A couple of years ago, a friend of mine was nervous after she was attacked at work, 几年前，我的一位朋友在工作时被袭击后非常紧张， so I said that she could see her clients from my place for a while. 我让她暂时在我的地方见她的客户。 During
In the secular world we think, "If an idea is important, I'll bump into it. I'll just come across it." 在非宗教世界里，我们觉得 "我会毫无预兆就想到一个好主意，我是偶然想到的" Nonsense, says the religious wo
And we think that this alignment is necessary for communication. 我们认为有效沟通必须有这样的较准。 For example, as you can tell, I am not a native English speaker. 举个例子，你们都听得出来英语并不是我的母语。 I grew up with another langua
Maybe you've thought about them, too. 也许你们会有共鸣。 In this talk, I'll take you through the four main legal approaches 在我的演讲中，我将介绍全世界主流的四种与性工作者相关的 applied to sex work throughout the world, and exp
This is a lesson of history. 历史的经验告诉我们 If you try to prohibit something that people want or need to do, 如果你想禁止民众想要或者需要的 whether that's drinking alcohol or crossing borders or getting an abortion o
So if you think about what it means to learn arithmetic or to learn to read, 因此，如果你思考学习算术和阅读意义何在， you're actually, literally rewriting your own brain. 那实际上你就是在重写你自己的大脑。 You're changing the mic
And in the same way many of us are now wearing sensors that detect our heart rate, 同样的方式，我们现在很多人都使用穿戴式侦测器，可以侦测我们的心跳、 our respiration, our genes, on the hopes that this may help us prevent diseases, 呼吸
Let me explain. 下面我来解释一下。 One of the things that characterizes extroverts is they need stimulation. 外向性格的人的一大特征，就是他们需要刺激。 And that stimulation can be achieved by finding things that are exciting: 这种刺激
Now, many of you might worry that the notion of well-being is truly undefined, 或许在你们之中，有许多人会担心这所谓的幸福该如何界定 and seemingly perpetually open to be re-construed. 这似乎没有一定的标准 And so, how therefore can there
The artist had very cleverly suggested people and clothes and wagons and all sorts of things, 艺术家很聪明地暗示了人物和服装，以及车马还有其他事物， and my brain had taken the suggestion. 而我的大脑接受了这样的暗示。 You're familiar with
So I'm banging out my story and I know it's good, and then I start to make it -- 我大声说出我的故事，我知道很好笑，为了让故事... Suddenly, you can see that the responses in all of the subjects lock to the story, 突然
That's probably not all that difficult. 这也许并不是太难做到的事情。 It might just be a simple hormone or something that could do this. 可能只需要一种普通激素或其它什么材料。 It's been done in voles. 人们在田鼠身上做过这种实验。 You can en
But now, notice there are two ways of seeing the cube, right? 现在，你注意到了有两种方法来看那个立方体，对吧？ It's a Necker cube. 这是一个内科尔方块。 Everybody can see the two ways of seeing the cube? OK. 大家都可以看出两种看方块的方法吧？好的 Can
This distinction between victim and empowered is imaginary. 受害者和掌权者的区别是虚假的。 It exists purely to discredit sex workers and make it easy to ignore us. 它的存在只是为了败坏性工作者的名声，让社会更加轻易的无视我们。 No doubt many of yo
So I know TED is about a lot of things that are big, 我知道TED总是谈一些大事 but I want to talk to you about something very small. 但是我想讲一件微不足道的小事 So small, it's a single word. 小到只有一个词 The word is "misf
And I'd like to run through a few of these today. 现在我想具体地解释一下 I'd like to kick off by looking at education. 先从教育说起 Now education is a field the secular world really believes in. 非宗教的人们十分相信学习、教
It's a song about people and sasquatches -- and other French science stuff. 这是一首有关人们和长毛野人的歌曲，还有些法国科技的玩意 That's French science. Okay, here we go. 没错，法国科技。好，开唱 I've been trying inside 我一直内心在争斗 I know th
I am a working mother, and I also go to school full-time. 我是个母亲，但我同时要上班，还要全日制上学 And, you know, it's like -- it's so important to have like role models out there. 要知道，能找到榜样是非常重要的 I mean, I know sometim
And what's even more disturbing is what's happening with younger boys. 更加令人不安的是发生在年轻的男孩子身上的事情。 There's been about a decade of research about what people are calling the "boy crisis." 这有一个进行了大约十年的调查，关于
So when I decided to create an art piece in Manshiyat Naser, 当我决定在曼斯亚特·纳赛尔创建一个艺术品 the neighborhood of the Cairo garbage collectors in Egypt, 在埃及开罗附近的垃圾收集处 I never thought this project would be the mos
