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The superconducting layer, instead of being half a micron thin, being two millimeters thin, quite thin.
So here's my special mission for this talk: I'm going to try to increase the life span of every single person in this room by seven and a half minutes.
Literally, you will live seven and a half minutes longer than you would have otherwise, just because you watched this talk.
Your mission is to figure out how you want to spend your extra seven and a half minutes.
Congratulations, those seven and a half minutes are all yours.
These seven and a half bonus minutes are kind of like genie's wishes.
So, if you spend these seven and a half minutes today doing something that makes you happy, or that gets you physically active, or puts you in touch with someone you care about, or even just tackling a tiny challenge, you're going to boost your resilience, so you're going to earn more minutes.
So what I'm going to do just for one and a half minutes or so is I'm going to take that concept, I'm going to make something, and the dancers behind me are going to interpret it, they're going to snapshot it, they're going to take aspects of it, and it's almost like I'm offloading memory and they're holding onto memory?
Only a little over half of recent college graduates in the United States who get a higher education actually are working in jobs that require that education.
So in a lecture-based class, half the students are above that level and half are below.
Half his battalion was wiped out in the sandstorm.
In half a century of trying to help prevent wars, there's one question that never leaves me: How do we deal with extreme violence without using force in return?
The World Health Organization estimates that half of all global hearing loss can be prevented.
It turns out half of those kids, or about 1.8 million newborns around the world, would make it if you could just keep them warm for the first three days, maybe the first week.
And there I was, lying there in this tiny space, hot, dark, claustrophobic, matchbox-sized, behind my eyes, but it was really weird, like, after this went on for days, weeks, months, that space would get bigger and darker and cooler until I really looked forward to that half an hour of enforced immobility and rest, and I really looked forward to going to that place of darkness.
It's two and a half inches thick, concrete with a void interior.
And being able to look at you as much as you're looking at me is actually only half of the reason I made this.
The other half is being able to do this.
I know that about half of you in the audience are probably like, "Building useless machines is really fun, but how is this in any way or form a business?"
So here we are, flying into the sunset of mass consumerism over half a century on, with economies that have come to expect, demand and depend upon unending growth, because we're financially, politically and socially addicted to it.
More than half the people now in the world live in cities, and that will just continue to escalate.
Now that doesn't mean they only get half their education, but it does mean they have to work very hard to join the dots and understand what's going on.
Two and a half thousand pounds.
And this is really important in the MBA classroom, because participation counts for half the grade.
Acumen's been working with ABE for the past year, year and a half, both on looking at a new business plan, and what does expansion look like, helping with management support and helping to do term sheets and raise capital.
I actually learned the other day that 12 and a half thousand loads of laundry have been cleaned and folded through TaskRabbit.
This site receives five and a half thousand questions a day, and 80 percent of these receive accurate answers.
There are about three and a half million people who drive trucks for a living in the United States; I think some of them are going to be affected by this technology.
Half of these trials were positive, half of them were negative, in reality.
About half of all trials, on average, go missing in action, and we know that positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings.
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