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Today, I want to talk with you of the most important moral issues we never talk about. And that's factory farming. 今天，我想和大家谈一谈一个我们几乎从不讨论、却极其重要的道德问题——那就是工厂化养殖。 But first, I want to share with you the story of how I came to be here. I grew up in New Zealand, and yes, we had a sheep farm. It was small, 100 acres of rolling hills, and the sheep would graze the...

Moving from one group to another is something that shapes both gorilla and human society. To understand more about its evolutionary origins, researchers studied decades of data on mountain gorillas in the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda, an area that's been monitored by the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund since the 60s. 从一个群体迁移到另一个群体，这种行为塑造着大猩猩和人类社会。为了进一步了解这种行为...

Food colouring is difficult to avoid. From bright orange cheesy crisps to frosted cakes, and even peanuts and meat, these additives make food more visually appealing. But for years, people have been worried about their safety and the long-term effects on our bodies. So, just how bad is food colouring, and what are the alternatives? 食用着色很难避免。 从明亮的橙色俗气的薯片到磨砂蛋糕，甚至花生和肉...

This movement was dealt a devastating blow in 1968, when the Supreme Court removed the cap on state interest rates, allowing massive interest hikes throughout the 1970s. New complications emerged in late 80s with the invention of credit scores, which reinforced the racial, gender, and class biases already impacting credit card applications. 1968 年，这场反信用运动遭受了毁灭性打击。当时最高法院取消...

Despite these initial losses, US banks remained devoted to credit cards. At this time, it was illegal for banks to build branches outside their home state, so mailing credit cards was their best bet for attracting out of state customers. And once they brought in these new clients, they could sell them big ticket items like home and automobile loans. This led banks to double down on credit cards. T...

And the banks profited from small fees on each transaction. But soon, banks found another way to make money from these cards. They began allowing cardholders to pay off their debt more slowly for an additional fee called an interest payment. Essentially, cardholders could choose to pay just part of their monthly bill, and the bank would add a percentage of what they didn't pay to next month's bill...

In 1949, businessman Frank McNamara was about to pay for dinner when he realized something terrible: he’d forgotten his wallet. While this scenario isn’t that uncommon, McNamara’s response was. Determined to ensure he’d never be caught without cash again, he invented the Diners Club Card— a wallet-sized piece of cardboard that allowed carriers to dine at associated restaurants and settle their bil...

People got very upset. And I got yelled at a lot. Very gently. A lot about "I hope your pillow is warm." 人们非常生气，我也经常被骂——不过是那种很“温柔”的责骂，比如“希望你的枕头一直是热的”之类的话。 These started getting millions and millions of views. 这些视频开始获得数百万、甚至上千万的观看量。 And a lot of reactions as well. 同时也引发了大量的反应。 People asked me to do mazes. OK. How do you sc...

So for many years I've been doing computer art, geometric art with pen and paper on plotters. I write the code and sometimes I build the machines. 很多年来，我一直在做电脑艺术——用绘图仪、钢笔和纸张创作几何艺术。我自己写代码，有时还会自己造机器。 I would upload the stuff to social media, figuring maybe people like the soft noises and the clicks and pops and so on. No one really paid any attention t...

The images reveal intricate details in the ancient tattoos, which picture leopards, a stag, a rooster and the mythical griffin creature that is half lion and half eagle. 图片揭示了这些古老纹身中精美复杂的细节，纹身图案包括豹子、一只雄鹿、一只公鸡以及一只神话异兽，它长着狮身鹰首。 The tattooed woman, aged about 50, was from the horse-riding warrior Pazyryk people, who lived on the vast steppe betwe...

The work towards a better world is not automated. 通往更美好世界的努力，并不是自动化的。 No computer could take this job. 没有一台电脑能够承担这份工作。 Of audacious hope. Of unfounded optimism. 这份工作属于大胆的希望，属于无凭无据的乐观。 We are the unprompted. 我们是不需要提示的人。 In the face of the bleakest calculations. 即便面对最冷酷的演算结果。 We aspire in a way no algorithm could advise....

The displaced children without homes do not cry mechanical tears. 无家可归的流离儿童流下的，不是机械的眼泪。 About a simulated hunger induced by virtual war. 他们的饥饿，不是虚拟战争所模拟出来的假象。 The viruses they suffer from are not the zeros and ones in your devices. 他们所遭受的病毒，并不是你设备里零和一构成的代码。 Cured by simple software reset. If only the world had such a button. 那些病...

I fill my empty 3 ams with spineless phone scrolls, Text abbreviations,And uni-human conversations. AI chat bots answer all my aimless interrogations: 我用毫无意义的手机刷屏、缩写的文字，和一些非人不人的对话来填满我空洞的凌晨三点。AI 聊天机器人回答了我所有漫无目的的疑问： like, how do I answer an email that does not find me well? Or oh my gosh, my crush just texted me, what do I say? 比如：我该怎...

The  dizzying  variety of options, the amazing range of flavours, and for some of us, the  sheer   quantity  that you can eat. It's easy to see the appeal of a buffet. It takes the stress out of choosing what to eat - just have it all! But are there risks that we need to think about? Food  hygiene  specialists suggest there might be. 各种各样的选择，令人惊叹的风...

So ZeroSeHero started. We ran thousands of polls, we ran many surveys, we trained thousands of citizens to tell their climate stories in their own way. And slowly the campaign became a national campaign. People started talking about it in closed circles, it became a public conversation. We started organizing dialogues with policymakers and young people on the same dais, and things began to move fo...

But like I said, Ashwini saw this as more than just a medical crisis. He wanted to do so much more for Rajghat. So he collaborated with us, and he told the story of Rajghat on Youth Ki Awaaz. It slowly and steadily began picking attention. Thousands of people found out about Rajghat, NGOs came there, the first time in many years decision makers came to Rajghat and support began to rally. The court...

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...