Name: 【TED】Nalini Nadkarni：監獄中的生命科學（Nalini Nadkarni: Life Science in prison）。 (【TED】Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison (Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:26:33.000Z
Duration: 5 min 38 s

譯者: 張新永 Davidchang 審譯者: Marie Wu

基礎被動語態

Trees are rooted in the ground in one place

I simply tied the end of a paintbrush onto a twig.

I waited for the wind to come up and held up a canvas,

and what I learned was that different species

have different signatures, like a Picasso versus a Monet.

But I was also interested in the movement of trees

所留下的圖型特徵不同, 就像畢卡索和莫內的畫風不同一樣。

and how this art might let me capture that and quantify it,

so to measure the distance that a single vine maple tree --

以及將圖上的活動軌跡量化，也很有興趣。

which produced this painting -- moved in a single year,

I multiplied them by the number of twigs per branch

and then divided that by the number of minutes per year.

how far a single tree moved in a single year.

答案是186,540英里(約30萬公里)，

And so simply by shifting our perspective from a single trunk

也就是繞著地球轉七圈的長度。

所以只要將觀注的重點由一株樹幹

we are able to see that trees are not simply static entities,

我們就可以看出樹木不只具有活動力，

to consider other entities that are also static and stuck,

這個由樹木移動所學到的啟示，

是不是可以應用在其它呼喊著要改變、要自由的

and one of those entities is our prisons.

靜態或被限制行動的事物上呢？

Prisons, of course, are where people who break our laws

但是我們的監獄體系卻自困一角。

Of the 100 incarcerated people that are released,

so this despairing cycle of incarceration continues.

輔導罪犯改過遷善的經費卻一直在減少，

所以整個監禁體系是在令人絕望的循環中不斷重複。

with the Washington State Department of Corrections.

Working with four prisons, we began bringing science and scientists,

選定四個監獄，引進科學實驗及科學家，

在這四個州立監獄裡，進行永續發展

and the men here are choosing to come to our science lectures

instead of watching television or weightlifting.

這些人選擇來上我們提供的科學課程，

for inmates at Stafford Creek Correctional Center

for restoration of relic prairie areas in Washington state.

用來重建華盛頓州的荒廢草原，

We worked with the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife

to grow endangered frogs -- the Oregon spotted frog --

我們也和華盛頓州的魚類及野生動物部門

for later release into protected wetlands.

合作養殖瀕臨絕種的奧勒崗州斑蛙，

And just recently, we've begun to work with

When they have meetings with their review boards or mental health professionals,

they're placed in immobile booths like this.

當他們與審查委員或心理專家會面時，

他們是被安置在這樣一個固定的隔離房間裡，

they're brought to these bleak and bland exercise yards.

Although we can't bring trees and prairie plants

可以在這單調乏味的運動場放風。

雖然我們無法將樹、草原植物、

putting them on the walls, so at least they get contact

掛在牆壁上，這樣至少他們在視覺上

This is Mr. Lopez, who has been in solitary confinement for 18 months,

and he's providing input on the types of images

這位是已經被單獨監禁了18個月的Lopez先生，

that he believes would make him and his fellow inmates

他對這樣的圖片提供意見表示，

他相信這會使與他以及其他囚犯，

is that small, collective movements of change

【TED】Nalini Nadkarni：監獄中的生命科學（Nalini Nadkarni: Life Science in prison）。 (【TED】Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison (Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison))

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perspective

stick

mental

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