So why did we do it? I think some people were genuinely upset, 我们为什么会做出这样的行为的呢？依我之见，有的人确实是因为被冒犯了， but I think for other people, it's because Twitter is basically a mutual approval machine. 但更多的人是因为推特本
So in the Charles Bonnet hallucinations, you have all sorts of levels, from the geometrical hallucinations -- 在邦纳式幻觉中，有好几种等级，从几何幻觉， the pink and blue squares the woman had -- up to quite elaborate hal
But, someone might argue, that's natural beauty. 但有人也许会争辩，那是自然美。 How about artistic beauty? Isn't that exhaustively cultural? 艺术的美又如何呢？那难道不是纯粹的文化影响吗？ No, I don't think it is. And once again, I'd like
We're at a very interesting place in agriculture in Africa. 我们处在非洲农业非常有趣的节点上。 By the end of this year, we'll have almost one billion mobile phone subscriptions. 到今年年底，我们将会有接近十亿手机订阅用户。 We have the powe
Something else learned during the Apollo rescue was how to train the penguins to take fish freely from their hands, using these training boxes. 此外，阿波罗海(Apollo rescue)的救援还教会我们如何凭借这些训练箱来训练企鹅们用手抓鱼。 And w
I want to start today…… here's my thing. Hold on. There I go. Hey. I want to start today -- talk about the structure of a polypeptide. 我今天要说的，就是……稍等。行了。嘿，我今天要说的，是关于多肽化合物的组织结构。 I get a lot of people as
And the question that I want to ask everybody here today is are you guys all cool with that idea? 我今天想问在座各位的是：你们大家都对此毫无异议吗？ Are you comfortable with that? Because you look at it even from an inch away
This is really a two-hour presentation I give to high school students, cut down to three minutes. 这真的是一个我给高中学生做的2个小时的演讲，现在缩到了3分钟。 And it all started one day on a plane, on my way to TED, seven years a
In addition to those kinds of investments, we also need investments in research and development. 除了这些投资，我们还需要人们在研发项目中投资。 So what might that look like? 这意味着什么呢？ In 1966, the US invested about a half a
Now this, for me, is a common situation. I work in old-age homes, largely. 其实这种现象对我来说并不稀奇，我在养老院工作。 I see a lot of elderly people who are hearing impaired or visually impaired. 认识很多老人是听力或视力受损的。 About 1
Come on. "Why? 'Cause I need it"? Best scene ever, right? Come on! 拜托，“为什么？因为我想亲你？”最妙的场景，对吗？ 拜托！ So you think of "Jaws" -- so that's the kind of stuff that, like, you know -- the investment of charact
I can, however, give you at least a taste of what I regard as the most powerful theory of beauty we yet have. 然而，我能给大家体会一下我认为迄今为止我们所有的最有力的关于‘美’的理论。 And we get it not from a philosopher of art, not fro
And if I would also look at India, you have another type of inequity, actually, in India. 我们再来看看印度，我们会看到另一种不平等。 The geographical, macro-geographical difference is not so big. 从地理的角度上来看，差距不大。 Uttar Pra
And this is where my story starts. When I was a young researcher, doctoral student, 我的故事从这里开始。当我还是个年轻的博士研究生的时候， my first year, I had a research professor who said to us, "Here's the thing, if you cann
"It can't be done" was shown to be wrong. “不可能”变成了可能。 I was taking a shower in a hotel room in Sydney the moment she died, 600 miles away, in Melbourne. 当她在600英里外的墨尔本逝世时，我正在悉尼的宾馆房间洗澡。 I looked through
Over the years, I found that animations aren't just useful for communicating an idea, 多年以来，我发现动画不仅仅便于交流思想， but they're also really useful for exploring a hypothesis. 它们同样在探索假说上发挥作用。 Biologists for the
Thank you very much. Like the speaker before me -- I am a TED virgin, I guess. I'm also the first time here, and... I don't know what to say! 非常感谢大家，和前面一位演讲人一样，我是...大概是TED处女。我也是第一次到这里，不知道该说什么。 I'm rea
And I will now, here, onstage, try to predict when that will happen -- 现在，我，将在这个台上， that Asia will regain its dominant position as the leading part of the world, as it used to be, over thousands of ye
Maybe there's two types of people in the world: 也许这世界有两种人： those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans. 一种人相信人性高于意识形态，一种人相信意识形态高于人性。 I favor humans ove
We recently saw a case where some researchers made the H5N1 avian influenza virus more potent. 我们最近观察到一个案例，发现一些研究员将H5N1禽流感病毒变得更强效。 It already has a 70 percent mortality rate if you get it, but it's ha
