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Benjamin Bloom had showed that one-on-one tutoring works best, so that's what we tried to emulate, like with me and my mom, even though we knew it would be one-on-thousands.

Well, we tried some old ideas and some new and put them together, but there are more ideas to try.

I've tried to study all kinds of organizations to understand what the future might look like, but I've been studying nature recently.

We just took a simple sailing boat and we tried to pull something long and heavy, but as we tacked back and forth, what we lost was two things: we were losing pulling power and direction.

We tried in the water without any skin or ballast just to see how it works.

So, we tried it.

And I'd like to show you a quick little video about the informal sector, about the boat-building that I, myself, tried to mobilize Africans in the Diaspora to invest in.

We went and scavenged the nearby markets, and we tried to understand, "What can we pick up that will make this happen?"

So let's not forget that it's taken a lot to build this, including all those things that we tried to do in Nigeria that Dele referred to.

We tried everything.

So I conjured up an effect that I'm later going to show you what I tried to do, which is kind of the heart of the movie, for me, and so that's why I wanted to do the movie, that's why I wanted to create the sort of things I created.

I was lucky 10 years ago, when I sat down and I tried to work out what I could do to make a difference in this world.

And I tried, and I made it.

We've tried to build in retrieval practice into the platform, as well as other forms of practice in many ways.

So we tried to convince, for example, some of our humanities faculty that multiple choice was not such a bad strategy.

It was tried only in small classes, but there it showed, for example, that these student-assigned grades on the y-axis are actually very well correlated with the teacher-assigned grade on the x-axis.

We tried to answer this simple question: Can you find a unifying language that cuts across age and income and culture that will help people themselves find a new way of living, see spaces around them differently, think about the resources they use differently, interact differently?

Second, we took that lesson and tried to push it into our next project.

We tried, this time, to get it right.

And for some reason, in Cameroon, when they tried to translate the Bible into Cameroonian patois, they chose the Igbo version.

So over the past few years, I've tried ways to share more with my neighbors in public space, using simple tools like stickers, stencils and chalk.

"Before I die, I want to be tried for piracy."

And while I tried my very, very best, I was never able to persuade them to get one.

And in fact, we know that that's true, because several different groups of research scientists tried to replicate the findings of this precognition study, and when they submitted it to the exact same journal, the journal said, "No, we're not interested in publishing replication.

So in March, 2012, just one month ago, some researchers reported in the journal Nature how they had tried to replicate 53 different basic science studies looking at potential treatment targets in cancer, and out of those 53 studies, they were only able to successfully replicate six.

And when they tried to get a hold of the clinical study reports, the 10,000-page long documents that have the best possible rendition of the information, they were told they weren't allowed to have them.

So when I stepped off the boat 12 years ago, I tried to make sense of that.

So I tried to make sense, and when I arrived, I was looking for some information leaflets that would help me crack this system and understand it, and I found those brochures.

And as long as we've looked for explanations, we've wound up with something that gets closer and closer to science, which is hypotheses as to why we get sick, and as long as we've had hypotheses about why we get sick, we've tried to treat it as well.

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