TED演讲:为什么我们需要与陌生人交流(1)

There are things we say when we catch the eye of a stranger or a neighbor walking by. 当我们看到一个陌生人或者一个邻居走过的时候,我们会寒暄几句。 We say, "Hello, how are you? It's a beautiful day. How do you feel?" 我们会说:“你好。最近怎么样?今天天气很好。你感觉怎么样?” These sound kind of meaningless, right? And, in some ways, they are. 这些听起来并没有什...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 休假的力量(1)

I run a design studio in New York. 我在纽约开一家设计工作室。 Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, 每七年我都关闭一年,让我进行一些小实验, things that are always difficult to accomplish during the regular working year. 一些通常不容易在正常的工作年度里达成的事。 In that year, we are not available for any of our clients. We are totally...

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TED演讲:人体解剖艺术的魅力(5)

And for me it's a balance between the technique and a concept that pushes the boundaries of anatomy as a way to know thyself, 我觉得重点是要平衡技巧和突破解剖学自我认知的理念, which is why the work of Michael Reedy struck me. 这也是迈克尔·里迪的作品打动我的地方。 His serious figure drawings are often layered in elements of humor. 他画的严肃的人像透着一丝幽默。 For insta...

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TED演讲之说什么 重新定义字典(9)

So, enough scientists in other disciplines are really asking people to help, and they're doing a good job of it. 足够多的科学家在其它领域正寻求大家帮忙,而且大伙也干的不错。 For instance, there's eBird, where amateur birdwatchers can upload information about their bird sightings. 例如,有一种电子鸟,业余观鸟爱好者可以把自己的观察结果上传, And then, ornithologists ca...

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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(10)

All right, pick one, last quest: Shake someone's hand for six seconds, 很好,选一个,最后一个使命:和任何一个人握手6秒钟 or send someone a quick thank you by text, email, Facebook or Twitter. Go! 或者通过短信、邮件、Facebook、Twitter,说一声谢谢你,开始! Looking good, looking good. Nice, nice. Keep it up. I love it! 看起来很好,看起来很好!太棒了!太棒了!不要放弃,我很...

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TED演讲:在危机中前行的政治(6)

And while a few Indonesians have recently joined ISIS, 虽然最近还是有些印尼人加入伊斯兰国 their number is tiny, far fewer in per capita terms than the number of Belgians. 但他们的数量是非常少的,按人均来计算比比利时要少得多 Try to think of one other Muslim-majority country that can say all those same things. 想想看还有哪个以穆斯林为主的国家能够做到这些 In 2014, I went to Ind...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 身为一个周间素食者(1)

About a year ago, I asked myself a question: "Knowing what I know, why am I not a vegetarian?" 大概在一年前左右,我问了我自己一个问题:“我明明知道这些资讯,为什么我不是个素食者?” After all, I'm one of the green guys: I grew up with hippie parents in a log cabin. 毕竟我支持环保,热爱绿概念 和嬉皮父母在小木屋里长大。 I started a site called TreeHugger — I care a...

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TED演讲:在危机中前行的政治(1)

The conventional wisdom about our world today is that this is a time of terrible decline. 关于当今世界的传统观点认为:这是一个急剧衰退的时代 And that's not surprising, given the bad news all around us, 而这也并不令人奇怪,考虑到我们身边无处不在的坏消息 from ISIS to inequality, political dysfunction, climate change, Brexit, and on and on. 从伊斯兰国到不平等,政治机能失调...

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TED演讲:无创治疗心脏疾病的新方法(2)

In the coming years, I became a medical student. 后来几年,我去了医学院读书。 One of every hundred children born worldwide has some kind of heart disease. 我得知,世界上每一百个新生儿中就会有一个患有某种心脏疾病。 There's a part of this problem I think I can solve — the part of this problem I have spent my life working on. 我认为这是个我有能力去帮助治愈的疾病–...

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TED演讲:为了关闭监狱 就要创办学校(1)

When I opened Mott Hall Bridges Academy in 2010, my goal was simple: open a school to close a prison. 在2010年我开办了莫特馆桥学院,我的目标很简单:创办一所学校,以关闭一所监狱。 Now to some, this was an audacious goal, because our school is located in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn 一些人可能会认为,这是个大胆的目标,原因在于我们的学校位于布鲁克林的布朗斯维尔地区 one o...

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TED演讲:为什么你应该知道你同事的工资(4)

If we really want to close the gender wage gap, maybe we should start by opening up the payroll. 如果我们真的想消除性别薪资差距,可能需要从公开工资单开始。 If this is what total market failure looks like, then openness remains the only way to ensure fairness. 如果市场失灵就是这个样子,那公开透明仍是保证公平的唯一方法。 Now, I realize that letting people know what you make mi...

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TED演讲:货币的未来(6)

Cryptocurrencies are based on a special field of mathematics called cryptography. 加密货币是基于一种特殊的数学算法,称为密码学。 Cryptography is the study of how to secure communication, and it's about two really important things: 密码学是一门关于保障通信安全的学科,其中有两件特别重要的事: masking information so it can be hidden in plain sight, and verifying a piece of ...

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TED演讲:科技并没有改变爱 为什么?(4)

Technology is also not going to change who you choose to love. 同样科技也改变不了你的择偶对象。 I study the biology of personality, and I've come to believe that we've evolved four very broad styles of thinking and behaving, 我研究生物心理学,我开始相信人类已经进化出了四个广义的思考及行为方式, linked with the dopamine, serotonin, testosterone and estrogen systems. ...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(11)

But as they went out of the room, he turned on the radio that was sitting on his desk. 但医生在出去时,把在办公桌上的收音机打开了。 And when they got out, he said to her mother, "Just stand and watch her." 在他们走出房间后,医生对她妈妈说: “我们就站在这儿观察一下她。” And the minute they left the room, she was on her feet, moving to the music. 他们离开房间后,Gilli...

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TED演讲之入门 细菌是怎样交流的(9)

Of course, you've just heard and you already know that we're running out of antibiotics. 当然,你一定听说过,而且你早就知道了,我们快要没有有效的抗生素了。 Bacteria are incredibly multi-drug-resistant right now, and that's because all of the antibiotics that we use kill bacteria. 现在的细菌都拥有不可思议的多重耐药性,而这都是因为这些抗生素的工作原理都是杀死细菌。...

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TED演讲:我们能在打造人工智能的同时掌握控制权吗?(3)

Now, this is often caricatured, as I have here, as a fear that armies of malicious robots will attack us. 现在我们时常会看到这样一些讽刺漫画,我们总会担心受到一些不怀好意的机器人军队的攻击。 But that isn't the most likely scenario. 但这不是最可能出现的事情。 It's not that our machines will become spontaneously malevolent. 我们的机器不会自动变得邪恶。 The concern is r...

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TED演讲之入门 肢体语言塑造你自己(8)

So this is what happens. They come in, they spit into a vial, for two minutes, we say, "You need to do this or this." 这就是实际的情况。他们走了进来,他们把唾液吐到一个小瓶子里,维持一个姿势达两分钟,我们说:“你需要这么做,或者这么做。” They don't look at pictures of the poses. We don't want to prime them with a concept of power. 他们不会看到姿势的照片。因...

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TED演讲:如何安全发送色情短信(5)

Think about having surgery. 比如做手术。 Your doctor has to make sure that you are meaningfully and knowingly consenting to that medical procedure. 医生需要确认你了解并同意医疗程序。 This is not the type of consent like with an iTunes Terms of Service 这可不像你同意iTunes服务条款一样, where you just scroll to the bottom and you're like, agree, agree, whatever. 直接滑到...

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TED演讲:有关激情的故事(10)

Abuse trickles down from the top of the ladder to the bottom. 从上到下,一层层的力量滥用。 Women and children, especially the poor, are at the bottom. 女性和儿童,尤其是贫穷的,就这样处于底层。 Even the most destitute of men have someone they can abuse — a woman or a child. 即使是最一无所有的男人也有人被他凌虐–常常是妇女或者儿童。 I'm fed up with the power th...

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TED演讲:被遗忘的美国工人阶级(1)

I remember the very first time I went to a nice restaurant, a really nice restaurant. 我还记得第一次走进一家很棒的餐厅,非常高档。 It was for a law firm recruitment dinner, and I remember beforehand the waitress walked around and asked whether we wanted some wine, 那是一家律师事务所的招新晚宴,正式开始前,服务生四处游走,询问客人是否需要来点葡萄酒, so I said, "Sure, I&...

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