Delighted to be here and to talk to you about a subject dear to my heart, which is beauty. 很高兴来到这里与大家探讨我至为关心的一个主题,那就是“美”。 I do the philosophy of art, aesthetics, actually, for a living. 我研究艺术与审美哲学,事实上
One example is a trick in which a gene allows a cell, even as the drug approaches the cell, 有一个例子很神奇,基因能让细胞在药物接近之前, to push the drug out, before the drug can have any effect. 把药物推开,药物根本来不及起任何作用。 Imagi
Here's what I think today. 现在,我是这样想的。 Little girls don't know that they are not supposed to like computers. Little girls are amazing. 小女孩们并不知道自己被认为是不该喜欢电脑的。小女孩们很厉害。 They are really, really good at con
But we've also done studies where we try to match what they say with the actual faces. 但是我们也做过研究,尝试将实际的面容与和他们的描述相匹配。 And then we find things like this. 然后我们发现了这样的事情。 So here, this male participant, he
Again, we didn't start out thinking, "Oh, let's invent a language." 我们开始想:“对了,我们干脆发明一种语言吧。” It was just very confusing. I remember somebody walked up to me and said, 刚开始真的非常的混乱。我记得有人走过来对我说: "I would l
Four hundred parts per million: that's the approximate concentration of CO2 in the air today. What does this even mean? 百万分之四百:这就是现在空气里二氧化碳大概的浓度。这意味着什么呢? For every 400 molecules of carbon dioxide, we
And then as we go further, today we have continuous glucose sensors. 进一步讲,今天我们有葡萄糖检测器, Right now, they are under the skin, but in the future, they won't have to be implanted. 我们的皮肤下可以安装,但在不久的将来这些将无需植入
So for example, "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back," a book that I'm sure we all often return to, like "Moby Dick." 例如,《戴帽子的猫回来了》,这本书我相信很多人还经常读,又如《白鲸记》。 One phrase in it is, "Do you know where I found him
So many of you have probably seen the movie "The Martian." 我估计在座很多人都看过“火星救援”这部电影。 But for those of you who did not, it's a movie about an astronaut who is stranded on Mars, 对于没看过的人来说,这是一部关于一名宇航员被困在火星,
And now once you've captured the CO2, 在二氧化碳被捕获之后, you have to be able to recycle that material that you used to capture it, over and over again. 我们还需要能够循环使用用来捕获它的材料,持续不断进行捕获。 The scale of carbon captu
So the next experiment, it needs a little bit of a background. 下一个实验需要一些背景知识。 So in Sweden, the political landscape is dominated by a left-wing and a right-wing coalition. 在瑞典,国家的政治事务是由左翼和右翼的联合政府主导。 A
Switzerland-based Climeworks and US-based Global Thermostat use a different approach. 位于瑞士的Climeworks和位于美国的Global Thermostat使用的则是不同的方法。 They use solid materials for capture. Climeworks uses heat from
And here I must point out, of course, that you are not allowed to use this as an actual method to change people's votes before an election, 在这里我还想指出的是,当然,你会被禁止在大选之前使用这项手段来改变人们的投票意向, and we clearly deb
And then came the trolls: 继而就是那些寻畔的了: Somebody else on that wrote, 有人在那上面写道: "Somebody HIV-positive should rape this bitch and then we'll find out if her skin color protects her from AIDS." “应该找个艾滋阳性的
Why now? Why has this all of a sudden become a reality, an exciting direction in the future of medicine? 什么是现在?为什么这会突然变成现实,成为未来医疗界令人振奋的方向? What we have is, in a way, a perfect positive storm. 从某种程度上说,
Obviously, the impact of such a male contraceptive would go well beyond reproductive biology. 当然了,这样的男性避孕药影响的肯定不只是生殖生物学。 It's interesting to speculate about the effect that it would have on relationsh
Here's how the alchemy worked for me at Airbnb: 这是我在Airbnb工作时发现的有效方式: I was assigned a young, smart partner, who helped me develop a hospitality department. 我被指派了一个年轻,聪明的搭档,她帮助我开发了一个住宿公寓。 Early on, La
The second thing that happened is that I spent the day in the Camden, New Jersey police department. 第二件事是我在卡姆登的新泽西州警察局耗了一天。 Now, at that time, Camden, New Jersey, was the most dangerous city in Americ
I want to step back, and I want to bring up the concept of negative emissions again. 我想退一步,再次提出负排放的概念。 Negative emissions require that the CO2 separated be permanently removed from the atmosphere fore
Cancer affects all of us -- especially the ones that come back over and over again, 癌症是我们每个人的大敌--尤其是那些不断复发的, the highly invasive and drug-resistant ones, the ones that defy medical treatment, 容易扩散的,具有