TED演讲之生与死:老年人更快乐(3)

But as social scientists, we continue to ask 但作为社会学家,我们继续问 about possible alternatives. 是否有其他可能 We've said, well maybe older people 也许老年人 report more positive emotions 报告更多的积极感受 because they're cognitively impaired. 是因为他们认知机能受损 We've said, could it be 会不会 that positive emotions are simply easier to process than nega...

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TED演讲为什么认为自己丑会对你不利(7)

Let's show them that the way you look is just one part of your identity and that the truth is we love them for who they are and what they do and how they make us feel. 让我们向他们表明长相只是身份的一部分,而事实是我们爱他们是因为他们是谁和他们的所做所为以及他们给我们的感觉。 Let's build self-esteem into our school curriculums. 让我们在学校的课程中设置自尊心科目。 Le...

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TED演讲之生与死:昭示长寿的实验(1)

Have you ever wanted to stay young a little longer 大家有没有想过要年轻再久一点 and put off aging? 延缓衰老呢? This is a dream of the ages. 这是很久以来的梦想了 But scientists have for a long time 不过科学家以前一直认为 thought this just was never going to be possible. 这大概根本永远不可能 They thought you just wear out, there's nothing you can do about it — 他们...

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TED演讲请相信你可以进步(3)

So what can we do? 我们该怎么做呢? How can we build that bridge to yet? 如何让孩子注重过程而不是结果呢? Here are some things we can do. 我们可以做这样几件事。 First of all, we can praise wisely, not praising intelligence or talent. 首先,我们可以有技巧地去表扬: 不去表扬天分或才智, That has failed. 这行不通。 Don't do that anymore. 不要再这样做了。 But praising the pr...

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TED演讲超低成本的大学学位(1)

I would like to share with you a new model of higher education,a model that, once expanded,can enhance the collective intelligence of millions of creative and motivated individuals that otherwise would be left behind. 我想和你们分享一种全新的高等教育模式,这一模式一旦发展起来,能提升数以百万计的有创造力和上进心的个人的集体智慧,而没有这一模式的话这些人可能会被甩在后面。 Look a...

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TED演讲为什么认为自己丑会对你不利(1)

This is my niece, Stella. 这是我的侄女,斯特拉。 She's just turned one and started to walk. 她刚满一岁并开始学走路了。 And she's walking in that really cool way that one-year-olds do,a kind of teetering, my-body's-moving- too-fast-for-my-legs kind of way. 她正在用一岁的小孩通常使用的非常酷的方式走路,那种摇摇晃晃、身体比腿移动得快得多的方式。 It is absolutely gor...

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TED演讲之生与死:在你最后的状态更新之后(2)

Adam Ostrow: Hello. 亚当·奥斯丘:你好。 Death: Adam? 死神:亚当? AO: Yeah. 亚当:是。 Death: Death can catch you anywhere, anytime, 死神:死神可以在任何时间,任何地点抓到你, even at the Organic. 甚至在你还是有机体的时候。 AO: Who is this? 亚当:你是谁? Death: Go to ifidie.net 死神:去如果我死了.net before it's too late. 在一切都太迟以前。 Adam Ostrow: Kind of creepy, ...

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TED演讲之生与死:为生命的终结做好准备(1)

What would be a good end of life? 什么是一个生活美好的结尾? And I'm talking about the very end. 我所说的是最终的结尾 I'm talking about dying. 我所说的是死亡 We all think a lot about how to live well. 我们都在想如何更好的生活 I'd like to talk about increasing our chances of dying well. 而我想要谈的是,如何更美好地告别人生 I'm not a geriatrician. 我并不是老年...

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TED演讲超低成本的大学学位(4)

Even professors,the most expensive line in any university balance sheet,come free to our students,over 3,000 of them,including presidents, vice chancellors,professors and academic advisors from top universities such as NYU,Yale, Berkeley and Oxford,came on board to help our students. 甚至是教授,任何大学的收支表上最昂贵的一项,也对我们的学生免费,我们有超过3000位教师,包括校...

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TED演讲之生与死:如何健康长寿(3)

What am I doing here? 我为何还站在这里 Well, the fact of the matter is 事实上, the best science tells us that the capacity of the human body, 最可信的科学表明人类能活, my body, your body, 我和你们一样 is about 90 years, 大约九十岁 a little bit more for women. 当然,女性稍微长一些 But life expectancy in this country 但是这个国家的平均寿命 is only 78. 仅仅78岁 So somewhere a...

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TED演讲为什么认为自己丑会对你不利(6)

And let me ask you, 让我来问问你, when was the last time that you kissed a mirror? 你上一次对着镜子亲吻是什么时候? Ultimately, we need to work together as communities, as governments and as businesses to really change this culture of ours so that our kids grow up valuing their whole selves, 最终,我们需要跟社区、政府和企业一起努力去改变我们的这些文化,这样我们的孩子才能在...

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TED演讲:康复理疗太枯燥无趣了-不如来玩游戏吧(1)

When I was growing up, I really liked playing hide-and-seek a lot. 在我小时候, 我很喜欢玩躲猫猫的游戏。 One time, though, I thought climbing a tree would lead to a great hiding spot, 有一次,我找到了个最佳藏身点-爬到树上去, but I fell and broke my arm. 可是我掉了下来,摔断了胳臂。 I actually started first grade with a big cast all over my torso. 我身上打了一个巨大的石膏固...

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TED演讲:医生们可以互相学习(4)

They published the data, 他们发布了这些数据, and it actually transformed clinical practice in the country. 而这一举动改变了整个国家的临床实践。 Everybody saw this makes a lot of sense. 大家都发现这样做很有意义。 Since then, they publish every year. 从此以后,他们每年都做数据发布。 Once a year, they publish the league table: 每年发布一次积分榜。 who's best, who's at ...

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TED演讲:听到的色彩(4)

Prince Charles has some similarities with Nicole Kidman. 查尔斯王子和妮可基德曼就有相似之处。 They have similar sound of eyes. 他们的眼睛听起来很像。 So you relate people that you wouldn't relate, 当你将一些毫无相关的人联系起来时, and you can actually also create concerts by looking at the audience faces. 你事实上就能够举办一场音乐会了,单单看观众的脸就够了。 So I connec...

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TED演讲之性别无限:出身决定命运?(4)

And that was democracy growing up, 民主制度在当时正在形成 but it was also science growing up at the same time. 但同时科技也在发展 And it's really clear, if you look at the history of the Founding Fathers, 非常明显的是,如果你注意一下建国者的历史 a lot of them were very interested in science, 他们中的许多人都对科学很感兴趣 and they were interested in a concept 并且他们都...

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TED演讲之生与死:我们能够避免老化(1)

18 minutes is an absolutely brutal time limit, 十八分钟是一个非常紧的时间限制, so I'm going to dive straight in, right at the point 因此我直入主题,讲重点的, where I get this thing to work. 我将马上开始。 Here we go. I'm going to talk about five different things. 好,我要谈五个不同的事情。 I'm going to talk about why defeating aging is desirable. 一,我要谈谈为...

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TED演讲:影片纪录加纳民主进程(2)

And fortunately I decided in 2008 to return to Ghana,after 28 years of absence. 幸运的是2008年的时候在阔别了28年之后,我决定回到加纳。 I wanted to document on film the 2008 presidential elections. 我打算拍一部2008年总统大选的纪录片。 And there, I started by searching for the footprints in my childhood. 在那儿,我以搜寻我儿时的印迹作为开始。 And before I even knew it,I was su...

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TED演讲之生与死:我们能够避免老化(3)

The geriatrician will intervene late in the day, 老年医学医生会在一个人老化过程的后段, when pathology is becoming evident, 病理越来越明显的时候, and the geriatrician will try and hold back the sands of time, 做治疗来尽量阻止老化时间 and stop the accumulation of side effects 和副作用积累 from causing the pathology quite so soon. 并且阻止那么快就造成不可避免地死亡。 Of cours...

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TED演讲之生与死:我们能够避免老化(4)

The therapies will be improving faster than 治疗法比起治疗法中存在的缺陷 the remaining imperfections in the therapies are catching up with us. 改进得更快。 This is a very important point for me to get across. 这是我想说的非常重要的一点。 Because, you know, most people, when they hear 因为,很多人一听到 that I predict that a lot of people alive today are going to live to 1,00...

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TED演讲之性别无限:为什么女性领导那么少?(5)

Message number three: 建议三: don't leave before you leave. 在你离开前别放弃。 I think there's a really deep irony 我认为这是一个非常深刻的讽刺 to the fact that actions women are taking — 对于女性所采取行动而言– and I see this all the time — 我一直目睹类似情况的发生– with the objective of staying in the workforce 女性希望留在职场这个目标, ac...

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