Neither immigration nor Islamic extremism are impossible to deal with. 移民问题和伊斯兰恐怖主义都不是不可能解决的 Join me now on one last trip, this time to Mexico. 现在跟我来看看最后的这个例子,这一次我们转向墨西哥 Now, of our three stories, thi
I'm a writer and a journalist, and I'm also an insanely curious person, 我是一个作家,一个新闻记者,我也是一位具有强烈求知欲的人。 so in 22 years as a journalist, I've learned how to do a lot of new things. 所以在做新闻记者的22年里,我知道了很多新奇
This formula works wherever metaphor is present. 这个公式适用于所有的暗喻。 Elvis uses it, but so does Shakespeare in this famous line from "Romeo and Juliet:" Juliet is the sun. 埃尔维斯用到它,莎士比亚也同样用到它,于《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中有这样的
When a movement includes in its discourse language around gender equality, 当一个运动在其议题中包含性别平等时 it increases dramatically the chances it will adopt nonviolence, and thus, the likelihood it will succeed.
I'm a journalist, so I like to look for the untold stories, the lives that quietly play out under the scream of headlines. 我是一名记者,因此我乐于探寻那些鲜为人知的故事,那些夸张头条背后的平静生活。 I've also been going about the busines
Third, that thou shall have reverence. 第三,诸位应心存尊敬。 This one was unexpected because I started the year as an agnostic, 这是个意外的体会。因为我刚开始是一个不可知论者, and by the end of the year, I became what a friend of min
But this one is -- the Bible says that you cannot touch women during certain times of the month, 但这一个是,圣经告诉我们在每个月的某些时间不能碰女人, and more than that, you cannot sit on a seat where a menstruating woman has
Now, 21 billion hours, it's a lot of time. 现在看起来,两百一十亿个小时是很多时间。 It's so much time, in fact, that the number one unsolicited comment that I have heard from people all over the world 真的是很多时间。事实上,我看到的最多的
We've started analyzing television content using the same principles -- 我们开始分析电视内容,用同样的原则-- analyzing event structure of a TV signal -- 分析一个电视信号的事件结构-- episodes of shows, commercials, all of the compo
So imagine you're at a party, and you can't believe that your friend or your spouse 假设你在参加派对,你无法接受你的朋友或者是配偶, isn't picking up on it that you want to leave early. 竟然没有注意到你想要早点离开。 And you're thinking, "
But what if that estimate is just based on your own experience in a non-mastery framework, 但假如那些判断仅仅是基于你们“非掌握体系”的个人经验, your own experience with yourself or observing your peers, 是基于你们的自身经历或仅是对周围人的观察而已
Nothing can elicit an emotional response -- 任何事物都无法像人体一样 from joy to complete disgust -- more than the human body. 表达诸多情感--从快乐到厌恶至极。 And today, artists armed with that emotion, 当今,艺术家正运用这一情感, are gras
My great-grandfather was a drunk in Detroit, who sometimes managed to hold down a factory job. 我的曾祖父曾经住在底特律,他是个酒鬼,有时勉强去工厂工作。 He had, as unbelievable as it might sound, 21 children, with one woman, my
So, everybody ready? This is your first quest. Here we go. 怎么样,每个人都准备好了吗?第一个任务来了。 Pick one: Stand up and take three steps, or make your hands into fists, 选择一项做:站起来并走三步,或者握起拳头, raise them over your hea
Since 1937, Disney has made most of its money selling princesses to girls. 从1937年开始,迪士尼就通过向女孩儿们出售公主玩偶赚钱。 It's made a huge chunk of its money. 他们为此大赚了一笔。 Unless, of course, the princess your daughter i
I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. 我不信教,但我尊重自然。 I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. 我的第一个长修假是在纽约市度过的,我希望第二次
The separation barrier was changed completely to the internationally recognized green line, 隔离墙被完全改道到国际认可的绿线内 and the women of Budrus came to be known across the West Bank for their indomitable energy
Imagine if you could record your life -- everything you said, everything you did, 想象一下如果你能记录你的生活--你说的一切,做的一切 available in a perfect memory store at your fingertips, 就存储在一个完美的你触手可及的记忆库 so you could go
Ralph Waldo Emerson described language as "fossil poetry." 诗人艾默生曾将语言描述为“化石般的诗”。 But before it was fossil poetry, language was fossil metaphor. 但是在它成为化石般的诗之前,语言是化石般的暗喻。 And these fossils still breathe.
The second reason I undertook this is because I'm concerned about the rise of fundamentalism, religious fundamentalism, 第二个原因我决定这样做,是因为我对基督教基本教义的兴起有兴趣, and people who say they take the Bible literally