TED演讲:动画如何帮助科学家检验假说(2)
These processes are too small to be seen directly, even with the best microscopes, 这些过程太小了以至于无法看到,即使是用最好的显微镜, so animations like this provide a really powerful way of visualizing a hypothesis. 因此,
TED演讲:动画如何帮助科学家检验假说(3)
Over the years, I found that animations aren't just useful for communicating an idea, 多年以来,我发现动画不仅仅便于交流思想, but they're also really useful for exploring a hypothesis. 它们同样在探索假说上发挥作用。
TED演讲:新招改善帕金森综合症(1)
In India, we have these huge families. 印度有很多大家族。 I bet a lot of you all must have heard about it. 相信大家有所耳闻。 Which means that there are a lot of family events. 大家族就有很多大型家族活动。 So as a chil
TED演讲:新招改善帕金森综合症(2)
And he's not the only one in the world. 他并不孤单。 Every year, 60,000 people are newly diagnosed with Parkinson's, and this number is only rising. 每年60000人被新诊断为帕金森综合征,而且以后会更多。 As designers, we dre
TED演讲:新招改善帕金森综合症(3)
All this while, I was interviewing him, questioning him, 这一阵我一直在采访他,询问他, and then I realized that I was getting very superficial information, or just answers to my questions. 后来我发现我只得到了很表面的信息
TED演讲:新招改善帕金森综合症(4)
He walked faster, right? 他走得快一点了,是吧? I call this the staircase illusion, 我把它称为阶梯假象, and actually when the staircase illusion abruptly ended, he froze, and this is called freezing of gait. 实际上,当阶梯假
TED演讲:人类基因研究需要更多样化(1)
As a little Hawaiian, my mom and auntie always told me stories about Kalaupapa 在我还是一个年幼的夏威夷人时,我的母亲和姑姑经常跟我讲关于卡劳帕帕的故事, the Hawaiian leper colony surrounded by the highest sea cli
TED演讲:人类基因研究需要更多样化(2)
Now you don't need a PhD to see that that leaves four percent for the rest of diversity. 你不需要一个博士学位都能发现其他的种族只有4%。 And in my own searching, I've discovered that far less than one percent have actually focuse
TED演讲:人类基因研究需要更多样化(3)
Now despite this history of distrust, I still believe that indigenous people can benefit from genetic research. 现在,不管那段充满着怀疑的历史,我依旧相信,土著居民能够从基因研究中获利。 And if we don't do somethi
TED演讲:人类基因研究需要更多样化(4)
100 years later in Kalaupapa, we now have the technology to sequence leprosy bacteria in real time, 100百年后的卡劳帕帕,我们已经有能够实实在在研究麻风病病菌基因序列的科技, using mobile genome sequencers, remote ac
TED演讲:抬头看一看平时忽视的变化(1)
The sky is inherently democratic. 夜空,是人类与生俱来的共享资源。 It's accessible, in principle, anyway, by anyone, everywhere, just simply by the act of looking up. 原则上来说,任何人、在任何地方,都可以欣赏夜空
TED演讲:抬头看一看平时忽视的变化(2)
But there's really not much else. 除此之外,也没什么其它东西了。 As a result, most of my colleagues who are astronomers spent at least part of their youth looking up at the sky in their backyard. 我的大多数天文学家同事们,至
TED演讲:抬头看一看平时忽视的变化(3)
This is our earth at night, and it is one of the most striking examples of how we have affected our planet on a global scale. 这是夜晚的地球,这是人类在全球范围内对地球造成显著影响的例子之一。 You can see light spider
TED演讲:抬头看一看平时忽视的变化(4)
Now, like I said, I'm a big fan of technology. 正如我所说的,我是个大科技迷。 Obviously, I use technology every day; I'm a scientist. 作为一个科学家,显然每天我都使用高科技。 And there's this tendency to say that it
TED演讲:抬头看一看平时忽视的变化(5)
One such example of this is what I'm showing here, called Galaxy Zoo. 类似的例子就是我现在展示的银河动物园项目。 Galaxy Zoo is a project where people get a 20-minute -- even less than that, actually 银河动物园项目是这样的