The YouTube video you had us watch this week, TED Talks: “Talk
Nerdy to Me,” the speaker, Melissa Marshall, speaks about the importance of
good communication, specifically between the scientific community and the
normally, day to day people in society.
She starts her presentation with a question, what does your
science have to do with my life? For
example, last week I was sitting in my biology class listening to my professor
lecture on and on as she does most days.
She was talking about parts of DNA and, as usual, I had no idea what any
of it really meant. The next day I went
to one of the teaching assistants and they used a real life example to help me
really understand the concepts. They
took my trait of having blue eyes and then went backwards and showed me what my
parents must have had. They removed all
of the “jargon” so that I understood it.
In no way at all did they dumb it down, they just presented the information
in a way that I was able to more readily receive the information. The quote Ms. Marshall used from Albert
Einstein, “Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler,” is especially
prevalent when put into the context of my life.
Everyone in this day and age have different interests,
talents, and fields of study. Because of
this, this talk is very important. We don’t
always understand everything about others but this doesn't mean we’re not
interested. We are not dumb, just
explaining things in a different way is a good idea and will break down walls
between different groups of people. In
this new, evolving society that we live in today, changing the way we
communicate will lead to a more intelligent and accepting culture that can
better change the world in a positive way.
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