TED演讲:动画如何帮助科学家检验假说(1)

Take a look at this drawing. Can you tell what it is? 请看这幅图。大家知道这是什么吗? I'm a molecular biologist by training, and I've seen a lot of these kinds of drawings. 我是一个接受过训练的分子生物学家,因此我已经看过了很多这类图片。 They're usually referred to as a model figure, a drawing that shows how we think a cellular or molecular process occurs. 他们...

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TED演讲:动画如何帮助科学家检验假说(3)

Over the years, I found that animations aren't just useful for communicating an idea, 多年以来,我发现动画不仅仅便于交流思想, but they're also really useful for exploring a hypothesis. 它们同样在探索假说上发挥作用。 Biologists for the most part are still using a paper and pencil to visualize the processes they study, 许多生物学家仍使用笔和纸来将他们研究的过程可视化...

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TED演讲:动画如何帮助科学家检验假说(2)

These processes are too small to be seen directly, even with the best microscopes, 这些过程太小了以至于无法看到,即使是用最好的显微镜, so animations like this provide a really powerful way of visualizing a hypothesis. 因此,像这样的动画就提供了一个强大的工具把一个假说可视化。 Here's another illustration, and this is a drawing of how a researcher might think that the HIV...

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