I've always wanted to be a cyborg. 我一直想成为一个半机械人。 One of my favorite shows as a kid was "The Six Million Dollar Man," 我小时候最喜欢的电视剧之一是“无敌金刚”,它的造价是六百万美元。 and this is a little bit closer to t
I happened to be living in Springfield at the time,and the best part of it was-is that you would close the women's door in the bathroom, 当时我刚好住在斯普林菲尔德(Springfield,和波士顿一个州),最精彩的部分是—如果你到女厕所,关上门 and
From there, to the modern ventriloquist's dummy, 从这个到现代的口技者的木偶, is but a brief moment in history. 不是一段简短的历史。 You were late for school again this morning. 今天早上你上学又迟到了。 The ventriloquist must first
Over the past seven years, I've been following my fascination with the built environment, 在过去的七年里,我一直在追随着我对建筑环境的兴趣, and for those of you who know me, you would say that this obsession has led me t
There is even a photo studio where you see the sort of aspiration with a faraway place, like that hotel in Sweden. 这是甚至有一个照相馆让你看到一种期望去住在真正的大房子里或者和一个遥远的地方产生联系,比如瑞典的旅馆。 On this particular evening, 在这个特别
We're going to jump onto the next one, maybe. Yes. 或许我们可以开始讨论下一个动机了。 Influence and status. 影响力和地位 So this is one of the most famous game dynamics. 这是最出名的游戏动机之一。 It's used all over the place. 在
When we look at the universities, 当我们环顾大学, 60 percent of baccalaureate degrees are going to women now, which is a significant shift. 目前女性占60%的本科学历的人数,这是个巨大的转变。 And in fact, university administrators a
Today, they live in this area, 今天,他们生活在这片区域, approximately 50,000 to 70,000 people, 大约5万到7万人, who live in this community of self-built multi-story houses where up to three generations live in one stru
Think about that one. Have you ever entered an argument thinking, 在参加辩论的时候,你有没有想过 "Let's see if we can hash something out rather than fight it out. 让我们看看能不能共同敲定一些事情,而非由一方说服另一方。 What can we wo
Will these revolutions be whole like through the transitions to democracy or be overtaken by military or extremists of all kinds? 这些革命是否能引领国家向民主过渡,它们的胜利果实会不会被军方或者各种极端分子攫取? We cannot tell. 我们无法预测。 Same
Third reason that boys are out of sync with school today: 第三个原因是男孩与我们今日的学校相脱节: kindergarten is the old second grade, folks. 幼儿园是一种过时的脱节教育。 We have a serious compression of the curriculum happening out
When we think of games, there's all kinds of things. 当我们提起游戏时,脑海中会浮现很多回忆。 Maybe you're ticked off, or maybe you're looking forward to a new game. You've been up too late playing a game
The chemical cure and the psychological cure both have a role to play, 化学治疗和心理治疗都发挥着重要的作用 and I also figured out that depression was something that was braided so deep into us 我也发现抑郁是这样一个东西,深深的嵌入在我们的体
Read that again. This is what we hear when you mourn over our existence. 听仔细了,当你们抱怨我们的存在,我们听到的就是这个意思。 This is what we hear when you pray for a cure-that your fondest wish for us is that someday we wil
Go figure. 想想看 But I got a little bad news for you folks. I got some bad news. 我这里也有些坏消息想对你们说,我有些坏消息 This isn't for the one in four. This is for the four in four. 比例不是四分之一,而是四分之四 We are not equipp
One day, Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez was walking along the streets of downtown Los Angeles 有一天,洛杉矶时报的专栏作家Steve Lopez走在洛杉矶大街上 when he heard beautiful music. 听到一曲美妙的乐曲 And the source was a m
If the axis-tilt theory had been refuted, 倘若“地轴倾斜”理论被观察否定了 its defenders would have had nowhere to go. 它的支持者们就无路可退了 No easily implemented change could make that tilt 没有什么信手拈来的变动能让地轴的倾斜 cause the same
Like if I say, "Think about a church steeple" 比如说,“请想象一下教堂的石柱” most people get this sort of generalized generic one. 大多数人想到的是一个标准答案 Now, maybe that's not true in this room, 也许这个房间里的人的答案会
Because, you know, the one thing, one thing that you get with this disease, 因为有一样东西,得了这种病你会得到它 this one comes with a package, is you get a real sense of shame, 这是整套附送的,就是你会感到很羞耻 because your friends g
Ironically, it turns out, that it's our differences, and our negotiation of difference,that unite us. 讽刺的是,事实证明,正是我们的不同和我们协商彼此的不同将我们连结起来。 I decided to have children while I was working on this pro