So we have the watches and the language, and you're detecting a theme here, right? 我们有特制的手表和专门的语言，现在你们明白了吧？ So that we don't get confused. But even the Earth daylight could confuse us. 这样我们不再搞混了。但是连地球
Does anybody know when the stethoscope was invented? Any guesses? 1816. 有人知道听诊器是什么时候发明的吗？大家试着猜一猜，有人说是1816年。 And what I can say is, in 2016, doctors aren't going to be walking around with stethoscopes.
And this is of course important in your professional life, as well, or it could be. 当然这在你的职业生涯中也很重要，或可能很重要。 If, say, you design something and then you ask people, "Why do you think this is good or bad
But of course, there was also a trick involved. 当然，这里也有诈。 So first, we walked up to people, we asked them about their voting intention and then when they started filling in, 首先，我们找到一些路人，询问他们的投票意向，然后当他
Second reason: it's been shown that if you speak two languages, dementia is less likely to set in, 第二个原因：有研究指出，同时讲两种语言的人更不容易痴呆， and that you are probably a better multitasker. 而且你可能更加的擅长多线操作。 And thes
When I tell people that I'm trying to develop a contraceptive pill for men, 当我跟别人说我正在尝试研发男性避孕药时， the response usually varies along gender lines. 对方的反应一般取决于性别。 Women say something like, "Fantastic. It'
Code is the next universal language. 编码是下一个世界性的语言。 In the seventies, it was punk music that drove the whole generation. 七十年代，影响了一代人的，是朋克音乐。 In the eighties, it was probably money. 八十年代，也许是金钱吧。 But for
Let me tell you a story. It's about a woman called Justine Sacco. 这里给各位说个故事。一位名叫贾丝婷·萨科的女士的故事。 She was a PR woman from New York with 170 Twitter followers, 她住纽约，从事公关工作，有170 位推特粉丝， and she'd Tweet littl
What had happened is that one of her 170 followers had sent the Tweet to a Gawker journalist, 发生了啥事呢，就是她的那170个粉丝当中有一人将这条推文转发给了Gawker网的一个记者， and he retweeted it to his 15,000 followers: 后者又转发给自己的15000名
It was my third day on the job at a hot Silicon Valley start-up in early 2013. 这是2013年初，我在硅谷一家热门创业公司工作的第三天。 I was twice the age of the dozen engineers in the room. 我的年龄是那个房间中十几个工程师年龄的两倍。 I'd been brou
I don't think the foundation did this because they were monstrous. 该基金会的如此做法我不认为是出于豺狼之性。 I think they were clueless: 我认为他们是愚昧而已： I think this was a unique moment when the beautiful naivety of Twitter
The two places where I feel most free aren't actually places. 让我感到最自由的两个地方并不是什么特定的地点。 They're moments. The first is inside of dance. 而是两个时刻。第一个是跳舞的时候。 Somewhere between rising up against gravity and t
The siRNA is deployed first. It acts for hours, giving enough time to silence and block those survival genes. siRNA首先开始行动。它需要几个小时，来让（癌细胞的）生存基因失效。 We have now disabled those genetic superpowers. 我们去除了（
So, here's our strategy. First, we'll dose the cancer cell with siRNA, the gene blocker, 因此，我们的策略如下。首先，我们将siRNA--基因拦截者，用在癌细胞身上， and silence those survival genes, and then we'll whop it with a chemo dr
So we built Ashioto, meaning "footstep" in Japanese, 所以我们构建了“Ashioto”系统，在日语中意思是“脚步声”， as it consists of a portable mat which has pressure sensors which can count the number of people walking on it, 这种
Except, of course, what's interesting about this is that we can't be sure how that idea was conveyed, 当然，有趣的是，我们无法确认这样的观点是如何传播的， because the Homo erectus that made these objects did not have language.
So we decided to design a cover for the sensor so that people don't have to worry what it is on the ground. 所以我们决定给传感器加个盖板，这样人们就不用担心放在地上的是什么了。 So after some experimentation, we decided to use an indus
Imagine that you are a 15-year-old kid from Honduras now living in Harlem, 想象一下你是一个15岁的孩子，来自洪都拉斯，现在生活在纽约哈莱姆区， or you're a 13-year-old girl born in DC to two Nigerian immigrants. 或者你是一个13岁的小女孩，生于华盛顿特区，
As a researcher, I usually don't get to work with patients. 作为一名研究者，我通常很少与病人接触。 But I recently met a mother who is an ovarian cancer survivor, Mimi, and her daughter, Paige. 但最近我遇到了一位母亲，她叫咪咪，是一名卵巢癌幸存者
So what were these ancient -- I mean, they're ancient, they're foreign, but they're at the same time somehow familiar. 因此这些古老的--我是说，它们是古老的，异域的，但同时它们也是我们熟悉的。 What were these artifacts for? 这些人工制品的用途是什么
