TED演讲:我们的意识

So I'm going to speak about a problem that I have and that's that I'm a philosopher. 让我从我的一个问题开始，那就是，我是一个哲学家。 When I go to a party and people ask me what do I do 当我参加派对时，人们问我，我

TED演讲:我们的意识(2)

Now, this nice picture shows a thought-balloon, a thought-bubble. 好了，这张图展示的是一个思维泡泡。 I think everybody understands what that means. 我想大家都知道这是什么意思。 That's supposed to exhibit the stream of c

TED演讲:失落了的民主辩论艺术

One thing the world needs, 有一样东西，这个世界非常需要， one thing this country desperately needs 这个国家更是迫切需要 is a better way of conducting our political debates. 那就是一种更好地进行政治辩论的方法

TED演讲:失落了的民主辩论艺术(2)

We'll all be better off if good music is played rather than terrible music. 有好音乐听，我们的生活更美好 But Peter, Aristotle doesn't agree with you that that's the reason. 但是，彼得，亚里士多德的理由跟你的很不一样

TED演讲:科学解释之新探(6)

If the axis-tilt theory had been refuted, 倘若地轴倾斜理论被观察否定了 its defenders would have had nowhere to go. 它的支持者们就无路可退了 No easily implemented change could make that tilt 没有什么信手拈来的变动能

TED演讲:科学解释之新探(5)

Why a marriage contract and not any other reason for regular annual action? 为什么是一纸婚书而不是其他什么原因使普西芬妮定期往返呢？ Here is one. Persephone wasn't released. 我且来举个例子：普西芬妮并没有被放

TED演讲之面对灾难:海地的工程灾难

I learned about the Haiti earthquake by Skype. 我是从Skype上知道海地地震的。 My wife sent me a message, Whoa, earthquake, and then disappeared for 25 minutes. 我妻子给我发了个消息，哇，地震了，然后就消失了25分钟。

TED演讲:海地的工程灾难(2)

This is the Ministry of Justice. 这是司法部。 Behind that door is the National Judicial Archives. 那扇门后是国家司法档案馆。 The fellow in the door, Andre Filitrault -- 门旁站着的是安德烈菲利亚特罗， who's the direct

TED演讲:海地的工程灾难(3)

Right now, AIDG is working with KPFF Consulting Engineers, Architecture for Humanity, 目前，AIDG与KPFF咨询工程师，人本建筑协会一起 to bring more confined masonry training into Haiti. 为海地带去更多的砖混结构培训。 Thi

TED演讲:通过发短信来报告危机事件

So I'm here to tell you a story of success from Africa. 在这里，我要跟大家分享一个在非洲的成功故事。 A year and a half ago, 一年半以前 four of the five people who are full time members at Ushahidi, 在这里的5个人是Ush

TED演讲:通过发短信来报告危机事件(2)

I'm here to talk about the next big thing, 我在这里要谈论另一件重要事情 because what we're finding out is that 因为我们发现 we have this capacity to report eyewitness accounts of what's going on in real time. 我们有能力根据目

TED演讲:修复照片,重振人生(2)

This was the very first. 这是初次尝试（的一张照片）。 Not terribly damaged, but where the water had caused that discoloration on the girl's face 还不算毁坏得太严重，但是被水浸没的地方导致照片中小女孩的脸掉色

TED演讲:修复照片,重振人生(3)

The lady who brought us these photos was lucky, as far as the photos go. 那位给我们这些照片的女士非常幸运，就这些照片而言， She had started hand-cleaning them herself and stopped 她也开始自己亲手清洗照片， when s

TED演讲:科技为人道主义带来的变化

The humanitarian model has barely changed since the early 20th century. 人道主义的模型自从20世纪初期就几乎没有改变过 Its origins are firmly rooted in the analog age. 它的起源在模拟时代就根深蒂固了 And there is a ma

TED演讲:科技为人道主义带来的变化(2)

Never having been confronted with this type of situation before, 我们从未遇到过此类情况， we wanted to try and understand how we could tap into this incredible resource, 我们想努力了解如何利用这些令人难以置信的信息资源

TED演讲:科技为人道主义带来的变化(3)

One illustration of the transformational power of technology is in Kibera. 一个与科技改革力量有关的例子发生在基贝拉 Kibera is one of Africa's largest slums. 基贝拉是非洲最大的贫民窟之一 It's on the outskirts of Nairo

TED演讲:修复照片,重振人生

Before March, 2011, I was a photographic retoucher based in New York City. 2011年3月之前，我是摄影修片师，常驻纽约市。 We're pale, gray creatures. 我们苍白无力、面如死灰。 We hide in dark, windowless rooms, and generall

TED演讲:科技为人道主义带来的变化(4)

In Nigeria, 在尼日利亚 open-source, open-source SMS tools are being used by the Red Cross community workers 红十字会的工作人员也在使用开放的短信工具 to gather information from the local community 他们从当地社区里收集资

TED演讲:科学解释之新探(2)

That all that, discovered in 40 years, 这40年中的所有发现 had not been in the previous hundred thousand, 是数千年来所未有的 was not for lack of thinking about stars, and all those other urgent problems they had. 而这可不能归结为

TED演讲:科学解释之新探(3)

At the time, what they thought 在那个时候，启蒙学者们认为 distinguished science was a radical idea about things unseen, known as empiricism. 科学的独特标志是一个关于不可见事物的激进看法，叫做经验主义 All know