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

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: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