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DJ: Okay, so she was a little bit rough.
CB: All right, so Leo and Cookie might have gotten off to a little bit of a rough start, but they get along great now.
And it's too cerebral to animate guts and hearts and behavior when the going gets rough.
And the going is pretty rough right now.
I was running away from home, sleeping rough on the streets in London.
I grew up in a rough, poor neighborhood, but it didn't really matter to me as kid because I literally have the most incredible family in the world.
What we do here is — actually it should be called a death lab, 'cause we try to kill the seedlings, make them rough — and then we come to the GreenLab.
I can give you a very sort of rough metaphor for this.
You know, I had a real rough time in school with ADD, and I have a PhD.
We polish the rough edges of our lives so that they feel whole.
There's 40 million people who need a wheelchair but don't have one, and the majority of these people live in rural areas, where the only connections to community, to employment, to education, are by traveling long distances on rough terrain often under their own power.
Now when you're talking about trying to travel long distances on rough terrain, I immediately thought of a mountain bike, and a mountain bike's good at doing this because it has a gear train, and you can shift to a low gear if you have to climb a hill or go through mud or sand and you get a lot of torque but a low speed.
Again, the key innovation of this technology is that when he wants to go fast, he just grabs the levers near the pivots and goes through a big angle every stroke, and as the going gets tougher, he just slides his hands up the levers, creates more torque, and kind of bench-presses his way out of trouble through the rough terrain.
So because we tested it with wheelchair users, with wheelchair manufacturers, we got that feedback from them, not just articulating their problems, but articulating their solutions, and worked together to go back to the drawing board and make a new design, which we brought back to East Africa in '09 that worked a lot better than a normal wheelchair on rough terrain, but it still didn't work well indoors because it was too big, it was heavy, it was hard to move around, so again with that user feedback, we went back to the drawing board, came up with a better design, 20 pounds lighter, as narrow as a regular wheelchair, tested that in a field trial in Guatemala, and that advanced the product to the point where we have now that it's going into production.
It's also about 40 percent more efficient than a regular wheelchair, and because of the mechanical advantage you get from the levers, you can produce 50 percent higher torque and really muscle your way through the really, really rough terrain.
The road was too rough.
Some rough research suggests this could unlock around 100 million pounds' worth a day of new economic activity in a country the size of the U.K. Does that sound improbable to you?
By the time we get there, every place with a rough semblance of governance might actually be on their way.
My rough calculation is it would be about 25 miles thick.
Well, the surface of the spray coating is actually filled with nanoparticles that form a very rough and craggly surface.
And we had a rough go of it.
This graph gives you a rough idea of where we are today.
But as they started to pour the water, the light changed from showing you the black-clad stagehands to focusing, this rough magic that we do in theater, it focused right on the water itself.
And we had the rough, recycled toilet paper.
So this is a very rough attempt to think out loud.
So this is the main idea, but science is a rough draft.
Now, you might have noticed something else about the animals when they were running over the rough terrain.
The crabs are missing spines, so they have a problem in this kind of rough terrain.
For rough surfaces, though, animals add claws.
The NSA was previously asked by Congress, was there any ability that they had to even give a rough ballpark estimate of the amount of American communications that were being intercepted.
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