to protect operators from it. And you have to shield them, and so we build concrete shields. And if you came and visited Helion, you would see plastic , Plastic , borated polyethylene and concrete shielding, To protect operators and equipment from the fusion reactions while they're happening. But again, you turn them off, and those fusion reactionsstop. And that's really the key. There's a funny story related to that. We, We've been building fusion systems that do fusion a
term, but the reason it came about 100 years ago is because the great psychologist William James pointed out that, you know, if you take a piece of plastic , what we like about that material that we call plastic is that you can mold it into a shape and it'llhold that shape. And that's what your brain does. So if I ask you the name of your third grade teacher, you can
normal kind of non-permanent ways of making yourself look better. Or you can be a hard maxer, somebody who like gets plastic surgery or engages in bone smashing, which is the term uh for what you're talking about. Umbasically hitting yourself in the face in order to ostensibly create micro
tenant racket tennis racket characteristics only make some larger smaller springy or less bring a metal plastic et cetera et cetera Etc in contrast the tennis playerhere Roger Federer controls a complete player system of views there's a lot more involved than a
And I started my brand in early 2018, with this commitment to regenerative materials and fair trade label, labor, local production, plastic -free packaging, plastic -free everything, really, as well as consumer education and climate activism.That's incredible. Thank you.
A few years ago we found a mushroom that eats plastic . Plastic has been around 100, 120 years.And so far we haven't figured out what-- does it compost or not?
The second reason is that there is a short-- there's a shelf life on recyclability, so your plastic bags or cheaper plastic , the thinner plastic water bottles, you can only recycle them so many times before they degrade to an unusable material whereas you don't have that as muchwith pure substances like glass and aluminum.
We know this animal died in 1976. Plastic is so pervasive in our society.
It's the whole wall. Plastic . The '90's-- that was an incredibly dire time in Cuba where there were no resources for food.
I feel like I'm in "The Graduate." It was plastic . Plastic was a brand new element, and one innovative Englishman thought to use this new plastic material for a saxophone.
But, yeah, I couldn't make this stuff up. Plastic surgery for a fish?I could not make that stuff up.
ahead and strain that out so while she's straining that out if you would like to your little plastic cup if you would like the taste now I wouldn't chug it and maybe give it just a little bit of a swirl I noticedthat the vanilla kind of settled to the bottom so give it just a a a subtle swirl there yeah so this is your this is
in me that is a picture of my mother in me which a with a really great red plastic fish comb my mother died when I was25 so B basically right out of college in my first job and she died before I
standards and we were talking about what the timber would have been used used for in a time before Steel in a time before plastic so he worked out he ran around he absolutely loved it he ran around the forest looking for threers and foursthat were used for fences and houses and he used oners what are they for ships
got yum looks perfect okay I'm going to taste now like we have these great plastic well these are Forks we have these great plastic tasting Forks hereso fancy Nobody Does that at home let's be honest so use your fingers if you're by
plastic existed then that were great that allowed everybody to have milk in their house and they didn't have to car mom milk
plastic which really you know let's mess this up a little more yeah clearly it wasn't a a engineer designing that but
Plastic never disintegrates smaller than these micro pieces.
plastic arrow with a suction cup, I'm stuck on you.
Plastic , plastic 's very important.
plastic open at the bottom and as he ran to my car apparently the movement jostled the
Plastic water bottles do contain BPA in many cases, well below safe levels. Nevertheless, it's a really hard thing for people to accept that something so deeply ingrained that they've
plastic bags. So, so driving is not so safe. Public transportation, on the other hand, is also not necessarily safe in Miami. I can give you a couple examples. One, this happened
plastic student there's a new constituent of ocean water and that is
plastic and plastic has a problem the
plastic you're still stuck with a bunch of oily waste stuck into the matrix of that as a matter of fact if you have an
plastic out of the Nelson of the autotrophs this is what's there this is now the natural world I'm finding
plastic industry every button object is made from a little plastic resin color
plastic industry itself was these little quest and puzzles look just like physics
plastic ins tiny stomach is just incredible to be enough and what I think about is this fish has to migrate a
plastic will Lee BPA an essential ingredient of polycarbonate and a known endocrine
plastic bottles that this is replaced okay you I don't know if you saw it Greg
plastic and wiring um Can reflect a person I just I just can't get I it can't it's
plastic bags". After we published the book, I went to Australia, and within the space of 12 months, plastic bags had gone.
kids are growing up with access to anything they're interested in. And this is so good for the brain. And from a plasticity point of view, the reason this matters is because change happens in the brain when you are curious about something. So when a kid asks a question to Alexa or Siri or whatever and they get the answer, that sticks because they
But at the bottom line we do have the power to change and to create that change individually, reflecting on what you do, your personal use of single use plastics , and if you wanted to go beyond that, even getting your families, your friend groups to start changing.Each of those changes make a huge difference once you work collectively, and then that's what we-- as groups like Plastic Oceans, we are collectively
Plasticity is like doing cardio.
Plastics from our water.
Plastics in them 90% so think about that that means that if you go out and collect one liter sample of water from
Plastics . Plastics ! And he'd say, uh-huh.
plastics company. And I'm wondering, have you seen companies go through multiple iterations?
Plasticity. They came up with this word that didn't mean anything.
plastics or clear based waste, can be used for fenestration. Organic matter can be used as temporary scaffolds to hold up the inorganic matter and then it rots away. And here we'll
Plastics um HTP was one of the Plastics we've been had been using for a while but uh it does suffer from a few uh
plastics were developed during the war kind of by accident. So, what did all these things do, they contributed towards transforming society into a very much consumer driven society
The plastic build, I've also noticed it scuffs and wears...
But plastic wrap, it goes right back in.
And plastic really warps the whole planetary ecosystem in very fascinating and also kind of horrifying ways.
in plastic clamshells sitting there-- like totally unappealing.
super plastic again. So in other words, the point of cementing the brain into place through time is to make it so it's