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You have a relatively economically efficient solution, but one that actually meets with public approval and even a small degree of affection, rather than being seen as bastardy.

I always used to end my early TED Talks with a rather horrifying line, which is, "We have a challenge.

I think this is a matter of a globally tragic, astoundingly ridiculous mistake, rather than a wave of evil.

And so we started focusing on the smell of feet ... on the smell of human feet, until we came across a remarkable statement in the literature that said that cheese smells after feet rather than the reverse.

And it doesn't mean that we think things will magically turn out okay, but rather that we have the unique ability to make it so.

And that's because today we can see what's inside of the brain, rather than just looking at its overall shape.

And very quickly Cajal realized that neurons don't operate alone, but rather make connections with others that form circuits just like in a computer.

Today, a century later, when researchers want to visualize neurons, they light them up from the inside rather than darkening them.

Now sometimes neuroscientists need to identify individual molecular components of neurons, molecules, rather than the entire cell.

We can also train judges so that they find flexibilities in the law and so that they rule on the side of tolerance rather than prejudice.

So, as I say before the last piece, feel not as though it is a sphere we live on, rather an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin.

So, rather than have it fight or do industrial work, we decided to build a planter, put the robot into the center of it, and we called it the Telegarden.

So, because we were interested more in the system design and the user interface than in the hardware, we decided that, rather than have a robot replace the human to go to the party, we'd have a human replace the robot.

I started getting very interested in Maria Montessori and her methods, and the way she went about things, and the way she thought it very valuable for kids to discover things on their own rather than being taught these things overtly.

And if you look at this photograph carefully, the bottom half of this is rather brown.

And it'll come out dark but red, and then you can start to read it rather clearly.

That's part of the design principle that you, rather than just inventing ever bigger rockets, you team them up.

So rather than viewing their former regimes as generous if overprotective fathers, they viewed them as essentially prison wardens.

In fact, we don't know about any life beyond Earth, but I'm going to suggest to you that that's going to change rather soon, and part of the reason, in fact, the majority of the reason why I think that's going to change is that the equipment's getting better.

There's plenty of real estate, plenty of real estate in the universe, and if we're the only bit of real estate in which there's some interesting occupants, that makes you a miracle, and I know you like to think you're a miracle, but if you do science, you learn rather quickly that every time you think you're a miracle, you're wrong, so probably not the case.

And my job is to look at lots of different species of animals and try to figure out how their tissues and organs work when everything's going right, rather than trying to figure out how to fix things when they go wrong, like so many of you.

And unlike the juicy salif, it does not threaten to attach itself to your brain, rather, it simply attaches itself to your brain.

From the first days and weeks of life, babies prefer to hear human sounds, rather than just sounds in the environment.

They prefer to look at people rather than at things, and even as they're looking at people, they look at people's eyes, because the eye is the window to the other person's experiences, so much so that they even prefer to look at people who are looking at them rather than people who are looking away.

Because after all, they learn about the world almost, like, about it, rather than learning how to function in it.

If we know what it takes to have a healthcare system rather than a sick-care system, why don't we just do it?

And as they wrote and debated, rather than seeing the films as artifacts, they began to see themselves.

And so that's what I proceeded to do, through a long story, one of desperation, so if I do it, rather than talk about it, if I do it, you'll be the first to know.

And yet, at the same time that we continue to execute about the same number of people every year, the number of people who we're sentencing to death on an annual basis has dropped rather steeply.

What has happened instead is that juries have started to sentence more and more people to prison for the rest of their lives without the possibility of parole, rather than sending them to the execution chamber.

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