TED演讲:人生交叉点(3)

I began my college experience just after my family had fallen apart. 我的大学生涯伊始，家庭就分崩离析。 Our financial situation disintegrated just after my father's departure from our lives. 随着父亲离我们而去，家里的经济

TED演讲:人生交叉点(4)

After receiving my master's at Fisk, I went on to Yale to complete my PhD. 在菲斯克大学获得硕士学位后，我去了耶鲁大学，完成了博士学业。 Once I was physically occupying the space that would ultimately give way to my child

TED演讲:人生交叉点(5)

While there was certainly the acute pain of the encounter, 尽管这样的遭遇让人极度痛苦，但问题的关键在于， the real issue is that my appearance can tell anyone anything about my ability. 我的出现能让大家看到我的能力。

TED演讲:人生交叉点(7)

One of my favorite examples of liminal excellence comes from the late Dr. Claudia Alexander, 我最欣赏的一位具有交叉才能的榜样是已故的克劳迪娅亚历山大博士， a black woman plasma physicist, who passed away this past July

TED演讲:人生交叉点(8)

Despite implicit and explicit questions of my right to be in an elite space, I'm proud to report that when I graduated, 我不知道自己是否能算精英阶层，但我很骄傲地宣称， I was the first black woman to earn a PhD in astrophysics

TED演讲:多元化的自己究竟有多大力量(1)

We're holding hands, staring at the door. 我们手牵着手，盯着门口。 My siblings and I were waiting for my mother to come back from the hospital. 我和兄弟姐妹们在等着妈妈从医院回来。 She was there because my grandmother ha

TED演讲:多元化的自己究竟有多大力量(2)

I was born in Korea -- the land of kimchi; raised in Argentina, 我在泡菜之国--韩国出生；在阿根廷长大， where I ate so much steak that I'm probably 80 percent cow by now; 可能因为吃太多牛排，我觉得现在我80%的成分是牛

TED演讲:多元化的自己究竟有多大力量(3)

So with this realization in mind, I decided to embrace all of the different versions of myself 带着这种认识，我决定接受一个截然不同的自己， even allow myself to reinvent myself at times. 甚至允许自己以全新的面貌出现。

TED演讲:多元化的自己究竟有多大力量(4)

But reinventing yourself can be very hard. You can face a lot of resistance at times. 但是重塑自己是非常难的。你时常会遇到许多阻碍。 When I was nearly done with my PhD, I got bitten by that entrepreneurial bug. 在我快拿到博

TED演讲:多元化的自己究竟有多大力量(5)

Now, today my identity quest is no longer to find my tribe. 现在我对自己身份的追寻不再是为了找到我的部族。 It's more about allowing myself to embrace all of the possible permutations of myself 而是为了允许我接受自己所

TED演讲:关于人性名利和爱(9)

My country has taught me the capacity for a human being to love is akin to godliness. 我的国家教给我，一个人拥有爱的能力，就像是对神灵万物的敬畏。 It shines forth in a world which civilization, I think, already has tampe

TED演讲:月亮的错觉(2)

For one thing, if this was just the Ebbinghaus effect, 首先，如果真是艾宾浩斯效应， then we would expect the moon illusion to disappear for pilots flying high above the clouds 那么我们应该预期月球错觉对于空中的飞行员来

TED演讲:我们为什么做梦(2)

We dream to keep our brains working. 我们为了保证大脑运转而做梦。 The continual activation theory proposes that 持续激活理论提出， your dreams result from your brain's need to constantly consolidate and create long-term memorie

TED演讲:宇宙的灭亡(1)

Looking up at the night sky, we are amazed by how it seems to go on forever. 仰望夜空，我们为它的永无止境而感到惊讶。 But what will the sky look like billions of years from now? 然而数十亿年前的天空又会是什么样子呢

TED演讲:宇宙的灭亡(2)

This dark energy doesn't behave like any other substance we know at all and acts more like antigravity force. 这种暗能量的性质与我们所熟知的其他物质完全不同，它更像是反重力。 We say that it has a gravitational pressure

TED演讲:在外太空自由落体

Have you ever been floating in a swimming pool, all comfy and warm, 你是否曾经浮在游泳池里，感觉非常惬意，暖洋洋得， thinking, Man, it'd be cool to be an astronaut! 想着，天啦，当一名宇航员太爽了！ You could fl

TED演讲:地球的年龄有多大(1)

How old is the Earth? 地球的年龄有多大？ Well, by counting the number of isotopes in a sample of rock that's undergone radioactive decay, 通过对岩石样品中正经历着放射衰变的同位素计数， geologists have estimated the Ear

TED演讲:月亮的错觉(1)

Have you ever noticed how the full moon looks bigger when it's near the horizon than when it's high over head? 你注意到了吗？满月在接近地平线时比高挂空中时看起来大一些。 If so, you're not alone. 如果你注意到了，你就

TED演讲:宇宙有中心吗(1)

What is at the center of the universe? 宇宙的中心是什么？ It's an essential question that humans have been wondering about for centuries. 这是个很重要的问题，几百年来，人们一直在探索。 But the journey toward an answer

TED演讲:宇宙有中心吗(2)

Shortly after Copernicus, in the 1580s, an Italian friar, Giordano Bruno, 哥白尼死后不久，在十六世纪80年代，意大利修道士焦尔达诺布鲁诺提出， suggested the stars were suns that likely had their own planets and that the