TED演讲之神童 大家的科学,儿童亦然(6)
So the kids give me the words, right? I put it into a narrative, which means that this paper is written in kidspeak.
所以孩子们给了这些文字，我把他们改成了叙述文，也就是说这份报告是用孩子的口吻写的。
It’s not written by me. It’s written by Amy and the other students in the class.
它不是我写的。是由Amy和班上的其他学生们一起写的。
As a consequence, this science paper begins, “Once upon a time… .” The results section, it says: “Training phase, the puzzle… duh duh duuuuuhhh.” Right?
结果，这份科学报告的开头是，“从前……”，结论部分写着“训练阶段，难题……介样介样介样。”对吗？
And the methods, it says, “Then we put the bees into the fridge (and made bee pie),” smiley face.
至于方法，是这么写的，“然后我们把蜜蜂丢进了冰箱（还做了蜜蜂派），”笑脸。
Right? This is a science paper. We’re going to try to get it published. So here’s the title page.
这是一份科学报告。我们要想方设法让它被发表。这是封面。
We have a number of authors there. All the ones in bold are eight to 10 years old.
我们有好多位作者。基本上每位的年龄都介于八至十岁之间。
The first author is Blackawton Primary School, because if it were ever referenced, it would be “Blackawton et al,” and not one individual.
第一位作者是Blackawton小学，因为如果它被参考了，将会变成“Blackawton等人”，而不是某一个人。
So we submit it to a public access journal, and it says this. It said many things, but it said this.
然后我们将它投给了一份公众期刊，它说了这个。
“I’m afraid the paper fails our initial quality control checks in several different ways.”
它说了一大堆，不过最重要的是这个，“我恐怕这份报告在好多方面都无法通过我们的初期质量审查。”
In other words, it starts off “once upon a time”, the figures are in crayon, etc.
换句话说，它以“从前”开头，图是用蜡笔画的，等等。
So we said, we’ll get it reviewed. So I sent it to Dale Purves, who is at the National Academy of Science, one of the leading neuroscientists in the world,
于是我们说，我们会拿来再修改一下的。于是我把它寄给了Dale Purves,他是国家科学院的一名世界领先的神经科学家，
and he says, “This is the most original science paper I have ever read and it certainly deserves wide exposure.”
他说，“这是我所看过的最原汁原味的科学报告了，它值得被更多人看到。”
Larry Maloney, expert in vision, says, “The paper is magnificent. The work would be publishable if done by adults.”
视觉专家Larry Maloney,说“这份报告真是出色过人。它若是由成人写的话就能被发表了。”
So what did we do? We send it back to the editor. They say no.
于是我们做了什么呢？我们又把它寄回给了编辑。他们还是不给发表。
So we asked Larry and Natalie Hempel to write a commentary situating the findings for scientists, right, putting in the references, and we submit it to Biology Letters.
于是我们请Larry和Natialie Hempel为科学家的发现写一些情境评估，放在参考里，然后我们把这份报告投给了《生物学通讯》，
And there, it was reviewed by five independent referees, and it was published. Okay?
它被五位独立评论员审核了，然后被发表了。
演讲简介：
科学与玩乐有何共通之处？神经学家Beau Lotto认为所有人（包括儿童）都应参与科学，并通过探索发现的过程来改变他们的感知。他的另一位演讲者，12岁的Amy O’Toole，她以及她的其他25位同班同学，经同行评议后发表了第一篇由在校儿童撰写的关于“Blackawton蜜蜂计划”文章。它的开头是，“从前……”