TED演讲:让我们带上女超人!(10)

We have to stop. 我们必须停止。 And when I was putting this together, people said to me, 当我这么说的时候,一些人回复我说: "Well, that's never going to happen." And I said, "Oh really?" “好吧,但那绝不可能发生。”然后我说:“是吗?” Because just this year, Target announced that they were going to stop gendering their toy aisles. 因为就在今年,塔吉特宣...

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TED演讲之说什么 单词的诞生(4)

So he didn't just learn water. 而他并不只是学会了水 Over the course of the 24 months, the first two years that we really focused on, 在24个月里,在最初的2年里,这才是我真正关注的 this is a map of every word he learned in chronological order. 这里有一张图按照时序列出了他所学到的词汇 And because we have full transcripts, 因为我们有全部的记录 we've identified each of th...

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TED演讲之说什么 重新定义字典(10)

So a word without its source is like a cut flower. 一个没有来源的词就像一朵被剪下来的花。 You know, it's pretty to look at for a while, but then it dies. It dies too fast. 看一会还可以,不久就蔫了。蔫得太快了。 So, this whole time I've been saying, "The dictionary, the dictionary, the dictionary, the dictionary." 我一直在说,“字典,字典,字典,字典。” Not &...

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TED演讲之说什么 暗喻言说(3)

If you are like 98 percent of other people, 如果你象其余百分之九十八的人一样, you will identify the round, amoeboid shape as Bouba, and the sharp, spiky one as Kiki. 你会把这个圆圆的,变形虫形状的叫做Bouba,把尖尖的,刺猬状的叫做Kiki。 Can we do a quick show of hands? Does that correspond? 是这样的请举手?是不是象我说的那样? Okay, I think 99.9 would about cover it. Why do ...

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TED演讲:新美国梦(2)

Is "better off" finding a secure job that you can count on for the rest of your life? Those are nearly extinct. 是找到了一个稳定的工作,一辈子都不用愁,就意味着“生活安逸”吗?这种情况几乎不存在。 People move jobs, on average, every 4.7 years, and it's estimated that by 2020, nearly half of Americans will be freelancers. 人们平均4.7年就换一个工作,并且,预计到202...

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TED演讲:为什么头盔不能预防脑震荡?(6)

Now, this device is only limited in such that it can measure the skull motion, 当下,这个设备仅能测量出颅骨的运动, but what we really want to know is what's happening inside of the brain. 但我们真正想知道的是脑部内部的情形。 So we collaborate with Svein Kleiven's group in Sweden. They've developed a finite element model of the brain. 所以我们与瑞典的Svein Kleive...

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TED演讲:为掌握而不是为了分数而教学(7)

So as a society, we have a question: 所以对一个社会而言,我们有一个问题: All this new productivity is happening because of this technology, but who participates in it? 科技带来的这些新生产力,是谁参与其中呢? Is it just going to be that very top of the pyramid, in which case, what does everyone else do? 是不是只有处于金字塔顶端的人,而其他人都置身事外? How do they operate?...

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TED演讲:新美国梦(9)

The "new better off," as I've come to call it, 我所说的“新型安逸生活” is less about investing in the perfect family and more about investing in the imperfect village, 不是关于维持完美的家庭,而是关于维持不那么完美的村落, whether that's relatives living under one roof, a cohousing community like mine, 不论是所有亲戚住在同一屋檐下,就像是我的合作居住社区一样...

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TED演讲:为掌握而不是为了分数而教学(5)

And when that happens, all sorts of neat things happen. 当万事俱备的时候,就会出现良性循环。 One, the students can actually master the concepts, but they're also building their growth mindset, 首先,学生能够真正掌握知识,此外还能培养他们积极的心理, they're building grit, perseverance, they're taking agency over their learning. 建立勇气和不屈不挠的精神,他们会对...

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TED演讲:女性是怎样发起非暴力冲突的(1)

Twelve years ago, I picked up a camera for the first time to film the olive harvest in a Palestinian village in the West Bank. 十二年前,我第一次拿起相机,去拍摄一个位于约旦河西岸的巴勒斯坦村庄的橄榄收割活动 I thought I was there to make a single documentary and would then move on to some other part of the world. 我本打算去那里拍一个纪录片,然后就会离开去其他地方 But somethi...

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TED演讲之说什么 单词的诞生(6)

And we see these amazing structures — these little knots of two colors of thread we call "social hot spots." 我们看见令人惊讶的结构,这是两种颜色的小结点,我们把它称为社交热点 The spiral thread we call a "solo hot spot." 那些螺旋线我们称为单一热点 And we think that these affect the way language is learned. 我们觉得这个影响语言学习 What we'd like...

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TED演讲之说什么 重新定义字典(8)

So if you think of the word "set," a set can be a badger's burrow, 当你想到一个词“set”—“set”可以指獾的穴, a set can be one of the pleats in an Elizabethan ruff, and there's one numbered definition in the OED. 也可以指伊利沙白时代衣领上的褶–在OED里就有好几个定义, The OED has 33 different numbered definitions for set. Tiny, little word, 33 numbered de...

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TED演讲之说什么 单词的诞生(10)

We call this a co-viewing clique, a virtual living room if you will. 我们称之为共视团体,你可以把它当成一个虚拟的客厅 And there are fascinating dynamics at play. It's not one way. 这里头上演着引人注目的戏剧。它不是单向的 A piece of content, an event, causes someone to talk. They talk to other people. 一个内容,一个事件促使某人发表了意见。他们和其他人对话 That drives tune...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 依照圣经指导原则生活的一年(5)

So, you know, if you want to become more compassionate, 所以,你知道的,如果你想要变得更有同情心, you visit sick people in the hospital, and you will become more compassionate. 你去医院探望生病的人,然后你会变得比较慈善。 You donate money to a cause, and you become emotionally involved in that cause. 为某慈善事业捐钱,然后你就放感情在那件事里面, So, it really was cognitive...

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TED演讲:在危机中前行的政治(12)

Yet he chose to embrace his enemies instead, while forcing his own party to compromise. 但是他选择了拥抱自己的敌人,同时迫使他所在的政党去妥协 And Trudeau pushed everyone to stop thinking in tribal terms 特鲁多促使大家都不再去想部落 and to see multiculturalism, not language and not skin color, as what made them quintessentially Canadian. 并且去考虑用多元文化主义,而不是语言...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 能让你多出10年额外寿命的游戏(5)

Now let me tell you that story. 现在让我告诉你们那个故事吧。 It started two years ago, when I hit my head and got a concussion. 这得从两年前说起,当我头被撞后我得了脑震荡。 The concussion didn't heal properly, and after 30 days, 直到现在,脑震荡还没有痊愈。在那之后的30天后, I was left with symptoms like nonstop headaches, nausea, vertigo, memory loss, mental fog. 后遗症...

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TED演讲:在危机中前行的政治(2)

Not only are there theoretical fixes; those fixes have been tried. 这里不仅仅有理论上的修复,这些修复已经被投入试验 They've worked. And they offer hope for the rest of us. 并且是起作用的。这也为我们其他人提供了希望 I'm going to show you what I mean by telling you about how three of the countries I visited 接下来我将会展示我所要表达的意思,通过讲述这三个我访问过的国家...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 能让你多出10年额外寿命的游戏(1)

I'm a gamer, so I like to have goals. I like special missions and secret objectives. 我是一个游戏玩家,因此我喜欢得分。我喜欢特殊的使命和神秘的目标。 So here's my special mission for this talk: 因此,我这次演讲的特殊使命是: I'm going to try to increase the life span of every single person in this room by seven and a half minutes. 我将尽力为这个大厅里的每个人延长...

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TED演讲:为掌握而不是为了分数而教学(1)

I'm here today to talk about the two ideas that, at least based on my observations at Khan Academy, 今天,我要分享两个观点,至少基于我对可汗学院的观察得出的, are kind of the core, or the key leverage points for learning. 有关于学习的核心,或者说是根基。 And it's the idea of mastery and the idea of mindset. 一个是掌握的技巧,另一个是思维方式。 I saw this in the early...

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TED演讲:在危机中前行的政治(3)

And now Canada is taking even more. 并且现在加拿大正在接收更多的难民 And yet, if you ask Canadians what makes them proudest of their country, 如果你问加拿大人他们的国家最让他们感到骄傲的是什么 they rank "multiculturalism," a dirty word in most places, second, ahead of hockey. Hockey. 他们会将“多元文化”这个在很多地方都带有贬义的词语排在第二位,领先于曲棍球。曲棍球 I...

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