TED演讲:谈乌鸦的智慧(1)

How many of you have seen the Alfred Hitchcock film “The Birds”? 这里有多少人看过阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克的电影《鸟》? Any of you get really freaked out by that? You might want to leave now. 是不是认为那片子太过离奇了?要是那样的话,你现在可以走了。 So this is a vending machine for crows. Over the past few days, many of you have been asking, 大家看到的是一台专门为乌...

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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....

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TED演讲:谈乌鸦的智慧(4)

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 ...

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TED演讲:谈乌鸦的智慧(5)

So they’re learning from each other. And research bears this out. 乌鸦通过互相学习,都掌握了这种技巧。 Parents seem to be teaching their young. They learn from their peers, they learn from their enemies. 乌鸦父母还教会自己的孩子这样的技巧呢。它们向同伴学习,也向它们的敌人学习。 If I have a little extra time, I’ll tell you about a case of crow infidelity that illu...

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TED演讲:谈乌鸦的智慧(2)

And in doing so, we were breeding them for parasitism. 为了做到这点,人类用喂养的方式来让它们寄生于我们。 We were giving them all sorts of reasons to adapt new ways. 我们给了动物们适应新环境的各种理由。 So, for example, rats are incredibly responsive breeders. 比如:老鼠的生育能力变得超强。 And cockroaches, as anyone who’s tried to get rid of them knows, have become re...

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TED演讲:谈乌鸦的智慧(6)

We move to the third stage, where we only give them a coin. 我们开始了第三阶段的训练。只把一枚硬币留在机器上。 Now, like most of us who have gotten used to a good thing, this really pisses them off. 此时乌鸦飞过来,看到没有食物,自然觉得很泄气–我们人也一样嘛。 So they do what they do in nature when they’re looking for something: sweep things out of t...

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TED演讲:女人的愤怒蕴藏着一生的智慧(5)

Our culture is shifting, and it’s time. 我们的文化正在变迁,是时候改变了。 So my fellow women and our gentle men, 我的女性同胞们,我们的绅士们, as we are here together within this particular window of this large-scale movement towards women’s equality, 我们在此相聚一堂,在这个大规模女性平等运动的特殊窗口, and as we envision a future that does not yet exist, we ...

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TED演讲:女人的愤怒蕴藏着一生的智慧(4)

When women get manhandled, we start to rationalize, try to figure out the ways that it was… 当女性受到粗暴对待时,我们开始试图将该行为合理化,试着弄清其中的原因… “It was probably our fault. You know what? He probably said something, and I didn’t hear him. “可能是我的错。你知道吗,可能他说了什么,是我自己没听见。 I’m just overreacting. I’m ...

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TED演讲:女人的愤怒蕴藏着一生的智慧(2)

So later, I was left pondering this fury, and looking for an explanation as to why, even in her telling of it, 和朋友分开后,我一直在思索这种怒火,想弄明白为什么在她讲述的过程中, I felt fury, too, and why this was a word and a feeling that I was hearing a lot about lately. 我也感到恼怒,为什么最近总是听说这个词和这种感受。 I feel like this is the point in the room where all...

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TED演讲:女人的愤怒蕴藏着一生的智慧(3)

Fellas, can you imagine you’re just on your phone, and someone walks up to you and just takes it out of your hand? 各位,你能想象当你在打电话的时候,有人走过来,然后直接把电话从你手中拿走吗? And they’re like, “OK dude, I don’t know why you’re getting so upset, I want to make a phone call. 而他们却一副无所谓的表情,“哥们,我不知道这有...

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TED演讲:女人的愤怒蕴藏着一生的智慧(1)

So, I have a friend. She’s an actress, she’s in her 60s. 我的一个朋友,是个女演员,60多岁了。 She’s super bright, badass, emotionally intelligent. 她非常睿智,能力超群,情商很高。 And a couple of days before Christmas, she was at the post office. 圣诞节前的一天,她去了趟邮局。 It was really crowded, as it is around the holidays, and she w...

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打破一切常规

从前,有一个地方住着一只蝎子和一只青蛙。 蝎子想过池塘,但不会游泳。于是,它爬到青蛙面前央求道:“劳驾,青蛙先生,你能驮着我过池塘吗?” “我当然能。”青蛙回答。“但在目前情况下,我必须拒绝,因为你可能在我游泳时蜇我。”“可我为什么要这样做呢?”蝎子反问。“蜇你对我毫无好处,因为你死了我就会沉没。” 青蛙虽然知道蝎子是多么狠毒,...

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如何让猫吃辣椒?

五十年代,在上海流传着毛主席怎样使猫吃辣椒的故事。 一天,毛主席向周总理和**提了一个问题:“你们怎样才能使猫吃辣椒?” **首先说:“那还不容易,你让人抓住猫,把辣椒塞进猫嘴里,然后用筷子捅下去。”对于这种解决方法,毛主席摆了摆手说:“每件事应当自觉自愿的。” 周总理回答说:“我首先让猫饿三天,然后,把辣椒裹在一片肉里,如果猫非常饿的话,它会囫囵...

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行走职场,与三种新老板过招

空降型老板 空降一个新老板,最郁闷的恐怕就是原来最有希望升职接班的那个人。好不容易指望着媳妇熬成婆,不料前进路上迎头一盆冷水。心里委屈大了,很难像以往一样为公司效忠。 应对策略: 1.首先考虑清楚,自己的第一目标是什么。 2.分析目前情势,自身优势、劣势,判断达到目标的几率或可能性。 3.寻找适当时机与大老板沟通,表达意愿,争取其他上升空间,比如派往其他机构等。 派别型新老板 所谓一朝天...

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