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If you take all the nuclear waste we've ever made in the United States, put it on a football field, stacked it up, it would only reach 20 feet high.
Like many urban schools with high poverty rates, we face numerous challenges, like finding teachers who can empathize with the complexities of a disadvantaged community, lack of funding for technology, low parental involvement and neighborhood gangs that recruit children as early as fourth grade.
This is nearly 200 children, who are now going to some of the most competitive high schools in New York City.
And there are high demands within an education system that is not perfect.
And one of the things we've learned, unfortunately, is that upward mobility isn't as high as we'd like it to be in this country, and interestingly, it's very geographically distributed.
They're more likely to do drugs, more likely to go to jail, more likely to drop out of high school, and most importantly, they're more likely to do to their children what their parents did to them.
I graduated from high school, from college, I went to law school, and I have a pretty good job now.
Other countries, in which you've got a lot of waterborne transmission, there you expect these organisms to evolve towards a high level of harmfulness, right?
If you've got a harmful organism, a high proportion of the people are going to be symptomatic, a high proportion of the people are going to be going to get antibiotics.
And we know that, although it's great to make those anti-malarial drugs available at really low cost and high frequency, we know that when you make them highly available you're going to get resistance to those drugs.
People very expressive of the testosterone system tend to be analytical, logical, direct, decisive, and they go for their opposite: they go for somebody who's high estrogen, somebody who's got very good verbal skills and people skills, who's very intuitive and who's very nurturing and emotionally expressive.
It has been shown that if you are a speaker of one of those languages and you happen to be asked how you would imagine a table talking, then much more often than could possibly be an accident, a French or a Spanish speaker says that the table would talk with a high and feminine voice.
At this moment, we gave ourselves a big mental high five.
Such a system would have been trained on previous employees' data and instructed to find and hire people like the existing high performers in the company.
They have predictive power with high levels of accuracy.
So at this human resources managers conference, I approached a high-level manager in a very large company, and I said to her, "Look, what if, unbeknownst to you, your system is weeding out people with high future likelihood of depression?
But the algorithm scored her as high risk, and not him.
(Rhythm gets gradually faster) (High pitch) (Lowering pitch) (Slow Rhythm) So once a rhythm starts happening more than about 20 times per second, your brain flips.
But it also has high costs: it consumes huge amounts of energy and limits body size and weight.
It's a country with high levels of illiteracy, and the thing about that was, it was in 2005, and we organized two elections on the same day.
We had so many people who had never, of course, voted, but we had extremely, extremely high levels of illiteracy, very, very poor infrastructure.
(Water splashes at lower octave) And then they removed a lot of the high frequencies.
I also receive smiles from strangers who recognize what it takes to walk down the street with a spring in your step and your head held high.
It dominates the high end of the market.
I propose that we implement restorative justice in every high school in America.
We placed high value on it.
William went on to finish high school, get his security guard certificate to become a security guard, and is now working at a local school district.
And that's a big deal for a profession that's in high demand.
I took a lot of support from others in doing this, and I made the decision to go high when others went low, and that's partly how I kept my energy going throughout all of this.
I design engineering projects for middle school and high school students, often using materials that are pretty unexpected.
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