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[Assistant] To me, to repeat the name of the character I was referring to earlier, Mr. Bates does in Emma, that there are spinsters in Jane Austen's fiction, and on the whole, they're very unlucky people.


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[Assistant] Elizabeth in the last decade of her unmarried life, which is what lies before her perhaps, would be dependent on the kindness and charity of others. With that awful prospect, might not even Mr. Collins seem worth accepting?


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[Assistant] Like the Dashwood sisters, that, that no, puts her in danger of being evicted by the laws of inheritance, by primogeniture, biased against women from her home. Has Elizabeth been sensible?


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[Assistant] Or just merely the victim of her own sensibility. Now, Jane Austen's wonderful narrative tact does not close off these questions, nor does it predicate automatic answers.


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[Assistant] Charlotte, one has to say, has made a good case for prudence.


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[Assistant] Well, to continue this theme, a central theme in all Jane Austen's fiction,


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[Assistant] Is Elizabeth, at a later moment in the novel, right to refuse Mr. Darcy? She refuses two men in this novel.


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[Assistant] Mr. Darcy is one of the richest men in England. Superbly handsome. Byronic. And the owner of Pemberley, a house which has...


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[Assistant] Elizabeth Slidey says she fell in love with before she deigned to fall in love with its owner, Mr. Darcy.


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[Assistant] Well, yes, she is right, we feel, but it is a very, very risky game that Elizabeth is playing. She's putting her moral instinct, her moral sense of rectitude, ahead of her rational decision making.


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[Assistant] But that is one of the great truths of the Austin world, that life is never easy. These decisions are not things that you can, as it were, sort of do reflexively. And one cannot help thinking that


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[Assistant] That Jane Austen herself must have been there. She must have been through this. It rings so true in the novel. What one wonders went through Miss Jane Austen's mind that ominous night in 1802.


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[Assistant] When, having accepted Harris Bigwithers proposal, she rejected the wholly eligible young man the next morning.


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[Assistant] Her own bloom was fast fading at this time. She was consigning herself and knew she was doing it to spinsterhood. Was it because she wanted to be a novelist, not a wife and a mother? We'll never know. But we can't help but ask and it adds, I think, a resonance to scenes such as I've been describing in Pride and Prejudice.


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[Assistant] If you unpeel Jane Austen's novel, through all its complexities, to the complexity at its very center, what you would find there, I think, is marriage and how to handle the decisions associated with marriage.


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[Assistant] That, how that is, to make the right choice. And what happens if you don't make the right choice?


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[Assistant] Only the most intelligent of us, Jane Austen implies, will be qualified to negotiate this tricky area of life and handle it well. She's very elitist and read carefully. The place of her novels is a very uncomfortable place for those who are not highly morally intelligent and that they're a legion, many of them, most of the people of the world in fact.


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[Assistant] Of all the novels, Pride and Prejudice is the one which is most intensely concerned with that great question in a woman's life, the marriage question.


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[Assistant] Partly because in Prime Prejudice there are so many marriageable frontline women characters. Five Bennet girls, Charlotte we've mentioned, Georgiana, Darcy, Lady Catherine de Bourgh's daughter. A veritable regiment of maidens, all in the marriage market.


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[Assistant] The novel's theme is stated in the first sentence, which is probably the most famous opening line in all English fiction.


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[Assistant] It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.


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[Assistant] Despite the Johnsonian ring, and Austin incidentally was a great admirer of Samuel Johnson, it's a highly ironic truism. It says one thing, but it implies another quite different thing. This we apprehend is Jane Austin ventriloquizing


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[Assistant] Look, look with that in mind at the opening scene as it proceeds from that wonderful sort of declaratory first line.


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[Assistant] It is, it's a masterly opening scene that Pride and Prejudice has.


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[Assistant] We remember this as a novel which Jane Austen was writing, rewriting and revising for a decade to bring it to perfection and the opening is, I think, perfect. She doesn't normally like dramatic openings in which there's dialogue, but this has it in


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[Assistant] I mean, she could have been a great dramatist, one feels, uh, had she been allowed to be so.


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[Assistant] This is, this is the opening as it proceeds from the It Is The Truth universally acknowledged.


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[Assistant] My dear Mr. Bennet, said his lady, that's Mrs. Bennet, to him one day, have you heard that Netherfield Park is less at last? Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.


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[Assistant] But it is, returned she, for Mrs. Long has just been here and she told me all about it. Mr. Bennet made no answer. There's a wonderful ping pong going on here.


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[Assistant] Look, do you not want to know who has taken it? cried his wife impatiently. You want to tell me and I have no objection to hearing it.


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[Assistant] This was invitation enough. And then she goes on to describe who the new tenants are of Netherfield. A highly eligible, uh, young man with ten thousand pounds.


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[Assistant] Now, Jane Austen does not normally, as I say, bounces immediately into her novels with a scene like this. She prefers a more serene form of exposition. Something more in the nature of an introductory stage direction rather than the drama itself.


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[Assistant] And this is very complicated information. It's dense with data that she's offering us in this opening scene. We need to be alert to nuance.


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[Assistant] The sardonic husband is obviously so much more intelligent than the husband hunting wife, Mrs. Bennet. Mr. Bennet, as we shall see, is not a good father. He's certainly not a good husband.


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[Assistant] Not that he's unfaithful, but he clearly doesn't love his wife. He should care as the, we learn this as the novel goes on, he should care more about his daughters. He has one favorite, Elizabeth, and another daughter, Jane, whom he's kind to.


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[Assistant] Even in this first scene, if in fact we read it, as Jane Austen requires that we read it,


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[Assistant] With high intelligence, moral judgements are forming in our minds as readers and disallowing an easier response. I mean, Mrs. Bennett is...


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[Assistant] Is acting as a good mother in a way, but at the same time we think that she's, as it were, rather, rather, rather too good a mother. Rather, rather too keen to, to net some luckless young man.


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[Assistant] As if he was just a pheasant that she was gonna shoot down in the pheasant shooting season.


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[Assistant] The novel complicates itself from the first paragraphs on.


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[Assistant] Now it is an incredibly complicated, dramatic personae. Jane Austen has to handle it. You see her fingers going like a virtuoso pianist over the characters in this novel. There are five young women.


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[Assistant] In this Bennett household looking for husbands. And a mother looking for husbands as well over their shoulders. And an indifferent husband, Mr. Bennett, superintending affairs, keeping the whole ship going. Now how will all this work out? How can it work out?


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[Assistant] The narrative of Pride and Prejudice, as it goes on from here, is both finely dispersed among various members of the Bennet family, even the cultish and dubiously moral younger sisters Kitty and Lydia, while keeping a close and increasingly fascinating focus on the heroine Elizabeth.


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[Assistant] A character who grows and matures as the narrative progresses.


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[Assistant] She moves out of pride and prejudice, these, to some extent, sort of limiting.


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[Assistant] Attitudes to a more balanced system by which she can make her life choices. She's embarked on a journey of moral growth.


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[Assistant] Uhm, incidentally, a word about families in Jane Austen. They're not warm or cozy. Often as in Pride and Prejudice, sisters like Lizzie will despise, for example, the blue stocking intellectual sister married.


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[Assistant] Uh, or they'll have no time for the flibity gibbet, highly sec sister like Lydia, who's interested only in army officers and hat ribbons.


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[Assistant] Mr. Bennet, as I said, has nothing but content.


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[Assistant] For the woman he chose to marry, and is mercilessly sarcastic at her expense.


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[Assistant] Families are, as I say, in some ways, rather kind of hostile places. They're not, as I say, sort of what one gets in Charles Dickens, for instance.


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[Assistant] Everyone in the family, of course, likes the beauty of the sisters. Jane, but...


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[Assistant] But, and it's she who, after much suffering and humiliation, will eventually win Mr. Bingley, the tenant that Mrs. Bennet refers to in the opening paragraph. But Jane is, how shall we say, she's rather dull, she has no spirit, she has no wit, unlike Lizzie.


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[Assistant] It's not quite, the Bennets aren't quite what Alexander Pope called the family, a concatenation of malignance.


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[Assistant] But neither, as I said, the warm domestic community immortalized, for example, in Oliver Goldsmith's 18th century novel, The Vicar of Wakefield.


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[Assistant] Now, the plot of Pride and Prejudice is more complicated than many of Austen's. There are, after all, so many irons in the narrative fire. It's wartime, although, as always with Jane Austen, the war is over the horizon. Women know nothing about such things in her fiction.


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[Assistant] The 1790s, and first readers in 1813 would have realized the novel was, in some sense, historical. We, we unfortunately don't. I mean, the most recent film adaptations have reset the action of Pride and Prejudice in the Regency period around the time when the work was belatedly published, 1813 to 17. But in the 1790s,


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[Assistant] There was a fear of invasion by the French and that's why the militia, why soldiers are, why there are so many soldiers around Longbourn in Meryton.


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[Assistant] Men, men, men think the younger Bennett girls, yeaah, these are potential husbands.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile, Mr. Bingley and his sisters have taken over a nearby country house. They're, they're what's called nouveau riche, and, and from the northwest. A lot of people made a lot of money during the Napoleonic Wars, and we have to assume that the, the Bingleys are, are, are, are among those profiteers. Rich man, rich man, rich man, thinks Mrs. Bennet. She doesn't care where the money comes from.


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[Assistant] Neither in fact is Jane Austen, as it happens. You know, all money is clean in Jane Austen. Bingley, who...


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[Assistant] Is what would be called an innocent. He doesn't know much of the world and unsure of his social status. And he doesn't know how he should use his money to become stylish, to become a gentleman. Has in attendance a blue-blooded friend. One of the richest men in England and the most eligible. Mr. Darcy. Darcy as I say is byronic.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and he's much traveled, like Byron himself. And he's very unimpressed by provincial, untraveled women like, like Elizabeth. They, they lack the cosmopolitan chic that he, Mr. Darcy relishes. They are not of the world. They are of the provinces.


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[Assistant] Bingley on his part is attracted to the beauty of the Bennet brood, Jane, but his catty sisters, some of the unloveliest specimens in Austen's fiction of the kind, and the proudly prejudiced Darcy persuade Bingley after he'd all but proposed to Jane to jilt her. And she suffers terribly.


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[Assistant] And Elizabeth is vengeful on her sister's account and cordially hates the man, Mr. Darcy, who has been the cause of Jane's misery. It's a misery which, like Marion's in Sense and Sensibility, practically brings Jane to death's door. Marriage is a life or death business in Jane Austen. It's a very big deal indeed.


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[Assistant] The Collins subplot which I described comes and goes. There's a villain, there always is a handsome seductive serpent in Jane Austen's garden, Wickham.


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[Assistant] He seduces one of the Bennett girls, Lydia, in what is a subplot of quite shocking sexual frankness. Shocking, that is, in Jane Austen's well-mannered world.


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[Assistant] Finally, both Darcy and Elizabeth win through the mutual barriers of pride and prejudice which have kept them apart. They've learned life's lesson and are finally fit to be each other's lifelong mates.


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[Assistant] Now, the novel is overhung with the period in which it was first conceived and written. There was, as I said, a real fear of invasion. And Pride and Prejudice


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[Assistant] Hard to believe that maybe it's a wartime novel. There are soldiers as I say everywhere. Unmarried women everywhere. They are the home front if you want to put it.


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[Assistant] And the other significance is that it was published when its author


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[Assistant] Or at least it was created when it also was just 21, Lizzie Bennet's age and nubile, marriageable.


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[Assistant] The composition of the novel, the first thoughts of the novel, and the eventual appearance of the novel in print under Mr. Edgerton's imprint and then John Murray's.


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[Assistant] My favourite moment in this novel, which I'll finish with, is when we finally realise, or at least when we realise, that Elizabeth has achieved that, as it were, ultimate state


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[Assistant] of growth in Jane Austen's world when she's capable of standing up for herself against what are incredibly strong pressures to make her conform to what others want her to do.


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[Assistant] It's a moment in which Lady Catherine de Bourgh, who has plans for Darcy of her own, comes to


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[Assistant] Lizzie comes to Longbourn and says, you must not, somehow she's found out that Darcy is interested in Lizzie, you must not marry this man because I have destined him to marry my daughter. And


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[Assistant] Lizzie, it's a, it's a wonderful comic scene because Lady Catherine de Bourgh is in fact a rather ridiculous character, uh, rather like Lady Bracknell in, in, uh,


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[Assistant] Oscar Wilde's play, The Importance of Being Earnest, who we'll encounter, uh, a bit later on.


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[Assistant] But Elizabeth stands up for herself and she says that


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[Assistant] I am only resolved to act in that manner which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you.


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[Assistant] Or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.


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[Assistant] It's a, it's a very fine moment and we feel that, that Lizzie has made it and we've watched her make it during the course of this novel.


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[Assistant] It is a, it is a very fine novel. It requires very careful reading, as I say, because on first encounter with it, there are...


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[Assistant] There are so many different spots of interest in the novel. One's always flickering away. I mean, what is going to happen to Lydia, for example? Jane, is Jane really going to be happy with Bingley?


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[Assistant] Uhm, Mr. Darcy, there are all sorts of mysteries about him. Uhm, famously, of course, Colin Firth interposes himself in that wet shirt. We can't think of Mr. Darcy without seeing that filmic image of him, but he's much more


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[Assistant] If we insert him back into the first decades of the 19th century, he's interestingly byronic but does that mean he's going to be a good husband or a bad husband? Jane Austen.


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[Assistant] Has that, that wonderful ability, which I think only the very greatest writers, only the very greatest authors in English have, of making our minds fizz, and continue fizzing, uh, when we've, we left the novel behind us.


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[Assistant] To go back to all those people who voted for Pride and Prejudice in March 2007, it is indeed an essential novel, possibly the most essential novel, indeed the most essential work of literature that we've discussed.


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[Assistant] The magic and majesty of Australia's Red Centre.


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[Assistant] It's here that ten teams of two will meet for the very first time. Some of these teams have more in common than they know.


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[Assistant] For the first time in amazing race history, teams will compete for their country. This year, it's nation against nation. Australia versus New Zealand in a race around the world.


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[Assistant] Ahead of them lies 90,000 kilometers of travel spread over 10 countries.


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[Assistant] From Australia, the teams are dating bodybuilders, Selly and Tyson.


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[Assistant] Intensive care nurses Daniel and Ryan. Thanks man. Mother and son Elizabeth and Todd.


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[Assistant] And from New Zealand, siblings Emily and Jono.


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[Assistant] Best mates, John and Murray. Where are we mate, honestly? And feisty friends, Aston and Christie.


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[Assistant] They come from all walks of life, but share one common goal. To win the life-changing quarter of a million dollar prize.


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[Assistant] Their destination is Uluru, the traditional meeting place for the local Aboriginal tribes and the setting for the start of this historic race.


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[Assistant] This part of the world abounds with stories of great survival, courage and determination. All qualities teams will need to win the amazing race, Australia vs New Zealand.


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[Assistant] Welcome to the first ever Amazing Race Australia vs New Zealand.


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[Assistant] This will be a race like no other. Not only will you be racing for your personal pride, this year, the pride of your country is also at stake.


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[Assistant] How you choose to play this contest is entirely up to you. Will your fellow countryman be your friend or your enemy? You decide.


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[Assistant] There are ten legs in the race. In each leg, you will receive clues that will ultimately lead you to the pit stop. Be the last team to check in, and you could be eliminated from the race. However, the winning team in each leg will receive rewards like never before.


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[Assistant] Now I did say that this race would be like no other, didn't I? That all starts now. Follow me.


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[Assistant] Age-old tradition, the purest form of contest, a tug of war.


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[Assistant] The first team to pull the flag of the opposing team across their own marker line.


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[Assistant] The other team will suffer a time penalty. Take your positions!


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[Assistant] Now take the strain, bring it this way a little. No underarm bowling here. Take the strain.


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[Assistant] Guys, the world awaits! Race hard, race safe, whoo! Good luck!


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[Assistant] Australia! Lost the tug of war?


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[Assistant] And incurred a time penalty. Everything was a blur. It's like...


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[Assistant] The cardboard cathedral was erected after the devastating 2011 Christchurch earthquake, which claimed 185 lives. The cathedral represents a major milestone in the city's recovery.


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[Assistant] You guys need to wait out the sands of time before you can follow New Zealand on the race.


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[Assistant] Team Australia, your time penalty is... Over! Go!


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[Assistant] New Zealand team Aston and Christy and Australian teams Elizabeth and Todd, Sally and Tyson, Inge and Tiana, Daniel and Ryan, and Ashley and Jared are now all travelling on the second flight.


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[Assistant] They're due to arrive in Christchurch one hour later than the first teams.


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[Assistant] Teams must now drive themselves to Rangitata Rafts, 150 kilometres south of Christchurch, travelling through the stunning mountain scenery that formed the backdrop for the blockbusting Lord of the Rings trilogy.


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[Assistant] Once here, teams will navigate their way through grade five whitewater rapids to retrieve one half of a unique ring and receive their next clue. It's going to take a while. Go.


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[Assistant] Having retrieved one half of the ring, teams will now drive 21 kilometres west to Rata Peak Station, where they will find their next clue.


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[Assistant] A roadblock is a task only one person can perform. The team member performing this roadblock must use a tractor to navigate their way through a slalom course and collect hay bales. They must then reverse back through the course and stack a total of four bales in the marked area.


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[Assistant] Once the hay has been successfully delivered, the team member must search the flock of sheep for the second half of their unique ring. No two rings are the same, so they must look for their exact match. When joined, two halves of the ring will lead them to the pit stop.


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[Assistant] The rugged mountain ranges of New Zealand's Southern Alps provided the location for the fortress city, Eterus, in the Lord of the Rings film.


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[Assistant] And it's among this majestic scenery that we find the very first pit stop of the race. The last team to check in here may be eliminated. Okay, so the sun rises in the where? West, is that right?


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[Assistant] The winners of this first leg also receive an express pass. An express pass entitles you to skip any task of your choosing and immediately receive your next clue. However, there's not one, but two.


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[Assistant] So this is your dessert for today. You've got a meadow sweet mousse, poached apricots, and some apricot clusters. Okay, your first step is the meadow sweet mousse, alright? 250 mils of milk, 250 mils of cream,


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[Assistant] 400 grams of toasted oats. 600 grams of puffed grains. You're gonna be baking it at 160 degrees.


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[Assistant] Great, well I'm going to show you your dessert. Smoked cherries with a chocolate ganache and a cherry pith ice cream.


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[Assistant] First thing you wanna do is start with your cherries, okay? Because you're making an ice cream, but you gotta use the piss.


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[Assistant] I think it's amazing they pulled it all together and got it on the plate. I think maybe the ice cream is just a little rushed. Maybe not cooked as long, that's why ours is a little darker. Uhm, maybe a couple of little things there.


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[Assistant] The whole nation of New Zealand felt every bit.


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[Assistant] Of that Christchurch earthquake. Obviously not as much as Christchurch people did. But we all, we were all together in that.


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[Assistant] Someone's kids, someone's dad, someone's mum.


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[Assistant] Just stand still for a minute, I'm not gonna hurt any of you.


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[Assistant] We had to match the colour. Being colourblind has its disadvantages.


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[Assistant] Wow! Yep, continue west to the pit stop.


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[Assistant] Alright, that's why they let us go first.


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[Assistant] They're pretty smart. I wasn't gonna let them go first though.


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[Assistant] The Wind in the Willows Episode 25 Badger's Big House


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[Assistant] Mo said to Badger, It's so much like my own. Badger took some bacon from the pan.


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[Assistant] Badger took a lantern from the wall. He went down a hallway. Mole jumped out of his chair and followed.


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[Assistant] Badger showed Mole many rooms and hallways.


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[Assistant] Look at all the rooms you have, said Mole.


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[Assistant] He was amazed by the size of Badra's home.


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[Assistant] How did you do all this? I didn't do it.


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[Assistant] The competition is definitely getting harder. The contestants, they're just smashing it and they're getting better and better and better. And as determined as ever to go in there and fight to stay in this competition.


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[Assistant] It's a huge risk, mincing this beautiful cut of meat. I'm starting to freak out. If I ruin this, I could be going home.


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[Assistant] In today's elimination we have 75 minutes to showcase this piece of beautiful meat and if I don't do that today then I'll definitely be going home.


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[Assistant] It's a huge risk, mincing this beautiful cut of meat.


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[Assistant] But I'm trying to stick to my strengths today. I'm just thinking what would I love to eat. So I'm continuing with my dan dan noodles.


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[Assistant] I think, you know, the stock, the beef, as long as it's, you know, beautiful and rich. I'm doing something different, like, so, yeaah, I'm backing myself. That looks amazing, Chloe. Keep drawing it. Thanks.


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[Assistant] Walking my dish up to the judges, I'm so nervous. My biggest concern is whether or not I've hero'd the beef enough.


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[Assistant] Today I've cooked dandan noodles. It's kind of like a Chinese version of bolognese.


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[Assistant] I am worried. You know, have I done the beef justice?


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[Assistant] Hey, that door will open only with a woman's voice command. Huh? Shush. Don't try to fool me.


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[Assistant] Now how will I enter? Don't worry. Just trust me. Huh?


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[Assistant] Alright, alright. In humans, sound is produced with the help of vocal cords. However, the length of vocal cords of women and men are different.


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[Assistant] A woman's vocal cords are about 15 millimeters long, while a man's vocal cords are about 20 millimeters long.


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[Assistant] As the vocal cords of a man are comparatively longer, they vibrate less per second, producing sound having low frequency. However, the vocal cords of a woman being short vibrate more per second, thus producing sound having high frequency.


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[Assistant] Hey, looks like you have lost your way. No, I know the way. Fine, don't listen.


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[Assistant] Right? Oh yeaah. Yummy! Follow its smell, and you will reach home.


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[Assistant] When food gets cooked, it releases some aromatic gases into the air. The molecules of these gases spread and mix with air molecules.


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[Assistant] This process of spreading and mixing of a substance with another substance is called diffusion.


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[Assistant] As the food gets cold, the temperature of the aromatic gases decreases.


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[Assistant] Oh, looks like you are stuck in the middle of a huge sea.


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[Assistant] No, don't take the nail into water, it will sink. Take the nail into mercury, it will float and help you reach the shore.


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[Assistant] Please listen to me. Oh no.


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[Assistant] Density is the measure of mass present per unit volume


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[Assistant] Hence, the nail sinks in water.


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[Assistant] Nah, they are used for earthing. Earthing means digging the earth, right? No. Earthing is the process of transferring charge from a charged object to the earth. It is done with the help of this lightning rod.


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[Assistant] Hence, to protect them, the lightning rod transfers the massive charge from the lightning to the earth safely.


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[Assistant] Now, I bet you that the television will not switch on instantly after you clap.


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[Assistant] Do you know why the sound took more time to reach the television?


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[Assistant] During summer season the temperature of air increases.


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[Assistant] Hence, they vibrate faster, leading to increase in speed of sound.


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[Assistant] Now, during winter season, the temperature of air decreases.


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[Assistant] With the decrease in temperature, the kinetic energy of the molecules also decreases.


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[Assistant] Topic, ignition temperature. Why does it match light when you strike it?


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[Assistant] You'll be able to light the bonfire easily. Nah, I don't believe you. Try it. Hmm.


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[Assistant] Look, I told you. Dude, that was awesome!


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[Assistant] This happened because of low ignition temperature. Ignition temperature is the lowest temperature at which a combustible substance starts burning.


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[Assistant] Now, a match head contains antimony trisulfide and potassium chlorate. Enough. I know how to use it now.


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[Assistant] No. The match will not light on any surface. The rubbing surface of a matchbox has powdered glass and red phosphorus.


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[Assistant] The major reason for red to be used as a danger signal is its wavelength.


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[Assistant] No. In the wave theory of light, the distance between successive crests or troughs is called wavelength.


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[Assistant] As a result, whether it is fog or smoke, red light passes comparatively easily through them.


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[Assistant] Why are two thin blankets warmer than one thick blanket?


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[Assistant] Nah. To understand this, we need to first learn about bad conductors of heat. Oh.


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[Assistant] Bad conductors of heat are the materials which do not allow heat to easily flow through them.


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[Assistant] A thick blanket allows much of our body heat to escape into the atmosphere.


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[Assistant] However, when we use two blankets one on top of the other, air gets trapped between them.


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[Assistant] This air being a bad conductor of heat does not allow our body heat to easily flow into the atmosphere, thus keeping us warm.


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[Assistant] When a comet approaches the sun, it starts to heat up converting ice directly into gas and releasing the trapped dust particles in space.


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[Assistant] Next topic, lateral inversion. Why is ambulance ridden in reverse?


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[Assistant] Oh, you're just impossible. It is because mirrors form laterally inverted images. Lateral inversion is a phenomenon due to which the left side of an object appears to be the right side in the mirror and the right side appears to be the left side. Which hand are you raising now?


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[Assistant] Arrgh. Okay, don't get angry. Let's get back to the question.


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[Assistant] We know that ambulance is an emergency vehicle. Hence, when the driver of the front vehicle will see the ambulance in the rear view mirror, he will see the laterally inverted image of the word and thus read it correctly giving way to the ambulance.


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[Assistant] The ice didn't crack by accident said the monkey. I'm sure it was the demon.


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[Assistant] The demon probably caused this strange cold weather too.


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[Assistant] Wukong stopped pacing and looked at his companions.


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[Assistant] My powers aren't very strong underwater.


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[Assistant] You two must go down there and get the demon to come back up. I'll surprise him.


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[Assistant] We must stop him before he eats the Tang Monk, said Wukong. Go back down there and try to lead him up here again.


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[Assistant] I am the proud father of two beautiful children.


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[Assistant] He came to me, came home from school, bubbling over with excitement about what he had learned that day about African American history. Now,


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[Assistant] I'm an African-American and cultural studies professor, and so as you can imagine,


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[Assistant] African-American culture is kind of serious around my home, so I was very proud that my son was excited about what he had learned that day in school. So I said, well, what'd you learn? He said, I learned about Rosa Parks.


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[Assistant] Okay, what did you learn about Rosa Parks? He said I learned that Rosa Parks was this frail old black woman.


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[Assistant] In the 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama and she sat down on this bus and she had tired feet and when the bus driver told her to give up her seat to a white patron


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[Assistant] She refused because she had tired feet and it had been a long day and she was tired of oppression and she didn't give up her seat.


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[Assistant] And I guess he must have looked at my face and saw that I was a little less than impressed by his.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and she certainly didn't have tired feet. He said what? I said yes! Rosa Parks was only 42 years old.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're shocked, right? Never heard that. Roach Park was only 42 years old. She had only worked six hours that day and she was a seamstress. And her feet were just fine.


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[Assistant] The only thing that she was tired of was she was tired of inequality. She was tired of oppression. And my son said, well why would my teacher


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[Assistant] You know, tell me this thing, you know, this is, this is confusing for me because he, he, he loved this teacher and she was a, she was a good teacher, a youngish, you know, 20-something white woman, really, really smart.


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[Assistant] So I liked her as well, but he was confused. Why would she tell me this? He said, he said, dad, tell me more, tell me more, tell me more about Rosa Parks. And I said, son, I'll do you, I'll do you one better.


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[Assistant] He was like, what? I said, I'm going to buy her autobiography and I'm going to let you read it yourself.


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[Assistant] Elijah wasn't too excited about this new lengthy homework assignment that his dad had just given him, but he took it in stride. And he came back after he had read it.


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[Assistant] Not only was Rosa Parks not into, initially into nonviolence, she said, but Rosa Parks' grandfather, who basically raised her,


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[Assistant] And was light enough to pass as white, used to walk around town with his gun in his holster, and people knew that if you messed with Mr. Parks' children or grandchildren, he would put a cap in your proverbial bottom.


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[Assistant] Right? He was not someone to mess with.


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[Assistant] And he said, I also learned that Rosa Parks married a man in Raymond who was a lot like her grandfather.


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[Assistant] He would organize, he was a civil rights activist, he would organize, um, uh, events.


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[Assistant] And uhm, sometimes the events would be at Rosa Parks' home and one time Rosa Parks


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[Assistant] Remark that there were so many guns on the table because they were prepared for somebody to come busting into the door that they were prepared for whatever was going to go down. The Rosa Parks said there were so many guns on the table that I forgot to even offer them coffee or food.


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[Assistant] This is who Rosa Parks was. And in fact, Rosa Parks, when she was sitting on that bus that day, waiting for those police officers to arrive, and not knowing what was going to happen to her.


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[Assistant] She was not thinking about Martin Luther King, who she barely knew.


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[Assistant] She was not thinking about nonviolence or Gandhi. She was thinking about her grandfather. Her gun-toting, take no mess, grandfather. Grandfather. That's who Rosa Parks was thinking about.


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[Assistant] And my son was mesmerized by Rosa Parks. And I was proud of him to see this excitement. But then I still had a problem. Because I still had to go to a school


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[Assistant] And address the issue with his teacher, because I didn't want her to continue to teach the kids, obviously, false history.


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[Assistant] So I'm agonizing over this, primarily because I understand as an African American man that whenever you talk to whites about racism or anything that's racially sensitive, there's usually gonna be a challenge. This is what, uh, sociologist, white sociologist Robin D'Angelo calls white fragility.


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[Assistant] She argues that, in fact, because whites have so little experience being challenged about their white privilege, that whenever even the most minute challenge is brought before them, they usually cry, get angry or run. And I have experienced them all.


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[Assistant] And so when, uhm, I was contemplating


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[Assistant] Uh, confronting his teacher. I wasn't, wasn't happy about it, but I was like, this is a necessary evil of being a black parent trying to raise self-actualized black children. So I called Elijah to me and I said, Elijah.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna tell your teacher, you know, I'm gonna set up an appointment with your teacher and try and correct this and maybe your principal, uh, what do you think? And Elijah said, dad, I have a better idea. And I said, really, what's your idea? He said,


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[Assistant] We have a public speaking assignment.


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[Assistant] And why don't I use that public speaking assignment to talk about debunking the myths of Rosa Parks? And I was like, well, that is a good idea. So Elijah goes to school.


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[Assistant] He does this presentation. He comes back home and I can see something positive happen. I said, well, what happened son?


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[Assistant] He said, well later on in that day, the teacher pulled me aside and she apologized to me for giving that misinformation and then something


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[Assistant] Else miraculous happen the next day, she actually taught a new lesson on Rosa Parks.


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[Assistant] Filling in the gaps that she had left in correcting the mistakes that she made. And I was so, so proud of my son. But then I thought about it. And I got angry. And I got real angry. Why? Why would I get angry? Because my nine-year-old son


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[Assistant] Had to educate his teacher about his history. Had to educate his teacher about his own humanity. He's nine years old.


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[Assistant] He should be thinking about basketball or soccer or, right, the latest movie. He should not be thinking about having to take the responsibility of educating his teacher, his students, right?


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[Assistant] About himself, about his history. That was the burden that I carried. That was the burden that my parents carried and generations before them carried. And now I was seeing my son take on that burden too. You see, that's why Rosa Parks wrote her autobiography.


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[Assistant] Because during her lifetime, if you can imagine, you do this, you do this amazing thing.


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[Assistant] You're alive and you're talking about this, your, your civil rights activism and a story emerges in which somebody is telling the world


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[Assistant] That you were old and you had tired feet and you just were an accidental activist. Not that you had been an activist by then for 20 years. Not that the boycott had been planned for months. Not that you were not even the first or the second or even the third woman to be arrested for doing that.


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[Assistant] Right? You become an accidental activist, even in our own lifetime. So she wrote that autobiography to correct the record because what she wanted to remind people of was that this is what it was like in the 1950s.


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[Assistant] Trying to be black in America and fight for your rights.


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[Assistant] During the year, little over a year that the boycott lasted, there were over four church bombings.


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[Assistant] Martin Luther King's house was bombed twice. Other civil rights leaders' houses were bombed in Birmingham. Rosa Parks' husband slept at night with a shotgun.


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[Assistant] In fact, there was so much tension, there was so much pressure, there was so much terrorism that Rosa Parks and her husband, they lost their jobs and they became unemployable and eventually had to leave and move out of the South.


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[Assistant] This is a civil rights reality that Rosa Parks wanted to make sure that people understood.


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[Assistant] So you say, well, David, uhm, what does that have to do?


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[Assistant] With me. I'm a well-meaning person. I didn't own slaves. You know, I'm not trying to whitewash history. I'm a good guy. I'm a good person.


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[Assistant] Let me tell you what it has to do with you and I'll tell it to you by telling you a story about a professor of mine, white professor.


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[Assistant] When I was in graduate school, who was brilliant, brilliant individual. We'll call him Fred.


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[Assistant] And Fred was writing this history of the civil rights movement, but he was writing specifically about a moment that happened to him in North Carolina when this white man shot this black man in cold blood in a wide open space and was never convicted. And so it was this great book and he called


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[Assistant] I got a real problem with this moment that you talk about your maid in your book. And he said,


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[Assistant] You know, he's got a little tight, as we say. And he says, what do you mean? That was, that's a great story. I, I, that was a big, you know, it happened just like I said. I said, can I give you another scenario? Now, what's the story? It was 1968. Martin Luther King had just been assassinated. His maid, domestic, we'll call her Maybelle, was in the kitchen.


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[Assistant] Little Fred is eight years old. Little Fred comes into the kitchen and may bail.


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[Assistant] Who is all, who is only seen as smiling and helpful and happy is bent over the sink and she's crying and she's sobbing inconsolably.


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[Assistant] And little Fred comes over to her and says, Maybel, what is wrong?


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[Assistant] Maybe I'll turn and she says, they killed him. They killed our leader. They killed Martin Luther King. He's dead. They are monster.


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[Assistant] And little Fred says, it'll be okay, Maybell. It'll be okay. It'll be okay. And she looked at him. She says, no, it's not going to be okay. Did you, did you not hear what I just said? They killed Martin Luther King. And Fred, son of a preacher, looks up at Maybell and he says, but Maybell, didn't Jesus die on the cross for our sins? Wasn't that a good outcome? Maybe.


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[Assistant] This will be a good outcome. Maybe the death of Martin Luther King will lead to a good outcome. And as Fred tells the story, he says that maybe I'll put a hand over her mouth. She reached down and she gave little Fred a hug. And then she reached into the icebox and took out a couple pepsis. Gave him some pepsis and sent him on his way to play with his siblings. And he said,


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[Assistant] This was proof that even in the most harrowing times of race struggle, that two people could come together across racial lines and find human commonality along the lines of love and affection. And I said, Fred, that is some BS.


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[Assistant] He said, Fred was like, but I don't understand David. I'm really odd that that's that's the story. I said, Fred, let me ask you a question. I said, uhm.


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[Assistant] No, they called her Miss Maybell, or they called her Miss Johnson, or they called her Auntie Johnson. They would have never dared call her by her first name, because that would have been the height of disrespect. And yet, you were calling her by her first name every single day that she worked, and you never thought about it. I said, let me ask you another question. Was Maybell married? Did she have children?


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[Assistant] Fred could not answer any of those questions.


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[Assistant] I said, Fred, this story is not about May Bale. This story is about you. I said, this story made you feel good.


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[Assistant] But this story is not about Maybel. The reality is, what probably happened was Maybel was crying, which was not something she customarily did. So she was letting her guard down.


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[Assistant] And you came into the kitchen and you caught her at a weak moment where she was letting her guard down.


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[Assistant] And she found herself yelling at you. And then she caught herself realizing that if I'm yelling at him and he goes back and he tells his dad or he tells mom, I could lose my job.


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[Assistant] And sending you on your way, perhaps so she could finish mourning in peace. And Fred was stunned. And he realized that he had actually misread that moment.


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[Assistant] And see, this is what they did to Rosa Parks, because it's a lot easier to digest an old grandmother with tired feet, who doesn't stand up because she wants to fight for inequality, but because her feet and her back are tired and she's worked all day.


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[Assistant] See, grandmothers, old grandmothers are not scary, but young, radical black women who don't take any stuff from anybody are very scary, who stand up to power and are willing to die for that. Those are not the kind of people that make us comfortable.


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[Assistant] Well what I would say to you is, there was a time in which


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[Assistant] If you were Jewish, you were not white. If you were Italian, you were not white. If you were Irish, you were not white in this country. It took a while before the Irish, the Jews, and the Italians became white.


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[Assistant] Right? There was a time in which you were othered, when you were the people on the outside.


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[Assistant] Toni Morrison said, if in order for you to be tall, I have to be on my knees, you have a serious problem. She says white America has a serious, serious problem.


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[Assistant] To be honest, I don't know if race relations will improve in America.


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[Assistant] But I know that if they will improve, we have to take these challenges on head on.


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[Assistant] The future of my children depend on it. The future of my children's children depends on it. And whether you know it or not, the future of your children and your children's children depends on it too. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Cooks, I know the sun's shining and I don't want you to panic, but 15 minutes have gone. 45 minutes to go, yes? Come on. Come on.


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[Assistant] Topology has given me amazing projects. I've worked on materials that fly, and I've worked on dog food.


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[Assistant] Until you start to view the world through a tribological lens.


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[Assistant] And I think you'll be surprised at how significant a little bit of tribology can be in alleviating some very large problems.


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[Assistant] Trimology is the study of friction, wear and lubrication. You have all experienced all three of these things.


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[Assistant] Remember the last time you tried to move a heavy object across the floor and you could just feel something resisting you? That would be friction. Friction is the force that opposes motion. Where is the loss or transfer of material?


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[Assistant] That's the reason you have to replace your favorite shoes, because eventually the soles disappear.


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[Assistant] Lubricants are used to reduce friction in wear. They loosen up those stubborn rusted bolts such as otherwise, will not budge.


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[Assistant] Interacting surfaces in relative motion There are a lot of those in the world


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[Assistant] As you're sitting there right now, are you wiggling your foot at all or maybe shifting around in your seat? Because guess what? Tribology is happening.


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[Assistant] And your tribological interaction for this shift will be different than the person next to you. This is because the clothes you're wearing change the friction between you and the seat. If you're wearing silk, it's a little easier to squirm around in the seat than if you're wearing wool. That's because the friction is lower for silk.


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[Assistant] If you're moving your ankle or within your ankle at all, did it make a popping sound?


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[Assistant] You've had that, right? You get up, you move around with some joint cracks or pops. Thank you for that sound, Tribology.


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[Assistant] The last thing you want to do when you're trying to dance on your toes is to slip and fall.


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[Assistant] So, we had boxes of stuff called rosin. We would step into the rosin, put a light coating on our shoes,


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[Assistant] Rosin comes from tree sap, and in its powdered form, makes things less slippery.


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[Assistant] You're probably going to slip due to the low friction between your shoe and the stage. Best-case scenario, you're the clumsy ballerina on stage. But the worst-case scenario would be an injury. Already, I was optimizing and manipulating friction. You see, I was destined to be a tribologist.


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[Assistant] When you used crayons or colored pencils, you knew that the harder you pressed, the darker the color.


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[Assistant] I also knew that this meant you were going to have to sharpen that crayon or colored pencil more frequently because it was wearing down faster.


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[Assistant] Let's talk about those enticing shiny waxed floors that you just had to slide across.


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[Assistant] You knew if you put on a pair of socks, you were going to get a really good slide across that floor. Good luck trying to do that barefoot. Master manipulators of friction.


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[Assistant] For the record, my dad is a dentist. Never thought my career was going to circle back to the family business.


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[Assistant] Until I started to look at it as a tribologist, and then it became incredibly complex. You have hard materials, those be your teeth.


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[Assistant] Soft materials like your gums, the toothpaste, the toothbrush.


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[Assistant] There's lubrication, the form of saliva and water, the dynamics of the person doing the brushing and more. I promise, if we put diamonds in your toothpaste, you're going to remove that plaque. Probably going to remove your teeth as well.


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[Assistant] So, there's a fine balance to be had between wearing the plaque away and not damaging your teeth and gums.


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[Assistant] We're brushing our teeth because we ate. Eating is another routine thing we all do, seems simple enough. It's another field of tribology, and it's not so simple.


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[Assistant] You have the food, which will break and wear while you're eating, and that food is interacting with your teeth, your tongue, your saliva, your throat, and all of those interactions are going to influence your experience of eating.


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[Assistant] I think you can all recall a moment where you tried something new and you just found yourself going,


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[Assistant] Tribologists are looking at lubricity and coefficient of friction as ways to connect mouthfeel and texture to what you're experiencing.


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[Assistant] So that if we're changing the formulations of what we're eating and drinking, so the sugar content or fat content are different, how does that change mouthfeel? How do we quantify that? This is what tribologists are looking to solve.


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[Assistant] We all brush our teeth on a regular basis. How many of us brush our pets' teeth?


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[Assistant] Animals as adults commonly get periodontal disease, so we really should be brushing their teeth. And more pet owners are starting to do this. I know my best friend is really great at brushing her cat's teeth somehow. Good luck trying to do that with my cat.


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[Assistant] You may have observed that you give your dog a treat and it magically seems to disappear after just one bite. So the added challenge here is how do you remove plaque when you have one bite?


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[Assistant] I developed a benchtop test to study this problem, and to do so I had to mimic the oral system of dogs. Their teeth, uh, plaque, saliva, and I used friction-aware measurements to study the effectiveness of that treat on removing plaque.


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[Assistant] If you're sitting there right now thinking about the last time you didn't brush your dog's teeth, you're very welcome. But what's the big deal with tribology? Let me give you one more example.


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[Assistant] You have your personal interactions with the car, the car's interactions with the road, and everything under the hood and in the drivetrain.


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[Assistant] Some routine maintenance is directly connected to tribology.


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[Assistant] You know how many miles your tires are recommended for using before you replace them. You regularly check the treads on those tires. You're actively monitoring the wear of your tires.


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[Assistant] Tribology is the study of wear and friction. And with tires, friction can be the difference between a safe arrival and a car accident.


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[Assistant] This is because the friction between your tires and the road will influence your acceleration, your deceleration and your stopping distance.


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[Assistant] As a driver, you instinctively already know how important friction is because you know when the roads are wet, they're more dangerous because they're slippery.


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[Assistant] This is because the water is reducing the friction between your tires and the road.


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[Assistant] Holmberg and Erdemer have actually done some great studies showing the impact tribology research can have on reducing our energy consumption. And they found that, looking over the span of 20 years, we had the opportunity to reduce the energy consumption of passenger vehicles up to 60 percent. We think about all the cars in the world, it's a lot of energy we can save.


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[Assistant] It's part of the nearly nine percent of our current global energy consumption that the authors identified, tribology can help us save. That's a significant amount of energy, so when you look at the numbers, tribology can do some amazing things.


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[Assistant] To put this in perspective, one quad of energy is roughly equivalent to 180 million barrels of oil. And tribology can help us save 20 times that.


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[Assistant] This is through new materials, new lubricants, novel component design.


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[Assistant] Doing things like making wind turbines more efficient and reliable.


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[Assistant] Imagine the opportunities that will reveal themselves as more of us start to see tribology all around.


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[Assistant] My favorite projects right now are aerospace applications. I love reducing wear and friction in these challenging environments. I can make materials and parts that will reduce the friction in moving components and engines so that they have less force opposing their motion.


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[Assistant] Less force to move means they require less power. So you can use a smaller actuator, which would weigh less, which saves fuel. I can also help make parts that last longer through lower wear.


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[Assistant] This will reduce material waste and also means we're manufacturing the parts less frequently. So we're saving energy in manufacturing.


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[Assistant] I encourage you to start seeing tribology in the world around you and to think about how you would improve those interacting surfaces you experience.


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[Assistant] Even the smallest improvements really add up.


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[Assistant] Tribology may be a funny-sounding word, but it has a huge impact on our world. Thank you.


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[Assistant] I think if we stay consistent, some of the other teams are starting to become inconsistent.


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[Assistant] Thank you! Thank you! Aww, go you! While I was trying to figure out what to do, Sally had gotten


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[Assistant] I think we're gonna change teams. You think?


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[Assistant] That's it, and the other one. She'd watch me to make sure that I was not too high or too low, which was the game changer, really. Okay, sweet, let's bring her in. Sweet. High five. Do you want me to go back? Yeah. Go out that door.


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[Assistant] Next we'll look at some elementary symbol table implementations. These are so simple that we won't go into much detail, but still it's worthwhile to take a look at them to set the stage for the more advanced implementations we'll consider next.


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[Assistant] Well, one thing we could do is, uh, maintain a linked list. Uh, we could keep it in order or keep it unordered. This version, uh, keeps it unordered. So we're gonna, uh, have nodes in the linked list that have key value pairs. They have, uh, uh, every key in the symbol table and the value associated with that key.


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[Assistant] For search, we have to, since it's unordered, scan through the whole list to find a match, a key that's there.


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[Assistant] Uh, for insert, uh, we'd also have to scan through all keys to find, uh, the place, uh, to, uh, update a value if it's a value that's already there. Uh, and if there's no match, uh, we could add it to the front.


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[Assistant] So, uh, here's our, uh, simple client for traces. Uh, so, uh, if we associate s with zero, we just, uh, add it, uh, that's our one node linked list that's got that information.


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[Assistant] So now when we associate e with 6, we have to search through the list to see if there's an e, uh, and in this case there is, and then we update, just update that value. That's the associative array abstraction.


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[Assistant] It's possible to implement symbol tables that allow multiple values with the same key and so forth, and that leads to different types of clients, different types of implementations.


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[Assistant] We're going to stick to this associative array abstraction and no duplicate keys in the symbol table, uh, because it both simplifies implementations and leads to simpler clients.


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[Assistant] Uh, so this is a simple, uh, implementing this as a simple example of linked list processing, uh, slight modification, uh, of our stack and queue code.


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[Assistant] Uh, and, uh, while you still have to insert, uh, another issue is, uh, for many clients, uh, if the keys are ordered, uh, it's nice to be able to iterate through the symbol table in order, and this one by definition doesn't provide that.


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[Assistant] Uh, and, uh, this one just uses equals, so the keys don't have to be comparable for this, uh, it just uses equals.


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[Assistant] Uh, so, uh, our challenge is to, uh, look for methods that give us more efficient implementations to search and insert operations. And we've already looked at an algorithm that can do this, uh, and that's binary search.


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[Assistant] Uh, and actually use parallel arrays, one for the keys and one for the values.


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[Assistant] Uh, and the idea is to keep the array of keys in sorted order, uh, and then find the index, uh, associated with the key that we're searching for using binary search, and then use that index to, uh, get the value, uh, associated with that key that's stored in a parallel array.


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[Assistant] And we're doing a search for the index where p is stored. We look at the middle, p is bigger than l, so we look to the right. Look in the middle of the right half, p is less than r, so we look to the left and continue until we find p.


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[Assistant] So for example, for q, that's an unsuccessful search, and you can figure out from the last index, when you don't find your element that you're seeking, you can figure out the return value, which is the number of keys that are less than it.


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[Assistant] So that's a trace of implementing binary search to find the rank of a key in an ordered array. And again, for successful you can use that rank to, uh, return the value. And for, uh, if it's unsuccessful, you can use that rank to figure out where to insert the new key.


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[Assistant] The whole table is empty, we return null. Uh, otherwise, we call rank, and that gives us the number of keys less than the current key. And so that is where we look to check to see if that key is there. Uh, if it's there, then we return the value with the same index and parallel array.


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[Assistant] Now the problem with binary searches, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, well, not necessarily the problem, but the situation is that, uh, if when it's time to insert a new element, we have to move everything larger over one position, uh, just like an insertion sort.


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[Assistant] So if the table has A, E, R, and S, and we have to insert the value C, then we have to move the E, R, and S over one position to put the C.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then, uh, put the value associated with C, uh, you have to do the same thing in the vals array, move all the values associated with those keys over one position, uh, and put the associated value in.


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[Assistant] So this is a trace of what would happen for our trace. And again, every insertion involves making a new position by moving all the larger keys over one position. Do the same thing in the VALS array.


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[Assistant] And if it's changing the value associated with the key that's already there, then it's just a matter of finding where the key is and changing the value at that index.


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[Assistant] So those, from that trace, it's pretty easy to see what's need, what's involved for the code, and we'll skip that code.


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[Assistant] Uh, and just take a look at the comparison between this elementary implementation for symbol tables, uh, with the sequential search in an unordered list. Uh, so one thing is we're using a different key interface. Uh, we're taking advantage of the fact that the keys are comparable to give us an efficient search.


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[Assistant] We can do search in worst case, in average case, in time proportional to log in.


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[Assistant] On the other hand, in a dynamic situation where there are a lot of inserts, uh, this method is going to be problematic because the cost of an insert is linear, it's proportional to n over 2.


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[Assistant] If you have a huge number of operations, uh, and, uh, every one of them is proportional to the symbol table size, then, uh, you're just not going to be able to support, uh, huge numbers of keys. What we want is efficient implementations of both search and insert.


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[Assistant] He'll be angry if he finds out we couldn't arrest the demon.


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[Assistant] I hope Wukong steals that metal ring. I'm so angry at that demon.


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[Assistant] We're all armed. We can easily defeat the demon now.


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[Assistant] Fine if other people think that. What you gotta do is you gotta stay consistent. Means we got a chance.


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[Assistant] Come on, GC! If we're eliminated, because I cannot do the singing challenge, I don't think I could live with it.


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[Assistant] We had to sing a beautiful Portuguese song to get our next clue.


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[Assistant] The clue said to count only the yellow ones. I'm colour blind. Is that yellow? So that's tricky. Are these all yellow? Yeah.


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[Assistant] I could see the yellow ones, but occasionally the green ones looked like yellow ones. We'll count off to the left. 29, 30. Great. 130.


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[Assistant] No? I think we're gonna try 292, just to see what-


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[Assistant] Then we hop in our Mark's sports car.


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[Assistant] I know why you're here, Wukong. I also know who the demon is. You must go to Lausa for help.


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[Assistant] He's my green buffalo. I didn't realize he'd escaped.


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[Assistant] Okay, okay. I can capture the buffalo. Don't worry.


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[Assistant] Oh, this is disgusting! When I got there, H was there, and she had shoved a lot of squid down her top. Wasn't gonna do that technique, I decided.


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[Assistant] That was a lot of seafood to carry with these little mussels.


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[Assistant] That monastery was an illusion. A demon must have made it to trick people.


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[Assistant] Why don't my friends believe me when I warn them about demons? He put down the food and rushed to the cave.


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[Assistant] If you don't, I'll turn this entire mountain into a pile of rubble!


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[Assistant] That's a lie, said Wukong. The Tang Monk is a good and honest man.


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[Assistant] He would never steal. I can't believe you would even suggest.


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[Assistant] My iron bar is not an ordinary weapon, said Wukong. It's extremely heavy.


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[Assistant] I doubt she would have married you. Why not?


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[Assistant] In that case, you might also want to pay a visit to Magnata Books.


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[Assistant] They have stores all over, but the first official one was built here in Calm. And their resident scholars are remarkably talented.


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[Assistant] If you want to unlock the true potential of your folios, you should go see them. The first customization is always free.


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[Assistant] To get first, you gotta be pretty, uh, pretty ruthless. This is the business end and then we have to throw him under a truck. So, but just to win a leg is tough, let alone to make it to the final three. So there's no alliances now and it should be dog eat dog. If we could take a team out, I can send the boys back in. Definitely.


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[Assistant] Do you know where you're going or not? After about 20 minutes of driving around.


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[Assistant] There's no security blanket anymore. If you're last when there's only four teams, then using Main Strike. We're pretty screwed now.


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[Assistant] So this flight does have absolutely no idea where we're going. We had to get to Las Petulas. We knew the suburb, but we didn't know the street or the exact location. We're pretty screwed now.


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[Assistant] Las Pertulas, it's up to you. Eventually, we find Las Pertulas. Slow and steady, Dan. You're smashing it.


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[Assistant] Very feminine Daniel. Very feminine my friend. Screw you.


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[Assistant] Right here, we're not too far behind. It's a long day, I don't know how long it's gonna be.


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[Assistant] Either they've stuffed up, or we've caught up.


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[Assistant] We've done this for long enough. We're sweet, we're ready to go. Orchestra, you play that music.


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[Assistant] Look, it wasn't an enjoyable dance, it was a dance we had to get done.


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[Assistant] Ash can get very emotional very quickly and she was frazzled. These shoulders are getting sore Ash.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I guess we were. For a while.


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[Assistant] Shinra Manor was the biggest building in town, and older than a reactor. The company used to conduct research there, back when they were still a small manufacturer, even so.


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[Assistant] Here's where we get our birds in shape for the races. What races? The gold saucers I mean. They're a big deal in our community. Won't find a ranch around here that doesn't compete. So you guys race too?


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[Assistant] That was something else. You and Pico are a perfect match!


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[Assistant] Oh, that reminds me. Y'all mentioned your flat broke, right? Then you might want to swing by calm again. Now that the troopers have cleared out, it's probably safe for you to ask around for work.


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[Assistant] Not sure what the trouble is. Didn't want to confide in me for whatever reason. Honestly, she hasn't been herself since mom left. They get dang near everything together.


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[Assistant] Okay, I would like to introduce all of you beautiful, curious-minded people to my favourite animal in the world.


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[Assistant] This is the Peter Pan of the amphibian world. It's an axolotl. So it's a type of salamander, but it never fully grows up and climbs out of the water like other salamanders do.


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[Assistant] And this little guy has X-Man-style powers, right? So if it loses any limb, it can just completely regenerate. It's amazing. And I mean, look at it. It's got a face with a permanent smile. It's framed by feathery gills. It's just, how could you not love that?


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[Assistant] This particular type of axolotl, a very close relative, is known as an ochoke. It is equally as cute, and it lives in just one place in a lake in the north of Mexico. It's called Lake Pátzcuaro, and as you can see, it is stunningly beautiful.


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[Assistant] And this is something that's a scenario that's playing out all over the world. We're living through an extinction crisis. And species are particularly vulnerable when they're evolutionarily tailored to just one little niche or maybe one lake.


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[Assistant] But this is TED, right? So this is where I give you the big idea, the big solution. So, how do you save one special weird species from going extinct? Well, the answer, at least my answer, isn't a grand technological intervention. It's actually really simple. It's that you find people who know all about this animal, and you ask them, and you listen to them.


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[Assistant] Scientists and science as an enterprise can fall at the first hurdle if ...


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[Assistant] It rushes in knowing that it's the experts that know best. But when scientists shake off those academic constraints and really look to people who have a totally different but really important perspective on what they're trying to do, it can genuinely save the world. One wonderfully weird amphibian at a time.


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[Assistant] They are nuns who have a convent in Patsquareau, they live in Patsquareau, and they have a shared history with the Ochoke, and it is so mind-bogglingly wonderful that it drew me all the way there to make an audio documentary about them. And I even have the unflattering selfie to prove it.


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[Assistant] So there is a room at the center of their convent, though, that looks like this. It's very strange. It's lined with all these tanks full of fresh water and hundreds of achokes. And that's because this creature, because of its regenerative abilities, it's believed has healing powers if you consume it.


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[Assistant] So the sisters actually make and sell a medicine using a showcase. I bought a bottle of it.


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[Assistant] So this is it, it tastes a bit like honey, but the sisters reckon it is good for all kinds of particularly respiratory ailments. So I just want you to have a listen, if you will, to a clip of Sister Ophelia.


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[Assistant] And so you've harnessed that power in a seraph and in a medicine. Can you tell me how it's made?


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[Assistant] This, this, the achoke, the decline in the achoke actually nearly put a halt to that medicine production altogether. Which is why the Sisters started this. It's the world's first achoke farm.


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[Assistant] So all they wanted was a healthy, sustainable population so that they could continue to make that medicine, but what they created at the same time was a captive breeding program for a critically endangered species.


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[Assistant] So the nuns show the biologists how you rear perfectly healthy, very robust Patskoro Ochoques, and the scientists have put some of their funding into tax filters and pumps in this strange, incongruous but amazing room.


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[Assistant] This is the kind of partnership that can save a species.


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[Assistant] But I don't think I see enough of this sort of thing, and I have been ludicrously lucky in my job. I've traveled to loads of places and just basically followed around brilliant people who are trying to use science to answer big questions and solve problems.


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[Assistant] So I've hung out with scientists who've solved the mystery of the origin of the menopause by tracking killer whales off the North Pacific coast. And I've followed around scientists who've planted cameras in Antarctic penguin colonies because they were looking to capture the impacts of climate change as it happens. But it's this team that really stuck with me.


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[Assistant] That really showed me the impact that these delicate but really important relationships can have.


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[Assistant] In fact, I think we have a bit of a tradition, especially in the West, of a kind of academically blinkered hubris that has kept science historically an enterprise for the elite. And I think although that's moved on, it continues to be its downfall on occasion. So here's my example.


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[Assistant] Now, that was all a very long time ago, but as I've prepared for this talk, I've revisited some of the stories that I have covered where these really unusual collaborations made a real positive difference.


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[Assistant] So I spoke to former poachers whose knowledge of where they used to hunt illegally is now


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[Assistant] Really important in conservation projects in those same places. And I spoke to an amazing artist whose own experience of mental health struggles has actually paved the way for him to take a role in designing and creating a new, really innovative and beautiful mental health ward in a hospital.


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[Assistant] Most recently, I worked here in the Chernobyl exclusion zone with a team of scientists that have been working there for decades. One of their experiments growing crops in that area has now turned into this. It's Chernobyl's first vodka.


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[Assistant] And that's actually the result of years of conversation with local communities who still live on the periphery of that abandoned land and want to know when they can and if they can safely grow food and build businesses and rebuild their communities and their lives. This was a product of humility.


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[Assistant] Of listening. And I saw that in spades when I visited Patsquareau.


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[Assistant] So I watched as a decades-experienced conservation biologist called Gerardo Garcia listened and watched super carefully as a nun in a full habit and wimple in latex gloves showed him how if you tap in a choque on the head really gently it'll open its mouth so you can quickly get a DNA swab with a q-tip.


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[Assistant] When scientists team up with, look to and defer to people who have a really valuable perspective on what they're trying to do, but a totally different outlook, something really special can happen.


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[Assistant] A truly global and a very, very ambitious example of this called the International Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Now that is not a snappy title, but stick with me. This organization includes more than 130 countries and it's aiming to do nothing less than assess the state of the natural world across our entire planet.


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[Assistant] So it recently published this global assessment on the state of nature, and that could be the foundation for an international agreement where all of those nations could sign up to finally take action to tackle the biodiversity crisis that's happening on planet Earth right now.


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[Assistant] Now I know from trying to communicate, trying to report on reports like this,


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[Assistant] On assessments like this for a broad audience, that these big international groups can seem so high level as to be kind of out of reach and nebulous.


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[Assistant] But there's a group of human beings at the center of them, the report's authors, who have this formidable task of bringing together all of that biological and ecological information that paints a clear and accurate picture of the state of the natural world.


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[Assistant] And 10 years before this panel even set out to do that, to put that assessment together, they created what's called a cultural concept framework. So this is essentially a cultural concept translation dictionary, right, for all of the different ways that we talk about the natural world.


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[Assistant] So it formally recognizes, for example, that Mother Earth and nature means the same thing.


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[Assistant] And what that means is that indigenous and local knowledge can be brought into the same document and given the weight and merit that it deserves in that assessment of what our natural environment, what state our natural environment is in.


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[Assistant] And that is absolutely critical because, you know, an Inuit hunter might never publish in an academic journal, but I'll bet you she knows more about the changes to her home Arctic community because of climate change than a scientist who spent many years going to and from that region taking measurements.


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[Assistant] And collectively, indigenous people are the caretakers of an estimated 25 percent of the entire global land surface, including some of the most biodiverse places on the planet. So imagine


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[Assistant] How much we're missing if we don't cross those cultural boundaries, or at least try to, when we're trying to figure out how the world works and how to protect it.


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[Assistant] Every single research proposal is a new opportunity to do exactly that. So what if every time a research project was proposed, it had to include a suggestion of a person or a group of people, local farmers, indigenous community leaders, nuns,


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[Assistant] Researchers wanted to bring into the fold, invite into their team and listen to.


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[Assistant] I just want to let Sister Ophelia give her view of why she's so particularly driven and dedicated to the survival of the Ochoque.


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[Assistant] I feel like I should sort of slink off and let the nuns sing me out, because it sounds so lovely. But did you hear that? We're providing happiness.


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[Assistant] Now that's not a protocol you'd ever see outlined in any formal research project proposal.


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[Assistant] But it's the impetus behind what's become the most successful breeding program in the world of an animal that was on the very brink of being wiped out.


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[Assistant] I say we put him down. I mean that's what Sung would do if he was here.


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[Assistant] But you three can call me. Your worst nightmare! Where's Reno?


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[Assistant] But guys, that's not all. Oh, there's more.


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[Assistant] Oh wow. That caramelised white chocolate base is crucial. The texture has to be absolutely spot on or it won't work in the 3D printer.


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[Assistant] Boom, boom, shake the room. Let's go. Two hours to go.


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[Assistant] Guys, that clock is ticking now! 30 minutes to go!


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[Assistant] They'll get 10 minutes to plate up their dish, so let's get been going.


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[Assistant] We really loved watching you cook, but uh, at the end of the day.


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[Assistant] Herbaceousness of what your dish had, you know, by putting the fennel fronds, you know, and pollen that added this, this savoury note to your dish that this lacks.


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[Assistant] Dishes that were so close to Brendan's and they were gorgeous. One of those dishes belonged to Chloe.


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[Assistant] The other dish that blew us away belonged to Ben.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry Pops, but you're out of luck. Pops. Got no more birds. Last one went this morning. Could've fooled me kid. These are spoken for. That or they're not fit for riding.


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[Assistant] Buuuut, I can see you're in a bind, so I'll bump you up the list. For a price, of course.


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[Assistant] Hmm. Well, there is one other option.


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[Assistant] And one last thing. This info comes free of charge, provided you promise to stop by our shop. Speak to Chloe back there. She'll sell you whatever you need.


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[Assistant] Not so much as a feather out of place. Got one healthy bird here.


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[Assistant] Once he's out of spill though, I'm sure he'll come around to the idea, if we ask him this. Ain't that right?


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[Assistant] Because the flags were actually posted on the bottom of the steps. So it's like, this is where it starts. So maybe we have to count these stairs.


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[Assistant] Jared ripped the clue and it was full actually. It had a fast forward in there and it also had a route marker.


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[Assistant] He started twisting and turning and doing all this intricate stuff and I was like, what the hell, I'm never gonna be able to remember how to do this.


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[Assistant] I could tell Sally, she was really getting a bit worried that we were potentially going to steal their place.


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[Assistant] You know? 100%. It is really frustrating because you're realising this is taking a lot longer than it should.


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[Assistant] Not so much. And then from there, we would have to show our ocean in a traditional way.


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[Assistant] That realisation just dawned on us and we started to think, is it too late to pull out? Are we really going to go through with this? We're going to go with the fried tuck fluke now.


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[Assistant] Although you can see it, trying to actually find out how to get down to the stairs that lead up to it was pretty tricky.


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[Assistant] Wukong has made fake versions of me, Bajie, and the Tang Monk. He's planning to make the journey without us.


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[Assistant] I just saw him on the fruit and flower mountain. I don't know how he got here before me.


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[Assistant] I don't know which one of you is the real Wukong, said Wujing.


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[Assistant] Go to Mount Podolatka. Guan Yin will be able to tell who is who. I will return to the Tang Monk to tell him what's going on.


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[Assistant] Chapter 72. A Surprise at the Fruit and Flower Mountain.


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[Assistant] Hello Wukong. How is the journey going? Wukong threw up his hands.


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[Assistant] Why? asked the bodhisattva. He told me to leave, said the monkey.


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[Assistant] The horse drank from a stream while Bajay looked in a bag.


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[Assistant] The monk sat down in the grass next to the road and closed his eyes. He had nearly dozed off when he heard a voice.


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[Assistant] It was Wukong. The Tang monk glared at the monkey.


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[Assistant] Quickly, the monkey grabbed the bags and then vanished. Wu Zheng and Ba Jie soon returned.


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[Assistant] They found the Tang monk sitting by the road, rubbing his head.


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[Assistant] When Wu Jing arrived there, he found Wu Kong near the waterfall.


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[Assistant] The monkey looked at Wuxing blankly.


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[Assistant] Said Wukong. He pointed to a group of figures.


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[Assistant] A monk who looked exactly like the Tang monk sat on a horse. A pig stood next to the horse.


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[Assistant] Just then, he saw a purple figure walk over to the horse.


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[Assistant] You certainly do. So, what are you all looking at?


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[Assistant] Everyone, it's Emily Fox. Today's video is going to be a new book recommendation video and it's going to be centered around one of my favorite premises or setting, which is magical schools.


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[Assistant] I am stretching the definition a little bit with some of these, but I wanted to add all of the ones that I can remember that have at least, you know, a mention or a little portion of the plot around a magical school, because if you like that promise, you will take everything, right, that you can find. So this is where I'm at right now. I will be talking about the best ones that I've read, the worst ones, and like the in-betweens quickly.


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[Assistant] It's mostly like a list with like a small, uh, description of the plot or my thoughts just to let you know. Just because I didn't like it doesn't mean you won't, so I'll explain my issues with them so you can, you know.


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[Assistant] Decide for yourself if that's something that's gonna be a problem or not. So let's get to these. I do have quite a few. I decided to skip authors that are problematic just because I don't really feel comfortable supporting them. Feel free to, you know, lick them up. Why does it sound like I said lick? Look them up.


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[Assistant] The Name in the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss obviously has to be on this list. The first book is definitely centered around, uh, magical school. Book two I'm currently reading, so the first portion is also there, but I don't think it's gonna stay there the whole time. Uh, book three eventually, hopefully will come out.


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[Assistant] I overall enjoyed this book more than expected, to be honest. I went into it with pretty low expectations. And so far, I feel like whatever I've heard people complain about, like the main character being a little uh, and uhm, the female character not being great, I've been seeing it as the author, the narrator judging his younger self because he's retelling his life story.


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[Assistant] I loved it. It is an adult fantasy, but standalone, which there aren't enough of those. It's very character driven though.


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[Assistant] Uh, but there is a magical school. Technically two actually. You find this woman who, when she was younger, went to an international school where she learned to fight and a bit of magic.


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[Assistant] And then, uh, she married into a very, very traditional family, which do own a magical school in a small town or village, really. And you're following her flashbacks and then her current life as she is raising her sons there.


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[Assistant] And it's one of the best characters arcs that I've ever read. I do recommend pushing through a little bit. The beginning is a bit slower. It was originally self-published and it's probably why it's so underrated, but it is fantastic. I adored it to see her struggle to find her place there.


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[Assistant] It's fantastic. I don't want to say more because again, character driven, but it's amazing. Do read it. Let's talk about the Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin.