TED演讲:梵高《星月夜》背后隐藏的数学理论(2)

But our brains' primate subdivision will see the contrasting colors without blending. 但视觉皮质中演化的分支会区辨颜色对比而不会将他们混合。 With these two interpretations happening at once, 当两种视觉处理方式同时发

TED演讲：你存钱的能力跟你用的语言有关?(8)

Now how can we think about health behaviors to think about savings? 我们能将健康相关的行为比作储蓄行为么？ Well, think about smoking, for example. Smoking is in some deep sense negative savings. 例如，吸烟这个事情，吸烟可

TED演讲：跟我说说高科技(1)

Five years ago, I experienced a bit of what it must have been like to be Alice in Wonderland. 五年前，我曾有过一个有如漫游爱丽丝仙境的经历。 Penn State asked me, a communications teacher, to teach a communications class for eng

TED演讲：试验 排除错误和万能神力(12)

And you sometimes need to be shocked out of that. 而有的时候我们需要把这种感觉抖掉。 Now I'm not going to pretend that this is easy. It isn't easy. It's incredibly painful. 现在我不想假装这是件容易的事情。这并不容易

TED演讲：别对我撒谎(8)

Okay, what were the telltale signs? Well first we heard what's known as a non-contracted denial. 好，破绽是哪些呢？首先，我们听到一个正式的否定形式。 Studies show that people who are overdetermined in their denial will resor

TED演讲：不要一悔再悔(10)

Now there is a case to be made that control freaks and perfectionists should not get tattoos, and I'm going to return to that point in a few minutes. 那么有一点就是控制狂和完美主义者千万别纹身,一会儿我会提到这一点。 Bu

TED演讲:我们为什么会对机器人有感情(7)

Now this is just a little study, but it's part of a larger body of research 这只是一个小小的研究，但它是一个更大范围研究的一部分， that is starting to indicate that there may be a connection between people's tendencies for

TED演讲:我们为什么会对机器人有感情(6)

And this turned out to be a little more dramatic than we expected it to be, 这个结果比我们想的要更有戏剧性， because none of the participants would even so much as strike these baby dinosaur robots, 因为甚至没有一个参与者去攻

TED演讲:我们为什么会对机器人有感情(5)

This is the PARO baby seal robot. It's used in nursing homes and with dementia patients. It's been around for a while. 这是帕罗婴儿海豹机器人。它被用于疗养院来陪伴老年痴呆症患者。它已经面世有阵子了。 And I reme

TED演讲:我们为什么会对机器人有感情(3)

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

TED演讲:我们为什么会对机器人有感情(2)

But my response to this robot was also interesting because I knew exactly how this machine worked, 但我对这个机器人的反应也非常有趣，因为我确切地知道这个机器工作的原理， and yet I still felt compelled to be kind to

TED演讲:我们为什么会对机器人有感情(1)

There was a day, about 10 years ago, when I asked a friend to hold a baby dinosaur robot upside down. 大概10年前的一天，我让一个朋友头朝下地握持一个小恐龙机器人。 It was this toy called a Pleo that I had ordered, and I wa

TED演讲:人如果不喝水会怎么样(1)

Water is virtually everywhere, from soil moisture and ice caps, to the cells inside our own bodies. 水几乎无所不在，从土壤水分及冰帽，到人体内的细胞。 Depending on factors like location, fat index, age, and sex, the average h

TED演讲:人如果不喝水会怎么样(3)

For a long time, conventional wisdom said that we should drink eight glasses a day. 长久以来，一般观念都认为我们每天要喝8杯水， That estimate has since been fine-tuned. 但这个数据已被重新调整过。 Now, the consensus i

TED演讲:野火的必要性(3)

That's well more than the 115-140 degrees that signal the moment when serotinous seeds can be freed. 这远远高于华氏115-140度，即晚熟球果种子能被释放的所需温度。 At those temperatures, the cones burst open, releasing millions

TED演讲:3个激发自己信心的技巧(3)

The connections in your brain do get stronger and grow with study and practice. 随着学习与实践，他么脑突触间的链接会得到不断的强化 It also turns out, on average, people who have a growth mindset are more successful, 结果表明

TED演讲:为什么认为自己丑会对你不利(2)

Thousands of people are posting videos like this, 有成千上万的人们上传这样的视频， mostly teenage girls, reaching out in this way. 他们中大部分都是十几岁的女孩，用这种方式来接触外界。 But what's leading them

TED演讲:在体内寻找癌细胞的小颗粒(3)

In my lab, we recently made a cancer nanodetector 在我的实验室，我们最近研制出了一种癌症纳米检测器， that is so small that it could travel into the body and look for tumors. 小到可以进入全身血液循环并寻找肿瘤。

TED演讲:在体内寻找癌细胞的小颗粒(4)

Alright, where are we going with this? 那好，我们现在进展如何呢？ What I'm going to tell you next, 我接下来要告诉你们的， as a lifelong researcher, represents a dream of mine. 作为一个终身的研究人员，代表了我的一

TED演讲:你的用词透露了你未来的精神状态?

We have historical records that allow us to know how the ancient Greeks dressed, 我们有历史纪录可循，可以让我们知道古希腊人如何穿着、 how they lived, how they fought, but how did they think? 如何生活、如何打仗，但他