One of my favorite coral babies of all time showed up right after Hurricane Omar. 我最喜欢的珊瑚宝宝是Omar飓风之后出现的一个。 It's the same species I was studying before the storm, but you almost never see babies of thi
It can also solve a practical problem of MOOCs, the business aspect. 它也能解决大规模网络公开课在其商业方面的实际问题。 We can also license these MOOC courses to other universities, 我们还可以授权这些网络公开课面向其他的大学， and therein lies a r
The second time I cried underwater was on the north shore of Curaao, 2011. 我第二次在水下哭泣是2011年在库拉索岛的北岸。 It was the calmest day of the year, but it's always pretty sketchy diving there. 在一个风平浪静的日子，不过在那里潜水一
People are living longer and societies are getting grayer. 人们现在越活越久，社会也逐渐变得老龄化。 You hear about it all the time. You read about it in your newspapers. 你可能总是听到别人这么说。你从报纸上如是读到。 You hear about it on your
And two of the things about Bengal: they like their savory dishes and they like their sweets. 孟加拉人有两大爱好：他们喜欢美食和甜点。 So by the time I grew up, again, I had a well-established passion for food. Now I was
In my early days as a graduate student, I went on a snorkeling trip off the coast of the Bahamas. 当我还在读研究生的时候，我在巴哈马海岸参加了一次潜泳之旅。 I'd actually never swum in the ocean before, so it was a bit terrifying.
I am holding something remarkably old. It is older than any human artifact, 我拿着的是一个十分古老的东西。它比任何一个人工制品都要古老， older than life on Earth, older than the continents and the oceans between them. 比地球上的生命古老，也比
I was 16 and in love for the first time. 那时我16岁，第一次恋爱。 Going together to the Christmas dance was a public confirmation of our relationship, 我们一起参加圣诞舞会，意味着，我们之间关系的正式公开， and I felt like the luckiest gir
But there's really not much else. 除此之外，也没什么其它东西了。 As a result, most of my colleagues who are astronomers spent at least part of their youth looking up at the sky in their backyard. 我的大多数天文学家同事们，至少都有过一
I love my food. And I love information. 我热爱食品，我也热爱信息。 My children usually tell me that one of those passions is a little more apparent than the other. 我的孩子们常常对我说我看起来显然更像个吃货。 But what I want to do in t
Now you don't need a PhD to see that that leaves four percent for the rest of diversity. 你不需要一个博士学位都能发现其他的种族只有4%。 And in my own searching, I've discovered that far less than one percent have actually
Now social scientists call this the paradox of aging. 社会学家称这种现象为老龄化悖论。 I mean, after all, aging is not a piece of cake. 老龄化可不是小事。 So we've asked all sorts of questions to see if we could undo this fin
And we've seen this in cellphones. My goodness, we're going to hit 70 percent penetration of cellphones in the developing world by the end of 2013. 我们在移动电话上看到这点。我的天哪，在2013年底，发展中国家的移动电话渗透率将达到70％。 Think
What followed is a nine-year period that can best be titled as "Denial and Running." 接下来的九年，可以被称作：“否认和逃避”。 When I got a chance to identify the real torment that I caused, I didn't stand still long eno
As a culture, we have trivialized what is actually the defining decade of adulthood. 作为一种文化，我们把实际上是成人期中最重要的一个十年列为不重要的东西。 Leonard Bernstein said that to achieve great things, you need a plan and not qu
That's what psychologists call an "Aha!" moment. 这就是心理学家们所说的“原来如此！”瞬间。 That was the moment I realized, 30 is not the new 20. 在那一瞬间，我明白了三十岁并不是新的二十岁。 Yes, people settle down later than they used to, but
There are many ways in which to build new bodies across scale, from the biomolecular to the scale of tissues and organs. 有许多方法可以超越常规来建立新的身体，从生物分子层面到组织和器官层面。 Today, I want to talk about one area of Neu
OK, and I have … I mean, you can put some snacks on it, for example, if you want to. I have some popcorn here. 好了。比如你们还可以把零食放上去啊，如果你想的话。我这有些爆米花。 And you just put a little bit like that. And then you w
Now despite this history of distrust, I still believe that indigenous people can benefit from genetic research. 现在，不管那段充满着怀疑的历史，我依旧相信，土著居民能够从基因研究中获利。 And if we don't do something soon, the gap in heal
Now you can see some of the reasons why I'm optimistic. Globalization is increasing the demand for ideas, the incentive to create new ideas. 现在你可以理解我为什么对此充满信心。全球化在增大对创新的需求，这是创新的动力。 Investments in educ
