Frosty the coal man is a jolly, happy soul. 雪白煤碳先生是个快乐的精灵。 He's abundant here in America, and he helps our economy grow. 它在美国产量丰富，并且帮助我们的经济成长。 Frosty the coal man is getting cleaner everyday. 雪白的煤碳先生每
It's the Second World War. A German prison camp. 这是二战期间，一个德国集中营。 And this man, Archie Cochrane, is a prisoner of war and a doctor, and he has a problem. 这个人，阿奇·卡克伦，是战俘也是一名医生，他遇到了一个问题。 The problem is t
Well let me give you an example. 让我来给你们一个例子。 Imagine for a moment that, instead of Tim Harford in front of you, there was Hans Rosling presenting his graphs. 你们想象一下，现在如果站在你们面前的不是我，而是汉斯·罗斯林在展示他的图表。 You
You know, I always wonder, who makes up those rules? 我一直都挺郁闷的，到底是谁制定这样的臭规定啊？ For years I went to -- Look, I went the Harvard Ed School. I thought I knew something. 多年以来，我一直会去哈佛的Ed学校。我想我还是了解一些情况的。 They
So in a nutshell, that's the challenge that we all face today at this interesting point in history. 所以简单来说，这就是我们所有人今天面临的挑战，在这个有意思的历史时期。 That's clearly what we've got to do next. 这很明显是我们接下来要做的。 We've s
That was fascinating. But how do you reconcile this idea of it being bad to think of someone as a "loser," 说的真好。你要如何与自己和解，把一个人称为失败者是糟糕的， with the idea that a lot of people like, of seizing control of
But that's getting harder to do, because cities are becoming smooth. 但这样的机会已经越来越少了，因为城市正在变得光滑。 New downtowns sprout towers that are almost always made of concrete and steel and covered in glass. 高塔在市中
This is my supermarket. Not such a big one. I want to say just a word about salad dressing. 这是我家附近的一个超市。不算很大。我只想说说这里的色拉调料。 175 salad dressings in my supermarket, 我这家超市有175种各式色拉调料， if you don't count t
Now where is the car industry on that? Very interesting. 汽车工业在这个问题上的位置究竟在哪？这非常有意思。 The car industry has been focused just on themselves. 汽车工业一直都只专注在它们自己身上。 They basically looked at it and said, "Car 1
Now the technology around what the truth looks like is progressing on, the science of it. 现在的测谎技术正在日新月异地发展。 We know, for example, that we now have specialized eye trackers and infrared brain scans, 比如
And I'm going to imagine this, you can do this too if you like, that I'm going to just take the letter "T" and I'm going to imagine it in mind, 我会想象，如果喜欢你也可以这么做， 我只取这个字母“T"，我要在我的脑海中想象它的形状， and I'm goi
So they're learning from each other. And research bears this out. 乌鸦通过互相学习，都掌握了这种技巧。 Parents seem to be teaching their young. They learn from their peers, they learn from their enemies. 乌鸦父母还教会自己的孩子这样
There are a million pictures that I could click through here, 我有上百万张照片可以展示， and had to choose carefully -- this is one of my favorites -- of students learning, 可我得小心的选择--好，这是我最喜欢的一张--学生正在学习的照片， of wha
Okay, what were the telltale signs? Well first we heard what's known as a non-contracted denial. 好，破绽是哪些呢？首先，我们听到一个正式的否定形式。 Studies show that people who are overdetermined in their denial will resort
You, today, buy gasoline miles. And we created electric miles. 现在大家买的是汽油里程。我们就创造电子里程。 And the price of electric miles ends up being a very interesting number. 电子里程价钱加起来是个有趣的数字。 Today 2010, in volume,
And in doing so, we were breeding them for parasitism. 为了做到这点，人类用喂养的方式来让它们寄生于我们。 We were giving them all sorts of reasons to adapt new ways. 我们给了动物们适应新环境的各种理由。 So, for example, rats are incredibly res
Strangely, these revelations didn't cure my low self-esteem, that feeling of otherness. 奇怪的是，这些启示并没有治愈我那缺少的自尊，那种被划为另类的感觉。 My desire to disappear was still very powerful. 我渴望消失的想法依旧十分强烈。 I had a degree
It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, 今日你变得像比尔·盖茨一样，有钱又出名的机会， as it was unlikely in the 17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the Fren
The second characteristic component of regret is a sense of bewilderment. 后悔第二波就是困惑感。 So the other thing I thought about there in my bedroom that night was, "How could I have done that? What was I thi
And what I thought I'd do is, I'd make a TED premiere. 我想我要做的是，办一个TED首演。 I'm not sure if this is going to be good or not. I just be doing it. 我不知道能不能成功。只要试试看。我只是做做看。 I thought what I'd do is, I'd use
