编者按： 那些你所想到的人，不管他们在你的家里或是其他什么地方，都是这条在几代人间延续的爱的链条上的一环。你对他们生命的影响，不管你是否看到结果，都是无法估量的。你所奉献的爱心与关怀将会在未来的岁月中转变那些处于迷失和绝望之中的生命。 Chain of Love "How do you account for your remarkable accomplishment in life?" Que
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if
Among the more curious questions that can be asked about love is this,when one feels romantic love, does he feel it in breaks with interruptions or changes, or does he feel it continuously without int
Over the last few days we have seen and been reminded of two massacres. Last weekend Norway remembered the first anniversary of the 77 victims of a bomb and gun shooting. During a brief television cli
The spirit of the late Sir Jimmy Savile was alive and well in the Savile Hall in Leeds two days ago when personal items were sold to benefit his favourite charities. In a 12-hour sale over 350 items r
Technology is also not going to change who you choose to love. 同样科技也改变不了你的择偶对象。 I study the biology of personality, and I've come to believe that we've evolved four very broad styles of thinking and b
Now, it's not just an English problem. 实际上，不仅英国存在这样的的问题。 OECD this year released some figures looking at numeracy in young people, OECD今年发布了一些关于青少年计算能力的数据， and leading the way, the USA -- nearly 40 pe
Along with this, we see a rise of a host of beliefs: 不仅如此，各种信仰开始传播： the belief of virginity at marriage, arranged marriages -- strictly arranged marriages 坚信婚前必须保持处女身，包办婚姻（严格安排的婚姻）， the belief that th
Well, I've got three points here, right? 好的，我分为三点来说。 First of all, to your first one: there's no question that we've changed, 首先，回答你第一个问题：人类变了，这一点毋庸置疑， that we now want a person to love, and for thous
Thank you so much for that, Helen. As you know, there's another speaker here with us that works in your same field. 感谢您的演讲，海伦。今天还有另一位演讲者，她和您在相同的领域里做研究。 She comes at it from a different perspective. Es
We did it in the larger culture, and we're doing it in marriage. 在其他文化中我们已经这么做了，现在我们把它带到婚姻中。 Right, no question about it. But it's interesting, the millennials actually want to be very good parents 是的
How is technology changing love? I'm going to say almost not at all. 科技改变了爱吗？我认为没有。 I study the brain. I and my colleagues have put over 100 people into a brain scanner 我从事大脑研究。我和我的同事们对100多人进行了大脑扫描， p
So we've created what I call this thing of "stable ambiguity." 这种现象我称为“稳定的模棱两可”。 Stable ambiguity is when you are too afraid to be alone but also not really willing to engage in intimacy-building. 它指的
So I devised a quiz: How well do you know your area? 对此我设计了一个测试：你对你居住的地区了解多少？ It's a simple Web app. 这是一个简单的网络应用。 You put in a post code and then it will ask you questions based on census data for you
So it began to occur to me: during this long extension of the precommitment stage, 于是我突然想到：在这个长期婚前准备期， if you can get rid of bad relationships before you marry, maybe we're going to see more happy mar
But technology is producing one modern trend that I find particularly important. 但科技正在制造一种当代潮流，我认为它尤为重要。 It's associated with the concept of paradox of choice. 它和选择悖论这一概念相关。 For millions of years, we
Back in 2003, the UK government carried out a survey. 早在2003年，英国政府进行了一项调查。 And it was a survey that measured levels of numeracy in the population. 目的是了解国民的算术能力。 And they were shocked to find out that
I was recently traveling in the Highlands of New Guinea, and I was talking with a man who had three wives. 最近，我正在新几内亚高地旅行，我访谈了一位有三个老婆的人。 I asked him, "How many wives would you like to have?" 我问他：“你想要多
It's the part of mathematics that even mathematicians don't particularly like, 统计是数学的一部分，但是它是连数学家都不怎么喜欢的那一部分， because whereas the rest of maths is all about precision and certainty, statistics is almo
So extraordinary variations, and surprising to some, 如此巨大的差异震惊了一些人， but not surprising to people who have read the work of Daniel Kahneman, for example, the Nobel-winning economist. 但是对一些人来说并不惊讶，比如阅读过
