TED演讲之神奇奥秘 奥利弗·萨克斯:幻觉背后的心智(7)

Around 1970, it was found that there were not only parts of the brain, but particular cells. 1970年左右,人们发现特化的不是一块区域,而是相应的脑细胞。 “Face cells” were discovered around 1970. And now we know that there are hundreds of other sorts of cells, which can be very, very specific. “脸细胞”是1970年左右发现的,至今,我们已经发现了数百种与各类视...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 胡安·恩利克斯:令人吃惊的新科技(1)

There’s a great big elephant in the room called the economy. So let’s start talking about that. 经济是个重要,而又常被避开的话题。让我们来聊下它。 I wanted to give you a current picture of the economy. That’s what I have behind myself. 我想给你们看看目前的经济状况。这是我自己身后的东西。 But of course what we have to remember is this. And what ...

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TED演讲之超短集 世界的致命饮食(2)

Now there is an epidemic of obesity: two-thirds of adults and 15 percent of kids. 此外,现在出现的还有糖尿病的流行,这占到了成人的2/3和儿童的15%。 What’s really concerning to me is that diabetes has increased 70 percent in the past 10 years, and this may be the first generation in which our kids live a shorter life span than we do. 真正令我担忧的是在过去的10...

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TED演讲之生存故事 布琳·布朗:脆弱的力量(6)

The other thing that they had in common was this: They fully embraced vulnerability. 他们还有另外一个共同之处,那就是,他们全然接受脆弱。 They believed that what made them vulnerable made them beautiful. 他们相信,让他们变得脆弱的东西,也让他们变得美丽。 They didn’t talk about vulnerability being comfortable, nor did they really talk about it being excruci...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 马克·古德曼:展望未来犯罪(8)

Law enforcement is currently a closed system. It’s nation-based, while the threat is international. 执法活动在当下仍属一个封闭的系统。它虽以国家为基础,但威胁是国际性的。 Policing doesn’t scale globally. At least, it hasn’t, and our current system of guns, border guards, big gates and fences are outdated in the new world into which we’re moving...

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TED演讲之神奇奥秘 奥利弗·萨克斯:幻觉背后的心智(1)

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination. 我们用眼睛看世界,但我们也用大脑看。用大脑来看,也就是我们常说的想象。 And we are familiar with the landscapes of our own imagination, our inscapes. We’ve lived with them all our lives. 我们很熟悉自己想象的模式,也就是内心世界,它伴随我们一生。 B...

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TED演讲之幕后揭秘 桑迪·牛顿:拥抱他人,拥抱自己(3)

And at 16, I stumbled across another opportunity, and I earned my first acting role in a film. 当我16岁时,我无意中遇到另一个机遇,得到了我的第一个电影角色。 I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. 我难以找到言语来形容在表演中我感受到的平静。 My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 伯特·鲁坦: 预见太空未来(1)

I want to start off by saying, Houston, we have a problem. We’re entering a second generation of no progress in terms of human flight in space. 我想从这里开始,休斯顿,我们有个问题。我们已经有二十年没有进展了,在人类太空飞行方面。 In fact, we’ve regressed. We stand a very big chance of losing our ability to inspire our youth to go out and continue this ver...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 马丁·里斯:这是我们最后的世纪吗?(5)

In fact, some years ago, Bill Joy wrote an article expressing tremendous concern about robots taking us over, etc. 事实上在几年前,比尔乔伊在一篇文章中表达了对机器人将取代我们的极大关注,等等。 I don’t go along with all that, but it’s interesting that he had a simple solution. 我并不完全同意他的观点,但让人感兴趣的是他给出了一个简单的解决方案。 It wa...

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TED演讲之超短集 坎迪·张:在死之前,我想…(3)

So this neglected space became a constructive one, and people’s hopes and dreams made me laugh out loud, tear up, and they consoled me during my own tough times. 这个本来被遗忘的建筑变成了一个极具建设性的地方,这些人的希望和梦想让我放声大笑,也黯然落泪,也曾在我经历困境的时候给我安慰。 It’s about knowing you’re not alone; it’s about understandi...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 胡安·恩利克斯:令人吃惊的新科技(2)

The government, meanwhile, has been acting like Santa Claus. We all love Santa Claus, right? 与此同时,政府扮的像圣诞老人一样,我们都爱圣诞老人不是吗? But the problem with Santa Clause is, if you look at the mandatory spending of what these folks have been doing and promising folks, 不过,圣诞老人有个问题是,如果你回顾下这些人的所作所为而导致的“强制性开销”以及他们...

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TED演讲之神奇奥秘 奥利弗·萨克斯:幻觉背后的心智(5)

She didn’t mind the cartoons too much. But what did disturb her was she got very persistent images or hallucinations of faces and as with Rosalie, 她并不大关注那部卡通,让她非常苦恼的是,这些幻觉持续地出现,而且跟罗斯莉的情况一样, the faces were often deformed, with very large teeth or very large eyes. And these frightened her. 幻觉中的脸往往是扭曲的,要么长...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 伯特·鲁坦: 预见太空未来(4)

Talk very briefly about innovation cycles, things that grow, have a lot of activity; they die out when they’re replaced by something else. 简短地谈一下发明创造的周期,周期发展时会衍生许多活动,当这些活动被其他活动取代,此周期就灭亡了。 These things tend to happen every 25 years. 40 years long, with an overlap. You can put that statement on all kinds of different...

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TED演讲之神奇奥秘 艾莉森·高普尼克:婴儿在想什么?(6)

So to test this we used a machine that we have called the Blicket Detector. 为了证明这个观点,我们用了一个叫做玩具侦探的仪器。 This is a box that lights up and plays music when you put some things on it and not others. 如果你在这个箱子上放一些东西,其它的上面不放,那它可以发光还伴有音乐。 And using this very simple machine, my lab and others have done dozens of ...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 马丁·里斯:这是我们最后的世纪吗?(8)

The planet became an intense emitter of radio waves — the total output from all TV and cell phones and radar transmissions. 地球开始发射出强烈的电磁波 – 其来源是所有的电视,手机和雷达信号传输。 And something else happened. Metallic objects — albeit very small ones, a few tons at most — escaped into orbit around the Earth. 另外还有一些景象出...

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TED演讲之生存故事 布琳·布朗:脆弱的力量(4)

You know this. So, I could tell you a lot about shame, but I’d have to borrow everyone else’s time. 你知道这个(结果)。我能告诉你关于耻辱的很多东西,但那样我就得占用别人的时间了。 But here’s what I can tell you that it boils down to — and this may be one of the most important things that I’ve ever learned in the decade of doing this rese...

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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(4)

Four years ago here at TED, Ray Kurzweil and I started a new university called Singularity University. 四年前在TED,雷·库兹威尔和我创立了一所新的大学,叫做“Singularity University”。 And we teach our students all of these technologies, and particularly how they can be used to solve humanity’s grand challenges. 我们教给学生各种科技,特别是如何利用这些科技来解决...

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TED演讲之生存故事 谭黎:我的移民故事(2)

My first memories are from the boat — the steady beat of the engine, the bow dipping into each wave, the vast and empty horizon. 我的第一个记忆来自于小船–发动机均匀的节奏,浅浅的波浪,一望无尽的海平面。 I don’t remember the pirates who came many times, but were bluffed by the bravado of the men on our boat, or the engine dying and failing to start fo...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 汉斯·罗素林:东方崛起(3)

Those are nice words. But I got sort of curious of what he meant with liberty, and liberty for whom. 这句话很动听。可是,我很好奇,他说的是何种自由,以及是何人的自由。 And we will think about that when we look at the wider picture of the world in 1858. Because 1858 was also watershed year in the history of Asia. 这势必让我们回想起,在1858年时,世界各地都发生了什么...

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TED演讲之神奇奥秘 奥利弗·萨克斯:幻觉背后的心智(8)

Charles Bonnet said, 250 years ago — he wondered how, thinking these hallucinations, how, as he put it, the theater of the mind could be generated by the machinery of the brain. 查尔斯·邦纳在250年前在对这些幻觉现象的观察的促使下,思考了这个问题,心智的戏剧性是如何产生于大脑运作的呢? Now, 250 years later, I think we’re beginning to glimpse how this is done...

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