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¡Más ciencia por favor! | Amaury Pardo Montesinos | TEDxCancún


[Music]
we all want Latin America to be a
region full of developed countries and
if someone does not believe it in the same way
it still suits you but we have a
problem
they knew that of all the researchers
scientists of the world only on 4
cent is from Latin America and that from this
4% only one third are women but
that has to do the amount of
scientists with the potential to
growth of the countries
Latin Americans
I am kind I am 14 years old and I want to be
astrophysicist although I also love the
history and the martial arts but today
I’m going to start talking about history
so a parenthesis
as you will know in most of the
ted talks are used slides in power
point but since I am kinesthetic and
then I do not know what to do with these hands
crazy that here they come I am going to use some
slides flights in 3d
so going back to history at
throughout history we have seen how
the world powers have sufficed their
development and power in advances
scientists since the Mayas who
thanks to his incredible knowledge
in astronomy they managed to place their
pyramids in such a way that in some
times of the year you could see
true shows only using
sunlight
going through the English that with the
steam machine help
they became the pioneers of the
industrial revolution until the
Americans that thanks to inventions
like the bulb or
the very car
they started their big economic boom after
of the civil war
even without speaking of powers
this talk would not be possible without the
help from the science that we use
every day almost without realizing
right now I’m using a microphone
that sends a signal with radio waves to
a console that with the help of horns
manages to amplify the sound of my voice
so everyone in the room can hear me
meanwhile I’m being recorded in
audio and video so that this talk is
subsequently upload to the internet to
that more people can enjoy it to
through wifi that was an invention of
an astronomer radio
imagine is this radio astronomer
I would have been Mexican
what would have happened
that’s why we need more science but
as we do it in the style of jack
The ripper
Part by part
you have to start with the principle that
it would be the school and the young
I will tell you that he has always had
an existential doubt
if mathematics are logic games
if physics is the understanding of
movements of the universe if biology
It is the mystery of life
if the chemistry are the ingredients
basic of the universe
if the story are epic love adventures
drama action and even comedy
while geography are places
exotic and unknown and the language is
absolutely everything you can
imagine why the hell is so
bored going to school
seriously because a being that is so
curious how the human gets bored so much
at school
I’m going to tell you about a traumatic event
that I had when I was in nothing else and
nothing less than in preschool
when I was in preschool to me
they loved the dinosaurs were my thing
favorite in the world and I wanted to be
paleontologist to realize this my
parents did not take long to fill my room
of dinosaur things books of
dinosaurs dinosaur toys
documentaries of dinosaurs
‘Jurassic Park’ is not a documentary of
dinosaurs
one day he proposed to my friends that
we played the dinosaurs like we did not
they let them take toys to school
we had to be the
dinosaurs then we did the mimicry
if the rock sounds of the
dinosaurs
these giant lizards part of pájara
which we loved to interpret
they lived for a known period
like the mesozoic that is divided into three
stages that would be the Triassic
the Jurassic and the Cretaceous then
when I saw that a friend of mine was
playing to make the brachiosaurus of
Jurassic period while the other
it was the tyrannosaurus rex of the period
cretaceous when these two never
They knew what’s wrong with you, do not miss me
to respect in this way I thought that
we were friends
obviously they would not want to play again
the dinosaurs with me
for other comments of the style I
I became the lounge freak
and as for my studies I felt like
the same way as the weird
They did not take long to diagnose I stayed
hyperactivity you know the classic
fortunately my parents here
present
they did not medicate me and I am normal
my interests for science followed
growing up and my problems with the system
also this among other things led
to my family and to me to start doing home
school or education at home but I understand
that other weirdos like me are in a
situation where studying at home does not
it is possible to them what is there of them all
we have had something that interests us or that
we are passionate and it does not have to be
necessarily science can be the
music painting medicine sports
the foot massages
it can also be passions to which
they have to be followed up but
then we realize that many
of the things that teach us in the
school really does not mean anything
for us we only have to
memorize a list of knowledge
put them on an exam and then
we forget them
and if you do not believe me how many people
in this room they remember the content of
his latest biology exam
and if someone indeed does remember
he is a biologist
friend tell me you have a
problem
and surely one of you has
been in class and some of his
comrades it occurs to him to say teacher
teacher this is going to come in the exam
it is assumed that at school you come to
learn the world revolves around a
exam but eye is supposed to be supposed
this is why I say that the education system
you should focus on which one learns
be passionate and express yourself and learn from
not true that is memorized for an exam
we have to learn something that is not
significant that it’s not interesting that
take advantage of our natural curiosity
that there is better in this world than a child
I ask
you have to help young people and children
that we discover our passions and
interests and support us instead of seeing us
like weird kids
and please listen to us
classes should stop being monologues
and become conversation is one of
the things that we need most in the
today is an analytical youth the
students must present their doubts to
their teachers or even question the
you have to encourage critical thinking
and although the student who questions does not
have the reason you have to celebrate that you
dares to question the young we should
be heard and not just by the system
educational parents also
they should be aware of the interests and
passions of their children and be willing
to help them these actions will lead to
that more kids follow the path of
science
or of any other subject but with
true passion
but what if the problem is not
really in education , what it is in
reality is in the young people themselves
because the youth of today love luxury is
ill-mannered despises authority not
respect their elders and gossip while
Should work
the problem is that this said socrates
in the year 400 before Christ
and do not misunderstand me
I imagine that the Greek youth who
it was up to him to see Socrates was simply
devastating
they spent in the theater were fans of
the Spartans did graffiti on the
temple of Zeus
of the worst
obviously these ideas are already very
old and it’s about time
change them unfortunately
opinions are still active in the
present as the nicknames that put you
depending on the year in which you were born
like the famous millennials the
generation x the zeta generation
the baby boomers the spoiled Greeks
it’s time to stop labeling and there’s
to start seeing young people as
what we really are generators of
knowledge and the people that we are going to
guide the future the new generations
of young scientists also need
follow up if we want more science and
Latin America we need to give them more
support for scientists in Latin America
unfortunately the investment in science
and Latin America is very scarce all the
Latin American countries except for
Brazil invest less than 1 percent
of your gross domestic product in science
and technology in the meantime the countries
what could be called developed
as china china south korea
the countries of the european union invest
more than 2 percent of your product
gross domestic product in science and technology
This situation leads to young people
Latin American scientists coming out
of universities also come out of
Latin America that’s called flight
brains and it’s a big obstacle if you
what we want is to have more scientists in
Latin America, I am going to tell you that
brilliant minds surprisingly not
They are stupid and they know very well where they
it is convenient to stay
this is why you have to give more
opportunities for scientists in
latin america so that in the future that
new patents are generated
will boost the economy and
industry in the region must be given the
opportunity for children to make
science is already experiencing or seeing
its usefulness because science is lived
daily even playing
this will lead to more
scientists without gender distinction
Sirs
that in the future will give us great
advances that will make both
Latin America as the world prosper
because science is not only about the
scientists belongs to us all
[Applause]
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