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And so I'm going to take a few examples from our work. 我想要举几个我们在研究中发现的例子。 One first saying that I'm sure you all have heard 这第一个说法，我想大多数人都听说过： is the fact that too much screen time makes your eyesight worse. 看太久屏幕会导致视力下降。 That's a statement about vision. 这是个关于视力的说法。 There may be vision scientists among y...
I was really moved by these experiences, 我被这些真实的故事深深打动了 and I decided that I wanted to write about them 我之前计划只是写一本书来记录 not only in a book I was working on, but also in an article, 但是现在我觉得远远不够，我还要写一篇文章 and so I got a commission from The New York Times Magazine to write about depression among the indigent. 所以我跟纽约时报杂志说...
That's the end of that. 这个故事讲完了。 The next story is called In Praise of the Taxpayer. 下一个故事叫作《纳税人的荣耀》。 That so many of the city's most venerable taxpayers have survived yet another commercial building boom,is cause for celebration. 这个城市里，很多受人尊崇的纳税人又逃过了一次拆旧楼建新的商业大楼浪潮的劫难。他们为此庆祝。 These one or two story ...
Here is an image. 这是一张照片。 Since galaxy clusters are representative slices of the universe, scaled-down versions. 因为星团可以看做是宇宙的缩小版。 They are mostly made up of dark matter, 它们也是大部分由暗物质构成， and that's what you see in this bluish purple. 这就是你看到的偏蓝的紫色。 The red represents the hot gas, 红色代表高温气体， and, of course, you can se...
Most of the educational games that are out there today are really flashcards. 今天的多数教育游戏是过时的，它们只是卡片游戏。 They're glorified drill and practice. 它们都是很耗人的和需要人们的耐心来玩。 They don't have the depth, the rich narrative that really engaging video games have, 它们没有真正打电子游戏时的那种耐玩性，丰富的游戏互动性， that the boys are really ...
But this is sort of the important stages in which that framework will get built, 平台建设是很重要的阶段， and so we want to all be thinking about it consciously now. 所以现在我们都要自然而然地思考这个问题。 Just before we jump into that, there's sort of a question of: why is this important? 当我们开始讨论这个问题之前，还有一个问题，那就是：为什么重要？ I'm sort of ma...
It's easier to help schizophrenics who perceive 相对而言帮助精神分裂症患者更容易 that there's something foreign inside of them that needs to be exorcised, 他们认为自己身体里面有某些异质需要被驱除 but it's difficult with depressives, 但对于抑郁症患者来说这很难 because we believe we are seeing the truth. 因为我们坚信自己看到的是事实 But the truth lies. 但事实是会说...
You all know about multitasking. 你们都知道"多任务处理"(multitasking)。 You all have been faulty of multitasking when you're driving and you pick up your cellphone. 一边开车一边拿起手机的多任务处理不是明智之举。 Bad idea. Very bad idea. 非常糟糕。 Why? Because as your attention shifts to your cell phone, 为什么？因为你的注意力实际上转移到了你的手机上， you are ...
The final one I want to talk about — and it's a great one to end on — 我最后想讲的是——用来结尾很好的例子是 is this concept of communal discovery, 社群探索的概念， a dynamic in which everyone has to work together to achieve something. 人们需要一起工作来达到某个目标的动机。 And communal discovery is powerful because it leverages 社群探索有影响力的原因是因为 the...
So this is work from a colleague in Toronto. 这个工作是我们一个多伦多的同事完成的。 What they showed is that, initially, 他们发现一开始参加实验的人的表现 you know, subjects perform where they are expected to perform given their age. 和他们那个年龄段应有的差不多。 After two weeks of training on action video games, 玩了两个星期的动作电子游戏以后， they actually perform better,...
When you start to mock them, it hurts. 那些统治者一旦被嘲讽，就会坐立不安。 Now, everybody is talking about His Majesty, the Internet, 现在，人们都在谈论尊贵的因特网殿下， and it is also a very useful skill, but don't rush to label things like Facebook Revolution, Twitter Revolution. 网络也确实是一个非常有用的工具，但是别急着将各种运动命名为脸书革命或者推特（微博）革命。...
I went a few years ago to a conference, and on Friday of the three-day conference, 几年前我去参加一个学术会议，连开三天，第一天是周五 one of the participants took me aside, and she said, 一个与会者把我叫到一边，她说 "I suffer from depression and I'm a little embarrassed about it, “我有抑郁症，我为此有点难为情 but I've been taking this medication, and I just want...
Is it simply the byproduct of a crude mechanical action? 它仅仅是一个粗糙机械制作的副产品？ Or is it an imitation of one half the set of sounds we make to express disappointment? 或者对我们抒发不满的一种声音的一半所进行的模仿？ The often dental consonant of no Indo-European language. 我们不满的时候经常用它在印欧语系中可找不到词源。 Or is it the amplified sound of a synapse f...
If I hadn't gone to Ohio State and crossed paths with Tom,this child wouldn't have existed and this terrible thing wouldn't have happened. 如果我没有到俄亥俄州立大学，没遇见汤姆，这个孩子就不会存在，这可怕的惨案就不会发生。 But I've come to feel that I love the children I had so much that I don't want to imagine a life without them. 但我觉得我太爱孩子们了...
So I'm a woman with chronic schizophrenia. 我是一个患有慢性精神分裂症的女人 I've spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. 我曾经有几百天都待在精神病医院里面 I might have ended up spending most of my life on the back ward of a hospital, 也许我有可能一生大部分时间都待在医院的病房里 but that isn't how my life turned out. 但是我的人生并没有这样 In fact, I'...
You see, the autistic mind tends to be a specialist mind 自闭症患者通常都是有特别的心智的 good at one thing, bad at something else. 她们往往在某一方面做得很棒，在其他方面做得很糟 And where I was bad was algebra. And I was never allowed to take geometry or trig. 我就是代数非常差，更不用提几何或三角了 Gigantic mistake: I'm finding a lot of kids who need to skip algebra, 但...
The day I left home for the first time 我第一次离家到大学念书的那天 to go to university was a bright day brimming with hope and optimism. 感觉棒呆了，日子充满希望 I'd done well at school. Expectations for me were high, 我学业表现不错，大家对我期望颇高 and I gleefully entered the student life of lectures, parties and traffic cone theft. 我也满怀期待地投入大学生活，上课、...
So I'm a woman with chronic schizophrenia. 我是一个患有慢性精神分裂症的女人 I've spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. 我曾经有几百天都待在精神病医院里面 I might have ended up spending most of my life on the back ward of a hospital, 也许我有可能一生大部分时间都待在医院的病房里 but that isn't how my life turned out. 但是我的人生并没有这样 In fact, I'...
But this is sort of the important stages in which that framework will get built, 平台建设是很重要的阶段， and so we want to all be thinking about it consciously now. 所以现在我们都要自然而然地思考这个问题。 Just before we jump into that, there's sort of a question of: why is this important? 当我们开始讨论这个问题之前，还有一个问题，那就是：为什么重要？ I'm sort of ma...
I went a few years ago to a conference, and on Friday of the three-day conference, 几年前我去参加一个学术会议，连开三天，第一天是周五 one of the participants took me aside, and she said, 一个与会者把我叫到一边，她说 "I suffer from depression and I'm a little embarrassed about it, “我有抑郁症，我为此有点难为情 but I've been taking this medication, and I just want...