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In 2012, when I painted the minaret of Jara Mosque
in my hometown of Gabés, in the south of Tunisia,
I never thought that graffiti would bring so much attention to a city.
At the beginning, I was just
Over the past 10 years,
I've been researching the way people organize and visualize information.
And I've noticed an interesting shift.
For a long period of time,
we believed in a natural ranking orde
Chris Anderson: You were something of a mathematical phenom.
You had already taught at Harvard and MIT at a young age.
And then the NSA came calling.
What was that about?
Jim Simons: Well the NSA -- t
About six months into my career as a therapist,
I was working at a drug and alcohol rehab facility.
I got a call from one of the nurses down at the detox unit.
She asked me to come down and assess one
100 years ago,
there were 2,000 varieties of peaches,
nearly 2,000 different varieties of plums
and almost 800 named varieties of apples growing in the United States.
Today, only a fraction of those r
Transcriber: TED Translators Admin Reviewer: Mirjana Čutura
Humans do not see trees.
They walk by us every day.
They sit and sleep, smoke and picnic
and secretly kiss in our shade.
They pluck our leav
Transcriber: TED Translators Admin Reviewer: Rhonda Jacobs
It was December 2015,
a month since the end of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone,
and I was driving along the Grafton Road
on the outskirts
how would you respond if i told you we
are
trees have you considered that you have
a story that underlines your actions
and when you meet another person the
same idea is true
there is a hidden root sy
Some people can't see the forest for the trees,
but before Stephen Sillett, no one could see or even imagine the forest in the trees.
Stephen was an explorer of new worlds from the start.
He spent h
Reaching heights of over 100 meters,
Californian sequoias tower over Earth’s other estimated 60,000 tree species.
Growing in the misty Sierra Nevada mountains,
their massive trunks support the tall