ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Beau Lotto - Neuroscientist, Artist
Beau Lotto is founder of Lottolab, a hybrid art studio and science lab. With glowing, interactive sculpture -- and old-fashioned peer-reviewed research--he's illuminating the mysteries of the brain's visual system.

Why you should listen

"Let there be perception," was evolution's proclamation, and so it was that all creatures, from honeybees to humans, came to see the world not as it is, but as was most useful. This uncomfortable place--where what an organism's brain sees diverges from what is actually out there--is what Beau Lotto and his team at Lottolab are exploring through their dazzling art-sci experiments and public illusions. Their Bee Matrix installation, for example, places a live bee in a transparent enclosure where gallerygoers may watch it seek nectar in a virtual meadow of luminous Plexiglas flowers. (Bees, Lotto will tell you, see colors much like we humans do.) The data captured isn't just discarded, either: it's put to good use in probing scientific papers, and sometimes in more exhibits.

At their home in London’s Science Museum, the lab holds "synesthetic workshops" where kids and adults make abstract paintings that computers interpret into music, and they host regular Lates--evenings of science, music and "mass experiments." Lotto is passionate about involving people from all walks of life in research on perception--both as subjects and as fellow researchers. One such program, called "i,scientist," in fact led to the publication of the first ever peer-reviewed scientific paper written by schoolchildren ("Blackawton Bees," December 2010). It starts, "Once upon a time ..."

These and Lotto's other conjurings are slowly, charmingly bending the science of perception--and our perceptions of what science can be.

More profile about the speaker
Beau Lotto | Speaker | TED.com
Amy O'Toole - Student
Amy O'Toole is a 12-year-old student who helped run a science experiment inspired by Beau Lotto's participative science approach. At age 10 she became one of the youngest people ever to publish a peer-reviewed science paper.

Why you should listen

Amy O'Toole is a 12-year-old student with a peer-reviewed scientific publication under her belt. She took part in a participative science program led by Beau Lotto , called "i, scientist," which inspired a science experiment by a group of 26 primary school students in Blackawton, Devon, UK. O'Toole was never interested in science before this project, but now intends to study the human mind and body. The project led to the publication of the first ever peer-reviewed scientific paper written by schoolchildren ("Blackawton Bees," Royal Society's Biology Letters, December 2010). It starts: "Once upon a time ... ."

More profile about the speaker
Amy O'Toole | Speaker | TED.com
TEDGlobal 2012

Beau Lotto + Amy O'Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included

Beau Lotto + Amy O’Toole: Znanost je za svakoga, uključujući djecu

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Što je zajedničko znanosti i igranju? Neuroznanstvenik Beau Lotto misli kako svi ljudi (uključujući djecu) trebaju sudjelovati u znanosti i, procesom otkrivanja, promijeniti percepciju. Podupire ga i dvanaestogodišnja Amy O'Toole, koja je, zajedno s 25 učenika iz svojeg razreda, objavila prvi recenzirani članak koji su napisala školska djeca, Projekt blackawtonskih pčela. On počinje ovako: "Bilo jednom davno…"
- Neuroscientist, Artist
Beau Lotto is founder of Lottolab, a hybrid art studio and science lab. With glowing, interactive sculpture -- and old-fashioned peer-reviewed research--he's illuminating the mysteries of the brain's visual system. Full bio - Student
Amy O'Toole is a 12-year-old student who helped run a science experiment inspired by Beau Lotto's participative science approach. At age 10 she became one of the youngest people ever to publish a peer-reviewed science paper. Full bio

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All you have to do is readčitati what you see. Right?
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Samo morate pročitati ono što vidite. U redu?
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So, I'm going to countračunati to you, so we don't all do it togetherzajedno.
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Okay, one, two, threetri.AudiencePublika: Can you readčitati this?
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U redu, jedan, dva, tri.
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BLBL: AmazingNevjerojatna. What about this one? One, two, threetri.AudiencePublika: You are not readingčitanje this.
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BLBL: All right. One, two, threetri. (LaughterSmijeh)
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If you were Portugueseportugalski, right? How about this one? One, two, threetri.
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Da ste Portugalci, zar ne? A ovo? Jedan, dva, tri.
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AudiencePublika: What are you readingčitanje?
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Publika: Što to čitate?
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BLBL: What are you readingčitanje? There are no wordsriječi there.
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I said, readčitati what you're seeingvidim. Right?
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Rekao sam da čitate što vidite. Zar ne?
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It literallydoslovce sayskaže, "WatWAT arAR ouOu reaRea in?" (LaughterSmijeh) Right?
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Doslovno piše: "Št čtaš?" (Smijeh) Zar ne?
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That's what you should have said. Right? Why is this?
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To je ono što ste trebali reći. Zašto je tako?
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It's because perceptionpercepcija is groundedosnovan in our experienceiskustvo.
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To je zato što se percepcija
temelji na našem iskustvu.
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Right? The brainmozak takes meaninglessbez značenja informationinformacija
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Mozak uzima informacije bez značenja
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and makesmarke meaningznačenje out of it, whichkoji meanssredstva we never see
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i iz njih stvara značenje,
što znači da mi nikad ne vidimo
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what's there, we never see informationinformacija,
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ono što postoji, nikad ne vidimo informaciju,
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we only ever see what was usefulkoristan to see in the pastprošlost.
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već samo ono što je bilo korisno vidjeti u prošlosti.
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All right? WhichKoji meanssredstva, when it comesdolazi to perceptionpercepcija,
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U redu? To znači da smo, kad je riječ o percepciji,
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we're all like this frogžaba.
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poput ove žabe.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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Right? It's gettinguzimajući informationinformacija. It's generatinggeneriranje behaviorponašanje
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Ona dobiva informacije.
Proizvodi ponašanje
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that's usefulkoristan. (LaughterSmijeh)
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koje je korisno. (Smijeh)
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Video) Čovjek: Au! Au! (Smijeh) (Pljesak)
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BLBL: And sometimesponekad, when things don't go our way,
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kako bismo mi željeli,
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we get a little bitbit annoyedojađen, right?
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naljutimo se, zar ne?
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But we're talkingkoji govori about perceptionpercepcija here, right?
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Ali govorimo o percepciji.
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And perceptionpercepcija underpinspodupire everything we think, we know,
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A percepcija naglašava sve što mislimo, znamo,
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we believe, our hopesnade, our dreamssnovi, the clothesodjeća we wearnositi,
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vjerujemo, naše nade,
naše snove, odjeću koju nosimo,
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fallingkoji pada in love, everything beginspočinje with perceptionpercepcija.
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zaljubljivanje, sve počinje opažanjem.
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Now if perceptionpercepcija is groundedosnovan in our historypovijest, it meanssredstva
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Ako se percepcija temelji
na našoj povijesti, to znači
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we're only ever respondingreagirati accordingpo to what we'veimamo doneučinio before.
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da mi uvijek reagiramo u skladu
s onime što smo činili prije.
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But actuallyzapravo, it's a tremendousogroman problemproblem,
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Ali to je zapravo golem problem,
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because how can we ever see differentlyrazličito?
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jer kako ćemo onda ikad moći vidjeti drukčije?
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Now, I want to tell you a storypriča about seeingvidim differentlyrazličito,
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Želim vam ispričati priču o gledanju na drugi način,
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and all newnovi perceptionspercepcija beginpočeti in the sameisti way.
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a sve nove percepcije počinju na isti način.
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They beginpočeti with a questionpitanje.
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Počinju pitanjem.
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The problemproblem with questionspitanja is they createstvoriti uncertaintynesigurnost.
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Problem je što pitanja stvaraju nesigurnost.
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Now, uncertaintynesigurnost is a very badloše thing. It's evolutionarilyevolucijski
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Nesigurnost je vrlo loša. Evolucijski je loša.
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a badloše thing. If you're not sure that's a predatorgrabežljivac, it's too latekasno.
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Ako niste sigurni je li to grabežljivac, prekasno je.
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Okay? (LaughterSmijeh)
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Zar ne? (Smijeh)
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Even seasicknessmorska bolest is a consequenceposljedica of uncertaintynesigurnost.
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Čak je i morska bolest posljedica nesigurnosti.
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Right? If you go down belowispod on a boatčamac, your innerunutrašnji earsuši
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Ako se spuštate na brodu, vaše unutarnje uho
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are you tellingreći you you're movingkreće. Your eyesoči, because
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govori vam da se krećete. A vaše oči,
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it's movingkreće in registerRegistrirajte se with the boatčamac, say I'm standingstajati still.
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jer se pomiču u skladu s brodom,
govore: "Stojim na mjestu."
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Your brainmozak cannotNe možete dealdogovor with the uncertaintynesigurnost of that informationinformacija, and it getsdobiva illbolestan.
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Vaš mozak ne može se nositi
s nesigurnošću te informacije pa oboli.
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The questionpitanje "why?" is one of the mostnajviše dangerousopasno things you can do,
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Pitanje "Zašto?" jedna je od
najopasnijih stvari koje možete učiniti,
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because it takes you into uncertaintynesigurnost.
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jer vas vodi u nesigurnost.
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And yetjoš, the ironyironija is, the only way we can ever
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Ipak, ironično je da je jedini način
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do anything newnovi is to stepkorak into that spaceprostor.
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da učinimo nešto novo
to da zakoračimo u taj prostor.
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So how can we ever do anything newnovi? Well fortunatelysrećom,
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Pa kako onda ikad možemo
učiniti nešto novo? Na sreću,
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evolutionevolucija has givendan us an answerodgovor, right?
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evolucija nam je dala odgovor, zar ne?
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And it enablesomogućuje us to addressadresa even the mostnajviše difficulttežak
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On nam omogućuje suočavanje i s najtežim pitanjima.
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of questionspitanja. The bestnajbolje questionspitanja are the onesone that createstvoriti the mostnajviše uncertaintynesigurnost.
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Najbolja su pitanja ona koja
stvaraju najviše nesigurnosti.
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They're the onesone that questionpitanje the things we think to be truepravi alreadyveć. Right?
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To su ona koja dovode u pitanje stvari
za koje već mislimo da su istinite.
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It's easylako to askpitati questionspitanja about how did life beginpočeti,
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Lako je postaviti pitanje o tome kako je počeo život
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or what extendsproteže se beyondIznad the universesvemir, but to questionpitanje what you think to be truepravi alreadyveć
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ili što se nalazi izvan svemira, ali dovesti u pitanje
ono za što već misliš da je istina --
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is really steppingkoračni into that spaceprostor.
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to je pravi korak u taj prostor.
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So what is evolution'sEvolucija je answerodgovor to the problemproblem of uncertaintynesigurnost?
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Pa, koji je odgovor evolucije
na problem nesigurnosti?
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It's playigrati.
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To je igra.
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Now playigrati is not simplyjednostavno a processpostupak. ExpertsStručnjaci in playigrati will tell you
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Igra nije samo proces. Stručnjaci za igru reći će vam
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that actuallyzapravo it's a way of beingbiće.
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da je to zapravo način života.
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PlayIgrati is one of the only humanljudski endeavorsnastojanja where uncertaintynesigurnost
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Igra je jedna od rijetkih ljudskih radnji
gdje se nesigurnost
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is actuallyzapravo celebratedslavni. UncertaintyNesigurnost is what makesmarke playigrati funzabava.
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zapravo slavi. Nesigurnost igru čini zabavnom.
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Right? It's adaptableprilagodljiv to changepromijeniti. Right? It opensotvara possibilitymogućnost,
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Sposobna je za promjenu. Otvara mogućnosti
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and it's cooperativezadruga. It's actuallyzapravo how we do our socialsocijalni bondingvezivanje,
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i kooperativna je. Tako se
zapravo socijalno zbližavamo,
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and it's intrinsicallyintrinzično motivatedmotivirani. What that meanssredstva
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i intrinsično je motivirana. To znači
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is that we playigrati to playigrati. PlayIgrati is its ownvlastiti rewardnagrada.
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da se igramo kako bismo se igrali.
Igra je sama sebi nagrada.
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Now if you look at these fivepet waysnačine of beingbiće,
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Ako pogledate ovih pet načina življenja,
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these are the exacttočno sameisti waysnačine of beingbiće you need
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to su upravo isti načini življenja koje trebate
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in ordernarudžba to be a good scientistnaučnik.
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da biste bili dobar znanstvenik.
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ScienceZnanost is not defineddefiniran by the methodnačin sectionodjeljak of a paperpapir.
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Znanost se ne definira metodičnim dijelom rada.
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It's actuallyzapravo a way of beingbiće, whichkoji is here, and this is truepravi
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Ona je način života koji je ovdje i istinit je
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for anything that is creativekreativan.
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za bilo što što je kreativno.
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So if you adddodati rulespravila to playigrati, you have a gameigra.
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Ako dodate pravila za igranje, imate igru.
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That's actuallyzapravo what an experimenteksperiment is.
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I pokusi su upravo to.
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So armednaoružani with these two ideasideje,
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that scienceznanost is a way of beingbiće and experimentspokusi are playigrati,
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da je znanost način života, a da su pokusi igra,
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we askedpitao, can anyonebilo tko becomepostati a scientistnaučnik?
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pitali smo: Može li bilo tko postati znanstvenik?
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And who better to askpitati than 25 eight-osam- to 10-year-old-godinu star childrendjeca?
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Najbolje je to pitati 25 djece
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Because they're expertsstručnjaci in playigrati. So I tookuzeo my beepčela arenaarena
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Tako sam odnio svoju pčelinju arenu
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down to a smallmali schoolškola in DevonDevon, and the aimcilj of this
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u malu školu u Devonu, a cilj toga
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was to not just get the kidsdjeca to see scienceznanost differentlyrazličito,
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bio je ne samo pridobiti djecu
da znanost vide drukčije,
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but, throughkroz the processpostupak of scienceznanost, to see themselvesse differentlyrazličito. Right?
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već da, kroz proces znanosti,
vide same sebe drukčije.
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The first stepkorak was to askpitati a questionpitanje.
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Prvi je korak bio postaviti pitanje.
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Now, I should say that we didn't get fundingfinanciranje for this studystudija
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Moram reći da nismo dobili
sponzorstvo za ovaj projekt
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because the scientistsznanstvenici said smallmali childrendjeca couldn'tne mogu make
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jer su znanstvenici rekli da mala djeca ne mogu
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a usefulkoristan contributiondoprinos to scienceznanost, and the teachersučitelji said kidsdjeca couldn'tne mogu do it.
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dati koristan doprinos znanosti, a i učitelji su rekli isto to.
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So we did it anywayu svakom slučaju. Right? Of coursenaravno.
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Ali ipak smo to napravili. Naravno.
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So, here are some of the questionspitanja. I put them in smallmali printotisak
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Ovo su neka od pitanja.
Ispisao sam ih malim slovima
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so you wouldn'tne bi bothersmeta readingčitanje it. PointTočka is that fivepet of the questionspitanja that the kidsdjeca camedošao up with
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kako se ne biste zamarali čitanjem. Bit je u tome
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were actuallyzapravo the basisosnova of scienceznanost publicationobjavljivanje the last fivepet to 15 yearsgodina. Right?
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bilo temelj znanstvene publikacije
posljednjih pet do petnaest godina.
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So they were askingtraži questionspitanja that were significantznačajan
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Postavljali su pitanja koja su bila značajna
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to expertstručnjak scientistsznanstvenici.
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znanstvenim stručnjacima.
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Now here, I want to sharePodjeli the stagefaza with someonenetko quitedosta specialposeban. Right?
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Želio bih podijeliti pozornicu
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She was one of the youngmladi people who was involvedumiješan in this studystudija,
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and she's now one of the youngestnajmlađi publishedObjavljeno scientistsznanstvenici
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i ona je sada jedna od najmlađih
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in the worldsvijet. Right? She will now, oncejednom she comesdolazi ontona stagefaza,
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Ona će sad, kad dođe na pozornicu,
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will be the youngestnajmlađi personosoba to ever speakgovoriti at TEDTED. Right?
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biti najmlađa osoba koja je ikad govorila na TED-u.
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Now, scienceznanost and askingtraži questionspitanja is about couragehrabrost.
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Znanost i postavljanje pitanja stvar su hrabrosti.
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Now she is the personificationpersonifikacija of couragehrabrost, because she's
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Ona je utjelovljenje hrabrosti
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going to standstajati up here and talk to you all.
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jer će stati ovdje i govoriti svima vama.
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So AmyAmy, would you please come up? (ApplausePljesak)
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Amy, hoćeš li, molim te, doći gore? (Pljesak)
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
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So Amy'sAmy going to help me tell the storypriča of what we call
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Amy će mi pomoći ispričati priču o
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the BlackawtonBlackawton BeesPčele ProjectProjekt, and first she's going to tell you
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Projektu blackawtonskih pčela, a prvo će vam reći
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the questionpitanje that they camedošao up with. So go aheadnaprijed, AmyAmy.
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koje su pitanje smislili. Izvoli, Amy.
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AmyAmy O'TooleO'Toole: Thank you, BeauBeau. We thought
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Amy O'Toole: Hvala, Beau. Mislili smo
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that it was easylako to see the linkveza betweenizmeđu humansljudi and apesmajmuni
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kako je lako vidjeti vezu između ljudi i majmuna
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in the way that we think, because we look alikeslično.
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po načinu na koji mislimo, jer izgledamo slično.
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But we wonderedpitala if there's a possiblemoguće linkveza
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Ali mi smo se zapitali postoji li veza
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with other animalsživotinje. It'dTo bi be amazingnevjerojatan if humansljudi and beespčele
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s drugim životinjama.
Bilo bi odlično kad bi ljudi i pčele
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thought similarsličan, sinceod they seemčiniti se so differentdrugačiji from us.
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razmišljali slično, s obzirom na to
da su tako različite od nas.
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So we askedpitao if humansljudi and beespčele mightmoć solveriješiti
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Pitali smo mogu li ljudi i pčele rješavati
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complexkompleks problemsproblemi in the sameisti way.
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složene probleme na isti način.
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Really, we wanted to know if beespčele can alsotakođer adaptprilagoditi
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themselvesse to newnovi situationssituacije usingkoristeći previouslyprethodno learnednaučeno rulespravila
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novim situacijama koristeći ranije naučena pravila
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and conditionsUvjeti. So what if beespčele can think like us?
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i stanja. Što ako pčele mogu misliti poput nas?
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Well, it'dto bi be amazingnevjerojatan, sinceod we're talkingkoji govori about an insectinsekt
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To bi bilo odlično, budući da govorimo o kukcu
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with only one millionmilijuna brainmozak cellsStanice.
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sa samo jednim milijunom moždanih stanica.
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But it actuallyzapravo makesmarke a lot of senseosjećaj they should,
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Ali to da bi trebale tako razmišljati
zapravo ima puno smisla,
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because beespčele, like us, can recognizeprepoznati a good flowercvijet
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zato što pčele, kao mi, mogu prepoznati dobar cvijet
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regardlessbez obzira na of the time of day, the lightsvjetlo, the weathervrijeme,
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neovisno o dobu dana, svjetlu, vremenu
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or from any anglekut they approachpristup it from. (ApplausePljesak)
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ili o kutu iz kojeg mu pristupaju. (Pljesak)
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BLBL: So the nextSljedeći stepkorak was to designdizajn an experimenteksperiment,
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BL: Sljedeći korak bio je osmisliti pokus
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whichkoji is a gameigra. So the kidsdjeca wentotišao off and they designedkonstruiran
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koji je igra. Djeca su krenula i osmislila
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this experimenteksperiment, and so -- well, gameigra -- and so,
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taj pokus, odnosno igru.
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AmyAmy, can you tell us what the gameigra was,
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Amy, možeš li nam reći kakva je bila igra
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and the puzzlepuzzle that you setset the beespčele?
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i zagonetka koju ste pripremili pčelama?
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AOAO: The puzzlepuzzle we camedošao up with was an if-thenAko-onda rulepravilo.
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AO: Zagonetka koju smo smislili
bila je po pravilu ako-onda.
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We askedpitao the beespčele to learnnaučiti not just to go to a certainsiguran colorboja,
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Tražili smo od pčela da nauče
ne samo da odlaze određenoj boji,
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but to a certainsiguran colorboja flowercvijet only
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već i samo cvijetu određene boje
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when it's in a certainsiguran patternuzorak.
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kad je u određenom uzorku.
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They were only rewardednagrađeni if they wentotišao to the yellowžuta boja flowerscvijeće
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Bile su nagrađene samo
ako su odlazile žutim cvjetovima
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if the yellowžuta boja flowerscvijeće were surroundedokružen by the blueplava,
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koji su okruženi plavima
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or if the blueplava flowerscvijeće were surroundedokružen by the yellowžuta boja.
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ili ako su plavi cvjetovi bili okruženi žutima.
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Now there's a numberbroj of differentdrugačiji rulespravila the beespčele can learnnaučiti
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Postoji više različitih pravila koja pčele mogu naučiti
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to solveriješiti this puzzlepuzzle. The interestingzanimljiv questionpitanje is, whichkoji?
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kako bi riješile zagonetku. Zanimljivo pitanje jest: Koja?
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What was really excitinguzbudljiv about this projectprojekt was we,
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Bilo je zaista uzbudljivo što mi i Beau
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and BeauBeau, had no ideaideja whetherda li it would work.
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nismo imali pojma hoće li projekt uspjeti.
08:03
It was completelypotpuno newnovi, and no one had doneučinio it before,
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To je bilo potpuno novo
i nitko to nije prije učinio,
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includinguključujući adultsodrasli. (LaughterSmijeh)
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uključujući i odrasle. (Smijeh)
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BLBL: IncludingUključujući the teachersučitelji, and that was really hardteško for the teachersučitelji.
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BL: Uključujući i učitelje, a to im je teško palo.
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It's easylako for a scientistnaučnik to go in and not have a cluetrag what he's doing,
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Lako je znanstveniku ući u nešto
i nemati pojma što radi,
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because that's what we do in the lablaboratorija, but for a teacheručitelj, nastavnik, profesor
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jer mi to radimo u laboratorijima, ali da učitelj
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not to know what's going to happendogoditi se at the endkraj of the day --
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ne zna što će se dogoditi na kraju dana...
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so much of the creditKreditna goeside to DaveDave StrudwickStrudwick, who was
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Mnogo zasluga ide Daveu Strudwicku
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the collaboratorsuradnik on this projectprojekt. Okay?
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koji je bio suradnik na ovom projektu.
08:25
So I'm not going to go throughkroz the wholečitav detailsdetalji of the studystudija
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Ja sada neću proći sve detalje istraživanja
08:27
because actuallyzapravo you can readčitati about it, but the nextSljedeći stepkorak
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zato što to možete i pročitati, ali sljedeći korak
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is observationzapažanje. So here are some of the studentsstudenti
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jest opažanje. Ovdje nekoliko učenika opaža.
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doing the observationszapažanja. They're recordingsnimanje the datapodaci
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Bilježe podatke o tome
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of where the beespčele flyletjeti.
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kamo pčele lete.
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(VideoVideo) DaveDave StrudwickStrudwick: So what we're going to do —StudentUčenik: 5C.
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(Video) Dave Strudwick: Ono što ćemo učiniti --
Učenik: 5C.
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DaveDave StrudwickStrudwick: Is she still going up here?StudentUčenik: Yeah.
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Dave Strudwick: Ide li još uvijek
tamo gore? Učenik: Da.
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DaveDave StrudwickStrudwick: So you keep trackstaza of eachsvaki.StudentUčenik: HenryHenry, can you help me here?
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Dave Strudwick: Znači, prati svaku.
Učenik: Henry, možeš mi pomoći?
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BLBL: "Can you help me, HenryHenry?" What good scientistnaučnik sayskaže that, right?
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BL: "Možeš li mi pomoći, Henry?"
Koji će dobar znanstvenik to reći?
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StudentUčenik: There's two up there.
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Učenik: Ovdje su dvije.
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And threetri in here.
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I ovdje tri.
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BLBL: Right? So we'veimamo got our observationszapažanja. We'veMoramo got our datapodaci.
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BL: Dakle, imamo svoja opažanja.
Imamo svoje podatke.
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They do the simplejednostavan mathematicsmatematika, averagingu prosjeku, etcitd., etcitd.
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Oni rade jednostavnu matematiku, prosjek, itd., itd.
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And now we want to sharePodjeli. That's the nextSljedeći stepkorak.
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A sad to želimo podijeliti s drugima. To je sljedeći korak.
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So we're going to writepisati this up and try to submitpodnijeti this
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Zapisat ćemo to sve
i pokušati predati na objavljivanje.
09:11
for publicationobjavljivanje. Right? So we have to writepisati it up.
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Znači, moramo to zapisati.
09:14
So we go, of coursenaravno, to the pubpub. All right? (LaughterSmijeh)
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I odlazimo, naravno, u kafić. U redu? (Smijeh)
09:19
The one on the left is minerudnik, okay? (LaughterSmijeh)
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Ovaj lijevo je moj. (Smijeh)
09:21
Now, I tell them, a paperpapir has fourčetiri differentdrugačiji sectionsdijelovi:
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Kažem im da rad ima četiri različita dijela:
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an introductionUvod, a methodsmetode, a resultsrezultati, a discussionrasprava.
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uvod, metode, rezultate i raspravu.
09:26
The introductionUvod sayskaže, what's the questionpitanje and why?
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Uvod govori koje je pitanje i zašto.
09:28
MethodsMetode, what did you do? ResultsRezultati, what was the observationzapažanje?
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Metode su ono što ste radili.
Rezultati, što je opaženo.
09:31
And the discussionrasprava is, who caresbrige? Right?
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I rasprava, koga briga. Zar ne?
09:34
That's a scienceznanost paperpapir, basicallyu osnovi. (LaughterSmijeh)
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To je znanstveni rad, manje-više. (Smijeh)
09:36
So the kidsdjeca give me the wordsriječi, right? I put it into a narrativepripovijest,
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Djeca su mi dala riječi. Ja sam ih samo složio u tekst,
09:41
whichkoji meanssredstva that this paperpapir is writtennapisan in kidspeakkidspeak.
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što znači da je rad napisan dječjim govorom.
09:44
It's not writtennapisan by me. It's writtennapisan by AmyAmy
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Nisam ga ja napisao. Napisala ga je Amy
09:46
and the other studentsstudenti in the classklasa. As a consequenceposljedica,
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i drugi učenici u razredu. Kao posljedica toga,
09:50
this scienceznanost paperpapir beginspočinje, "OnceJednom uponna a time ... " (LaughterSmijeh)
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ovaj znanstveni rad počinje ovako:
"Bilo jednom davno…" (Smijeh)
09:56
The resultsrezultati sectionodjeljak, it sayskaže: "TrainingTrening phasefaza, the puzzlepuzzle ... duhduh duhduh duuuuuhhhduuuuuhhh." Right? (LaughterSmijeh)
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Dio o rezultatima kaže: "Faza treniranja,
zagonetka… tam tam taaaam." (Smijeh)
10:01
And the methodsmetode, it sayskaže, "Then we put the beespčele
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A kod metoda piše: "Onda smo stavili pčele u
10:03
into the fridgehladnjak (and madenapravljen beepčela piepita)," smileySmješko facelice. Right? (LaughterSmijeh)
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hladnjak (i napravili pitu od pčela)", smajlić. (Smijeh)
10:06
This is a scienceznanost paperpapir. We're going to try to get it publishedObjavljeno.
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To je znanstveni rad. Pokušat ćemo ga objaviti.
10:10
So here'sevo the titletitula pagestranica. We have a numberbroj of authorsautori there.
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Evo naslovne stranice. Imamo više autora.
10:13
All the onesone in boldodvažan are eightosam to 10 yearsgodina oldstar.
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Svi masno otisnuti imaju od 8 do 10 godina.
10:16
The first authorAutor is BlackawtonBlackawton PrimaryPrimarni SchoolŠkola, because
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Prvi je autor Osnovna škola Blackawton,
10:18
if it were ever referencedupućuje, it would be "BlackawtonBlackawton etet alal,"
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pa ako se ikad bude citiralo,
bit će navedeno kao "Blackawton et al.",
10:21
and not one individualpojedinac. So we submitpodnijeti it to a publicjavnost accesspristup journalčasopis,
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a ne kao pojedinac. Rad smo
predali javno dostupnom časopisu
10:24
and it sayskaže this. It said manymnogi things, but it said this.
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i rekli su nam ovo. Rekli su nam mnogo toga, ali i ovo.
10:28
"I'm afraiduplašen the paperpapir failsne our initialpočetni qualitykvaliteta controlkontrolirati checksprovjerava in severalnekoliko differentdrugačiji waysnačine." (LaughterSmijeh)
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"Bojim se da rad ne prolazi našu inicijalnu
kontrolu kvalitete iz nekoliko razloga." (Smijeh)
10:32
In other wordsriječi, it startspočinje off "oncejednom uponna a time,"
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Drugim riječima, počinje s "Bilo jednom davno",
10:34
the figuresfigure are in crayonkrejon, etcitd. (LaughterSmijeh)
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brojevi su napisani bojicama, itd. (Smijeh)
10:37
So we said, we'lldobro get it reviewedpregledani. So I sentposlao it to DaleDale PurvesPurves,
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Rekli smo da ćemo ga dati na recenziju
pa sam ga poslao Daleu Purvesu
10:41
who is at the NationalNacionalne AcademyAkademija of ScienceZnanost, one of the leadingvodeći neuroscientistsNeuroznanstvenici in the worldsvijet,
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koji radi za Nacionalnu akademiju znanosti,
jedan je od vodećih neuroznanstvenika u svijetu,
10:45
and he sayskaže, "This is the mostnajviše originalizvornik scienceznanost paperpapir I have ever readčitati" — (LaughterSmijeh) —
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i on je rekao: "Ovo je najoriginalniji znanstveni rad
koji sam ikad pročitao" -- (Smijeh) --
10:48
"and it certainlysigurno deserveszaslužuje wideširok exposureizloženost."
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"i zasigurno zaslužuje široku eksponiranost."
10:50
LarryLarry MaloneyMaloney, expertstručnjak in visionvizija, sayskaže, "The paperpapir is magnificentveličanstven.
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Larry Maloney, stručnjak za vid,
kaže: "Rad je fantastičan.
10:54
The work would be publishableobjavljivo if doneučinio by adultsodrasli."
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Mogao bi se objaviti da su ga radili odrasli."
10:58
So what did we do? We sendposlati it back to the editorurednik.
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I što smo učinili? Poslali smo ga natrag uredniku.
11:00
They say no.
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Rekao je ne.
11:01
So we askedpitao LarryLarry and NatalieNatalie HempelHempel to writepisati
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Pa smo pitali Larryja i Natalie Hempel da
11:04
a commentarykomentar situatingsituating the findingsnalaza for scientistsznanstvenici, right,
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napišu komentar, približe zaključke znanstvenicima
11:08
puttingstavljanje in the referencesreference, and we submitpodnijeti it to BiologyBiologija LettersSlova.
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i ubace reference, pa smo ga
poslali časopisu Biology Letters.
11:12
And there, it was reviewedpregledani by fivepet independentsamostalan refereesSuci,
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Ondje ga je pregledalo petero nezavisnih sudaca
11:15
and it was publishedObjavljeno. Okay? (ApplausePljesak)
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i objavljen je. OK? (Pljesak)
11:20
(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
11:26
It tookuzeo fourčetiri monthsmjeseci to do the scienceznanost,
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Trebalo je četiri mjeseca da obavimo znanstveni dio,
11:29
two yearsgodina to get it publishedObjavljeno. (LaughterSmijeh)
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a dvije godine da to objavimo. (Smijeh)
11:32
TypicalTipičan scienceznanost, actuallyzapravo, right? So this makesmarke AmyAmy and
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Tipično za znanost, zapravo, zar ne? Tako su Amy
11:37
her friendsprijatelji the youngestnajmlađi publishedObjavljeno scientistsznanstvenici in the worldsvijet.
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i njezini prijatelji postali najmlađi znanstvenici
s objavljenim radom na svijetu.
11:39
What was the feedbackpovratna veza like?
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Kakva je bila povratna reakcija?
11:41
Well, it was publishedObjavljeno two daysdana before ChristmasBožić,
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Pa, rad je objavljen dva dana prije Božića,
11:44
downloadedpreuzeto 30,000 timesputa in the first day, right?
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preuzet je 30.000 puta prvog dana.
11:48
It was the Editors'Posao urednika' ChoiceIzbor in ScienceZnanost, whichkoji is a topvrh scienceznanost magazinečasopis.
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Bio je Izbor urednika u Scienceu,
vrhunskom znanstvenom časopisu.
11:52
It's foreverzauvijek freelyslobodno accessibledostupan by BiologyBiologija LettersSlova.
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Zauvijek je besplatno dostupan
preko Biology Lettersa.
11:55
It's the only paperpapir that will ever be freelyslobodno accessibledostupan by this journalčasopis.
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To je jedini rad koji će ikad biti
besplatno dostupan preko tog časopisa.
11:58
Last yeargodina, it was the second-mostdruga downloadedpreuzeto paperpapir
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Prošle godine bio je drugi najpreuzimaniji rad
12:01
by BiologyBiologija LettersSlova, and the feedbackpovratna veza from not just scientistsznanstvenici
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Biology Lettersa, a povratne informacije
ne samo od znanstvenika i učitelja
12:05
and teachersučitelji but the publicjavnost as well.
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već i od javnosti --
12:08
And I'll just readčitati one.
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pročitat ću samo jednu.
12:09
"I have readčitati 'Blackawton' Blackawton Bees'Pčela recentlynedavno. I don't have
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"Nedavno sam pročitao 'Blackawtonske pčele'.
12:12
wordsriječi to explainobjasniti exactlytočno how I am feelingosjećaj right now.
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Nema riječi kojima bih dočarao
kako se trenutno osjećam.
12:14
What you guys have doneučinio is realstvaran, truepravi and amazingnevjerojatan.
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To što ste vi napravili stvarno je, istinito i fantastično.
12:17
CuriosityZnatiželja, interestinteres, innocencenevinost and zealžar are the mostnajviše basicosnovni
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Znatiželja, zanimanje, nevinost i žar najosnovnije su
12:20
and mostnajviše importantvažno things to do scienceznanost.
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i najvažnije stvari za bavljenje znanošću.
12:22
Who elsedrugo can have these qualitiesosobine more than childrendjeca?
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Tko drugi može imati te kvalitete više nego djeca?
12:24
Please congratulateČestitam your children'sdječji teamtim from my sidestrana."
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Molim vas, čestitajte svojem dječjem timu u moje ime."
12:28
So I'd like to concludezaključiti with a physicalfizička metaphormetafora.
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Želio bih zaključiti s tjelesnom metaforom.
12:31
Can I do it on you? (LaughterSmijeh)
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Mogu li to učiniti na tebi? (Smijeh)
12:34
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, come on. Yeah yeah. Okay.
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Da, da, da, hajde. Da, da. U redu.
12:37
Now, scienceznanost is about takinguzimanje risksrizici, so this is an incrediblenevjerojatan riskrizik, right? (LaughterSmijeh)
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U znanosti treba riskirati,
a ovo je nevjerojatan rizik, zar ne? (Smijeh)
12:42
For me, not for him. Right? Because we'veimamo only doneučinio this oncejednom before. (LaughterSmijeh)
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Za mene, ne za njega. Zato što smo ovo
do sad učinili samo jednom. (Smijeh)
12:48
And you like technologytehnologija, right?
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Ti voliš tehnologiju, zar ne?
12:50
ShimonŠimon SchockenSchocken: Right, but I like myselfsebe.
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Shimon Schocken: Točno, ali volim i sebe.
12:52
BLBL: This is the epitomesadrzaj of technologytehnologija. Right. Okay.
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BL: Ovo je savršen primjer tehnologije.
12:55
Now ... (LaughterSmijeh)
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Sada... (Smijeh)
12:59
Okay. (LaughterSmijeh)
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U redu. (Smijeh)
13:02
Now, we're going to do a little demonstrationdemonstracija, right?
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Sad ćemo imati malu demonstraciju, može?
13:06
You have to closeblizu your eyesoči, and you have to pointtočka
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Moraš zatvoriti oči i uprijeti prstom
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where you hearčuti me clappingpljeskanje. All right?
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u mjesto gdje me čuješ kako plješćem. U redu?
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(ClappingPljeskanje)
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(Pljeskanje)
13:17
(ClappingPljeskanje)
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(Pljeskanje)
13:20
Okay, how about if everyonesvatko over there shoutsviče. One, two, threetri?
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Kako bi bilo da svi tamo viknu? Jedan, dva, tri.
13:23
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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BrilliantBriljantan. Now, openotvoren your eyesoči. We'llMi ćemo do it one more time.
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Izvrsno. Otvorite oči. Učinit ćemo ovo još jednom.
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EveryoneSvi over there shoutvikati. (ShoutsViče)
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Svi tamo viknite. (Vikanje)
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Where'sGdje je the soundzvuk comingdolazak from? (LaughterSmijeh) (ApplausePljesak)
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Odakle dolazi zvuk? (Smijeh) (Pljesak)
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Thank you very much. (ApplausePljesak)
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Puno hvala. (Pljesak)
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What's the pointtočka? The pointtočka is what scienceznanost does for us.
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U čemu je stvar? Stvar je
u onome što znanost čini za nas.
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Right? We normallynormalno walkhodati throughkroz life respondingreagirati,
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Obično idemo kroz život odgovarajući,
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but if we ever want to do anything differentdrugačiji, we have to
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ali ako ikad želimo učiniti nešto drukčije,
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stepkorak into uncertaintynesigurnost. When he openedotvori his eyesoči,
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moramo zakoračiti u nesigurnost. Kad je otvorio oči,
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he was ableu stanju to see the worldsvijet in a newnovi way.
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mogao je vidjeti svijet na nov način.
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That's what scienceznanost offersponude us. It offersponude the possibilitymogućnost
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To je ono što nam znanost nudi. Nudi nam mogućnost
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to stepkorak on uncertaintynesigurnost throughkroz the processpostupak of playigrati, right?
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da zakoračimo u nesigurnost kroz proces igre.
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Now, truepravi scienceznanost educationobrazovanje I think should be about
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Istinsko znanstveno obrazovanje trebalo bi
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givingdavanje people a voiceglas and enablingomogućujući to expressizraziti that voiceglas,
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dati ljudima glas i omogućiti im da izraze taj glas
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so I've askedpitao AmyAmy to be the last voiceglas in this shortkratak storypriča.
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pa sam pitao Amy da bude
posljednji glas u ovoj kratkoj priči.
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So, AmyAmy?
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Amy?
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AOAO: This projectprojekt was really excitinguzbudljiv for me,
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AO: Ovaj projekt bio mi je zbilja uzbudljiv
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because it broughtdonio the processpostupak of discoveryotkriće to life,
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jer je oživio proces otkrivanja
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and it showedpokazala me that anyonebilo tko, and I mean anyonebilo tko,
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i pokazao mi da svatko, stvarno svatko,
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has the potentialpotencijal to discoverotkriti something newnovi,
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ima potencijal otkriti nešto novo,
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and that a smallmali questionpitanje can leaddovesti into a bigvelika discoveryotkriće.
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i da malo pitanje može dovesti do velikog otkrića.
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ChangingPromjena the way a personosoba thinksmisli about something
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Promjena načina na koji osoba razmišlja o nečemu
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can be easylako or hardteško. It all dependsovisi on the way the personosoba
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može biti laka ili teška. Sve ovisi o onome što
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feelsosjeća about changepromijeniti.
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osoba misli o toj promjeni.
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But changingmijenjanje the way I thought about scienceznanost was
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Ali mijenjanje načina na koji
sam ja razmišljala o znanosti
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surprisinglyiznenađujuče easylako. OnceJednom we playedigrao the gamesigre
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bilo je iznenađujuće lako. Kad smo počeli igrati igre
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and then startedpočeo to think about the puzzlepuzzle,
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i razmišljati o zagonetki,
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I then realizedshvatio that scienceznanost isn't just a boringdosadan subjectpredmet,
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tad sam shvatila da znanost
nije samo dosadan predmet
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and that anyonebilo tko can discoverotkriti something newnovi.
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te da svatko može otkriti nešto novo.
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You just need an opportunityprilika. My opportunityprilika camedošao
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Samo trebate priliku. Moja prilika došla je
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in the formoblik of BeauBeau, and the BlackawtonBlackawton BeePčela ProjectProjekt.
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u obliku Beaua i Projekta blackawtonskih pčela.
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Thank you.BLBL: Thank you very much. (ApplausePljesak)
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Hvala.
BL: Puno hvala. (Pljesak)
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
Translated by Senzos Osijek
Reviewed by Suzana Barić

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Beau Lotto - Neuroscientist, Artist
Beau Lotto is founder of Lottolab, a hybrid art studio and science lab. With glowing, interactive sculpture -- and old-fashioned peer-reviewed research--he's illuminating the mysteries of the brain's visual system.

Why you should listen

"Let there be perception," was evolution's proclamation, and so it was that all creatures, from honeybees to humans, came to see the world not as it is, but as was most useful. This uncomfortable place--where what an organism's brain sees diverges from what is actually out there--is what Beau Lotto and his team at Lottolab are exploring through their dazzling art-sci experiments and public illusions. Their Bee Matrix installation, for example, places a live bee in a transparent enclosure where gallerygoers may watch it seek nectar in a virtual meadow of luminous Plexiglas flowers. (Bees, Lotto will tell you, see colors much like we humans do.) The data captured isn't just discarded, either: it's put to good use in probing scientific papers, and sometimes in more exhibits.

At their home in London’s Science Museum, the lab holds "synesthetic workshops" where kids and adults make abstract paintings that computers interpret into music, and they host regular Lates--evenings of science, music and "mass experiments." Lotto is passionate about involving people from all walks of life in research on perception--both as subjects and as fellow researchers. One such program, called "i,scientist," in fact led to the publication of the first ever peer-reviewed scientific paper written by schoolchildren ("Blackawton Bees," December 2010). It starts, "Once upon a time ..."

These and Lotto's other conjurings are slowly, charmingly bending the science of perception--and our perceptions of what science can be.

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Amy O'Toole - Student
Amy O'Toole is a 12-year-old student who helped run a science experiment inspired by Beau Lotto's participative science approach. At age 10 she became one of the youngest people ever to publish a peer-reviewed science paper.

Why you should listen

Amy O'Toole is a 12-year-old student with a peer-reviewed scientific publication under her belt. She took part in a participative science program led by Beau Lotto , called "i, scientist," which inspired a science experiment by a group of 26 primary school students in Blackawton, Devon, UK. O'Toole was never interested in science before this project, but now intends to study the human mind and body. The project led to the publication of the first ever peer-reviewed scientific paper written by schoolchildren ("Blackawton Bees," Royal Society's Biology Letters, December 2010). It starts: "Once upon a time ... ."

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Amy O'Toole | Speaker | TED.com

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