Now you can imagine that if nectar is such a valuable thing and expensive for the plant to produce and it attracts lots of pollinators, then, just as in human sex, people might start to deceive.
So watching all of this show from outer space, you think we get it, we understand that the most precious resource on the blue planet is our consciousness.
But really, every measurement it makes is precious, because it's teaching us about the relationship between stars and planets, and how it's really the starlight that sets the stage for the formation of life in the universe.
And unless we address this invisibility, we are going to get the results that we are seeing, which is a gradual degradation and loss of this valuable natural asset.
And so the researchers asked themselves, "I wonder how many times very secure, important, sensitive conversations are happening on these two-way radios where they forget to encrypt and they don't notice that they didn't encrypt?"
Despite this racial stereotyping and the discomfort I often felt, the learning I gained from other aspects of being at an elite private school were incredibly valuable.
Today I'd like to explore with you why the answer to this question will become profoundly important in an age where reputation will be your most valuable asset.
Now thousands of programmers today are finding better jobs this way, because Stack Overflow and the reputation dashboards provide a priceless window into how someone really behaves, and what their peers think of them.
And so valuable resources have to be looked after and guarded in a particular way, and we think the reason they roll the balls away is because of this, because of the competition that is involved in getting hold of that dung.
Properly read, our fears can offer us something as precious as our favorite works of literature: a little wisdom, a bit of insight and a version of that most elusive thing -- the truth.
彼の人生について記録された 物語は 元奴隷の実体験を紡いだ 歴史上 最も貴重な 記録の1つです
And the stories that were captured of his life make up one of the crown jewels of histories, of human-lived experiences filled with ex-slaves.
And when these two things come together, something that's really valuable to me and I realize it's freely given, then gratefulness spontaneously rises in my heart, happiness spontaneously rises in my heart.
You have no way of assuring that there will be another moment given to you, and yet, that's the most valuable thing that can ever be given to us, this moment, with all the opportunity that it contains.
And we need all the help we can get from others, because we are stewards of a precious pale blue dot in a vast cosmos, a planet with 50 million centuries ahead of it.
I've been doing this for a long time, and I want to tell you, these people know these forests and these medicinal treasures better than we do and better than we ever will.
In 2008, I picked up a scientific study looking at how many years we have of valuable materials to extract from the ground: copper, 61; tin, zinc, 40; silver, 29.
We have a monumental opportunity in front of us, before one of the few universal issues as individuals as well as a civil society: to rethink and redesign how it is we die.
So thanks to these amazing devices, we have been able to gather precious information about tapir reproduction and social organization which are very important pieces of the puzzle when you're trying to develop those conservation strategies.
トーマス・ペスチャック 保護活動 写真家 40年間 地球で暮らしてきて 私は 『ナショナル ジオグラフィック』と Save Our Seas 財団のために 素晴らしい海の姿を探求するという 貴重な機会をいただきました
Thomas Peschak Conservation Photographer In my 40 years on this planet, I've had the great privilege to explore some of its most incredible seascapes for National Geographic Magazine and the Save Our Seas Foundation.
Perhaps then we will look back at Earth and see that that is one people instead of many and perhaps then we will look back at Earth, as we struggle to survive on Mars, and realize how precious the home planet is.
In other words, I claim, if we really want to improve our judgment as individuals and as societies, what we need most is not more instruction in logic or rhetoric or probability or economics, even though those things are quite valuable.
(Laughter) The first thing that's really critical is to recognize that givers are your most valuable people, but if they're not careful, they burn out.
I just want to share with you what I have been experiencing over the last five years in having the great privilege of traveling to many of the poorest countries in the world.
These are some of the best-studied people on the planet, and the data has become incredibly valuable for scientists, generating well over 6, 000 academic papers and books.
This does not happen very often in the world, but right here we have a golden situation in which you can enact significant social change while also making money.
And on top of designing and building this house, we get invaluable feedback, sharing it with our family and our friends because this is our life and our work in progress.
The other thing is that we try to distinguish between different kinds of data, because some data is extremely valuable and they will form, like, a barrier to entry in a market.
Given this rare opportunity to start fresh, they chose liberal arts as the most compelling model because of its historic commitment to furthering its students' broadest intellectual, and deepest ethical potential.
And the injection is so valuable, that the people basically trust the doctor, being second to God, which I've heard many times, to do the right thing. But in fact they're not.
This arc of development gives us unprecedented and extremely valuable information about how the scaffolding of vision gets set up.
そして彼らに言うには 「Cala a boca， Galvao」とツイートするだけで この貴重で美しい鳥を救うための 世界的なキャンペーンに 10セント寄付されるとのことです。
And my Brazilian friends tell me that if I just tweet the phrase "Cala a boca, Galvao, " 10 cents will be given to a global campaign to save this rare and beautiful bird.
From her, I learned, amongst many other things, one very precious lesson -- that if you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls.
So, some priceless artifacts just came into your possession, and the fewer questions I have about said artifacts the better. 