Year
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Every January, we go to the American Dialect Society annual meeting, where among other things, we vote on the word of the
year.
"Chad" was the word of the
year
in the
year
2000, because who knew what a chad was before 2000, and "WMD" in 2002.
Now, we have other categories in which we vote too, and my favorite category is most creative word of the
year.
And we have made some questionable choices, for example in 2006 when the word of the
year
was "Plutoed," to mean demoted.
Now, a few weeks before our vote, Lake Superior State University issues its list of banished words for the
year.
What is striking about this is that there's actually often quite a lot of overlap between their list and the list that we are considering for words of the year, and this is because we're noticing the same thing.
About once a year, I get a ballot that asks me about whether new uses, new pronunciations, new meanings, are acceptable.
So, from the time I was nine years old I was flying alone several times a
year
over the North Pole, just to go to school.
And of course the more I flew the more I came to love to fly, so the very week after I graduated from high school, I got a job mopping tables so that I could spend every season of my 18th
year
on a different continent.
Planetary Resources, a startup for space explorations is going to put out its first space probe later this
year.
It was a fraction of a NASA spaceship, it costs a fraction of its cost, and it's made with less than a dozen moving parts, and it's going to be out in space later this
year.
Seven million people across the world have died as a result of tobacco in the past
year
alone.
The industry that makes products that kill seven million people every
year.
But that said, in the past
year
alone, seven million people have died, so clearly, that is not enough.
The tobacco industry externalizes all those costs, with an estimated one trillion US dollars per
year.
In the past
year
alone, major tobacco-free moves have been made by leading financial organizations in eight different countries.
When making the tobacco-free announcement in March this year, the CEO of AMP Capital said, "We are not prepared to deliver investment returns at any cost to society."
And it is time for us to ask them: Are they investing our money in companies that make products that kill seven million people every
year?
You get a garden that last
year
was voted one of the top 10 secret gardens in New York.
The American invention is the crossword puzzle, and this
year
we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the crossword puzzle, first published in The New York World.
And only last
year
I recognized that I'm a proud scrotum owner.
Yossi Vardi: This is one of the most popular viral advertisement of last year, known as the optical inch by Philips.
Okay, I want to close by talking about some insights I gained while on sabbatical last
year
in the Carnegie Mellon art school.
There are 50 billion land animals used every
year
for food, and the vast majority of them are factory farmed, living in conditions of horrific suffering.
All of these receive only a few tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic funding every
year.
In the
year
1066, 7000 Norman infantry and knights sailed in warships across the English Channel.
In the last year, 18.8 trillion US dollars were transacted on mobile internet, and that's because of very robust technologies built behind it.
They even took the word "citizen" away from us, and imprisoned them for a whole
year.
The
year
is 1998, the place is a prison camp for Tutsi refugees in Congo.
The
year
is 2005.
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