As technology accelerates our lives, many of us feel an urgent need to slow down. One seductive solution: A secular sabbath. Pico Iyer makes the case, in this meditative excerpt from his new TED Book, The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
“无处可去”的理念如同万有引力定律一般普世；正因如此，各个传统中的智者都曾谈及于此。十七世纪法国数学家兼哲学家布莱兹·帕斯卡曾有一句名言：”人类所有的不幸，皆源于一个简单的事实：他们无法静静地待在自己的房间里。”海军上将理查德·E·伯德在南极的小屋中独自度过了将近五个月，经历了零下70度的严寒，出来时他深信：”世界上一半的混乱，来自于我们不知道自己其实所需甚少。”又或者，正如京都一带人们有时所说的：”别只是做些什么，坐下来吧。”
Human beings have made enormous changes to Earth, reshaping it, developing it and generally altering it so much that in many cases its pre-human condition has become unrecognizable. In this far-ranging conversation, ecologist Erle Ellis and landscape architect Bradley Cantrell discuss what this means for ecology and architecture … and how we might think about protecting our planet.
Dark, isolated and largely unexplored, caves help astronauts prepare to do extra-terrestrial science
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, who won the 2016 Oscar for Best Documentary Short, explains why she feels it’s her duty to focus on topics others shy away from … like honor killings.
As the sharing economy gains market share, it needs more support and structure to grow in the right directions. A new book sketches out the future of work.
We can all play a role in helping defuse even the most bitter conflicts. Veteran negotiator William Ury shares his hard-won insights.
Words change meaning all the time — and over time. Language historian Anne Curzan takes a closer look at this phenomenon, and shares some words that used to mean something totally different.
You don’t need to go to a national park to help your kids fall in love with nature; a walk around the block can be enough. Tech also doesn’t have to be the enemy. Instead, use it as a tool to enhance their awe, says science communicator Scott Sampson.
In choosing partners, we tend to be generals fighting the last war, which can set us up for another bad relationship.
Ecologist and musician Bernie Krause has made it his life’s work to record the planet’s vanishing soundscapes. Here’s why we need to tune into the environment.
PTS symptoms are not part of your personality. They're merely a delayed response to past stressors, a perfectly natural stage of recovery from a prolonged period of stress.