TED演讲:你在电影里听到的都是假的(5)

On the completely other side, adding a lot of reverb to a voice is going to make us think that we're listening to a flashback, 在完全相反的情况下,在语音里加入很多回响会使我们感觉正在听回忆, or perhaps that we're inside the head of a character or that we're listening to the voice of God. 或者好像我们正在一个角色的大脑中,或者在听上帝的声音。 Or, even more powerf...

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TED演讲之身体语言 别对我撒谎(13)

Science has surfaced many, many more indicators. 科学发现了更多的指示标。 We know, for example, we know liars will shift their blink rate, point their feet towards an exit. 比如说,骗子会改变他们眨眼的频率,他们的脚会对着出口。 They will take barrier objects and put them between themselves and the person that is interviewing them. 他们会拿某样东西挡在质询者和自己之间。 They&...

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TED演讲:我那曝光政府腐败的战斗(6)

And they're all moving to this central system, this fully connected system, all of them except one. 他们都逐渐走向完全连接的系统,不过,有一点还没有。 Can you guess which one? It's the system which underpins all these other systems. 你们猜猜是什么?那就是这个支持其他系统的系统。 It's the system by which we organize and exercise power, and there I'm talking ab...

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TED演讲:选择的困惑(3)

So, in other aspects of life that are much more significant than buying things, the same explosion of choice is true. Health care. 同样,在生活里的其它一些比购物更对我们产生影响事情上,这种选择的爆炸同样存在。医疗保健。 It is no longer the case in the United States that you go to the doctor, and the doctor tells you what to do. 在美国,现在早已不是那种你去看医生,医生直截了...

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TED演讲:我们不要一成不变的教育(2)

You know, I grew up in the inner city, 要知道,我是在市区长大的, and there were kids who were failing in schools 56 years ago when I first went to school, 当时,很多学生在学业上就已经一事无成了,那可是在56年前,当时我刚开始读书, and those schools are still lousy today, 56 years later. 而那些学校在56年后的今天仍然还很糟糕、很烂。 And you know something about a lousy school?...

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TED演讲:我那曝光政府腐败的战斗(5)

In our day, we have digitization. That strips all the physical mass out of information, 现在我们有了数据电子化。这把信息从成堆成堆的状况下解救出来, so now it's almost zero cost to copy and share information. 所以现在拷贝分享信息已近乎零花费。 Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks. 我们的“出版社”就是网络。我们的“咖啡屋”就是社交网络。 W...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 不要一悔再悔(3)

This idea is nicely captured by this quote: "Things without all remedy should be without regard; what's done is done." 有句话很好地表达了这个观点:“放开无法挽回的事情;泼出去水收不回来。” And it seems like kind of an admirable philosophy at first-something we might all agree to sign onto…until I tell you who said it. 首先这个看起来是很值得赞扬的人生哲学—...

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TED演讲:我那曝光政府腐败的战斗(7)

This is Birgitta Jonsdottir. She's an Icelandic MP. And quite an unusual MP. 照片上的是Birgitta Jonsdottir。她是冰岛下院议员。一个不寻常的议员。 In Iceland, she was one of the protesters who was outside of Parliament when the country's economy collapsed, 当冰岛的国家经济临近崩溃时,有许多人在议会外面抗议,她便是其中一员, and then she was elected on a reform mandate,...

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TED演讲:我们不要一成不变的教育(6)

But when they really get pushy, people really get pushy, I say, "I do it because you do it for your kid." 但是当他们变得有进取心时,我们就会变得更有进取心,我说:“我这样做就像你们为自己的儿子做的原因一样。” And you've never read a study from MIT that says giving your kid dance instruction is going to help them do algebra better, 可能你从未看过麻省理工学院的一份...

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TED演讲之身体语言 别对我撒谎(15)

But at night when I close my eyes, I can see Christie reaching her hand out to me while I'm driving, and the blood just kept coming out of her mouth. 但是每当晚上我闭上双眼,我可以看见克里斯蒂向我伸出手,我一边开着车,血不停地从她口里冒出来。 And that — maybe it'll fade too with time — but I don't think so. That bothers me the most. 也许时间久了我就会...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 不要一悔再悔(12)

The third way that I think we can help make our peace with regret is through the passage of time, which, as we know, heals all wounds-except for tattoos, which are permanent. 第三点我想就是通过时间的流逝来慢慢平和地面对遗憾,我想,时间抚平一切—除了纹身大概是永久性的。 So it's been several years since I got my own tattoo. And do you guys just want to see it? All right. 我...

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TED演讲:为什么要跟别人一样?(2)

So this whole interaction with self and identity was a very difficult one for me growing up. 在我成长过程中,我一直都很难处理自我与身份之间的相互影响。 The self that I attempted to take out into the world was rejected over and over again. 那个我尝试着向周围的世界展示的自我,被一次又一次拒绝。 And my panic at not having a self that fit, 因为没有一个合适的自我而带来的恐慌, an...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 试验 排除错误和万能神力(5)

Five thousand products — that's still nothing. 5000个产品,这还没什么。 Five thousand products — imagine counting every product category in Cesar Hidalgo's data. 5000个产品,想象我们来数塞萨尔·伊达尔戈数据中的每个产品的目录。 Imagine you had one second per product category. 想象你每一秒钟,听到一个产品种类的名字 In about the length of this session, you wo...

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TED演讲:为何闪亮的玻璃高楼对城市生活有害(3)

Let me give you an example of how a city's surfaces affect the way we live in it. 我来举个例子看看一个城市的外观是如何影响人们生活方式的吧。 When I visited Salamanca in Spain, I gravitated to the Plaza Mayor at all hours of the day. 当我去拜访位于西班牙的萨拉曼卡的时候,我被那里的马约尔广场深深吸引,于是一整天都呆在了那儿。 Early in the morning, sunlight rakes the facade...

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TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(8)

We are all concerned with things that we see in the world that we are aware of. 我们总是在意这世界上我们所感知的事物。 We come to this point and say, what do I as an individual do? 我们对自己说:我能做什么? Not all of us can go to Africa, or work at hospitals, so what do we do, if we have this moral response, this feeling? 不是每个人都可以去非洲或是在医院工作,我又该如何处...

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TED演讲之身体语言 别对我撒谎(17)

When you combine the science of recognizing deception with the art of looking, listening, you exempt yourself from collaborating in a lie. 当你把观察和倾听的艺术与识谎的科学结合起来,你就不会上当受骗。 You start up that path of being just a little bit more explicit, because you signal to everyone around you, 你可以从表明自己懂得识谎做起,因为你在对周围所有人发出信号, you sa...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 温和的成功哲学(3)

There are other reasons why it's perhaps harder now to feel calm than ever before. 还有一些其他理由让我们比过去更难获得平静。 One of these, and it's paradoxical, because it's linked to something that's rather nice, is the hope we all have for our careers. 有些矛盾,因为拥有自己的事业是一件不错的事, Never before have expectations been so high about what human...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 怎样从错误中学习(3)

From Kansas, I moved on to lovely Arizona, 离开堪萨斯后,我搬到美丽的亚利桑纳州, where I taught in Flagstaff for a number of years, this time with middle school students. 我在Flagstaff小镇教了几年书,这次是教初中的学生。 Luckily, I didn't have to teach them American government. 幸运的是,我这次不用教美国政治。 Could teach them the more exciting topic of geography. 这次...

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TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(7)

Once I identified this question, it was all over the place. 一旦你意识到这个问题,就发现它无所不在。 I got these hints everywhere. And then, in a way, I knew that they had always been there. 在哪里都能看到它的痕迹。同时我也知道,它们一直都在那里。 And then writing, that's what happens. 在写作上就会有这些问题。 I get these hints, these clues, and I realize that they'v...

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TED演讲:一项关于电动车的大胆计划(7)

The second one was the San Francisco Bay Area where Gavin Newsom created a beautiful policy across all the mayors. 第二个地方便是旧金山市湾区。在所有的市长当中,Gavin Newsom精心设计了一个政策方案。 He decided that he's going to take over the state, 他决定要掌管整个加利福尼亚州, unofficially, and then officially, and then created this beautiful Region One policy. 非正式...

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