isaac newton was a genius. you know, there are people on this campus that can calculate how fast the cannonball would have to go. and you know what? there are people in this room who could calculate with no pencil, no paper, only their minds how fast the cannonball would have to go. and i think that 80% of the people in this room can make that calculation if i guide your thinking. can we try it? you want to see who you are? let's try. let me give you a geometrical fact. we live in a world that's curved. we kw it's curved because if you put a laser one meter off the ground and you fired the laser beamut over the desert like the mojave desert in california, perfectly flat for miles and miles and miles. if you fired that laser beam, you'd find out the laser beam ovehere, it looks likto people it's poiing up but it's not pointing up here. it jt that the earth is curving under. let me give you a fact that a geography teacher can tell you about. if you go out 8 kilometers, that's 8,000 meters this way, you'll find ou

true genius from isaac newton. isaac newton, hands down, is the greatest scientist who ever lived. einstein said that. and he was a very strange person. he couldn't have small talk. he couldn't chitchat with you. he'd be horrible at a dinner conversation. you would not want to invite isaac newton for dinner. and if you wanted to see somebody with asperger's syndrome, just ask "the big bang theory" on cbs television. asasperger's people are strange. they don't make eye contact, they're klutzy with conversations, they're clueless when it comes to wisdom, like on "the big bang theory." but yet, some of the greatest nobel prize winners suffered from asperger's syndrome. and then there is true genius of modern times, albert einstein. did you know that we have einstein's brain? when einstein died in 1955, the doctor who did the autopsy kidnapped the brain. without anyone's permission, he took the brain home and kept it in a cooler for 30 years. it was sitting in his living room underneath some books for 30 years. one day he drove across country and put einstein's brain in a mayonnaise ja

isaac newton came along right after galileo. and newton's first law says, "hey, gang, if there's no force acting on something, it will stay as it is." we call that the law of inertia. if something's at rest, don't mess with it, it'll stay at rest. if something's moving, don't mess with it, it'll keep right on moving. in what kind of path? - straight. - a straight line path. to say it will move in a straight line path at steady speed is to say it will move with constant-- begin with the v, check your neighbor. try again. what is it? all together. a booming resounding of all the scholars of hawaii, all together, what's the word? begins with a v. - velocity. - all right, all right. i thought you were gonna be wimps there for a while. velocity. see. constant velocity says constant speed and constant direction too. ain't that true? so something will move at constant velocity in the absence of a force. that's if it's moving anyway, but if it happen to be at rest. no force? what's it gonna do? stay at rest. so we called that idea the la

even sir isaac newton spent more time on out to me and gravitational science. the rumored to be our was a christian, but nevertheless the mathematician of excited enough to write in his notes about the distinguished brothers of the rows across germany. decker sought out to them in 1619, but it was through the crust. as the manifesto's instructed, one could only find a brother by entering a world of imagination or a new consciousness. turn off your mind, relax, float downstream. despite the manifest as shuttle we origen's some consensus has formed about who often. a radical german theologian later confessed to writing the chemical winning and was also the problem will offer of the first manifested at kicked things off. a relatively new technology of the printing press was key to the pranks success, especially because they invited all the scholars and rumors of europe to clear their minds and print. in a stroke of marketing genius no return address was given. european intellectuals try their best to attract attention. within a dozen years and the traders and two

sir isaac newton could not solve the longitude problem in the 1700s.imilar problem. i'll watch mark -- watchmaker responding to a prize said here is how we design it. >> harrison? that the idea of prizes and challenges gets to the talent in our society that may not be obvious. -- pulling us back is this word, inclusive. how do you respond to the idea that we should be inclusive? >> i think there is a positive side to inclusiveness, the opposite being xenophobic. is wherere right, that this sense of exceptionality comes in. people should be proud. everyone is equal all the time? completely relativistic. >> we do bloomberg, sir -- we do "surveillance," we are exceptional. we have a great team and puts us together every day. >> and we thank amy chua for her time. the original tiger mother, the author of "the triple package." this is our twitter question of the day. our science and technologies overshadowing humanities? i was history, you? >> economics? >> biology and space engineering. ♪ >> good morning, everyone. newset screen, a lot of coming from ukrai

. >> it's a very exciting demonstration of newton's laws. >> sir isaac would be proud. we've got another camera angle showing that the terrifying tumble is, in fact, legit. the stunt gone wrong is performed by base jumper richard henrik son for the norwegian television show "normal madness." >> a lot of viral videos speak to our deepest instincts of wanting to see something but almost wincing or peaking between our fingers. i think any video that taps into that can be powerful viewing. >> have no fear, that other angle reveals henrik sen surviving the nearly 4,000-foot fall. luckily, he keeps his composure, opens his parachute, and lands with barely a scratch. it would have been much worse. henrik sen's head comes within inches of slamming into the rock face. and seconds later, the apparatus comes crashing down, narrowly missing the base jumper. >> after this they probably had a talk about what we could have done differently. people make mistakes, but this is a big mistake. >> you don't have to be on a mountainside to risk life and limb. you can be in your own bedroom.