TED演讲:如何培养出成功的小孩(5)

And so with our overhelp, our overprotection and overdirection and hand-holding, 随着我们的过度帮助,过度保护,过度指导和过度关怀, we deprive our kids of the chance to build self-efficacy, which is a really fundamental tenet of the human psyche, 我们剥夺了孩子建立自我能效的机会,自我能效是人类心智的重要准则, far more important than that self-esteem they get every time we a...

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TED演讲:个体DNA检测的时代来了(1)

Imagine that you're a pig farmer. You live on a small farm in the Philippines. 想象你是一个养猪户。你住在一个菲律宾的小农场。 Your animals are your family's sole source of income — as long as they're healthy. 你的牲口是家庭唯一的收入来源–只要它们是健康的。 You know that any day, one of your pigs can catch the flu, the swine flu. 你知道任意一天,你的猪...

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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?(8)

Another reason we're told not to worry is that these machines can't help but share our values because they will be literally extensions of ourselves. 另外一个试图安慰我们的理由是,那些机器必须拥有和我们一样的价值观,因为它们将会是我们自身的延伸。 They'll be grafted onto our brains, and we'll essentially become their limbic systems. 它们将会被嫁接到我们的大脑...

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TED演讲之入门 肢体语言塑造你自己(1)

So I want to start by offering you a free no-tech life hack, 首先我想要提供给你们一个免费的非科技的人生窍门, and all it requires of you is this: that you change your posture for two minutes. 你只需这样做:改变你的姿势两分钟时间。 But before I give it away, I want to ask you to right now do a little audit of your body and what you're doing with your body. 但在我要把它告...

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TED演讲:美国废弃的购物中心(1)

In the last couple of years, I have produced what I call "The Dead Mall Series," 32 short films and counting about dead malls. 在过去的几年里,我制作了所谓的“废弃的商场系列”。32部关于废弃商场的短片,数量还在增加。 Now, for those of you who are not familiar with what a dead mall is, it's basically a shopping mall that has fallen into hard times. 如果你们不熟悉什...

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TED演讲之入门 揭露海底惊奇(2)

But I want to jump up to shallow water now and look at some creatures that are positively amazing. 不过我现在还是想说说浅水里的世界,来看看那些神奇的生物。 Cephalopods — head-foots. As a kid I knew them as calamari, mostly. 头足类动物,有头有角。小时候我把他们当作是枪乌贼。 This is an octopus. This is the work of Dr. Roger Hanlon at the Marine Biological Lab, 这是一条...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(6)

But something strikes you when you move to America and travel around the world: 但搬到美国后,有些事使我印象深刻: Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. Every one. 如果你周游世界,你会发现每个国家的教育体系都存在相同的学科等级制度。没有例外。 Doesn't matter where you go. You'd think it would be otherwise, but it isn't. 不论哪个国家。...

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TED演讲:为什么你应该知道你同事的工资(1)

How much do you get paid? Don't answer that out loud. 你的工资是多少?先别说出来。 But put a number in your head. 在脑子里想一下。 Now: How much do you think the person sitting next to you gets paid? Again, don't answer out loud. 现在想想:你觉得邻座的工资是多少?也别说出来。 At work, how much do you think the person sitting in the cubicle or the desk next to you get...

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TED演讲之入门 细菌是怎样交流的(2)

These bacteria are not passive riders, these are incredibly important, they keep us alive. 这些细菌不是顺从的乘客,他们难以置信得重要,他们让我们活着。 They cover us in an invisible body armor that keeps environmental insults out so that we stay healthy. 它们是我们身上的无形盔甲,阻断来之环境的伤,保持我们的健康。 They digest our food, they make our vitamins, they actually e...

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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(2)

Now the final part of the trilogy was I wanted to focus on the body and try to be the healthiest person I could be, the healthiest person alive. 最后一步是,我希望注重自己的身体,尽可能达到最健康的状态,成为世上最健康的人。 So that's what I've been doing the last couple of years. 所以过去几年内我做了刚才提到的那些事情。 And I just finished a couple of months ago. And...

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TED演讲:个体DNA检测的时代来了(5)

But personal DNA machines can also save human lives. 但个人DNA检测器还可以挽救人类的生命。 Professor Ian Goodfellow is a virologist at the University of Cambridge. Ian Goodfellow教授是剑桥大学的病毒学家。 Last year he traveled to Sierra Leone. 去年他去了塞拉利昂。 When the Ebola outbreak broke out in Western Africa, 当埃博拉疫情在非洲西部爆发, he quickly realized that docto...

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TED演讲:美国废弃的购物中心(4)

And then there's a guy standing next to her, with, like, an espresso cup, and he's like… 然后她旁边站着一个男人,拿着 一个咖啡杯,他就这样… And it says, "What brings you today?" 然后照片还写着,“哪阵风把你吹来了?” I wanted to be scared and depressed. Thank you. 我是想要觉得害怕压抑的好吗,拜托。 So the comments just kept pouring in on the video...

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TED演讲:为什么你应该热爱统计学(2)

Now, it's not just an English problem. 实际上,不仅英国存在这样的的问题。 OECD this year released some figures looking at numeracy in young people, OECD今年发布了一些关于青少年计算能力的数据, and leading the way, the USA — nearly 40 percent of young people in the US have low numeracy. 名单里领先的是美国,大约40%的美国青少年算术能力低下。 Now, England is there too,...

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TED演讲之入门 单一故事的危险性(7)

The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, 巴勒斯坦诗人Mourid Barghouti曾经写到:如果你想剥夺一群人的权利, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with, "secondly." 最简单的办法就是讲述一个关于他们的故事,并且从“第二点”开始讲起。 Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans, 从印第安土著人...

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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(5)

The World Health Organization just did a big study that they published this year. 世界卫生组织做了一个大型研究,并于今年出版。 And it was done in Europe. 研究在欧洲进行。 And they estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution. 他们预计,人类过去160万年形成的健康生活方式在欧洲逐年减少,这正是由于噪音污染。 So they ...

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TED演讲之入门 我们需要谈谈不公(5)

Our system isn't just being shaped in these ways that seem to be distorting around race, they're also distorted by poverty. 我们的司法系统不仅是改变了,而是围绕着种族问题扭曲了,也围绕着贫困扭曲了。 We have a system of justice in this country that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. 如果你是有罪的富人而不是无辜的...

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TED演讲:有关激情的故事(7)

So here's another tale of passion, and this is a sad one. 我再讲一个热情但是却悲伤的故事。 The place is a small women's clinic in a village in Bangladesh. The year is 2005. 这事发生在孟加拉的一个村子的小妇女诊所。时间是在2005年。 Jenny is a young American dental hygienist who has gone to the clinic as a volunteer during her three-week vacation. 珍妮是一位年轻的美国牙...

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TED演讲之入门 内向性格的力量(2)

But the first time that I took my book out of my suitcase, the coolest girl in the bunk came up to me and she asked me, 但是当我第一次把书从行李箱中拿出来的时候,床铺中最酷的那个女孩向我走了过来,并且她问我: "Why are you being so mellow?" — mellow, of course, being the exact opposite of R-O-W-D-I-E. “为什么你要这么安静?”安静,当然,是R-O-W-D-I-E的反义词,“...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(4)

What these things have in common is that kids will take a chance. 以上例子的共同点就是孩子们愿意冒险。 If they don't know, they'll have a go. Am I right? 对于未知的事物,他们愿意去尝试。难道不是吗? They're not frightened of being wrong. I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. 即使尝试的结果是错误的,他们也不惧怕。当然,我并...

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TED演讲:科技并没有改变爱 为什么?(8)

Along with this, we see a rise of a host of beliefs: 不仅如此,各种信仰开始传播: the belief of virginity at marriage, arranged marriages — strictly arranged marriages 坚信婚前必须保持处女身,包办婚姻(严格安排的婚姻), the belief that the man is the head of the household, that the wife's place is in the home and most important, 坚信男性是一家之主,女性就应该待在...

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