TED演讲:科技为人道主义带来的变化

The humanitarian model has barely changed since the early 20th century. 人道主义的模型自从20世纪初期就几乎没有改变过 Its origins are firmly rooted in the analog age. 它的起源在模拟时代就根深蒂固了 And there is a ma

TED演讲:科技为人道主义带来的变化(2)

Never having been confronted with this type of situation before, 我们从未遇到过此类情况， we wanted to try and understand how we could tap into this incredible resource, 我们想努力了解如何利用这些令人难以置信的信息资源

TED演讲:科技为人道主义带来的变化(3)

One illustration of the transformational power of technology is in Kibera. 一个与科技改革力量有关的例子发生在基贝拉 Kibera is one of Africa's largest slums. 基贝拉是非洲最大的贫民窟之一 It's on the outskirts of Nairo

TED演讲:修复照片,重振人生

Before March, 2011, I was a photographic retoucher based in New York City. 2011年3月之前，我是摄影修片师，常驻纽约市。 We're pale, gray creatures. 我们苍白无力、面如死灰。 We hide in dark, windowless rooms, and generall

TED演讲:科技为人道主义带来的变化(4)

In Nigeria, 在尼日利亚 open-source, open-source SMS tools are being used by the Red Cross community workers 红十字会的工作人员也在使用开放的短信工具 to gather information from the local community 他们从当地社区里收集资

TED演讲:科学解释之新探(2)

That all that, discovered in 40 years, 这40年中的所有发现 had not been in the previous hundred thousand, 是数千年来所未有的 was not for lack of thinking about stars, and all those other urgent problems they had. 而这可不能归结为

TED演讲:科学解释之新探(3)

At the time, what they thought 在那个时候，启蒙学者们认为 distinguished science was a radical idea about things unseen, known as empiricism. 科学的独特标志是一个关于不可见事物的激进看法，叫做经验主义 All know

TED演讲:科学解释之新探(4)

Our connection to reality is never just perception. 而我们与现实的联系从不会只是感知 It's always, as Karl Popper put it, theory-laden. 而是如卡尔波普尔所说，充满着理论假设 Scientific knowledge isn't derived from anyt

TED演讲:如何在核袭击中生存(6)

Now this situation, already I -- you know, I don't really like thinking about this, 对于这个情况，你们知道，我并不愿意去想这个问题 although somehow I got myself a job where I have to think about it. 虽然我阴差阳错地得到

TED演讲:如何在核袭击中生存(5)

And what happened was -- when we get in to chapter two of the nuclear threat era, which started back in 1945. 而现实是当我们进入1945年开始的核威胁时期的第二阶段 Chapter two starts in 1991. 第二个阶段是从1991年开始的

TED演讲:如何在核袭击中生存(4)

And one of the greatest governmental delusions of all time 政府有史以来最大的幻想之一 was something that happened in the early days of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, as we now know, 是由早期的联邦紧急情况管理署

TED演讲:如何在核袭击中生存(3)

This was basically an attempt to teach our schoolchildren 这个算是尝试着教正在上学的孩子们 that if we did get engaged in a nuclear confrontation and atomic war, 如果我们真的被卷入一次核冲突或者核战争 then we wanted

TED十佳演讲之面对灾难:如何在核袭击中生存(2)

Chapter one is 1949 to 1991, when the Soviet Union broke up, 第一个时期从1949年到1991年苏联解体 and what we were dealing with, at that point and through those years, was a superpowers' nuclear arms race. 我们要关注的是在这些年间

TED演讲:如何在核袭击中生存

So, a big question that we're facing now and have been for quite a number of years now: 我们现在面临一个大问题，这个问题已经持续了很多年： are we at risk of a nuclear attack? 我们是否处于遭受核袭击的危险之中呢？

TED演讲:为什么要留在切尔诺贝利?(3)

Health studies from the region are conflicting and fraught. 针对那个地区做的健康研究都很矛盾又漏洞百出。 The World Health Organization puts the number of Chernobyl-related deaths at 4,000, eventually. 世界卫生组织估计与切

TED演讲:如何在核袭击中生存(7)

Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. 每年有七百万集装箱货船驶入美国 Five to seven percent only are inspected -- five to seven percent. 其中只有百分之五到七接受了检查--百分之五到七

TED演讲:如何在核袭击中生存(8)

Here we go. OK. 好的，我们来亲眼看看吧 I'm back in my truck, and we drove over the Brooklyn Bridge. 回到我刚才提到的卡车，我们把它开到布鲁克林大桥 We're coming down, and we bring that truck that you just saw somewher

TED演讲:如何在核袭击中生存(10)

And the farther you are away in distance, 你距离爆炸点的距离越远越好 the longer it is in time from the initial blast; 距离爆炸的时间越长越好 and the more separation between you and the outside atmosphere, the better. 尽可能地

TED演讲:站在救灾前沿

That was me in front of our house in Monson, Massachusetts last June. 那个就是我，在麻省的Monson，我们的房子前面， After an EF3 tornado ripped straight through our town and took parts of our roof off, 一股EF3级龙卷风袭击了这

TED演讲:站在救灾前沿(2)

We didn't get our authority from the board of selectmen 我们既没有得到行政委员会的授权 or the emergency management director or the United Way. 也没有被应急办主任或是Uited Way批准 We just started answering questions and mak