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The buyer was Kip Forbes , son of one of the most flamboyant millionaires of the 20th century . The original owner of the bottle turned out to be one of the most enthusiastic wine buffs of the 18th century . Château Lafitte is one of the greatest wines in the world , the prince of any wine cellar . Benjamin Wallace : Now , that 's about all the videotape that remains of an event that set off the longest-running mystery in the modern wine world . And the mystery existed because of a gentleman named Hardy Rodenstock . In 1985 , he announced to his friends in the wine world that he had made this incredible discovery . Some workmen in Paris had broken through a brick wall , and happened upon this hidden cache of wines -- apparently the property of Thomas Jefferson . 1787 , 1784. H e would n't reveal the exact number of bottles , he would not reveal exactly where the building was and he would not reveal exactly who owned the building . The mystery persisted for about 20 years . It finally began to get resolved in 2005 because of this guy . Bill Koch is a Florida billionaire who owns four of the Jefferson bottles , and he became suspicious . And he ended up spending over a million dollars and hiring ex-FBI and ex-Scotland Yard agents to try to get to the bottom of this . There 's now ample evidence that Hardy Rodenstock is a con man , and that the Jefferson bottles were fakes . But for those 20 years , an unbelievable number of really eminent and accomplished figures in the wine world were sort of drawn into the orbit of these bottles . I think they wanted to believe that the most expensive bottle of wine in the world must be the best bottle of wine in the world , must be the rarest bottle of wine in the world . I became increasingly , kind of voyeuristically i nterested in the question of you know , why do people spend these crazy amounts of money , not only on wine but on lots of things , and are they living a better life than me ? So , I decided to embark on a quest . With the generous backing of a magazine I write for sometimes , I decided to sample the very best , or most expensive , or most coveted item in about a dozen categories , which was a very grueling quest , as you can imagine . ( Laughter ) This was the first one . A lot of the Kobe beef that you see in the U. S. is not the real thing . It may come from Wagyu cattle , but it 's not from the original , Appalachian Hyogo Prefecture in Japan . There are very few places in the U. S. where you can try real Kobe , and one of them is Wolfgang Puck 's restaurant , CUT , in Los Angeles . I went there , and I ordered the eight-ounce rib eye for 160 dollars . And it arrived , and it was tiny . And I was outraged . It was like , 160 dollars for this ? And then I took a bite , and I wish ed that it was tinier , because Kobe beef is so rich . It 's like foie gras -- it 's not even like steak . I almost could n't finish it . I was really happy when I was done . ( Laughter ) Now , the photographer who took the pictures for this project for some reason posed his dog in a lot of them , so that 's why you 're going to see this recurring character . Which , I guess , you know , communicates to you that I did not think that one was really worth the price . White truffles . One of the most expensive luxury foods by weight in the world . To try this , I went to a Mario Batali restaurant in Manhattan -- Del Posto . The waiter , you know , came out with the white truffle knob and his shaver , and he shaved it onto my pasta and he said , you know , " Would Signore like the truffles ? " And the charm of white truffles is in their aroma . It 's not in their taste , really . It 's not in their texture . It 's in the smell . These white pearlescent flakes hit the noodles , this haun ting , wonderful , nutty , mushroomy smell wafted up . 10 seconds passed and it was gone . And then I was left with these little ugly flakes on my pasta that , you know , their purpose had been served , and so I 'm afraid to say that this was also a disappointment to me . There were several -- several of these items were disappointments . ( Laughter ) Yeah . The magazine would n't pay for me to go there . ( Laughter ) They did give me a tour , though . And this hotel suite is 4,300 square feet . It has 360-degree views . It has four balconies . It was designed by the architect I. M. Pei . It comes with its own Rolls Royce and driver . It comes with its own wine cellar that you can draw freely from . When I took the tour , it actually included some Opus One , I was glad to see . 30,000 dollars for a night in a hotel . This is soap that 's made from silver nanoparticles , which have antibacterial properties . I washed my face with this this morning in preparation for this . And it , y ou know , tickled a little bit and it smelled good , but I have to say that nobody here has complimented me on the cleanliness of my face today . ( Laughter ) But then again , nobody has complimented me on the jeans I 'm wearing . These ones GQ did spring for -- I own these -- but I will tell you , not only did I not get a compliment from any of you , I have not gotten a compliment from anybody in the months that I have owned and worn these . I do n't think that whether or not you 're getting a compliment should be the test of something 's value , but I think in the case of a fashion item , an article of clothing , that 's a reasonable benchmark . That said , a lot of work goes into these . They are made from handpicked organic Zimbabwean cotton that has been shuttle loomed and then hand-dipped in natural indigo 24 times . But no compliments . ( Laughter ) Thank you . Armando Manni is a former filmmaker who makes this olive oil from an olive that grows on a single slope in Tuscany . And he goes to great lengths to protect the olive oil from oxygen and light . He uses tiny bottles , the glass is tinted , he tops the olive oil off with an inert gas . And he actually -- once he releases a batch of it , he regularly conducts molecular analyses and posts the results online , so you can go online and look at your batch number and see how the phenolics are developing , and , you know , gauge its freshness . I did a blind taste test of this with 20 people and five other olive oils . It tasted fine . It tasted interesting . It was very green , it was very peppery . But in the blind taste test , it came in last . The olive oil that came in first was actually a bottle of Whole Foods 365 olive oil which had been oxidizing next to my stove for six months . ( Laughter ) A recurring theme is that a lot of these things are from Japan -- you 'll start to notice . I do n't play golf , so I could n't actually road test these , but I did interview a guy who owns them . Even the p eople who market these clubs -- I mean , they 'll say these have four axis shafts which minimize loss of club speed and thereby drive the ball farther -- but they 'll say , look , you know , you 're not getting 57,000 dollars worth of performance from these clubs . You 're paying for the bling , that they 're encrusted with gold and platinum . The guy who I interviewed who owns them did say that he 's gotten a lot of pleasure out of them , so ... Oh , yeah , you know this one ? This is a coffee made from a very unusual process . The luwak is an Asian Palm Civet . It 's a cat that lives in trees , and at night it comes down and it prowls the coffee plantations . And apparently it 's a very picky eater and it , you know , homes in on only the ripest coffee cherries . And then an enzyme in its digestive tract leeches into the beans , and people with the unenviable job of collecting these cats ' leavings then go through the forest collecting the , you know , results and processing it in to coffee -- although you actually can buy it in the unprocessed form . That 's right . Unrelatedly -- ( Laughter ) Japan is doing crazy things with toilets . ( Laughter ) There is now a toilet that has an MP3 player in it . There 's one with a fragrance dispenser . There 's one that actually analyzes the contents of the bowl and transmits the results via email to your doctor . It 's almost like a home medical center -- and that is the direction that Japanese toilet technology is heading in . This one does not have those bells and whistles , but for pure functionality it 's pretty much the best -- the Neorest 600. And to try this -- I could n't get a loaner , but I did go into the Manhattan showroom of the manufacturer , Toto , and they have a bathroom off of the showroom that you can use , which I used . It 's fully automated -- you walk towards it , and the seat lifts . The seat is preheated . There 's a water jet that cleans you . There 's an air jet that dries you . You get up , it flushes by itself . The lid closes , it self-cleans . Not only is it a technological leap forward , but I really do believe it 's a bit of a cultural leap forward . I mean , a no hands , no toilet paper toilet . And I want to get one of these . ( Laughter ) This was another one I could not get a loaner of . Tom Cruise supposedly owns this bed . There 's a little plaque on the end that , you know , each buyer gets their name engraved on it . ( Laughter ) To try this one , the maker of it let me and my wife spend the night in the Manhattan showroom . Lights glaring in off the street , and we had to hire a security guard and all these things . But anyway , we had a great night 's sleep . And you spend a third of your life in bed . I do n't think it 's that bad of a deal . ( Laughter ) This was a fun one . This is the fastest street-legal car in the world and the most expensive production car . I got to drive this with a chaperone from the company , a professional race car driver , and we drove around the canyons outside of Los Angeles and down on the Pacific Coast Highway . And , you know , when we pulled up to a stoplight the people in the adjacent cars kind of gave us respectful nods . And it was really amazing . It was such a smooth ride . Most of the cars that I drive , if I get up to 80 they start to rattle . I switched lanes on the highway and the driver , this chaperone , said , " You know , you were just going 110 miles an hour . " And I had no idea that I was one of those obnoxious people you occasionally see weaving in and out of traffic , because it was just that smooth . And if I was a billionaire , I would get one . ( Laughter ) This is a completely gratuitous video I 'm just going to show of one of the pitfalls of advanced technology . This is Tom Cruise arriving at the " Mission : Impossible III " premiere . When he tries to open the door , you could call it " Mission : Impossible IV . " There was one object that I could not get my hands on , a nd that was the 1947 Cheval Blanc . The '47 Cheval Blanc is probably the most mythologized wine of the 20th century . And Cheval Blanc is kind of an unusual wine for Bordeaux in having a significant percentage of the Cabernet Franc grape . And 1947 was a legendary vintage , especially in the right bank of Bordeaux . And just together , that vintage and that chateau took on this aura that eventually kind of gave it this cultish following . But it 's 60 years old . There 's not much of it left . What there is of it left you do n't know if it 's real -- it 's considered to be the most faked wine in the world . Not that many people are looking to pop open their one remaining bottle for a journalist . So , I 'd about given up trying to get my hands on one of these . I 'd put out feelers to retailers , to auctioneers , and it was coming up empty . And then I got an email from a guy named Bipin Desai . Bipin Desai is a UC Riverside theoretical physicist who also happens to be the preeminen t organizer of rare wine tastings , and he said , " I 've got a tasting coming up where we 're going to serve the '47 Cheval Blanc . " And it was going to be a double vertical -- it was going to be 30 vintages of Cheval Blanc , and 30 vintages of Yquem . And it was an invitation you do not refuse . I went . It was three days , four meals . And at lunch on Saturday , we opened the '47 . And you know , it had this fragrant softness , and it smelled a little bit of linseed oil . And then I tasted it , and it , you know , had this kind of unctuous , porty richness , which is characteristic of that wine -- that it sort of resembles port in a lot of ways . There were people at my table who thought it was , you know , fantastic . There were some people who were a little less impressed . And I was n't that impressed . And I do n't -- call my palate a philistine palate -- so it does n't necessarily mean something that I was n't impressed , but I was not the only one there who had that reacti on . And it was n't just to that wine . Any one of the wines served at this tasting , if I 'd been served it at a dinner party , it would have been , you know , the wine experience of my lifetime , and incredibly memorable . But drinking 60 great wines over three days , they all just blurred together , and it became almost a grueling experience . And I just wanted to finish by mentioning a very interesting study which came out earlier this year from some researchers at Stanford and Caltech . And they gave subjects the same wine , labeled with different price tags . A lot of people , you know , said that they liked the more expensive wine more -- it was the same wine , but they thought it was a different one that was more expensive . But what was unexpected was that these researchers did MRI brain imaging while the people were drinking the wine , and not only did they say they enjoyed the more expensively labeled wine more -- their brain actually registered as experiencing more pleas ure from the same wine when it was labeled with a higher price tag . Thank you . \ No newline at end of file
http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/opennlp-sandbox/blob/1f97041b/opennlp-similarity/src/test/resources/style_recognizer/txt/ted/146ted_bono_s_call_to_action_for_africa.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/opennlp-similarity/src/test/resources/style_recognizer/txt/ted/146ted_bono_s_call_to_action_for_africa.txt b/opennlp-similarity/src/test/resources/style_recognizer/txt/ted/146ted_bono_s_call_to_action_for_africa.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c3bd2cd --- /dev/null +++ b/opennlp-similarity/src/test/resources/style_recognizer/txt/ted/146ted_bono_s_call_to_action_for_africa.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ + +Well , as Alexander Graham Bell famously said on his first successful telephone call , " Hello , is that Domino 's Pizza ? " ( Laughter ) I just really want to thank you very much . As another famous man , Jerry Garcia , said , " What a strange , long trip . " And he should have said , " What a strange , long trip it 's about to become . " At this very moment , you are viewing my upper half . My lower half is appearing at a different conference -- ( Laughter ) in a different country . You can , it turns out , be in two places at once . But still , I 'm sorry I ca n't be with you in person . I 'll explain at another time . And though I 'm a rock star , I just want to assure you that none of my wishes will include a hot tub . But what really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on mp3 players . The revolution -- this revolution -- is much bigger than that . I hope , I believe . What turns me on about the digital age , what excited me personally , is t hat you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing . You see , it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song , you needed a studio and a producer . Now , you need a laptop . If you wanted to make a film , you needed a mass of equipment and a Hollywood budget . Now , you need a camera that fits in your palm , and a couple of bucks for a blank DVD . Imagination has been decoupled from the old constraints . And that really , really excites me . I 'm excited when I glimpse that kind of thinking writ large . What I would like to see is idealism decoupled from all constraints . Political , economic , psychological , whatever . The geopolitical world has got a lot to learn from the digital world . From the ease with which you swept away obstacles that no one knew could even be budged . And that 's actually what I 'd like to talk about today . First , though , I should probably explain why , and how , I got to this place . It 's a journey that started 20 years ago . You ma y remember that song , " We Are the World , " or , " Do They Know It 's Christmas ? " Band Aid , Live Aid . Another very tall , grizzled rock star , my friend Sir Bob Geldof , issued a challenge to " feed the world . " It was a great moment , and it utterly changed my life . That summer , my wife , Ali , and myself went to Ethiopia . We went on the quiet to see for ourselves what was going on . We lived in Ethiopia for a month , working at an orphanage . The children had a name for me . They called me , " The girl with the beard . " ( Laughter ) Do n't ask . Anyway , we found Africa to be a magical place . Big skies , big hearts , big , shining continent . Beautiful , royal people . Anybody who ever gave anything to Africa got a lot more back . Ethiopia did n't just blow my mind ; it opened my mind . Anyway , on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said , " Would you take my son with you ? " He knew , in Ireland , that his son would live , and that in Ethiopia , his son would die . It was the middle of that awful famine . Well , I turned him down . And it was a funny kind of sick feeling , but I turned him down . And it 's a feeling I ca n't ever quite forget . And in that moment , I started this journey . In that moment , I became the worst thing of all : I became a rock star with a cause . Except this is n't the cause , is it ? Six and a half thousand Africans dying every single day from AIDS -- a preventable , treatable disease -- for lack of drugs we can get in any pharmacy . That 's not a cause . That 's an emergency . 11 million AIDS orphans in Africa , 20 million by the end of the decade . That 's not a cause . That 's an emergency . Today , every day , 9,000 more Africans will catch HIV because of stigmatization and lack of education . That 's not a cause . That 's an emergency . So what we 're talking about here is human rights . The right to live like a human . The right to live , period . And what we 're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality . The next thing I 'd like to be clear about is what this problem is , and what this problem is n't . Because this is not all about charity . This is about justice . Really . This is not about charity . This is about justice . That 's right . And that 's too bad , because we 're very good at charity . Americans , like Irish people , are good at it . Even the poorest neighborhoods give more than they can afford . We like to give , and we give a lot . Look at the response to the tsunami , it 's inspiring . But justice is a tougher standard than charity . You see , Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice . It makes a farce of our idea of equality . It mocks our pieties . It doubts our concern . It questions our commitment . Because there is no way we can look at what 's happening in Africa , and if we 're honest , conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else . As you heard in the film , anywhere else , not here . Not here , not in America , not in Europe . In fact , a head of state that you 're all familiar with admitted this to me . And it 's really true . There is no chance this kind of hemorrhaging of human life would be accepted anywhere else other than Africa . Africa is a continent in flames . And deep down , if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us , we would all do more to put the fire out . We 're standing around with watering cans , when what we really need is the fire brigade . You see , it 's not as dramatic as the tsunami . It 's crazy , really , when you think about it . Does stuff have to look like an action movie these days to exist in the front of our brain ? The slow extinguishing of countless lives is just not dramatic enough , it would appear . Catastrophes that we can avert are not as interesting as ones we could avert . Funny , that . Anyway , I believe that that kind of thinking offends the intellectual rigor in this room . Six and a half thousand people dy ing a day in Africa may be Africa 's crisis , but the fact that it 's not on the nightly news , that we in Europe , or you in America , are not treating it like an emergency -- I want to argue with you tonight that that 's our crisis . I want to argue that though Africa is not the front line in the war against terror , it could be soon . Every week , religious extremists take another African village . They 're attempting to bring order to chaos . Well , why are n't we ? Poverty breeds despair . We know this . Despair breeds violence . We know this . In turbulent times , is n't it cheaper , and smarter , to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later ? The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty . And I did n't say that . Colin Powell said that . Now when the military are telling us that this is a war that cannot be won by military might alone , maybe we should listen . There 's an opportunity here , and it 's real . It 's not sp in . It 's not wishful thinking . The problems facing the developing world afford us in the developed world a chance to re-describe ourselves to the world . We will not only transform other people 's lives , but we will also transform the way those other lives see us . And that might be smart in these nervous , dangerous times . Do n't you think that on a purely commercial level , that anti-retroviral drugs are great advertisements for Western ingenuity and technology ? Does n't compassion look well on us ? And let 's cut the crap for a second . In certain quarters of the world , brand EU , brand USA , is not at its shiniest . The neon sign is fizzing and cracking . Someone 's put a brick through the window . The regional branch managers are getting nervous . Never before have we in the west been so scrutinized . Our values : do we have any ? Our credibility ? These things are under attack around the world . Brand USA could use some polishing . And I say that as a fan , you know ? A s a person who buys the products . But think about it . More anti-retrovirals make sense . But that 's just the easy part , or ought to be . But equality for Africa -- that 's a big , expensive idea . You see , the scale of the suffering numbs us into a kind of indifference . What on earth can we all do about this ? Well , much more than we think . We ca n't fix every problem , but the ones we can , I want to argue , we must . And because we can , we must . This is the straight truth , the righteous truth . It is not a theory . The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye , look across the ocean to Africa , and say this , and mean it . We do not have to stand for this . A whole continent written off -- we do not have to stand for this . ( Applause ) And let me say this without a trace of irony -- before I back it up to a bunch of ex-hippies . Forget the '60s . We can change the world . I ca n't , you ca n't , as individuals , but we can change the world . I really believe that , the people in this room . Look at the Gates Foundation . They 've done incredible stuff , unbelievable stuff . But working together , we can actually change the world . We can turn the inevitable outcomes , and transform the quality of life for millions of lives who look and feel rather like us , when you 're up close . I 'm sorry to laugh here , but you do look so different than you did in Haight-Ashbury in the '60s . ( Laughter ) But I want to argue that this is the moment that you are designed for . It is the flowering of the seeds you planted in earlier , headier days. Ideas that you gestated in your youth . This is what excites me . This room was born for this moment , is really what I want to say to you tonight . Most of you started out wanting to change the world , did n't you ? Most of you did , the digital world . Well , now , actually because of you , it is possible to change the physical world . It 's a fact . Economists confirm it , and they know much more than I do . So why , then , are we not pumping our fists into the air ? Probably because when we admit we can do something about it , we 've got to do something about it . It is a pain in the arse . This equality business is actually a pain in the arse . But for the first time in history , we have the technology , we have the know-how , we have the cash , we have the life-saving drugs . Do we have the will ? I hope this is obvious , but I 'm not a hippie . And I 'm not really one for the warm , fuzzy feeling . I do not have flowers in my hair . Actually , I come from punk rock . The Clash wore big army boots , not sandals . But I know toughness when I see it . And for all the talk of peace and love on the West Coast , there was muscle to the movement that started out here . You see , idealism detached from action is just a dream . But idealism allied with pragmatism , with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit , is very exciting . It 's very real . It 's very strong . And it 's very present in a crowd like you . Last year at DATA , this organization I helped set up , we launched a campaign to summon this spirit in the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty . We 're calling it the ONE Campaign . It 's based on our belief that the action of one person can change a lot , but the actions of many coming together as one can change the world . Well , we feel that now is the time to prove we 're right . There are moments in history when civilization redefines itself . We believe this is one . We believe that this could be the time when the world finally decides that the wanton loss of life in Africa is just no longer acceptable . This could be the time that we finally get serious about changing the future for most people who live on planet Earth . Momentum has been building . Lurching a little , but it 's building . This year is a test for us all , especially the leaders of the G8 nations , who really are on the l ine here , with all the world in history watching . I have been , of late , disappointed with the Bush Administration . They started out with such promise on Africa . They made some really great promises , and actually have fulfilled a lot of them . But some of them they have n't . They do n't feel the push from the ground , is the truth . But my disappointment has much more perspective when I talk to American people , and I hear their worries about the deficit , and the fiscal well-being of their country . I understand that . But there 's much more push from the ground than you 'd think , if we got organized . What I try to communicate , and you can help me if you agree , is that aid for Africa is just great value for money at a time when America really needs it . Putting it in the crassest possible terms , the investment reaps huge returns . Not only in lives saved , but in goodwill , stability and security that we 'll gain . So this is what I hope that you will do , if I could be so bold , and not have it deducted from my number of wishes . ( Laughter ) What I hope is that beyond individual merciful acts , that you will tell the politicians to do right by Africa , by America and by the world . Give them permission , if you like , to spend their political capital and your financial capital , your national purse on saving the lives of millions of people . That 's really what I would like you to do . Because we also need your intellectual capital : your ideas , your skills , your ingenuity . And you , at this conference , are in a unique position . Some of the technologies we 've been talking about , you invented them , or at least revolutionized the way that they 're used . Together you have changed the zeitgeist from analog to digital , and pushed the boundaries . And we 'd like you to give us that energy . Give us that kind of dreaming , that kind of doing . As I say , there 're two things on the line here . There 's the continent Africa . But there 's also our sense of ourselves . People are starting to figure this out . Movements are springing up . Artists , politicians , pop stars , priests , CEOs , NGOs , mothers ' unions , student unions . A lot of people are getting together , and working under this umbrella I told you about earlier , the ONE Campaign . I think they just have one idea in their mind , which is , where you live in the world , should not determine whether you live in the world . ( Applause ) History , like God , is watching what we do . When the history books get written I think our age will be remembered for three things . Really , it 's just three things this whole age will be remembered for . The digital revolution , yes . The war against terror , yes . And what we did or did not do to put out the fires in Africa . Some say we ca n't afford to . I say we ca n't afford not to . Thank you , thank you very much . ( Applause ) Okay , my three wishes . The ones that TED has offered to grant . You see , if this is tru e , and I believe it is , that the digital world you all created has uncoupled the creative imagination from the physical constraints of matter . This should be a piece of piss . ( Laughter ) I should add that this started out as a much longer list of wishes . Most of them impossible , some of them impractical and one or two of them certainly immoral . ( Laughter ) This business , it gets to be addictive , you know what I mean , when somebody else is picking up the tab . Anyway , here 's number one . I wish for you to help build a social movement of more than one million American activists for Africa . That is my first wish . I believe it 's possible . A few minutes ago , I talked about all the citizens ' campaigns that are springing up . You know , there 's lots out there . And with this one campaign as our umbrella , my organization , DATA , and other groups , have been tapping into the energy and the enthusiasm that 's out there from Hollywood into the heartland of America . We k now there 's more than enough energy to power this movement . We just need your help in making it happen . We want all of you here , church America , corporate America , Microsoft America , Apple America , Coke America , Pepsi America , nerd America , noisy America . We ca n't afford to be cool and sit this one out . I do believe if we build a movement that 's one million Americans strong , we 're not going to be denied . We will have the ear of Congress . We 'll be the first page in Condi Rice 's briefing book , and right into the Oval Office . If there 's one million Americans -- and I really know this -- who are ready to make phone calls , who are ready to be on email . I am absolutely sure that we can actually change the course of history , literally , for the continent of Africa . Anyway , so I 'd like your help in getting that signed up . I know John Gage and Sun Microsystems are already on board for this , but there 's lots of you we 'd like to talk to . Right , my second wis h , number two . I would like one media hit for every person on the planet who is living on less than one dollar a day . That 's one billion media hits . Could be on Google , could be on AOL . Steve Case , Larry , Sergey -- they 've done a lot already . It could be NBC . It could be ABC . Actually we 're talking to ABC today about the Oscars . We have a film , produced by Jon Kamen at Radical Media . But you know , we want , we need some airtime for our ideas . We need to get the math , we need to get the statistics out to the American people . I really believe that old Truman line , that if you give the American people the facts , they 'll do the right thing . And , the other thing that 's important , is that this is not Sally Struthers . This has to be described as an adventure , not a burden . ( Video ) : One by one they step forward , a nurse , a teacher , a homemaker , and lives are saved . The problem is enormous . Every three seconds one person dies . Another three seconds , one more . The situation is so desperate in parts of Africa , Asia , even America that aid groups , just as they did for the tsunami are uniting as one , acting as one . We can beat extreme poverty , starvation , AIDS . But we need your help . One more person , letter , voice will mean the difference between life and death for millions of people . Please join us by working together . Americans have an unprecedented opportunity . We can make history . We can start to make poverty history . One , by one , by one . Please visit ONE at this address . We 're not asking for your money . We 're asking for your voice . Bono : All right . I wish for TED to truly show the power of information . Its power to rewrite the rules and transform lives , by connecting every hospital , health clinic and school in one African country . And I would like it to be Ethiopia . I believe we can connect every school in Ethiopia , every health clinic , every hospital . We can connect to the Internet . That is my wish , my third wish . I think it 's possible . I think we have the money and brains in the room to do that . And that would be a mind-blowing wish to come true . I 've been to Ethiopia , as I said earlier . It 's actually where it all started for me . The idea that the Internet , which changed all of our lives , can transform a country -- and a continent that has hardly made it to analog , let alone digital -- blows my mind . But it did n't start out that way . The first long-distance line from Boston to New York was used in 1885 on the phone . It was just nine years later that Addis Ababa was connected by phone to Harare , which is 500 kilometers away . Since then , not that much has changed . The average waiting time to get a land line in Ethiopia is actually about seven or eight years . But wireless technology was n't dreamt up then . Anyway , I 'm Irish , and as you can see , I know how important talking is . Communication is very important for Ethiopia -- will transform the country . Nurses getting better training , pharmacists being able to order supplies , doctors sharing their expertise in all aspects of medicine . It 's a very , very good idea to get them wired . And that is my third and final wish for you at the TED conference . Thank you very much once again . 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" In the theory with which we have to deal , Absolute Ignorance is the artificer ; so that we may enunciate as the fundamental principle of the whole system , that , in order to make a perfect and beautiful machine , it is not requisite to know how to make it . This proposition will be found on careful examination , to express , in condensed form , the essential purport of the Theory , and to express in a few words all Mr. Darwinâs meaning ; who , by a strange inversion of reasoning , seems to think Absolute Ignorance fully qualified to take the place of Absolute Wisdom in the achievements of creative skill . " Exactly . Exactly . And it is a strange inversion . A creationist pamphlet has this wonder ful page in it : " Test Two : Do you know of any building that didnât have a builder ? Yes No. Do you know of any painting that didnât have a painter ? Yes No. Do you know of any car that didnât have a maker ? Yes No. If you answered " YES " for any of the above , give details . " A-ha ! I mean , it really is a strange inversion of reasoning . You would have thought it stands to reason that design requires an intelligent designer . But Darwin shows that itâs just false . Today , though , Iâm going to talk about Darwinâs other strange inversion , which is equally puzzling at first , but in some ways just as important . It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet . Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy . We adore babies because theyâre so cute . And , of course , we are amused by jokes because they are funny . This is all backwards . It is . And Darwin shows us why . Letâs start with sweet . Our sweet tooth is basically an evolved su gar detector , because sugar is high energy , and itâs just been wired up to the preferer , to put it very crudely , and thatâs why we like sugar . Honey is sweet because we like it , not " we like it because honey is sweet . " Thereâs nothing intrinsically sweet about honey . If you looked at glucose molecules till you were blind , you wouldnât see why they tasted sweet . You have to look in our brains to understand why theyâre sweet . So if you think first there was sweetness , and then we evolved to like sweetness , youâve got it backwards ; thatâs just wrong . Itâs the other way round . Sweetness was born with the wiring which evolved . And thereâs nothing intrinsically sexy about these young ladies . And itâs a good thing that there isnât , because of there were , then Mother Nature would have a problem : How on earth do you get chimps to mate ? Now you might think , ah , thereâs a solution : hallucinations . That would be one way of doing it , but there âs a quicker way . Just wire the chimps up to love that look , and apparently they do . Thatâs all there is to it . Over six million years , we and the chimps evolved our different ways . We became bald-bodied , oddly enough ; for one reason or another , they didnât . If we hadnât , then probably this would be the height of sexiness . Our sweet tooth is an evolved and instinctual preference for high-energy food . It wasnât designed for chocolate cake . Chocolate cake is a supernormal stimulus . The term is owed to Niko Tinbergen , who did his famous experiments with gulls , where he found that that orange spot on the gullâs beak -- if he made a bigger , oranger spot the gull chicks would peck at it even harder . It was a hyperstimulus for them , and they loved it . What we see with , say , chocolate cake is itâs a supernormal stimulus to tweak our design wiring . And there are lots of supernormal stimuli ; chocolate cake is one . There 's lots of supernormal stimuli fo r sexiness . And there 's even supernormal stimuli for cuteness . Hereâs a pretty good example . Itâs important that we love babies , and that we not be put off by , say , messy diapers . So babies have to attract our affection and our nurturing , and they do . And , by the way , a recent study shows that mothers prefer the smell of the dirty diapers of their own baby . So nature works on many levels here . But now , if babies didnât look the way they do , if babies looked like this , thatâs what we would find adorable , thatâs what we would find -- we would think , oh my goodness , do I ever want to hug that . This is the strange inversion . Well now , finally what about funny . My answer is , itâs the same story , the same story . This is the hard one , the one that isnât obvious . Thatâs why I leave it to the end . And I wonât be able to say too much about it . But you have to think evolutionarily , you have to think , what hard job that has to be done -- itâs dirty work , somebodyâs got to do it -- is so important to give us such a powerful , inbuilt reward for it when we succeed . Now , I think we 've found the answer , I and a few of my colleagues . Itâs a neural system thatâs wired up to reward the brain for doing a grubby clerical job . Our bumper sticker for this view is that this is the joy of debugging . Now Iâm not going to have time to spell it all out , but Iâll just say that only some kinds of debugging get the reward . And what weâre doing is weâre using humor as a sort of neuroscientific probe by switching humor on and off , by turning the knob on a joke -- now itâs not funny ... oh , now itâs funnier ... now weâll turn a little bit more ... now itâs not funny -- in this way , we can actually learn something about the architecture of the brain , the functional architecture of the brain . Matthew Hurley is the first author of this . We call it the Hurley Model . Heâs a computer scientist , Reginald Ad ams a psychologist , and there I am , and weâre putting this together into a book . 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Now , inspired by Jill Bolte Taylor last year , I did n't bring a human brain , but I did bring a liter of bone marrow . And bone marrow is actually what we use to save the lives of tens of thousands of patients , most of whom have advanced malignancies like leukemia and lymphoma and some other diseases . So , a few years ago , I 'm doing my transplant fellowship at Stanford . I 'm in the operating room . We have Bob here , who is a volunteer donor . We 're sending his marrow across the country to save the life of a child with leukemia . So actually how do we harvest this bone marrow ? Well we have a whole O. R. team , general anesthesia , nurses , and another doctor across from me . Bob 's on the table , and we take this sort of small needle , you know , not too big . And the way we do this is we basically place this through the soft tissu e , and kind of punch it into the hard bone , into the tuchus -- that 's a technical term -- and aspirate about 10 mls of bone marrow out , each time , with a syringe . And hand it off to the nurse . She squirts it into a tin . Hands it back to me . And we do that again and again . About 200 times usually . And by the end of this my arm is sore , I 've got a callus on my hand . Let alone Bob , Whose rear end looks something more like this , like swiss cheese . So I 'm thinking , you know , this procedure has n't changed in about 40 years . And there is probably a better way to do this . So I thought of a minimally invasive approach . And a new device that we call the Marrow Miner . This is it . And the Marrow Miner , the way it works is shown here . Our standard see-through patient . Instead of entering the bone dozens of times , we enter just once , into the front of the hip or the back of the hip . And we have a flexible , powered catheter with a special wire loop tip that stays i nside the crunchy part of the marrow and follows the contours of the hip , as it moves around . So it enables you to very rapidly aspirate , or suck out , rich bone marrow very quickly through one hole . We can do multiple passes through that same entry . No robots required . And , so , very quickly , Bob can just get one puncture , local anesthesia , and do this harvest as an outpatient . So I did a few prototypes . I got a small little grant at Stanford . And played around with this a little bit . And our team members developed this technology . And eventually we got two large animals , and pig studies . And we found , to our surprise , that we not only got bone marrow out , but we got 10 times the stem cell activity in the marrow from the Marrow Miner , compared to the normal device . This device was just FDA approved in the last year . Here is a live patient . You can see it following the flexible curves around . There will be be two passes here , in the same patient , from the same hole . This was done under local anesthesia , as an outpatient . And we got , again , about three to six times more stem cells than the standard approach done on the same patient . So why should you care ? Bone marrow is a very rich source of adult stem cells . You all know about embryonic stem cells . They 've got great potential but have n't yet entered clinical trials . Adult stem cells are throughout our body , including the blood-forming stem cells in our bone marrow . Which we 've been using as a form of stem-cell therapy for over 40 years . In the last decade there 's been an explosion of use of bone marrow stem cells to treat the patient 's other diseases such as heart disease , vascular disease , orthopedics , tissue engineering , even in neurology to treat Parkinson 's , and diabetes . We 've just come out , we 're commercializing , this year , generation 2.0 of the Marrow Miner . The hope is is that this gets more stem cells out . Which translates to better outcomes . It may encourage more people to sign up to be potential live saving bone marrow donors . It may even enable you to bank your own marrow stem cells , when you 're younger and healthier , to use in the future , should you need it . And ultimately -- and here 's a picture of our bone marrow transplant survivors , who come together for a reunion each year at Stanford . Hopefully this technology will let us have more of these survivors in the future . Thanks . 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Neil and I were sitting there comparing how little we 've slept in anticipation for this . I 've never been so nervous -- and I do this when I 'm nervous , I just realized . So , I 'm going to talk about sort of what we did at this organization called 826 Valencia , and then I 'm going to talk about how we all might join in and do similar things . Back in about 2000 , I was living in Brooklyn , I was trying to finish my first book , I was wandering around dazed every day because I wrote from 12 a. m. to 5 a. m. So I would walk around in a daze during the day . I had no mental acuity to speak of during the day , but I had flexible hours . In the Brooklyn neighborhood that I lived in , Park Slope , there are a lot of writers -- it 's like a very high per-capita ratio of writers to normal people . Meanwhile , I had grown up around a lot of teachers . My mom w as a teacher , my sister became a teacher and after college so many of my friends went into teaching . And so I was always hearing them talk about their lives and how inspiring they were , and they were really sort of the most hard-working and constantly inspiring people I knew . But I knew so many of the things they were up against , so many of the struggles they were dealing with . And one of them was that so many of my friends that were teaching in city schools were having trouble with their students keeping up at grade level , in their reading and writing in particular . Now , so many of these students had come from households where English is n't spoken in the home , where many of them have different special needs , learning disabilities . And of course they 're working in schools which sometimes and very often are under-funded . And so they would talk to me about this and say , " You know , what we really need is just more people , more bodies , more one-on-one attention , mor e hours , more expertise from people that have skills in English and can work with these students one-on-one . " Now , I would say , " Well , why do n't you just work with them one-on-one ? " And they would say , " Well , we have five classes of 30 to 40 students each . This can lead up to 150 , 180 , 200 students a day . How can we possibly give each student even one hour a week of one-on-one attention ? " You 'd have to greatly multiply the workweek and clone the teachers . And so we started talking about this . And at the same time , I thought about this massive group of people I knew : writers , editors , journalists , graduate students , assistant professors , you name it . All these people that had sort of flexible daily hours and an interest in the English word -- I hope to have an interest in the English language , but I 'm not speaking it well right now . I 'm trying . That clock has got me . But everyone that I knew had an interest in the primacy of the written word in ter ms of nurturing a democracy , nurturing an enlightened life . And so they had , you know , their time and their interest , but at the same time there was n't a conduit that I knew of in my community to bring these two communities together . So when I moved back to San Francisco , we rented this building . And the idea was to put McSweeney 's -- McSweeney 's Quarterly , that we published twice or three times a year , and a few other magazines -- we were going to move it into an office for the first time . It used to be in my kitchen in Brooklyn . We were going to move it into an office , and we were going to actually share space with a tutoring center . So we thought , " We 'll have all these writers and editors and everybody -- sort of a writing community coming into the office every day anyway , why do n't we just open up the front of the building for students to come in there after school , get extra help on their written homework , so you have basically no border between these tw o communities ? " So the idea was that we would be working on whatever we 're working on , at 2:30 the students flow in and you put down what you 're doing , or you trade , or you work a little bit later or whatever it is . You give those hours in the afternoon to the students in the neighborhood . So , we had this place , we rented it , the landlord was all for it . We did this mural , that 's a Chris Ware mural , that basically explains the entire history of the printed word , in mural form -- it takes a long time to digest and you have to stand in the middle of the road . So we rented this space . And everything was great except the landlord said , " Well , the space is zoned for retail ; you have to come up with something . " You 've gotta sell something . You ca n't just have a tutoring center . " So we thought , " Ha ha ! Really ! " And we could n't think of anything necessarily to sell , but we did all the necessary research . It used to be a weight room , so there were rubbe r floors below , acoustic tile ceilings , fluorescent lights . We took all that down , and we found beautiful wooden floors , whitewashed beams and it had the look -- while we were renovating this place , somebody said , " You know , it really kind of looks like the hull of a ship . " And we looked around and somebody else said , " Well , you should sell supplies to the working buccaneer . " And so this is what we did . So it made everybody laugh , and we said , " There 's a point to that . Let 's sell pirate supplies . " This is the pirate supply store . You see , this is sort of a sketch I did on a napkin . A great carpenter built all this stuff and you see , we made it look sort of pirate supply-like . Here you see planks sold by the foot and we have supplies to combat scurvy ; we have the peg legs there , that are all handmade and fitted to you ; up at the top you see the eyepatch display , which is the black column there for everyday use , your regular eyepatch , and then you h ave the pastel and other colors for stepping out at night -- special occasions , bar mitzvahs and whatever . So we opened this place . And this is a vat that we fill with treasures that students dig in : this is replacement eyes in case you lose one ; these are some signs that we have all over the place : " Practical Joking with Pirates . " While you 're reading the sign , we pull a rope behind the counter and eight mop heads drop on your head . That was just my one thing -- I said we had to have something that drops on people 's heads . It became mop heads . And this is the fish theater , which is just a saltwater tank with three seats , and then right behind it we set up this space . Which was the tutoring center . So right there is the tutoring center , and then behind the curtain are the McSweeney 's offices , where all of us would be working on the magazine and book editing and like that . The kids would come in -- or we thought they would come in . I should back up . We set th e place up , we opened up , we spent months and months renovating this place . We had tables , chairs , computers , everything . I went to a dot-com auction at a Holiday Inn in Palo Alto and I bought 11 G4s with a stroke of a paddle . Anyway , we bought 'em , we set everything up and then we waited . It was started with about 12 of my friends , people that I had known for years that were writers in the neighborhood . And we sat . And at 2:30 we put a sandwich board out on the front sidewalk and it just said , " Free Tutoring for Your English-Related and Writing-Related Needs -- Just Come In , It 's All Free . " And we thought , " Oh , they 're going to storm the gates , they 're gonna love it . " And they did n't . And so we waited , we sat at the tables , we waited and waited . And everybody was becoming very discouraged because it was weeks and weeks that we waited , really , where nobody came in . And then somebody alerted us to the fact that maybe there was a trust gap , because we were operating behind a pirate supply store . We never put it together , you know ? And so then , around that time , I persuaded a woman named Nineveh Caligari , a longtime San Francisco educator -- she was teaching in Mexico City , she had all the experience necessary , knew everything about education , was connected with all the teachers and community members in the neighborhood . I convinced her to move up from Mexico City where she was teaching ; she took over as executive director . Immediately , she made the inroads with the teachers and the parents and the students and everything , and so suddenly it was actually full every day . And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention . The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students . You know , it 's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention , a student can get one grade level higher . And so most of these students , English is not spoken in the home . They com e there , many times their parents -- you ca n't see it , but there 's a church pew that I bought in a Berkeley auction right there -- the parents will sometimes watch while their kids are being tutored . So that was the basis of it , was one-on-one attention . And we found ourselves full every day with kids . If you 're on Valencia Street within those few blocks at around 2:00 , 2:30 , you will get run over , often , by the kids and their big backpacks , or whatever , actually running to this space . Which is very strange , because it 's school , in a way . But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different . And the other thing was , there was no stigma . Kids were n't going into the " Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help " or something like that . It was 826 Valencia . First of all , it was a pirate supply store , which is insane . And then secondly , there 's a publishing company in the back . And so our interns were actually working at the same tables very often , and shoulder-to-shoulder , computer next to computer with the students . And so it became a tutoring center -- publishing center , is what we called it -- and a writing center . They go in , and they might be working with a high school student actually working on a novel -- because we had very gifted kids , too . So there 's no stigma . They 're all working next to each other . It 's all a creative endeavor . They 're seeing adults . They 're modeling their behavior . These adults , they 're working in their field . They can lean over , ask a question of one of these adults and it all sort of feeds on each other . There 's a lot of cross-pollination . The only problem , especially for the adults working at McSweeney 's who had n't necessarily bought into all of this when they signed up , was that there was just the one bathroom . With like 60 kids a day , this is a problem . But you know , there 's something about the kids finishing their homework in a give n day , working one-on-one , getting all this attention -- they go home , they 're finished . They do n't stall , they do n't do their homework in front of the TV . They 're allowed to go home at 5:30 , enjoy their family , enjoy other hobbies , get outside , play . And that makes a happy family . A bunch of happy families in a neighborhood is a happy community . A bunch of happy communities tied together is a happy city and a happy world . So the key to it all is homework ! There you have it , you know -- one-on-one attention . So we started off with about 12 volunteers , and then we had about 50. And then a couple hundred . And we now have 1,400 volunteers on our roster . And we make it incredibly easy to volunteer . The key thing is , even if you only have a couple of hours a month , those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder , next to one student , concentrated attention , shining this beam of light on their work , on their thoughts and their self-expression , is going to be absolutel y transformative , because so many of the students have not had that ever before . So we said , " Even if you have two hours one Sunday every six months , it does n't matter . That 's going to be enough . " So that 's partly why the tutor corps grew so fast . Then we said , " Well , what are we going to do with the space during the day , because it has to be used before 2:30 ? " So we started bringing in classes during the day . So every day , there 's a field trip where they together create a book ; you can see it being typed up above . This is one of the classes getting way too excited about writing . You just point a camera at a class , and it always looks like this . So this is one of the books that they do . Notice the title of the book , " The Book That Was Never Checked Out : Titanic . " And the first line of that book is , " Once there was a book named Cindy that was about the Titanic . " So , meanwhile , there 's an adult in the back typing this up , taking it completely se riously , which blows their mind . So then we still had more tutors to use . This is a shot of just some of the tutors during one of the events . The teachers that we work with -- and everything is different to teachers -- they tell us what to do . We went in there thinking , " We 're ultimately , completely malleable . You 're going to tell us . The neighborhood 's going to tell us , the parents are going to tell us . The teachers are going to tell us how we 're most useful . " So then they said , " Why do n't you come into the schools ? Because what about the students that would n't come to you , necessarily , who do n't have really active parents that are bringing them , or are n't close enough ? " So then we started saying , " Well , we 've got 1,400 people on our tutor roster . Let 's just put out the word . " A teacher will say , " I need 12 tutors for the next five Sundays . We 're working on our college essays . Send them in . " So we put that out on the wire : 1,400 tutors . Whoever can make it signs up . They go in about a half an hour before the class . The teacher tells them what to do , how to do it , what their training is , what their project is so far . They work under the teacher 's guide , and it 's all in one big room . And that 's actually the brunt of what we do is , people going straight from their workplace , straight from home , straight into the classroom and working directly with the students . So then we 're able to work with thousands and thousands more students . Then another school said , " Well , what if we just give you a classroom and you can staff it all day ? " So this is the Everett Middle School Writers ' Room , where we decorated it in buccaneer style . It 's right off the library . And there we serve all 529 kids in this middle school . This is their newspaper , the " Straight-Up News , " that has an ongoing column from Mayor Gavin Newsom in both languages -- English and Spanish . So then one day Isabel Allende wrote to u s and said , " Hey , why do n't you assign a book with high school students ? I want them to write about how to achieve peace in a violent world . " And so we went into Thurgood Marshall High School , which is a school that we had worked with on some other things , and we gave that assignment to the students . And we said , " Isabel Allende is going to read all your essays at the end . She 's going to publish them in a book . She 's going to sponsor the printing of this book in paperback form . It 's going to be available in all the bookstores in the Bay Area and throughout the world , on Amazon and you name it . " And so these kids worked harder than they 've ever worked on anything in their lives , because there was that outside audience , there was Isabel Allende on the other end . I think we had about 170 tutors that worked on this book with them and so this worked out incredibly well . We had a big party at the end . This is a book that you can find anywhere . So that led to a series of these . You can see Amy Tan sponsored the next one , " I Might Get Somewhere . " And this became an ongoing thing . More and more books . Now we 're sort of addicted to the book thing . The kids will work harder than they 've ever worked in their life if they know it 's going to be permanent , know it 's going to be on a shelf , know that nobody can diminish what they 've thought and said , that we 've honored their words , honored their thoughts with hundreds of hours of five drafts , six drafts -- all this attention that we give to their thoughts . And once they achieve that level , once they 've written at that level , they can never go back . It 's absolutely transformative . And so then they 're all sold in the store . This is near the planks . We sell all the student books . Where else would you put them , right ? So we sell 'em , and then something weird had been happening with the stores . The store , actually -- even though we started out as just a gag -- the stor e actually made money . So it was paying the rent . And maybe this is just a San Francisco thing -- I do n't know , I do n't want to judge . But people would come in -- and this was before the pirate movies and everything ! It was making a lot of money . Not a lot of money , but it was paying the rent , paying a full-time staff member there . There 's the ocean maps you can see on the left . And it became a gateway to the community , People would come in and say , " What the -- ? What is this ? " I do n't want to swear on the web . Is that a rule ? I do n't know . They would say , " What is this ? " And people would come in and learn more about it . And then right beyond -- there 's usually a little chain there -- right beyond , they would see the kids being tutored . This is a field trip going on . And so they would be shopping , and they might be more likely to buy some lard , or millet for their parrot , or , you know , a hook , or hook protector for nighttime , all of these thin gs we sell . So the store actually did really well . But it brought in so many people : teachers , donors , volunteers , everybody . Because it was street level . It was open to the public . It was n't a non-profit buried , you know , on the 30th floor of some building downtown . It was right in the neighborhood that it was serving , and it was open all the time to the public . So , it became this sort of weird , happy accident . So all the people I used to know in Brooklyn , they said , " Well , why do n't we have a place like that here ? " And a lot of them had been former educators or would-be educators , so they combined with a lot of local designers , local writers , and they just took the idea independently and they did their own thing . They did n't want to sell pirate supplies ; they did n't think that that was going to work there . So , knowing the crime-fighting community in New York , they opened the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company . This is Sam Potts ' great design tha t did this . And this was to make it look sort of like one of those keysmith 's shops that has to have every service they 've ever offered , you know , all over there . So they opened this place . Inside it 's like a Costco for superheroes -- all the supplies in kind of basic form . These are all handmade . These are all sort of repurposed other products , or whatever . All the packaging is done by Sam Potts . So then you have the villain containment unit , where kids put their parents . You have the office . This is a little vault -- you have put your product in there , it goes up an electric lift and then the guy behind the counter tells you that you have to recite the vow of heroism , which you do if you want to buy anything . And it limits , really , their sales . Personally , I think it 's a problem . Because they have to do it hand on heart and everything . These are some of the products . These are all handmade . This is a secret identity kit . If you want to take on the iden tity of Sharon Boone , one American female marketing executive from Hoboken , New Jersey . It 's a full dossier on everything you would need to know about Sharon Boone . So , this is the capery where you get fitted for your cape , and then you walk up these three steel-graded steps and then we turn on three hydraulic fans from every side and then you can see the cape in action . There 's nothing worse than , you know , getting up there and the cape is bunching up or something like that . So then , the secret door -- this is one of the shelves you do n't see when you walk in but it slowly opens . You can see it there in the middle next to all the grappling hooks . It opens and then this is the tutoring center in the back . So you can see the full effect ! But this is -- I just want to emphasize -- locally funded , locally built . All the designers , all of the builders , everybody was local , all the time was pro-bono . I just came and visited and said , " Yes , you guys are doing gr eat , " or whatever . That was it . You can see the time in all five boroughs of New York in the back . So this is the space during tutoring hours . It 's very busy . Same principles : one-on-one attention , complete devotion to the students ' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas . And this switch is flicked in their heads when they walk through those 18 feet of this bizarre store , right ? So it 's school , but it 's not school . It 's clearly not school , even though they 're working shoulder-to-shoulder on tables , pencils and papers , whatever . This is one of the students , Khaled Hamdan . You can read this quote . Addicted to video games and TV . Could n't concentrate at home . Came in . Got this concentrated attention . And he could n't escape it . So soon enough , he was writing . He would finish his homework early -- got really addicted to finishing his homework early . It 's an addictive thing to sort of be done with it and to hav e it checked and to know he 's going to achieve the next thing and be prepared for school the next day . So he got hooked on that , and then he started doing other things . He 's now been published in five books . He co-wrote a mockumentary about failed superheroes called " Super-Has-Beens . " He wrote a series on " Penguin Balboa , " which is a fighting -- a boxing -- penguin . And then he read aloud just a few weeks ago to 500 people at Symphony Space , at a benefit for 826 New York . So he 's there every day . He 's evangelical about it . He brings his cousins in now . There 's four family members that come in every day . So , I 'll go through really quickly . This is L. A. , The Echo Park Time Travel Mart : " Whenever you are , we 're already then . " This is sort of a 7-11 for time travelers . So you see everything : it 's exactly as a 7-11 would be . Leeches . Mammoth chunks . They even have their own slurpee machine : " Out of order . Come back yesterday . " Anyway . So I 'm going to jump ahead . These are spaces that are only affiliated with us , doing this same thing : Word St. in Pittsfield , Massachusetts . Ink Spot in Cincinnati . Youth Speaks , San Francisco , California , which inspired us . Studio St. Louis in St. Louis . Austin Bat Cave in Austin . Fighting Words in Dublin , Ireland , started by Roddy Doyle ; this will be open in April . Now I 'm going to the TED Wish -- is that okay ? All right ; I 've got a minute . So , the TED Wish : I wish that you -- you personally and every creative individual and organization you know -- will find a way to directly engage with a public school in your area and that you 'll then tell the story of how you got involved , so that within a year we have a thousand examples -- a thousand ! -- of transformative partnerships . Profound leaps forward ! And these can be things that maybe you 're already doing . I know that so many people in this room are already doing really interesting things . I know that for a f act . So , tell us these stories and inspire others on the website . We created a website , I 'm going to switch to " we " and not " I " hope : We hope that the attendees of this conference will usher in a new era of participation in our public schools . We hope that you will take the lead in partnering your innovative spirit and expertise with that of innovative educators in your community . Always let the teachers lead the way . They will tell you how to be useful . I hope that you 'll step in and help out . There are a million ways . You can walk up to your local school and consult with the teachers . They 'll always tell you how to help . So -- this is with Hot Studio in San Francisco , they did this phenomenal job . This website is already up , it 's already got a bunch of stories , a lot of ideas . It 's called " Once Upon a School , " which is a great title , I think . This site will document every story , every project that comes out of this conference and around the world . So you go to the website ; you see a bunch of ideas you can be inspired by and then you add your own projects once you get started . Hot Studio did a great job in a very tight deadline . So , visit the site . If you have any questions , you can ask this guy , who 's our director of national programs . He 'll be on the phone . You email him , he 'll answer any question you possibly want . And he 'll get you inspired and get you going and guide you through the process so that you can affect change . And it can be fun ! That 's the point of this talk -- it need n't be sterile . It need n't be bureaucratically untenable . You can do and use the skills that you have . The schools need you . The teachers need you . Students and parents need you . They need your actual person : your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion , sitting next to them , listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time . Some of these kids just do n't plain kno w how good they are : how smart and how much they have to say . You can tell them . You can shine that light on them , one human interaction at a time . So we hope you 'll join us . Thank you so much . \ No newline at end of file http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/opennlp-sandbox/blob/1f97041b/opennlp-similarity/src/test/resources/style_recognizer/txt/ted/150ted_don_norman_on_design_and_emotion.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/opennlp-similarity/src/test/resources/style_recognizer/txt/ted/150ted_don_norman_on_design_and_emotion.txt b/opennlp-similarity/src/test/resources/style_recognizer/txt/ted/150ted_don_norman_on_design_and_emotion.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..046f19f --- /dev/null +++ b/opennlp-similarity/src/test/resources/style_recognizer/txt/ted/150ted_don_norman_on_design_and_emotion.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ + +The new me is beauty . ( Laughter ) Yeah , people used to say , you know , Norman 's OK , but if you followed what he said , everything would be usable but it would be ugly . Well , I did n't have that in mind , so ... This is neat . Thank you for setting up my display . I mean , it 's just wonderful . And I have n't the slightest idea what it does or what it 's good for , but I want it . And that 's my new life . My new life is trying to understand what beauty is about , and pretty , and emotions . The new me is all about making things kind of neat and fun . And so this is a Philippe Starck juicer , produced by Alessi . It 's so much fun I have it in my house , but I have it in the entryway , I do n't use it to make juice . ( Laughter ) In fact , I bought the gold-plated special edition and it comes with a little slip of paper that says , " Do n't use this juicer to make juice . The acid will ruin the gold-plating . " ( Laughter ) So actually , I took a carton of orange juice and I poured it in the glass to take this picture . ( Laughter ) But , beneath it is a wonderful knife . It 's a Global cutting knife made in Japan . First of all , look at the shape , it 's just wonderful to look at . Second of all , it 's really beautiful balanced it holds -- feels well . And third of all , it 's so sharp , it just cuts . It 's a delight to use . And so , it 's got everything , right ? It 's beautiful and it 's functional . And I can tell you stories about it , which makes it reflective , and so you 'll see I have a theory of emotion . And those are the three components . Hiroshi Ishii and his group at the MIT Media Lab took a ping-pong table and a projector above it , and on the ping-pong table they projected an image of water and fish swimming in it . And as you play ping-pong , whenever the ball hits part of the table the ripples spread out and the fish run away . But of course , then the ball hits the other side , ripples hit the -- poor fish , they ca n't find any peace and quiet . ( Laughter ) And , is that a good way to play ping-pong ? No. But is it fun ? Yeah ! Yeah . So -- or look at Google . If you type in , oh say , " emotion and design " you get 10 pages of results . So Google just took their logo and they spread it out . Instead of saying " You got 73,000 results . This one through 20. Next , " they just give you as many O 's as there are pages . It 's really simple and subtle . I bet a lot of you have seen it and never noticed it . That 's the subconscious mind that sort of notices it , it probably is kind of pleasant and you did n't know why . And it 's just clever . And of course , what 's especially good , if you type " design and emotion , " the first response out of those 10 pages is my website . ( Laughter ) Now , the weird thing is Google lies because if I type " design and emotion , " it says , " You do n't need the 'and . ' We do it anyway . " So , OK . So I type " design emotion " and my website was n't first again . It w as third . Oh well , different story . There was this wonderful review in The New York Times about the MINI Cooper automobile . It said , " You know , this is a car that has lots of faults . Buy it anyway . It 's so much fun to drive . " And if you look at the inside of the car -- I mean , I wanted to see , I rented it , this is me taking a picture while my son is driving -- and the inside of the car , the whole design is fun . It 's round , it 's neat . The controls work wonderfully . So that 's my new life , it 's all about fun . I really have the feeling that pleasant things work better , and that never made any sense to me until I finally figured out , look ... I 'm going to put a plank on the ground . So , imagine I have a plank about two feet wide and 30 feet long and I 'm going to walk on it , and you see I can walk on it without looking , I can go back and forth and I can jump up and down . No problem . Now I 'm going to put the plank 300 feet in the air and I 'm not going t o go near it , thank you . Intense fear paralyzes you . It actually affects the way the brain works . So , Paul Saffo , just before his talk said that he did n't really have it down until just a few days or hours before the talk , and that anxiety was really helpful in causing him to focus And that 's what fear and anxiety does It causes you to be -- what 's called depth-first processing -- to focus , not be distracted , and I could n't force myself across that . Now some people can -- circus workers , steel workers . But it really changes the way you think . And then , a psychologist , Alice Isen , did this wonderful experiment . She brought students in to solve problems So , she 'd bring people into the room , there 'd be a string hanging down here and a string hanging down here and an empty room , except a table with a bunch of crap on it -- some papers and scissors and stuff . And she 'd bring them in , and she 'd say , " This is an IQ test and it determines how well you do in l ife . Would you tie those two strings together ? " So they 'd take one string and they 'd pull it over here and they could n't reach the other string . Still ca n't reach it . And , basically none of them could solve it . You bring in a second group of people , and you say , " Oh , before we start , I got this box of candy , and I do n't eat candy . Would you like the box of candy ? " And turns out they liked it , and it made them happy , not very happy , but a little bit of happy . And guess what -- they solved the problem . And it turns out that when you 're anxious you squirt neural transmitters in the brain , which focuses you makes you depth-first , And when you 're happy -- what we call positive valence -- you squirt dopamine into the prefrontal lobes , which makes you a breadth-first problem solver you 're more susceptible to interruption , you do out of the box thinking . That 's what brainstorming 's about , right ? With brainstorming we make you happy , we play games , and we say , " No criticism , " and you get all these weird , neat ideas . But in fact , if that 's how you always were you 'd never get any work done because you 'd be working along and say , " Oh , I got a new way of doing it . " So to get work done , you 've got to set a deadline , right ? You 've got be anxious . So the brain works differently and if you 're happy , things work better because you 're more creative You get a little problem , you say , " Ah , I 'll figure it out . " No big deal . There 's something I call the visceral level of processing . Biology -- we have co-adapted through biology to like bright colors . That 's especially good that mammals and primates like fruits and bright plants , because you eat the fruit and you thereby spread the seed . There 's an amazing amount of stuff that 's built into the brain . We dislike bitter tastes , we dislike loud sounds , we dislike hot temperatures , cold temperatures . We dislike scolding voices , we dislike frowning faces , We like symmetrical faces , et cetera , et cetera . So that 's the visceral level and in design you can express visceral in lots of ways , like the choice of type fonts and the red for hot , exciting . Or the 1963 Jaguar . It 's actually a crummy car , falls apart all the time , but the owners love it . And it 's beautiful -- it 's in the Museum of Modern Art . A water bottle . You buy it because of the bottle , not because of the water . And when people are finished , they do n't throw it away they keep it for -- you know , it 's like the old wine bottles , you keep it for decoration or maybe fill it with water again , which proves it 's not the water . It 's all about the visceral experience . The middle level of processing is the behavioral level and that 's actually where most of our stuff gets done . Visceral is subconscious , you 're unaware of it Behavioral is subconscious , you 're unaware of it . Almost everything we do is subconscious . I 'm walking around the stage , I 'm not attending to the control of my legs . I 'm doing a lot , most of my talk is subconscious , it 's been rehearsed and thought about a lot . Most of what we do is subconscious . Automatic behavior -- skilled behavior is subconscious , controlled by the behavioral side . And behavioral design is all about feeling in control , which includes usability , understanding , but also the feel and heft . That 's why the Global knives are so neat . They 're so nicely balanced , so sharp , you really feel you 're in control of the cutting . Or just driving a high-performance sports car over a demanding curb , again feeling that you are in complete control of the environment . Or the sensual feeling . This is a Kohler shower , a waterfall shower , and actually , all those knobs beneath are also shower heads . It will squirt you all around And you can stay in that shower for hours . And not waste water , by the way , it recirculates the same dirty water . ( Laughter ) Or this -- this is a r eally neat teapot I found at high tea at The Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago . It 's a Ronnefeldt tilting teapot . That 's kind of what the teapot looks like but the way you use it is you lay it on its back , and you put tea in , and then you fill it with water because water then seeps over the tea . And the tea is sitting in this stuff to the right -- the tea is to the right of this line . There 's a little ledge inside , so the tea is sitting there and the water is filling it up like that . And when the tea is ready , or almost ready , you tilt it . And that means the tea is partially covered while it completes the brewing . And when it 's finished , you put it vertically , and now the tea is -- you remember -- above this line and the water only comes to here and so it keeps the tea out And on top of that , it communicates , which is what emotion does . Emotion is all about acting , emotion is really about acting . It 's being safe in the world . Cognition is about understanding the world , emotion is about interpreting it saying good , bad , safe , dangerous , and getting us ready to act , which is why the muscles tense or relax . And that 's why we can tell the emotion of somebody else , because their muscles are acting , subconsciously , except that we 've evolved to make the facial muscles really rich with emotion . Well , this has emotions if you like , because it signals the waiter that , " Hey , I 'm finished . See -- upright . " And the waiter can come by and say , " Would you like more water ? " It 's kind of neat . What a wonderful design . And the third level is reflective , which is , if you like the superego , it 's a little part of the brain that has no control over what you do , no control over the -- does n't see the senses , does n't control the muscles . It looks over what 's going on . It 's that little voice in your head . that 's watching and saying , " That 's good . That 's bad . " or " Why are you doing that ? I do n't understand . " It 's that little voice in your head that 's the seat of consciousness . Here 's a great reflective product . Owners of the Hummer have said , " You know I 've owned many cars in my life all sorts of exotic cars , but never have I had a car that attracted so much attention . " It 's about their image , it 's not about the car . But even if you want a more positive model , this is the GM car . And the reason you might buy it now is because you care about the environment And you 'll buy it to protect the environment , even though the first few cars are going to be really expensive and not perfected . But that 's reflective design as well . Or an expensive watch so you can impress people , who say " Oh gee , I did n't know you had that watch . " As opposed to this one , which is a pure behavioral watch , which probably keeps better time than the 13,000 dollar watch I just showed you . But it 's ugly . This is a clear Don Norman watch . And what 's neat is sometimes you pit one emotion ag ainst the other , the visceral fear of falling against the reflective state saying " It 's OK . It 's OK . It 's safe . It 's safe . " If that amusement park were rusty and falling apart , you 'd never go on the ride . So , it 's pitting one against the other . The other neat thing ( Laughter ) So Jake Cress is this furniture maker , and he makes this unbelievable set of furniture . And this is his chair with claw , and the poor little chair has lost its ball and it 's trying to get it back before anybody notices . And what 's so neat about it is how you accept that story . And that 's what 's nice about emotion . So that 's the new me . I 'm only saying positive things from now on . ( Laughter ) ( Applause ) \ No newline at end of file
