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adopted at Birth by a lawyer and a his wife except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

or having a deep conversation with someone, except multiplied by 100 or 1,000. How well would this go?

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

Not attracted sexually, per Se, but most drawn. And across culture, across religion, and across gender -- except for one -- there are a few answers that just keep coming back.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

So that's reassuring, you know. But it would be worse, except for that I happen to remember that over 20 years ago, when I was a teenager,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

>> Yes, >> except I'm not grunting. >> You You can grunt if you want to.

How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED · TED

LN: It's, like, too good to be true. DF: Well, it is, except for the fact that it's just not profitable to do this. So that's why it exists.

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

What does that do? First, you don't have to feed them except electricity. So that's good.

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

We've created a hive mind. Except the hive is really boring and keeps suggesting the same five ideas. Consider critical thinking.

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

along with section-by-section summaries. Except these aren't really just summaries. We think of them more as lenses.

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

for kids' physical development in the '70s. Oh, except the one on leadership qualities, he left that one unchecked.

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

Not unusual as far as eulogies go, except for one thing. He'd already heard it.

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

Life is nothing except one long sushi conveyor belt of things that are going to test you and teach you at the same time.

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

I was very confident in this conclusion, except for one thing: it didn't seem to apply to me.

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

The entire audience went silent and very shy, except for this same guy. So I had to call on him, right?

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

Could have saved you a lot of time, Carole. CC: Except as I said, it's like the opposite of human creativity. CA: Well, so let me ask this though.

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

Third prize, you're fired." It's a little bit like that, except there's no second prize. (Laughter)

How to Live a Meaningful Life | Brian S. Lowery | TED · TED

and it has a million Nobel Prize-level geniuses in it. Except they don't eat, they don't sleep, they don't complain, they work at superhuman speed

Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation | Tristan Harris | TED · TED

artificial general intelligence. Except when it makes small, silly mistakes, which it often does.

Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid | Yejin Choi | TED · TED

Seemed like a brilliant idea, except that diethylene glycol is toxic to human beings. It's basically antifreeze.

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

one of the most successful achievements of humankind -- except for gravity, which is absent from the Standard Model. It's crazy.

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

Now, this may sound like the beginning of the High Line story in Manhattan, and it's very similar, except they haven't developed this into a park yet, although they're working on it.

Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | Emma Marris

but this would be one of the few places that wouldn't count as nature. There's nothing there except humans, no other plants, no other animals. And what I really wanted to do

Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | Emma Marris

There has been no documented case, except one, of any intervention causing a local extinction.

Ryan Phelan: The intended consequences of helping nature thrive | TED · TED

because you probably assume that ChatGPT is speaking English to you, except it's not speaking English, in the same way that the algorithm's not showing you reality.

Why Are People Starting to Sound Like ChatGPT? | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

known as England, except I left England as soon as I completed my undergraduate education,

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

since I was a really small child. Except, for many of those years, I've had to carry around this funny little pink card

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

for the last 25 years in Japan. Except, all of those years I've been there on a tourist visa, and I'm fairly sure not many Japanese

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

my home and every last thing in it except for me to ash. And when I woke up the next morning,

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

In many ways, it is very similar to your local marula, except that it is a flower, not a fruit. Where the forests are rich,

What foods did your ancestors love? Aparna Pallavi

no one gives a funk about foreign aid." Except he didn't use the word "funk." He went on.

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans

Cars abandoned in the roadways. A city strangely silent, except for the hum of our pumps. And the clang of pulaskis.

How to Make Big Decisions in Challenging Circumstances | Jonathan Reimer | TED · TED