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Hi everyone.
I would like to introduce you to Laika.
To most of us, Laika is simply a very cute pig.
However, to hundreds of thousands of patients in need of a lifesaving organ
Laika is a symbol of ho
In 2015, we saw two fantastic, hopeful breakthroughs for humanity.
First, the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals,
the collective, universal plan for humanity
to eradicate hunger,
[promote]
I'm a meteorologist by degree,
I have a bachelor's, master's and PhD in physical meteorology,
so I'm a meteorologist, card carrying.
And so with that comes four questions, always.
This is one predicti
It's 4am, you've been awake for forty hours,
when you unlock a puzzle containing this video
of some kind of dance-off between a chicken and a roller-skating beaver.
(Laughter)
The confusion and deligh
Hello.
Well, I'm here to talk to you about my animal muse:
the sloth.
(Laughter)
I've been documenting the strange lives of the world's slowest mammal
for the last 10 years.
I still remember the first
Do you think the things we build today
will be considered wonders in the future?
Think of Stonehenge,
the Pyramids,
Machu Picchu and Easter Island.
Now, they're all pretty different from what we're do
I am an astrodynamicist --
you know, like that guy Rich Purnell in the movie "The Martian."
And it's my job to study and predict motion of objects in space.
Currently we track about one percent of haz
I'm a storyteller,
but I'm also a troublemaker.
(Laughter)
And I have a habit of asking difficult questions.
It started when I was 10 years old,
and my mother, who was raising six children, had no tim
On the 17th of October, 2009,
President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives did something unusual.
He held his cabinet meeting underwater.
He literally took his ministers scuba diving, as it were,
to warn
I've been a political cartoonist on the global stage for the last 20 years.
Hey, we have seen a lot of things happen in those 20 years.
We saw three different Catholic popes,
and we witnessed that uni