2025年5月5日 星期一
Louie Schwartzberg：授粉隱藏的美麗
I've been filming time-lapse flowers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for over 35 years. To watch them move is a dance I'm never going to get tired of. It fills me with wonder, and it opens my heart. Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with. Their relationship is a love story that feeds the Earth. It reminds us that we are a part of nature, and we're not separate from it.
2025年4月28日 星期一
10.3 LISTENING.10.6 INFOGRAPHIC CONVERSATION
10.3 LISTENING
How good would you say that your hand-eye coordination is? Good? Really good? Do you wish you could improve it? Many athletes believe that simply visualizing an action can improve their coordination. But does it work? Let’s find out.
Let’s run our experiment on the greatest sport ever invented. Set up a waste basket, crumple up some pieces of paper, and try to make some baskets. Sometimes you miss your shot. Sometimes you make it. Here’s our question: Can visualizing your throw before you take it improve your shooting?
This time, before shooting, try visualizing what it’ll feel like for your arm to take the shot, and also the path that the paper will take on its way to the basket. Get set up. Do you see it? OK, then take the shot.
How good would you say that your hand-eye coordination is? Good? Really good? Do you wish you could improve it? Many athletes believe that simply visualizing an action can improve their coordination. But does it work? Let’s find out.
Let’s run our experiment on the greatest sport ever invented. Set up a waste basket, crumple up some pieces of paper, and try to make some baskets. Sometimes you miss your shot. Sometimes you make it. Here’s our question: Can visualizing your throw before you take it improve your shooting?
This time, before shooting, try visualizing what it’ll feel like for your arm to take the shot, and also the path that the paper will take on its way to the basket. Get set up. Do you see it? OK, then take the shot.
2025年4月21日 星期一
Lesson 10.
TED TALK PART 1
Up until now, our communication with machines has always been limited to conscious and direct forms. Whether it’s something simple like turning on the lights with a switch, or even as complex as programming robotics, we have always had to give a command to a machine, or even a series of commands, in order for it to do something for us. Communication between people, on the other hand, is far more complex and a lot more interesting because we take into account so much more than what is explicitly expressed. We observe facial expressions, body language, and we can intuit feelings and emotions from our dialogue with one another. This actually forms a large part of our decision-making process. Our vision is to introduce this whole new realm of human interaction into human-computer interaction so that computers can understand not only what you direct it to do, but it can also respond to your facial expressions and emotional experiences. And what better way to do this than by interpreting the signals naturally produced by our brain,our center for control and experience.
TED TALK PART 3
So I’d like to show you a few examples, because there are many possible applications for this new interface. In games and virtual worlds, for example, your facial expressions can naturally and intuitively be used to control an avatar or virtual character. Obviously, you can experience the fantasy of magic and control the world with your mind. And also, colors, lighting, sound, and effects can dynamically respond to your emotional state to heighten the experience that you’re having, in real time. And moving on to some applications developed by developers and researchers around the world, with robots and simple machines, for example—in this case, flying a toy helicopter simply by thinking “lift” with your mind. The technology can also be applied to real world applications—in this example, a smart home. You know, from the user interface of the control system to opening curtains or closing curtains. And of course, also to the lighting—turning them on or off. And finally, to real life-changing applications, such as being able to control an electric wheelchair. In this example, facial expressions are mapped to the movement commands.
[Video] Man: Now blink right to go right. Now blink left to turn back left. Now smile to go straight.
TL: We really—Thank you. We are really only scratching the surface of what is possible today, and with the community’s input, and also with the involvement of developers and researchers from around the world, we hope that you can help us to shape where the technology goes from here. Thank you so much.
Up until now, our communication with machines has always been limited to conscious and direct forms. Whether it’s something simple like turning on the lights with a switch, or even as complex as programming robotics, we have always had to give a command to a machine, or even a series of commands, in order for it to do something for us. Communication between people, on the other hand, is far more complex and a lot more interesting because we take into account so much more than what is explicitly expressed. We observe facial expressions, body language, and we can intuit feelings and emotions from our dialogue with one another. This actually forms a large part of our decision-making process. Our vision is to introduce this whole new realm of human interaction into human-computer interaction so that computers can understand not only what you direct it to do, but it can also respond to your facial expressions and emotional experiences. And what better way to do this than by interpreting the signals naturally produced by our brain,our center for control and experience.
So I’d like to show you a few examples, because there are many possible applications for this new interface. In games and virtual worlds, for example, your facial expressions can naturally and intuitively be used to control an avatar or virtual character. Obviously, you can experience the fantasy of magic and control the world with your mind. And also, colors, lighting, sound, and effects can dynamically respond to your emotional state to heighten the experience that you’re having, in real time. And moving on to some applications developed by developers and researchers around the world, with robots and simple machines, for example—in this case, flying a toy helicopter simply by thinking “lift” with your mind. The technology can also be applied to real world applications—in this example, a smart home. You know, from the user interface of the control system to opening curtains or closing curtains. And of course, also to the lighting—turning them on or off. And finally, to real life-changing applications, such as being able to control an electric wheelchair. In this example, facial expressions are mapped to the movement commands.
[Video] Man: Now blink right to go right. Now blink left to turn back left. Now smile to go straight.
TL: We really—Thank you. We are really only scratching the surface of what is possible today, and with the community’s input, and also with the involvement of developers and researchers from around the world, we hope that you can help us to shape where the technology goes from here. Thank you so much.
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皮革與肉不殺生而可得
1. What did people initially think when the speaker and his father started their company?
2. What did the speaker think when someone suggested growing animal products like meat and leather?
3. How many animals are currently raised for meat, dairy, eggs, and leather worldwide?
4. What negative effects does raising animals for food and leather have on the planet?
5. What is biofabrication, and how does it work?
6. Why does the speaker suggest that growing leather is technically simpler than growing other animal products like meat?
7. What is one reason the speaker thinks cultured leather is a good starting point for biofabrication?
8. How do they grow leather using cells from animals?
9. What are some of the special qualities of the cultured leather shown in the speech?
10. What does the speaker imagine the future of animal products could look like?
2025年2月17日 星期一
Questions
1. What’s your name and where are you from?
2. What do you do for fun or in your free time?
3. Do you have any pets or favorite animals?
4. What kind of music or movies do you enjoy?
5. Have you traveled anywhere interesting?
6. What’s something that makes you excited or passionate?
7. Do you have any favorite books, shows, or podcasts?
8. What’s a fun fact about you that most people don’t know?
9. Could you please tell me a bit about yourself and your background?
10. What are you studying, and what made you choose that field?
11. Are you involved in any extracurricular activities or clubs on campus?
12. What are your academic or career goals after graduation?
7. Do you have any favorite books, shows, or podcasts?
8. What’s a fun fact about you that most people don’t know?
9. Could you please tell me a bit about yourself and your background?
10. What are you studying, and what made you choose that field?
11. Are you involved in any extracurricular activities or clubs on campus?
12. What are your academic or career goals after graduation?
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Keynote 2 MP3
Keynote 2 MP3
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LQCR-drJQOg3D2AV8QioeEiSJb_CblsF?usp=sharing
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