TED演讲之寻找真理:科学可以回答道德问题(6)

Now, many of you might worry that the notion of well-being is truly undefined, 或许在你们之中,有许多人会担心这所谓的幸福该如何界定 and seemingly perpetually open to be re-construed. 这似乎没有一定的标准 And so, how therefore can there be an objective notion of well-being? 而且,怎么可能有一种完全客观的人身幸福的标准存在呢? Well, consider by analogy, the concept of physical...

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新概念英语初中早读 (36)科学,是善还是恶

Science,Good or Evil 科学,是善还是恶 Science has brought many changes to the whole of society, 就我们所知,科学是整个社会发生了变化, especially to our lives in recent years. 尤其是近些年来对我们的生活影响甚深。 And at the same time the debate regarding the good and evil effects of science 同时,关于生活的正面影响和负面效应的争论 has gained wide att...

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TED演讲之神童 大家的科学,儿童亦然(6)

So the kids give me the words, right? I put it into a narrative, which means that this paper is written in kidspeak. 所以孩子们给了这些文字,我把他们改成了叙述文,也就是说这份报告是用孩子的口吻写的。 It’s not written by me. It’s written by Amy and the other students in the class. 它不是我写的。是由Amy和班上的其他学生们一起写的。 As a consequence, thi...

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TED演讲:为什么应该喜爱'恶心'的科学(5)

But truthfully, we all spend sort of a big part of our lives just trying not to be gross. 但事实上,我们一生中都花费了很长时间试着摆脱恶心的感觉。 When you really think about it, we’re sort of just like bags of fluids and some weird tissues surrounded by a thin layer of skin. 当你们认真思考它时,我们也不过是皮包着骨头的生物罢了–薄薄的皮肤包裹着液体和奇怪的组织。 ...

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TED演讲之神童 大家的科学,儿童亦然(1)

So, this game is very simple. All you have to do is read what you see. Right? So, I’m going to count to you, so we don’t all do it together. 好的,这个游戏非常简单。你们只要把看到的念出来就好了,好吗? 好,我接着会倒数,这样我们就可以一起念出来了。 Okay, one, two, three. Can you read this? Amazing. What about this one? One, two, three. You are not reading this. ...

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TED演讲:为什么应该喜爱'恶心'的科学(4)

And while I don’t have any concrete data to back up this next idea, 虽然目前我没有具体的数据来支持我的下一个想法, I think that for a lot of us, it happens around the time we hit puberty. 但我认为对大多数人来说,当我们迈入青春期时,这种情况便已司空见惯。 And you know — yeah, I know. So during puberty, our bodies are changing, and we’re sweating more, 就像这...

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TED演讲之神童 获奖青少年,科技在行动(2)

So my idea was born,and I had the project set up and a hypothesis, 这就是我的想法诞生的过程,然后,我就有了项目的开展和假说, so what was my next step? 那么我的下一步呢? Well obviously I had to find a lab to work at because I didn’t have the equipment in my school. 很明显的,我要找到一家实验室,因为我在学校没有实验设备。 I thought this would be easy, 我以为这会很容易...

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TED演讲:为什么应该喜爱'恶心'的科学(2)

And after a year and a half of making my show, I can tell you that very often when we explore the gross side of life, 从我制作节目以来的一年半中,我可以告诉各位,当我们探索生命中恶心的部分时, we find insights that we never would have thought we’d find, and we even often reveal beauty that we didn’t think was there. 我们经常会获得意料之外的洞察,甚至经常揭示一些...

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TED演讲之神童 获奖青少年,科技在行动(3)

Hi everyone. I’m Shree Bose. 大家好,我是斯里·波色。 I was the 17-18 year-old age category winner and then the grand prize winner. 我是17-18岁组的冠军,也是大奖得主 。 And I want all of you to imagine a little girl holding a dead blue spinach plant. 我希望你们所有人,想象一个小女孩拿着一个死亡的蓝色菠菜 。 And she’s standing in front of you and she’s explai...

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TED演讲之神童 大家的科学,儿童亦然(7)

It took four months to do the science, two years to get it published. 这个科学实验只做了四个月,但要让它发表却花了两年。 Typical science, actually, right? So this makes Amy and her friends the youngest published scientists in the world. 真是典型的科学,是不是?所以这也让Amy和她的朋友们成了世界上最年轻的已发表作品的科学家。 What was the feedback like? Well, it was published t...

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TED演讲之神童 获奖青少年,科技在行动(6)

Hi everyone. I’m Naomi Shah, and today I’ll be talking to you about my research involving indoor air quality and asthmatic patients. 大家好,我是劳伦·霍奇,今天我要跟你们讲讲我关于室内空气质量和哮喘病人的研究。 1.6 million deaths worldwide. One death every 20 seconds. People spend over 90 percent of their lives indoors. 在世界范围内有160万,每20秒就有一...

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TED演讲之神童 获奖青少年,科技在行动(1)

If you were going to a restaurant and wanted a healthier option, 如果你去饭店,你想吃得健康一点, which would you choose, grilled or fried chicken? 你会选择哪种食品呢,烤鸡还是炸鸡? Now most people would answer grilled, 多数人都会选择烤鸡, and it’s true that grilled chicken does contain less fat and fewer calories. 的确,烤鸡含有较少的脂肪和卡路...

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TED演讲之神童 大家的科学,儿童亦然(4)

Now here, I want to share the stage with someone quite special. Right? 现在,我想与一位有些特别的人共享这舞台。可以吗? She was one of the young people who was involved in this study, and she’s now one of the youngest published scientists in the world. Right? 她是参与了那项研究的年轻人之一,而且目前她是世界上有过刊物发表的最年轻科学家之一。对吗? She will ...

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TED演讲:为什么应该喜爱'恶心'的科学(1)

Did you know that one of the first fertility drugs was made from the pee of Catholic nuns, and that even the Pope got involved? 你知道世界上第一例催孕药是用天主教修女的尿合成的,甚至与大主教也有关系? So, this is totally true. Back in the 1950s, scientists knew that when women enter menopause, 这是真实的事件。20世纪50年代,科学家们发现当女人进入更年期时, they s...

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TED演讲之神童 大家的科学,儿童亦然(5)

The puzzle we came up with was an if-then rule. 我们想出的难题是个”如果-则“规则。 We asked the bees to learn not just to go to a certain color, but to a certain color flower only when it’s in a certain pattern. 我们要求蜜蜂学会不仅仅是飞向某种特定颜色,而是飞向形成了特定图案的特定颜色的花朵。 They were only rewarded if they went to the yellow flowers if th...

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TED演讲之神童 大家的科学,儿童亦然(8)

Now, we’re going to do a little demonstration, right? You have to close your eyes, and you have to point where you hear me clapping. All right? 我们现在做一些简单的说明,好吗?你得闭上你的眼睛,然后指出我拍手的位置。好吗? Okay, how about if everyone over there shouts. One, two, three? 好的,那么如果那儿的大家一起喊呢。一二三? Brilliant. Now, open your ey...

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TED演讲之神童 获奖青少年,科技在行动(5)

But those are dots on a screen for you; what exactly does that mean? 但是那些你们看起来是屏幕上的点;到底有什么意义呢? Well basically that means that this protein is changing from the sensitive cell to the resistant cell. 基本上,这意味着这种蛋白在改变,从敏感细胞变为抵抗性细胞。 And in fact, it might be changing the cells themselves to make the cells resistant...

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TED演讲:为什么应该喜爱'恶心'的科学(3)

So at a certain point, when kids get a little bit older, 到了某个阶段,当孩子们逐渐长大, there’s this way that engaging with gross stuff isn’t just about curiosity, 这样对待恶心事物的方法,已不只与好奇心有关, it’s also about, sort of, finding out where the limits are, pushing the boundaries of what’s OK. 某种程度上,也有可能与发现极...

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TED演讲之神童 大家的科学,儿童亦然(3)

So what is evolution’s answer to the problem of uncertainty? It’s play. Now play is not simply a process. 所以进化给出不确定性的答案是什么呢?那就是玩乐。玩不仅仅是一个简单的过程。 Experts in play will tell you that actually it’s a way of being. Play is one of the only human endeavors where uncertainty is actually celebrated. 玩乐的专家会告诉你,...

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TED演讲之神童 获奖青少年,科技在行动(7)

So today I want to show you my interactive software model that I created. 所以今天我想向你们展示我创造的互动软件。 I’m going to show it to you on my laptop. And I have a volunteer subject in the audience today, Julie. 我将用我的笔记本电脑向大家展示,在今天的观众中,我有一个志愿者朱莉。 And all of Julie’s data has been pre-entered into my interactive ...

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