I want to start by doing an experiment. I'm going to play three videos of a rainy day. 我想用一个实验来开始我的演讲。我将给你们播放三段雨天的视频。 But I've replaced the audio of one of the videos, and instead of the sound of rain
The firm Ennead clad the Utah Natural History Museum in Salt Lake City in copper and zinc, Ennead公司用铜和锌包裹了位于盐湖城的犹他自然历史博物馆， ores that have been mined in the area for 150 years and that also camouflage
Now, this is completely unprompted; she had never seen this done before. 要知道，它没有看到过别的乌鸦这么做。 No one taught her to bend this into a hook or had shown her how it could happen. 之前也没有任何人或者别的乌鸦教它如何把线弯成钩子；或者
In the last five years we've added 70 million tons of CO2 every 24 hours -- 25 million tons every day to the oceans. 在过去五年间，我们每二十四小时已经增加了了七千万吨的二氧化碳排放量，每天排放两千五百万吨的二氧化碳到海里。 Look carefully at the area of
Let's begin by looking at what we currently understand about the neuroscience of Alzheimer's. 让我们先看看目前神经学上对老年痴呆的了解。 Here's a picture of two neurons connecting. 这是一张两个神经元连接的图。 The point of connection,
Because in my older years, I've become somewhat of a clairvoyant. 到了我这把年纪，我可以说是已经开了慧眼了。 I can predict school scores. You take me to any school. 我可以很容易地预测到某所学校的成绩的。只要你把我带到任何一所学校。 I'm really good at inn
One of my favorite stories comes from Frank Serafine. 我最喜欢的段子之一来自于弗兰克·塞拉凡尼。 He's a contributor to our library, and a great sound designer for "Tron" and "Star Trek" and others. 他是我们音效库的贡献者之一，也是《创：战记》和
So what happens when amyloid plaques accumulate to this tipping point? 所以当淀粉样斑块积累到临界点后会发生什么？ Our microglia janitor cells become hyper-activated, releasing chemicals that cause inflammation and cellula
So, the moral being: don't piss off crows. 所以--大家看到了吧，千万别惹乌鸦。 So now, students at the University of Washington that are studying these crows, do so with a giant wig and a big mask. 正是这样的缘故，现在华盛顿大学做乌鸦研
But glass has a limited ability to be expressive. 但是玻璃的表现力毕竟是有局限的。 This is a section of wall framing a plaza in the pre-Hispanic city of Mitla, in southern Mexico. 这是在墨西哥南部前西班牙城米特拉一个广场外墙的一部分。 Those 2,
Another world was opening up around this time: performance and dancing. 在这个时候，另一个世界出现了：那就是表演和舞蹈。 That nagging dread of self-hood didn't exist when I was dancing. 对于自我纠缠不清的恐惧，在我跳舞时并不存在。 I'd literally l
This is clearly not a good arrangement. We clearly need to change it. 这明显不是个良好的形势。我们明显需要改变现状。 We clearly need to find ways of encouraging countries to start working together a little bit better. 我们明显需
And lastly, here's Destin, from "Smarter Every Day," 最后是《每天聪明一点点》的德斯丁， talking about the conservation of angular momentum, and, since it's YouTube, cats: 为我们讲述动量守恒，由于是在YouTube上，所以他用猫来举例： Hey, it's me,
Last year I showed these two slides so that demonstrate that the arctic ice cap, 去年我给各位展示了两个关于北极冰帽的演示， which for most of the last three million years has been the size of the lower 48 states, has shru
Now, I'm not against glass. It's an ancient and versatile material. 我并不是反对使用玻璃。玻璃毕竟是一种古老且通用性强的材料。 It's easy to manufacture and transport and install and replace and clean. 它们易于大量生产、运输、安装、替换和清洁。 It com
Ambiences work in a most primal way. They can speak directly to our brain subconsciously. 环境声以最原始的方式起着作用。它们可以在潜意识里直接对我们的大脑说话。 So, birds chirping outside your window may indicate normality, 所以，你窗户外面的鸟叫
So a couple of years ago, I thought I would take some time out and speak to that gigantic database and ask it, 所以几年以后，我认为我可以抽出些时间来跟那个庞大的数据库聊聊，问问它， why do some people prefer one country more than anoth
There are also things, quite uncanny, which bring me information that will help me in the writing of the book. 除此以外，还有一些离奇的事件在写作时为我带来了不同的写作资料。 In this case, I was writing a story that included some ki
So how would you run a whole country without oil? 怎么让一个国家在没有用石油的情况下运转？ That's the question that sort of hit me in the middle of a Davos afternoon about four years ago. 四年以前在Davos的一个下午，这个问题突然浮现在我的脑海。 I
But once you've created your sounds and you've synced them to the image, you want those sounds to live in the world of the story. 不过，当你创造了声音并和画面同步后，你希望这些声音可以在叙事的世界中变得鲜活。 And one the best ways to do th
