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In the tradition of the Palestinian society, 在传统的巴勒斯坦社会， it's forbidden for men to enter the household. 禁止男人进入家门 So, no male journalists get the story. But I did. 因此，没有男性记者能进行采访。但是，我可以。 I have a wonderful husband, 我的丈夫非常棒， a wonderful husband who supports me despite all the criticism he gets from the society. 他支持我，尽...
And we know that it's possible to move along this continuum 我们知道我们可以解决这些持续已久的问题 towards something quite a bit more idyllic, 走向一个较为理想的状况 to a place where a conference like this is even conceivable. 像我们现在这样，齐聚一堂，和平讨论 And we know — we know — that there are right and wrong answers to how to move in this space. 我们知...
Have you ever been asked by your Chinese friend, 你有没有被中国朋友问过 "What is your zodiac sign?" “你的生肖是什么？” Don't think they are making small talk. 不要以为他们只是寒暄 If you say, "I'm a Monkey," 如果你说：“我属猴” they immediately know you are either 24, 36, 48 or 60 years old. 他们马上就可以知道你多大年纪。 Asking a zodiac sign is a ...
And so we know that, for example, openness and conscientiousness are very good predictors of life success, 众所周知，开放性和责任感往往意味着成功， but the open people achieve that success through being audacious and, occasionally, odd. 但开放的人在通往成功之路上变得大胆，有时甚至古怪。 The conscientious people achieve it through sticking to deadlines, to persevering, as wel...
I should say, before getting to this, 我事先声明，我要说的， something about sexual intercourse, although I may not have time. 是关于做爱的事情，但我的时间可能不太够。 And so, if you would like me to — yes, you would? OK. 所以，如果你们想让我说的话——什么？你们很想听？好吧。 There are studies done on the frequency with which individuals engage in the conjugal act, 有人...
The other thing that religions know is we're not just brains, we are also bodies. 宗教还知道我们人类不仅仅有智慧，我们还有躯体 And when they teach us a lesson, they do it via the body. 所以他们通过身体来教会我们道理 So for example, take the Jewish idea of forgiveness. 举个例子，像是犹太人懂得宽容 Jews are very interested in forgiveness and how we should start anew and st...
I'm interested in the kind of constituency that thinks something along these lines: 我对有些情况非常感兴趣，有些人会说： that thinks, "I can't believe in any of this stuff. “我完全不相信这些宗教 I can't believe in the doctrines. 那些教义，那些学说 I don't think these doctrines are right. 我觉得它们全部都是假的 But," a very important but, "I lov...
And so therefore whatever cultural variation there is in how human beings flourish 于是不管有多少不同文化对人类的幸福有多少不同想法 can, at least in principle, be understood in the context of a maturing science of the mind — neuroscience, psychology, etc. 都可以原则性地以成熟的闹内科学作为理解的办法，神经科学、心理学等等 So, what I'm arguing is that value's red...
In it are the stories of how many times I've had to reinvent a self from the ruins of my choices, 书里讲述的是我如何在人生选择的废墟中重生的故事。 the stories of how my seeming failures were really just weird-ass portals to something beautiful. 书里讲述的是那些我的失败如何奇迹般地通向美好的故事。 All I had to do was give voice to the story. 我要做的就是让大家听到我的故事...
If you went to a top university — let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge — 如果你去顶尖学府，像是哈佛，牛津，或者剑桥 and you said, "I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; 然后你对他们说，"我想找到指引，慰藉，和道德" I want to know how to live," they would show you the way to the i...
Navigating through my country helping journalists, filmmakers, news crews, is my working life. 在我的国家为记者、电影制作者、新同伴做导航，是我的工作 I believe my success comes from building a relationship 我相信我的成功是因为建立了关系 not only with journalists and the news crews, 不仅仅是和记者、新同伴们， but also with the communities in the Gaza Strip. 更是和加沙地带的社...
Now, it is the position, generally speaking, of our intellectual community that while we may not like this, 普遍来说，我们的学术界是这样想的，虽然我们不喜欢这样 we might think of this as "wrong" in Boston or Palo Alto, 我们觉得这样是错误的，在波士顿或帕羅奧多 who are we to say that the proud denizens of an ancient culture 但我们怎么能说这些古老文化的骄傲后裔 are wr...
And with this, we could analyze the history of introspection in the ancient Greek tradition, 有了这些数据，我们就可以分析古希腊传统中有关于内省的历史， for which we have the best available written record. 因为有着最完整的文字记录。 So what we did is we took all the books, we just ordered them by time 所以，我们先把这些书按照时间排列， for each book we take the words and we p...
I want to talk about sex for money. 我想讲一讲性交易。 I'm not like most of the people you'll have heard speaking about prostitution before. 我不像很多之前各位听到过的以卖淫为主题的演讲者。 I'm not a police officer or a social worker. 我不是警察，也不是社会工作者， I'm not an academic, a journalist or a politician. 我不是学者，不是记者，也不从政。 And as you&...
We communicate differently, extroverts and introverts. 外向者和内向者的交流方式有所不同。 Extroverts, when they interact, want to have lots of social encounter punctuated by closeness. 外向者在与人互动时喜欢肢体接触，喜欢亲近对方。 They'd like to stand close for comfortable communication. 他们喜欢靠近对方近距离交流。 They like to have a lot of eye contact, or mutual gaze...
So one day I was hacking something, I was taking it apart, and I had this sudden idea: 有一天我正在拆解东西，我突然产生了这样的想法： Could I treat biology like hardware? 我能不能把生物体当作硬件？ Could I dismantle a biological system, mix and match the parts 我能不能拆分一个生物系统，混合并配对拆分出来的部分， and then put it back together in some new and creative way? 然...
We do our best to ignore the fact that we don't always have it, 我们尽管忽略一项事实，我们并不常有敬畏之心 and that not everything can be explained. 也不是一切事情都能解释 Yet whether you're a rationalist or a mystic, 然而，无论你是理性主义者，或是神秘主义者 whether you think the words Muhammad heard that night came from inside himself or from outside, 无论你认为穆罕...
On the last night, I gave a big reading at the National Poetry Club. 在最后一天晚上，我在全国诗歌俱乐部做了一场读书会。 And at the end of the reading, 在读书会结束的时候， Katharine Kidde of Kidde, Hoyt And Picard Literary Agency, 凯德公司的凯瑟琳·凯德和霍伊特与皮卡德文学社的人 walked straight up to me and shook my hand and offered me representation, like, on the spot. 径直...
So then, you move off to this larger sphere of "human +," 那么，然后我们迈步来到这片更大的人类空间， and you could continue that process 我们不断地前进， and eventually explore a lot of this larger space of possible modes of being. 最终，在这片更大的空间，我们可以探索许多可能的生存方式。 Now, why is that a good thing to do? 那么，为什么这么做有益呢？ Well, we know ...
I first found out about this confrontation when I was in graduate school, and it kind of blew me away. 我第一次听说这个故事的时候还在念研究生，这个故事让我太惊讶了。 I mean, how could the word scientist not have existed until 1833? 我是说“科学家”这个词怎么可能是1833年才出现的？ What were scientists called before? 在那之前科学家们如何称呼自己？ What had changed to make a new ...