Well, of course, we're primed by science fiction and pop culture to really want to personify these things, 不可否认，我们都被科幻小说及流行文化所影响，想要将这些东西拟人化， but it goes a little bit deeper than that. 但真实情况还有着更深层的含义。
So let's think about the inference. You want to generate beliefs about the world. 我们先来看推断。在推断中，我们要建立对于当前情景的“信念”。 So what are beliefs? Beliefs could be: where are my arms in space? 那么什么是信念？信念可以是我的胳膊在空间
As we continued walking, we visited many of the places that the previous speakers talked about the Confucian tradition 我们继续赶路，参观了许多地方。前面的发言者们谈到儒家传统， which is so important I think to help people unders
So I'd like to propose that we can combine those two worlds, that we can combine the world of the nanoscale programmable adaptive materials and the built environment. 所以我建议把这两个世界结合起来，把纳米级上可程序化、能自我调节的材
It is tempting. Once you've figured this out, it is tempting to keep writing the same poem, or keep telling the same story, over and over, once you've figured out that it will gain you applause. 它也是很诱
Your company launches a search for an open position. 你的公司发布了一个公开招聘的职位。 The applications start rolling in, and the qualified candidates are identified. Now the choosing begins. 申请表开始滚滚而来，合格的候选人已被挑选出来。现
We're holding hands, staring at the door. 我们手牵着手，盯着门口。 My siblings and I were waiting for my mother to come back from the hospital. 我和兄弟姐妹们在等着妈妈从医院回来。 She was there because my grandmother had cancer s
I was born in a refugee colony in the capital city of India, New Delhi. 我出生在印度首都新德里的一个难民营里， And my father was a freedom fighter. 而我的父亲是一位自由战士。 My mother was, well, just a fighter like mothers are. 我的母
It goes like this: 163 people across four separate tests. 比如这个：163个人进行4组不同测试。 Everyone wrote down their personal goal. 每个人写下他们各自的目标。 Then half of them announced their commitment to this goal to the ro
Now this brings us to the human part of the story. 我们自然就要谈到人的问题。 Obviously, the microbiomes in the USA aren't causing premature death as frequently as in the zoo, 显然，美国人体内微生物群的失衡，并没有造成像动物园那么多夭折， but w
And I would like to share one short vignette. 我想与大家分享一个小故事。 One Hazara said to his Pashtun counselor, 一个哈拉扎人对他的普什图咨询师说， "If we were to have met some years ago, then we would have killed each other. “如
So, I had issues with this, because I haven't seen a lot of stay-at-home dads before and I thought men would judge me, 所以我又遇到问题了，因为我之前没怎么见过全职奶爸，我觉得男人可能会议论我， so get this, I said this -- please don't be
So I'm not saying, "Be like us", and "We're perfect role models", because we're not, but we just want to help represent girls in a way that shows those different dimensions. 所以我不是在说，“学我们的样子” 和“我们是完美的典
Another aha! moment came from a 2010 Wayne State University research project that looked into pre-1950s baseball cards of Major League players. 另一项令人顿悟的研究是由2010年韦恩州立大学进行的，这个项目研究了二十世纪五十年代前美国职业棒球联盟球员卡。
So far, the best idea I've heard about building grit in kids is something called "growth mindset." 到目前为止，我所听说过的在孩子身上培养坚韧品质最有效的方法叫“成长型思维模式。” This is an idea developed at Stanford University by Carol Dw
So, even the more objective parts about being human are hard to describe. Like, conversation. 甚至很多关于人性的客观方面也很难描述。比如，对话。 Have you ever really tried to break down the steps? 你曾经尝试过分解谈话的步骤吗？ So think abo
But I want to tell them that all of this is just debris left over when we finally decide to smash all the things we thought we used to be, 但是我想要告诉他们，当我们决定跟过去的自己决裂，开始全新的自己，这些经历不过是我们抛弃的废墟， and if you ca
I also declared to the world at large that I would ride it out, and I would not allow cancer to ride me. 我还向世界宣告，我将度过难关，我不会允许癌症将我打倒。 But to go from where I was to where I wanted to be, I needed someth
This is who I am. This is how I stand up for myself. 这就是我。这就是我自强的方式。 When I was a kid, I used to think that pork chops and karate chops were the same thing. 当我是小孩子的时候，我曾经认为“猪排骨”和“空手劈”是一样的。 I thought t
I'm the fourth of five children raised by a single mother in a rough neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. 我是一位单身母亲五个孩子中的第四个，我们在纽约布鲁克林一个混乱的街区生活。 We never owned a home, a car, a washing machine, and for
