開(kāi)頭

In this searching, powerful talk,
In this visually captivating talk,
In this engaging tour of her work, Gang invites us into buildings large and small,

In this poignant talk, Brea describes the obstacles she's encountered in seeking treatment for her condition, **whose root causes and physical effects **we don't fully understand, as well as her mission to document through film the lives of patients that medicine struggles to treat.

援引

as sb points out, doing sth present/pose enormous technical challenges

But as Missy Cummings, the head of robotics at Duke University, points out, developing such technology for use in the close-range, crowded spaces where mass shootings typically occur—malls, cafeterias, movie theaters—presents enormous technical challenges.

中間描述

For me
Here's a story from my own life:
there are** stories of people** who are terrified of doing sth...**but found a way to **become really good at it.

Indeed, everywhere you look, there are stories of people who were terrified of public speaking but found a way to become really good at it

sb** share compelling insights about **sth, **offer some intuitive advice on **sth/ways to do sth

Willer shares compelling insights on how we might bridge the ideological divide and offers some intuitive advice on ways to be more persuasive when talking politics.

sb **recounts her/his ongoing experience of ** doing sth or being ...

being terrorized on social media for** her unwavering activism and calls on **citizens of the internet, the tech community, law enforcement and legislators to recognize the offline harm of online harassment.

sb does sth; sb's experience/plight has the side effect of revealing something about

her horrifying plight has the side effect of revealing something about the way our brains work.

similarly(連接), sb' book/... explore sth that ....

Similarly, Richard Preston’s “An Error in the Code” explores a rare disorder that causes people to harm themselves

if offers a window into sth

it offers a window into the laws that govern normal human behavior.

stories like this（連接）——and sth, about...., seem to evoke feeling/something we feel in response to

Stories like these—and Oliver Sacks’s “The Case of Anna H.,” about a woman who loses the ability to recognize objects—seem to evoke the combined wonder and fear we feel in response to new discoveries about

For me(連接詞)
in doing so(meanwhile)/by doing so(after)/in this way

Break down barriers between different groups and** in doing so**, create possibilities for meaningful conversations around social justice

Other pieces（連接, 書(shū)本）, such as 展姐，speak to the fact that,

Other pieces, such as Cynthia Zarin’s “An Enlarged Heart” and Laura Hillenbrand’s “A Sudden Illness,” **speak to the fact that, in an age of technological predictability, **our health is one part of life over which we have relatively little control.

Finally, (連接) sth(about/concerning sb/sth/a case of sth) are about

Finally, Berton Roueché’s “Sandy” (concerning a case of mass hysteria at a Florida elementary school) and Margaret Talbot’s “The Bad Mother” (about parents who fake their children’s illnesses) are about how, sometimes, people are so unknowable that even the scientific community finds itself flummoxed.

Considered together,(總結(jié)) the pieces below **suggest that **

Considered together, the pieces below suggest that often it’s not other people we need to watch out for—it’s ourselves.

目的/期許

目標(biāo)

It’s something aimed at sb

期許

paints an optimistic picture of

All of which paints an optimistic picture of our capacity for change.