I'm here today to share with you an extraordinary journey - extraordinarily rewarding journey, actually - which brought me into training rats to save human lives by detecting landmines and tuberculosis.
And she said, "Well, I saw you speak, and I'm going to call you a researcher, I think, but I'm afraid if I call you a researcher, no one will come, because they'll think you're boring and irrelevant."
これは「Women Are Heroes」の紹介ビデオの一部です ご覧いただいているものは ほとんどが 時の流れに沿って撮影した写真です
And most of what you see -- that's a trailer from "Women Are Heroes" -- its images, photography, taken one after the other.
Let me now introduce you to eLEGS that is worn by Amanda Boxtel that 19 years ago was spinal cord injured, and as a result of that she has not been able to walk for 19 years until now.
And I was there looking at the larger scale of buildings and finding that the buildings that were around me and that were being designed and that were there in the publications I was seeing felt soulless and cold.
And just very quickly, something we've been working on very recently is we were commissioned by the mayor of London to design a new bus that gave the passenger their freedom again.
Richard Dawkins, whom you'll be hearing later in the day, invented the term "memes, " and put forward the first really clear and vivid version of this idea in his book "The Selfish Gene."
(Applause) So as I do this, I'm also going to tell you a few of the life lessons that, believe it or not, I have picked up in these adventures wearing nothing new.
(Laughter) I love this piece because I have a little cousin at home who introduced me -- which I think is such a great introduction -- to a friend one day as, "This is my cousin Shea.
(Music) (Applause) Okay, so first of all, let's welcome Mr. Jamire Williams on the drums, (Applause) Burniss Travis on the bass, (Applause) and Mr. Christian Sands on the piano.
(Laughter) (Applause) I still have two minutes left -- let me tell you a funny story about this.
そこで私はステンシルを使い 軍服の上 ― 戦車の上 そして壁全体に No を吹きつけました 今はこの状態です 次の知らせがあるまでは(笑) 最後にもう一つ No を紹介します
So I come with my stencils, and I spray them on the suit, on the tank, and on the whole wall, and this is how it stands today until further notice. (Laughter) Now, I want to leave you with a final no.
I'm not sure that's the most progressive or 21st-century of job titles, but I've spent more than two percent now of my entire life living in a tent inside the Arctic Circle, so I get out of the house a fair bit.
Obviously I couldn't get 20 million people to the same dinner party, so I figured out a way where I could introduce them to each other photographically without any artifice, without any lighting, or without any manipulation of any kind on my part.
I know that this is a talk, but I'd like to have a minute of just quiet and have you just look at these faces because there is nothing that I can say that will add to them.
I was referred to a psychiatrist, who likewise took a grim view of the voice's presence, subsequently interpreting everything I said through a lens of latent insanity.
Indeed, the person we call Fibonacci was actually named Leonardo of Pisa, and these numbers appear in his book "Liber Abaci, " which taught the Western world the methods of arithmetic that we use today.
今日は 皆さんに 私の大好きなゲームの遊び方を ご紹介します 大規模 多人数同時参加型 指相撲です
Today I am going to teach you how to play my favorite game: massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling.
There's a lot of really compelling research coming out from top labs all over the world, showcasing the range of things that are undermined as economic inequality gets worse.
So this afternoon, in my limited time, I wanted to take the guesswork out of a lot of that by introducing you to two dogs, both of whom have taken the command "speak" quite literally.
Now, I hope you will agree with me that these things I've just described to you, each of them, deserves some kind of prize. (Laughter) And that's what they got, each of them got an Ig Nobel prize.
And so, to try to persuade you of how totally amazing, excellent and relevant mathematics is, I want to give you my top three mathematically verifiable tips for love.
So my interest in my lab is sensory substitution for the deaf, and this is a project I've undertaken with a graduate student in my lab, Scott Novich, who is spearheading this for his thesis.
Nine of them are at Green Village -- you've just seen inside some of these homes -- and we fill them with bespoke furniture, we surround them with veggie gardens, we would love to invite you all to come visit someday.
By the 1950s, as the world's leading authority on the subject, he declared that he had seen less than 150 true cases of his syndrome while fielding referrals from as far away as South Africa.
働ける位 回復したら 修理工場に紹介し この人を一年雇えば 賃金の半分を 負担すると働きかけます
When you're ready, they'll go to a garage, and they'll say, if you employ this guy for a year, we'll pay half his wages.
I explained who I was, how narrow my reading had been, and I asked anyone who cared to to leave a message suggesting what I might read from other parts of the planet.
But in the last few minutes, I just want to give you a different perspective of what I think -- what particle physics really means to me -- particle physics and cosmology.
(Laughter) But instead of pointing at you, which would be gratuitous and intrusive, I thought I would tell you a few facts and stories, in which you may catch a glimpse of yourself.
So living a life free of judgment allows all of us to share those experiences together and have a totally different perspective, just like the couple of people I mentioned earlier in my stories.
Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them what I did, they'd move away from me, because, quite rightly, they were saying psychology is about finding what's wrong with you.
This is why I am very excited to share "Grantpa, " an online platform that uses technology to match artists with grants and funding opportunities in a way that is easy, fast and less intimidating.
I want to tell you about an experiment using the candle problem, done by a scientist named Sam Glucksberg, who is now at Princeton University, US, This shows the power of incentives.
さらに過激な例を ご紹介しましょう 「完全結果志向の職場環境」 と呼ばれるものがあります ROWE (Results Only Work Environment) アメリカのコンサルタントたちにより 考案され 実施している会社が 北アメリカに10社ばかりあります
Let me give you an even more radical example of it: something called the Results Only Work Environment (the ROWE), created by two American consultants, in place at a dozen companies around North America.
So, if we have a quick look at the history of cymatics beginning with the observations of resonance, by Da Vinci, Galileo, the English scientist Robert Hook and then Ernest Chladni.
I want to introduce you to some of the people that I care about: your public, your children.
人々が自分の未来に エピックウィンを生み出す手段を与える試みとして作った 3つのゲームをご紹介します これはWorld Without Oil (石油のない世界)です
I'm just going to very briefly show you three games that I've made that are an attempt to give people the means to create epic wins in their own futures.
今日は皆さんに Digital Universeをご紹介できることを 大変光栄に思います これは私たち人類が宇宙において どこに存在しているのかを 知る為に制作しました
It's a great honor today to share with you The Digital Universe, which was created for humanity to really see where we are in the universe.