TED演讲之入门 单一故事的危险性(6)

I remember walking around on my first day in Guadalajara, 我还记得当我到达瓜达拉哈拉的第一天, watching the people going to work, rolling up tortillas in the marketplace, smoking, laughing. 看着人们前往工作,在市集上吃着墨西哥卷、抽着烟、大笑着。 I remember first feeling slight surprise. And then, I was overwhelmed with shame. 我记得我刚看到这一切时是何等的惊讶,但随后我的心...

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TED演讲之入门 单一故事的危险性(5)

Now, I've laughed every time I've read this. And one must admire the imagination of John Lok. 我每次读到这一段的时候,都不禁大笑起来。John Locke的想象力真的是让人敬佩。 But what is important about his writing is that it represents the beginning of a tradition of telling African stories in the West: 但关于他这段作品极其重要的一点是,它昭示着西方社会讲述非洲故事的一个...

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TED演讲之入门 演示'六感'(4)

So we see Pranav here going into the supermarket and he's shopping for some paper towels. 我们看到Pranav现在去了超市,他打算买一些纸巾。 And, as he picks up a product, the system can recognize the product that he's picking up, using either image recognition or marker technology, 当他拿起一种纸巾时,系统会通过图像识别或者是标识技术,自动识别这种纸巾, and give him the...

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TED演讲之入门 肢体语言塑造你自己(9)

But the next question, of course, is, can power posing for a few minutes really change your life in meaningful ways? 但下一个问题,当然,就是维持数分钟的姿势是否真能引导一个更有意义的人生呢? This is in the lab, it's this little task, it's just a couple of minutes. 刚刚都只是在实验室里,一个小实验,你知道的,只有几分钟。 Where can you actually apply this? Which we ca...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(12)

What I think it comes to is this: Al Gore spoke the other night about ecology and the revolution that was triggered by Rachel Carson. 现在,我想说的是:AL Gore曾在这里做过一次演讲,内容是关于生态学以及Rachel Carson引发的那次环境保护运动。 I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, 我相信对于未来,我们的唯一出路是贯彻一种新的人性化生...

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TED演讲之入门 内向性格的力量(3)

Now this is what many introverts do, and it's our loss for sure, but it is also our colleagues' loss and our communities' loss. 这就是很多内向的人正在做的事情,这当然是我们的损失,但这同样也是同事们的损失,我们所在团队集体的损失。 And at the risk of sounding grandiose, it is the world's loss. 当然,冒着被指为夸大其词的风险,我想说,更是世界的损失。 Because wh...

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TED演讲之入门 单一故事的危险性(2)

What this demonstrates, I think, is how impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story, particularly as children. 这一切所表明的,正是在一个个的故事面前我们是何等的脆弱,何等的易受影响,尤其当我们还是孩子的时候。 Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, 因为我当时读的所有书中只有外国人物, I had become convinced that books by their ver...

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TED演讲之入门 肢体语言塑造你自己(5)

So business schools have been struggling with this gender grade gap. 所以商学院一直以来都为男女生在参与上的差别伤脑筋。 You get these equally qualified women and men coming in and then you get these differences in grades, 入学的时候男女生不分轩轾,可是成绩出来却反映性别差异, and it seems to be partly attributable to participation. 而看起来一部分原因和参与有关。 So I started...

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TED演讲之入门 肢体语言塑造你自己(7)

So we know that in primate hierarchies, if an alpha needs to take over, 灵长动物的社群阶级里,如果一个强势雄性想要夺权, if an individual needs to take over an alpha role sort of suddenly, 如果一个雄性突然想要争取首领这个角色, within a few days, that individual's testosterone has gone up significantly and his cortisol has dropped significantly. 几天内,他体内的睾酮一定...

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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(9)

And even more, policy makers and the corporate sectors would like to see how the world is changing. 此外,政策制定者,各企业部门,都会想知道世界的变化。 Now, why doesn't this take place? Why are we not using the data we have? 但为什么大家仍然不知道(世界的变化)?为什么我们无法使用已知的数据呢? We have data in the United Nations, in the national statistical agencies and...

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TED演讲之入门 内向性格的力量(10)

But he also loved his congregation, 但他也很享受宗教集会, and you could feel this love in the sermons that he gave every week for the 62 years that he was a rabbi. 62年来,他每周都会在犹太教布道会上讲道。 He would takes the fruits of each week's reading and he would weave these intricate tapestries of ancient and humanist thought. 他会从每周的阅读中汲取养分,并且他会编...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(8)

And the second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence, 第二点,学术能力已经成为衡量好学生的主要标准, because the universities designed the system in their image. 这种标准是那些大学自己制定的。 If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance. 只要你思考一下就会发...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 我为什么划船横渡太平洋(9)

I had a meeting with the president there, who told me about his exit strategy for his country. 我在那与该国的总统会面,总统也向我透露了他为国家制定的生存战略。 He expects that within the next 50 years, the 100,000 people that live there will have to relocate to New Zealand or Australia. 他预期在未来的50年里,万千上万的该国国民将不得不去新西兰或澳大利亚定居。 And that made me...

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TED演讲之入门 细菌是怎样交流的(7)

We also then went to look at what are these molecules — these were the red triangles on my slides before. 我们同时也研究了这些小分子,这些就是我刚才幻灯上的小红三角形。 This is the Vibrio fischeri molecule. This is the word that it talks with. 这个是费氏弧菌的小分子。也就是它们用以交谈的文字。 So then we started to look at other bacteria, and these are just a smatterin...

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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(1)

About 10 years ago, I took on the task to teach global development to Swedish undergraduate students. 大约在十年前,我担当起给瑞典大学生讲授全球发展的任务。 That was after having spent about 20 years together with African institutions studying hunger in Africa, 之前的20年,我一直在非洲研究饥饿问题, so I was sort of expected to know a little about the world. 所以大家以为我对...

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TED演讲之入门 揭露海底惊奇(4)

So, we're learning lots new from the shallow water. 我们从浅海中学到了很多新东西。 Still exploring the deep, but learning lots from the shallow water. 继续来探索下深海领域,同时从浅海中学到很多新东西。 There's a good reason why: the shallow water's full of predators — here's a barracuda 这有个原因来解释:在浅海里,到处都是捕猎者。这是条梭鱼。 and if you...

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TED演讲之入门 我们需要谈谈不公(14)

So you heard and saw an obvious desire by this audience, this community, to help you on your way and to do something on this issue. 你应该听到看到这些听众,这个群体,想帮你、想做贡献的意愿了。 Other than writing a check, what could we do? 除了给你写支票,我们还能做什么? Well there are opportunities all around us. If you live in the state of California, for example, there...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 我为什么划船横渡太平洋(4)

And the oars kind of became a symbol of just in how many ways I went beyond what I thought were my limits. 这些桨也变成了我可以用多种方式来突破我自认为是极限的标志。 I suffered from tendinitis on my shoulders and saltwater sores on my bottom. 肩部的腱鞘炎让我十分痛苦,海水也杀的臀部非常疼。 I really struggled psychologically, totally overwhelmed by the scale of the challenge...

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TED演讲之入门 肢体语言塑造你自己(6)

So the second question really was, you know, so we know that our minds change our bodies, 第二个问题就是,我们知道心理状态会影响我们的身体, but is it also true that our bodies change our minds? 那身体是否能影响心理呢? And when I say minds, in the case of the powerful, what am I talking about? 这里所说的心理充满力量,究竟指的是什么? So I'm talking about thoughts and fe...

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TED演讲之入门 演示'六感'(5)

You can get video annotations of the events that you're reading about. 你可以看到事件的视频报道。 You can get the latest sports scores, etc. This is a more controversial one. 你可以看到体育比赛的最及时的比分,等等。接下来是一个有争议的功能。 As you interact with someone at TED, maybe you can see a word cloud of the tags, 当你在这遇到某人,你会看到一个标签云, the words t...

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