ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jok Church - Cartoonist
Jok Church created the science-education comic strip "You Can with Beakman and Jax" and the zany TV series "Beakman's World."

Why you should listen

In his work, Jok Church loved helping kids learn basic concepts of science and experimentation -- with a healthy dash of fun. He created his comic strip You Can with Beakman & Jax in 1991 for his local newspaper in Marin County, California -- inspired by a stint answering kids' letters for Lucasfilm. The comic strip does not answer readers' questions directly. Rather, it gives directions to do a thing, a procedure, an experiment to learn the answer. It's about learning by doing. Active. Not passive.

Six Beakman & Jax books are best-sellers. Church created the long-running TV series Beakman's World, a hit in English and Spanish, and helped create the Beakman's World on Tour exhibit for science centers and museums. A longtime techie, he also served as the webmaster for artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Church died April 29, 2016, and will be much missed.

 

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Jok Church: A circle of caring

Džok Čurč: Krug brige

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U ovom trominutnom govoru, crtač i edukator Džon Čurč predstavlja emotivnu priču o profesoru koji se brinuo o njemu kada niko drugi nije - i kako mu je uzvratio uslugu.
- Cartoonist
Jok Church created the science-education comic strip "You Can with Beakman and Jax" and the zany TV series "Beakman's World." Full bio

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You know, what I do is writeпиши for childrenдеца,
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Znate da ja pišem za decu
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and I'm probablyвероватно America'sAmerike
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i da sam verovatno autor
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mostнајвише widelyшироко readчитати children'sдеца authorаутор, in factчињеница.
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koji se najviše čita u Americi.
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And I always tell people
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I uvek kažem ljudima
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that I don't want to showсхов up looking like a scientistнаучник.
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da ne želim da se pojavim i da izgledam kao naučnik.
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You can have me as a farmerфармер, or in leatherskoћu,
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Mogu se pojaviti kao farmer ili u koži,
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and no one has ever choseизабрао farmerфармер.
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i niko nikada nije izabrao farmera.
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I'm here todayданас to talk to you
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Ovde sam danas da vam govorim
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about circlesкругови and epiphaniesепифаније.
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o krugovima i proviđenjima.
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And you know, an epiphanyепифан
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I znate, proviđenje je
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is usuallyобично something you find that you droppedпао someplacenegde.
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obično pronalaženje nečega što ste usput izgubili.
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You've just got to go around the blockблокирати
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Samo morate da napravite krug
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to see it as an epiphanyепифан.
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da shvatite da je to proviđenje.
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That's a paintingсликарство of a circleкруг.
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To je slikanje kruga.
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A friendпријатељ of mineмој did that -- RichardRichard BollingbrokeBollingbroke.
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Moj prijatelj je to uradio - Ričard Bolingbrouk.
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It's the kindкинд of complicatedкомпликован circleкруг
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To je neka vrsta složenog kruga,
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that I'm going to tell you about.
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taj o kojem ću vam pričati.
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My circleкруг beganпочела back in the '60s
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Moj krug je začet tokom 60-ih
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in highвисоко schoolшкола in StowStowa, OhioOhio
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u srednjoj školi u Stou, Ohajo
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where I was the classкласа queerkvir.
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gde sam bio "peder" u razredu.
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I was the guy beatenпретучен up bloodyкрваво
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Bio sam momak kojeg su tukli do krvi
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everyсваки weekНедеља in the boys'Boys roomсоба,
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svake nedelje u muškom toaletu,
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untilсве док one teacherнаставник savedСачувана my life.
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dok mi jedan profesor nije spasio život.
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She savedСачувана my life by lettingизнајмљивање me go to the bathroomкупатило
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Ona mi je spasila život tako što me pustila u toalet
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in the teachers'nastavnika loungeDnevna soba.
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u delu za profesore.
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She did it in secretтајна.
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Radila je to tajno,
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She did it for threeтри yearsгодине.
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radila je to tri godine,
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And I had to get out of townГрад.
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i morao sam da napustim grad.
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I had a thumbпалац, I had 85 dollarsдолара,
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Izbacio sam prst, imao sam 85$,
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and I endedзавршио up in SanSan FranciscoFranciska, CaliforniaCalifornia --
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i završio sam u San Francisku, Kalifornija -
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metиспуњен a loverljubavnik --
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upoznao ljubavnika -
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and back in the '80s, foundнашао it necessaryнеопходно
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i tokom 80-ih, smatrao sam da je neophodno
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to beginзапочети work on AIDSAIDS-A organizationsорганизације.
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da počnem da radim za AIDS organizacije.
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About threeтри or fourчетири yearsгодине agoпре,
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Pre oko tri ili četiri godine,
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I got a phoneтелефон call in the middleсредина of the night
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primio sam telefonski poziv usred noći,
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from that teacherнаставник, MrsGđa. PostenJedva da si,
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od moje učiteljice, gospođe Posten
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who said, "I need to see you.
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koje je rekla: "Moram da te vidim.
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I'm disappointedразочаран
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Razočarana sam
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that we never got to know eachсваки other as adultsодрасли.
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činjenicom da se nikada nismo upoznali kao odrasli.
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Could you please come to OhioOhio,
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Možeš li molim te doći u Ohajo,
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and please bringдовести that man
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i molim te dovedi čoveka
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that I know you have foundнашао by now.
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kojeg znam da si do sada pronašao.
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And I should mentionпомени
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Treba da pomenem
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that I have pancreaticpankreasa cancerрак,
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da imam rak pankreasa
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and I'd like you to please
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i molim te da budeš vrlo
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be quickбрзо about this."
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brz povodom ovoga."
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Well, the nextследећи day we were in ClevelandCleveland.
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Pa, sledećeg dana smo bili u Klivlendu.
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We tookузела a look at her, we laughedсмејао се, we criedplakao,
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Pogledali smo je, smejali se, plakali
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and we knewзнала that she neededпотребно to be in a hospicebolnica.
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i znali smo da treba da bude u domu.
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We foundнашао her one, we got her there,
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Našli smo jedan za nju, smestili je tamo,
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and we tookузела careнега of her
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i brinuli se o njoj
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and watchedгледао over her familyпородица,
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i o njenoj porodici,
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because it was necessaryнеопходно.
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jer je to bilo neophodno,
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It's something we knewзнала how to do.
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znali smo kako to treba raditi.
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And just as the womanжена who wanted to know me as an adultодрасла особа
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I taman kada me je žena koja je htela da me upozna kao odraslog
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got to know me,
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upoznala,
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she turnedокренуо се into a boxбок of ashesпепео
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pretvorila se u prah
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and was placedпостављени in my handsруке.
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i smeštena je u moje ruke.
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And what had happenedдесило
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A dogodilo se to da
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was the circleкруг had closedзатворен,
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se krug zatvorio,
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it had becomeпостати a circleкруг --
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postao je krug -
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and that epiphanyепифан I talkedпричао about
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i to proviđenje o kojem sam govorio
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presentedпредстављен itselfсам.
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se samo pojavilo.
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The epiphanyепифан is
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Proviđenje je sledeće,
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that deathсмрт is a partдео of life.
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smrt je deo života.
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She savedСачувана my life;
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Ona je spasila moj život,
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I and my partnerпартнер savedСачувана hersњена.
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ja i moj partner smo spasili njen.
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And you know, that partдео of life needsпотребе everything
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I znate, taj deo života zahteva sve što
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that the restодмор of life does.
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i ostatak života.
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It needsпотребе truthистина and beautyлепота,
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Zahteva istinu i lepotu,
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and I'm so happyсрећан it's been mentionedпоменуто so much here todayданас.
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i vrlo sam srećan što se o tome mnogo govorilo danas.
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It alsoтакође needsпотребе --
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Takođe zahteva -
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it needsпотребе dignityдостојанство,
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zahteva dostojanstvo,
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love and pleasureзадовољство,
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ljubav i zadovoljstvo.
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and it's our jobпосао to handруку those things out.
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I naš posao je da obezbedimo te stvari.
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Thank you.
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Hvala vam.
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(aplauz)
Translated by Sandra Gojic
Reviewed by Ivana Korom

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jok Church - Cartoonist
Jok Church created the science-education comic strip "You Can with Beakman and Jax" and the zany TV series "Beakman's World."

Why you should listen

In his work, Jok Church loved helping kids learn basic concepts of science and experimentation -- with a healthy dash of fun. He created his comic strip You Can with Beakman & Jax in 1991 for his local newspaper in Marin County, California -- inspired by a stint answering kids' letters for Lucasfilm. The comic strip does not answer readers' questions directly. Rather, it gives directions to do a thing, a procedure, an experiment to learn the answer. It's about learning by doing. Active. Not passive.

Six Beakman & Jax books are best-sellers. Church created the long-running TV series Beakman's World, a hit in English and Spanish, and helped create the Beakman's World on Tour exhibit for science centers and museums. A longtime techie, he also served as the webmaster for artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Church died April 29, 2016, and will be much missed.

 

More profile about the speaker
Jok Church | Speaker | TED.com

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