When I was a child,

every other Friday,

I would leave my mother and stepfather's home --

an Indian and British, atheist, Buddhist,

agnostic, vegetarian, new age-y sometimes,

Democratic household.

And

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As a roboticist, I get asked a lot of questions.

"When we will they start serving me breakfast?"

So I thought the future of robotics would be looking more like us.

I thought they would look like me,

s

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In almost all aspects of our lives

we have perfect information available instantaneously.

My phone can tell me everything about my finances,

where precisely I am on a map

and the best way to my next d

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When I was three years old,

I was transracially adopted from South Korea

by a white family in Salt Lake City, Utah.

I arrived in America with a mysterious tattoo on my left forearm.

The tattoo was so

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I'd like to just start with a bit of a

setup from you to give us a framing

around your views around the role of

artists and cultural institutions how

can they be truly engaged in the civic

and democra

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Ten years is a long time for us humans on earth.

Ten turns around the sun.

When I was on the TED stage

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For decades, scientists have tried to use brain modulation

to treat neurological disorders.

Techniques usually involved sticking wires onto our head,

then helmets that immobilized

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In Kenya, buses are commonly known as "matatus."

They're everywhere -- and I mean everywhere.

And they form a very crucial part of Kenyans' urban life.

They're fun, colorfully pain

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Chris Anderson: A year go at global Countdown's virtual launch,

Monica Araya, who, among many other things,

is a distinguished fellow at the ClimateWorks Foundation,

she shared news of a campaign

to t

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I call myself a body architect I trained

in classical ballet and have a

background in architecture and fashion

as a body architect I fascinate with the

human body and explore how I can

transform it I

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