TED演讲:恐惧核能是怎样伤害环境的(4)

That's why when, in California, we try to deal with all the solar we've brought online 这就是为什么在加州，我们正在尝试太阳能的完全使用， we now get about 10 percent of electricity from solar 我们现在能够从太阳能获得

TED演讲:恐惧核能是怎样伤害环境的(2)

Now, you might wonder, Come on, how much could five percentage points of global electricity be? 现在你可能会问，拜托，全球5%的电力能有多少？ Well, it turns out to be quite a bit. 事实证明还蛮多的。 It's the equivalent of

TED演讲:货币的未来(8)

The computer that solves the puzzle publishes its solution to the rest of the network and collects its reward: new bitcoins. 解开了谜题的计算机便把结果发布到互联网上，并获得新的比特币作为奖励。 And in the act of solv

TED演讲：演示'第六感'(4)

So we see Pranav here going into the supermarket and he's shopping for some paper towels. 我们看到Pranav现在去了超市，他打算买一些纸巾。 And, as he picks up a product, the system can recognize the product that he's picking up, usi

TED演讲:漫谈时光流逝(5)

Close encounter four: the Algarve, 遭遇四:阿尔加瓦 Portugal, 1991. 葡萄牙,1991. Some years later, I and this woman -- 许多年过后,我和这个女人-- we'll call her Catherine Fletcher -- 我们将称她为Catherine Fletcher- went trave

TED演讲:互联网怎样使人们变得亲密(2)

So, think of the three settings I've talked to you about: 那么想想这3个我所谈到的背景： factory, migration, office. 工厂，移民，办公室。 But it could be in a school, it could be an administration, 但这也可能在学校，在政

TED演讲:成功的钥匙?毅力(3)

Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. 毅力是对长远目标的激情和坚持。毅力是拥有持久的恒劲。 Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for

TED演讲:成功的钥匙?毅力(1)

When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. 在我27岁的时候，我辞去了一份非常有挑战性的职业，企业管理咨询，转而投入了一份更加具有

TED演讲:选择的困惑(7)

You really want to get the decision right if it's for all eternity, right? 当你进入极乐世界时，你一定希望你做出的决定是正确的，是吗？ You don't want to pick the wrong mutual fund, or the wrong salad dressing. So that's on

TED演讲:选择的困惑(5)

There is one corner, by the way, that I'm not going to tell anybody about, where the WiFi actually works. 但是，这个饭店里的确有一个地方可以无线上网。 I'm not telling you about it because I want to use it. 可我不会告诉你们

TED演讲:选择的困惑(4)

Something as dramatic as our identity has now become a matter of choice, as this slide is meant to indicate. 如今像我们的性别身份这类的事都成了选择的话题了，就像这张幻灯片试图说明的那样。 We don't inherit an ide

TED演讲:选择的困惑(3)

So, in other aspects of life that are much more significant than buying things, the same explosion of choice is true. Health care. 同样，在生活里的其它一些比购物更对我们产生影响事情上，这种选择的爆炸同样存在。医疗

TED演讲:为什么你应该热爱统计学(3)

It's the part of mathematics that even mathematicians don't particularly like, 统计是数学的一部分，但是它是连数学家都不怎么喜欢的那一部分， because whereas the rest of maths is all about precision and certainty, statisti

TED演讲:选择的困惑(2)

This is my supermarket. Not such a big one. I want to say just a word about salad dressing. 这是我家附近的一个超市。不算很大。我只想说说这里的色拉调料。 175 salad dressings in my supermarket, 我这家超市有175种各式

TED演讲:为什么你应该热爱统计学(7)

How about the next question? This is asking about what the average age is, 那么下一个问题呢？这是问关于年龄的中位数， so the age at which half the population are younger and half the population are older. 也就是该地区大于和

TED演讲:为什么你应该热爱统计学(6)

So I devised a quiz: How well do you know your area? 对此我设计了一个测试：你对你居住的地区了解多少？ It's a simple Web app. 这是一个简单的网络应用。 You put in a post code and then it will ask you questions based

TED演讲:为什么你应该热爱统计学(2)

Now, it's not just an English problem. 实际上，不仅英国存在这样的的问题。 OECD this year released some figures looking at numeracy in young people, OECD今年发布了一些关于青少年计算能力的数据， and leading the way,

TED演讲:为掌握而不是为了分数而教学(4)

So the idea of mastery learning is to do the exact opposite. 然而掌握式教育的观念就是反其道而行之。 Instead of artificially constraining, fixing when and how long you work on something, 将人为的限制、僵化、何时学习和学

TED演讲:为掌握而不是为了分数而教学(6)

But what if that estimate is just based on your own experience in a non-mastery framework, 但假如那些判断仅仅是基于你们非掌握体系的个人经验， your own experience with yourself or observing your peers, 是基于你们的自身经

TED演讲:我们能够避免老化(2)

You know, if you haven't got an argument that's that strong, 你知道，如果你还没有比这一个说法更强的论点， then just don't waste my time, is what I say. 那么就不要浪费我的时间。这是我的看法。 Now, there is one