TED演讲之2.0版城市:如何重新设计公寓建筑(2)

And then we decided to take New York as a test case, 后来我们决定拿纽约做实验案例, and we looked at Lower Manhattan. 研究曼哈顿下城。 And we mapped all the building area in Manhattan. 我们画出曼哈顿建筑区的地图。 On the left is Manhattan today: 左边是现在的曼哈顿: blue for housing, red for office buildings, retail. 蓝色是住宅,红色是办公大楼和商场。 On the right, we reconf...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:如何食用我们的地貌(3)

Sales were up. 销量提升了 And then, we had a chat with the farmers, and we said, 接着,我们和种植者交流,我们说 "We're really serious about this," "我们对这件事情很认真" but they didn't actually believe us, so we thought, 但他们并不怎么相信我们,于是我们想 okay, what should we do? I know. If we can create 好吧,我们该做什么? 我知道,如果我们能创造...

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TED演讲:医学的未来?也许是手机上的一个应用程序(2)

And now we can see inside of the brain with a resolution and ability that was never before available,and essentially learn how to reconstruct,and maybe even re-engineer,or backwards engineer, the brain so we can better understand pathology, disease and therapy. 现在我们能看到大脑内部用一种以前没有过的分辨率和能力,本质上学会如何重建,也许甚至再设计,或者逆向设计大脑,因此我...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:人类性进化的启示(2)

All Cacilda and I have done is extend this sharing behavior to sexuality. 我和卡希尔达只是将这种分享行为扩展到了性上 So we've argued that human sexuality 我们认为人类的性 has essentially evolved, until agriculture, 直到农业出现之前 as a way of establishing and maintaining 一直是作为一种方式来建立和维持 the complex, flexible social systems, networks, that our ancestors we...

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TED演讲 全球经济的隐形推动力—寄钱回家(3)

U.S. Fed started a program with Mexico to enable money service businesses to send money to Mexico for a fixed cost of only 67 cents per transaction. 美国联邦政府和墨西哥之间启动了一个项目,使得汇款公司往墨西哥寄钱时只需要每笔67美分的手续费。 And yet, these faster, cheaper, better options can't be applied internationally because of the fear of money laundering,even though...

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TED演讲之生与死:如何健康长寿(6)

And we managed to boil it down to nine. 我们试图归结为九点 In fact we've done two more Blue Zone expeditions since this 其实在这次蓝区远征前 and these common denominators hold true. 我们已经调查了两个蓝区 And the first one, 第一个 and I'm about to utter a heresy here, 我想说个异端邪说, none of them exercise, 他们谁都不运动 at least the way we think of exercise. 至少...

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TED演讲:货币的未来(6)

Cryptocurrencies are based on a special field of mathematics called cryptography. 加密货币是基于一种特殊的数学算法,称为密码学。 Cryptography is the study of how to secure communication, and it’s about two really important things: 密码学是一门关于保障通信安全的学科,其中有两件特别重要的事: masking information so it can be hidden in plain sight, and verify...

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