Does anybody know when the stethoscope was invented? Any guesses? 1816. 有人知道听诊器是什么时候发明的吗？大家试着猜一猜，有人说是1816年。 And what I can say is, in 2016, doctors aren't going to be walking around with stethoscopes.
At first, I thought I was just going to be here to perform, but unexpectedly, I learned and enjoyed much more. 起初，我以为我到这里来只是为了表演，我没有想到是，我却学到和得到更多的东西， But ... although some of the talks were quite up t
And this is of course important in your professional life, as well, or it could be. 当然这在你的职业生涯中也很重要，或可能很重要。 If, say, you design something and then you ask people, "Why do you think this is good or bad
I grew up on the coast of England in the '70s. My dad is white from Cornwall, and my mom is black from Zimbabwe. 我于上世纪七十年代，生长在英格兰的海岸边，我父亲是来自康沃尔的白人，我母亲是来自津巴布韦的黑人。 Even the idea of us as a family was ch
But of course, there was also a trick involved. 当然，这里也有诈。 So first, we walked up to people, we asked them about their voting intention and then when they started filling in, 首先，我们找到一些路人，询问他们的投票意向，然后当他
Second reason: it's been shown that if you speak two languages, dementia is less likely to set in, 第二个原因：有研究指出，同时讲两种语言的人更不容易痴呆， and that you are probably a better multitasker. 而且你可能更加的擅长多线操作。 And thes
When I tell people that I'm trying to develop a contraceptive pill for men, 当我跟别人说我正在尝试研发男性避孕药时， the response usually varies along gender lines. 对方的反应一般取决于性别。 Women say something like, "Fantastic. It'
And, furthermore, when skeletal muscle is injured, that's what causes chemokines -- these signals saying, 此外，当骨骼肌受伤时，会导致趋化因子——这些信号说： "Cancer, you can come to me," the "go signs" for the tumors -- it c
All right, why would we see this correlation? 我们为什么看到这样的一个关联？ Well an idea is that that strategy, that learning strategy, is an extremely powerful, great strategy for getting on in the world, but it h
Code is the next universal language. 编码是下一个世界性的语言。 In the seventies, it was punk music that drove the whole generation. 七十年代，影响了一代人的，是朋克音乐。 In the eighties, it was probably money. 八十年代，也许是金钱吧。 But for
Let me tell you a story. It's about a woman called Justine Sacco. 这里给各位说个故事。一位名叫贾丝婷·萨科的女士的故事。 She was a PR woman from New York with 170 Twitter followers, 她住纽约，从事公关工作，有170 位推特粉丝， and she'd Tweet littl
What had happened is that one of her 170 followers had sent the Tweet to a Gawker journalist, 发生了啥事呢，就是她的那170个粉丝当中有一人将这条推文转发给了Gawker网的一个记者， and he retweeted it to his 15,000 followers: 后者又转发给自己的15000名
Design -- I love its design. I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, "Would you like to play the violin or the piano?" 设计—我喜欢小提琴的设计。我记得我小的时候，我妈妈问我，你是喜欢拉小提琴还是弹钢琴？ I looked at that giant monster
It was my third day on the job at a hot Silicon Valley start-up in early 2013. 这是2013年初，我在硅谷一家热门创业公司工作的第三天。 I was twice the age of the dozen engineers in the room. 我的年龄是那个房间中十几个工程师年龄的两倍。 I'd been brou
For as long as I can remember, I have felt a very deep connection to animals and to the ocean. 印象中，我一直觉得自己与动物和海洋有着千丝万缕的联系。 And at this age, my personal idol was Flipper the dolphin. 在我这般大的时候，我的偶像便是海豚F
They were inspired by big progress. But look at the progress that's going on after that. 他们被巨大的进步所鼓舞。但看看那之后的进步。 There were a couple of examples here. The military fighters had a -- highest-performance
If you've ever seen a human brain, it's obvious that the two hemispheres are completely separate from one another. 不知道各位是否见过人类的大脑，很明显，它是由两个独立的半球组成。 And I have brought for you a real human brain. So th
So I got up and I jumped onto my cardio glider, which is a full-body, full-exercise machine. 我起床，然后跳到我的健身器材上，它是一个活动全身部位的机器。 And I'm jamming away on this thing, and I'm realizing that my hands look lik
Strangely, these revelations didn't cure my low self-esteem, that feeling of otherness. 奇怪的是，这些启示，并没有治愈我那缺少的自尊，那种被划为另类的感觉。 My desire to disappear was still very powerful. I had a degree from Cambridge
I don't think the foundation did this because they were monstrous. 该基金会的如此做法我不认为是出于豺狼之性。 I think they were clueless: 我认为他们是愚昧而已： I think this was a unique moment when the beautiful naivety of Twitter
