TED演讲:我那曝光政府腐败的战斗(11)

So he was talking about the law in Britain which is the Communications Data Bill, an absolutely outrageous piece of legislation. 而他在谈论一个令人愤怒的英国通信数据法案啊! In America, you have the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. 在美国,有网络情报分享和保护法案。 You've got drones now being considered for domestic surveillance. 有监控国家的机器。 You hav...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 你为何不会成就伟业(9)

And so the sins of the parents are visited on the poor children. 然后父母的罪恶就在可怜的孩子们身上应验了。 Why will you seek refuge in human relationships as your excuse not to find and pursue your passion? You know why. 你为什么把人际关系当成你不去追随你的热忱的借口?你自己知道为什么。 In your heart of hearts, you know why, and I'm being deadly serious. 在你内心的内心...

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TED演讲:我那曝光政府腐败的战斗(4)

So we are moving to this democratization of information, and I've been in this field for quite a while. 我们已经进入了信息的民主化,我已经研究这方面很久了。 Slightly embarrassing admission: Even when I was a kid, I used to have these little spy books, 实话说挺不好意思的,我小时候,曾经有小小的“间谍”本子, and I would, like, see what everybody was doing in my neighborhood...

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TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(6)

Now, what's encapsulated in both these drowning metaphors — actually, one of them is my mother's interpretation, 暗藏在这两个溺水故事中的比喻是其中一个说法来自我母亲, and it is a famous Chinese saying, because she said it to me: "save a man from drowning, you are responsible to him for life." 中国人常说的“救一个溺水者,你便得为他的一生负责。” And it ...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 温和的成功哲学(9)

And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, 常常,我们对一个成功人生的想象, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. 不是来自我们自己,而是来自他人。 They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. 如果你是个男人,你会以父亲做榜样,如果你是个女人,你...

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TED演讲:选择的困惑(1)

I'm going to talk to you about some stuff that's in this book of mine that I hope will resonate with other things you've already heard, 我想在这里谈谈我这本书里的部分内容,希望它和你们已经听到过的一些事物引起共鸣, and I'll try to make some connections myself, in case you missed them. 如果有哪些你们不清楚的,我在这里会试着帮你把它们联系起来。 But I want to st...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 你为何不会成就伟业(7)

What do you want me to say? 你们想让我说什么? Now, do you really want me to say now, tell you, "Really, I swear I don't kick children." 现在,你们真的想让我说,告诉你们,“真的,我发誓我不踢小孩。” Look at the worldview you've given yourself. You're a hero no matter what. 嗯?看看你给自己定的世界观。无论如何你都是个英雄。 And I, by suggesting ever so de...

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TED演讲:我们不要一成不变的教育(8)

If you think about technology, imagine if that's how we thought about technology. 如果我们来看一看技术,试想如果这就是我们对技术的看法。 Every time something didn't work, we just threw in the towel and said, "Let's forget it." Right? 每次如果有什么东西没有用,我们就放弃,就说:“算了,没用的。”这样行吗? You know, they convinced me. I'm sure some of ...

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TED演讲之入门 宏观历史(9)

So — Here we are, back at the convention center. 那么,我们现在回到演讲厅。 We've been on a journey, a return journey, of 13.7 billion years. 我们已经在一个旅行、一个追溯137亿年的旅行中。 I hope you agree this is a powerful story. 我希望你认同这是一个震撼人心的故事。 And it's a story in which humans play an astonishing and creative role. But it also contains wa...

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TED演讲:你在电影里听到的都是假的(1)

I want to start by doing an experiment. I'm going to play three videos of a rainy day. 我想用一个实验来开始我的演讲。我将给你们播放三段雨天的视频。 But I've replaced the audio of one of the videos, and instead of the sound of rain, I've added the sound of bacon frying. 不过我把其中一个视频里的音频换成了别的,它不再是下雨的声音,变成了煎培根的声音。 So I want you ...

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TED演讲:为何闪亮的玻璃高楼对城市生活有害(8)

The firm Ennead clad the Utah Natural History Museum in Salt Lake City in copper and zinc, Ennead公司用铜和锌包裹了位于盐湖城的犹他自然历史博物馆, ores that have been mined in the area for 150 years and that also camouflage the building against the ochre hills 在这里,开采这些矿产的历史已经有150年了,这也将这座建筑巧妙的隐藏于了矿山之中, so that you have a natural history ...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 温和的成功哲学(2)

The dominant kind of snobbery that exists nowadays is job snobbery. 今天,最主要的势利就是对职业的势利。 You encounter it within minutes at a party, 你在派对中不用一分钟就能体会到, when you get asked that famous iconic question of the early 21st century, "What do you do?" 当你被问到这个21世纪初最有代表性的问题:你是做什么的? According to how you answer that quest...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 医生们会犯错误(3)

And that was the message that I absorbed when I was in med school. 这就是我在医学院时得到的信息。 I was an obsessive compulsive student. 我是一个有着强迫症倾向的学生。 In high school, a classmate once said that Brian Goldman would study for a blood test. 在中学时,有个同学曾经说布莱恩·高德曼会为了血液测验复习。 And so I did. And I studied in my little garret at the nurses...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 怎样从错误中学习(1)

I have been teaching for a long time, and in doing so have acquired a body of knowledge about kids 我从事教师工作很长一段时间了,而在我教书的过程当中我学了很多关于孩子与学习的知识, and learning that I really wish more people would understand about the potential of students. 我非常希望更多人可以了解学生的潜能。 In 1931, my grandmother — bottom left for you guys over he...

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TED演讲:谈乌鸦的智慧(3)

Now, this is completely unprompted; she had never seen this done before. 要知道,它没有看到过别的乌鸦这么做。 No one taught her to bend this into a hook or had shown her how it could happen. 之前也没有任何人或者别的乌鸦教它如何把线弯成钩子;或者告诉过它可以通过这种方式捞肉。 But she did it all on her own. So keep in mind — she's never seen this done. 这完全是它自己...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 犯错的价值(1)

So it's 1995, I'm in college, and a friend and I go on a road trip from Providence, Rhode Island to Portland, Oregon. 当时是95年,我在上大学,我和一个朋友开车去玩,从罗得岛的普罗旺斯区出发到奥勒冈州的波特兰市。 And you know, we're young and unemployed, so we do the whole thing on back roads through state parks and national forests 我们年轻,无业,于是整个旅程都在...

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TED演讲:对最近气候趋势的警告(3)

In the last five years we've added 70 million tons of CO2 every 24 hours — 25 million tons every day to the oceans. 在过去五年间,我们每二十四小时已经增加了了七千万吨的二氧化碳排放量,每天排放两千五百万吨的二氧化碳到海里。 Look carefully at the area of the eastern Pacific, from the Americas, extending westward, 仔细看看太平洋得东边海域,从美洲一直延伸到西边, and o...

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TED演讲:和老年痴呆症说再见(2)

Let's begin by looking at what we currently understand about the neuroscience of Alzheimer's. 让我们先看看目前神经学上对老年痴呆的了解。 Here's a picture of two neurons connecting. 这是一张两个神经元连接的图。 The point of connection, this space circled in red, is called the synapse. 连接的部位,也就是红色圈出的这块,叫做突触。 The synapse is where neurotransmitt...

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TED演讲:我们不要一成不变的教育(7)

Because in my older years, I've become somewhat of a clairvoyant. 到了我这把年纪,我可以说是已经开了慧眼了。 I can predict school scores. You take me to any school. 我可以很容易地预测到某所学校的成绩的。只要你把我带到任何一所学校。 I'm really good at inner city schools that are struggling. 我尤其善于预测市区那些办学水平不怎么样的学校。 And you tell me last year 48 pe...

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TED演讲之身体语言 别对我撒谎(5)

Lying's complex. It's woven into the fabric of our daily and our business lives. 说谎这事挺复杂的。这跟我们的日常生活与工作交织在一起。 We're deeply ambivalent about the truth. 我们对真相总是拿捏不准。 We parse it out on an as-needed basis, sometimes for very good reasons, other times just because we don't understand the gaps in our lives. 我们在需要的时候才...

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