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There are 146 top players in the core, and they together have the potential to collectively control 40 percent of the TNCs' value.
We have lost 25 percent of the unique species in Hawaii in the last 20 years.
California is expected to lose 25 percent of its species in the next 40 years.
Scientists think now our magnetic field may be diminished by about five percent.
In studying stars like our Sun, we've found that they go through periods of diminishment, when their total amount of energy that's expelled from them goes down by maybe one percent.
One percent doesn't sound like a lot, but it would cause one hell of an ice age here.
But it's going to take them 10 years, at spending three million dollars a year, and even then, they claim they'll only have about 80 percent of them catalogued.
And what you can see is that over the last 25 years, Greece has barely managed to save more than 10 percent of their GDP.
Yes, futureless language speakers, even after this level of control, are 30 percent more likely to report having saved in any given year.
Yes, by the time they retire, futureless language speakers, holding constant their income, are going to retire with 25 percent more in savings.
Futureless language speakers are 20 to 24 percent less likely to be smoking at any given point in time compared to identical families, and they're going to be 13 to 17 percent less likely to be obese by the time they retire, and they're going to report being 21 percent more likely to have used a condom in their last sexual encounter.
Well, while Aurora was playing this game, as you saw, and doing a thousand trials a day and getting 97 percent correct and 350 milliliters of orange juice, we are recording the brainstorms that are produced in her head and sending them to a robotic arm that was learning to reproduce the movements that Aurora was making.
So the 10 or 15 percent is pure mischief.
Eighty-three percent of projects failed.
I got an educational impossibility, zero to 30 percent in two months in the tropical heat with a computer under the tree in a language they didn't know doing something that's a decade ahead of their time.
Thirty percent is a fail.
The scores jumped to 50 percent.
And this is 100 percent synthetic.
So what if we decided to create a challenge to the governors of the country, and the price to entry into this competition used the same amount that the bipartisan group approved in Congress for the Race to the Top for education, 4.5 billion, which sounds like a lot, but actually it's less than one tenth of one percent of federal spending.
He wants Congress to adopt a clean energy standard of 80 percent by 2030, in other words, that you'd have to get 80 percent of your energy from clean sources by the year 2030.
We all have come from a long way, here in Africa, and converged in this region of Africa, which is a place where 90 percent of our evolutionary process took place.
And DNA analysis of living humans and chimpanzees teaches us today that we diverged sometime around seven million years ago and that these two species share over 98 percent of the same genetic material.
In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent.
And we did that by increasing the cattle and goats 400 percent, planning the grazing to mimic nature and integrate them with all the elephants, buffalo, giraffe and other animals that we have.
Ninety-five percent of that land can only feed people from animals.
I remind you that I am talking about most of the world's land here that controls our fate, including the most violent region of the world, where only animals can feed people from about 95 percent of the land.
Allan Savory: Well, we have done this for a long time, and the only time we have ever had to provide any feed is during mine reclamation, where it's 100 percent bare.
We've only explored about five percent of our ocean.
But it always leaves behind that 10 percent or more that is most disadvantaged or unlucky.
Why has poverty remained stuck at 12 percent of the U.S. population for 40 years?
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