So -- now, when you think about this, what we have here is a ham butt problem. 所以，现在，当你想到这些，我们面对的问题其实是火腿屁股的问题。 Does everyone know the ham butt problem? 有人知道火腿屁股的问题吗？ Woman's making a ham for a big, fa
Five years ago, I experienced a bit of what it must have been like to be Alice in Wonderland. 五年前，我曾有过一个有如漫游爱丽丝仙境的经历。 Penn State asked me, a communications teacher, to teach a communications class for
And of course, a few of us are saying: okay, computers! 当然，你们中的有些人会说，计算机！ Computers! What about computers? 计算机！计算机是新东西吧？ The thing about computers is, I love computers. 不要误会，我喜欢计算机， I mean, I'm a huge
I want to share a few keys on how you can do that 我想来分享几个有用的方法，告诉你们如何才能保证 to make sure that we can see that your science is sexy and that your engineering is engaging. 让我们也觉得你们的科学"性感"迷人、你们的工程学魅力四射。 Fi
For one thing, I just do not do uniforms. 首先，我不喜欢制服。 And for another, deciding what words are good and what words are bad is actually not very easy. 而且，决定谁是好词谁是坏词其实一点也不容易， And it's not very fun. And w
So, if you have a ham butt problem, and you're thinking about the ham butt problem, 所以如果你知道火腿屁股这事儿，而你又正在考虑这个问题， the conclusion that it leads you to is inexorable and counterintuitive: paper is the ene
And the trick here is to use a single, readable sentence that the audience can key into if they get a bit lost, 这里的窍门就是使用简单、易读的句子，让观众即使有点儿不明白也能够掌握要点， and then provide visuals which appeal to our other
Now, have any of y'all ever looked up this word? 好，你们中有谁查过这个单词？ You know, in a dictionary? Yeah, that's what I thought. 用字典？是的，我想也就这个样子。 How about this word? Here, I'll show it to you. 这个单词呢？看看解释： Lex
You didn't break it. It's just in a new position, 你没有破坏它，只是让它移到一个新的地方， and that new position can be just as beautiful. 这新的地方也可以是一样美丽。 Now, if you're no longer a traffic cop -- the problem with being a
Lexicography is really more about material science. 字典编纂学是研究物质的科学。 We are studying the tolerances of the materials that you use to build the structure of your expression: your speeches and your writin
So a word without its source is like a cut flower. 一个没有来源的词就像一朵被剪下来的花。 You know, it's pretty to look at for a while, but then it dies. It dies too fast. 看一会还可以，不久就蔫了。蔫得太快了。 So, this whole time I've be
So if you think of the word "set," a set can be a badger's burrow, 当你想到一个词“set”—“set”可以指獾的穴， a set can be one of the pleats in an Elizabethan ruff, and there's one numbered definition in the OED. 也可以指
So, enough scientists in other disciplines are really asking people to help, and they're doing a good job of it. 足够多的科学家在其它领域正寻求大家帮忙，而且大伙也干的不错。 For instance, there's eBird, where amateur birdwatchers
