TED演讲之入门 我们需要谈谈不公(2)

And my mother, my grandmother was tough, but she was also loving. 我的外婆很强势,但她也很慈爱。 When I would see her as a little boy, she'd come up to me and she'd give me these hugs. 当我是个小男孩时,每次见到她都拥抱我。 And she'd squeeze me so tight I could barely breathe and then she'd let me go. 她抱得那么紧,我都透不过气来,然后她才会放开我。 And an ho...

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TED演讲:为什么你应该热爱统计学(3)

It's the part of mathematics that even mathematicians don't particularly like, 统计是数学的一部分,但是它是连数学家都不怎么喜欢的那一部分, because whereas the rest of maths is all about precision and certainty, statistics is almost the reverse of that. 因为与其它讲究精确与确定性的数学领域不同,统计学几乎是反其道而行之。 But actually, I was a late convert to the worl...

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TED演讲:为什么头盔不能预防脑震荡?(8)

So how can we slow the head down? 那我们该如何减缓头部的向下移动? A gigantic helmet. So with more space, you have more time, and this is a bit of a joke, but some of you may have seen this. 可以佩戴巨型头盔。空间变大,缓冲时间就会变长,当然这是个玩笑,虽然你们有人可能见过这个。 This is bubble soccer, and it's a real sport. 这是泡泡足球,而且它真是一项运动。 In fact, I s...

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TED演讲:货币的未来(2)

In 1932, the Bank of France asked the United States to convert their holdings from dollars into gold. 1932年时,法兰西银行向美国提出申请,希望把银行中的美元兑换成黄金。 But it was too inconvenient to think about actually shipping all of that gold over to Europe. 但想想看,要把数额巨大的黄金运回欧洲,这是件多么困难的事。 So instead, someone went to where that gold was being s...

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TED演讲之入门 用前所未有的好方法诠释数字统计(8)

And if we move back again, here, and we put on trails on them, like this, 我们再回到过去,给每个球画出运动的轨迹, you can see again that the speed of development is very, very different, 可以看到,发展速度的差距非常大, and the countries are moving more or less in the same rate as money and health, 虽然各国的经济和健康发展的轨迹大同小异, but it seems you can move much fast...

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TED演讲之入门 我们需要谈谈不公(8)

Well I believe that our identity is at risk. 我相信这说明我们有定位危机。 That when we actually don't care about these difficult things, 当我们对这些棘手的问题置之不顾时, the positive and wonderful things are nonetheless implicated. 我们却仍旧对那些正面的好事儿一如既往地关心。 We love innovation. We love technology. We love creativity. We love entertainment. 我们爱极了...

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TED演讲:不存在'不投票'这种事(2)

From the Revolution to the Civil Rights Era, the United States had a vibrant, robustly participatory and raucous culture of voting. 从美国革命到人权时代,美国选举曾经充满生机,参与者信念坚定,草根文化喧嚣一时。 It was street theater, open-air debates, fasting and feasting and toasting, parades and bonfires. 街头戏剧,公开辩论,斋戒,盛宴,祝酒,游行和篝火晚会盛极一时。 Durin...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 休假的力量(5)

If I look at my cycle, seven years, one year sabbatical, it's 12.5 percent of my time. 看看我的周期,干七年,休一年,是我百分之12.5的时间。 And if I look at companies that are actually more successful than mine, 看看比我更成功的公司, 3M since the 1930s is giving all their engineers 15 percent to pursue whatever they want. 3M公司自20世纪30年代起,让所有的工程师花百分之十...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 为什么健康的生活方式几乎把我害死(3)

I also tried to be the safest person I could be, because that's a part of health. 我还尽我所能做个最安全的人,因为这也是健康的一部分。 I was inspired by the Danish Safety Council. 我受到丹麦安全委员会的启发。 They started a public campaign that says, "A walking helmet is a good helmet." 他们发起一个公益活动,口号是:“步行专用头盔是个好头盔”。 So they believe yo...

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TED演讲:为什么你应该热爱统计学(5)

So extraordinary variations, and surprising to some, 如此巨大的差异震惊了一些人, but not surprising to people who have read the work of Daniel Kahneman, for example, the Nobel-winning economist. 但是对一些人来说并不惊讶,比如阅读过诺贝尔经济学奖获得者丹尼尔·卡内曼的研究成果的人。 He and his colleague, Amos Tversky, spent years researching this disjoint between what people p...

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TED演讲:有关激情的故事(8)

Millions of women live like this today. They are the poorest of the poor. 如今还有万千上万的妇女像这样生活着。她们是真正的最穷的穷人。 Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets. 尽管妇女从事着世界上三分之二的劳力工作,但是她们仅仅拥有低于1%的资产。 They are paid less than men for the same work if they'...

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TED演讲:为什么你应该热爱统计学(4)

And I was so thrilled with this study, I started to take questions out in presentations. I was referring to it. 我对这个研究感到很兴奋,并开始在各种演讲中提出这个问题。 Now, I did a presentation at St. Paul's School for Girls in Hammersmith, 我曾经在哈默史密斯的圣保罗女子中学做过一个演讲, and I had an audience rather like this, except it was comprised entirely of sixth-...

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TED演讲之入门 揭露海底惊奇(3)

Cuttlefish. I love cuttlefish. This is a Giant Australian Cuttlefish. 墨鱼,我很喜欢墨鱼。这是一只巨型澳大利亚墨鱼。 And there he is, his droopy little eyes up here. But they can do pretty amazing things, too. 看它,看它那双无精打采的眼睛。不过它们能做很神奇的事。 Here we're going to see one backing into a crevice, 我们马上就能看到它退入到礁石的夹缝中去, and watch his t...

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TED演讲:为什么你应该知道你同事的工资(5)

That's why Dane's not alone. From technology start-ups like Buffer, to the tens of thousands of employees at Whole Foods, 这就是为什么像戴恩一样的人越来越多。从类似Buffer的初创科技公司,到Whole Foods这样的数万人的大公司, where not only is your salary available for everyone to see, 不但大家的薪资都透明化, but the performance data for the store and for your departmen...

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TED演讲:如何安全发送色情短信(2)

The key is consent. Right now most people are thinking about sexting without really thinking about consent at all. 关键是同意。现在很多人在想着色情短信本身,而完全忽略了“他人的同意”。 Did you know that we currently criminalize teen sexting? 你们知道我们现在在将青少年发送色情短信违法化吗? It can be a crime because it counts as child pornography, 它可以是一个罪犯是由于它可以...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 我为什么划船横渡太平洋(10)

I think there are probably three key points here. 我认为有三个关键问题。 The first one is about the stories that we tell ourselves. 第一个关键是我们对自己的认识。 For so long, I told myself that I couldn't have an adventure because I wasn't six foot tall and athletic and bearded. 在很长的时间里,我一直都认为自己不能去冒险,因为我没有六英尺高,也不好运动,而且也没胡子...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 我为什么划船横渡太平洋(11)

The other point: It's about taking responsibility. 另外的一个关键问题,是关于承担责任的问题。 For so much of my life, I wanted something else to make me happy. 我在生活的大部分时间里都努力使自己高兴。 I thought if I had the right house or the right car or the right man in my life, then I could be happy. 我曾认为如果我有称心房子、满意的轿车或对的人,我就会心满意足。 But w...

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TED演讲之入门 用前所未有的好方法诠释数字统计(3)

So this is what I could display here. 那么一起来看看。 I put fertility rate here: number of children per woman: one, two, three, four, up to about eight children per woman. X轴是生育率,每个妇女的育儿数,从每人1,2,3,4胎到8胎。 We have very good data since 1962 — 1960 about — on the size of families in all countries. The error margin is narrow. 我们有1962年之后...

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TED演讲:不存在'不投票'这种事(4)

You might ask, well, here in America, who has time for this? 你也许会问,但这是美国,谁有时间折腾这些啊? And I would tell you that the average American watches five hours of television a day. 我要告诉你,美国人平均每天看5小时的电视。 You might ask, who has the motivation? 你会问,谁有那个劲头啊? And I'll tell you, any citizen who wants to be seen and heard not as a pro...

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TED演讲之入门 细菌是怎样交流的(4)

The reason that Vibrio fischeri is doing that comes from the biology. 费氏弧菌的发光现象来自生物学上的原因。 Again, another plug for the animals in the ocean, Vibrio fischeri lives in this squid. 接下来,我们再来看一个海洋生物:费式弧菌寄生在这种乌贼的体内。 What you are looking at is the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid, and it's been turned on its back, 你们现在看到的是夏威夷截...

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