countries that that follow us um yeah we we sold out two shows in London it was pretty neat and we went to Dublin and uh Edinburgh and uh Manchester mhm and it was uh they're different over there the audiences are much different we weren'tquite prepared for that how so they're just a little more um stayed reserved yeah not quite as expressive especially
resulted in two movies multiple tours appearances on Comedy Central the Edinburgh Fringe Festival the 2006 Mega Smash book Sky Mall and two new books that they'll be talking about todayObama's blackberry and weddings of the times one written in a month the other
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That was absolutely forbidden. In Edinburgh , professors got paid on commission.
babies could help them achieve larger sizes overall. But there's a really interesting story that we've pieced together recently. This is research that's come out of my lab at the University of Edinburgh . It's been largely led by Ornela Bertrand, who is a postdoc scholar with me and is now a young professor in Spain. And this is a story that really strikes at the heart of what we think of when we think of mammals. It knocks us down a peg a little bit. And so I'll explain, because I didn't expect this to be the story, but it turns out to be true. Very early mammals living
And just this morning, at 6:00 AM, I used my Chum Mat in yoga that will give me a little bit of padding on my knees. Kristian is actually in Edinburgh , Scotland. And he and his wife have a home-based businesses as education consultants.
We started in London, and we went north. First to Edinburgh , and then across Europe to Istanbul. We ran into some problems that we will talk about.
And sort of the digital technology of the day was actually medicine. The school in Edinburgh University was the place for medicine. They were advances in anesthesia, and in all sorts of fields.
But no last names. The example in Edinburgh is the founder of modern geology was a man named James Hutton, who was brilliant. I mean, he was the first one to suggest, through field research and hard digging, literal digging as well as metaphorical, that, hey.
What happened was even the biggest bones were substantially dissolved. They're based in Edinburgh in Scotland.
Siberian tiger, and I think the one that they were most cross about was a howler monkey from Ecuador. The chap in Edinburgh had seen three trades that had occurred recently in howler monkeys, which are absolutely protected, and two of them, the policeman had noticed, had bullet holes in their skulls, where they had presumably been hunted by Ecuadorians willing to trade them.
England even if he is successful. I England even if he is successful. I remember in the pandemic they managed to remember in the pandemic they managed to been in this uh in Edinburgh talking to been in this uh in Edinburgh talking to a charity who had moved some rough a charity who had moved some rough sleepers into their um the property that sleepers into their um the property that they had and they were saying that for
There must be a cheat. Somebody had done it in Edinburgh . But I couldn't work out how they cheated.
But the reality is, it's really a humbling sport or activity. You don't want to fly to Edinburgh to donate a kidney, right?
And then at the end, we'll be very open to taking questions as well. So my story starts in Edinburgh , in Scotland, where I grew up. And I had a very happy childhood-- a very protected childhood-- in a way, for many of us, a very normal childhood.
And I had never been to Paris before. And I'd come from Edinburgh . We're talking 1968, which in Edinburgh was 1958 effectively.
here from a contemporary Scottish writer. Tells you what it was like in Edinburgh just before this golden age. The city was inconvenient, dirty, old fashioned, alcoholic, quarrelsome, and poor.
and more about less and less. That was not the case in Edinburgh . And sort of the digital technology of the day was actually medicine.
Britain. His great grandfather, no his grandfather, sorry, also Robert, designed and built the Bell Rock Lighthouse, which is off to the east of Edinburgh to this day. Stevenson got a degree from Edinburgh in engineering.
which is off to the east of Edinburgh to this day. Stevenson got a degree from Edinburgh in engineering. He wrote a thesis with honors.
doing whatever that defies the rest of civilization. She came all the way from Edinburgh to live with her son after her husband's death.
And we ran this recently at the Edinburgh Science Festival, and we got a lot of very, very positive feedback.
Those same scientists who are in Edinburgh at the Roslin Institute, where Dolly the sheep was created, are now working on putting a mouse gene into a chicken.
Just a little guy in Edinburgh , giving lectures on moral philosophy, but this book, The Theory of Moral Sentiment, made him a rock star.
I do remember nodding at you on the mile in Edinburgh .
This is a colleague from the University of Edinburgh .
like like New York or Munich or London or Edinburgh it the location didn't
He spiced up his paper, made it much more compelling. Ultimately presented it to the Royal Society of Edinburgh . And those ideas went on to influence Darwin and Darwin's theory of natural selection.
She was doing one of those junior year things in Edinburgh and I had her come down to London to see a show.
Two uniformed policemen, in case the situation got ugly, which clearly it wasn't going to do, because he's not that sort of a chap. And a man who had come all the way down from Edinburgh , from essentially the wildlife police, who are, for some reason, based in Scotland, where there's very little wildlife.
I had a former classmate of mine from the University of Edinburgh , where I went to grad school.
thanks to an internet project at the University of Edinburgh in the British museum
Now Alex, when we were in Edinburgh with Henry, I was telling the audience about how I'd bumped into him twice in one day
But the reality is, it's really a humbling sport or activity. I don't know. Or how about Edinburgh ?
And it's kind of like doing a fringe show at the Edinburgh Festival when you do a play in like a cafe.
And I have Ayesha over there-- Ayesha Keller. She is Scottish, so she was born in Edinburgh in '89. She helped found an NGO that takes care for refugees that are affected by the Syrian crisis.
And I'd come from Edinburgh . We're talking 1968, which in Edinburgh was 1958 effectively. And I got to Gare du Nord.
That was absolutely forbidden. There are exceptions. This could go back to Edinburgh .
He's a Fellow at the British Academy and at the Royal Society of Edinburgh .
I had to take out some student loan in order to cover my undergrad at the University of Edinburgh and I didn't
Like, in a crazy obsessed-- it was actually-- Duke of Edinburgh .
And since then, I've gone on to do five shows at Edinburgh , one-woman shows, and ended up hosting book tours for Graham Norton, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Jay Brand,
and your neighbors won't care. All right? And there was some of that in Edinburgh . There was also, to get back to this conversation, it took place everywhere.
What happened was even the biggest bones were substantially dissolved. And this is Bert Tolkamp, one of the researchers who flew from Edinburgh to Cambridge here to hastily finish up his acceptance speech
But yeah, we did have this idea actually with a robotics researcher in Edinburgh University that maybe we could have an underlying-- a generative model of text.
So yeah, I think when you're all on a similar level on the live comedy circuit, you'll bump into each other, and you do Edinburgh festivals, and you share gig lists,
I'm Steve Brusatte, I'm a paleontologist. I dig up dinosaurs, I teach at the University of Edinburgh . I advise on films like the Jurassic World films, and I write pop science books like The Rise and Fall, The Dinosaurs, and The New One, called The Story of Birds.
The glaciers grew into ice sheets. And that helped drive the temperature of the entire world to be much cooler. Now, this was a long-term trend then that continued to happen for many tens of millions that it crept down and it covered Chicago, where I'm from. It covered Edinburgh and Scotland where I live now. It covered New York City. A lot of North America, a lot of Asia, a lot of Europe
The glaciers grew into ice sheets. And that helped drive the temperature of the entire world to be much cooler. Now, this was a long-term trend then that continued to happen for many tens of millions really come to love a lot of these birds. And it's also inspired a lot of my research as a scientist, my lab at the University of Edinburgh , a lot of my students and I were working now with a big team
Oh, I'd missed that one. That's what happens when you're at the Edinburgh Festival. You don't see You don't You don't monitor Trump second by second,