To give me an idea of how many of you here 为了让我知道这里有多少人 may find what I'm about to tell you 待会儿会觉得我告诉你的事情 of practical value, 有实用价值， let me ask you please to raise your hands: 请符合条件的人把手举起来: Who he
At the opposite extreme 在对待老人的另一个极端 in treatment of the elderly, the happy extreme, 这个快乐的极端， are the New Guinea farming societies 是在新几内亚的农耕社会 where I've been doing my fieldwork for the past 50 yea
The fact that some people believe 事实上有些人民相信 an omnipotent god will resurrect them to live again 一个万能的神能让他们复活 and others believe an omnipotent scientist will do it 还有一些人相信万能的科学能使他们复活 suggests that neit
And the bias I'm talking about 我这里说的偏误 works like this: 是这么回事： Confront someone with the fact 某些人面对 that they are going to die 他们终将会死去的现实 and they will believe just about any story 他们只会相信 that tel
I have a question: 我要问大家一件事： Who here remembers when they first realized 在座的各位谁还记得当自己第一次意识到 they were going to die? 自己有一天会死去时那一刻的感受？ I do. I was a young boy, 我还记得，那时我还是个小男孩 and my grandfather had just
A plan involves answering 这个计划是能包含了回应的 straightforward questions about the end you want. 直接了当关于你想如何结束的问题 Where do you want to be when you're no longer independent? 如果你不能再独立，你希望自己在哪里？ What do you w
And there are certain forms of the FOXO gene 我们发现活到90或者100岁人里 that have found to be more frequently present 最常有的 in people who live to be 90 or 100. 某种FOXO基因 And that's the case all over the world
Okay. 好了 So what is the daf-2 gene? 那么daf-2基因到底是什么？ Well as you know, genes, which are part of the DNA, 正如大家所知，基因是DNA的一部分 they're instructions to make a protein that does something. 它们是经编码的指令，用于制造
Look, I had second thoughts, really, 说实话，我犹豫过 about whether I could talk about this 到底应不应该 to such a vital and alive audience as you guys. 对你们一群如此有活力的观众讲这个题目。 Then I remembered the quote from Gloria S
By the end of this year, 截止今年年底， there'll be nearly a billion people on this planet 这个星球上将有接近十亿人口 that actively use social networking sites. 在很活跃地使用社交网站。 The one thing that all of them have in com
I was called down to the ward to see him. 我被叫到病房去看他。 His is the little hand. 他的小手可以说是骨瘦如柴。 I was called down to the ward to see him 一名呼吸内科医生 by a respiratory physician. 将我叫到他的诊室。 He said, "Look,
But the idea that science can cure death 但科学能够治愈死亡的观点 is just one more chapter in the story 只是神奇的灵丹妙药故事的 of the magical elixir, 又一个章节， a story that is as old as civilization. 和古文明一样古老的故事。 But betting
And, if that wasn't bad enough, of course, 如果这还不算太糟糕的话，当然 all of this is rapidly progressing towards the fact that 我们很快可以看到另一个数据 many of you, in fact, about one in 10 of you at this point, 很多人，事实上
Clearly, people didn't want us to talk about death, 显而易见，人们并不希望我们和他们谈论死亡， or, we thought that. 或者，我们自己如此认为。 So with loads of funding from the Federal Government 所以，在联邦政府和地方卫生部门资金的支持下 and the local
So how can a hormone ultimately affect the rate of aging? 那么，激素到底是怎样影响衰老的速度呢？ How could that work? 原理是什么呢？ Well it turns out that in the daf-2 mutants, 原来在daf-2变异体中 a whole lot of genes are switched o
But as social scientists, we continue to ask 但作为社会学家，我们继续问 about possible alternatives. 是否有其他可能 We've said, well maybe older people 也许老年人 report more positive emotions 报告更多的积极感受 because they'r
Have you ever wanted to stay young a little longer 大家有没有想过要年轻再久一点 and put off aging? 延缓衰老呢？ This is a dream of the ages. 这是很久以来的梦想了 But scientists have for a long time 不过科学家以前一直认为 thought this just wa
Adam Ostrow: Hello. 亚当·奥斯丘：你好。 Death: Adam? 死神：亚当？ AO: Yeah. 亚当：是。 Death: Death can catch you anywhere, anytime, 死神：死神可以在任何时间，任何地点抓到你， even at the Organic. 甚至在你还是有机体的时候。 AO: Who is this? 亚当：你是谁？ Death
What would be a good end of life? 什么是一个生活美好的结尾？ And I'm talking about the very end. 我所说的是最终的结尾 I'm talking about dying. 我所说的是死亡 We all think a lot about how to live well. 我们都在想如何更好的生活 I'd
18 minutes is an absolutely brutal time limit, 十八分钟是一个非常紧的时间限制， so I'm going to dive straight in, right at the point 因此我直入主题，讲重点的， where I get this thing to work. 我将马上开始。 Here we go. I'm going
