TED演讲:为什么你应该知道你同事的工资(3)

But why would a company even want to discourage salary discussions? 但是为什么公司会反对讨论薪资呢? Why do some people go along with it, while others revolt against it? 为什么一些人服从,而另一些人反对呢? It turns out that in addition to the assumed reasons, pay secrecy is actually a way to save a lot of money. 除了之前猜测的理由之外,对薪资保密还是省钱的良方。 You see, ke...

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TED演讲之入门 内向性格的力量(8)

Now if all this is true, then why are we getting it so wrong? 如果这一切都是真的,我们为何错的一塌糊涂? Why are we setting up our schools this way, and our workplaces? 我们为何把学校跟职场架设成这样? And why are we making these introverts feel so guilty about wanting to just go off by themselves some of the time? 我们为何要让这些内向者,因为想有独立自处的时间而感到无所适从...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(2)

But if you ask about their education, they pin you to the wall. 但如果你要他们谈谈他们的受教育经历,他们会把你“钉到墙上”。 Because it's one of those things that goes deep with people, am I right? 因为这些事情都涉及个人的隐私,对吗? Like religion, and money and other things. 比如宗教信仰,薪水等。 So I have a big interest in education, and I think we all do. 我对教育特别...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 休假的力量(4)

Then there is a coffee table. I also did a coffee table. It's called Be Here Now. It includes 330 compasses. 我还设计了这张茶几,起名叫“现在到此”。它里面装了330个指南针。 And we had custom espresso cups made that hide a magnet inside, and make those compasses go crazy, always centering on them. 我们还特制了特浓咖啡的小杯子,里面藏着磁铁,它使这些指南针拼命地动,全朝向咖...

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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?(7)

No one seems to notice that referencing the time horizon is a total non sequitur. 似乎没有人注意到以时间作为参考系是得不出合理的结论的。 If intelligence is just a matter of information processing, 如果说智慧只包括信息处理, and we continue to improve our machines, we will produce some form of superintelligence. 然后我们继续改善这些机器,那么我们终将生产出超级智能。 And we ha...

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TED演讲:有关激情的故事(2)

One of the organizers of the Olympic ceremony, of the opening ceremony, 奥林匹克开幕式的一位组织者, called me and said that I had been selected to be one of the flag-bearers. 通知我被他们选中,作为一名护旗手。 I replied that surely this was a case of mistaken identity because I'm as far as you can get from being an athlete. 我立马回复说道这肯定弄错了,因为我根本就不是一...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(5)

How annoying would that be? "Must try harder." 多么不可思议。“你要努力学习”。 Being sent to bed by his dad, you know, to Shakespeare, "Go to bed, now! And put the pencil down." 你能想象他父亲边说边把他抱上床,“现在该睡觉了,放下笔。 "And stop speaking like that. It's confusing everybody." 别再写那些东西了,别人都看不懂。” Anyway, we moved fr...

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TED演讲:科技并没有改变爱 为什么?(2)

How is technology changing love? I'm going to say almost not at all. 科技改变了爱吗?我认为没有。 I study the brain. I and my colleagues have put over 100 people into a brain scanner 我从事大脑研究。我和我的同事们对100多人进行了大脑扫描, people who had just fallen happily in love, people who had just been rejected in love and people who are in love long-term. 包括那些刚...

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TED演讲:个体DNA检测的时代来了(6)

A 16-year-old girl, a high school student from New York, Anna-Sophia Boguraev, 一个16岁的女孩,一个来自纽约的高中生,Anna-Sophia Boguraev, wondered whether changes to the DNA of astronauts could be related to this immune suppression, 想知道宇航员的DNA变化是否可能与免疫抑制相关, and through a science competition called "Genes In Space," 通过一个被称为“太空基因”的...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 休假的力量(10)

And the idea of course was to make the type so precious that as an audience you would be in between 我们的构思,是把图样做得很精美,要令观赏者觉得难以决定, "Should I really take as much money as I can? Or should I leave the piece intact as it is right now?" 我是要把这些钱尽量拿走,还是保持图像完好无缺? While we built all this up during that week, with the 100 vol...

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TED演讲之入门 细菌是怎样交流的(12)

The final thing is, again just to reiterate that there's this practical part, 最后,只是再一次重申,这个研究的实际应用方面, and so we've made these anti-quorum sensing molecules that are being developed as new kinds of therapeutics. 是我们已经制造出了这些“反聚量感应分子”,它们正作为新一代的疗法被开发研究中。 But then, to finish with a plug for all the good and mirac...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 我为什么划船横渡太平洋(7)

But what do you do? Fall down nine times, get up 10. 能怎么样呢?只有屡败屡战。 So, the following year, I set out and, fortunately, this time made it safely across to Hawaii. 第二年,我重新出发,我这次比较走运,安全地划渡到达了夏威夷。 But it was not without misadventure. 但也不是完全地一帆风顺。 My watermaker broke, only the most important piece of kit that I have on the bo...

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TED演讲:为了关闭监狱 就要创办学校(4)

The revolution in education is happening in our schools, with adults who provide love, structure, support and knowledge. 教育的改革正在我们学校进行,有成年人为他们提供爱,精心组织的体系,支持还有知识。 These are the things that inspire children. But it is not an easy task. 这些都将对我们的孩子有所启发。但这并不能简单的说到做到。 And there are high demands within an education...

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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(5)

We heard it in other forms. And who are these? Where are the different countries? 这是个老问题了。中间这些人是谁?他们在哪些国家? I can show you Africa. This is Africa. 10% the world population, most in poverty. 先看非洲。非洲占世界人口的十分之一,多数是穷人。 This is OECD. The rich country. The country club of the U.N. 这个代表富裕的经合组织成员国,联合国俱乐部的会员。 And...

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TED演讲之入门 肢体语言塑造你自己(4)

What do we do when we feel powerless? We do exactly the opposite. 那我们感到无助的时候呢?我们的行为正相反。 We close up. We wrap ourselves up. We make ourselves small. 我们封闭起来。我们把自己蜷起来。让自己变得小一点。 We don't want to bump into the person next to us. 我们不想碰到旁边的人。 So again, both animals and humans do the same thing. 这再一次证明,人类和动物都...

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TED演讲:如何培养出成功的小孩(9)

I have to admit something to you. 我得向你们坦白一些事。 I've got two kids I mentioned, Sawyer and Avery. They're teenagers. 我刚才提到我的两个孩子,Sawyer和Avery,他们都十来岁。 And once upon a time, I think I was treating my Sawyer and Avery like little bonsai trees… 有一次,我觉得我对待我的Sawyer和Avery,就像对待盆栽一样… that I was going to carefully ...

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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(4)

Let me make a comparison directly between the United States of America and Vietnam. 现在我们对比一下美国和越南。 1964. America had small families and long life; Vietnam had large families and short lives. 1964年的美国家庭小寿命长,越南的家庭大而寿命短。 And this is what happens: the data during the war indicate that even with all the death, there was an improvement of life e...

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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?(5)

Sorry, a chicken. There's no reason for me to make this talk more depressing than it needs to be. 抱歉,母鸡的位置应该在这。这个演讲已经够严肃了,开个玩笑轻松一下。 It seems overwhelmingly likely, however, that the spectrum of intelligence extends much further than we currently conceive, 然而,很可能的情况是,智慧谱线上的内容已远远超出了我们的认知, and if we build machi...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(9)

We know three things about intelligence. One, it's diverse. 培养人才有三个原则。第一,多样化。 We think about the world in all the ways that we experience it. 我们认知世界的角度不同。 We think visually, we think in sound, we think kinesthetically. 有的从视觉角度,有的从听觉角度,有的从美学角度。 We think in abstract terms, we think in movement. 有的从抽象的角度,有的从动...

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TED演讲之入门 我们需要谈谈不公(12)

A couple months went by, and I had just forgotten all about it. 几个月过去了,我全忘了有这么回事。 And I finally decided, oh gosh, I've got to go to the court and do this crazy case. 最后我决定,天哪,我得上庭去做这个案子。 And I got into my car and I was feeling really overwhelmed — overwhelmed. 我跳上车,觉得很紧张–非常紧张。 And I got in my car and I went ...

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