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First I asked Hood about that football analogy. Hood: You know, I'll give you a much better analogy, if that's okay. I mean, one that anybody can understand is, suppose you were an engineer and you w...

首先，我问了 Hood 关于那个足球类比。 Hood：你知道的，如果没问题的话，我会给你一个更好的类比。我的意思是，任何人都可以理解的是，假设你是一名工程师，你想知道无线电是如何将无线电转换为声波的——你会怎么做？你做的第一件事是你做一个...

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Steve: 250 years ago, Franklin was elected to the Royal Society of London, the most prestigious scientific society in the world at the time, and pretty prestigious to this date—maybe some people still...

Steve：250 年前，富兰克林被选为伦敦皇家学会会员，这是当时世界上最负盛名的科学学会，直到今天仍然享有盛誉——也许有些人仍然认为它是最负盛名的。那么，是什么为他赢得了那次选举，为什么这在富兰克林之后发生的一切中都如此重要呢？ 卓别林...

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Steve: Alan, good to talk to you today. Weisman: It's my pleasure. Steve: Your book is called The World without Us. It's a fairly self-explanatory title, but why don't you give us the nickel tour of...

Steve：Alan，很高兴今天和你交谈。 Weisman：这是我的荣幸。 Steve：你的书叫《没有我们的世界》（The World without Us）。这是一个相当不言自明的标题，但您为什么不给我们介绍一下这本书的理念呢？ W...

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Wansink: One thing we find is that if you ask a typical person how many food related decisions a day they end up making, most people say 30 or so. In reality we find that a typical person makes betwee...

Wansink：我们发现的一件事是，如果你问一个普通人他们每天最终做出多少个与食物相关的决定，大多数人会说 30 个左右。在现实中，我们发现一个典型的人每天会做出 200 到 300 个关于食物的决定;因为这不是你要吃 Cheerios 还...

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Mittermeier: It now gives me great pleasure to introduce tonight's featured speaker, Dr. Jared Diamond. Jared is a truly remarkable individual, and he is himself an increasingly endangered species in ...

Mittermeier：现在，我非常高兴地介绍今晚的特邀演讲者 Jared Diamond 博士。Jared 是一个真正了不起的人，他自己也是当今世界越来越濒临灭绝的物种——一个真正的文艺复兴时期的人。他是加州大学洛杉矶分校的地理学教授、加...

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Mark Twain. Before I play my conversation—with Dr. Pratt that is—it'll be helpful to hear this Mark Twain essay; I hope amusing as well. It was written in 1903. It's kind of a paleontological and anti...

马克·吐温。在我播放与 Pratt 博士的对话之前，听听 Mark Twain 的这篇文章会很有帮助;我希望也很有趣。它写于 1903 年。这是对阿尔弗雷德·罗素·华莱士 （Alfred Russell Wallace） 的古生物学和反目的...

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David Relman. He came in from Stanford University where he is an associate professor of microbiology and immunology and an assistant professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases.The hu...

大卫·雷尔曼。他来自斯坦福大学，是微生物学和免疫学副教授，也是传染病系的医学助理教授。人体大约有 10 万亿个单个细胞——更值得注意的是，我们是大约 100 万亿个微生物细胞的家园。在 Relman 博士的演讲结束后，我与 Relman 博...

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Professor Donovan, good to talk to you. Donovan: Nice to see you too. Steve: Tell us about—first of all, the name of the book is The Box That Changed the World—what is the box? Donovan: The box is ...

Donovan 教授，很高兴与您交谈。 Donovan：也很高兴见到你。 Steve：请告诉我们——首先，这本书的名字是 The Box That Changed the World——盒子是什么？ Donovan：箱子是标准的运输集...