Now, suppose he's working his way west from crop to crop.

They are now. Introducing Tac O's.

Will you please get some lettuce?

He washes lettuce.

The poet Keats belongs to the Romantic school.

And I use them as a base, kind of a base ingredient, in a salad.

And so these characters would become my friends.

Tom shredded the lettuce.

What's the difference between cabbage and lettuce?

OK, so they are your replacement for lettuce? Yeah. Yeah.

Who keeps lettuces in their fridge?

We call it fiber and we eat it in vegetables like lettuce, broccoli, and celery.

Snails have been eating our lettuces.

And we'll just let this toast a little bit.

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Out of all the styles in music, what kind of style do I want?

In our homes, we've lost touch with food.

The research found that the electrolyzed oxidizing or

And you could see it in his face

For our last technology, we worked again with Roman and his team at the Directors Bureau to develop a commercial from the future to explain how it works.

The one on the right I treated like cut flowers.

This fresh melon was grown on our film.

There is no romance involved with gangsters in the 21st Century.

Castles are great, old buildings are great, they're what men dream about

That is our poetry. That is our beautiful story.

Is it OK to feed my dog lettuce?

This is an experiment I did on three lettuces.

Well, I guess we know one other thing

What are they growing here? It turns out they're growing lettuce in the middle of the desert using water sprayed on top.

Right. Like lettuce.

Why, in my day, you could buy meat anywhere. Eggs, they had. Real butter.

In this restaurant, a hamburger deluxe come with french fries lettuce, tomato, mayo and AIDS.

The one in the middle, on my kitchen table. Not much difference.

And they contain liquid fertilizer.

Wait, have you washed the lettuce? Stop worrying over the little things.

Despite drinking steadily all afternoon, he was still pale.

So, for TED we decided to take our favorite idea for the gel magnet and work with Roman and his team at the Directors Bureau to create a commercial for a product from the future.

And I couldn't choose airplanes because they had gotten sort of unromantic at that point, even though I'd done a lot of airplane work, on the interiors.

literally couldn't see not only the sea slugs around them, but the lettuce on their plate because lettuces, and all those curly vegetables, they also are embodiments of hyperbolic geometry.

We cover everything with a sheet of felt.

But this may have cut down on housework, but it cut down on the variety of food we ate as well.

So for inspiration, I listened to Liszt and Tchaikovsky and all the great Romantic composers.

And so in some sense they literally, they had such a symbolic view of mathematics, they couldn't actually see what was going on on the lettuce in front of them.

There's nothing more interesting than growing up and Roman Ondák, for instance, took the idea of time and space measured by parents who marked the height of their children on a wall.