TED演讲之现在或永不 能让你多出10年额外寿命的游戏(1)

I'm a gamer, so I like to have goals. I like special missions and secret objectives. 我是一个游戏玩家,因此我喜欢得分。我喜欢特殊的使命和神秘的目标。 So here's my special mission for this talk: 因此,我这次演讲的特殊使命是: I'm going to try to increase the life span of every single person in this room by seven and a half minutes. 我将尽力为这个大厅里的每个人延长...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 休假的力量(1)

I run a design studio in New York. 我在纽约开一家设计工作室。 Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, 每七年我都关闭一年,让我进行一些小实验, things that are always difficult to accomplish during the regular working year. 一些通常不容易在正常的工作年度里达成的事。 In that year, we are not available for any of our clients. We are totally...

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TED演讲之说什么 重新定义字典(9)

So, enough scientists in other disciplines are really asking people to help, and they're doing a good job of it. 足够多的科学家在其它领域正寻求大家帮忙,而且大伙也干的不错。 For instance, there's eBird, where amateur birdwatchers can upload information about their bird sightings. 例如,有一种电子鸟,业余观鸟爱好者可以把自己的观察结果上传, And then, ornithologists ca...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 能让你多出10年额外寿命的游戏(10)

All right, pick one, last quest: Shake someone's hand for six seconds, 很好,选一个,最后一个使命:和任何一个人握手6秒钟 or send someone a quick thank you by text, email, Facebook or Twitter. Go! 或者通过短信、邮件、Facebook、Twitter,说一声谢谢你,开始! Looking good, looking good. Nice, nice. Keep it up. I love it! 看起来很好,看起来很好!太棒了!太棒了!不要放弃,我很...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 身为一个周间素食者(1)

About a year ago, I asked myself a question: "Knowing what I know, why am I not a vegetarian?" 大概在一年前左右,我问了我自己一个问题:“我明明知道这些资讯,为什么我不是个素食者?” After all, I'm one of the green guys: I grew up with hippie parents in a log cabin. 毕竟我支持环保,热爱绿概念 和嬉皮父母在小木屋里长大。 I started a site called TreeHugger — I care a...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(11)

But as they went out of the room, he turned on the radio that was sitting on his desk. 但医生在出去时,把在办公桌上的收音机打开了。 And when they got out, he said to her mother, "Just stand and watch her." 在他们走出房间后,医生对她妈妈说: “我们就站在这儿观察一下她。” And the minute they left the room, she was on her feet, moving to the music. 他们离开房间后,Gilli...

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TED演讲之入门 细菌是怎样交流的(9)

Of course, you've just heard and you already know that we're running out of antibiotics. 当然,你一定听说过,而且你早就知道了,我们快要没有有效的抗生素了。 Bacteria are incredibly multi-drug-resistant right now, and that's because all of the antibiotics that we use kill bacteria. 现在的细菌都拥有不可思议的多重耐药性,而这都是因为这些抗生素的工作原理都是杀死细菌。...

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TED演讲之入门 肢体语言塑造你自己(8)

So this is what happens. They come in, they spit into a vial, for two minutes, we say, "You need to do this or this." 这就是实际的情况。他们走了进来,他们把唾液吐到一个小瓶子里,维持一个姿势达两分钟,我们说:“你需要这么做,或者这么做。” They don't look at pictures of the poses. We don't want to prime them with a concept of power. 他们不会看到姿势的照片。因...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 为什么健康的生活方式几乎把我害死(4)

So I finished. And I kind of went overboard on the week after the project was over. 我于是停止了这些健康计划。健康计划中止后的一周,我让自己稍微放纵了一下, I went to the dark side, and I just indulged myself. It was like something out of Caligula. 开始了不健康的生活方式,尽情放任自己,有点像《罗马帝国艳情史》里那样。 Without the sex part. Because I have three young kids, so...

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TED演讲之入门 用前所未有的好方法诠释数字统计(11)

But I think it's very important to have all this information. We need really to see it. 我认为这些信息很重要。大家很有必要看到这些。 And instead of looking at this, I would like to end up by showing the Internet users per 1,000. 另外,我最后要给大家展示每千人中的网民数量。 In this software, we access about 500 variables from all the countries quite easily. 这个软件能让我...

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TED演讲之入门 我们需要谈谈不公(1)

Well this is a really extraordinary honor for me. 很荣幸来到这里。 I spend most of my time in jails, in prisons, on death row. 我大多数时候都在管教所,在监狱里,在死囚室中。 I spend most of my time in very low-income communities in the projects and places where there's a great deal of hopelessness. 大部分时间我在低收入的社区里工作,在充满绝望的地区,做前途暗淡的项目。 An...

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TED演讲之入门 我们需要谈谈不公(9)

Well that orientation of the spirit is very much at the core of what I believe even TED communities have to be engaged in. 这个心灵的指向,就是我的核心信念,我们的TED社会也要参与进来。 There is no disconnect around technology and design that will allow us to be fully human 这里不应有任何东西把高新的科技和完美的设计和我们的人性间隔开来, until we pay attention to suffering, t...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 休假的力量(9)

Second insight. So far, until that point I had been mostly involved or used the language of design for promotional purposes, which was fine with me. 第二种体会:在那次长假之前,多数时候,我都使用设计语言帮助促销,那并没有什么不好。 On one hand I have nothing against selling. My parents are both salespeople. 一方面我不反对销售,我父母都是销售员。 But I did feel that I spent s...

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TED演讲之入门 单一故事的危险性(1)

I'm a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call "the danger of the single story." 我是个说书之人。在这里,我想和大家分享一些我本人的故事,一些关于所谓的“单一故事的危险性”的经历。 I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria. 我成长在尼日利亚东部的一所大学校园里。 My mother says that I started reading at th...

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TED演讲之入门 细菌是怎样交流的(8)

So we went back to molecular biology and started studying different bacteria, 所以我们回到分子生物学的方法,开始研究不同的细菌, and what we've found now is that in fact, bacteria are multilingual. 我们现在已经发现,事实上,细菌可以讲多国种语言。 They all have a species-specific system — they have a molecule that says "me." 它们都有一个菌种特别识别系统,...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(7)

And I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. 我倾慕大学教授的学识,但我们不应该用这样一个头衔作为衡量一个人成功与否的分水岭。 They're just a form of life, another form of life. 其实大学教授只是360行中的一行。 But they're rather curious, and I say this out of affection for them. 只不过他...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 休假的力量(11)

We are also working on the start of a bigger project in Bali. It's a movie about happiness. 我们还在巴厘岛开始了一个更大的项目,是一个讲关于快乐的电影。 And here we asked some nearby pigs to do the titles for us. They weren't quite slick enough. 在这里,我们请了附近的一些猪为我们做标题。却嫌它们不够仔细。 So we asked the goose to do it again, and hoped she would do s...

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TED演讲之入门 内向性格的力量(12)

Okay, number two: Go to the wilderness. Be like Buddha, have your own revelations. 好的,第二,去旷野探索吧。像佛祖一样,有自己的启示。 I'm not saying that we all have to now go off and build our own cabins in the woods and never talk to each other again, 我不是在说我们马上要去盖个山中小屋隐居起来,也不是要你们互不往来, but I am saying that we could all stand to unplug ...

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TED演讲之入门 肢体语言塑造你自己(1)

So I want to start by offering you a free no-tech life hack, 首先我想要提供给你们一个免费的非科技的人生窍门, and all it requires of you is this: that you change your posture for two minutes. 你只需这样做:改变你的姿势两分钟时间。 But before I give it away, I want to ask you to right now do a little audit of your body and what you're doing with your body. 但在我要把它告...

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TED演讲之入门 揭露海底惊奇(2)

But I want to jump up to shallow water now and look at some creatures that are positively amazing. 不过我现在还是想说说浅水里的世界,来看看那些神奇的生物。 Cephalopods — head-foots. As a kid I knew them as calamari, mostly. 头足类动物,有头有角。小时候我把他们当作是枪乌贼。 This is an octopus. This is the work of Dr. Roger Hanlon at the Marine Biological Lab, 这是一条...

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