Close encounter two: Brookline, Massachusetts, 1984. 遭遇二: 1984年马萨诸塞的布鲁克林 I went to see the movie "Dune," 我去那里看电影"沙丘" and a girl talked to me. Now, on its face -- 一个女孩跟我搭讪,从表面上看 --
I want to spend just a moment talking about 我想只花一点点时间来谈论 the model that we've developed, which allows us to start at the top 我们所发展而来的那个模型，那个允许我们从高处开始的模型 and look at the drivers of sound, analyze t
"Even in purely non-religious terms, “就算抛开宗教信仰的因素， homosexuality represents a misuse of the sexual faculty. 同性恋也是性滥交的代名词 It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality -- 它是可悲的，次等的，一种
It's time we moved beyond Mars and Venus, 男人来自火星，女人来自金星的时代已经过去 because the truth is that men are from Africa 现在所有人都知道真相，男人来自非洲 and women are from Africa. 女人也来自非洲 Thank you. 谢谢大家 Thank you. Thank y
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
Over the next five minutes, 在接下来的5分钟里 my intention is to transform your relationship with sound. 我想把你们与声音的关系作个转变 Let me start with the observation that most of the sound around us is accidental, 首先，请允
And I said to her, "What do you think you did 我对她说， "你觉得你做了什么 that helped him to emerge as this charming, accomplished, wonderful person?" 帮他成为一个有魅力、成功、精彩的人吗?" And she said, "
Close encounter three: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 遭遇三:宾夕法尼亚州的费城, 1989. 1989年 In the mid-to-late '80s, 八十世纪末, the novelist Whitley Strieber wrote a book called "Communion," 小说家Whitley St
Should she say, "You're just like everyone else but a little bit shorter?" 她应该说“你和其他人一样，只是矮了点儿”？ Or should she try to construct some kind of dwarf identity, 还是去试图建立某种小矮人身份认同 get involved
I thought a lot about the mother of one disabled child I had seen, 我想起我见过的一个残疾孩子的母亲 a severely disabled child who died through caregiver neglect. 这个有严重残疾的孩子，因为照料不周而去世 And when his ashes were interred,
I'm sorry. It's true. 我很抱歉，不过这是事实 The human, some of you will be happy to hear, 你们有些人可能比较喜欢听到这个 has the largest, thickest penis of any primate. 人类有灵长类中最大最厚的阴茎 Now, this evidence goes way beyon
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
I realize this is not the kind of relationship 我意识到,我们一般不会热衷于 that we usually aspire to have with our food. 与我们的食物建立这样的关系 We want to eat, not be eaten by, our food. 我们吃食物,而不是被食物吃掉 But as I watch the m
