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The smell of a room of teenagers is quite different from the smell of a room of small children.
It kind of is like a résumé review, which is why these guys looked great on paper and never quite fit me.
Deciphering an image like that takes quite a bit of an intellectual effort.
The outcome of that crash could have been a quite different Earth-Moon system.
No, it matters quite a bit, and I'll give you an example of why.
It's mysterious because it's probably unfinished, he probably left it unfinished, and because it might be meant for a character in a play, but it might just be Keats' thinking about what his own writing, his handwriting, could do, and in it I hear, at least I hear, mortality, and I hear the power of older poetic techniques, and I have the feeling, you might have the feeling, of meeting even for an instant, almost becoming, someone else from long ago, someone quite memorable.
I use the term "disabled people" quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses.
I'm quite fond of it.
It stands guard at the boundary between the known and the unknown, because in order to discover something truly new, at least one of your basic assumptions has to change, and that means that in science, we do something quite heroic.
Now, I'm not boasting, because all of you have famous people and historical figures in your tree, because we are all connected, and 75 million may seem like a lot, but in a few years, it's quite likely we will have a family tree with all, almost all, seven billion people on Earth.
What is striking about this is that there's actually often quite a lot of overlap between their list and the list that we are considering for words of the year, and this is because we're noticing the same thing.
Fear of being an unemployed philosopher led me to become a lawyer, and as I discovered, lawyering didn't quite fit.
And quite soon after I moved there, I ended up where I still am with my wife, formerly our kids, in a two-room apartment in the middle of nowhere where we have no bicycle, no car, no TV I can understand, and I still have to support my loved ones as a travel writer and a journalist, so clearly this is not ideal for job advancement or for cultural excitement or for social diversion.
Quite amazing, quite amazing.
So this afternoon, in my limited time, I wanted to take the guesswork out of a lot of that by introducing you to two dogs, both of whom have taken the command "speak" quite literally.
Today we would draw the picture more like this, this comes from NASA, and you see the Earth's orbit is actually quite small.
It's quite hard to persuade the scientific community to say, "Yes, we know something, this is true."
People who speak all on one note are really quite hard to listen to if they don't have any prosody at all.
Unfortunately for me, I didn't know quite what I was looking for.
I didn't know quite what it would look like, which makes finding it really, really hard.
It seemed to be about right, but I couldn't quite tell.
They pretend, they behave, as if they believed that every country was an island that existed quite happily, independently of all the others on its own little planet in its own little solar system.
Oh sure, we're very good at empathy when it's a question of dealing with people who kind of look like us and kind of walk and talk and eat and pray and wear like us, but when it comes to people who don't do that, who don't quite dress like us and don't quite pray like us and don't quite talk like us, do we not also have a tendency to see them ever so slightly as cardboard cutouts too?
And this is where I discovered something quite important.
This is quite an important discovery, and as soon as I discovered this, I felt another index coming on.
All men are created equal, we have an inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and I couldn't quite make that fit with what I knew to be my childhood imprisonment.
Imagine seeing your life, 30 years of it, go by, and it was, to say the least, for me, quite a shocking experience.
But there are a couple of things about that period and about what happened that are really quite important.
So I say this a little bit with having felt that I'd been there a number of times, and one of the things that is most quoted that I've ever said is that computing is not about computers, and that didn't quite get enough traction, and then it started to.
This isn't quite as far-fetched, so 30 years from now.
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