TED演讲:我们能够避免老化(7)

It's got to be philanthropic, because profits distract biotech, 这些研究的钱的来源最好是慈善，因为利润会分散生物技术研究公司的注意力， but it's basically got a 90 percent chance, I think, of succeeding in this. 但我

Funiculi, Funicula

Some think the world is made for fun and frolic And so do I, and so do I Some think it well to be all melancholic To pine and sigh, to pine and sigh But I, I love to spend my time in singing Some joyo

TED演讲：舞者还是用PPT?(3)

Now, the idea is not as crazy as it sounds. 其实，这个想法并不像听起来那么恐怖。 I started a contest four years ago called Dance Your Ph.D. Instead of explaining their research with words, scientists have to explain it with dance. 四

原版英语小短文 149. Cancer Cells or Fat Cells?

Norm woke up to go to the bathroom. He looked in the bathroom mirror. That bump used to be smaller. It was on the side of his nose. The bump looked puffy. He touched it. It wasn't hard. It didn't hurt. It wasn't a different color. Maybe it was just s

TED演讲:在体内寻找癌细胞的小颗粒(1)

In the space that used to house one transistor, we can now fit one billion. 在以前，可以放置一个晶体管的空间，现在可以放10亿个。 That made it so that a computer the size of an entire room now fits in your pocket. 这导致曾经

TED演讲:医学的未来?也许是手机上的一个应用程序(5)

We use those in my field of bone marrow transplantation. 我们把这些干细胞用于骨髓移植领域。 Geron, just last year, started the first trial using human embryonic stem cells to treat spinal cord injuries. 杰龙去年开始第一次尝试

TED演讲:医学的未来?也许是手机上的一个应用程序(4)

Now if you have trouble maintaining your diet, 如果你不能保持节食， it might help to have some extra imagery to remind you how many calories are going to be coming at you. 一些图像也许会有助于提醒你食物里有多少热量。 H

TED演讲:碳水化合物是怎么作用于你的健康的(3)

When you eat and your blood sugar rises, insulin is secreted into the blood. 当你吃东西导致血糖升高的时候，胰岛素会被分泌到血液中。 It prompts your muscle and fat cells to let glucose in and jump starts the conversion of su

TED演讲:生病时感到难受的惊人原因(1)

It starts with a tickle in your throat that becomes a cough. 你一开始是喉咙痒，而后转为咳嗽。 Your muscles begin to ache, you grow irritable, and you lose your appetite. It's official: you've got the flu. 肌肉开始疼痛，逐渐烦躁

TED演讲:什么是疼痛(1)

Let's say that it would take you ten minutes to solve this puzzle. 假如你要用十分钟完成这个拼图。 How long would it take if you received constant electric shocks to your hands? 如果你的手被持续电击，你会用多久完成它？

TED演讲:疯狂的科学家用苹果做出了耳朵(2)

So one day I was hacking something, I was taking it apart, and I had this sudden idea: 有一天我正在拆解东西，我突然产生了这样的想法： You know, could I treat biology like hardware? 我能不能把生物体当作硬件？ Could

TED演讲:怎样让企业持续运行100年(1)

Imagine that you are a product designer. 把自己想象成一个产品设计师。 And you've designed a product, a new type of product, called the human immune system. 你设计了一种产品，一种叫做人体免疫机制的新产品 You're pit

TED演讲:拥抱你的内心少女

Namaste. Good morning. 早上好！ I'm very happy to be here in India. 很高兴今天来到印度。 And I've been thinking a lot about what I have learned 过去的十一年，我带着《阴道独白》和V-Day运动， over these last particular

TED演讲:如何健康长寿(2)

And the first myth is if you try really hard 谣言一：如果你很努力地尝试， you can live to be 100. 你就可以活到一百岁。 False. 错了。 The problem is, only about one out of 5,000 people 事实上，在美国，每五千人中只

TED演讲 获奖青少年,科技在行动(5)

But those are dots on a screen for you; what exactly does that mean? 但是那些你们看起来是屏幕上的点；到底有什么意义呢？ Well basically that means that this protein is changing from the sensitive cell to the resistant cell. 基本

TED演讲 获奖青少年,科技在行动(4)

So ovarian cancer is one of those cancers that most people don't know about, 卵巢癌是大多数人所不了解的癌症之一， or at least don't pay that much attention to. 或者至少说没有怎么注意。 But yet, it's the fifth leading cau

TED演讲:我们的意识(2)

Now, this nice picture shows a thought-balloon, a thought-bubble. 好了，这张图展示的是一个思维泡泡。 I think everybody understands what that means. 我想大家都知道这是什么意思。 That's supposed to exhibit the stream of c

TED演讲：细菌是怎样交流的(5)

But then if you think about it, the squid has this terrible problem 但是如果你再深入地想一下，这乌贼会有一个可怕的问题， because it's got this dying, thick culture of bacteria and it can't sustain that. 因为在它的体内，

TED演讲：细菌是怎样交流的(11)

And what I would hope that I could further argue to you is that this is the invention of multicellularity. 我希望能进一步地说服你们的是，这就是多细胞生物的起源。 Bacteria have been on the Earth for billions of years; humans

TED演讲：细菌是怎样交流的(1)

Bacteria are the oldest living organisms on the earth. 细菌是地球上最古老的生物。 They've been here for billions of years, and what they are are single-celled microscopic organisms. 它们已经存在数十亿年了，它们是单细胞微