TED演讲:短信是语言杀手(2)

So first there's speech, and then writing comes along as a kind of artifice. 所以首先是语音，然后文字作为一种技巧出现了。 Now don't get me wrong, writing has certain advantages. 大家不要误会，文字写作确实有它自己的

TED演讲:短信是语言杀手(3)

So, for example, in a distant era now, 比如说，在以前一个遥远的时代， it was common when one gave a speech to basically talk like writing. 当一个人作演讲，说起话来像在写作一样，是很平常的事情。 So I mean the

TED演讲:石油真正的代价(1)

The world's largest and most devastating environmental and industrial project is situated in the heart of the largest and most intact forest in the world, Canada's boreal forest. 世上最大、最具破坏性的环境及工业计划发生于世上最大

TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(4)

And this, then, led to my big questions. And they're the same ones that I have today. 这让我想到一个大问题。一些我今日仍然在想的问题。 And they are: why do things happen, and how do things happen? 为什么事情会发生，它们

TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(8)

We are all concerned with things that we see in the world that we are aware of. 我们总是在意这世界上我们所感知的事物。 We come to this point and say, what do I as an individual do? 我们对自己说：我能做什么？ Not all of

TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(7)

Once I identified this question, it was all over the place. 一旦你意识到这个问题，就发现它无所不在。 I got these hints everywhere. And then, in a way, I knew that they had always been there. 在哪里都能看到它的痕迹。同时

TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(6)

Now, what's encapsulated in both these drowning metaphors -- actually, one of them is my mother's interpretation, 暗藏在这两个溺水故事中的比喻是其中一个说法来自我母亲， and it is a famous Chinese saying, because she said it

TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(5)

There is also the uncertainty principle, which is part of quantum mechanics, as I understand it. 在量子力学中还有测不准原理，至少我想有。 And this happens constantly in the writing. 同样的事也时常发生在写作中。 And t

TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(3)

Also, one of the principles of creativity is to have a little childhood trauma. 创意的其中一项原则是拥有童年的心理创伤。 And I had the usual kind that I think a lot of people had, and that is that, you know, I had expectations pla

TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(2)

Now in the nature area, we look at whether or not we are innately equipped with something, 在天份的方面，我们必须要检视我们是否生来就有这天赋， perhaps in our brains, some abnormal chromosome that causes this muse-like effec

TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(1)

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

TED演讲:人体解剖艺术的魅力(7)

Then there are artists who are extracting anatomy from both the medical world and the art world 还有些艺术家将解剖学从艺术和医学中抽离， and are placing it directly on the streets. 直接带上了街头。 London-based SHOK-1 pain

TED演讲:人体解剖艺术的魅力(6)

Fear of anatomy and guts is a learned reaction. 对解剖的恐惧不是天生的。 This anatomization also extends to politically and socially charged objects. 这种解剖艺术也蔓延到了政治和社会话题上。 In Noah Scalin's Anatomy of

TED演讲:人体解剖艺术的魅力(5)

And for me it's a balance between the technique and a concept that pushes the boundaries of anatomy as a way to know thyself, 我觉得重点是要平衡技巧和突破解剖学自我认知的理念， which is why the work of Michael Reedy struck me

TED演讲:人体解剖艺术的魅力(4)

Nothing can elicit an emotional response -- 任何事物都无法像人体一样 from joy to complete disgust -- more than the human body. 表达诸多情感--从快乐到厌恶至极。 And today, artists armed with that emotion, 当今，艺术家正

TED演讲:人体解剖艺术的魅力(3)

They also showed them as very much dead -- unwillingly stripped of their skin. 同样，也可以画得很逼真--被硬剥去外皮。 Disembodied limbs were often posed in literal still lives. 脱离躯干的肢体通常作为静物写生的对象。

TED演讲:人体解剖艺术的魅力(2)

And for the public, medical illustrations may only be encountered passively on the walls of a doctor's office. 而对于普通人来说，医学插画可能只是偶尔在医生办公室的墙上瞥见过。 From the beginnings of modern medicine, me

TED演讲:人体解剖艺术的魅力(1)

As a lover of human anatomy, 作为人体解剖学的爱好者, I'm so excited that we're finally putting our bodies at the center of focus. 我很高兴我们终于开始关注人体之美了。 Through practices such as preventive medicine, patient

TED演讲 谈上帝与海啸(1)

I am a vicar in the Church of England. 我是一名英国圣公会的牧师。 I've been a priest in the Church for 20 years. 我做牧师已经有20年了。 For most of that time, I've been struggling and grappling with questions about the nature o

TED演讲 第61期:你的医生不愿透露什么?(2)

He even said, 他甚至说， What if they see mistakes and sue us? 如果他们看到错误并起诉我们怎么办？ What I saw behind every excuse was deep fear, 我看到的是每个借口后面深深的恐惧, and what I learned was that to bec