Name: 【TED】George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity (George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity)
Uploaded: 2017-10-31T13:40:54.000Z
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that you've heard in the last several fabulous days

have been from people who have the characteristic

they are experts, they know what's going on.

And what I'm going to do is share with you

because we're going to come back to it in a moment.

"Shorthand description, ['hardcore pornography'];

and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly defining it.

I'm going to come back to that in a moment.

A coffee cup -- we don't think about coffee cups,

but it's much more interesting than one might think --

when the container is filled with hot liquid.

you're not likely to get cholera that way.

So the coffee cup, or the cup with a handle,

and keep you from being eaten by cheetahs

and books are, after all, your education.

But there's another class of simple things,

but not at all simple in how they're constructed.

One is the cellphone, which we use every day.

And the other, of course, is a birth control pill,

fundamentally changed the structure of society

the opportunity to make reproductive choices.

So, there are two ways of thinking about this word, I think.

by saying that we can think about something --

which is to think about the problem in terms of what --

if you associate with moral philosophers --

because the kinetic energy of the water molecules is high

and they bounce against things rapidly --

that's a kind of physical science argument.

because it was sitting on a stove with the flame on --

And, since this is coming from a moral philosopher,

the fourth would be that it's part of God's plan for the universe.

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【TED】George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity (George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity)

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