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My current work seems to resonate with people in a way that has so taken me by surprise that I still frequently wonder what in the hell is going on.
But it is, unlike cars, which have developed so rapidly and orderly, actually the school system is recognizably an inheritance from the 19th century, from a Bismarkian model of German schooling that got taken up by English reformers, and often by religious missionaries, taken up in the United States as a force of social cohesion, and then in Japan and South Korea as they developed.
And then I came across a team at Harvard University that had taken one such advanced medical technology and finally applied it, instead of in brain research, towards diagnosing brain disorders in children.
It's been so successful, they've now taken over the strip across the street.
We've taken them out of their natural pyramid in order to solve this problem.
As we move out, the light from these distant galaxies have taken so long, we're essentially backing up into the past.
And the only part which is natural is a number, the roughness of the cloud, which is taken from nature.
These two curves are averages: Standard & Poor, the blue one; and the red one is Standard & Poor's from which the five biggest discontinuities are taken out.
And there's a very strong message in there that when you start abusing your stone, you get taken advantage of by people who will exploit your powers, okay.
Seconds after this video was taken, people in Beijing, people in Sydney, people in Amsterdam, people in Washington D.C. were watching this.
So anyone coming along later simply accesses the database and can draw down the information they need about anything that has taken place.
As those of you who've taken currencies home from your trip know, once you get home, it's actually pretty useless.
So when John and his colleagues got these first precious deep-sea pristine samples, they put them under the microscope, and they saw images that looked pretty much like this, which is actually taken from a more recent expedition by my PhD student, Joy Buongiorno.
This photo was taken two weeks ago.
And I've taken him to playgrounds all over the United States.
How much of this diagram do you think might be taken up by the debt that Africa owes to the West?
I've taken them to the Sea of Japan, where they met giant jellyfish.
I've taken them camping in the kelp forests of California.
And you've taken all this complexity and beauty, and you've turned it into a cheap commodity.
The reason I've taken this time is I've been fascinated to hear some of the reactions to this.
TD: So, since we've been here this week, we've taken millions of breaths, collectively, and perhaps we haven't witnessed any course changes happening in our lives, but we often miss the very subtle changes.
And what drove him to spend the hundreds of hours of practice this must have taken?
In fact, my colleague, June Cohen, has taken to calling it "radical openness," because it works for us each time.
And so we need to do more, we need to do it differently, we need to do it in ways that are affordable and accessible and can be taken to scale, which means it can be done everywhere.
The contemporary world was literally built by men who have rarely taken the time to understand how people unlike them experience their designs.
So my team has taken five days-worth of growth, a typical growth cycle for us, and condensed it into a 15-second time lapse.
We've actually taken a sliver of the ocean, put it behind glass, and we together have put bluefin tuna and yellowfin tuna on display.
From Morocco to Lesotho, young people are rising up against entrenched monarchies: in Egypt and Sudan, against brutal dictatorships; in Uganda and Ethiopia, against powerful militarized states with quasi-democratic veneers; in South Africa, where this image was taken, and Burundi, against democratically elected leaders who have done little to improve the conditions for ordinary people.
And the person who didn't, it turned out, had just moved to a new city and taken on a new job.
It was really humbling to see for the first time, to really understand that even if I could have taken a magic wand and fixed everything, I probably would have gotten a lot wrong.
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