TED演讲：单一故事的危险性(7)

The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, 巴勒斯坦诗人Mourid Barghouti曾经写到：如果你想剥夺一群人的权利， the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with, secondl

TED演讲：单一故事的危险性(8)

When I learned, some years ago, that writers were expected to have had really unhappy childhoods to be successful, 当我多年前听说作家们必须有极其不幸的童年才能取得成功的时候， I began to think about how I could invent ho

TED演讲:有关激情的故事(8)

Millions of women live like this today. They are the poorest of the poor. 如今还有万千上万的妇女像这样生活着。她们是真正的最穷的穷人。 Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of

TED演讲:为什么最棒的雇员并没有完美的简历(5)

One of my colleagues had his life completely upended as a result of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in 1966. 我有一位同事，因为中国1966年的文化大革命，他的人生彻底颠覆了。 At age 13, his parents were relocated to the coun

TED演讲:为什么要跟别人一样?(2)

So this whole interaction with self and identity was a very difficult one for me growing up. 在我成长过程中，我一直都很难处理自我与身份之间的相互影响。 The self that I attempted to take out into the world was rejected ove

TED演讲:为什么要跟别人一样?(5)

Strangely, these revelations didn't cure my low self-esteem, that feeling of otherness. 奇怪的是，这些启示并没有治愈我那缺少的自尊，那种被划为另类的感觉。 My desire to disappear was still very powerful. 我渴望消失的

TED演讲:请相信你可以进步(2)

I'll tell you what they do next. 让我告诉你他们的表现。 In one study, they told us they would probably cheat the next time instead of studying more if they failed a test. 在一项研究中，他们告诉我们， 如果他们某次考试未

TED演讲:原子究竟有多小?(3)

OK, one more thing, if I can even get more bizarre. 另外还有一件事是更难以想象的 Since virtually all the mass of an atom is in the nucleus 既然事实是原子的全部质量集中在原子核， now, there is some amount of mass in th

Tom Rielly:对TED2006的幽默总结

讽刺作家Tom Rielly在TED2006大会上进行了一次顽皮的恶搞，解构100美元笔记本电脑，北极熊的悲惨境况，和那些不止一次地提到自己在哈佛工作的人。请看Tom 和Al Gore(美国前副总统）之间的特别瞬

TED演讲：别对我撒谎(2)

So before I get started, what I'm going to do is I'm going to clarify my goal for you, which is not to teach a game of Gotcha. 切入主题之前，我先澄清一下，我演讲的目的不是叫你们玩测谎游戏。 Liespotters aren't those nitp

TED演讲：别对我撒谎(5)

Lying's complex. It's woven into the fabric of our daily and our business lives. 说谎这事挺复杂的。这跟我们的日常生活与工作交织在一起。 We're deeply ambivalent about the truth. 我们对真相总是拿捏不准。 We parse

TED演讲：别对我撒谎(6)

We're hardwired to become leaders of the pack. 我们天生就喜欢做领导。 It's starts really, really early. How early? 这从很早很早就开始了。多早？ Well babies will fake a cry, pause, wait to see who's coming and then go right ba

TED演讲：别对我撒谎(7)

What do you do? Well, there are steps we can take to navigate our way through the morass. 怎么办呢？有几个步骤可以指导我们走出迷雾。 Trained liespotters get to the truth 90 percent of the time. 受过识谎训练的人能认识到

TED演讲：解读羞耻(8)

No, it is. You know why this place is amazing? 不，它就是。为什么这地方很神奇？ Because very few people here are afraid to fail. 因为这里几乎没有人 是害怕失败的。 And no one who gets on the stage, so far that I've seen

TED演讲：解读羞耻(2)

And she goes, Uh... no. 然后她说：呃，不记得。 Of course, the only thing I could say at that point was, Yeah, me neither. Yeah -- me neither. 所以当然了，我也只能说：哦，我也是...我也是。 And I'm thinking to myself, Br

TED演讲：解读羞耻(7)

We heard a brilliant simple solution to not killing people in surgery, which is, have a checklist. 我们听说了一个简单有效的方法，来降低手术中病人的死亡率，就是准备一个事项清单。 You can't fix that problem withou

TED演讲:如何把熟蛋变生(2)

Here's the key part. 接下来是关键的部分。 The solution nearest the wall spins faster than the solution closer to the middle. 离试管壁最近的溶液，要比中间的溶液旋转得更快。 That difference in velocity creates sheer str

TED演讲：为什么健康的生活方式几乎把我害死(6)

And the second point I want to make, the final point, is that -- and it's actually been a theme of TEDMED 我想说的第二点，也是最后一点，实际上就是TEDMED的主题-- that joy is so important to your health, that very few of these be

TED演讲：我为什么划船横渡太平洋(6)

So, how do you top rowing across the Atlantic? 你怎么才能超越横渡大西洋？ Well, naturally, you decide to row across the Pacific. 很自然，你会决定横渡太平洋。 Well, I thought the Atlantic was big, but the Pacific is really,

TED演讲视频:依照圣经指导原则生活的一年

在EG会议上，身兼作家、哲学家、爱开玩笑的人和记者的 A.J. Jacobs 谈分享关于这一年依照圣经指导原则生活的经验 -- 尽可能的依照圣经的规范过生活。