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We went from one percent to 90 percent of the speed of sound.
Electrification, central heat, ownership of motor cars, they all went from zero to 100 percent.
We went from 25 percent urban to 75 percent by the early postwar years.
What if the sky was 41 percent gray?
But 17 percent of tax preparers no longer have jobs.
Before our collaboration, they only had comments enabled on just 10 percent of their articles.
With the help of machine learning, they have that number up to 30 percent.
Things like breast cancer and colon cancer are directly tied to our lack of physical [activity], Ten percent in fact, on both of those.
Six percent for heart disease, seven percent for type 2 diabetes, which is what my father died of.
This is the thermodynamic cycle that produces electricity, and this makes this almost 50 percent efficient, between 45 and 50 percent efficiency.
That was eliminating 98 percent of the population from even considering going to it.
I was born on a farm, a farm that was more than 50 percent rainforest [still].
When I was a kid, it was more than 50 percent rainforest.
When we received the land, it was less than half a percent rainforest, as in all my region.
Our forest in Brazil, that antique forest that was the size of California, is destroyed today 93 percent.
And you tell me last year 48 percent of those kids were on grade level.
This year, somewhere between 44 and 52 percent of those kids will be on grade level.
Geoffrey Canada: Well, you know, John, 100 percent of our kids graduated high school last year in my school.
A hundred percent of them went to college.
This year's seniors will have 100 percent graduating high school.
Last I heard we had 93 percent accepted to college.
We'd better get that other seven percent.
The data is that over 60 percent of Americans spend most of their working careers in the state they were born in, over 60 percent.
And if we want to translate that from just billions of dollars to something that might mean something, what we're talking about is that, for the average low-income kid, that would increase earnings by about 10 percent over their whole career, just doing the preschool, not improving K-12 or anything else after that, not doing anything with college tuition or access, just directly improving preschool, and we would get five percent higher earnings for middle-class kids.
In some parts of the country, 60 percent of kids drop out of high school.
In the Native American communities, it's 80 percent of kids.
Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory.
Now that's a big number, but to put it in perspective, it's less than two percent of what we spend every year on teacher salaries.
For example, if, in that Bucky-inspired phrase, we draw back and we look at planet Earth, and we take a kind of typical, industrialized society, then the energy consumed would be split between the buildings, 44 percent, transport, 34 percent, and industry.
If you looked at the buildings together with the associated transport, in other words, the transport of people, which is 26 percent, then 70 percent of the energy consumption is influenced by the way that our cites and infrastructure work together.
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