TED演讲:漫谈时光流逝(4)

Close encounter three: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 遭遇三:宾夕法尼亚州的费城, 1989. 1989年 In the mid-to-late '80s, 八十世纪末, the novelist Whitley Strieber wrote a book called Communion, 小说家Whitley Strieber写了本自传, i

TED演讲:漫谈时光流逝(5)

Close encounter four: the Algarve, 遭遇四:阿尔加瓦 Portugal, 1991. 葡萄牙,1991. Some years later, I and this woman -- 许多年过后,我和这个女人-- we'll call her Catherine Fletcher -- 我们将称她为Catherine Fletcher- went trave

TED演讲:让现代社会中的老人生活的更好(1)

To give me an idea of how many of you here 为了让我知道这里有多少人 may find what I'm about to tell you 待会儿会觉得我告诉你的事情 of practical value, 有实用价值， let me ask you please to raise your hands: 请符合条件

TED演讲:让现代社会中的老人生活的更好(2)

At the opposite extreme 在对待老人的另一个极端 in treatment of the elderly, the happy extreme, 这个快乐的极端， are the New Guinea farming societies 是在新几内亚的农耕社会 where I've been doing my fieldwork for the past

TED演讲:恋爱中的大脑(4)

And we tend to fall in love with somebody 我们会倾向于 from the same socioeconomic background, 在同等的社会、经济背景， the same general level of intelligence, 同样智力水平， the same general level of good looks, 同等的相貌

TED演讲:人类性进化的启示(1)

I'm going to go off script and make Chris quite nervous here 我打算不按预定的来，这让克里斯很紧张 by making this audience participation. 我打算让观众参与互动 All right. Are you with me? Yeah. Yeah. All right. 懂我的意思

TED演讲:恋爱中的大脑(3)

I would also like to tell the world that animals love. 我还想分享一下关于动物爱情的故事。 There's not an animal on this planet 世界上任何一种动物 that will copulate with anything that comes along. 都不会饥不择食地寻找

TED演讲:老年人更快乐(2)

Study after study 一个又一个的研究 is coming to the same conclusion. 证实了相同的结论 The CDC recently conducted a survey 疾病防治中心(CDC)最近进行了一次调查 where they asked respondents simply to tell them 他们简单地

TED演讲:生死自知(1)

I have a question: 我要问大家一件事： Who here remembers when they first realized 在座的各位谁还记得当自己第一次意识到 they were going to die? 自己有一天会死去时那一刻的感受？ I do. I was a young boy, 我还记

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演讲之生与死:生死自知(4)

The fact that some people believe 事实上有些人民相信 an omnipotent god will resurrect them to live again 一个万能的神能让他们复活 and others believe an omnipotent scientist will do it 还有一些人相信万能的科学能使他们

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:我的专属蘑菇寿衣(2)

I realize this is not the kind of relationship 我意识到,我们一般不会热衷于 that we usually aspire to have with our food. 与我们的食物建立这样的关系 We want to eat, not be eaten by, our food. 我们吃食物,而不是被食物吃

TED演讲:如何健康长寿(1)

Something called the Danish Twin Study 一个叫丹麦双胞胎的研究表明， established that only about 10 percent 普通人在生物学允许的限度内的寿命， of how long the average person lives, 仅仅有百分之十 within certain bi

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: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:老年人更快乐(3)

But as social scientists, we continue to ask 但作为社会学家，我们继续问 about possible alternatives. 是否有其他可能 We've said, well maybe older people 也许老年人 report more positive emotions 报告更多的积极感受 beca

TED演讲:让现代社会中的老人生活的更好(3)

There are several reasons for this low status 美国的老人地位如此低 of the elderly in the U.S. 有几个原因。 One is our Protestant work ethic 一是我们新教的工作伦理 which places high value on work, 这个伦理给予工作很大

TED演讲:让现代社会中的老人生活的更好(5)

Some abilities, of course, decrease with age. 当然，一些能力会随着年龄的增长而变差。 Those include abilities at tasks 这些包括完成 requiring physical strength and stamina, 需要体力和耐力， ambition, and the power of n

TED演讲:老年人更快乐(1)

People are living longer 人们现在越活越久 and societies are getting grayer. 社会也逐渐变得老龄化 You hear about it all the time. 你可能总是听到别人这么说 You read about it in your newspapers. 你也从报纸上如是读到