TED演讲:有关激情的故事(2)

One of the organizers of the Olympic ceremony, of the opening ceremony, 奥林匹克开幕式的一位组织者， called me and said that I had been selected to be one of the flag-bearers. 通知我被他们选中，作为一名护旗手。 I replie

TED演讲:有关激情的故事(1)

Thank you so much. It's really scary to be here among the smartest of the smart. 非常感谢。站在你们这些绝顶聪明的人之间让我感到有一点可怕。 I'm here to tell you a few tales of passion. 我将会在这里讲述关于激情的

X星球系列故事 第29期:Danger sign

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X星球系列故事 第28期:The man who loved money

The man who loved money守财奴 Once upon a time, there was a man who loved money. He loved it so much that he wouldn't spend any of the money he earned. He wouldn't part with even a tiny bit. This stingy man didn't buy new clothes. Instead, he wore

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The wind and the sun 风与太阳 One day, the wind and the sun were arguing about who was the strongest. It is clear that I am the strongest, said the wind. When I blow, branches break off the trees, and the waves beat on the shore. That's nothing,

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Its five years old. 它五岁了 'Now remember boys and girls,' said the science teacher. 'You can tell a tree's age by counting the rings in a cross section. one ring for each year.' Tom went home for dinner and found they were having a jelly roll f

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Fingernail biting咬手指甲 Lily had habit of biting her fingernails. She started doing YOGA to treat the problem. Soon her finger-nails started growing normally. Seeing this, Mike asked if yoga had totally cured her problem. No, she replied with a

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A million dollars An English teacher asked her class to write an essay on what they'd do if they had a million dollars. Alec handed in a blank sheet of paper. 'Alec!' yelled the teacher, 'you've done nothing. Why?' 'Because if I had a million dollars

X星球系列故事 第30期:A trip to space

A trip to space 去太空旅行 Im so happy! Tomorrow Ill be one of the first students to travel into space. The spaceship will leave the Earth at 9 a.m. Itll take us to the Moon. I cant wait! The Moon is around 380,000 kilometers from the Earth, so

TED演讲:有关激情的故事(4)

In the green room I received my uniform. 在绿色房间中我接到了我的制服。 It was not the kind of outfit that I normally wear, but it was far from the Michelin Man suit that I had anticipated. 这并不是我平时所穿衣服的类型，但

TED演讲：用前所未有的好方法诠释数字统计(11)

But I think it's very important to have all this information. We need really to see it. 我认为这些信息很重要。大家很有必要看到这些。 And instead of looking at this, I would like to end up by showing the Internet users per 1,000.

TED演讲:和老年痴呆症说再见(5)

Even before scientists sort this out, this information is actually really good news for us, 即使科学家还尚未解决问题，这一好消息确实振奋人心， because it turns out that the way we live can influence the accumulation of amyloi

TED演讲:和老年痴呆症说再见(4)

So what happens when amyloid plaques accumulate to this tipping point? 所以当淀粉样斑块积累到临界点后会发生什么？ Our microglia janitor cells become hyper-activated, releasing chemicals that cause inflammation and cellular damage

TED演讲:对最近气候趋势的警告(5)

Finally, the positive alternative meshes with our economic challenge and our national security challenge. 最后是这个正面的方案，可以应对经济挑战和国家安全挑战。 America is in crisis -- the economy, national security, the cl

TED演讲:对最近气候趋势的警告(4)

Frosty the coal man is a jolly, happy soul. 雪白煤碳先生是个快乐的精灵。 He's abundant here in America, and he helps our economy grow. 它在美国产量丰富，并且帮助我们的经济成长。 Frosty the coal man is getting cleane

TED演讲:对最近气候趋势的警告(3)

In the last five years we've added 70 million tons of CO2 every 24 hours -- 25 million tons every day to the oceans. 在过去五年间，我们每二十四小时已经增加了了七千万吨的二氧化碳排放量，每天排放两千五百万吨的

TED演讲:对最近气候趋势的警告(2)

And one reason is, this enormous heat sink heats up Greenland from the north. 有一个原因，北方沉积的大量热能加热了格陵兰岛。 This is an annual melting river. But the volumes are much larger than ever. 这是一条每年融化的河

TED演讲:对最近气候趋势的警告(1)

Last year I showed these two slides so that demonstrate that the arctic ice cap, 去年我给各位展示了两个关于北极冰帽的演示， which for most of the last three million years has been the size of the lower 48 states, has shrunk by 40

TED演讲:和老年痴呆症说再见(8)

How can this be? We think it's because these nuns had a high level of cognitive reserve, 这是怎么回事呢？我们认为这是因为这些修女拥有高级的认知储备， which is a way of saying that they had more functional synapses. 意味着

TED演讲:和老年痴呆症说再见(7)

Let's imagine that your amyloid plaques have reached that tipping point. 假设你的淀粉样斑块已经达到临界点。 Your scale arm has crashed to the floor. 你天平的一端已坠地。 You've tripped the cascade, setting fire to the fores