TED演讲之幕后揭秘 艾布拉姆斯之神秘的盒子(6)

Come on. “Why? ‘Cause I need it”? Best scene ever, right? Come on! 拜托,“为什么?因为我想亲你?”最妙的场景,对吗? 拜托! So you think of “Jaws” — so that’s the kind of stuff that, like, you know — the investment of character, which is the stuff that really is inside the box, you know? 你觉得《大白鲨》--就是这一类...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 汉斯·罗素林:东方崛起(6)

And if I would also look at India, you have another type of inequity, actually, in India. 我们再来看看印度,我们会看到另一种不平等。 The geographical, macro-geographical difference is not so big. 从地理的角度上来看,差距不大。 Uttar Pradesh, the biggest of the states here, is poorer and has a lower health than the rest of India. 北方邦,是印度的最大邦,比起其...

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TED演讲之生存故事 布琳·布朗:脆弱的力量(2)

And this is where my story starts. When I was a young researcher, doctoral student, 我的故事从这里开始。当我还是个年轻的博士研究生的时候, my first year, I had a research professor who said to us, “Here’s the thing, if you cannot measure it, it does not exist.” 第一年,有位研究教授对我们说:“事实是这样的,如果有一个东西你无法测量,那么它就不存在。...

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TED演讲之生存故事 谭黎:我的移民故事(5)

“It can’t be done” was shown to be wrong. “不可能”变成了可能。 I was taking a shower in a hotel room in Sydney the moment she died, 600 miles away, in Melbourne. 当她在600英里外的墨尔本逝世时,我正在悉尼的宾馆房间洗澡。 I looked through the shower screen and saw her standing on the other side. 透过玻璃,我看到她站在对面。 I knew she had come to say goodbye....

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TED演讲之伟大预言 汉斯·罗素林:东方崛起(2)

And I will now, here, onstage, try to predict when that will happen — 现在,我,将在这个台上, that Asia will regain its dominant position as the leading part of the world, as it used to be, over thousands of years. 来预测亚洲什么时候会重夺其导向世界的主导地位,正如过去数千年一般。 And I will do that by trying to predict precisely at what year the average income per pe...

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TED演讲之神童 詹妮弗·林神奇的钢琴即兴谱曲(1)

Thank you very much. Like the speaker before me — I am a TED virgin, I guess. I’m also the first time here, and… I don’t know what to say! 非常感谢大家,和前面一位演讲人一样,我是…大概是TED处女。我也是第一次到这里,不知道该说什么。 I’m really happy that Mr. Anderson invited me. I’m really grateful that I get a chance to play for ever...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 马克·古德曼:展望未来犯罪(7)

We recently saw a case where some researchers made the H5N1 avian influenza virus more potent. 我们最近观察到一个案例,发现一些研究员将H5N1禽流感病毒变得更强效。 It already has a 70 percent mortality rate if you get it, but it’s hard to get. 如果你受它感染,你的死亡概率已经会达到70%,但是它并不轻易传染。 Engineers, by moving around a small number of genetic changes, we...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 马克·古德曼:展望未来犯罪(1)

I study the future of crime and terrorism, and frankly, I’m afraid. I’m afraid by what I see. 我研究的是犯罪和恐怖主义的未来。坦白地说,我感到害怕。我对我在研究中了解到的事情感到害怕。 I sincerely want to believe that technology can bring us the techno-utopia that we’ve been promised, 我真诚地希望自己能够相信,科技可以带给我们对我们的承诺中的科技乌托邦。 bu...

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TED演讲之幕后揭秘 艾布拉姆斯之神秘的盒子(5)

Have you guys not seen that? It’s huge! Anyway — So there’s this thing with mystery boxes that I started feeling compelled. 你们就没有发现吗?它太明显了!不管怎么说--因此我的神秘盒子让我开始感觉,像是被迫的感觉。 Then there’s the thing of mystery in terms of imagination — the withholding of information. 然后这样的事就像是,想像力的神秘--拒绝...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 马克·古德曼:展望未来犯罪(6)

So how will criminals abuse this? Well, with synthetic biology you can do some pretty neat things. 那么罪犯将如何滥用这项技术呢?利用合成生物学,你能做一些相当优雅的事情。 For example, I predict that we will move away from a plant-based narcotics world to a synthetic one. 例如,我预测我们将会离开这个植物配方毒品的时代而进入合成毒品的时代。 Why do you need the plants anymore?...

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TED演讲之生存故事 约翰·施拉姆:打破自杀生还者的沉默(2)

Research shows that 19 out of 20 people who attempt suicide will fail. 研究显示,20个试图自杀的人中有19个会失败。 But the people who fail are 37 times more likely to succeed the second time. 但是失败的人有37倍的可能性第二次自杀成功。 This truly is an at-risk population with very few resources to support them. 不可否认,这是一群高危人士,但却只有很少的资源去支撑他们。 And wha...

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TED演讲之幕后揭秘 伊丽莎白·吉尔伯特谈呵护创造力及减轻创作压力(9)

And when this happened, back then, people knew it for what it was, you know, they called it by its name. 当时的人们,清楚地知道这是什么,他们能叫出它的名字。 They would put their hands together and they would start to chant, “Allah, Allah, Allah, God, God, God.” That’s God, you know. 他们会拍起手来,开始吟唱:阿拉,阿拉,阿拉,神啊,神啊,神啊。人人都知道:...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 汉斯·罗素林:东方崛起(5)

In 1949 we saw the emergence of the modern China in a way which surprised the world. 在1949年,新中国的诞生使全世界都为之惊奇。 And what happened? What happens in the after independence? You can see that the health started to improve. 之后发生了什么?在独立之后发生了什么?正如你所见,国民的健康有所进步。 Children started to go to school. Health services were provided. This i...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 彼得·迪曼蒂斯: 我们的未来将会是富足的(2)

But perhaps that’s not the case. Perhaps instead, it’s the distortions brought to us of what’s really going on. 但事实或许并不是这样,我们所接受的信息是被扭曲的。 Perhaps the tremendous progress we’ve made over the last century by a series of forces are, 我们的社会在上世纪一系列事件的影响下,所经历的巨大的进步正在不断加速, in fact, accelerating to a ...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 凯文·凯利:谈未来5000天后的网络世界(4)

So let me go through those three things. First of all, we have all these things in our hands. 让我一一说明。第一,我们手上握着不少东西, We think they’re all separate devices, but in fact, every screen in the world is looking into the one machine. 我们认为它们是独立的,但事实上,世界上所有的屏幕都进入这一步机器查询。 These are all basically portals into that one machin...

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TED演讲之幕后揭秘 伊丽莎白·吉尔伯特谈呵护创造力及减轻创作压力(1)

I am a writer. Writing books is my profession but it’s more than that, of course. 我是个作家,写作不仅仅是我的职业, It is also my great lifelong love and fascination. And I don’t expect that that’s ever going to change. 更是我一辈子的挚爱与迷恋,我认为这是永远不会改变的事情。 But, that said, something kind of peculiar has happened recently in my life and i...

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TED演讲之生存故事 谭黎:我的移民故事(3)

My mother, my sister and I slept in the same bed. My mother was exhausted each night, 我、我妹妹和我母亲睡在同一张床上。每晚母亲都拖着疲惫的身体回家, but we told one another about our day and listened to the movements of my grandmother around the house. 但是我们互相交流一天的事情,听着旁边房间祖母的动静。 My mother suffered from nightmares, all about the boat. And my job wa...

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TED演讲之神童 伊娃·韦尔泰什对医学未来的展望(9)

It’s not harmful; it has just repaired the muscle. Muscle is constantly being used — constantly being damaged. 这种肿瘤是无害的,它只是修复了肌肉的损伤。肌肉不断地被使用-不断地受到损坏。 If every time we tore a muscle or every time we stretched a muscle or moved in a wrong way, cancer occurred — 如果我们每次肌肉撕裂,或者每次以错误的方式拉伸肌肉,癌症就会产...

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TED演讲之神童 伊娃·韦尔泰什对医学未来的展望(3)

So that’s what led me to Alzheimer’s. I started reading about Alzheimer’s and tried to familiarize myself with the research, 这件事激发了我对阿尔茨海默氏症的兴趣。我开始阅读相关的资料,并使自己的熟悉相关的研究。 and at the same time when I was in the — I was reading in the medical library one day, and I read this article about something called “...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 彼得·迪曼蒂斯: 我们的未来将会是富足的(3)

Underpinning much of this is technology, and of late, exponentially growing technologies. 而这一切的基础是科技。和近代指数式增长的科技。 My good friend Ray Kurzweil showed that any tool that becomes an information technology jumps on this curve, 我的好朋友雷·库兹威尔展示了任何信息科技的工具 都遵从这条曲线, on Moore’s Law, and experiences price performance doubling eve...

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