You might ask, well, here in America, who has time for this? 你也许会问，但这是美国，谁有时间折腾这些啊？ And I would tell you that the average American watches five hours of television a day. 我要告诉你，美国人平均每天看5小时的电视。 You mig
There's no question that technology is changing the way we court: 可以肯定的一点是，科技正在改变人类的求爱方式： emailing, texting, emojis to express your emotions, sexting, "liking" a photograph, selfies. 电子邮件、短信、表达情感的符号、色
How about the next question? This is asking about what the average age is, 那么下一个问题呢？这是问关于年龄的中位数， so the age at which half the population are younger and half the population are older. 也就是该地区大于和小于这个年龄的
And I stumbled, then, on a statistic that really came home to me. 结果我发现了一个震惊的数据。 It was a very interesting academic article in which I found that 67 percent of singles in America today who are living
The best four minutes of my entire life were those in the Olympic stadium. 我一生中最伟大的四分钟就在这奥林匹克体育馆中。 My husband is offended when I say this 我的爱人听我这么描述，觉得没有受到尊重， although I have explained to him that wha
We all know this, and yet, in the checklisted childhood, 我们都已经清楚，在清单式童年中， we absolve our kids of doing the work of chores around the house, 我们不让孩子做家里的杂活， and then they end up as young adults in the wo
And here's Billie Jean running across the fountain, being chased by Hubie Pyatt's friends. 比利金跑过喷泉，被胡比·派特的朋友们追着。 And she jumps over here. And you can see the shot right here is what it looks like toda
The Value of Nothing: Out of Nothing Comes Something. 无的价值：无中生有的可能。 That was an essay I wrote when I was 11 years old and I got a B+. 这是一篇我在十一岁时写的作文，当时我拿了个乙等。 What I'm going to talk about: nothing out
So now we've spoken about on-screen sounds. But occasionally, the source of a sound cannot be seen. 那么，我们已经谈到了屏幕上的声音。但有时候，声源是看不到的。 That's what we call offscreen sounds, or "acousmatic." 我们称之为画外音，或者是“盲
How many people here are 40 years old or older? You're afraid to admit it now. 在座的有多少人已经四十多岁了？你不想承认了吗？ This initial step into the disease, this presence of amyloid plaques accumulating, can already be
I've been thinking a lot about the world recently and how it's changed over the last 20, 30, 40 years. 最近我常常思考我们的世界以及它在过去的20，30，40年里经历了何等的转变。 Twenty or 30 years ago, if a chicken caught a cold and sne
And then, in 2006, I met that guy. His name is Ze Frank. 然后，在2006年，我遇见了这个家伙。他叫泽·弗兰克。 I didn't actually meet him, just on the Internet. 其实我们没有真正见面，只是在网上。 Ze Frank was running, at the time, a show calle
On the completely other side, adding a lot of reverb to a voice is going to make us think that we're listening to a flashback, 在完全相反的情况下，在语音里加入很多回响会使我们感觉正在听回忆， or perhaps that we're inside the head of
And they're all moving to this central system, this fully connected system, all of them except one. 他们都逐渐走向完全连接的系统，不过，有一点还没有。 Can you guess which one? It's the system which underpins all these other s
So, in other aspects of life that are much more significant than buying things, the same explosion of choice is true. Health care. 同样，在生活里的其它一些比购物更对我们产生影响事情上，这种选择的爆炸同样存在。医疗保健。 It is no longer the case
You know, I grew up in the inner city, 要知道，我是在市区长大的， and there were kids who were failing in schools 56 years ago when I first went to school, 当时，很多学生在学业上就已经一事无成了，那可是在56年前，当时我刚开始读书， and those schools
In our day, we have digitization. That strips all the physical mass out of information, 现在我们有了数据电子化。这把信息从成堆成堆的状况下解救出来， so now it's almost zero cost to copy and share information. 所以现在拷贝分享信息已近乎零花费。 Our
This is Birgitta Jonsdottir. She's an Icelandic MP. And quite an unusual MP. 照片上的是Birgitta Jonsdottir。她是冰岛下院议员。一个不寻常的议员。 In Iceland, she was one of the protesters who was outside of Parliament when th
But when they really get pushy, people really get pushy, I say, "I do it because you do it for your kid." 但是当他们变得有进取心时，我们就会变得更有进取心，我说：“我这样做就像你们为自己的儿子做的原因一样。” And you've never read a study from MIT tha
So this whole interaction with self and identity was a very difficult one for me growing up. 在我成长过程中，我一直都很难处理自我与身份之间的相互影响。 The self that I attempted to take out into the world was rejected over and ov
