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Steve: Dr. Gott, tell me about this research that you've done in, of all things, election results and polling data. Gott: Well, Wesley Colley and I decided that we would like to try to apply median s...

Steve：Gott 博士，请介绍一下您所做的这项研究，包括选举结果和民意调查数据。 戈特：嗯，Wesley Colley 和我决定尝试将中位数统计应用于民意调查，以尝试预测 2004 年的选举人票，这样做的原因是，当你有不同的结果并且其...

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Steve: Gary, How are you doing? Stix: Good Steve. Steve: Traces of a distant past. This is really fascinating that each of us carries, within every cell of our body, these clues that will lead to th...

Steve：Gary，你最近怎么样？ Stix：好史蒂夫。 Steve：遥远过去的痕迹。这真的很令人着迷，我们每个人的身体每个细胞中都携带着这些线索，这些线索将导致整个人类群体从非洲迁移到我们今天生活的任何地方。那么这怎么可能呢？我的意...

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Zorpette: 2008 would be the 15th anniversary of a famous essay that was written by an author and retired computer scientist named Vernor Vinge; and Vinge wrote what is widely regarded as the manifesto...

Zorpette：2008 年将是作家和退休计算机科学家 Vernor Vinge 撰写的一篇着名文章的 15 周年纪念日;而 Vinge 写了被广泛认为是产生奇点概念的宣言。正如约翰在他为我们撰写的文章中指出的那样，奇点这种或那种形式的基...

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Musser: M. Night is really touring with a lot of ideas about what is the limit of rational thought in the film. His protagonist in the film was a science teacher—biology teacher—who talks at the very ...

Musser：M. Night 真的在巡演中，有很多关于电影中理性思考的极限的想法。他在片中的主角是一位科学老师——生物老师——他一开始就谈到了蜂群崩溃障碍和...... Steve：这就是蜜蜂，蜜蜂遇到的问题。 Musser：没错——...

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Steve: James Randi, great to talk to you this morning. How are you? Randi: My pleasure. I'm glad to be here. I think that we have to meet in person one of these days. This business of over the teleph...

Steve：James Randi，很高兴今天早上与您交谈。你好吗？ Randi：我的荣幸。我很高兴来到这里。我认为我们必须在这些日子里亲自见面。这种电话业务听起来有点颠覆性，你不觉得吗？ Steve：我们实际上已经见过面了，我稍后会谈...

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Steve: Kate, you're at this big meeting in, where in Columbus, Ohio? Wong: Yeah, I was at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Columbus last month. Steve: An...

Steve：Kate，你正在俄亥俄州哥伦布市的哪个地方参加这个大型会议？ Wong：是的，我上个月在哥伦布参加了美国体质人类学家协会（American Association of Physical Anthroplogists）的年会。...

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Steve: Dr. Kohn, good to talk to you. We're sitting here in the rare book room at the Botanical Garden and it's really great to be in this room. Kohn: It's wonderful to see you here. Steve: We are s...

Steve：Kohn 医生，很高兴与您交谈。我们坐在植物园的珍本室，能坐在这个房间里真的很棒。 Kohn：很高兴在这里见到你。 Steve：我们周围有一些达尔文的原始出版物，如果我想到达尔文，我会想到雀类和加拉帕戈斯陆龟，它们真的没有起...

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Minkel: I wonder, could you start by telling our listeners what plasma is? Blandford: Oh! Plasma is an ionized gas—it's one where the electrons are separated from the nuclei, usually formed at high t...

Minkel：我想知道，您能先告诉我们的听众什么是等离子体吗？ 布兰福德：哦！等离子体是一种电离气体——它是电子与原子核分离的地方，通常在高温下形成;而宇宙中的大部分重子物质都是以等离子体的形式存在的。 Minkel：那么，对于那些不知...