TED演讲：请求的艺术(7)

And you can see how many people it is. It's about 25,000 people. 可以看出有多少人参与了募款。大约两万五千人。 And the media asked, Amanda, the music business is tanking and you encourage piracy. 媒体会问，Amanda，音乐产业

TED演讲：请求的艺术(6)

We sign, and there's all this hype leading up to our next record. 签约之后，公司举办了大量的宣传活动为我们的新唱片造势。 It comes out and it sells about 25,000 copies in the first few weeks, and the label considers this a f

TED演讲：请求的艺术(5)

Is this how stupid people die? And before I can change my mind, the door busts open. 愚蠢的人是不是就是这样死的？我还没来得及改变主意，门就打开了。 She's an artist. He's a financial blogger for Reuters, and they're pour

TED演讲：请求的艺术(4)

My crew once pulled our van up to a really poor Miami neighborhood 我的团队曾经把车停在一个非常贫穷的迈阿密社区， and we found out that our couchsurfing host for the night was an 18-year-old girl, still living at home, 我们发现

TED演讲：请求的艺术(3)

And then Twitter came along, and made things even more magic, because I could ask instantly for anything anywhere. 后来，微博的出现让事情变得更加神奇，因为我可以在任意时间和地点提出任何要求。 So I would need a pi

TED演讲：请求的艺术(1)

So, I didn't always make my living from music. 我以前并不靠音乐谋生。 For about the five years after graduating from an upstanding liberal arts university, this was my day job. 自从我五年前从一所正派的文理学院毕业起，这是

TED演讲：用"云"建立一所学校(12)

So here are a couple of images from SOLEs. 这里有一些自主教育环境的图像。 I've tried incredible, incredible questions -- When did the world begin? How will it end? to nine-year-olds. 我尝试问过一些非常惊人的问题世界是从

TED演讲：用"云"建立一所学校(11)

It's been tried all over the world, and teachers sort of stand back and say, It just happens by itself? 在世界各地尝试过，老师们后退着说：它就这么自己发生了？ And I said, Yeah, it happens by itself.How did you know that? 我说

TED演讲：用"云"建立一所学校(10)

I came back to England looking for British grandmothers. 我回到英国找当地的老太太们。 I put out notices in papers saying, if you are a British grandmother, if you have broadband and a web camera, can you give me one hour of your time pe

TED演讲：用"云"建立一所学校(9)

I got the camera angle wrong. 我把相机角度弄错了。 That one is just amateur stuff, but what she was saying, as you could make out, was about neurons, with her hands were like that, 那是张业余作品，但是她说话的内容，你们能听

TED演讲：用"云"建立一所学校(8)

So I tested them. I got an educational impossibility, zero to 30 percent in two months in the tropical heat with a computer under the tree in a language they didn't know doing something that's a decade ahead of their time. 跟着我测试了他们。我

TED演讲：请求的艺术(2)

And I would get harassed sometimes. People would yell at me from their cars. Get a job! 有时候我会被骚扰。开车路过的人从车里对我大喊。找份工作去！ And I'd be, like, This is my job. But it hurt, because it made me fear tha

TED演讲：舞者还是用PPT?(2)

Now if you use the right kind of atoms and you get them cold enough, something truly bizarre happens. 如果使用正确的原子，并让其足够冷却，奇迹就会发生。 It's no longer a solid, a liquid or a gas. It enters a new state of matt

TED演讲：舞者还是用PPT?(4)

And this brings me to my modest proposal. I think that bad PowerPoint presentations are a serious threat to the global economy. 下面我就谈谈我的小小建议。我认为，用幻灯片做的那些糟糕的报告是全球经济的严重威胁。

TED演讲：舞者还是用PPT?(3)

Now, the idea is not as crazy as it sounds. 其实，这个想法并不像听起来那么恐怖。 I started a contest four years ago called Dance Your Ph.D. Instead of explaining their research with words, scientists have to explain it with dance. 四

TED演讲：舞者还是用PPT?(1)

Good afternoon. 下午好。 As you're all aware, we face difficult economic times. I come to you with a modest proposal for easing the financial burden. 众所周知，我们正处经济困难时期。今天我带来了一个小小的建议可以消除

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