Year
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CA: You're spending, like, a billion dollars a
year
in education, I think, something like that.
I can't tell you how many blocks I walked, in sweltering summers, in freezing winters,
year
after year, just so I could get to understand the DNA of each neighborhood and know what each street felt like.
MK: And then she invited me on, about a
year
or so later, she invited me on a date.
PM: There have been 11 mass shootings since Newtown, a school a week in the first two months of last
year.
But let's not forget that approximately one million or so of his peers are arrested every
year
in the United States and may be subjected to similar interrogation techniques, techniques that we know increase the risk for false confession.
In his 91-page decision to overturn Dassey's conviction earlier this year, the judge made a big deal about the fact that Dassey had no parent or other allied adult in the interrogation room with him.
Last year, I spoke with a researcher named Matthew Killingsworth who is doing a very, very imaginative project that tracks people's happiness, and here is what he told me he found: "Interacting with your friends is better than interacting with your spouse, which is better than interacting with other relatives, which is better than interacting with acquaintances, which is better than interacting with parents, which is better than interacting with children.
So I ask a question: How much energy do you think it takes to remove a million tons of CO2 from the air in a given
year?
The Amazon is capable of capturing 1.6 billion tons of CO2 each
year.
That requires us to build 200 synthetic forests, each capable of capturing a million tons of CO2 per
year.
It may tempt people to continue to burn fossil fuels 24 hours a day, 365 days a
year.
Yes, it did cost a billion dollars or two billion dollars a
year
to make this progress.
We also spend about 650 billion dollars a
year
in subsidies for oil and gas and renewable energy.
So I got a Fulbright scholarship to just travel around Africa for a
year
asking people why they were building fractals, which is a great job if you can get it.
And they said, "Well, we can take you there, but you can't go inside because that's the sacred altar, where we do sacrifices every
year
to keep up those annual cycles of fertility for the fields."
And so it's not surprising, perhaps, that in July of this year, Shark Attack Mitigation Systems in collaboration with the University of Western Australia Oceans Institute made an announcement which captured the attention of the worldwide media and of ocean users worldwide, and that was around the development of technology to mitigate or reduce the risk of shark attack based on the science of what sharks can see.
But nevertheless, we started the testing process in January of this year, initially with tiger sharks and subsequently with great white sharks.
You see, we're going to launch more than 100 of these satellites like these over the course of the next
year.
And I stayed in my home of writing after that, and I wrote another book that just came out last
year
and that one was really beautifully received, which is very nice, but not my point.
The global cost of depression alone is over three trillion dollars per
year.
That was actually removed from vaccines in the
year
1992, and you can see that it really did not have an effect in what happened with the prevalence of autism.
Had Jesse Owens been racing last
year
in the world championships of the 100 meters, when Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt finished, Owens would have still had 14 feet to go.
Now picture the stadium last
year
at the world championships of the 100 meters: thousands of fans waiting with baited breath to see Usain Bolt, the fastest man in history; flashbulbs popping as the nine fastest men in the world coil themselves into their blocks.
Nowadays, college kids do that every
year.
As of the end of last year, 1,314 men had run under four minutes in the mile, but like Jesse Owens, Sir Roger Bannister ran on soft cinders that stole far more energy from his legs than the synthetic tracks of today.
These models are around a million lines of code at this point, and growing by tens of thousands of lines of code every
year.
I wrote this piece a
year
ago.
Last year, a good friend of mine asked me if I would help her with some organization work.
It's fabulous to be here with such big machers again this
year.
But I will continue to consider this idea, and I will report back maybe next
year.
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