TED演讲:对最近气候趋势的警告(1)

Last year I showed these two slides so that demonstrate that the arctic ice cap, 去年我给各位展示了两个关于北极冰帽的演示, which for most of the last three million years has been the size of the lower 48 states, has shrunk by 40 percent. 在过去三百万年中,其面积由相当于美国南方48州面积总和缩减了40%。 But this understates the seriousness of this particular problem because it...

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TED演讲:为何闪亮的玻璃高楼对城市生活有害(5)

Now, I'm not against glass. It's an ancient and versatile material. 我并不是反对使用玻璃。玻璃毕竟是一种古老且通用性强的材料。 It's easy to manufacture and transport and install and replace and clean. 它们易于大量生产、运输、安装、替换和清洁。 It comes in everything from enormous, ultraclear sheets to translucent bricks. 无论是巨大的超洁净面板还是简单的透明砖,都...

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TED演讲:你在电影里听到的都是假的(7)

Ambiences work in a most primal way. They can speak directly to our brain subconsciously. 环境声以最原始的方式起着作用。它们可以在潜意识里直接对我们的大脑说话。 So, birds chirping outside your window may indicate normality, 所以,你窗户外面的鸟叫可以代表常态。 perhaps because, as a species, we've been used to that sound every morning for millions of years. 或许因为,我们...

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TED演讲之入门 宏观历史(5)

Now, the going gets tougher. The next stage introduces entities that are significantly more fragile, significantly more vulnerable, 现在,(变化的条件)就更加苛刻了。下一个阶段是初次形成的个体,个体是明显更加弱小,更加脆弱的, but they're also much more creative and much more capable of generating further complexity. 但是它们也更加有创造力,也更加有能力创造更多的复杂性。...

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TED演讲:哪个国家对世界最有益(6)

So a couple of years ago, I thought I would take some time out and speak to that gigantic database and ask it, 所以几年以后,我认为我可以抽出些时间来跟那个庞大的数据库聊聊,问问它, why do some people prefer one country more than another? 为什么有些人相比于另一个国家,更喜欢一个国家? And the answer that the database gave me completely staggered me. It was 6.8. 数据库给我的...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 试验 排除错误和万能神力(11)

It is dangerous for patients to recover from heart attacks at home. 让心脏病人在家康复是危险的。 They should be in hospital." And there's this uproar, 他们应该留在医院里。”这引起了一片哗然, and all the doctors start pounding the table and saying, "We always said you were unethical, Archie. 医生们开始拍桌子,说道:“我们一直说阿奇,你这样做是不道德的。 You'r...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 成功是一条延续的旅程(2)

And reaching success, I always did what I loved. 为了成功,我总是做我最喜欢的事。 But then I got into stuff that I didn't love, like management. 但不喜欢的事慢慢接踵而来,像管理。 I am the world's worst manager, but I figured I should be doing it, because I was, after all, the president of the company. 我是世界上最糟糕的管理者,但当时我觉得这就是我该做的,因为我毕竟...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 犯错的价值(6)

This internal sense of rightness that we all experience so often 我们心中时常感觉到的理直气壮的感觉, is not a reliable guide to what is actually going on in the external world. 在真实世界中并不是个可靠的向导。 And when we act like it is, and we stop entertaining the possibility that we could be wrong, 当我们依此行事,不再思考我们是否犯错, well that's when we end up doi...

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TED演讲之身体语言 别对我撒谎(10)

An honest person is going to be cooperative. They're going to show they're on your side. 诚实的人会很合作。让你感觉他们站在你一边。 They're going to be enthusiastic. They're going to be willing and helpful to getting you to the truth. 会表现出热情。他们会乐意帮助你找出真相。 They're going to be willing to brainstorm, name suspects, provide details. 他们会...

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TED演讲之身体语言 一个编舞者的现场创作过程(8)

Okay, brilliant. Okay, here we go. From the beginning, can we do our phrases first? 好,非常好。好,我们开始。从头,我们可以先做我们的词语吗? And then that. And we're going to build something now, organize it, the phrases. 然后再是那个。我们现在要组建一些东西,让它有条理地成为一个流畅的词语。 Here we go. Nice and slow? Ready and go…um. 我们开始。优美的,慢慢的开始...

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TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(9)

There are also things, quite uncanny, which bring me information that will help me in the writing of the book. 除此以外,还有一些离奇的事件在写作时为我带来了不同的写作资料。 In this case, I was writing a story that included some kind of detail, period of history, a certain location. 当时我正在写一个古代的故事,需要那个年代的历史和地理资料来补足故事中的细节。 And I needed to ...

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TED演讲:一项关于电动车的大胆计划(1)

So how would you run a whole country without oil? 怎么让一个国家在没有用石油的情况下运转? That's the question that sort of hit me in the middle of a Davos afternoon about four years ago. 四年以前在Davos的一个下午,这个问题突然浮现在我的脑海。 It never left my brain. And I started playing with it more like a puzzle. 我永远不会忘记它。我越想越多,就像一个游戏。 The origin...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 解读羞耻(2)

And she goes, "Uh… no." 然后她说:“呃,不记得。” Of course, the only thing I could say at that point was, "Yeah, me neither. Yeah — me neither." 所以当然了,我也只能说:“哦,我也是…我也是。” And I'm thinking to myself, "Brené, what are you doing? Why did you bring this up? 然后我对自己说:“布琳,你在干什么?你在干吗呢?你怎么会...

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TED演讲:你在电影里听到的都是假的(4)

But once you've created your sounds and you've synced them to the image, you want those sounds to live in the world of the story. 不过,当你创造了声音并和画面同步后,你希望这些声音可以在叙事的世界中变得鲜活。 And one the best ways to do that is to add reverb. 最好的方法之一是加一点回响。 So this is the first audio tool I want to talk about. 这是我要谈的第一个音效手段...

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TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(2)

Now in the nature area, we look at whether or not we are innately equipped with something, 在天份的方面,我们必须要检视我们是否生来就有这天赋, perhaps in our brains, some abnormal chromosome that causes this muse-like effect. 或者在我们的大脑里,是否有些一些不正常的染色体带来了这些像是灵感的效应。 And some people would say that we're born with it in some other means. 有...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 犯错的价值(3)

I think this is a problem. I think it's a problem for each of us as individuals, in our personal and professional lives, 我认为这是个问题。我认为这是每个人私人生活和职业生活中的问题, and I think it's a problem for all of us collectively as a culture. 我认为我们身为群体,这也造成了文化问题。 So what I want to do today is, first of all, talk about why we get stuck ins...

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TED演讲之身体语言 一个编舞者的现场创作过程(6)

So they're solving this problem for me, having a little — They're constructing that phrase. 他们在帮我解决这个问题,用一点——他们在组建那个词语。 They have something and they're going to hold on to it, yeah? 他们有些信息,他们会抓住它。 One way of making. That's going to be my beginning in this world premiere. 这是一种创造的方法。这将是我世界首演的开始。...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 试验 排除错误和万能神力(10)

Until then, until then I'm going to keep banging on about trial and error and why we should abandon the God complex. 到那时候,到那时候,我会继续讨论测试和排除错误这个话题,以及为什么我们需要抛弃“万能神力”的态度。 Because it's so hard to admit our own fallibility. It's so uncomfortable. 因为我们很难承认我们自己是很容易犯错的。这令人感到很不舒服。 And Archie Cochr...

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TED演讲之身体语言 一个编舞者的现场创作过程(7)

So from there, from there, we're both getting up, we're both getting up, going in this direction, going underneath. 所以从那起,我们都站起来,我们都站起来,向这个方向走, 再从底下绕过去。 Whoa, whoa, underneath. Whoa, underneath, whoo-um. Yeah? Underneath. Jump. Underneath. Jump. Paolo, kick. 哇,哇,底下过去。 哇,下面走,喔。可以吗?下面走。跳。下面走。跳。保罗,踢...

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TED演讲:哪个国家对世界最有益(9)

Now that's the Good Country Index. What's it there for? 这就是好国家指数。它有什么目的? Well, it's there really because I want to try to introduce this word, or reintroduce this word, into the discourse. 它存在的目的是因为我想尝试,想介绍这个词,或重新介绍这个词,在我们的语境中。 I've had enough hearing about competitive countries. 我已经听够了有竞争力的国家...

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