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For example, the "Lady with the Unicorn," another painting by Rafael, well, you see the unicorn.
Take this example: Otto Marseus, nice painting, which is "Still Life" at the Pitti Gallery, and just have an infrared camera peering through, and luckily for art historians, it just was confirmed that there is a signature of Otto Marseus.
And then if we want, we can continue the scroll to find out, for example, on the staircase, the whole iconography is going to be changed.
I want to use the
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of my own country, called Uganda, and the kind of structure of incentives that aid has brought there.
Instead, this
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slide by Genevieve Brown is much more effective.
Or to take an even more striking example, when the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations did a survey of Americans, asking them to guess what percentage of the federal budget went to foreign aid, the guess was 30 percent, which is slightly in excess of the actual level — ("actually about ... 1%") (Laughter) — of U.S. governmental commitments to federal aid.
It was an
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of a culture clash that's happening all over the world between bewigged and bestockinged officials who think that they can rule over us without very much prying from the public, and then suddenly confronted with a public who is no longer content with that arrangement, and not only not content with it, now, more often, armed with official data itself.
That's why we're starting to see more disclosure laws come out, so for example, on the environment, there's the Aarhus Convention, which is a European directive that gives people a very strong right to know, so if your water company is dumping water into your river, sewage water into your river, you have a right to know about it.
It's open-source, with documentation, and it allows you to make a Freedom of Information request, to ask your public body a question, so it takes all the hassle out of it, and I can tell you that there is a lot of hassle making these requests, so it takes all of that hassle out, and you just type in your question, for example, how many police officers have a criminal record?
And if you're trying to track a dictator's assets, for example, Hosni Mubarak, you know, he's just funneling out cash from his country when he knows he's in trouble, and what you want to do to investigate that is, you need to have access to all of the world's, as many as you can, companies' house registrations databases.
In Afghanistan, for example, we haven't just had one election or two elections.
And when I have conversations with people, I remember having a conversation, for example, in Iraq, with a community that asked me whether the riot we were seeing in front of us, this was a huge mob ransacking a provincial council building, was a sign of the new democracy.
I remember in Iraq, for example, that we went through a period of feeling that we should delay democracy.
If we set about saying, for example, torture is wrong because it doesn't extract good information, or we say, you need women's rights because it stimulates economic growth by doubling the size of the work force, you leave yourself open to the position where the government of North Korea can turn around and say, "Well actually, we're having a lot of success extracting good information with our torture at the moment," or the government of Saudi Arabia to say, "Well, our economic growth's okay, thank you very much, considerably better than yours, so maybe we don't need to go ahead with this program on women's rights."
A more modern
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comes from people who try to convince us that homosexuality is immoral.
Let me just give you an
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from a recent study that we conducted.
Let me give you an
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of what I mean by harmless but taboo sexual practice.
In trying to understand romantic love, I decided I would read poetry from all over the world, and I just want to give you one very short poem from eighth-century China, because it's an almost perfect
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of a man who is focused totally on a particular woman.
So this, for example, when you see bees flying around these little plants, and they're collecting pollen, those pollen grains that they're collecting, they pack into their legs and they take it back to the hive, and that's what makes the beehive, the wax in the beehive.
So here's, for example, a picture of sand from Maui.
So here we see, for example, a sponge spicule, two bits of coral here, that's a sea urchin spine.
So say, for example, the region of the genome that I was looking at was a region that's important for vision.
For example, we've learned a lot about its demographics, how things like income and education, gender and marriage relate to it.
For example, people don't really like commuting to work very much.
Here's an
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of one: "On my way."
Let me give you a very recent example, as in, like, last week.
Here's an
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of the men and the height.
So one thing that we did, and I'll give you an
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of looking at the language, is we paid people to write some fake reviews.
For example, I don't know the eight million people who share my Israeli citizenship.
For example, I can be a good patriot, loyal to my country, and at the same time, be loyal to my family, my neighborhood, my profession, humankind as a whole, truth and beauty.
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