Year
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In January of this year, I went to Myanmar to interview political prisoners, and I was surprised to find them less bitter than I'd anticipated.
The toy was an absolute flop, and it was almost completely forgotten by the end of the year, and what that means is that the billy possum didn't even make it to Christmastime, which when you think about it is a special sort of tragedy for a toy.
They ended up winning a Super Bowl that
year.
It's worth revenue, to the tune of billions of dollars a
year.
But then eventually, after staying there for a little while, and after the end of that first
year
at this military school, I realized that I actually was growing up.
And I went through the process, and again the whole time still just thinking, this is great, maybe I'll serve on a weekend, or two weeks during the year, do drill, and then a couple years after I signed up, a couple years after my mother signed those papers, the whole world changed.
The average mom gets two to three thousand dollars a
year
from it.
Over 90 percent of kids in the US see a doctor at least once a
year.
We're nearing the end of our third
year.
That two to three thousand dollars a
year
goes a long way.
And yet, the average cost of that care is only 400 dollars per kid per
year.
I first tried online dating my freshman
year
of college, which was in 2001, in case you can't see my wrinkle.
Some of my earliest memories are of giant ships blocking the end of my street, as well as the sun, for a lot of the
year.
And with each passing year, this nonobservation, this lack of evidence for any alien activity gets more puzzling because we should see them, shouldn't we?
If we represent the age of the universe by one year, then our species came into being about 12 minutes before midnight, 31st December.
That planet around Proxima Centauri, last
year
it got blasted by a flare.
Every one of you knows that the rate of change slows over the human lifespan, that your children seem to change by the minute but your parents seem to change by the
year.
I've been thinking about this for 50 years, and a
year
and a half ago I came out with the book "How To Create A Mind," which has the same thesis, but now there's a plethora of evidence.
The amount of data we're getting about the brain from neuroscience is doubling every
year.
Spatial resolution of brainscanning of all types is doubling every
year.
The campaign lasted a year, and it galvanized the civil rights movement like nothing had before it.
Years later, I was on my second teaching round in a Melbourne high school, and I was about 20 minutes into a
year
11 legal studies class when this boy put up his hand and said, "Hey miss, when are you going to start doing your speech?"
I want to live in a world where we value genuine achievement for disabled people, and I want to live in a world where a kid in
year
11 in a Melbourne high school is not one bit surprised that his new teacher is a wheelchair user.
It was less than a
year
after September 11, and I was at the Chicago Tribune writing about shootings and murders, and it was leaving me feeling pretty dark and depressed.
Indeed, many hackers do not resist those temptations, and so they are responsible in one way or another to billions of dollars lost each
year
to fraud, malware or plain old identity theft, which is a serious issue.
This is what happened last
year
when another security researcher called Kyle Lovett discovered a gaping hole in the design of certain wireless routers like you might have in your home or office.
But while Egypt's future is still uncertain, when the same thing happened in Syria just one
year
later, Telecomix were prepared with those Internet lines, and Anonymous, they were perhaps the first international group to officially denounce the actions of the Syrian military by defacing their website.
Now you can be lost in the cloud for a day, a week, a month, a year, a whole career, but sometimes, if you're lucky enough and you have enough support, you can see in the materials at hand, or perhaps meditating on the shape of the cloud, a new answer, C, and you decide to go for it.
For example, we were stuck for a
year
trying to understand the intricate biochemical networks inside our cells, and we said, "We are deeply in the cloud," and we had a playful conversation where my student Shai Shen Orr said, "Let's just draw this on a piece of paper, this network," and instead of saying, "But we've done that so many times and it doesn't work," I said, "Yes, and let's use a very big piece of paper," and then Ron Milo said, "Let's use a gigantic architect's blueprint kind of paper, and I know where to print it," and we printed out the network and looked at it, and that's where we made our most important discovery, that this complicated network is just made of a handful of simple, repeating interaction patterns like motifs in a stained glass window.
Next year, next summer, I will be hosting what I hope is the biggest and best family reunion in history.
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