This beautiful silver trophy is yours.

Josh Silver demos adjustable liquid filled eyeglasses

You'd still be rolling drunks at the silver slipper.

I'll flip a silver dollar.

And I close with this image of democracy in action This is a protest that's happening on a retrofit in Silver Spring, Maryland on an Astroturf town green.

Josh Silver delivers his brilliantly simple solution for correcting vision at the lowest cost possible adjustable, liquid filled lenses. At TEDGlobal 2009, he demos his affordable eyeglasses and reveals his global plan to distribute them to a billion people in need by 2020.

But the track record of charting this recovery has been discouraging. In his book The Signal and the Noise, the American statistician Nate Silver says that forecasters perform worst when faced with a circumstance that they have not encountered before.

So in early prototypes I built these surfaces to try to see how the curl would react to temperature and possibly allow air to ventilate through the system, and in other prototypes did surfaces where the multiplicity of having these strips together can try to make bigger movement happen when also heated, and currently have this installation at the Materials Applications gallery in Silver Lake, close by, and it's there until August, if you want to see it.

But how this motivation affects their willingness to compromise has changed as a result of redistricting and the growing polarization of voting districts along partisan lines. According to a recent analysis by Nate Silver, most House members now come from hyperpartisan districts in which the risk of losing to candidates from the other party is small.