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Every single day, I would train them on how to write better. But what they were writing about was actually tough issues. Gender, discrimination, climate change, issues that we are not taught to talk about. And something slowly began to shift in them. The more they wrote, the more they began to question. They started acting. They started wondering why things were the way they were. And that motivat...

In 2008, when I was 17, I felt invisible. And not like Harry Potter with an invisibility cloak. I actually felt really powerless. I remember watching the news every single day with my parents. It was like a ritual in our house. And the more I saw it, the more I realized that I just couldn't relate with it. The people didn't look like me, the issues didn't feel like mine. And more than anything, yo...

So let's just say that's not what we expected when we first approached them to talk about extending the life and quality of fresh products.↳ 可以说，当我们最初带着延长新鲜农产品寿命与品质的想法去找他们时，得到的回应完全出乎我们的意料。 But we can't change this thinking alone. And we're not a silver bullet to end food waste ourselves. But thankfully there are lots of start-ups, scale-ups, organizat...

So thinking about replacing a standard waxing step, for example. 比如说，可以考虑用这种方式来取代传统的水果打蜡工序。 We've made good progress since those early days in the garage. We've established a supply chain for responsibly sourced, high-purity ingredients. We've demonstrated safety and effectiveness to regulators in the US, the European Union and more than 40 additional countries around the...

So we took a test batch of material that we made using leftover tomato peels, since those are rich in these fatty acids and glycerides. We dipped those limes in a bowl of these ingredients in water and set them aside to dry. And then we waited. And we saw that we could add an extra week of freshness to these limes.↳ 于是，我们利用番茄加工后剩下的番茄皮制作了一批测试材料，因为它们富含脂肪酸和甘油酯...

And then all of this leads to a pretty narrow set of fruits and vegetables that are available in stores today relative to the amazing diversity of what's really out there. And so it's really like the categories that can survive storage and transportation that are commonly available. And those aren't always the ones that taste best or have the highest density of nutrients. So my friends wanted to a...

When you pick a piece of fruit off a tree, it's like a ticking time bomb. It's literally this living and breathing thing that's slowly cannibalizing its own stores of energy and nutrients, just trying to stay alive until it ultimately gets eaten by microbes or some other animal, like us. Have you ever wondered why that is and what could be done about it?↳ 当你从树上摘下一颗水果时，它就像一颗正在倒...

If you've got a phone or a fitness tracker, you're probably checking your steps each day. Reach 10,000 and you feel smug. Why? Well, we've been told it's the number to aim for – the threshold for health gains.  如果你拥有一部手机或者一个健身追踪器，你就很可能每天都会查看你的行走步数。一旦达到一万步你可能就会沾沾自喜。这是为什么呢？因为我们常常听说应该以每天走一万步为目标，它是令人更加健康的门...

What do rubber tyres have to do with delicious food? The answer lies in the story of the Michelin brothers. French inventors Edouard and Andre Michelin created the Michelin tyre company in 1889 and transformed the travel industry. A few decades later, they began publishing a guide to highlight food in restaurants worth travelling for, which, of course, they'd need strong Michelin tyres to reach. N...

Kew's  Palm  House is a wonder of the  Victorian age . When it opened in 1848, it was the largest glass house ever constructed. But the hot and  humid  conditions inside that are  essential  for the tropical plants it houses have  taken their toll  on the building. Its  ornate  painted metalwork is  rusting , and 16,000  panes  ...

Use of technology in sports is supposed to be able to provide accurate and instant feedback, with better decision-making and reduced errors compared to human intervention. But is that always the case? 1在体育中使用技术应该能够提供准确，即时的反馈，与人干预相比，决策更好，并且错误减少。 但是总是这样吗？ The annual tennis tournament Wimbledon made the decision this year to replace their line judges....

The logic of common knowledge and social relationships explains why we all deplore the hypocrisy and white lies and role playing of everyday social interaction, but we wouldn't want to live without them. 公共知识与社会关系的逻辑，解释了为什么我们一方面都厌恶日常社交中的虚伪、小谎言以及角色扮演，但另一方面又不愿意没有它们的生活。 As dystopian comedies like "Liar Liar" play out. 就像反乌托邦式喜剧《...

Or laughter, where an unignorable noise can expose the common assumptions among everyone who gets the joke. 或者是笑声，那种无法忽视的声音能够揭示所有明白这个笑话的人之间的共同假设。 Conversely, when we worry about upending a relationship, we might go to great lengths to repress common knowledge. We might avoid looking someone in the eye, or pretend to ignore the elephant in the room or mumble wit...

This can set off cycles of exuberant recursive mentalizing, as investors desperately search for focal points, each one buying an investment not because of its inherent productive value but because they hope to unload it at a profit on future investors, greater fools. 这会引发一种亢奋的递归心理博弈循环——投资者拼命寻找“焦点”，他们买入一种投资并不是因为它本身具有生产价值，而是希望将它高价转手卖给未来...

At larger scales, common salience or focal points and conventions, drive a lot of our legal and financial coordination. An everyday example is driving on the left, or on the right. It doesn't matter as long as everyone agrees to drive on the same side, as in the joke about the woman who calls her husband during his morning commute and says, "Be careful, honey. The radio says that there's a maniac...

When the little boy said the emperor was naked, he wasn't telling them anything they didn't already know. But he added to their knowledge nonetheless. By blurting out what everyone could see within earshot of the others, he ensured that everyone knew that everyone else knew what they knew, that everyone knew that, and so on. And that changed their relationship with the emperor from obsequious defe...

Archaeological evidence indicates that ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia may have been in contact at least 10,000 years ago, when people in Mesopotamia began to farm and domesticate animals, and so making the transition from hunter-gatherers to an agricultural society. Many scholars believe that this social and technological revolution may have influenced similar developments in ancient Egypt, but the...

Surprisingly, severed tissues can survive for a few hours without these resources. And keeping them cool further slows the rate of tissue death, generally giving surgeons a 6-to-12-hour window for reattachment. But once the tissues die, reconnecting them won’t bring them back to life. 令人惊讶的是，断裂的组织即使没有这些资源，也能存活几个小时。而将其保持低温则能进一步减缓组织坏死的速度，通常可以为...

After a long day helping patients in the emergency room, Priya is prepping dinner when her knife slips and neatly severs her finger. Fortunately, being an ER doctor, she knows exactly what to do. 在急诊室忙碌了一整天帮助病人后，普莉娅正在准备晚餐，突然刀子一滑，干净利落地切断了她的手指。幸运的是，作为一名急诊医生，她非常清楚该怎么做。 First, she cleans the wound with a wet paper towel and bandages...

They're not the same, are they? The smiles you see when you meet your friends and family compared with what you see from salespeople trying to get you to buy something or management consultants pretending that the bad news they're giving you is actually good news. How can we tell that someone really means it when they're smiling?1他们不一样，是吗？ 与您从销售人员那里看到的东西相比，您会看到您的朋...

Most of the food on the space station is standard packaged fare, full of goodness, no doubt, but lacking that culinary je ne sais quoi which any self-respecting French astronaut so badly needs. But astronauts can bring with them a certain quantity of their own food. 国际空间站上的大部分食物都是标准的预包装食品，毫无疑问，营养丰富，但是缺少那种让人回味无穷的美食风味，这是任何一位体面的法国宇航员都...

"It opened up something in me that needed to be opened and needed to heal," says Elizabeth Russell, a teacher and librarian from the US state of Connecticut. She was going through a rough patch in life when she found bibliotherapy. Bibliotherapy is the use of literature to support people with mental health and wellbeing issues. The benefits of non-fiction, self-help books are well documented – res...

So a question that I always get asked is: How? How do we integrate different perspectives? Well, it's an art and a science and something that has been explored at length by thinkers from Georg Hegel to Ken Wilber. But for us here today, I'm going to distill it into three questions that I ask myself. Here we go. 我经常被问到的一个问题是：“怎么做？”——我们该如何整合不同的观点？ 这既是一门艺术，也是一...

As am I. I mean, our view will forever be inherently incomplete. But we can always strive to see more faces of the hyper dimensional shape that is reality. Be well. 我也是。我的意思是，我们对世界的看法永远都是不完整的。但我们始终可以努力去看到现实这个超维形体的更多面貌。保重。 So you might think that your way of seeing the world is right, but the three Bills and I are here to suggest that perhaps...

So ... Capitalism. Capitalism is the most powerful prosperity-generating force ever known. 所以……资本主义。资本主义是人类历史上最强大的繁荣创造力量。 Excuse me! Yes. Uh, sorry. I think you mean the most extractive force ever known. 打扰一下！是的，呃，抱歉。我想你是说“最具掠夺性”的力量吧。 Oh, hello. Well, it's lifted billions of people out of poverty and expanded access to food and literacy. It b...