waves. And Sean Collins went and backtracked these swells and said these waves 80 or 90 feet high. Because they didn't have any point of reference , because they didn't have any point of reference , they didn't know how big they actually were but Sean reckons these were 80 or 90-foot waves. And as you can see Mike Castillo told Flame, "if anyone triesto surf out there, they better bring the "blanking" Pope along to pray for them." And, of course, eventually guys did. Here's a shot from the air of one of Flame's 17 or 18 flyovers at
Yeah, it was a long time ago. So my point of reference for competition shows at the time were-- "Survivor" "Real World," "Survivor," "Fear Factor." It's a combination of those three, I think, if you really think about it.
growing by 2100 the population of the content of continent of Africa is going to be around 4.4 billion for a point of reference by 2100 the population of the entire world will be just over 10 billion which means that the population of Africa the continent will be roughly half the population of
That's where it's not naivety. There was no point of reference . And I think that was the thing that sort of got Billy on board.
to the point where you now see the world through the game layer, or the alternate reality or whatever it is that you put over it, then you have a win because you're really giving people a different point of reference which they have a very personal connection to. It's like, "Well, I'm the hero of this story and it's making me think about this." And so, I think that's a good example of how if you create that personal moment, I do agree
The movie "Cool Runnings." Exactly. And that was my only point of reference . But there they were.
There's still liquid in there, and you'll see it. So he comes from a different point of reference as far as Thai food.
that dominate dominated then and still here 20 years later still dominates the domestic uh beer landscape just as a point of reference of the 100% of beer sold in America still over 90% of it is some variation of the exact same style
So there's about hundreds and hundreds of different biases and anchoring is just one of the many that exist. But biases are basically these cognitive conditions that uh frame a point of reference in your brain. I call them the cognitive glitches and they range from things like uh uh information paralysis
But if you're in low lighting in a club or a bar, I challenge anyone to spot that change take place. And also, you have to have a point of reference . Were you looking at their complexion before they became angry?
we know to, you know, look for these sorts of philosophical things, we can start thinking philosophically and, you know, for a lack of a better way to put it, like, you know, the--like when you no longer have that television show as a point of reference for being into philosophy at that point, maybe you're so interested in philosophy that you start, you know, like, looking for those things, you know, in other aspects of your life. So that's more or less what I wanted to talk about. I want to ask a few questions because what's
Through multiple layers of CNC-applied paint and also by hand, Derek has purposely mimicked the digital world. And he's created this new series of portraits using only the emoji library as a point of reference to an individual that because of his or her radical nature, Adams feels is important to American popular culture.
I'm giving up all my secrets here. But it's from Harry Potter, that well-known point of reference . But it's so true.
And those women never talked back to me. I basically don't really know what the girls are like in North Korea because my only point of reference were these boys. And from what I understand, what I understood, because I was very curious about that, that supposedly the school-- why the schools are allowed to be built
How many of you have flocked to Ethiopia since my first book came out? Awesome. Everybody in the room raise their hand just for point of reference . So it was hard to pass up.
It's not dusk. It's something different, and your brain is struggling to look for a point of reference to kind of to explain what's going on, and it can't
We're in a place where it's absolutely nothing but white around us, but we have nothing-- 360 degrees-- nothing to give us a point of reference
have like a very limited understanding about what we're trying to achieve it's the economic social and environmental considerations of the things we do so that we don't mess the planet up for current and future generations in my mind it's a really freaking cool aspiration it's a point of reference to say well collectively as a species what are we trying to do with our time on this planet. And in my mind, we're
the -- right before they made their first surf mission. And they took these photos from an airplane. They were actually looking at the sea waves looking way way up at these waves. And Sean Collins went and backtracked these swells and said these waves 80 or 90 feet high. Because they didn't have any point of reference , because they didn't have any point of reference , they didn't know how big they actually were but Sean reckons these were 80 or 90-foot waves. And as you can see Mike Castillo told Flame, "if anyone tries