TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(1)

Good morning. How are you? It's been great, hasn't it? 早上好,还好吗? 很好吧,对不对? I've been blown away by the whole thing. In fact, I'm leaving. 我已经飘飘然了! 我要飘走了。 There have been three themes running through the conference which are relevant to what I want to talk about. 这次会议有三个主题,这三个主题贯穿会议始终,并且和我要谈的内容有关。 One ...

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TED演讲:个体DNA检测的时代来了(8)

But we've definitely reached a point in history where every one of you could actually get hands-on with DNA in your kitchen. 但是我们绝对达到了历史上的一个节点,每个人都能在厨房亲自进行DNA检测试验。 You could copy, paste and analyze DNA and extract meaningful information from it. 你能复制、粘贴和分析DNA,从中提取有用的信息。 And it's at times like this that profound ...

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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(7)

Data is often better than you think. Many people say data is bad. 大家总说数据不准确,数据其实比我们想象的好很多。 There is an uncertainty margin, but we can see the difference here: Cambodia, Singapore. 数据是有误差,但我们看一下柬埔寨和新加坡的差距。 The differences are much bigger than the weakness of the data. 这一差距肯定远大于数据的误差。 East Europe: Soviet economy fo...

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TED演讲:科技并没有改变爱 为什么?(11)

Well, I've got three points here, right? 好的,我分为三点来说。 First of all, to your first one: there's no question that we've changed, 首先,回答你第一个问题:人类变了,这一点毋庸置疑, that we now want a person to love, and for thousands of years, 现在人们依然渴望爱情,而几千年来, we had to marry the right person from the right background and right kin connec...

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TED演讲:不存在'不投票'这种事(1)

Why bother? The game is rigged. My vote won't count. 为什么非要投票呢?选举被操纵了。我那一票不起作用。 The choices are terrible. Voting is for suckers. 选举的结果很糟糕。选举都是骗人的。 Perhaps you've thought some of these things. Perhaps you've even said them. 也许你曾经这么想过。也许你还说过这样的话。 And if so, you wouldn't be alone, and you wouldn't...

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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(1)

I've spent the last decade subjecting myself to pain and humiliation, hopefully for a good cause, which is self-improvement. 过去的10年时间,我一直处于悲伤和羞辱中,期待着有一个好的理由改变自己,这个理由就是自我提高。 And I've done this in three parts. So first I started with the mind. 于是我从三方面开始做起,首先从心智开始。 And I decided to try to get smarter by re...

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TED演讲:恐惧核能是怎样伤害环境的(5)

So, let's just take a closer look at nuclear. 所以,让我们好好研究一下核能。 The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has looked at the carbon content of all these different fuels, 联合国气候变化政府间协商组织调查了不同燃料的碳含量, and nuclear comes out really low — it's actually lower even than solar. 结果表明:核能有比太阳能还要低的碳含...

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TED演讲之入门 单一故事的危险性(9)

Of course, Africa is a continent full of catastrophes: 当然了,非洲大陆充满了灾难: There are immense ones, such as the horrific rapes in Congo and depressing ones, 有的灾难,比如刚果猖獗的强奸,是无比巨大的; such as the fact that 5,000 people apply for one job vacancy in Nigeria. 而有的现实,比如尼日利亚5千人申请一个工作职位,则更让人无比的压抑。 But there are other storie...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 我为什么划船横渡太平洋(5)

So this might be a good moment to take a quick time-out to answer a few FAQs about ocean rowing that might be going through your mind. 现在也许正好可以利用一点时间来进行关于大洋横渡的一些问题的解答,当然,这些问题有可能就是你们想问的。 Number one that I get asked: What do you eat? A few freeze-dried meals, but mostly I try and eat much more unprocessed foods. 第一个问题是:...

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TED演讲:科技并没有改变爱 为什么?(9)

Thank you so much for that, Helen. As you know, there's another speaker here with us that works in your same field. 感谢您的演讲,海伦。今天还有另一位演讲者,她和您在相同的领域里做研究。 She comes at it from a different perspective. Esther Perel is a psychotherapist who works with couples. 不过是从不同的视角来分析问题。诶斯特·佩雷斯从事情侣心理治疗师的工作。 You study da...

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TED演讲之入门 肢体语言塑造你自己(11)

We then have these coders look at these tapes, four of them. 接着我们得出下列四种结果。 They're blind to the hypothesis. They're blind to the conditions. 他们不知道假设前提。他们不知道具体情形。 They have no idea who's been posing in what pose, and they end up looking at these sets of tapes, 他们不知道谁摆什么样的姿势,接着他们观看了这些带子, and they say, "...

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TED演讲之入门 细菌是怎样交流的(10)

To finish I'll just show you the strategy. 最后,我只跟你们说一下战略。 In this one I'm just using the interspecies molecule, but the logic is exactly the same. 在这里,我们只是使用跨菌种分子,但是思维逻辑是一模一样的。 What you know is that when that bacterium gets into the animal, in this case, a mouse, it doesn't initiate virulence right away. 你们都知道,当细...

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TED演讲之入门 单一故事的危险性(3)

Then one Saturday, we went to his village to visit, 后来的一个星期六,我们去Fide的村庄拜访, and his mother showed us a beautifully patterned basket made of dyed raffia that his brother had made. 她的母亲向我们展示了一个精美别致的草篮–是Fide的哥哥用染过色的酒椰叶编织的。 I was startled. It had not occurred to me that anybody in his family could actually make something....

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TED演讲:恐惧核能是怎样伤害环境的(7)

So what about the other reactors? There's a reactor that's coming online now, they're starting to sell it. 换作反应堆呢?现在有一款即将完成的反应堆,它即将开始售卖。 It's a high-temperature gas reactor. It can't melt down. 这是一个高温气体反应堆。它不会融化。 But it's really big and bulky, that's part of the safety, 但是为了安全性考虑,它的体积巨...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 我为什么划船横渡太平洋(3)

And I remember looking at these two versions of my obituary and thinking, "Oh boy, I'm on totally the wrong track here. 我记得我面对着我的这两份讣告,心想:“哦,天呐,我处在错误的人生轨道上, If I carry on living as I am now, I'm just not going to end up where I want to be in five years, or 10 years, or at the end of my life." 如果我继续这样生活下去,我是不...

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TED演讲:个体DNA检测的时代来了(2)

DNA is the fundamental molecule the carries genetic instructions that help build the living world. DNA是携带遗传指令最基本的分子,帮助建造了生机勃勃的世界。 Humans have DNA. Pigs have DNA. Even bacteria and some viruses have DNA too. 人类有DNA。猪有DNA。甚至细菌和一些病毒都有DNA。 The genetic instructions encoded in DNA inform how our bodies develop, grow, function. 编码在DN...

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TED演讲之入门 肢体语言塑造你自己(3)

So when we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others, how they judge us and what the outcomes are. 当我们提起肢体语言,我们就想到我们如何论断别人,别人如何论断我们以及后果会是什么。 We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals, and that's ourselves. 我们往往忘记这点,受到肢体动作所影响的那群观众,就是我们自己。 We are a...

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TED演讲:有关激情的故事(3)

Passion lives here. Isn't it always true? Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. 激情永驻此地。这真的永远是事实吗?心能够驱使我们并决定我们的命运。 That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. 那是我在我的书中将要描述的角色:拥有激情的心。 I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rule...

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TED演讲:货币的未来(9)

It's the idea of permission-less innovation. 这个想法是一个不需要授予权限的革新。 The Internet caused an explosion of innovation, because it was built upon an open architecture. 互联网促成了改革爆炸,因为它是建立在一个开发的空间架构。 And just like the Internet changed the way we communicate, 正如互联网改变了我们的交流方式, programmable money is going to change the way ...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 我为什么划船横渡太平洋(8)

But, as I was approaching the end of my water reserves, luckily, our courses were converging. 但是正当我储备的水接近枯竭时,我们幸运地碰到了一起。 They were running out of food; I was running out of water. 他们没有了食物,我没有了水。 So we liaised by satellite phone and arranged to meet up. 我们用卫星电话取得了联系,安排见面。 And it took about a week for us to actually gra...

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