So in a nutshell, that's the challenge that we all face today at this interesting point in history. 所以简单来说，这就是我们所有人今天面临的挑战，在这个有意思的历史时期。 That's clearly what we've got to do next. 这很明显是我们接下来要做的。 We've s
But that's getting harder to do, because cities are becoming smooth. 但这样的机会已经越来越少了，因为城市正在变得光滑。 New downtowns sprout towers that are almost always made of concrete and steel and covered in glass. 高塔在市中
This is my supermarket. Not such a big one. I want to say just a word about salad dressing. 这是我家附近的一个超市。不算很大。我只想说说这里的色拉调料。 175 salad dressings in my supermarket, 我这家超市有175种各式色拉调料， if you don't count t
Now where is the car industry on that? Very interesting. 汽车工业在这个问题上的位置究竟在哪？这非常有意思。 The car industry has been focused just on themselves. 汽车工业一直都只专注在它们自己身上。 They basically looked at it and said, "Car 1
So they're learning from each other. And research bears this out. 乌鸦通过互相学习，都掌握了这种技巧。 Parents seem to be teaching their young. They learn from their peers, they learn from their enemies. 乌鸦父母还教会自己的孩子这样
You, today, buy gasoline miles. And we created electric miles. 现在大家买的是汽油里程。我们就创造电子里程。 And the price of electric miles ends up being a very interesting number. 电子里程价钱加起来是个有趣的数字。 Today 2010, in volume,
And in doing so, we were breeding them for parasitism. 为了做到这点，人类用喂养的方式来让它们寄生于我们。 We were giving them all sorts of reasons to adapt new ways. 我们给了动物们适应新环境的各种理由。 So, for example, rats are incredibly res
Strangely, these revelations didn't cure my low self-esteem, that feeling of otherness. 奇怪的是，这些启示并没有治愈我那缺少的自尊，那种被划为另类的感觉。 My desire to disappear was still very powerful. 我渴望消失的想法依旧十分强烈。 I had a degree
There is also the uncertainty principle, which is part of quantum mechanics, as I understand it. 在量子力学中还有测不准原理，至少我想有。 And this happens constantly in the writing. 同样的事也时常发生在写作中。 And there's the terribl
Once upon a time, the world was a big, dysfunctional family. 很久以前，世界是个很大却不和谐的大家庭。 It was run by the great and powerful parents, and the people were helpless and hopeless naughty children. 这个家庭被“伟大的”、“
Even before scientists sort this out, this information is actually really good news for us, 即使科学家还尚未解决问题，这一好消息确实振奋人心， because it turns out that the way we live can influence the accumulation of amyloi
Embracing otherness. When I first heard this theme, I thought, well, embracing otherness is embracing myself. 拥抱他人。当我第一次听到这个主题时，我觉得拥抱他人就是拥抱我自己。 And the journey to that place of understanding and accep
Well, I'm the girl in that story, and the secret documents that I was interested in were located in this building, 对，我就是故事里的小女孩，而我感兴趣的秘密就藏在这栋楼里， the British Parliament, and the data that I wanted to g
We all know what's good about it, so I'm going to talk about what's bad about it. 我们都知道它的好处。那么就让我来说说它的不好之处吧。 All of this choice has two effects, two negative effects on people. 所有这些选择对人们有两个影响，而且是两个负面的
How many people here would like to live to be at least 80 years old? Yeah. 在座有多少人希望能活到八十岁以上？好。 I think we all have this hopeful expectation of living into old age. 我想我们每个人都渴望能够长寿。 Let's project out in
Also, one of the principles of creativity is to have a little childhood trauma. 创意的其中一项原则是拥有童年的心理创伤。 And I had the usual kind that I think a lot of people had, and that is that, you know, I had expect
And one reason is, this enormous heat sink heats up Greenland from the north. 有一个原因，北方沉积的大量热能加热了格陵兰岛。 This is an annual melting river. But the volumes are much larger than ever. 这是一条每年融化的河。但流量却比往年都要大。
Let's imagine that your amyloid plaques have reached that tipping point. 假设你的淀粉样斑块已经达到临界点。 Your scale arm has crashed to the floor. 你天平的一端已坠地。 You've tripped the cascade, setting fire to the forest, c
By 19, I was a fully-fledged movie actor, but still searching for definition. 当我19岁时，我已经是一个羽翼丰满的电影演员，但却仍在寻找定义。 I applied to read anthropology at university. 我在大学里申请攻读人类学。 Dr. Phyllis Lee gave me my in
Now that last mile, last foot, in a sense, is the first step of the infrastructure. 现在想想这最后一英里，最后一步，在某种意义上，是迈向基础设施的第一步。 The second step of the infrastructure needs to take care of the range extension.
