Name: TEDx】科學的差距：Jorge Cham在TEDxUCLA的演講 (【TEDx】The Science Gap: Jorge Cham at TEDxUCLA)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:54:49.000Z
Duration: 8 min 21 s
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taking a blank page  and filling it with your ideas.

The idea that I want to draw out for you guys here today

Now I'm a cartoonist, but in addition to that, I also have a PhD in robotics.

what does cartooning and robotics  have in common?

Well, I can tell you that my parents are also very concerned about that.

But because of this kind of unique combination of academia and the arts,

I kind of find myself, a lot of the time, travelling all over the world

talking to scientists and researchers about what they do and how they do it.

And it's very interesting to me to find out,

to learn all the things that we know about the universe,

about our bodies, about ourselves and about our societies.

But even more interesting, more amazing to me is to find out

So for example, here are some things that you'd think

that we as a human species would know by now,

What is 95% of the Universe  made out of?

Like all those billions of stars, all the atoms in this room,

Even the stuff that we think we know about, that 5%,

it's just still so many questions that we don't know.

Right, like you know, what is cancer? How do we cure it?

What is gravity? What makes markets work?

What is Alzheimer's disease? How do we cure it?

There are so many questions that we still don't know.

But that's not actually the gap that I want to talk to you about here today.

The gap that I do want to talk to you about today is this gap between

the people who are trying to come up with answers to these questions

So right now if you're a scientist or a researcher, the only way --

for communicating  what you do to the public,

basically is -- the following things have to happen.

First of all, you have to write  a long and esoteric journal paper,

and then your university maybe  will issue out a press release about it,

and then maybe some reporter somewhere  will catch actually this press release,

and maybe they'll get interested about it,

and maybe they'll talk to their editor about it,

and then maybe they'll write a good story about it,

and then maybe they'll actually get published somewhere.

But it won't actually reach the public really unless

the media, general media picks it up, or the Internet picks it up,

and then maybe it will actually reach the public,

and then maybe somebody  will actually read it and understand it.

Yeah, so that seems a little bit, um, sub-optimal to me.

But then something pretty interesting happened to me last year.

I was contacted by this physicist called Daniel Whiteson from UC Irvine.

Yeah, I know you're UCLA, but you shouldn't laugh at UC Irvine

Yeah, but he contacted me and he said, "Jorge, you know,

I want to pay you to write  a comic about the Higgs Boson."

He's like "Yeah, I feel like people are really curious about this topic,

and, you know, the media's not doing  a very good job of explaining what it is."

So I went and I interviewed him and I recorded

And at the same time  I was looking on the Internet,

people were really experimenting with YouTube videos

and taking recordings and making animations of it.

And so I decided to also experiment and so we made this video

about this animation that explains what the Higgs Boson is.

Then when the Higgs Boson  was discovered,

or some form of it  was discovered earlier this year,

this video kind of went viral. It was everywhere.

It was posted in all kinds of media outlets and websites.

and they understood a little bit more about

So imagine that, right, the best and most clear explanation

of what this complex  and nuanced topic was

came from a scientist himself, in his own voice,

who took the initiative to hire a cartoonist,

and experiment with new ways to sort of close this gap

He didn't wait around for the press release.

He didn't wait around  for the reporter to come calling.

But I think, you know, part of the general problem is also

that there's another gap, I think, between scientists and the public

which is in how the public perceives scientists and researchers.