TED演讲:医学的未来?也许是手机上的一个应用程序(3)

And I would argue, in the future, we'll have wearable devices in our clothes,monitoring ourselves 24/7. 我要说,在将来,我们将有穿在衣服里的装置,全天候检测我们的身体。 And just like we have the OnStar system in cars, 就像我们现在车里用的OnStar系统, your red light might go on-it won't say check engine though. 你的红灯会亮起来-它虽然不会说检查发动机。 It's going ...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:为什么巴士体现了一种民主实践(3)

Only 20 years later, 仅仅20年后 between 1920 and 1930, 1920年至1930年间 almost 200,000 people 近 20万人 were killed by cars in the United States. 在美国死于车祸 Only in 1925, almost 7,000 children 在 1925年,近7000名儿童 were killed by cars in the United States. 在美国死于车祸 So we could make different cities, 所以我们可以创建不一样的城市 cities that will give more priority...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:如何重新设计公寓建筑(1)

When, in 1960, still a student, 1960年我还是学生时, I got a traveling fellowship 拿到出国留学的奖学金, to study housing in North America. 研究北美的住宅建筑。 We traveled the country. 我们游遍美国, We saw public housing high-rise buildings in all major cities: 看到所有大城市里的公共住宅大楼: New York, Philadelphia. 象是纽约、费城。 Those who have no choice lived there. ...

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TED演讲:医学的未来?也许是手机上的一个应用程序(1)

A couple of years ago when I was attending the TED Conference in Long Beach,I met Harriet. 几年前我参加在长滩TED会议的时候,我遇到了哈里特。 We'd actually met online before not the way you're thinking. 实际上我们以前在网上遇到过,不是像你们想的那样。 We were actually introduced because we both knew Linda Avey,one of the founders of the first online personal genomic co...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:设计改变城市,创意成就舒适(1)

I thought I would start with a very brief 我觉得我得从城市的历史 history of cities. 简单说起 Settlements typically began 人们聚井而居 with people clustered around a well, and the size 揭开了典型的定居生活 of that settlement was roughly the distance you could walk 而这种定居的范围,也不过是你头顶着一盆水 with a pot of water on your head. 所能走的距离罢了 In fact, if you fly o...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:如何食用我们的地貌(3)

Sales were up. 销量提升了 And then, we had a chat with the farmers, and we said, 接着,我们和种植者交流,我们说 "We're really serious about this," "我们对这件事情很认真" but they didn't actually believe us, so we thought, 但他们并不怎么相信我们,于是我们想 okay, what should we do? I know. If we can create 好吧,我们该做什么? 我知道,如果我们能创造...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:如何食用我们的地貌(1)

The will to live life differently can start 想把生命活得与众不同的愿望 in some of the most unusual places. 能够在一些不平凡的地方实现 This is where I come from, Todmorden. 这是我的家乡,托德莫登 It's a market town in the north of England, 是英格兰北部的一个城镇 15,000 people, between Leeds and Manchester, 一万五千人口,在利兹和曼彻斯特之间 fairly normal market town. 相当...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:恋爱中的大脑(3)

I would also like to tell the world that animals love. 我还想分享一下关于动物爱情的故事。 There's not an animal on this planet 世界上任何一种动物 that will copulate with anything that comes along. 都不会饥不择食地寻找活物进行交配。 Too old, too young, too scruffy, too stupid, and they won't do it. 太老的、太年轻的、太脏的或是太蠢笨的,它们都不会选择。 Unless you'...

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TED演讲:医学的未来?也许是手机上的一个应用程序(2)

And now we can see inside of the brain with a resolution and ability that was never before available,and essentially learn how to reconstruct,and maybe even re-engineer,or backwards engineer, the brain so we can better understand pathology, disease and therapy. 现在我们能看到大脑内部用一种以前没有过的分辨率和能力,本质上学会如何重建,也许甚至再设计,或者逆向设计大脑,因此我...

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TED演讲拍摄神秘的世界(1)

Okay, so 90 percent of my photographic process is, in fact, not photographic. 好的,事实上,我摄影过程的百分之九十不仅仅只是照相。 It involves a campaign of letter writing,research and phone calls to access my subjects,which can range from Hamas leaders in Gaza to a hibernating black bear in its cave in West Virginia. 它是一个包涵了写信,研究以及电话联系得以接触拍摄对象的复...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:城市与企业中的奇妙数学(2)

So here's two questions 每当我思考这个问题 that I have in my head when I think about this problem. 两个疑问一直在我脑子里打转 The first is: 第一 Are cities part of biology? 城市是生物界的一部分吗 Is London a great big whale? 伦敦是一只大鲸鱼吗 Is Edinburgh a horse? 爱丁堡是一匹马吗 Is Microsoft a great big anthill? 微软是一座巨型蚁山吗 What do we learn from that? 我们从...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:城市与企业中的奇妙数学(1)

Cities are the crucible of civilization. 城市是文明的熔炉 They have been expanding, 它们一直在扩张 urbanization has been expanding, 城市化的扩张速度 at an exponential rate in the last 200 years 在过去的200年里变得越来越快 so that by the second part of this century, 到了本世纪下半叶 the planet will be completely dominated 整个地球都将被城市 by cities. 所主宰 Cities are the or...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:探索性商的奥秘(3)

We are the only ones who have an erotic life, 人类是唯一过性生活的物种, which means that it's sexuality transformed by the human imagination. 所谓性生活完全是人类想象出来的东西 We are the only ones who can make love for hours, 人类也是唯一能持续几个小时做爱 have a blissful time, multiple orgasms, 有幸福时光,有多次高潮 and touch nobody, just because we can imagine it. ...

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TED演讲 谈上帝与海啸(1)

I am a vicar in the Church of England. 我是一名英国圣公会的牧师。 I've been a priest in the Church for 20 years. 我做牧师已经有20年了。 For most of that time, I've been struggling and grappling with questions about the nature of God. Who is God? 在这20年的大部分时间里,我一直在努力解决和回答关于上帝本质的问题:上帝是谁? And I'm very aware that when you say the w...

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TED演讲:医学的未来?也许是手机上的一个应用程序(4)

Now if you have trouble maintaining your diet,it might help to have some extra imagery to remind you how many calories are going to be coming at you. 如果你不能保持节食,一些图像也许会有助于提醒你食物里有多少热量。 How about enabling the pathologist to use their cell phone again to see at a microscopic level and to lumber that data back to the cloud and make better diagnosti...

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TED演讲:论生物多样性(4)

Soon we will be in a position to go forth in the field with sequencers on our backs to hunt bacteria in tiny crevices of the habitat's surface,in the way you go watching for birds with binoculars. 不久的将来,我们还将可以通过便携式的测序机完成这样的操作,直接寻找到那些隐藏在细小的缝隙里的细菌,就像你用双筒望远镜来观鸟一样。 What will we find as we map the living world, as,...

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TED演讲 网络设计 事关你我(2)

Now, the next thing that you need to understand is how to design with data. 另外一件你需要明白的事情就是如何在设计过程中应用数据。 Now, when you're working on products like this,you have incredible amounts of information about how people are using your product that you can then use to influence your design decisions,but it's not just as simple as following the number...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:为什么好的黑客可以塑造好的公民(2)

Now the site itself was easy enough to build, 网站本身是容易建成的, but the team was faced with the challenge 但团队面临的挑战是 of how they populate all of the content. 他们如何填充所有内容。 It would have taken the three of them 这将会占用他们三个人 a very long time, 很长的时间, especially given that none of them are actually from Honolulu. 特别是在他们都不是,檀香山本地...

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TED演讲 谈上帝与海啸(2)

He wrote, "If some religious genius did come up with an explanation of exactly why all these deaths made sense,would we feel happier, or safer, or more confident in God?" 他写道:“如果真有宗教天才能够解释通为什么这些死亡是合理的,难道我们会感到更幸福、更安全或对上帝更有信心吗?” If the man in the photograph that appeared in the newspapers,holding the hand of his de...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:探索性商的奥秘(1)

So, why does good sex so often fade, 为何性爱的激情那么容易褪色? even for couples who continue to love each other as much as ever? 就算是那些爱得如胶似漆的夫妇也无一例外。 And why does good intimacy not guarantee good sex, 为何亲密的爱情也无法维持激情的色彩呢? contrary to popular belief? 这和我们普遍对性生活与爱情的关系的认知相违背。 Or, the next question would be, 或者说...

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