(单词翻译:单击)
Hey there, welcome to Life Noggin.
大家好！欢迎来到脑洞大开的生命奇想。
I know you're probably thinking based off the title, how is Life Noggin gonna make a video on memes?
我知道你看到标题后可能在想，《脑洞大开的生命奇想》怎么能拍一个关于表情包的视频？
Well buckle up, there are science in everything.
要明白，科学无处不在。
While I don't understand a lot of memes I look at, I do understand why we share these funny little artifacts of society.
虽然很多表情包我都看不懂，但我明白为什么我们要分享这些有趣的社交产物。
Most of you probably know what a meme is. And if you don't, there is a really good chance that you've at least seen one.
你们大多数人可能都知道什么是表情包。如果你不知道，很有可能你至少见过一次。
If you don't know, a meme is a cultural item found in the form of an image, video, or something similar that is typically altered and spread across the world.
如果你真的不知道，其实表情包是一种文化事物，以图片、视频或类似的形式存在，通常会被修改并传播到世界各地。
While the Internet has increased the rate at which memes are produced, you can find examples of memes well before our digital age such as Killroy was here, That little "S" drawing that everyone did on their textbooks and even Darth Vader's line "I am your Father".
虽然互联网提高了表情包的出产速度，但在我们的数字时代之前，已经有表情包的例子了，比如“吉洛伊在这里”，每个人都在课本上画过的那个小的“S”，甚至达斯·维德的台词“我是你父亲”。
It seems that there are a few different reasons as to why we love sharing memes with one another.
似乎有几个不同的原因可以解释为什么我们喜欢和别人分享表情包。
In a comprehensive, three-phase study by the New York Times, researchers looked into the psychology of why people share things online.
《纽约时报》进行的一项全面的三期研究中，研究人员调查了人们在网上分享东西的心理。
They found five primary motivations; to bring enlightening and entertaining content into the lives of the people we care about, to define ourselves, to grow and nurture our relationships, for self-fulfillment, and to spread the word for causes we believe in.
他们发现了五个主要的动机：为我们关心的人带去有启发性和娱乐性的内容，定义自己，发展和培养我们的关系，满足自己，传播我们所信仰的事业。
Some or all of these motivations might be what's driving us to keep on sharing various lowres images with ridiculous captions.
可能是某些或所有这些动机，驱使我们不断分享各种低分辨率图片和荒谬的字幕。
Sharing a screenshot of a cartoon character might seem nonsensical and sometimes it is but you're actually expressing yourself and other people who see it feel connected to a shared experience.
分享一个卡通人物的截图可能看起来很荒谬，有时候确实如此，但你实际上是在表达你自己，其他看到这个卡通人物的人，会觉得这个卡通人物勾起了共有的回忆。
More than just being good for a giggle, spending time on social media and looking at memes might help to make you a better person!
不仅仅是为了好玩，花时间浏览社交媒体，看表情包，可能会帮助你成为一个更好的人！
In a recent psychological study, researchers found that spending more time on social networks and engaging in instant message chats predicted more ability to have virtual empathy.
在最近的一项心理学研究中，研究人员发现，花更多的时间浏览社交网络，并参与即时聊天，表明这样的人有更强的虚拟同理心能力。
Going beyond our brightly lit screens, being better at dispensing virtual empathy was the best indicated predictor in the study at being able to express /real-world/ empathy.
透过明亮的屏幕，更好地播散虚拟同理心，该研究用这个指标预测在真实世界表达同理心的能力。
Furthering the benefits of our social media and meme obsession, another study found that posting on a social media sites can help decrease feelings of loneliness.
另一项研究发现更加证实了社交媒体和表情包的有利之处：在社交网站上发帖有助于减少孤独感。
When the participants of a study were experimentally induced to increase their status update activity, their loneliness was found to be reduced.
当研究的参与者按照实验诱导去多更新状态时，他们的孤独感减少了。
This decrease in loneliness was due to the participants feeling more connected to their friends on a daily basis.
这种孤独感的减少是由于参与者每天与朋友的联系更加紧密。
You're not just sharing a photo of a confused face, you're letting your friends or random people on the Internet know that they aren't alone in their feelings.
你不是在分享一张模糊的表情图，你是在让你的朋友或互联网上的任何人知道，他们并不孤单。
That being said, some studies and researchers seem to come to the conclusion that too much time on social media, looking at memes and oversharing might have the opposite effect, making you feel more lonely and disconnected.
尽管如此，一些研究和研究人员似乎得出了这样的结论：在社交媒体上花太多时间、关注表情包和过度分享可能会产生相反的效果，让你感到更加孤独无助。
It's best to take breaks from social media and sharing things, and understand that everything has its limits.
浏览社交媒体，分享信息，最好也要休息一下，要明白所有的东西都应有限度。
You don't want to overload yourself. And that's coming from me! Did you know that Life Noggin is on twitter, instagram and facebook!?
你不该让自己超负荷。那是我说的！你知道我们节目在twitter, instagram和facebook上都有账号了吗？
Follow us for exclusive things that you won't find here and messages from yours truly! All the links are down below in the description! I can't wait to see you there!
请关注我们的独家新闻，你在这里找不到的，还有你们发来的信息！所有的链接都在下面的描述中！我迫不及待地想在那里见到你们！
And if you ever thought to yourself, why do I laugh? Well we have a video just for that, check it out. It seems that laughing might be a little more hardwired into us than you might think.
你有没有想过，我为什么会笑？我们做了一个视频，看一看吧。笑早就深深扎根在我们生命中，你都想不到。
Infants laugh very early in life usually learning how to laugh before they can speak. Not only that but people that are born blind and deaf can still exhibit laughter.
婴儿在很小的时候就会笑，通常在他们会说话之前就学会了笑。不仅如此，天生失明和失聪的人还能发出笑声。
As always, my name is Blocko. This has been Life Noggin. Don't forget to keep on thinking!
我是宝高。这里是脑洞大开的生命奇想。思考不要停！
