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Through my research at the Zionist Archives in Jerusalem, I wanted to look at the early paperwork of the establishment of the Jewish state.
And so what my team of researchers, what we wanted to do, is say, can we apply genetic and proteomic technology to go after DNA and proteins, and from this can we get better taxonomic resolution to really understand what's going on?
We let them go about their day and do whatever they wanted.
We wanted to see if this holds true everywhere in the world or just among wealthy countries.
We wanted to look at every country in the world if we could, to see what the relationship is between money and happiness.
And I really wanted to share with you a very special moment of my life and the history of the city of Rio.
So moving to our second commandment that I wanted to show you.
And I wanted to show that I can govern my city, using technology, from here, from Long Beach, so I got here last night and I know everything.
And so, you know, this is the Middle Passage, this is an incredibly significant event, and she's treating it like, basically some black people went on a cruise, this is more or less how it sounds to her. (Laughter) And so, to me, I wanted more value in this, so when she asked if she could play a game, I said, "Yes."
It was like a really deep-down gut reaction, and I wanted to throw it out.
They decided this wasn't good enough, and they wanted to get it up to 99.
I don't like to acknowledge a problem without also acknowledging those who work to fix it, so just wanted to acknowledge shows like "Mad Men," movies like "Bridesmaids," whose female characters or protagonists are complex, multifaceted.
Lena Dunham, who's on here, her show on HBO that premiers next month, "Girls," she said she wanted to start it because she felt that every woman she knew was just a bundle of contradictions, and that feels accurate for all people, but you don't see women represented like that as much.
So I was trying to figure all that out, and I felt a little confused, and I said so on my blog, and I said that I wanted to start a website for teenage girls that was not this kind of one-dimensional strong character empowerment thing because I think one thing that can be very alienating about a misconception of feminism is that girls then think that to be a feminist, they have to live up to being perfectly consistent in your beliefs, never being insecure, never having doubts, having all of the answers.
So I said on my blog that I wanted to start this publication for teenage girls and ask people to submit their writing, their photography, whatever, to be a member of our staff.
If you wanted your brain for a particular body mass to be large, you had to live with a smaller gut.
Because those people who were hunter-gatherers in origin wanted to be free and roam and pick up information as they wanted, and those that were in the business of farming information wanted to build fences around it, create ownership and wealth and structure and settlement.
In Nature's Great Events, a series for the BBC that I did with David Attenborough, we wanted to do just that.
And I was fascinated, I wanted to know how do these guys do it.
They wanted to know: Do these guys have brains that are somehow structurally, anatomically different from the rest of ours?
He was actually the hired entertainment, because back then, if you wanted to throw a really slamming party, you didn't hire a D.J., you hired a poet.
And during my PhD, I wanted to know exactly what chemicals from our skin African malaria mosquitoes use to track us down at night.
We have a class of experts, professionals, who play very expensive instruments, for the most part, things like the organ, complicated instruments, and if you wanted to hear music in the 18th century, it was live.
If you wanted to hear music, you had to get out of the house.
But if you wanted to hear Mozart or Bach, you had to go to Germany and go hear them.
Now you could buy Rachmaninoff sheet music, but if you wanted to hear Rachmaninoff, you had to actually go to the concert hall.
So if you're playing Chopin, the additions from different countries are different on purpose, because he wanted to be able to track who was a pirate.
The students wanted that time to imagine where is it going to happen, how is it going to happen.
What we wanted to know was whether people will take the information that we gave them to change their beliefs.
What I wanted to know was what was going on inside the human brain that prevented us from taking these warning signs personally.
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