TED演讲:地球的年龄有多大(2)

The United States of America's Declaration of Independence would be signed in the last half-inch. 美国的独立宣言签署在最后的半英寸。 Or if we compared geologic time to a woman stretching her arms to a span of six feet, 如果我们将地

TED演讲:宇宙有中心吗(1)

What is at the center of the universe? 宇宙的中心是什么？ It's an essential question that humans have been wondering about for centuries. 这是个很重要的问题，几百年来，人们一直在探索。 But the journey toward an answer

TED演讲:宇宙的灭亡(1)

Looking up at the night sky, we are amazed by how it seems to go on forever. 仰望夜空，我们为它的永无止境而感到惊讶。 But what will the sky look like billions of years from now? 然而数十亿年前的天空又会是什么样子呢

TED演讲:我们为什么做梦(2)

We dream to keep our brains working. 我们为了保证大脑运转而做梦。 The continual activation theory proposes that 持续激活理论提出， your dreams result from your brain's need to constantly consolidate and create long-term memorie

TED演讲:多元化的自己究竟有多大力量(4)

But reinventing yourself can be very hard. You can face a lot of resistance at times. 但是重塑自己是非常难的。你时常会遇到许多阻碍。 When I was nearly done with my PhD, I got bitten by that entrepreneurial bug. 在我快拿到博

TED演讲:人生交叉点(4)

After receiving my master's at Fisk, I went on to Yale to complete my PhD. 在菲斯克大学获得硕士学位后，我去了耶鲁大学，完成了博士学业。 Once I was physically occupying the space that would ultimately give way to my child

TED演讲:人生交叉点(2)

I've lived the entirety of my life in the in-between, 我一直生活在向交地带， in the liminal space between dreams and reality, race and gender, poverty and plenty, science and society. 徜徉于梦想和现实，种族和性别，贫穷与富

TED演讲:人生交叉点(1)

Great things happen at intersections. 交叉点是个产生奇迹的地方。 In fact, I would argue that some of the most interesting things of the human experience occur at the intersections, 实际上，我想说，人类历史上许多最伟大的事

TED演讲:我们不要一成不变的教育(3)

Now look, I'm a technology fan, but I have to admit to you all I'm a little old. 我是一个技术发烧友，但我得承认我年纪是大了点。 So I was a little slow, and I did not trust technology, and when they first came out with those new

TED演讲:哪个国家对世界最有益(7)

And you're waiting for me to tell you which one comes top. 你在等我告诉你哪个国家是第一名。 And I'm going to tell you, but first of all I want to tell you precisely what I mean when I say a good country. 我会告诉你，但首先让我

TED演讲:曝光政府腐败的战斗(7)

This is Birgitta Jonsdottir. She's an Icelandic MP. And quite an unusual MP. 照片上的是Birgitta Jonsdottir。她是冰岛下院议员。一个不寻常的议员。 In Iceland, she was one of the protesters who was outside of Parliament when the

TED演讲:曝光政府腐败的战斗(8)

But again, when it comes to the decisions which are impacting us the most, 但是，当我们谈论到最影响我们的决定， perhaps, the most important decisions that are being made about war and so forth, 可能关于类似战争这种最重要的

TED演讲:我难忘的一次中国行(2)

Originally, it was meant to be from Beijing, the northern capital to Nanjing, the southern capital. 最初，我们打算从北京一路走到南京。 But I walked a little bit too fast and I got there three weeks early 但我走的太快了点，我提

TED演讲:我无家可归的一年(3)

When winter weather set in, the temperatures dropped below freezing. 当冬天来临的时候，温度骤降到零度以下。 And they stayed there. And I faced a whole new set of challenges. 然后就一直这么冷。我又遇到了一堆新问题，

TED演讲:我难忘的一次中国行(10)

But we go back to this point that China has been a dominant economic power through human history. 我们回到这一点上，中国自古以来是一个主要经济体。 It comes because of the central plain which I was walking right across between

TED演讲:关于人性名利和爱(4)

I started to feel that I had arrived, and generally, by the time I was 40, I was really, really flying. 我开始意识到我成功了，在我40岁左右，我感觉自己真的就像是身处云端。 I was all over the place. You know? I'd done 50

TED演讲:关于人性名利和爱(1)

I'm a movie star, I'm 51 years of age, and I don't use Botox as yet. 我是一位电影明星，今年51岁了。但我还不到要打肉毒杆菌的地步。 So I'm clean, but I do behave like you saw like a 21-year-old in my movies. Yeah, I do that

TED演讲:我难忘的一次中国行(8)

Hard work, so education, investing in the young. 努力工作，重视教育，对年轻人进行投资。 Hard work, these are all important lessons for the future. But there was another element. 这些都是实现未来发展的重要经验。但是还

TED演讲:和老年痴呆症说再见(2)

Let's begin by looking at what we currently understand about the neuroscience of Alzheimer's. 让我们先看看目前神经学上对老年痴呆的了解。 Here's a picture of two neurons connecting. 这是一张两个神经元连接的图。 The p

TED演讲:被遗忘的美国工人阶级(4)

So if you think about what do you do when you grow up in that world, you can respond in a couple of ways. 想象一下，成长在那样的环境中你该怎么办，可能应对方法有很多种。 One, you can say, I'm not going to work hard, beca