2008年的TED获奖者,物理学家Neil Turok指出有天赋的非洲年轻人十分渴求机会。他呼吁通过解放和培养非洲大陆的创造天赋,改变非洲的未来

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:贫穷至进步

Why arent there more women physicists, and in senior positions? One factor may be unconscious biases that could keep women physicists from advancingand may even prevent women from going into physics in the first place. Amy Bug, a physicist at Swarthm

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(八)月

Albert Einstein was a German-born physicist, although most people probably know him as the most intelligent person who ever lived. His name has become part of many languages when we want to say someone is a genius, as in the phrase, Shes a real Einst

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 世界名人简介

In 2012, Kaggle challenged its community to build an algorithm that could grade high-school essays. 2012年,Kaggle给当地学校出了个难题,设计一个算法来评判高中作文。 The winning algorithms were able to match the grades given

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲科学篇

I dont know how people understand physics. I think its a fascinating subject and really wish I understood more. Physics seems to explain everything about our world and our universe. Its as though physics is the key to unlocking all of our worlds myst

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 纯正英语一分钟

Science and Technology Fundamental physics Antimatter of fact 科技 基础物理 反物质研究突飞猛进 Researchers at CERN have held on to anti-atoms for a full quarter of an hour 欧洲核子研究中心的科研人员让反原子颗粒存在时

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

Books and Arts; Quantum physics 文艺;量子物理学 House of dreams;Scientists race to explain why the Higgs boson matters 想象的殿堂;科学家竞相解释为什么希格斯玻色子至关重要 Higgs Force: The Symmetry-Breaking Force

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

Books and Arts; Book Review; Fundamental physics; Big bang; 文艺;书评;基础物理学;宇宙大爆炸; Popular physics has enjoyed a new-found regard. Now comes a brave attempt to inject mathematics into an otherwise fashionable subject 科

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

Time travel is a familiar subject of science fiction and fantasy stories, from H.G. Wells to Rod Serling to Hot Tub Time Machine. But could time travel ever be possible in real life? And, if so, how would humans even handle a technology with such gre

发表于:2019-01-28 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

-Leonard: I'm helping. 我在帮忙 -Penny: I can see. 看见了 -Sheldon: Alicia's non-musical, childless and pro-rug. musical: 音乐的 childless: 无子女的 rug: 小地毯 pro: 赞成 Alicia不玩音乐不生孩子赞成小地毯 She's still on

发表于:2019-01-28 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 生活大爆炸第二季

-David: No problem. 不用。 -Leonard: I had no idea it was so heavy. heavy: 重的 我不知道它会这么重。 The thing just fell right, over on me, didn't it? 它实实地压住我了,对吧? -David: Yeah. Lucky for you it wasn't moving. 是呀

发表于:2019-01-28 / 阅读(172) / 评论(0) 分类 生活大爆炸第二季

What Michelson and Morley did, without actually intending to, was undermine a longstanding belief in something called the luminiferous ether, 迈克尔逊和莫雷所做的实际上是在无意之中所做的破坏了长期以来人们对一种所谓光

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

Kelvin died in 1907. That year also saw the death of Dmitri Mendeleyev. Like Kelvin, his productive work was far behind him, but his declining years were notably less serene. As he aged, Mendeleyev became increasingly eccentriche refused to acknowled

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穿越回过去真的有可能吗? Are you weirded out by wormholes? Flummoxed by your flux capacitor? Strap yourself in for this time-travel primer. 你是不是觉得虫洞很神奇呢?对你不稳定的电容器感到疑惑?那么就来学些关

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英语万花筒

He won the Nobel Prize for physics. But Brian Schmidt received no special treatment from the TSA when he tried to take the 24-carat pure gold medal through airport security in Fargo, Nebraska. He was awarded the prize, made from $10,000 of gold, for

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

A cat who resembles a cross between Albert Einstein and Grumpy Cat has become an online sensation after his 'unique' look caught the eye of Instagram users. 这只让人一看到就联想到艾伯特.爱因斯坦和不爽猫的喵星人,自从它的独

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

一位天文物理学家因为汽车减压爆炸而死亡。Castle认为这不是简单的爆炸案,而是一起外星抢劫案正当他们调查到一些线索的时候,当地政府出面阻止调查,这又让他们的调查陷入无线索状态

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 灵书妙探 第三季

物理学家兼冲浪运动员的加勒特 里斯展示了一个全新的富有争议的宇宙模型。这个模型可能解决了所有终极问题。这可能是大家能见到的最漂亮的关于基本粒子和力学的8维模型。

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:头脑游戏

Professor Stephen Hawking, the physicist, would consider assisted suicide if he felt he had nothing more to contribute to the world and was merely a burden, he has said. 物理学家史蒂芬?霍金教授曾表示,如果他觉得自己无法再对这

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

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

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲科学篇