Cesar Harada: How I teach kids to love science
सेसर हरदा: म कसरी केटाकेटीहरुलाई बिज्ञानप्रतिको मोह जगाउछु
TED Senior Fellow Cesar Harada aims to harness the forces of nature as he invents innovative remedies for man-made problems like oil spills and radioactive leaks. Full bio
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my parents would tell me,
but you have to clean up after yourself."
तर पछि आफैंले सफा गर्नुपर्छ " ।
to all these wonderful places,
ठाउंहरुमा पुग्थें,
to protect us from the ugly truth.
हाम्रा अग्रजहरु झुठो बोल्नुहुन्थ्यो ।
that adults make a mess,
पनि भद्रगोल गर्छन,
at cleaning up after themselves.
राम्ररी सफा गर्दैनन् ।
at the Hong Kong Harbour School.
र आविष्कार बिषय सिकाउछु ।
and stumble upon piles of trash.
ठोक्किन कत्तिपनि बेर लाग्दैन ।
we clean up the beaches --
सामुद्रिक किनार सफा गर्छौं,
and if he is, I did not give it to him.
म उसलाई कहाँ दिन्छु र!
of the oceans have plastic in them.
प्लास्टिक मिसिएको छ ।
and those big nets,
that we look at under a microscope,
माईक्रोस्कोप हेर्दै,
it's very expensive,
to take those big boats out.
बिद्यार्थीहरु मिलेर
of inventing a better way.
खोजी गर्दैछौं ।
Hong Kong classroom into a workshop.
प्रयोगशाला बनाएका छौं ।
this small workbench,
so even really short kids can participate.
मिल्ने विभिन्न उचाईको थियो ।
are awesome and safe.
आकर्षक अनि सुरक्षित देखिन्छन, हैन त ?
to the size we find it in the ocean,
समुद्रमा भेटिने जत्रै आकारको
because it breaks down.
of my students run wild.
संसारमा छोडीदिन्छु ।
the best of each kid's idea
राम्रो कल्पना टिप्ने
that hopefully would work.
एउटा बिचारमा रुपान्तरण गर्नु हो ।
that instead of collecting plastic bits,
of the plastic with a robot --
बनाउदै छौं ---
we do what we call "rapid prototyping."
तिब्र प्रतिलिपिकरण ।
when we're hacking it.
into plumbing fixtures
प्लम्बिङ्गमा फिट गर्दिन्छौं ।
that will be slowly moving through water
रोबोटमा जोडजाड पर्छौं
that we have there --
that we get in the robot.
floating slowly through the sensor,
बिस्तारै तैरीरहेको देख्न सक्छौं,
will process this image,
प्रतिलिपि बनाउन थाल्छ,
of how much plastic there is in the water.
भन्ने अनुमान लगाउन सक्छौँ ।
this invention step by step
राम्ररी टिपोट बनायौं
called Instructables,
would make it even better.
अझ राम्रो बनाउनेछन् ।
was that the students saw a local problem,
स्थानीय समस्याहरु देख्नु,
to immediately address it.
खोज्न थाल्नु हो ।
are hyperconnected kids.
निकै जिज्ञाशु छन् ।
they watch the Internet,
cleaning up an oil spill bare-handed,
पोखिएको तेल सफागर्दै छ-
largest mangrove forest in Bangladesh.
संसारकै सबै बन्द ठुलो जंगल हो ।
this is the water they bathe in,
this is the place where they live.
बस्ने गरेका थिए ।
the mud is brown and oil is brown,
माटो र तेल पनि खैरो छ,
what's in the water.
that's rather simple,
of a spectrometer,
प्रतिलिपि बनायौं ।
through different substances
identify what's in the water.
a local problem,
and their sense of being creative
केटाकेटीहरुको अवस्था महसुस गरेर ,
by doing the second experiments,
अत्यन्त उत्साहित भएर
and it's also closer to my heart.
there was a massive earthquake in Japan.
सन् २०११ गएको भुकम्प ।
several giant waves --
बिशाल छालहरु उत्पन्न गर्यो -
on the eastern coast of Japan.
र पुर्बी तट ध्वस्त बनायो ।
died in an instant.
मानिसको ज्यान गयो ।
power plant of Fukushima,
into the Pacific Ocean.
चुहावट छ ।
has traces of contamination of cesium-137.
सेसियम -१३७ द्वारा प्रदुषित छ ।
you can measure Fukushima everywhere.
त्यसको असर जता ततै देख्न सकिन्छ ।
it can look like most of the radioactivity
सबै रेडियो तरंग
from the Japanese coast,
it looks like it's safe, it's blue.
more complicated than this.
every year since the accident,
फुकिसिमा गैरहेछु,
and with other scientists,
बैज्ञानिकसंग मिलेर
जाने विचार गरेको थिएँ
the parents wouldn't allow that to happen.
दिएनन् र हामीले लगेनौं ।
to "Mission Control" --
the work seriously, but they really did
जस्तो नदेखिए पनि, ध्यान दिन्थे ।
with radioactivity their whole life.
Radioactivity संग बिताउनु छ ।
we collected that day,
छलफल गर्थ्यौं,
we should be going next --
कुरा गर्थ्यौं,
a very rough topographical map
Topographical Map बनायौं
the nuclear power plant.
real-time data for radioactivity,
रंग स्प्रे गर्यौं,
to simulate the rainfall.
that the radioactive dust
Radioactive धुलोहरु
into the river system,
we organized this expedition,
एउटा अभियान चलायौं,
to the nuclear power plant.
बासिन्दासँग सम्पर्क गर्यौं ।
from the nuclear power plant,
लेदो संकलन गर्दैछौं,
we've invented and built.
नमुना संकलन यन्त्रको मद्धतले ।
ब्यागमा पोको पार्छौं,
to hundreds of small bags
of the seabed radioactivity,
नक्सा बनाऊछौं,
where the fish will reproduce,
and of your favorite sushi.
खाना - सुशीको ।
to a remote problem to a global problem.
संसारकै समस्या हेर्न थालेका छौं ।
to work at these different scales,
open-source technologies.
प्रबिधिद्वारा काम गर्न रमाइलो छ ।
it's been increasingly frustrating
the damage that we have done.
मात्रै नाप्दै छौं ।
to try to solve the problems.
if we should just take a leap
ठुलो फड्को मारेर
to do all these things.
आविस्कार गर्न सके !!
started to feel a little bit small,
कक्षा कोठा सानो लाग्न थाल्यो ।
site in Hong Kong,
औद्योगिक क्षेत्र भेट्यौं ।
the largest mega-space
and environmental impact.
बिशेष ध्यानमा राख्यौं ।
with wood, metal, chemistry,
pretty much everything there.
adults and kids can play together.
केटाकेटी संगै खेल्न सक्छन् ।
kids' dreams can come true,
ठुला मान्छेको मद्धतले
questions such as,
with renewable energy?
यातायातको आविष्कार गर्न सक्छौं ?
of the aging population
into cool, electric vehicles?
रुपान्तरण गर्न सक्छौं ?
are horrible, horrible legacies,
स्वास्थ्यको लागि हानिकारक छन्,
that we can leave our children is lies.
सिकाउदै छौं - झुठ ।
to shield the kids from the ugly truth
लामो समय टाढा राख्न सक्दैनौं ।
to invent the solutions.
कल्पनाबाटनै सम्भव छ ।
नागरिकको रुपमा
the environment and people,
हेरचाह गर्नको साथै
do something about it.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Cesar Harada - Inventor, environmentalist, educatorTED Senior Fellow Cesar Harada aims to harness the forces of nature as he invents innovative remedies for man-made problems like oil spills and radioactive leaks.
Why you should listen
Cesar Harada believes that ocean currents, the wind and other naturally occuring phenomenon can provide unique inspiration and novel solutions to mankind’s worst disasters, like oil spills and radioactive leaks. A French-Japanese inventor and TED senior fellow, he is the creator of Protei, a revolutionary sailing technology -- featuring a front rudder, flexible hull and open-soure hardware -- that allows for efficient clean up of both oil and plastics from the sea. Currently based in London, Harada recently traveled to Japan and is designing Protei to measure radioactivity along the country's coast.
The general coordinator of the future International Ocean Station, Harada teaches at Goldsmiths University London. A former project leader at MIT, he graduated form the Royal College of Arts Design Interactions in London and worked at the Southampton University Hydrodynamics laboratory on wave energy. Harada has also studied animantion, and his films and installations have been seen at festivals and events across the world, from the United States to Japan.
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