TED演讲:学习新语言的四个理由(1)

The language I'm speaking right now is on its way to becoming the world's universal language, for better or for worse. 我现在说的英语正逐渐变成全球通用语言，这有好处也有弊端。 Let's face it, it's the language of the intern

TED演讲:学习新语言的四个理由(2)

I think there are a lot of reasons, but I first want to address the one that you're probably most likely to have heard of, 我觉得理由很多，但是我首先想要弄清一个概念，可能大家也都听过， because actually it's more danger

TED演讲:学习新语言的四个理由(3)

So for example, let's take an English speaker. 拿一个母语是英语的人来举例。 Up on the screen, that is Bono. He speaks English. I presume he has a worldview. 这是波诺。他说英文，他有一个世界观。 Now, that is Donald Trum

TED演讲:学习新语言的四个理由(4)

There's an interesting illustration of this. 举一个有趣的例子。 I have to go slightly obscure, but really you should seek it out. 可能这个例子没那么直观，但是你应该可以理解。 There's a movie by the Canadian film directo

TED演讲:学习新语言的四个理由(5)

Second reason: it's been shown that if you speak two languages, dementia is less likely to set in, 第二个原因：有研究指出，同时讲两种语言的人更不容易痴呆， and that you are probably a better multitasker. 而且你可能更加

TED演讲:学习新语言的四个理由(6)

So for example, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, a book that I'm sure we all often return to, like Moby Dick. 例如，《戴帽子的猫回来了》，这本书我相信很多人还经常读，又如《白鲸记》。 One phrase in it is, Do you know

TED演讲:学习新语言的四个理由(7)

Today you can lay down -- lie on your living room floor, sipping bourbon, 如今你可以躺着，躺在卧室地板上，喝点小酒， and teach yourself any language that you want to with wonderful sets such as Rosetta Stone. 用丰富的学习材料

TED演讲:为生命的终结做好准备(1)

What would be a good end of life? 什么是一个生活美好的结尾？ And I'm talking about the very end. 我所说的是最终的结尾 I'm talking about dying. 我所说的是死亡 We all think a lot about how to live well. 我们都在想如何

TED演讲:如何健康长寿(4)

We found our second Blue Zone 我们找的第二个蓝区 on the other side of the planet, 在地球另一端 about 800 miles south of Tokyo, 离东京南部约800英里 on the archipelago of Okinawa. 在冲绳县的古拉格岛 Okinawa is actually 1

TED演讲:如何健康长寿(5)

My editor at Geographic 我地理学的编辑 wanted me to find America's Blue Zone. 想让我找个美国的蓝区。 And for a while we looked on the prairies of Minnesota, 一时间我们观察了明尼苏达草原， where actually there is a ver

TED演讲:如何健康长寿(6)

And we managed to boil it down to nine. 我们试图归结为九点 In fact we've done two more Blue Zone expeditions since this 其实在这次蓝区远征前 and these common denominators hold true. 我们已经调查了两个蓝区 And the first o

TED演讲:让我们来谈谈死亡(1)

I was called down to the ward to see him. 我被叫到病房去看他。 His is the little hand. 他的小手可以说是骨瘦如柴。 I was called down to the ward to see him 一名呼吸内科医生 by a respiratory physician. 将我叫到他的诊

TED演讲:让我们来谈谈死亡(2)

I was called down to the ward to see him. 我被叫到病房去看他。 His is the little hand. 他的小手可以说是骨瘦如柴。 I was called down to the ward to see him 一名呼吸内科医生 by a respiratory physician. 将我叫到他的诊

TED演讲:让我们来谈谈死亡(3)

And, if that wasn't bad enough, of course, 如果这还不算太糟糕的话，当然 all of this is rapidly progressing towards the fact that 我们很快可以看到另一个数据 many of you, in fact, about one in 10 of you at this point, 很多人

TED演讲:让我们来谈谈死亡(4)

Clearly, people didn't want us to talk about death, 显而易见，人们并不希望我们和他们谈论死亡， or, we thought that. 或者，我们自己如此认为。 So with loads of funding from the Federal Government 所以，在联邦政府和

TED演讲:为生命的终结做好准备(2)

A plan involves answering 这个计划是能包含了回应的 straightforward questions about the end you want. 直接了当关于你想如何结束的问题 Where do you want to be when you're no longer independent? 如果你不能再独立，你希望

TED演讲:在你最后的状态更新之后(1)

By the end of this year, 截止今年年底， there'll be nearly a billion people on this planet 这个星球上将有接近十亿人口 that actively use social networking sites. 在很活跃地使用社交网站。 The one thing that all of them h

TED演讲:在你最后的状态更新之后(2)

Adam? 亚当？ Yeah. 是。 Death can catch you anywhere, anytime, 死神可以在任何时间，任何地点抓到你， even at the Organic. 甚至在你还是有机体的时候。 Who is this? 你是谁？ Go to ifidie.net 去如果我死了.net

TED演讲:昭示长寿的实验(1)

Have you ever wanted to stay young a little longer 大家有没有想过要年轻再久一点 and put off aging? 延缓衰老呢？ This is a dream of the ages. 这是很久以来的梦想了 But scientists have for a long time 不过科学家以前一

TED演讲之生与死:昭示长寿的实验(3)

So how can a hormone ultimately affect the rate of aging? 那么，激素到底是怎样影响衰老的速度呢？ How could that work? 原理是什么呢？ Well it turns out that in the daf-2 mutants, 原来在daf-2变异体中 a whole lot of gene