Andrew Pelling: This scientist makes ears out of apples
أندرو بيلينغ: يقوم هذا العالِم المجنون بصنع آذان من التفاح
Andrew Pelling's unconventional and creative scientific process is founded on play. Full bio
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for old electronics,
القديمة فقط
وأفكها.
turn things on and off.
إشعال أو إطفاء الأشياء.
into an awesome robot.
إلى إنسان آلي مذهل.
a lot of stuff out of garbage,
have even been kind of useful.
كان مفيدا نوعاً ما.
to amuse myself.
وتسليني.
so I just made it part of my day job.
جزء من عملي اليومي.
biological research lab,
بحوث علم الأحياء،
and exploration above all else.
on any particular problem,
any particular disease.
and find answers.
على الأجوبة.
to build the equipment they need
يحتاجونها
from around the world
جميع أنحاء العالم
we value unconventional ideas,
الغريبة فقط.
I was taking it apart,
كنتُ أفصله إلى أجزاء،
العناصر المادية التي تشكل نظام الحاسوب؟
in some new and creative way?
طريقة خلاّقة جديدة نوعاً ما؟
tell me what fruit this is?
لي ما نوع هذه الفاكهة ؟
That's right -- it's an apple.
than most apples.
we grew human cells into it.
Macintosh apple,
من العطب،
after removing all the apple cells
their shape and texture.
شكلها وملمسها.
the apple cells used to be.
that you can see in blue.
يمكنكم رؤيتها باللون الأزرق.
these guys start multiplying
of how our own tissues are organized.
بكيفية تنظيم أنسجتنا.
these scaffolds into the body,
and a blood supply
when people started asking me,
body parts out of apples?"
التفاحة؟"
to the right place."
مع زوجتي.
of wood carving for a living.
literally carve some ears
تصينع الآذان.
in the ear-manufacturing business.
on this for decades.
منذ عقودٍ من الزمن.
really expensive and problematic,
غالية الثمن وشائكة.
from proprietary products,
المنتوجات ذات الملكية الخاصة،
to make these things.
can be built from garbage,
باستخدام القمامة،
only requires soap and water.
الماء والصابون فقط.
the instructions online as open source.
شبكة الإنترنت كمصدر مفتوح.
a mission-driven company,
to make it easier
لجعل الأمر أكثر سهولة
and a soldering iron
about is if one day,
هل يمكن في يوم من الأيام
and augment our own bodies
وزراعة أجسامنا الخاصة
your pee smell funny.
غريبة.
and I was noticing
the stalks of these asparagus,
are all these tiny little vessels.
الأوعية متناهية الصغر.
forms these structures.
السليولوز هذه التركيبات،
of our nerves and spinal cord.
down these channels?
أسفل هذه القنوات؟
to form new connections
لتشكيل وصلات جديدة
and severed nerves.
working on this.
really promising pilot data.
that's all around me on this stage
فوق هذه الخشبة
my lab is involved in
of me playing with your garbage.
of my scientific practice.
من تجاربي العلمية.
to be unconventional and to be creative
غير تقليدي ومبدع
are looking at some old,
لشيء قديم
piece-of-crap technology,
to get in touch with me,
للإتصال بي،
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Andrew Pelling - BiohackerAndrew Pelling's unconventional and creative scientific process is founded on play.
Why you should listen
Scientist, professor, entrepreneur and TED Fellow Andrew Pelling has built a career on unapologetic curiosity, creativity and serendipity. He is a professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa, where he founded and directs a curiosity-driven research lab that brings together artists, scientists, social scientists and engineers. The lab uses low-cost, open source materials and methods to explore speculative living technologies of the future. He has, for instance, created human body parts made from plants and grown living skins on LEGOs -- innovations with the potential to replace prohibitively expensive commercial biomaterials.
Pelling is also the co-founder and CTO of Spiderwort Inc., a mission driven company developing open source platforms to enable the widespread and global adoption of biological research in all environments and economic contexts. Most recently, he founded pHacktory, a street-level research lab in Ottawa that amplifies community ideas through a potent mixture of craft, serendipity and curiosity.
Pelling's work has been in the international media spotlight for many years, with recognition in outlets such as Wired, Huffington Post, NPR, Scientific American, Popular Science, BBC, Der Spiegel, Deutsche Welle and others, as well as numerous highlights in the Canadian media and Scientific media. He was named a TED Fellow in 2016.
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