TED演讲 世上最无聊电视节目 为何迷得无可救药(2)

We brought it on air in November 2009. 我们在2009年11月的时候播出了这个节目。 But no, this was far more attractive. 但其实,这节目火了起来。 This is the five biggest TV channels in Norway on a normal Friday,and if you look at NRK2 over here,look what happened when they put on the Bergen Railway show: 这张图是挪威平常周五当天五大电视频道的收视状况,看到NRK2没?看到他们播出卑...

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TED演讲 自杀者的生死之桥(2)

Well one day, curiosity got the better of Pandora,and she did open the box. 终于有一天,好奇心战胜了潘多拉,她真的打开了盒子。 Out flew plagues, sorrows,and all sorts of evils against man. 飞出了瘟疫、悲伤,以及对人类有害的种种坏事。 The only good thing in the box was hope. 盒内唯一的好东西只有希望。 Jason then asked us,What happens when you open the box and hope isn't t...

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TED演讲 世上最无聊电视节目 为何迷得无可救药(5)

They did not succeed,but remember the old Norwegian saying,it's not whether you win or lose that counts. 失败了呀。不过大家要记得那句挪威古语云:成败不重要, In fact, nothing counts, and death is coming for us all. 其实,什么都不重要,因为人终有生老病死。 Exactly. So why does this stand out? 此言极是。那么这个节目出彩在哪里呢? This is so completely different to other TV...

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TED演讲 全球经济的隐形推动力—寄钱回家(1)

I live in Washington, D.C.,but I grew up in Sindhekela, a village in Orissa, in India. 我住在华盛顿特区但我是在新河克拉,印度奥里萨邦的一个小村庄长大。 My father was a government worker. 我父亲是个政府雇员, My mother could not read or write, but she would say to me, A king is worshipped only in his own kingdom. A poet is respected everywhere. 我母亲不会读书写字,但她跟我说...

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TED演讲 全球经济的隐形推动力—寄钱回家(2)

And in poorer countries, smaller countries, fragile countries,conflict-afflicted countries, remittances are a lifeline,as in Somalia or in Haiti. 在更穷,更小,或者正发生冲突的国家,移民汇款就如同救命稻草,比如说在索马里或海蒂。 No wonder these flows have huge impacts on economies and on poor people. 难怪这些资金流会对经济和贫困人口带来巨大的影响。 Remittances, unlike privat...

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TED演讲 自杀者的生死之桥(1)

I recently retired from the California Highway Patrol after 23 years of service. 我最近刚退休,离开了加利福尼亚公路巡警局,我工作了23年的地方。 The majority of those 23 years was spent patrolling the southern end of Marin County,which includes the Golden Gate Bridge. 这23年里的大多数时间,我都是在马林县的南部巡逻,我都是在马林县的南部巡逻,其中包括金门大桥, The bridge is an...

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TED演讲 世上最无聊电视节目 为何迷得无可救药(1)

Thank you. 谢谢大家。 I have only got 18 minutes to explain something that lasts for hours and days,so I'd better get started. 我只有18分钟的时间来讲一件持续了数天数夜的事情,所以最好述不宜迟, Let's start with a clip from Al Jazeera's Listening Post. 我们先来看一段来自Al Jazeera监听站的短片。 Richard Gizbert: Norway is a country that gets relatively little media...

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TED演讲 世上最无聊电视节目 为何迷得无可救药(3)

This guy, for instance,he's head of research at the University in Troms? 比如说这个家伙,他是特罗姆瑟大学的科研带头人。 And I will show you a piece of cloth,this one. 我给你们看看这块布条,就是这个。 It's the other strong memory. 这是另外一段深刻的记忆, It belongs to a guy called Erik Hansen. 它属于这个叫Erik Hansen的人。 And it's people like those two who took ...

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TED演讲 谈上帝与海啸(5)

In the end, we have to say, I don't know. 最后,我们不得不说,我不知道。 If we knew, God would not be God. 如果我们知道,上帝就不是上帝了。 To have faith in this God would be more like trusting an essential benevolence in the universe,and less like believing a system of doctrinal statements. 相信这个上帝应该更象是相信宇宙中的原善,而不是相信一套教义的陈述。 Isn't it ...

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TED演讲 世上最无聊电视节目 为何迷得无可救药(4)

But it's a long program,so some watched part of it, like the Prime Minister. 不过它真的是一部很长的节目,所以有些人只看了其中一部分,比如咱的首相大人, Some watched a little bit more. 还有的呢,看得稍微久一点, It says, I haven't used my bed for five days. 那人说,我已经五天没上床了。 And he's 82 years old, and he hardly slept. 他已经82岁了,为了看节目就没怎么睡...

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TED演讲:影片纪录加纳民主进程(1)

I was born in Switzerland and raised in Ghana, West Africa. 我出生在瑞士,在西非的加纳长大。 Ghana felt safe to me as a child. 加纳对儿时的我是安全的家。 I was free, I was happy. 我很自由快乐。 The early 70s marked a time of musical and artistic excellence in Ghana. 70年代早期是加纳的音乐和艺术的辉煌时期。 But then by the end of the decade,the country had fallen back into pol...

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TED演讲:超低成本的大学学位(5)

By the end of each week,the students take a quiz,hand in their homework,which are assessed by their peers under the supervision of the instructors,get a grade, move to the next week. 每周结束的时候,学生们参加一个测验,提交他们的课外作业,作业会在教师的监督下由同学互相评估,得到成绩,然后继续下一周的学习。 By the end of the course, they take the final exam,get a grade, and f...

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TED演讲请相信你可以进步(1)

The power of yet. 专注过程,而不是结果。 I heard about a high school in Chicago where students had to pass a certain number of courses to graduate,and if they didn't pass a course, they got the grade Not Yet. 我听说,在芝加哥有一所高中,那儿的学生毕业前要通过一系列课程,如果某一门课没有通过, 成绩就是暂未通过。 And I thought that was fantastic,because if you get a failin...

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TED演讲超低成本的大学学位(3)

These are the reasons I founded University of the People,a nonprofit, tuition-free,degree-granting university to give an alternative,to create an alternative to those who have no other,an alternative that will be affordable and scalable, 由于这些的原因,我创办了人民大学,一所非盈利性的、免学费的、授予学位的大学它提供了另一种选择,为那些没有其它选择的人创造了一种选择,一种价...

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TED演讲超低成本的大学学位(2)

Wael is from Syria. 瓦伊尔来自叙利亚 He's firsthand experiencing the misery, fear and failure imposed on his country. 他正亲身感受着他的国家所遭受的痛苦、恐惧和失败。 He's a big believer in education. 他是教育的忠实信徒。 He knew that if he would find an opportunity for higher education,an opportunity to get ahead of the rest,he has a better chance to survive in a wo...

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TED演讲为什么认为自己丑会对你不利(5)

So we need to make damn sure that the programs that our kids are receiving are not only having a positive impact, 因此我们要确保我们的孩子们正在接受的项目不仅是对他们有积极影响的, but having a lasting impact as well. 而且还要有持续的影响。 And the research shows that the best programs address six key areas: 研究表明最好的项目跟六个关键领域有关: The first is the influence o...

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TED演讲请相信你可以进步(2)

I'll tell you what they do next. 让我告诉你他们的表现。 In one study, they told us they would probably cheat the next time instead of studying more if they failed a test. 在一项研究中,他们告诉我们, 如果他们某次考试未通过,他们很可能会在下次考试中作弊, 而不是更加努力地学习。 In another study, after a failure,they looked for someone who did worse than they did so they c...

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TED演讲请相信你可以进步(4)

Look what happened: in this study,students who were not taught this growth mindset continued to show declining grades over this difficult school transition,but those who were taught this lesson showed a sharp rebound in their grades. 看看后面发生了什么吧:在这项研究中,没有接受成长型思维模式训练的学生,在这一困难的过渡阶段,成绩持续下滑,但那些受过该训练的学生, 成绩强势反弹...

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TED演讲请相信你可以进步(5)

So the native kids outdid the Microsoft kids. 印第安孩子战胜了微软孩子。 This happened because the meaning of effort and difficulty were transformed. 这得以实现的原因,是努力与困难的意义在孩子心目中发生了改变。 Before, effort and difficulty made them feel dumb, made them feel like giving up,but now, effort and difficulty,that's when their neurons are making new connectio...

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TED演讲为什么认为自己丑会对你不利(4)

And we think it's for all of these reasons that they take more risks with things like alcohol and drug use; 基于以上理由,我们认为他们有更高的风险去做那些像酗酒、吸毒、 crash dieting; cosmetic surgery; unprotected, earlier sex;and self-harm. 快速减肥、整容、无防护措施以及过早的性交和自残这样的事情。 The pursuit of the perfect body is putting pressure on our healthcare sy...

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