This is a picture of Maurice Druon, 照片里的人是Maurice Druon the Honorary Perpetual Secretary of L'Academie francaise, the French Academy. L'Academie francaise的荣誉终身秘书长--也就是法兰西学院 He is splendidly attired in
So, in this suburb, the poo and the pee and the wash water are going to this treatment plant right in the middle of the community. 那么，在这片城郊，各种排泄物们和废水正涌向处于区域中心的处理池。 It looks more like a park than a tre
Two, debt. In 1994, the debt-to-GDP ratio of African countries was 130 percent, and they didn't have fiscal space. 第二件事，债务。在1994年，非洲国家债务对GDP的比例是130%，而且他们没有财政空间。 They couldn't use their resources to in
Five years ago, I experienced a bit of what it must have been like to be Alice in Wonderland. 五年前，我曾有过一个有如漫游爱丽丝仙境的经历。 Penn State asked me, a communications teacher, to teach a communications class for
The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the next few decades has arrived. 有可能在未来几十年带来巨大影响的科技，已经到来了。 And it's not social media. It's not big data. 并不是社交媒体，也不是大数据， It's not robotics. It's n
You can't do that while you're texting, and so ways are developing of doing it within this medium. 你没有办法在短信里这么做，所以在这个交流媒介里产生了各种转换话题的方法。 All spoken languages have what a linguist calls a new informatio
Now don't get me wrong, writing has certain advantages. 大家不要误会，文字写作确实有它自己的优势。 When you write, because it's a conscious process, because you can look backwards, 当你写字的时候，因为这是一个有意识的过程，因为你可以回顾过去， you can
And folks, you can buy a copy of Bill Clinton's "My Life" from the bookstore here at TED. 朋友们，你可以买一本比尔克林顿的《我的人生》，就在这里的TED书店里。 Parse it cover to cover for whatever hidden references you want. 你可以从头到尾地找
It works a little something like -- this is a recent Google search for four in the morning. 这是结果，请看最近的一个谷歌搜索。搜索：凌晨4点 Results vary, of course. This is pretty typical. 当然搜索的结果不一，这是其中最典型的一个。 The top 10 r
Another moon, very similar, is Europa. 另一个非常相似的卫星，木卫二。 Galileo visited Jupiter's system in 1996 and made fabulous observations of Europa. 伽利略号在1996年时探访了木星系统，对木卫二进行了详细的观察。 Europa, we also know, has an
I heard all of these things, but I didn't listen. 这些事都经过了我的耳朵，可惜我没有去仔细倾听。 I looked but didn't see. I read, didn't understand. 我看了，但是没看见。我读了，可是没理解。 I paid attention only when you began to vote and shou
That year, the country was coming out of civil war. 那年，哥斯达黎加刚从一场内战中解脱。 Thousands of Costa Ricans had died, and families were bitterly split. 成千上万的哥斯达黎加人死于战乱，一个个家庭支离破碎，人们流离失所。 And yet, a surprising ide
In the '50s, we started investing in hydropower, 在五十年代时，我们开始投资水电工程， and that kept us away from the trap of using fossil fuels for electricity generation, 这也使我们避免陷入使用石油来发电的困局， which is what the world i
The simplest example of this is in the polite request. 最简单的例子出自于礼貌的要求 If you express your request as a conditional -- "if you could open the window, that would be great" 倘若你用一个条件句表达请求：“您要是能开一下窗子就太好了，”
And of course, a few of us are saying: okay, computers! 当然，你们中的有些人会说，计算机！ Computers! What about computers? 计算机！计算机是新东西吧？ The thing about computers is, I love computers. 不要误会，我喜欢计算机， I mean, I'm a huge
I want to share a few keys on how you can do that 我想来分享几个有用的方法，告诉你们如何才能保证 to make sure that we can see that your science is sexy and that your engineering is engaging. 让我们也觉得你们的科学"性感"迷人、你们的工程学魅力四射。 Fi
For one thing, I just do not do uniforms. 首先，我不喜欢制服。 And for another, deciding what words are good and what words are bad is actually not very easy. 而且，决定谁是好词谁是坏词其实一点也不容易， And it's not very fun. And w
This is a recent comic strip from the Los Angeles Times. The punch line? 这是最近洛杉矶时报的一幅漫画。笑点是？ "On the other hand, I don't have to get up at four every single morning to milk my Labrador." “另一方面，我不用每天凌晨
How do we build a society without fossil fuels? 如果不用石油，我们如何让一个社会运转起来？ This is a very complex challenge, 这是个十分严峻的挑战， and I believe developing countries could take the lead in this transition. 我相信发展中国家可
If and when your anger turns to hate, 如果当你的气愤转化为痛恨， please know that there is no space for that in our shared home. 请明白在我们共享的家园里没有容纳那些痛恨的空间。 But I will admit, fellow citizen, that I have discounted th
