TED演讲之什么是爱:探索性商的奥秘(2)

In love, we want to have, we want to know the beloved. 在爱情中,我们想要拥有,我们想要了解我们的爱人 We want to minimize the distance. We want to contract that gap. 我们想腻在一起,想跨越阻碍 We want to neutralize the tensions. We want closeness. 我们想调和不安的情绪,我们想亲密无间。 But in desire, we tend to not really want to go back to the places we've already gone....

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TED演讲:论生物多样性(5)

And so it is everywhere one looks. 这一现象在世界各地都在发生。 The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere by a combination of forces that can be summarized by the acronym HIPPO, the animal hippo. 人类正在以不可抗拒的力量,持续破坏着那些亿万年演化而成的生物系统,这些力量可以总结为HIPPO,原意是河马。 H is for habitat destruction, including climat...

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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(1)

I'm going to talk about hackers. 今天我要谈的是有关黑客的话题。 And the image that comes to your mind 当我说到“黑客”这个词的时候 when I say that word is probably not 你脑中所出现的画面可能不会是 of Benjamin Franklin, 本杰明·富兰克林, but I'm going to explain to you why it should be. 但我想要告诉你,为什么应该是富兰克林。 The image that comes to your mind 你脑中出现...

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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(3)

One of our graduate students then says, well, 我们的一个毕业生说,好吧 how does a driverless car communicate with pedestrians? 这个无人驾驶的车,怎样提防行人呢? You have nobody to make eye contact with. 没有司机看着它啊 You don't know if it's going to run you over. 也不知道它是不是会把你碾过去 So he's developing strategies so the vehicle can 所以他在研究怎样让这...

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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(5)

We use those in my field of bone marrow transplantation. 我们把这些干细胞用于骨髓移植领域。 Geron, just last year, started the first trial using human embryonic stem cells to treat spinal cord injuries. 杰龙去年开始第一次尝试用人类的胚胎干细胞治疗脊髓疾病。 Still a Phase I trial, but evolving. 仍在试验阶段,但是不断进展。 We've been actually using adult stem cells now in...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:恋爱中的大脑(4)

And we tend to fall in love with somebody 我们会倾向于 from the same socioeconomic background, 在同等的社会、经济背景, the same general level of intelligence, 同样智力水平, the same general level of good looks, 同等的相貌, the same religious values. 以及相同的宗教信仰中找到自己的爱人。 Your childhood certainly plays a role, but nobody knows how. 而童年的经历也会影响人们的...

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TED演讲我们需要钱来进行援助 那么就来印钞吧(2)

I study the behavior of investors,how they react to policy and the economy. 我研究投资者的行为,研究他们如何应对政策和经济。 It gives me a different angle on the aid issue. 这在救助问题上给我新的启迪。 But it took an innocent question from my then-four-year-old daughter to make me appreciate that. 但是当时我年仅四岁的女儿问的一个童真的问题让我对此心有感激。 Pia and I were on...

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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(4)

We think this can all be standardized, and then people 我们觉得这可以标准化 can personalize the stuff that goes into that wall, 那样人们就可以个性化墙上的其他物品 and like the car, we can integrate all kinds of sensing 就像那辆车一样,我们能完善各种 to be aware of human activity, so if there's a baby or 感应人类活动的传感装置,所以 a puppy in the way, you won't have ...

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TED演讲 网络设计 事关你我(1)

What do you think of when I say the word design? 当我说设计这个词的时候你会想到什么? You probably think of things like this,finely crafted objects that you can hold in your hand,or maybe logos and posters and maps that visually explain things,classic icons of timeless design. 你可能会想到,可以触摸到的精致的物品,也可能是一个商标,海报,或地图一些能从视觉上解释说明事物的东西...

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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(2)

They also have great capacity. 它们有很大的容量 For example, this system in Guangzhou 例如,这系统在广州 is moving more passengers our direction 比中国所有的地铁线路 than all subway lines in China, 能运送更多的乘客 except for one line in Beijing, 除了北京的一条地铁线 at a fraction of the cost. 且成本只是地铁的一小部分 We fought not just for space for buses, 我们不只是为巴士...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:城市与企业中的奇妙数学(3)

Before I talk about that, 谈到这之前 I've written down at the bottom there 我在底下标出了 the slope of this curve, this straight line. 这条曲线的斜率,即这条直线 It's three-quarters, roughly, 大约为3比4 which is less than one — and we call that sublinear. 小于1,呈“次线性” And here's the point of that. 这里有一点值得注意 It says that, if it were linear, 当最...

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TED演讲 网络设计 事关你我(3)

The next thing that you need to understand as a principle is that when you introduce change,you need to do it extraordinarily carefully. 下一个你必须要去理解的事情是当你想要改变的时候需要格外仔细。 Now I often have joked that I spend almost as much time designing the introduction of change as I do the change itself,and I'm sure that we can all relate to that when somethi...

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TED演讲我们需要钱来进行援助 那么就来印钞吧(3)

Secondly, inflation simply never became a threat. 第二,通货膨胀单纯来说时不会成为威胁的。 As you can see, in the United States,inflation for most of this period remained below average. 正如你所见到的,在美国,这个阶段大部分时间的通货膨胀都低于平均数。 It was the same elsewhere. 在别的地方也一样。 So how does all this relate to aid? 那么所有的这一切是怎么和救助这个事儿挂钩的...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:玩转婚恋网(3)

So knowing that there was superficial data 既然公式配对, that was being used to match me up with other people, 用的是肤浅信息 I decided instead to ask my own questions. 我决定,自己问问题 What was every single possible thing 我要找的,另一半 that I could think of that I was looking for in a mate? 需要具备,哪些条件呢? So I started writing and writing and writing, 我开始写...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:玩转婚恋网(2)

So I just copied and pasted from my resume. 所以我直接把简历,复制粘贴上去 So in the descriptive part up top, 上面,描述部分 I said that I was an award-winning journalist 我说我是,获奖记者 and a future thinker. 和未来思考者 When I was asked about fun activities and 让我描述兴趣爱好和理想人选 my ideal date, I said monetization 我填了,赚钱 and fluency in Japanese. 和日语流利...

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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(1)

Mobility in developing world cities 在世界上发展中国家城市里 is a very peculiar challenge, 流动性是一个非常严峻的挑战 because different from health 因为它和健康 or education or housing, 教育或住房不同 it tends to get worse as societies become richer. 当社会变得更富有时,它反而变得更糟 Clearly, a unsustainable model. 显然,是一个不可持续的发展模式 Mobility, as most other deve...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:玩转婚恋网(1)

So my name is Amy Webb, 我的名字呢,叫艾米·韦伯 and a few years ago I found myself at the end 几年前,我发现自己走到 of yet another fantastic relationship 又一段美好恋情的尽头 that came burning down in a spectacular fashion. 一切绚丽消逝 And I thought, you know, what's wrong with me? 你说我,到底怎么了? I don't understand why this keeps happening. 真不懂,为什么每次...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:如何重新设计公寓建筑(2)

And then we decided to take New York as a test case, 后来我们决定拿纽约做实验案例, and we looked at Lower Manhattan. 研究曼哈顿下城。 And we mapped all the building area in Manhattan. 我们画出曼哈顿建筑区的地图。 On the left is Manhattan today: 左边是现在的曼哈顿: blue for housing, red for office buildings, retail. 蓝色是住宅,红色是办公大楼和商场。 On the right, we reconf...

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TED演讲 谈上帝与海啸(3)

And last week we sang with the children one of their favorite songs, 上周我们与孩子们一起唱了一首他们最喜爱的歌曲: The Wise Man Built His House Upon the Rock. 聪明人建房岩石上。 Perhaps some of you know it. Some of the words go like this: 也许你们当中有些人知道这首歌。其中有些歌词是这样的: The foolish man built his house upon the sand.And the floods came up And the house o...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:玩转婚恋网(4)

Well, one month later, 一个月,之后 I had a lot of data, and I was able to do another analysis. 我收集了大量数据,足够再分析一回 And as it turns out, content matters a lot. 结果发现,内容很重要 So smart people tend to write a lot — 聪明的人,往往写很多 — — 3,000, 4,000, 3、4千 5,000 words about themselves, 甚至5千字,自我介绍 which may all be very, very interesting. 也...

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