TED演讲:特殊环境里的不同寻常的房子(1)

Throughout my career, I've been fortunate enough to work with many of the great international architects, 在我的职业生涯里,我非常幸运的和很多着名的国际建筑师一起工作过, documenting their work and observing how their designs have the capacity to influence the cities in which they sit. 整理他们的工作,并观察他们的设计是如何有能力去影响其所在的城市。 I think of new cities...

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TED演讲之游戏的力量:拇指游戏

Today I am going to teach you how to play my favorite game: 今天我要教你们怎么玩我最爱的游戏: massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling. 超级多人拇指摔跤 It's the only game in the world that I know of 这是我所知的唯一一个 that allows you, the player, 可以让你,也就是玩家 the opportunity to experience 10 positive emotions in 60 seconds or less. 得以在六十秒内体验十种正面心情...

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TED演讲之游戏的力量:为了理解而游戏(3)

So this is my kid. 这是我的孩子, This is Maezza, and when she was seven years old, Maezza,当她七岁的时候, she came home from school one day, and like I do every single day, I asked her, 有一天她放学回家,我像平常一样问她, "What'd you do today?" "今天你过的怎么样?" So she said, "We talked about the Middle Passage." 她说:"我们今天讨...

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TED演讲:从遥远的星系中我们可以学到什么(4)

Here is a computer simulation. 这是计算机模拟。 And we need a way to simplify it. 我们需要简化它的方法。 Well, I like to think about this using an analogy. 我会用一个类比来理解。 If I want to understand the sinking of the Titanic, 如果我想了解泰坦尼克号的沉没, the most important thing to do is not to model the little positions of every single little piece of the boat that b...

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TED演讲之心灵的世界:抑郁,我们各自隐藏的秘密(2)

If you told me that I'd have to be depressed for the next month, 如果你告诉我,我会在接下来的一个月里一直抑郁 I would say, "As long I know it'll be over in November, I can do it." 我会说,“只要一个月之后不抑郁了我就可以接受。” But if you said to me, "You have to have acute anxiety for the next month," 但如果你告诉我,“你会在接下来的一个月里严重焦...

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TED演讲之游戏的力量:用玩具创造世界(7)

Now as we pull away from this world — we're going to keep pulling away from the star now. 现在,我们将视线从这个世界里移出来–我们从这个星球移出来了 One of the things that always frustrated me a little bit about astronomy 天文学中有一点曾让儿时的我时常感到困扰: when I was a kid is how it was always presented so two-dimensionally and so static. 为什么它总是二...

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TED演讲:特殊环境里的不同寻常的房子(10)

When I asked people why they were digging their houses from the ground, 当我问人们为什么要地上往下挖洞建房子时, they simply replied that they are poor wheat and apple farmers who didn't have the money to buy materials, and this digging out was their most logical form of living. 他们只是很简单的告诉我,他们是种小麦和苹果的穷农民,没钱买材料,而这种挖窑洞是他们最符合逻辑...

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TED演讲:如何推翻独裁统治(1)

Good afternoon. I am proud to be here at TEDxKrakow. 下午好。能来到TEDxKrakow(克拉科夫,波兰城市)我非常骄傲。 I'll try to speak a little bit today about a phenomenon which can and is actually changing the world, 今天我要说一说一个有能力并且正在改变世界的现象, and whose name is people power. 这个现象就是人民的力量。 I'll start with the anecdote, or for those of you...

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TED演讲:特殊环境里的不同寻常的房子(4)

When a new inhabitant moves into the tower, 当一个新的居住者搬进这座大楼, they already have a roof over their head, 他们已经有一个可以遮盖的房顶, so they just typically mark their space with a few curtains or sheets. 所以他们通常只是使用很小的窗帘和单子来突出他们的地方。 Slowly, from found materials, walls rise, 慢慢地,从现成的材料,高墙, and people create a space out of...

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TED演讲之游戏的力量:电子游戏中的大脑(3)

Actually, those action video game players have many other advantages in terms of attention, 事实上,动作电子游戏的玩家在注意力方面还有很多其他优势。 and one aspect of attention which is also improved for the better 其中之一得到提高的是能够更好地 is our ability to track objects around in the world. 追踪周围的物体。 This is something we use all the time. 这个能力我们很多时候都...

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TED演讲:昔日纽约(4)

The few surfaces not covered by signs are often clad in a distinctive, dark green-gray, striated aluminum siding. 这仅存的没有被商标遮盖的建筑,一般都被包裹在有特色的阴暗铝灰条纹的铝制外壁板之中。 Take-out sandwich shops, 比如三明治快餐小店, film processing drop-offs, 卖劣质影碟的小贩, peep-shows and necktie stores. 卖西洋镜和领带的小买卖。 Now these provisional structures...

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TED演讲之游戏的力量:最棒的游戏社交圈(3)

Back at SCVNGR, we like to joke that with seven game dynamics, 在SCVNGR的时候,我们总开玩笑说,如果有7个玩游戏的动机的话, you can get anyone to do anything. 我们就能让任何人做任何事情。 And so today, I'm going to show you four, 今天我给大家介绍四种, because I hope to have a competitive advantage at the end of this, still. 因为我想保留一些,以保证我的相对优势。 So the f...

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TED演讲:特殊环境里的不同寻常的房子(5)

While it may appear to be a completely chaotic place, 虽然它看上去好像是一个很混乱的地方, when you see it from above, there seems to be a whole grid of waterways and canals connecting each and every home. 但当你从上往下看,那里好像存在一个由水路和运河形成的格子网连接着每家每户。 From the main dock, people board long wooden canoes which carry them out to their various homes ...

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TED演讲之游戏的力量:用玩具创造世界(3)

Now once we mate, we click on the egg. 我们一旦交配之后,就可以点这个蛋。 And this is where the game starts getting interesting, 这样游戏就变得很有趣了, because one of the things we really focused on here was giving the players very high-leverage tools, 因为我们的重点工作致意就是让玩家利用事半功倍的工具, so that for a very small amount of effort the player can make somethi...

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TED演讲:昔日纽约(6)

That's the end. 故事讲完了。 The next story is called The Haverpiece Collection. 下一个故事叫做《哈弗皮斯的收藏》。 A nondescript warehouse, 这是一个难以描述的仓库, visible for a moment from the northbound lanes of the Prykushko Expressway, 这会儿是你能看见它,在Prykushko高速公路向北的车道上, serves as the temporary resting place for the Haverpiece collection of Europe...

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TED演讲之游戏的力量:拇指游戏(3)

While you are basking in the glow 当你沉浸在你第一次 of having won your first massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling game, 赢得超级多人拇指摔跤比赛胜利的光荣中时 let's do a quick recap on the positive emotions. 我们来说说这当中的正面情绪 So curiosity. 好奇心 I said "massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling." 当我说超级多人拇指摔跤的时候 You were like, "What th...

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TED演讲:从遥远的星系中我们可以学到什么(2)

And many of the questions that we might have about the universe at large scales, 我们关于宇宙在宏观上有很多问题, such as, how does gravity work? 比如,引力是怎么起作用的? might be answered by studying these systems. 这些问题可能可以通过研究这些系统来解决。 So that was very big. 所以这就是“非常大”。 The second things is very hot. 第二个特点是“非常热”。 Okay, if I take an im...

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TED演讲之游戏的力量:用玩具创造世界(4)

And then we can test it out, once we've done that, and see how it would move around. 我们完成这一项之后,就可以测试一下,让它四处走动一下。 And so at this point the computer is procedurally animating this creature. 这时,电脑就会自动地控制这个生物的移动。 It's looking at whatever I've designed. It will actually bring it to life. 电脑听命于我的设计,然后让它动起来...

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TED演讲之游戏的力量:拇指游戏(2)

Now, before we get started 现在,在我们开始之前 This is great. You're excited to play. 很好。你们已经等不及了– before we get started, can I havethe slides back up here really quick, 在我们开始之前,我在上面再放几张投影片 because if you get good at this game, 因为如果你对这个游戏很在行的话 I want you to know there are some advanced levels. 我想让你知道还有其它进阶版 ...

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TED演讲之游戏的力量:电子游戏中的大脑(5)

Now in a sense, when we think about the effect of video games on the brain, 从某种意义上来说,我们可以认为电子游戏对于大脑的影响 it's very similar to the effect of wine on the health. 和酒对于健康的影响很相似。 There are some very poor uses of wine. 喝酒可能会造成很糟糕的结果, There are some very poor uses of video games. 玩电子游戏也是。 But when consumed in reasonable...

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