So when I started producing "The Dead Mall Series," I put the videos up onto YouTube, 当我开始制作“废弃的商场系列”时，我把这些视频放在了YouTube上， and while I thought they were interesting, frankly I didn't think others would
You can get video annotations of the events that you're reading about. 你可以看到事件的视频报道。 You can get the latest sports scores, etc. This is a more controversial one. 你可以看到体育比赛的最及时的比分，等等。接下来是一个有争议的功能。 As y
What was actually interesting to us was not that the bacteria made light, but when the bacteria made light. 事实上，我们感兴趣的部分并不是细菌会不会发光，而是细菌何时发光。 What we noticed is when the bacteria were alone, so when th
And yet, we have in this country this dynamic where we really don't like to talk about our problems. 然而，我们这个国家不喜欢讨论存在的问题。 We don't like to talk about our history. 我们不喜欢讨论历史。 And because of that, we re
But now here's where the bias comes in. 但是现在偏见出现了。 Our most important institutions, our schools and our workplaces, 我们最重要的机构，学校及职场， they are designed mostly for extroverts and for extroverts' need for
Now, you might wonder, "Come on, how much could five percentage points of global electricity be?" 现在你可能会问，“拜托，全球5%的电力能有多少？” Well, it turns out to be quite a bit. 事实证明还蛮多的。 It's the equivalent of 60 nu
I was recently traveling in the Highlands of New Guinea, and I was talking with a man who had three wives. 最近，我正在新几内亚高地旅行，我访谈了一位有三个老婆的人。 I asked him, "How many wives would you like to have?" 我问他：“你想要多
When I learned, some years ago, that writers were expected to have had really unhappy childhoods to be successful, 当我多年前听说作家们必须有极其不幸的童年才能取得成功的时候， I began to think about how I could invent horrible thi
So why is that happening? So one reason is obviously economic or structural. So you think of these areas. 为什么会这样呢？一个原因显然是跟经济或结构有关。看看这些地区。 They're beset by these terrible economic trends, built around
The path, it's not easy. Many obstacles arise all the time. 这一路走来并不容易。我们遇到了很多阻碍。 But we receive strength from our patients. 但我们从患者的身上汲取到了力量。 Their resilience and courage inspire our creativity. 他们的坚忍与
Shortly after he published my first novel, I went to a TV station in Lagos to do an interview, 在他发布了我的第一部小说的不久后，我前往拉各斯的一家电视台接受访问， and a woman who worked there as a messenger came up to me and said, "I
As I was leaving China, the engineer that brought Bill Gates there kind of pulled me aside, and he said, 当我离开中国的时候，那个请来比尔·盖茨的工程师曾把我拉到一边，然后他说， "You know, Michael, I appreciate your interest in all the
One night, my friend Malte, were camping in the Amazon region. 有一天，我和我朋友Malte在亚马逊流域露营。 The only thing that would not burn in the fire was a green avocado branch. 我们发现唯一不能被火点燃的东西是绿鳄梨的树枝。 Then came a mo
First, a video. Yes, it is a scrambled egg. But as you look at it, I hope you'll begin to feel just slightly uneasy. 首先，来段录像。对，这是个被搅拌的鸡蛋。但是，当你看它的时候，我希望你能开始感受到有一点点的怪异。 Because you may notice that what'
This ability to make copies of DNA, as simple as it sounds, has transformed our world. DNA的这种复制能力听起来很简单，却改变了我们的世界。 Scientists use it every day to detect and address disease, to create innovative medic
I gave her my whole rap, and when I finished she looked at me and she said, "Mmm mmm mmm." 我做了一个全本无删减的演讲，当我结束时，她盯着我说：“别别别。” She said, "That's going to make you tired, tired, tired." 她说：“这些会让你很累，很累，很累的
But let me split sub-Saharan Africa. 下面把撒哈拉以南非洲地区分解成各个国家。 Health is there and better health is up there. 分布靠上边的国家拥有更高的健康水平。 I can go here and I can split sub-Saharan Africa into its countries. 撒哈拉以南的非
Now, some of you might be thinking, "Hold on a minute. 在座的有些人现在一定可能在想，“得了吧。 She doesn't look very much like an ocean rower. 她长得一点也不像个横渡大洋者。 Isn't she meant to be about this tall and about this wide an
People have been using media to talk about sex for a long time. 人们借助各种媒体来谈性，这已经有着很长的历史了。 Love letters, phone sex, racy Polaroids. 比如说情书、电话性爱以及裸照。 There's even a story of a girl who eloped with a man t
I know families who are already living in this reality. 我知道这在有些家庭中已经实现了。 The Daniels family, for example, set up a DNA lab in the basement of their suburban Chicago home. 例如丹尼尔斯一家，在芝加哥郊区的家庭地下室建立了一个DNA
