One of my favorite stories comes from Frank Serafine. 我最喜欢的段子之一来自于弗兰克·塞拉凡尼。 He's a contributor to our library, and a great sound designer for "Tron" and "Star Trek" and others. 他是我们音效库的贡献者之一，也是《创：战记》和
When I was a child, I always wanted to be a superhero. I wanted to save the world and make everyone happy. 小时候，我一直梦想成为一个超级英雄。我想要拯救世界并让所有人快乐。 But I knew that I'd need superpowers to make my dreams come
So in other words, we know most of what we know about regret by the study of finance. But it turns out, when you look overall at what people regret in life, you know what, our financial decisions don'
It flew in the face of conventional wisdom, which was huge enthusiasm for the cool new technology of that age, which was the X-ray machine. 这对于这一观念是很大的冲击，尤其是对于当时的新科技X光机器的巨大热情。 And it flew in the face
So what happens when amyloid plaques accumulate to this tipping point? 所以当淀粉样斑块积累到临界点后会发生什么？ Our microglia janitor cells become hyper-activated, releasing chemicals that cause inflammation and cellula
So, the moral being: don't piss off crows. 所以--大家看到了吧，千万别惹乌鸦。 So now, students at the University of Washington that are studying these crows, do so with a giant wig and a big mask. 正是这样的缘故，现在华盛顿大学做乌鸦研
But glass has a limited ability to be expressive. 但是玻璃的表现力毕竟是有局限的。 This is a section of wall framing a plaza in the pre-Hispanic city of Mitla, in southern Mexico. 这是在墨西哥南部前西班牙城米特拉一个广场外墙的一部分。 Those 2,
Another world was opening up around this time: performance and dancing. 在这个时候，另一个世界出现了：那就是表演和舞蹈。 That nagging dread of self-hood didn't exist when I was dancing. 对于自我纠缠不清的恐惧，在我跳舞时并不存在。 I'd literally l
Last year, for various reasons, I found myself listening to a lot of episodes of the Public Radio show This American Life. 因为一些缘故，去年我在广播上听了很多集的“我们的美国人生”。 And so I'm listening and I'm listening, and at
I want to discuss with you this afternoon why you're going to fail to have a great career. 今天下午我想和你们讨论一下你为什么不会成就伟业。 I'm an economist. I do dismal. End of the day, it's ready for dismal remarks. 我是个经济学
This is clearly not a good arrangement. We clearly need to change it. 这明显不是个良好的形势。我们明显需要改变现状。 We clearly need to find ways of encouraging countries to start working together a little bit better. 我们明显需
For most of that time of life on Earth, living organisms have been relatively simple -- single cells. 地球的大多数时间，生物体多是以简单的单细胞存在的。 But they had great diversity, and, inside, great complexity. 但是它们是十分多样的，
Now let's take this back into my world of medicine where I'm a lot more comfortable, 现在让我们回到我的世界，医疗领域。这个领域我比较熟悉， or perhaps a bit less comfortable after what I'm going to talk to you about. 但我接下来要说的却让
But each time, they were gnawing at me, eating at me. 但每当我想到这两起病例，那种感觉都会折磨啃噬我。 And I'd like to be able to say to you that my worst mistakes only happened in the first five years of practice as many of
So this is the complexity of the world that surrounds us. 所以这就是我们所处环境的复杂性。 This perhaps is why we find the God complex so tempting. 这也许正是为什么我们发现“万能神力”这么有吸引力的原因。 We tend to retreat and say, "We can dra
And this was all actually quite shocking to me, because prior to this moment, I had prided myself on having absolutely no regrets. 这让我十分震惊，因为在那之前，我告诉自己，我绝对不会后悔的。 I made a lot of mistakes and dumb deci
But, you know, our stories are like this because our lives are like this. 但，故事会这样写是因为人生就是这样。 We think this one thing is going to happen and something else happens instead. 我们以为某些事情会这样发生，发生的却是其它事。 Geor
What do you do? Well, there are steps we can take to navigate our way through the morass. 怎么办呢？有几个步骤可以指导我们走出迷雾。 Trained liespotters get to the truth 90 percent of the time. 受过识谎训练的人能认识到90%的真相。 The res
She worked with a statistician named George Kneale, and George was pretty much everything that Alice wasn't. 她当时与一位名叫George Kneale的统计学家合作，而George刚好与Alice互补。 So, Alice was very outgoing and sociable, a
And lastly, here's Destin, from "Smarter Every Day," 最后是《每天聪明一点点》的德斯丁， talking about the conservation of angular momentum, and, since it's YouTube, cats: 为我们讲述动量守恒，由于是在YouTube上，所以他用猫来举例： Hey, it's me,
