TED演讲:和老年痴呆症说再见(6)

What about sleep? In slow-wave deep sleep, our glial cells rinse cerebral spinal fluid throughout our brains, 关于睡眠呢？在慢波深度睡眠时，我们的神经胶质细胞冲洗着我们大脑中的脑脊液， clearing away metabolic wast

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: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: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: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:为什么应该喜爱'恶心'的科学(7)

There's another reason that talking to your doctor about your health and gross stuff is really, really important. 与医生谈论健康和恶心的东西有很重要的另外一个原因。 Doctors and the scientific community can only address issues

TED演讲：气味背后的科学(7)

However, I managed to get a hold of a Borane eventually, and here is the beast. 无论如何，我最终得到了一些硼烷，这就是那个怪物。 And it really does have the same -- if you calculate, if you measure the vibrational frequencies,

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：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：请求的艺术(8)

I recommend this, especially if those strangers are drunk German people. 我推荐这种方式，尤其是这些陌生人都是醉酒的德国人的时候。 This was a ninja master-level fan connection, 这是与歌迷交流的最高级别， becaus

TED演讲：用舞蹈战胜癌症(3)

I also declared to the world at large that I would ride it out, and I would not allow cancer to ride me. 我还向世界宣告，我将度过难关，我不会允许癌症将我打倒。 But to go from where I was to where I wanted to be, I needed so

TED演讲：用舞蹈战胜癌症(2)

Overcome with the enormity of it all and the complete feeling of loss of control, I shed copious tears and asked my dear husband, Jayant. 经历所有的巨痛并彻底感到失去控制，我流了很多泪水，问我亲爱的丈夫，Jayant。 I s

TED演讲：别对我撒谎(16)

Now the technology around what the truth looks like is progressing on, the science of it. 现在的测谎技术正在日新月异地发展。 We know, for example, that we now have specialized eye trackers and infrared brain scans, 比如说，我们有

TED演讲：别对我撒谎(17)

When you combine the science of recognizing deception with the art of looking, listening, you exempt yourself from collaborating in a lie. 当你把观察和倾听的艺术与识谎的科学结合起来，你就不会上当受骗。 You start up that

TED演讲：一个编舞者的现场创作过程(7)

So from there, from there, we're both getting up, we're both getting up, going in this direction, going underneath. 所以从那起，我们都站起来，我们都站起来，向这个方向走， 再从底下绕过去。 Whoa, whoa, underneath. Who

TED演讲：单词的诞生(5)

And the implications of this -- there are many, 这其中蕴含的--有很多意义 but one I just want to point out, is that there must be amazing feedback loops. 但是我想指出的其中的一个，就是这个过程中必定包涵了一个惊人的

TED演讲：暗喻言说(2)

This formula works wherever metaphor is present. 这个公式适用于所有的暗喻。 Elvis uses it, but so does Shakespeare in this famous line from Romeo and Juliet: Juliet is the sun. 埃尔维斯用到它，莎士比亚也同样用到它，于《

TED演讲:书呆子教你如何在线学习(1)

This is a map of New York State that was made in 1937 by the General Drafting Company. 这是一张纽约州的地图，由通用制图公司在1937年绘制。 It's an extremely famous map among cartography nerds, 这张地图在地图发烧友中非常

TED演讲:一项关于电动车的大胆计划(8)

And that's the difference between problems that are additive, like CO2, 这个就是可添加性问题，像二氧化碳问题， which we go slowly up and then we tip, and problems that are depletive, in which we lose what we have, which oscillate, 慢

TED演讲:一项关于电动车的大胆计划(4)

You, today, buy gasoline miles. And we created electric miles. 现在大家买的是汽油里程。我们就创造电子里程。 And the price of electric miles ends up being a very interesting number. 电子里程价钱加起来是个有趣的数字。