TED演讲:个体DNA检测的时代来了(6)

A 16-year-old girl, a high school student from New York, Anna-Sophia Boguraev, 一个16岁的女孩，一个来自纽约的高中生，Anna-Sophia Boguraev， wondered whether changes to the DNA of astronauts could be related to this immune suppressi

TED演讲:个体DNA检测的时代来了(7)

I know families who are already living in this reality. 我知道这在有些家庭中已经实现了。 The Daniels family, for example, set up a DNA lab in the basement of their suburban Chicago home. 例如丹尼尔斯一家，在芝加哥郊区的家

TED演讲:个体DNA检测的时代来了(5)

But personal DNA machines can also save human lives. 但个人DNA检测器还可以挽救人类的生命。 Professor Ian Goodfellow is a virologist at the University of Cambridge. Ian Goodfellow教授是剑桥大学的病毒学家。 And last year h

TED演讲:个体DNA检测的时代来了(4)

You would have thought, Wow! I can now call my Aunt Glenda from the car and wish her a happy birthday. 你一定会想：哇喔！我现在可以在车里打电话给我姨妈Glenda，祝她生日快乐了。 I can call anyone, anytime. This is the f

TED演讲:个体DNA检测的时代来了(3)

This ability to make copies of DNA, as simple as it sounds, has transformed our world. DNA的这种复制能力听起来很简单，却改变了我们的世界。 Scientists use it every day to detect and address disease, to create innovative medicin

TED演讲:个体DNA检测的时代来了(2)

DNA is the fundamental molecule the carries genetic instructions that help build the living world. DNA是携带遗传指令最基本的分子，帮助建造了生机勃勃的世界。 Humans have DNA. Pigs have DNA. Even bacteria and some viruses hav

TED演讲:个体DNA检测的时代来了(1)

Imagine that you're a pig farmer. You live on a small farm in the Philippines. 想象你是一个养猪户。你住在一个菲律宾的小农场。 Your animals are your family's sole source of income -- as long as they're healthy. 你的牲口是家庭

TED演讲:为什么头盔不能预防脑震荡?(10)

And I want to bring this back finally to the original question I asked, which is, 最后我想要回到最初我常被问到的那个问题， would I feel comfortable letting my child play football or ride a bicycle? 我会让我的小孩打橄榄球吗

TED演讲 第16期:为什么我们应该终止禁毒战争(2)

And I liked drinking too, but it was obvious that alcohol was really the more dangerous of the two, 我也很喜欢喝酒，但是很显然这两者中酒精确实更加危险， but my friends and I could get busted for smoking a joint. 可是我和我

TED演讲 第17期:为什么我们应该终止禁毒战争(3)

But when hundreds of thousands of Chinese started showing up in my country, 但是，当成千上万的中国人开始出现在我的国家, working hard on the railroads and the mines and then kicking back in the evening just like they had in the ol

TED演讲 第18期:为什么我们应该终止禁毒战争(4)

People tend to think of prohibition as the ultimate form of regulation 人们倾向于认为：禁止就是最终极的管制方案。 when in fact it represents the abdication of regulation with criminals filling the void. 而事实上，它代表的是

TED演讲 第19期:为什么我们应该终止禁毒战争(5)

When researchers ask heroin addicts what's the toughest drug to quit, most say cigarettes. 当研究人员问海洛因成瘾者，他们最难戒掉的是什么大多数人说是香烟。 Yet in my country and many others, 而在我的国家和许多其

TED演讲 第20期:为什么我们应该终止禁毒战争(6)

Thank you. 谢谢。 Thank you. Thank you. 谢谢。谢谢。 Chris Anderson: Ethan, Chris Anderson：Ethan，congrats quite the reaction. 恭喜反应相当的热烈。 That was a powerful talk. 真是个震撼的演讲。 Not quite a complete stand

TED演讲 第22期:说服 让利他精神成为你的准则(2)

Unfortunately, I heard the billionaire Steve Forbes, 不幸的是，我也曾听到亿万富翁史蒂夫?福布斯 on Fox News, saying exactly the same thing, but seriously. 在福克斯新闻这样说过， He was told about the rise of the ocean, 当

TED演讲 第23期:说服 让利他精神成为你的准则(3)

My friend, Daniel Batson, spent a whole life putting people in the lab in very complex situations. 我的朋友丹尼尔巴特森花了一生的时间研究人们在实验室中复杂环境下的表现。 And of course we are sometimes selfish, and s

TED演讲:说服 让利他精神成为你的准则(4)

They have not been trained. 他们没接受过训练。 So do you need 50,000 hours of meditation? No, you don't. 你需要五万小时的冥想吗？不，不需要的。 Four weeks, 20 minutes a day, of caring, mindfulness meditation already brings

TED演讲:论生物多样性(1)

I have all my life wondered what mind-boggling meant. 我整整一生都在想，mind-boggling（令人难以置信的）到底是指什么。 After two days here, I declare myself boggled, and enormously impressed, 在这里呆了两天，我承认，

TED演讲:论生物多样性(2)

In so doing, I reached a frontier of biology so strange, so rich, 通过这样的方式，我来到一个非常古怪却又非常丰富的生物学领域， that it seemed as though it exists on another planet. 简直就像降临到别的星球一样。

TED演讲 第21期:说服 让利他精神成为你的准则(1)

So we humans have an extraordinary potential for goodness, 人类为善的潜力没有尽头， but also an immense power to do harm. 但为恶的能力也不可小觑。 Any tool can be used to build or to destroy. 任何工具，在人类手里都可

TED演讲:科技并没有改变爱 为什么?(5)

But technology is producing one modern trend that I find particularly important. 但科技正在制造一种当代潮流，我认为它尤为重要。 It's associated with the concept of paradox of choice. 它和选择悖论这一概念相关。 For