TED演讲：用舞蹈战胜癌症(5)

My story is a story of overcoming setbacks, obstacles and challenges that life throws at you. 我的故事是一个克服那些生命带给你的挫折、障碍和挑战的故事。 My story is the power of thought. My story is the power of choice. I

TED演讲：气味背后的科学(1)

The fragrance that you will smell, you will never be able to smell this way again. 一会你们将闻到一款香水，它会带给你们绝无仅有的体验。 It's a fragrance called Beyond Paradise, which you can find in any store in the nation. 这

TED演讲：舞者还是用PPT?(5)

I shall now, therefore, humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection. 所以，今天我谨提出我的观点，希望不会遭到反对。 Once we eliminate public funding for the artists, let's put them bac

TED演讲：气味背后的科学(9)

And every single part of this mechanism is actually plausible in biology. 实际上，这个机制的每一个步骤在生物领域中都是可行的。 In other words, I've taken off-the-shelf components, and I've made a spectroscope. 换句话讲，我

TED演讲：气味背后的科学(8)

OK, great, we smell vibrations. How? All right? 好吧，我们闻到的是震动。怎么闻到呢？ Now when people ask this kind of question, they neglect something, which is that physicists are really clever, unlike biologists. 当人们问这个问

TED演讲：气味背后的科学(7)

However, I managed to get a hold of a Borane eventually, and here is the beast. 无论如何，我最终得到了一些硼烷，这就是那个怪物。 And it really does have the same -- if you calculate, if you measure the vibrational frequencies,

TED演讲：气味背后的科学(6)

So I went searching when I started in this game to convince myself that there was any degree of plausibility to this whole crazy story. 在这个游戏的最初，我就开始寻找说服我自己，这个理论有一定的合理性，这整个故事有

TED演讲：气味背后的科学(5)

And...but...but...we have to go a little beyond that. 我们需要进一步深入。 Now let me explain why vibrational theory has some sort of interest in it. 现在我来解释为什么震动理论有一定的道理。 These molecules, as you saw i

TED演讲：气味背后的科学(4)

Here's how shape works in normal receptors. 这里展示的是形状是如何对通常的感受器起作用的。 You have a molecule coming in, it gets into the protein, which is schematic here, 一个分子进来，进到蛋白质里，图中所示意

TED演讲：气味背后的科学(3)

This smells of cut grass. Now, this is the skeleton of the molecule. 它闻起来就像割下来青草。这就是分子的骨架。 If you dress it up with atoms, hydrogen atoms -- that's what it looks like when you have it on your computer -- but a

TED演讲：气味背后的科学(2)

Now, while the smell wafts over you, let me tell you the history of an idea. 现在，趁着香味还萦绕在你们周围，我来为你们介绍一个想法形成的过程。 Everything that you're smelling in here is made up of atoms that come fro

TED演讲：拥有大脑的真正原因(3)

But let me show you cutting-edge robotics. 现在我来介绍一下最高端的机器人技术。 Now a lot of robotics is very impressive, but manipulation robotics is really just in the dark ages. 如今许多项机器人技术已经相当厉害，可

TED演讲：拥有大脑的真正原因(2)

So I am a movement chauvinist. I believe movement is the most important function of the brain -- don't let anyone tell you that it's not true. 所以说，我是个运动沙文主义者，我认为运动是大脑最重要的功能，不要让别人告诉

TED演讲：拥有大脑的真正原因(1)

I'm a neuroscientist. And in neuroscience, we have to deal with many difficult questions about the brain. 我是个神经生物学家。在神经生物学研究里，我们需要处理很多关于大脑的难题。 But I want to start with the easies

TED演讲：气味背后的科学(12)

OK? Now, we're dealing with people who only want results, and this is the commercial world. 今天，我们在和只在乎结果的人们打交道，这是一个商业的世界。 And they tell us that even if we do it by astrology, they're happy, OK

TED演讲：气味背后的科学(10)

Now, coumarin is a very common thing, a material, in fragrance which is derived from a bean that comes from South America. 香豆素是香水中一个十分平常的原料，从来自南美的豆子中提炼出来的。 And it is the classic syntheti

TED演讲:女人的愤怒蕴藏着一生的智慧(2)

So later, I was left pondering this fury, and looking for an explanation as to why, even in her telling of it, 和朋友分开后，我一直在思索这种怒火，想弄明白为什么在她讲述的过程中， I felt fury, too, and why this was a

TED演讲:女人的愤怒蕴藏着一生的智慧(4)

When women get manhandled, we start to rationalize, try to figure out the ways that it was... 当女性受到粗暴对待时，我们开始试图将该行为合理化，试着弄清其中的原因... It was probably our fault. You know what? He proba

TED演讲:女人的愤怒蕴藏着一生的智慧(3)

Fellas, can you imagine you're just on your phone, and someone walks up to you and just takes it out of your hand? 各位，你能想象当你在打电话的时候，有人走过来，然后直接把电话从你手中拿走吗？ And they're like, OK

TED演讲:女人的愤怒蕴藏着一生的智慧(1)

So, I have a friend. She's an actress, she's in her 60s. 我的一个朋友，是个女演员，60多岁了。 She's super bright, badass, emotionally intelligent. 她非常睿智，能力超群，情商很高。 And a couple of days before Christmas