Let me give you an example of how a city's surfaces affect the way we live in it. 我来举个例子看看一个城市的外观是如何影响人们生活方式的吧。 When I visited Salamanca in Spain, I gravitated to the Plaza Mayor at all hours of the d
We are all concerned with things that we see in the world that we are aware of. 我们总是在意这世界上我们所感知的事物。 We come to this point and say, what do I as an individual do? 我们对自己说：我能做什么？ Not all of us can go to
Once I identified this question, it was all over the place. 一旦你意识到这个问题，就发现它无所不在。 I got these hints everywhere. And then, in a way, I knew that they had always been there. 在哪里都能看到它的痕迹。同时我也知道，它们一直都在那里。
The second one was the San Francisco Bay Area where Gavin Newsom created a beautiful policy across all the mayors. 第二个地方便是旧金山市湾区。在所有的市长当中，Gavin Newsom精心设计了一个政策方案。 He decided that he's going to take ov
When the country cares about something, we'll spend a trillion dollars without blinking an eye. 当一个国家在乎一些事了，我们就算花一万亿美元也不会眨一下眼睛的。 When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of m
Sorry if you're not New Yorkers. 不过你如果不是纽约人的话，我先道个歉。 Here's what you're supposed to be thinking. Here's this couple on the Hamptons. 但这是你此时此刻应该想的事。看看汉普顿的这两口子。 Very expensive real estate. Gorgeous beac
What about sleep? In slow-wave deep sleep, our glial cells rinse cerebral spinal fluid throughout our brains, 关于睡眠呢？在慢波深度睡眠时，我们的神经胶质细胞冲洗着我们大脑中的脑脊液， clearing away metabolic waste that accumulated in ou
How many of you have seen the Alfred Hitchcock film "The Birds"? 这里有多少人看过阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克的电影《鸟》？ Any of you get really freaked out by that? You might want to leave now. 是不是认为那片子太过离奇了？要是那样的话，你现在可以走了。 So this
And when I'm acting a role, I inhabit another self, and I give it life for awhile, 当我表演一个角色时，我进入了另一个自我，我在一段时间内赋予其生命， because when the self is suspended so is divisiveness and judgment. 当自我被抑制时，它的多样性和判
Here's what we know. We know that the problem begins immediately. Right? 以下是我们所知道的东西。我们知道，问题很快就会来的。对吧？ This idea, zero to three. 我们来谈谈婴儿从出生到三岁的变化情况。 My wife, Yvonne, and I, we have four kids, three gr
I believe that what we map changes the life we lead. 我相信我们为自己绘制的地图能改变我们的人生。 And I don't mean that in some, like, secret-y Oprah's Angels network, like, you-can-think-your-way-out-of-cancer sense. 我说的并
Or here's a video that I made as part of my show "Crash Course," talking about World War I: 还有这个视频，是我的节目《速成班》中的一期，讲的是第一次世界大战： The immediate cause was of course the assassination in Sarajevo of the Aus
Finally, the positive alternative meshes with our economic challenge and our national security challenge. 最后是这个正面的方案，可以应对经济挑战和国家安全挑战。 America is in crisis -- the economy, national security, the climat
Now look, I'm a technology fan, but I have to admit to you all I'm a little old. 我是一个技术发烧友，但我得承认我年纪是大了点。 So I was a little slow, and I did not trust technology, and when they first came out with those
So what is the solution? It is, I believe, to embody within the rule of law rights to information. 那么怎样解决呢？我相信那就是有接近信息的法律权力。 At the moment our rights are incredibly weak. 现在我们的权力还十分微弱。 In a lot of cou
And then, when I was in tenth grade, I went to this school, Indian Springs School, a small boarding school, 后来，在我十年级的时候，我转学了，我转到了一家名叫“印第安泉”的小型寄宿学校， outside of Birmingham, Alabama. And all at once I be
So I remained with them, and the more I wrote that story, the more I got into those beliefs, 所以我决定留下来和他们一起，我写的越多，我便越相信这些信仰， and I think that's important for me -- to take on the beliefs, because that
One car emits four tons. And actually 700 and change million cars today emit 2.8 billion tons of CO2. 一辆汽车排放4吨二氧化碳。现在的7亿辆汽车排放28亿吨二氧化碳。 That's, in the additive, about 25 percent of our problem. 那只是我们所有
Imagine that when you walked in here this evening, 想象一下当你在今晚步入这里时， you discovered that everybody in the room looked almost exactly the same: ageless, raceless, generically good-looking. 你发现所有在场的人看上去几乎
But I want to make it clear: there is no such thing as silence. 我要说清楚的是，并不存在一种叫做无声的东西。 And I know this sounds like the most pretentious TED Talk statement ever. 我知道这说法听起来差不多是TED里最自负的。 But even if you
