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Now, I've experienced this firsthand. For the last few years, I've been living in a cohousing community. 我亲身体验过这种生活。过去几年中，我生活在一个合作居住社区。 It's 1.5 acres of persimmon trees, this prolific blackberry bush that snakes around a community garden, 社区公园里有1.5英亩柿子树，黑莓丛郁郁葱葱，蜿蜒遍布整个公园 all smack-dab, by the way, in the m...
A group of students was told that a small democratic country had been invaded and had asked the U.S. for help. 在一项研究中，一群学生被告知某个民主小国在遭到侵略后向美国寻求援助。 And they had to make a decision. What should they do? 学生们必须决定怎么办。他们该怎么做呢？ Intervene, appeal to the U.N., or do nothing? 干预，向联合国申诉，还是袖手旁观？ They were each then giv...
So good job. Quest number three. 干得不错！我们来开始第三个任务。 Pick one: Because of the room, fate's really determined this for you, but here are the two options. 任选一项：因为我们都在一个大厅里，这使得我们没选择余地，但有两个选项。 If you're inside, find a window and look out of it. 如果你在房子里，选一个窗户向外看 If you're outside, find a window and look i...
Now to the second potential misunderstanding. 至于第二个可能的误解 I've been talking a lot about my experiences in the Middle East, and some of you might be thinking now 我一直在谈论我在中东地区的经历，你们有些人可能在想 that the solution then is for us to educate Muslim and Arab societies to be more inclusive of their women. 问题的解决方案在于教育穆斯林和阿拉伯社会对女...
I thought I'd tell you a little about what I like to write. And I like to immerse myself in my topics. 我打算跟你们聊些我想要写作的东西。我喜欢完全投入我的研究题目。 I just like to dive right in and become sort of a human guinea pig. 我直接切入题目中，以自己为白老鼠。 And I see my life as a series of experiments. 我的生活像是一系列的实验。 So, I work for Esquire magazine...
My most recent book — my previous book was called "The Know-It-All," 我最新的书–我前一本书叫做《无所不知》， and it was about the year I spent reading the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z in my quest to learn everything in the world, 它是关于那年我花在阅读大英百科全书，从A到Z在我探寻学习世界万物中 or more precisely from Aak, which is a type of East A...
And I actually took out a handful of stones from my pocket that I had been carrying around for weeks, 然后我从口袋中拿出满手的石头，那时我已经带着这些石头几个礼拜了， hoping for just this interaction — and, you know, they were pebbles — but he grabbed them out of my hand. 期待这种情况发生–然后，你知道的，这些是小卵石–但是那个男人把石头从我手中夺走。 H...
So, I'm an artist. I live in New York, and I've been working in advertising for — ever since I left school, 我是一名艺术家。我住在纽约，从事广告设计，从毕业开始我就一直做这行， so about seven, eight years now, and it was draining. I worked a lot of late nights. 至今已经七、八年了，慢慢的感觉有点厌倦了。我熬了很多夜， I worked a lot of weekends, and I found myse...
And he was quiet for a moment. 那一刻他很安静 And I thought, "What am I thinking? He's five years old. He's not going to understand this." 我想：“我在想什么啊？他才5岁，他不会理解这些。” And just as I was having that thought, he looked up at me and said, 而正当我怎么想着，他抬头对我说： "So that when I grow up, I can show this to my kids?" “那等我...
It's the good feeling I got 这就是那位老人将我 from being saved from the death trap of the storm drain by the old man, 从雨篦子的“死亡陷阱”中“拯救”出来之后，我得到的那种美妙的感觉； or how I feel like part of a community when I talk to somebody on my train on the way to work. 或者是在我乘火车上班与别人交谈时，感觉自己是社群的一份子。 Sometimes it goes further. 有时候还会...
I mean, over the next five years, Disney and Warner Bros. and a bunch of movie studios 我的意思是，在未来的五年当中，迪士尼和华纳兄弟公司，还有一群电影工作室 are going to release over 30 feature-length films with comic book characters, 将会推出超过30部基于漫画形象的全长电影。 and of those 30 feature-length films, exactly two of them will have female solo leads. Two. 在这超过...
And so I get this question all the time from parents, and they ask me, "Would you let your own child play football?" 家长们总是问我这样一个问题，他们问我，“你会让你自己的小孩儿打橄榄球吗？” Or, "Should I let my child play soccer?" 或者“我应该让我小孩儿踢足球吗？” And I think that as a field, we're a long way from giving an answer with any kind of conf...
Also is the knowledge that right now we spend about in the first 25 years of our lives learning, 我还有另一个原因，目前我们大概用生命的前二十五年学习， then there is another 40 years that's really reserved for working. 之后的四十年用于工作。 And then tacked on at the end of it are about 15 years for retirement. 放到最后的是约十五年的退休生活。 And I thought it might be h...
So one thing that I do agree with, and I think most experts would, is that the brain does have these dynamics. 其中一点我个人是同意的，我相信绝大多数专家也同意，那就是脑部确实有这样的动态。 It does lag behind the skull and then catch up and move back and forth and oscillate. That we think is true. 它的运动迟于颅骨，接着逐渐追赶上，并向前向后振动，这一点上我们认为它是正确的。...
These six companies produce nine out of every 10 movies you watch, 这六家公司制作了你所接触过的90%的电影， nine out of every 10 television shows, nine out of every 10 songs, nine out of every 10 books. 90%的电视节目，90%的歌曲，90%的书籍。 So my question to you is, if six companies control 90 percent of American media, 所以我要问你们的是，如果六家公司控制着全美国百分之九十的...
So what I did was I scrolled down to the bottom of the email, and I pressed, "Unsubscribe." 于是我滑到邮箱的最底部，点击了下“取消订阅”。 And I thought that'd be the end of it. But a week later, I got another one that said, 我想这样应该就会清净了。但是一周后，我收到了另一封邮件写到， "Just two weeks until SafeMart at King's Cross opens!!!" “还有两...
Then there are artists who are extracting anatomy from both the medical world and the art world 还有些艺术家将解剖学从艺术和医学中抽离， and are placing it directly on the streets. 直接带上了街头。 London-based SHOK-1 paints giant X-rays of pop culture icons. 位于伦敦的SHOK-1展示了关于流行文化的巨幅X光片的涂鸦。 His X-rays show how culture can come to have an anatomy of its ...
In 1998, the people of Indonesia took to the streets and overthrew their longtime dictator, Suharto. 1998年，印度尼西亚人民走上街头，推翻了长期的独裁者苏哈托 It was an amazing moment, but it was also a scary one. 那是一个令人激动的时刻，但也是一个可怕的时刻 With 250 million people, Indonesia is the largest Muslim-majority country on Earth. 拥有2.5亿人口的印尼是地球上最大的以...
Why? Because we cannot ignore the metaphorical meaning of words either. 这是为什么？因为我们同样也不能忽视这些词暗喻的意义。 One of the sentences was, "Some jobs are jails." 其中一句话是：“有些工作是监狱” Now, unless you're a prison guard, the sentence "Some jobs are jails" is literally false. 当然，除非你是监狱看守，“有些工作是监狱”这句话字面上是错的...
And the implications of this — there are many, 这其中蕴含的–有很多意义 but one I just want to point out, is that there must be amazing feedback loops. 但是我想指出的其中的一个，就是这个过程中必定包涵了一个惊人的反馈循环 Of course, my son is learning from his linguistic environment, but the environment is learning from him. 当然，我的儿子是在他的语言环境中学习，但...