Letters
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Those are the
letters
of genetic code, the 25,000 genes you've got written in your DNA.
In fact, every living creature is written in exactly the same set of
letters
and the same code.
spelled out in block
letters.
But in a more objective sense, it's really just this random jumble of
letters
that I've confined to the single possibility of making my name.
So naturally, I wondered: What else can these
letters
spell?
letters, I'm sure you'll agree.
Two letters, an L and an O, now a worldwide force.
Shukran! (Applause) What I'm going to do is to just give a few notes, and this is from a book I'm preparing called
"Letters
to a Young Scientist."
"The Grey Album" becomes an immediate sensation online, and the Beatles' record company sends out countless cease-and-desist
letters
for "unfair competition and dilution of our valuable property."
This long string of numbers and
letters
here is a unique identifier tied to every single change, but without any central coordination.
Voice: In language, infinitely many words can be written with a small set of
letters.
(Typing noises) This is, like, a ring of
letters.
It's a visual construct of lines, dots, letters, designed in the language of our brains.
I wrote those same kinds of
letters
that my mother had written me for strangers, and tucked them all throughout the city, dozens and dozens of them.
I blogged about those
letters
and the days when they were necessary, and I posed a kind of crazy promise to the Internet: that if you asked me for a hand-written letter, I would write you one, no questions asked.
Well, today I fuel a global organization that is fueled by those trips to the mailbox, fueled by the ways in which we can harness social media like never before to write and mail strangers
letters
when they need them most, but most of all, fueled by crates of mail like this one, my trusty mail crate, filled with the scriptings of ordinary people, strangers writing
letters
to other strangers not because they're ever going to meet and laugh over a cup of coffee, but because they have found one another by way of letter-writing.
But, you know, the thing that always gets me about these
letters
is that most of them have been written by people that have never known themselves loved on a piece of paper.
They could not tell you about the ink of their own love
letters.
And so I could tell you about a woman whose husband has just come home from Afghanistan, and she is having a hard time unearthing this thing called conversation, and so she tucks love
letters
throughout the house as a way to say, "Come back to me.
Or a girl who decides that she is going to leave love
letters
around her campus in Dubuque, Iowa, only to find her efforts ripple-effected the next day when she walks out onto the quad and finds love
letters
hanging from the trees, tucked in the bushes and the benches.
Well, tonight he sleeps safely with a stack of
letters
just like this one tucked beneath his pillow, scripted by strangers who were there for him when.
We still clutch close these
letters
to our chest, to the words that speak louder than loud, when we turn pages into palettes to say the things that we have needed to say, the words that we have needed to write, to sisters and brothers and even to strangers, for far too long.
Another one was an interactive project where, when you moved the mouse over the
letters
of "Happy Mom Day," it reveals a special happy Mother's Day slogan.
It looks like lines and
letters
... No meaning to most people.
So we lay epinephrine flat on a page, and then we replace all the spheres with simple letters, and then the bonds that lie in the plane of the page, they just become regular lines, and the bonds that point forwards and backwards, they become little triangles, either solid or dashed to indicate depth.
Well, one way to go faster is to take advantage of technology, and a very important technology that we depend on for all of this is the human genome, the ability to be able to look at a chromosome, to unzip it, to pull out all the DNA, and to be able to then read out the
letters
in that DNA code, the A's, C's, G's and T's that are our instruction book and the instruction book for all living things, and the cost of doing this, which used to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, has in the course of the last 10 years fallen faster than Moore's Law, down to the point where it is less than 10,000 dollars today to have your genome sequenced, or mine, and we're headed for the $1,000 genome fairly soon.
We took a sheet of paper with random letters, and we asked people to find pairs of
letters
that were identical next to each other.
In the first condition, people wrote their name on the sheet, found all the pairs of letters, gave it to the experimenter, the experimenter would look at it, scan it from top to bottom, say "Uh huh," and put it on the pile next to them.
A single strand dipped in water that completely self-folds on its own into the
letters
M I T. I'm biased.
If you can imagine computer programmers with the
letters "
W-A-T-S-O-N" written on their gut, it's an unpleasant sight.
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