Agricoltura, New York -- before the City | Eric Sanderson
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http://www.ted.com 400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife -- accurate down to the block -- when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn't get delivery.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
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Eric Anderson talked about pictures New York's natural history. I was interested in New York , so I was impressed to listen to this lecture.
He said “we need a future that has the same diversity and abundance and dynamism of Manhattan.” Someday, I eager to visit New York!
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Thanks for the gratefulness that we founded New York... Greetz from the Netherlands
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This posted video, “40 Years in 3 Minutes” takes a look at some NYC moments in history while synched to The Beatles’ GET BACK and GLASS ONION. Also includes some 8mm film antics from 1971. Enjoy.
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@janissary211 Diversity has nothing to do with the amount of anything its about how different each thing is
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So this is the origin of that National Geographic feature.
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No, not that low. And at any rate, that is irrelevant. The per capita crime is one of the lowest in the world.
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wow
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Well done, a true visualization of the network of nature.
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PS (hughtub)
Your ideas about evolution seem to totally dimiss the myriad environmental factors that determine survival. You cannot plan for unforeseen environmental changes (such as bacteria) with "non-random" mating. You're just as likely to breed offspring that are vulnerable.
Random breeding is much more likely to enable a species to continue because of the variety it produces.
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hughtub,
1. Japan as a homogeneous society is a stereotype that is not true, especially in the urban areas.
2. Just because there are more minorities in prison doesn't mean they commit more crimes. The drug war is a "great" social engineering tool. Is it it a coincidence that it was "declared" by Nixon just as minorities gained civil rights?
3. Intellectual ability and potential are two different things. DC dollars haven't help the urban drop out rate. Shitty schools don't improve SAT scores.
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I do not doubt for a second that technical improvements can and must be made.
I am asserting that the root problem is our current political structure with it's insustainable economic model, demanding constant growth in order to appear healthy. Inabilty of societies to self-regulate population growth due to poverty and arcane superstitions is another problem.
Improved technical solutions alone are simply plasters on a gaping, infected wound.
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Where I live, all new high risers have to be green buildings. The entire skins of these buildings are solar collectors, they treat their own waste & reuse water for cooling & heating. These buildings are giant solar collectors which put all unused energy collected back into the electric grid. Using a panoply of renewable energy sources, wind, solar, algae, hydrogen fuels could virtually eliminate the impact of the internal combustion engine & greatly lessen the need for polluting energy plants
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You have just widened the debate a good deal but do make a valid point about energy wastage. There is much that we could debate on but this forum is poorly suited for the ranging discussion that would ensue. Large conurbations and rural exodii raise a slew of other problems and socio-economic issues
As for the carbon footprint debate, I believe that this is a political mirage. The very real environmental degradation is sadly overlooked at the expense of this fictional bogeyman.
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Not so. Suburban sprawl is the most wasteful of human configurations. Cities are far more energy efficient than suburbs or exurbs but suburbs are more the culprit because of their large populations. Large populations of people heating individual homes for a only a few people & traveling everywhere using individual transportation leave a much bigger carbon footprint. They don't have to live in mega-cities but small, more dense communities of people would save much more energy.
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The "full potential" was poor wording on my part not the testers; I should have said that they had reached parity with their Japanese counterparts.
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How did they reach full potential in American schools?
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I think they were purposely "blurred" in some instances...perhaps to control copyright infringement issues?
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In Japan there is a subset of people whom the Japanese always looked down upon. Despite being in the same public school system as the rest of the population, they scored lower on tests. Some of the same subset of people moved to the U.S.. A study was done to compare their test scores in comparison to other Japanese & their scores were now the same. Without the constant atmosphere of prejudice & discrimination, since Americans were unaware of any differences, they reached full potential
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and can you blame the logic, getting something for nothing is just as good as it gets.
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The word "racist" is so politically charged that it has long been striped of meaning. Therefore I find it very unhelpful to label others as such. I believe name calling and stereotyping are no way to right wrongs.
http://www.ted.com 400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife -- accurate down to the block -- when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn't get delivery. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10