Year
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Our farms drain the equivalent of 3.3 billion Olympic-sized swimming pools every year, all of it swallowed up by crops and livestock to feed Earth’s growing population.
Every year, more than four to five million people die due to exposure to outdoor air pollution around the world.
This is the cover of "Contagious" magazine last year, that was done by using the same ink that we made back in our labs.
Today, the world produces roughly 22 billion kilograms of cheese a year, shipped and consumed around the globe.
So my friends Gene and Gayle had not heard from me in about a year, and suddenly I was calling, saying "I'm in Korea and I've met this extraordinary girl."
The adoption people told us it was going to take a
year
for the adoption to go through.
Like, what could you do for a
year?
Used to do their Christmas card every
year.
I start speaking English, learning English, about a
year
ago.
Patients often continue less frequent treatments for several months to a year, and some need occasional maintenance sessions for the rest of their lives.
And so, he went forth to the people and he said, "I've made this wonderful finding: it looks as if we could just use the cheap and simple solution, and by doing so we could save ourselves 300 million dollars a year, and we could spend that on our children in other ways."
I love those experiments, but I think that the most profound and life-changing experiment that I've done is my most recent experiment, where I spent a
year
trying to follow all of the rules of the Bible, "The
Year
of Living Biblically."
And actually, I take my projects very seriously, because I had twins during my year, so I definitely take my projects seriously.
I will say it was an amazing
year
because it really was life changing, and incredibly challenging.
This was one of the huge lessons of the year, is that I almost pretended to be a better person, and I became a little bit of a better person.
So I thought I would end by telling you just a couple of the take-aways, the bigger lessons that I learned from my
year.
And my wife thought this was very offensive, so she sat in every seat in our apartment, and I had to spend much of the
year
standing until I bought my own seat and carried it around.
This one was unexpected because I started the
year
as an agnostic, and by the end of the year, I became what a friend of mine calls a reverent agnostic, which I love.
This was one of the great things about my year, doing the Sabbath, because I am a workaholic, so having this one day where you cannot work, it really, that changed my life.
And two, it doesn't need to eat that many flies throughout the
year.
This is an event that takes place once a
year
and has around 2,000 people descending on MIT's campus and solving puzzles in teams that range from a single person to over 100.
That's actually an apt comparison, because one
year
involved a puzzle where you had to construct a working Enigma machine out of pieces of cardboard.
What I didn't mention before is that the prize for winning is that you get to construct the whole hunt for the following
year.
The punishment for winning is that you have to construct the whole hunt for the following
year.
One
year
later, in January of 2018, we won the MIT Mystery Hunt again.
But we already, and we will by the end of this year, have about half a million stories, many priced at under a dollar.
By the 2030s, we'll be avoiding millions of new skin cancer cases per
year
with a number that would only grow.
I happen to live in a little town, Princeton, in New Jersey, which every
year
celebrates the great event in Princeton history: the Battle of Princeton, which was, in fact, a very important battle.
This is my eightieth year, and I know that my time is brief.
I spoke some time ago to a joint session of Congress, last
year.
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