TED演讲之身体语言 微笑背后隐藏的力量(7)

And if that’s not enough, smiling can actually make you look good in the eyes of others. 如果这还不够,微笑还能够让我们在其他人眼里更好看。 A recent study at Penn State University found that when you smile, you don’t only appear to be more likable and courteous, but you actually appear to be more competent. 宾州州立大学近期一项研究发现微笑不仅能让你更好...

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TED演讲之神童 大人能从小孩身上学到什么(3)

Now, our inherent wisdom doesn’t have to be insider’s knowledge. Kids already do a lot of learning from adults, and we have a lot to share. 我们先天的智慧,堪比内行人的知识。小孩已经从大人身上学到许多,而我们也有很多东西可以和大人共享。 I think that adults should start learning from kids. Now, I do most of my speaking in front of an education crowd– ...

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TED演讲之身体语言 拥有大脑的真正原因(2)

So I am a movement chauvinist. I believe movement is the most important function of the brain — don’t let anyone tell you that it’s not true. 所以说,我是个运动沙文主义者,我认为运动是大脑最重要的功能,不要让别人告诉你这个观点不对。 Now if movement is so important, how well are we doing understanding how the brain controls movement? 那么,如果运动...

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TED演讲之身体语言 中美洲南部的园丁游击队员(1)

I live in South Central. This is South Central: liquor stores, fast food, vacant lots. 我生活在洛杉矶南区。这就是洛杉矶南区:贩酒店、快餐店、闲置的土地。 So the city planners, they get together and they figure they’re going to change the name South Central to make it represent something else, 因此城市的规划者他们坐在一起讨论想把洛杉矶南区这个名字改的代表点别...

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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演讲之身体语言 用"云"建立一所学校(12)

So here are a couple of images from SOLEs. 这里有一些自主教育环境的图像。 I’ve tried incredible, incredible questions — “When did the world begin? How will it end?” — to nine-year-olds. 我尝试问过一些非常惊人的问题——“世界是从什么时候开始的?它又会怎样结束?”我问的是一个九岁的小孩。 This one is about what happens to the air we breathe. ...

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TED演讲之身体语言 微笑背后隐藏的力量(3)

How many people here in this room smile more than 20 times per day? 在座的各位有多少人每天微笑超过20次? Raise your hand if you do. Oh, wow. 超过的请举手。 Outside of this room, more than a third of us smile more than 20 times per day, whereas less than 14 percent of us smile less than five. 哇,在全世界每天有超过三分之一的人每天微笑超过20次,而每天微笑不足五...

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TED演讲之身体语言 用"云"建立一所学校(6)

But I was curious to know, what else would they do if they could do this much? 但我好奇地是,他们既已达到如此水平还能干些别的什么? I started experimenting with other subjects, among them, for example, pronunciation. 我开始在他们中间用别的课题作实验,例如,发音。 There’s one community of children in southern India whose English pronunciation is really bad,...

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TED演讲之身体语言 拥有大脑的真正原因(1)

I’m a neuroscientist. And in neuroscience, we have to deal with many difficult questions about the brain. 我是个神经生物学家。在神经生物学研究里,我们需要处理很多关于大脑的难题。 But I want to start with the easiest question and the question you really should have all asked yourselves at some point in your life, 不过我今天要从这个最简单的问题开始,这个问题是...

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TED演讲之身体语言 拥有大脑的真正原因(4)

So for example, if you put your hand under a table and try to localize it with your other hand, you can be off by several centimeters due to the noise in sensory feedback. 比如说,如果把一只手放在桌子底下,然后在桌子上面用另一只手去对准,最后位置可能相差好几厘米,这就是因为感官回馈里面的杂音在起作用。 Similarly, when you put motor output on movement output, it’s...

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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演讲之身体语言 舞者还是用PPT?(2)

Now if you use the right kind of atoms and you get them cold enough, something truly bizarre happens. 如果使用正确的原子,并让其足够冷却,奇迹就会发生。 It’s no longer a solid, a liquid or a gas. It enters a new state of matter called a superfluid. 这些原子不再属于固体、液体或气体。这些原子进入一种新的物质状态,叫做超流体。 The atoms lose their individual ...

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TED演讲之身体语言 拥有大脑的真正原因(13)

And the fundamental idea is you want to plan your movements so as to minimize the negative consequence of the noise. 话说回来,我们的基本思路是要找到一种动作方式,能够把杂音带来的负面影响降到最低。 And one intuition to get is actually the amount of noise or variability I show here gets bigger as the force gets bigger. 并且我们凭直觉就知道我在这里展示的杂音,或者说...

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TED演讲之身体语言 气味背后的科学(3)

This smells of cut grass. Now, this is the skeleton of the molecule. 它闻起来就像割下来青草。这就是分子的骨架。 If you dress it up with atoms, hydrogen atoms — that’s what it looks like when you have it on your computer — but actually it’s sort of more like this, 如果再给它配上其他原子,比如说氢原子,在电脑上模拟看上去是这样,但实际上看上去...

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TED演讲之身体语言 请求的艺术(8)

I recommend this, especially if those strangers are drunk German people. 我推荐这种方式,尤其是这些陌生人都是醉酒的德国人的时候。 This was a ninja master-level fan connection, 这是与歌迷交流的最高级别, because what I was really saying here was, I trust you this much. Should I? Show me. 因为我真正传达的信息是,我就是这样信任你们。我应该这样做吗?用行动告诉我...

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TED演讲之身体语言 改变荒漠现状,扭转气候变化(8)

I began helping a family in the Karoo Desert in the 1970s turn the desert that you see on the right there back to grassland, 20世纪70年代我开始帮助一个在卡鲁沙漠的家庭,你们看到在右边沙漠变回了草地, and thankfully, now their grandchildren are on the land with hope for the future. 值得庆幸的是,现在他们的子孙在这片土地上,对未来充满希望。 And look at the amazing...

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TED演讲之身体语言 怎样用科技改造人体?(1)

I call myself a body architect. 我自称为一名人体建筑师。 I trained in classical ballet and have a background in architecture and fashion. 我学过古典芭蕾,也有建筑以及时尚的相关背景。 As a body architect, I fascinate with the human body and explore how I can transform it. 作为一个人体建筑师,我真的十分痴迷于人的身体以及我怎样才能改造它。 I worked at Philips...

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TED演讲之身体语言 别让欺凌掩盖了你的美丽(2)

When I was eight, I wanted to be a marine biologist. 八岁的时候,我想当海洋生物学家。 When I was nine, I saw the movie “Jaws,” and thought to myself, “No, thank you.” 九岁的时候,我看了《大白鲨》。 然后我对自己说,“还是算了吧。” When I was 10, I was told that my parents left because they didn’t want me. 十岁的时候,我的生父母离开...

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TED演讲之身体语言 互联网可能会崩溃,怎么办?(4)

But the fact is, people are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, 但事实上,人们主要着眼于联网电脑的保护, and there’s been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. 反而极少关注作为通讯介质的互联网本身的保护。 And I think we probably do need to pay some more attention to that, because i...

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TED演讲之身体语言 微笑背后隐藏的力量(4)

In a recent mimicking study at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France, subjects were asked to determine whether a smile was real or fake while holding a pencil in their mouth to repress smiling muscles. 法国克莱蒙费朗大学近期的一项模拟研究要求研究对象通过微笑肌肉把一支铅笔含在嘴上,以此判断微笑的真假。 Without the pencil, subjects were excellent judges, but with...

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