TED演讲:忧郁简史(1)

Sadness is part of the human experience, 悲伤是人类必经的感受， but for centuries there has been vast disagreement over exactly what it is and what, if anything, to do about it. 但几个世纪以来，人们既没有判断出它到底是什

TED演讲:辣味的科学(1)

Why does your mouth feel like it's on fire when you eat a spicy pepper? 为什么吃辣椒时嘴里像是着了火一样？ And how do you soothe the burn? 怎样才能缓解这种灼烧感？ Why does wasabi make your eyes water? 为什么芥末酱能

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：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：一个编舞者的现场创作过程(3)

And what I thought I'd do is, I'd make a TED premiere. 我想我要做的是，办一个TED首演。 I'm not sure if this is going to be good or not. I just be doing it. 我不知道能不能成功。只要试试看。我只是做做看。 I thought

TED演讲:流行饮食法有用吗(3)

Marketing emphasizes the allure of products associated with ancient and remote cultures to create a sense of mysticism for consumers. 营销人员强调这些和远古文化有关的产品的吸引力，来给消费者带来一种神秘的感觉。 W

TED演讲:流行饮食法有用吗(2)

Sodium is lost until the body can balance itself out, and temporary fluid weight loss may occur. 在身体能够补充之前，我们流失了钠元素，而且还会出现体液流失造成的暂时体重下降。 With other high-protein diets, you

TED演讲:你怎么知道自己是存在的(2)

Maybe the body you perceive yourself to have isn't really there. 或许你感知到的自己的身体，其实并不存在。 Maybe all of reality, even its abstract concepts, like time, shape, color and number are false, all just deceptions concocte

TED演讲:你怎么知道自己是存在的(1)

How do you know you're real? 你如何意识到自己的真实存在？ It's an obvious question until you try to answer it, but let's take it seriously. 这是个显而易见的问题，但回答起来不容易，让我们严肃地讨论一下。 Ho

TED演讲:压力会造成青春痘吗(2)

The hypothalamus, the master controller of your hormones, releases something called corticotropin-releasing hormone. 下视丘是控制荷尔蒙的主宰，它会释放一种叫促肾上腺皮质释放素的物质。 This triggers the pituitary gland

TED演讲:为什么认为自己丑会对你不利(4)

And we think it's for all of these reasons that they take more risks with things like alcohol and drug use; 基于以上理由，我们认为他们有更高的风险去做那些像酗酒、吸毒、 crash dieting; cosmetic surgery; unprotected, earli

TED演讲:为什么认为自己丑会对你不利(3)

But, what's the problem with all of this? 但是, 所有的这些表现的问题是什么呢? Well, surely we want our kids to grow up as healthy, well balanced individuals. 我们当然希望我们的孩子成长为一个健康、均衡发展的个人

TED演讲:人体解剖艺术的魅力(4)

Nothing can elicit an emotional response -- 任何事物都无法像人体一样 from joy to complete disgust -- more than the human body. 表达诸多情感--从快乐到厌恶至极。 And today, artists armed with that emotion, 当今，艺术家正

TED英语演讲:肠胃里的大脑

TED英语演讲:肠胃里的大脑 This technology made a very important impact on us. It changed the way our history developed. But it's a technology so pervasive, so invisible, that we, for a long time, forgot to take it into account when we talked

TED演讲:如何健康长寿(3)

What am I doing here? 我为何还站在这里 Well, the fact of the matter is 事实上， the best science tells us that the capacity of the human body, 最可信的科学表明人类能活， my body, your body, 我和你们一样 is about 90 year

TED演讲:我的专属蘑菇寿衣(1)

So I'm here to explain 我来解释一下 why I'm wearing these ninja pajamas. 为什么我穿着这样一套忍者睡衣 And to do that, I'd like to talk first 我想首先谈谈我们体内含有的 about environmental toxins in our bodies. 对环境

TED演讲:生死自知(3)

But the idea that science can cure death 但科学能够治愈死亡的观点 is just one more chapter in the story 只是神奇的灵丹妙药故事的 of the magical elixir, 又一个章节， a story that is as old as civilization. 和古文明一样

TED演讲:恋爱中的大脑(1)

I and my colleagues Art Aron and Lucy Brown and others, 我和阿尔特阿伦、露西布朗还有其他同事 have put 37 people who are madly in love 对37位处在恋爱不同阶段的人的大脑 into a functional MRI brain scanner. 进行了核磁

TED演讲：肢体语言塑造你自己(2)

So a handshake, or the lack of a handshake, can have us talking for weeks and weeks and weeks. 所以一个握手，或不握手，我们都可以聊上好几个礼拜。 Even the BBC and The New York Times. 即使BBC和纽约时报也不例外。 So

TED演讲：细菌是怎样交流的(2)

These bacteria are not passive riders, these are incredibly important, they keep us alive. 这些细菌不是顺从的乘客，他们难以置信得重要，他们让我们活着。 They cover us in an invisible body armor that keeps environmental in