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One of my favorite stories comes from Frank Serafine. 我最喜欢的段子之一来自于弗兰克·塞拉凡尼。 He's a contributor to our library, and a great sound designer for "Tron" and "Star Trek" and others. 他是我们音效库的贡献者之一，也是《创：战记》和《星际迷航》及其他作品的伟大音效设计师。 He was part of the Paramount team that won the Oscar for best sound f...
When I was a child, I always wanted to be a superhero. I wanted to save the world and make everyone happy. 小时候，我一直梦想成为一个超级英雄。我想要拯救世界并让所有人快乐。 But I knew that I'd need superpowers to make my dreams come true. 但我知道我需要拥有超能力来实现梦想。 So I used to embark on these imaginary journeys to find intergalactic objects from planet Krypto...
So in other words, we know most of what we know about regret by the study of finance. But it turns out, when you look overall at what people regret in life, you know what, our financial decisions don't even rank. 换句话说，我们是通过金融研究了解了遗憾。但结果是当你思量人们生命中的憾事时，我们的财务决定根本就是排不上号。 They account for less than three percent of our tot...
It flew in the face of conventional wisdom, which was huge enthusiasm for the cool new technology of that age, which was the X-ray machine. 这对于这一观念是很大的冲击，尤其是对于当时的新科技X光机器的巨大热情。 And it flew in the face of doctors' idea of themselves, which was as people who helped patients, they didn't harm them. 而且对于医生对自己的看法也是巨大的冲击...
So what happens when amyloid plaques accumulate to this tipping point? 所以当淀粉样斑块积累到临界点后会发生什么？ Our microglia janitor cells become hyper-activated, releasing chemicals that cause inflammation and cellular damage. 我们的小神经胶质细胞变得过度活跃，释放出导致炎症和细胞损伤的化学物质。 We think they might actually start clearing away the synapses themselves. ...
So, the moral being: don't piss off crows. 所以–大家看到了吧，千万别惹乌鸦。 So now, students at the University of Washington that are studying these crows, do so with a giant wig and a big mask. 正是这样的缘故，现在华盛顿大学做乌鸦研究的学生都带上巨大的假发，还套上面具。 It's fairly interesting. 这真是令人哑然的一件事。 So we know these crows are really smart,...
But glass has a limited ability to be expressive. 但是玻璃的表现力毕竟是有局限的。 This is a section of wall framing a plaza in the pre-Hispanic city of Mitla, in southern Mexico. 这是在墨西哥南部前西班牙城米特拉一个广场外墙的一部分。 Those 2,000-year-old carvings make it clear that this was a place of high ritual significance. 这些历经2000年的雕纹让这里看起来充满了宗教仪式...
Another world was opening up around this time: performance and dancing. 在这个时候，另一个世界出现了：那就是表演和舞蹈。 That nagging dread of self-hood didn't exist when I was dancing. 对于自我纠缠不清的恐惧，在我跳舞时并不存在。 I'd literally lose myself. And I was a really good dancer. 我像是失去了自己。我是一个好的舞蹈演员。 I would put all my emotional expressio...
Last year, for various reasons, I found myself listening to a lot of episodes of the Public Radio show This American Life. 因为一些缘故，去年我在广播上听了很多集的“我们的美国人生”。 And so I'm listening and I'm listening, and at some point, I start feeling like all the stories are about being wrong. 我听着听着，突然发现这些故事全和犯错有关。 And my first thought was,...
I want to discuss with you this afternoon why you're going to fail to have a great career. 今天下午我想和你们讨论一下你为什么不会成就伟业。 I'm an economist. I do dismal. End of the day, it's ready for dismal remarks. 我是个经济学家。我让人心情低落。一天过完了，准备好听听让人心情低落的评论。 I only want to talk to those of you who want a great career. 我只想和你...
This is clearly not a good arrangement. We clearly need to change it. 这明显不是个良好的形势。我们明显需要改变现状。 We clearly need to find ways of encouraging countries to start working together a little bit better. 我们明显需要找到一些方式以鼓励国家之间可以共同合作得更好。 And why won't they do that? Why is it that our leaders still persist in looking inwards? 但他们...
For most of that time of life on Earth, living organisms have been relatively simple — single cells. 地球的大多数时间，生物体多是以简单的单细胞存在的。 But they had great diversity, and, inside, great complexity. 但是它们是十分多样的，而且，内部结构极其复杂。 Then from about 600 to 800 million years ago, multi-celled organisms appear. 然后6亿年到8亿年之前，多细胞生物出...
Now let's take this back into my world of medicine where I'm a lot more comfortable, 现在让我们回到我的世界，医疗领域。这个领域我比较熟悉， or perhaps a bit less comfortable after what I'm going to talk to you about. 但我接下来要说的却让我有些困扰。 Suppose you have appendicitis and you're referred to a surgeon who's batting 400 on appendectomies. 假设你...
But each time, they were gnawing at me, eating at me. 但每当我想到这两起病例，那种感觉都会折磨啃噬我。 And I'd like to be able to say to you that my worst mistakes only happened in the first five years of practice as many of my colleagues say, which is total B.S. 而我也希望我可以告诉你，我造成的最严重的错误只发生在了我开始行医的前五年，像我众多的同事所称一般。但这完全是...
So this is the complexity of the world that surrounds us. 所以这就是我们所处环境的复杂性。 This perhaps is why we find the God complex so tempting. 这也许正是为什么我们发现“万能神力”这么有吸引力的原因。 We tend to retreat and say, "We can draw a picture, we can post some graphs, we get it, we understand how this works." 我们喜欢退一步说：“我们可以来画一张图，我们可...
And this was all actually quite shocking to me, because prior to this moment, I had prided myself on having absolutely no regrets. 这让我十分震惊，因为在那之前，我告诉自己，我绝对不会后悔的。 I made a lot of mistakes and dumb decisions, of course. I do that hourly. 我做过很多错事和傻事，这是当然的。 But I had always felt like, look, you know, I made the best choice I could m...
But, you know, our stories are like this because our lives are like this. 但，故事会这样写是因为人生就是这样。 We think this one thing is going to happen and something else happens instead. 我们以为某些事情会这样发生，发生的却是其它事。 George Bush thought he was going to invade Iraq, find a bunch of weapons of mass destruction, 乔治·布什以为他入侵伊拉克会找到大规模毁灭性武...
What do you do? Well, there are steps we can take to navigate our way through the morass. 怎么办呢？有几个步骤可以指导我们走出迷雾。 Trained liespotters get to the truth 90 percent of the time. 受过识谎训练的人能认识到90%的真相。 The rest of us, we're only 54 percent accurate. 而普通人只有54%的正确率。 Why is it so easy to learn? There are good liars and bad liars. 为什...
She worked with a statistician named George Kneale, and George was pretty much everything that Alice wasn't. 她当时与一位名叫George Kneale的统计学家合作，而George刚好与Alice互补。 So, Alice was very outgoing and sociable, and George was a recluse. Alice非常外向和社交化，而George是个隐居者。 Alice was very warm, very empathetic with her patients. Alice很热情，与她的病人有...
And lastly, here's Destin, from "Smarter Every Day," 最后是《每天聪明一点点》的德斯丁， talking about the conservation of angular momentum, and, since it's YouTube, cats: 为我们讲述动量守恒，由于是在YouTube上，所以他用猫来举例： Hey, it's me, Destin. Welcome back to "Smarter Every Day." 嗨，我是德斯丁，欢迎再次收看《每天聪明一点点》。 So you&#...