live on.

If you want to look for other recommendations, thelifeyoucansave.com and Giving What We Can both have a somewhat broader list, but you can find effective organizations, and not just in the area of saving lives from the poor.

I've enjoyed giving all of my life since I was a graduate student.

It looks at the territory of the United States as if it were a wheat field that is procured by the winds and that is really giving you a pictorial image of what's going on with the winds in the United States.

I thought that I couldn't come here without giving you something special.

It turned out that giving the planes to the museum was worth much more than the debt, so for five years, six years, I only had to pay one third income tax.

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