So when I was in Morocco, 我在摩洛哥的时候, in Casablanca, not so long ago, 不久前,在卡萨布兰卡, I met a young unmarried mother called Faiza. 我遇到一个名叫法伊扎(Faiza)的年轻未婚妈妈。 Faiza showed me photos of her infant son 法伊扎给我看了她
I believe that there are new, hidden tensions 我相信,有新的,隐藏的紧张关系 that are actually happening between people and institutions -- 发生在人们与制度之间, institutions that are the institutions that people 在人们日常生活中 inh
So, think of the three settings I've talked to you about: 那么想想这3个我所谈到的背景: factory, migration, office. 工厂,移民,办公室。 But it could be in a school, it could be an administration, 但这也可能在学校,在政府, it could
Eighty percent of carbon emissions come from cities, 80%的碳排放来自于城市, which means cities are in a position 而这意味着城市正处于一个 to solve the carbon problem, or most of it, 解决碳排放问题的关键位置。 whether or not the states
Close encounter two: Brookline, Massachusetts, 1984. 遭遇二: 1984年马萨诸塞的布鲁克林 I went to see the movie "Dune," 我去那里看电影"沙丘" and a girl talked to me. Now, on its face -- 一个女孩跟我搭讪,从表面上看 --
I want to spend just a moment talking about 我想只花一点点时间来谈论 the model that we've developed, which allows us to start at the top 我们所发展而来的那个模型,那个允许我们从高处开始的模型 and look at the drivers of sound, analyze t
In so doing, I reached a frontier of biology so strange, so rich,that it seemed as though it exists on another planet. 通过这样的方式,我来到一个非常古怪却又非常丰富的生物学领域,简直就像降临到别的星球一样。 In fact, we live on a mostly unexplo
I live in Washington, D.C.,but I grew up in Sindhekela, a village in Orissa, in India. 我住在华盛顿特区但我是在新河克拉,印度奥里萨邦的一个小村庄长大。 My father was a government worker. 我父亲是个政府雇员, My mother could not read or write,
And in poorer countries, smaller countries, fragile countries,conflict-afflicted countries, remittances are a lifeline,as in Somalia or in Haiti. 在更穷,更小,或者正发生冲突的国家,移民汇款就如同救命稻草,比如说在索马里或海蒂。 No wonder th
"Even in purely non-religious terms, “就算抛开宗教信仰的因素, homosexuality represents a misuse of the sexual faculty. 同性恋也是性滥交的代名词 It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality -- 它是可悲的,次等的,一种
It's time we moved beyond Mars and Venus, 男人来自火星,女人来自金星的时代已经过去 because the truth is that men are from Africa 现在所有人都知道真相,男人来自非洲 and women are from Africa. 女人也来自非洲 Thank you. 谢谢大家 Thank you. Thank y
To give me an idea of how many of you here 为了让我知道这里有多少人 may find what I'm about to tell you 待会儿会觉得我告诉你的事情 of practical value, 有实用价值, let me ask you please to raise your hands: 请符合条件的人把手举起来: Who he
I recently retired from the California Highway Patrol after 23 years of service. 我最近刚退休,离开了加利福尼亚公路巡警局,我工作了23年的地方。 The majority of those 23 years was spent patrolling the southern end of Marin County,w
U.S. Fed started a program with Mexico to enable money service businesses to send money to Mexico for a fixed cost of only 67 cents per transaction. 美国联邦政府和墨西哥之间启动了一个项目,使得汇款公司往墨西哥寄钱时只需要每笔67美分的手续费。 And
Thank you. 谢谢大家。 I have only got 18 minutes to explain something that lasts for hours and days,so I'd better get started. 我只有18分钟的时间来讲一件持续了数天数夜的事情,所以最好述不宜迟, Let's start with a clip from Al Jaz
This guy, for instance,he's head of research at the University in Troms? 比如说这个家伙,他是特罗姆瑟大学的科研带头人。 And I will show you a piece of cloth,this one. 我给你们看看这块布条,就是这个。 It's the other strong memory. 这
In the end, we have to say, I don't know. 最后,我们不得不说,我不知道。 If we knew, God would not be God. 如果我们知道,上帝就不是上帝了。 To have faith in this God would be more like trusting an essential benevolence in the u
At the opposite extreme 在对待老人的另一个极端 in treatment of the elderly, the happy extreme, 这个快乐的极端, are the New Guinea farming societies 是在新几内亚的农耕社会 where I've been doing my fieldwork for the past 50 yea
Over the next five minutes, 在接下来的5分钟里 my intention is to transform your relationship with sound. 我想把你们与声音的关系作个转变 Let me start with the observation that most of the sound around us is accidental, 首先,请允