The document discusses solar sails, which are a potential new way for spacecraft to generate power. Solar sails are lightweight and use sunlight reflected off a large, thin mirror to generate propulsion. They have advantages over traditional methods like rockets that use large amounts of fuel. In the future, solar sails may allow astronauts to travel on long journeys through space.
10 unit 15 radio frequency identification worksheetMeagan Kaiser
RFID systems have many uses. For example, in Moscow and London, passengers use RFID smartcards to travel on city subway and bus networks. RFID tags are also used in libraries to store and find books, and were found to have an unusual use in nightclubs in Europe. RFID technology involves tags with transponders and antennas that can be attached to objects and read electronically from a distance by a transceiver and decoder. There are three main types of RFID tags: passive tags with no power source, semi-passive tags with a small battery, and active tags with their own power source.
Aimee mullins 12 pairs of legs transcriptMeagan Kaiser
Aimee Mullins gave a talk to 300 children ages 6-8 at a children's museum where she laid out 12 pairs of prosthetic legs on a table for the kids to explore. She found that without adults censoring them, the kids were naturally curious about the legs and proposed different imaginative leg designs for Mullins like those of animals or superheroes that could allow her to jump high or fly. This experience showed Mullins that she could invite exploration of disability and diversity rather than fear, and helped launch her career advocating for inclusive representations of bodies.
David lang my underwater robot worksheetMeagan Kaiser
This document summarizes a TED talk given by David Lang about creating an affordable underwater robot called OpenROV with his friend Eric. They built the first prototype in a NASA laboratory and shared the designs online, attracting thousands of users. After being featured in the New York Times, David and Eric launched a Kickstarter to fund the project, reaching their goal in a month. They partnered with a company to manufacture kits and began shipping in 2013. Users have since shared videos and photos of shipwrecks, coral reefs, and other discoveries using OpenROV, helping advance ocean exploration.
11 unit 12 kansai international airport worksheetMeagan Kaiser
This document contains a student worksheet with questions about Kansai International Airport. It asks the student to fill in blanks with information from 6 paragraphs describing key details about the airport, such as when it opened, why it was built on an artificial island, and interesting features of its large terminal building. The student is asked multiple choice and short answer questions testing their comprehension of the paragraphs.
Here are the numbers written out with commas:
1) There are about seven billion people in the world today.
seven billion
2) A trip to the International Space Station costs about twenty million dollars.
twenty million dollars
3) A trip to the moon costs about a hundred million dollars.
one hundred million dollars
The document discusses solar sails, which are a potential new way for spacecraft to generate power. Solar sails are lightweight and use sunlight reflected off a large, thin mirror to generate propulsion. They have advantages over traditional methods like rockets that use large amounts of fuel. In the future, solar sails may allow astronauts to travel on long journeys through space.
10 unit 15 radio frequency identification worksheetMeagan Kaiser
RFID systems have many uses. For example, in Moscow and London, passengers use RFID smartcards to travel on city subway and bus networks. RFID tags are also used in libraries to store and find books, and were found to have an unusual use in nightclubs in Europe. RFID technology involves tags with transponders and antennas that can be attached to objects and read electronically from a distance by a transceiver and decoder. There are three main types of RFID tags: passive tags with no power source, semi-passive tags with a small battery, and active tags with their own power source.
Aimee mullins 12 pairs of legs transcriptMeagan Kaiser
Aimee Mullins gave a talk to 300 children ages 6-8 at a children's museum where she laid out 12 pairs of prosthetic legs on a table for the kids to explore. She found that without adults censoring them, the kids were naturally curious about the legs and proposed different imaginative leg designs for Mullins like those of animals or superheroes that could allow her to jump high or fly. This experience showed Mullins that she could invite exploration of disability and diversity rather than fear, and helped launch her career advocating for inclusive representations of bodies.
David lang my underwater robot worksheetMeagan Kaiser
This document summarizes a TED talk given by David Lang about creating an affordable underwater robot called OpenROV with his friend Eric. They built the first prototype in a NASA laboratory and shared the designs online, attracting thousands of users. After being featured in the New York Times, David and Eric launched a Kickstarter to fund the project, reaching their goal in a month. They partnered with a company to manufacture kits and began shipping in 2013. Users have since shared videos and photos of shipwrecks, coral reefs, and other discoveries using OpenROV, helping advance ocean exploration.
11 unit 12 kansai international airport worksheetMeagan Kaiser
This document contains a student worksheet with questions about Kansai International Airport. It asks the student to fill in blanks with information from 6 paragraphs describing key details about the airport, such as when it opened, why it was built on an artificial island, and interesting features of its large terminal building. The student is asked multiple choice and short answer questions testing their comprehension of the paragraphs.
Here are the numbers written out with commas:
1) There are about seven billion people in the world today.
seven billion
2) A trip to the International Space Station costs about twenty million dollars.
twenty million dollars
3) A trip to the moon costs about a hundred million dollars.
one hundred million dollars
9 10 academic communications i syllabusMeagan Kaiser
This document outlines the goals, assessment, and schedule for an Academic Communications course during the spring 2017 semester. Students will be assessed based on posters, notebooks, classwork, pronunciation, and reading and speaking tests. Students must attend at least 3/4 of classes to be eligible to take exams. The course will focus on eradicating poverty, achieving education goals, promoting gender equality, and reducing child mortality. Topics will be discussed through weekly lectures and poster presentations by students.
This course focuses on developing students' spoken English communication skills through activities centered around daily conversation, listening skills, and public speaking presentations. Students will be assessed through regular speaking tests, classwork including a scrapbook project, short quizzes, and attendance. The syllabus outlines the weekly topics which progress from introducing oneself to discussing interests like music, books, travel, and student-chosen topics. Materials needed include a textbook, notebook, and access to an online class website and the instructor's contact information for questions.
This document provides listening practice for Japanese learners of English. It includes exercises to fill in phonetic charts with consonant and vowel sounds, identify rhyming words, transcribe words and phrases into phonetic transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet, and note syllable patterns and reductions. The exercises help learners improve their ability to perceive and produce English sounds.
This quiz tests knowledge about an Israeli graphic designer named Ronny Edry who created a poster saying "Israel Loves Iran" to promote peace between the two countries. The quiz asks what Ronny Edry's job is, why he made the poster, how many people a journalist said would see a news story about the poster, and what happened when Ronny met Iranians from the Facebook page in person.
This document is a 3 question quiz about non-verbal behavior and social status. It asks what non-verbal behavior looks like at the top and bottom of social hierarchies, and to name two non-verbal cues that convey confidence at work.
This document provides guidelines for a fall midterm exam speech interpreting existing graph data. The speech should include a greeting, description of important data from two graphs, an explanation of why the data is significant, and a closing that asks for questions. The speech must be between 150-200 words or 1-2 minutes long, include at least two interactions with the audience, and have slides for the title, two graphs created digitally rather than handwritten, and citations.
Based on a survey of 15 people at Nagoya University about their preferences for coffee shops on campus, Starbucks was the most popular choice with 6 people, no coffee shop was the least popular choice with only 1 person, 1/15 or 6.7% of people don't like coffee shops, 6/15 or 40% of people want a Starbucks, and 2/15 or 13.3% of people want a Komeda coffee shop. A bar graph would be a good way to visualize this data since it compares the different coffee shop options.
This document contains a series of questions testing English language skills including:
1) Translating numbers and fractions into English
2) Writing numbers and years in Roman numerals and English
3) Translating math equations and operations into English
4) Filling in blanks with fractions and dates in English
The document aims to assess foundational English language and math skills.
Francis introduces himself and shares recipes and tips for cooking with dog. The document includes dates for June 23, 2015 and provides links to a Japan Times article and YouTube videos about cooking with dog. Tips are given for when cooking with dog would be great or better for health. Photos are included from a Japanese cooking channel.
This document outlines a mid-term practice test with 7 parts that assess skills in phonetic transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The test covers English sounds, sound changes between words, flapping of consonants between vowels, reductions in function words, syllable stress, and a gap fill listening comprehension activity.
This document contains a worksheet with 10 fraction equivalence problems. The worksheet asks students to identify equivalent fractions for expressions like 1/3 = /9, 1/2 = 6/, 6/10 = 3/, and others. It provides practice finding equivalent fractions, which is an important foundational math skill for understanding fractions and proportional reasoning.
Este documento es una hoja de trabajo para contar dinero. Contiene 5 problemas para sumar diferentes cantidades de dinero y un espacio para anotar la puntuación total.
The document appears to be a worksheet for students to fill out about their daily schedules and times for various activities. It includes blanks for students to write in times for waking up, lunch, class endings, homework, part-time jobs, hair washing, coffee drinking, club activities, and meeting with friends. It also includes exercises converting times between digital and written formats and describing times relative to clocks. There are also sections about the costs of various items and how to describe abilities to afford things.
This document provides a checklist for properly formatting a typed writing assignment. It lists instructions for including student information, setting font style and size, centering the title, indenting the first line of paragraphs, setting even margins, double spacing, and useful Mac keyboard shortcuts for common functions like copying, pasting, undoing, and saving.
Members of the group wished they had drones for pizza delivery, taking photos and videos during hanami (cherry blossom viewing), and other purposes. They discussed possible uses of drones such as delivering pizza or capturing scenic cherry blossom footage from an aerial perspective. The group brainstormed recreational and commercial applications for drones.
This document provides instructions for a worksheet where a person measures parts of their own body including handspan, thumb length, and arm length. It then asks the person to use themselves as a unit of measurement to estimate the length, width, area, and perimeter of a desk, as well as the length of a shoe and area of a phone screen. It aims to have the person practice estimating measurements of everyday objects based on proportions of their own body.
Tomoyo, Neil, and Naoko split the bill for sushi evenly after eating 3 blue plates, 3 green plates, 4 red plates, and one 500 yen plate together. To calculate the amount each person paid, add up the total bill (blue=?, green=?, red=?, 500 yen plate = 500 yen), then divide
The document discusses several safety signs and messages. It apologizes for any inconvenience caused by restricting access to dangerous areas for safety purposes. It emphasizes that safety is the top priority and asks for forgiveness and caution while work is being done.
9 10 academic communications i syllabusMeagan Kaiser
This document outlines the goals, assessment, and schedule for an Academic Communications course during the spring 2017 semester. Students will be assessed based on posters, notebooks, classwork, pronunciation, and reading and speaking tests. Students must attend at least 3/4 of classes to be eligible to take exams. The course will focus on eradicating poverty, achieving education goals, promoting gender equality, and reducing child mortality. Topics will be discussed through weekly lectures and poster presentations by students.
This course focuses on developing students' spoken English communication skills through activities centered around daily conversation, listening skills, and public speaking presentations. Students will be assessed through regular speaking tests, classwork including a scrapbook project, short quizzes, and attendance. The syllabus outlines the weekly topics which progress from introducing oneself to discussing interests like music, books, travel, and student-chosen topics. Materials needed include a textbook, notebook, and access to an online class website and the instructor's contact information for questions.
This document provides listening practice for Japanese learners of English. It includes exercises to fill in phonetic charts with consonant and vowel sounds, identify rhyming words, transcribe words and phrases into phonetic transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet, and note syllable patterns and reductions. The exercises help learners improve their ability to perceive and produce English sounds.
This quiz tests knowledge about an Israeli graphic designer named Ronny Edry who created a poster saying "Israel Loves Iran" to promote peace between the two countries. The quiz asks what Ronny Edry's job is, why he made the poster, how many people a journalist said would see a news story about the poster, and what happened when Ronny met Iranians from the Facebook page in person.
This document is a 3 question quiz about non-verbal behavior and social status. It asks what non-verbal behavior looks like at the top and bottom of social hierarchies, and to name two non-verbal cues that convey confidence at work.
This document provides guidelines for a fall midterm exam speech interpreting existing graph data. The speech should include a greeting, description of important data from two graphs, an explanation of why the data is significant, and a closing that asks for questions. The speech must be between 150-200 words or 1-2 minutes long, include at least two interactions with the audience, and have slides for the title, two graphs created digitally rather than handwritten, and citations.
Based on a survey of 15 people at Nagoya University about their preferences for coffee shops on campus, Starbucks was the most popular choice with 6 people, no coffee shop was the least popular choice with only 1 person, 1/15 or 6.7% of people don't like coffee shops, 6/15 or 40% of people want a Starbucks, and 2/15 or 13.3% of people want a Komeda coffee shop. A bar graph would be a good way to visualize this data since it compares the different coffee shop options.
This document contains a series of questions testing English language skills including:
1) Translating numbers and fractions into English
2) Writing numbers and years in Roman numerals and English
3) Translating math equations and operations into English
4) Filling in blanks with fractions and dates in English
The document aims to assess foundational English language and math skills.
Francis introduces himself and shares recipes and tips for cooking with dog. The document includes dates for June 23, 2015 and provides links to a Japan Times article and YouTube videos about cooking with dog. Tips are given for when cooking with dog would be great or better for health. Photos are included from a Japanese cooking channel.
This document outlines a mid-term practice test with 7 parts that assess skills in phonetic transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The test covers English sounds, sound changes between words, flapping of consonants between vowels, reductions in function words, syllable stress, and a gap fill listening comprehension activity.
This document contains a worksheet with 10 fraction equivalence problems. The worksheet asks students to identify equivalent fractions for expressions like 1/3 = /9, 1/2 = 6/, 6/10 = 3/, and others. It provides practice finding equivalent fractions, which is an important foundational math skill for understanding fractions and proportional reasoning.
Este documento es una hoja de trabajo para contar dinero. Contiene 5 problemas para sumar diferentes cantidades de dinero y un espacio para anotar la puntuación total.
The document appears to be a worksheet for students to fill out about their daily schedules and times for various activities. It includes blanks for students to write in times for waking up, lunch, class endings, homework, part-time jobs, hair washing, coffee drinking, club activities, and meeting with friends. It also includes exercises converting times between digital and written formats and describing times relative to clocks. There are also sections about the costs of various items and how to describe abilities to afford things.
This document provides a checklist for properly formatting a typed writing assignment. It lists instructions for including student information, setting font style and size, centering the title, indenting the first line of paragraphs, setting even margins, double spacing, and useful Mac keyboard shortcuts for common functions like copying, pasting, undoing, and saving.
Members of the group wished they had drones for pizza delivery, taking photos and videos during hanami (cherry blossom viewing), and other purposes. They discussed possible uses of drones such as delivering pizza or capturing scenic cherry blossom footage from an aerial perspective. The group brainstormed recreational and commercial applications for drones.
This document provides instructions for a worksheet where a person measures parts of their own body including handspan, thumb length, and arm length. It then asks the person to use themselves as a unit of measurement to estimate the length, width, area, and perimeter of a desk, as well as the length of a shoe and area of a phone screen. It aims to have the person practice estimating measurements of everyday objects based on proportions of their own body.
Tomoyo, Neil, and Naoko split the bill for sushi evenly after eating 3 blue plates, 3 green plates, 4 red plates, and one 500 yen plate together. To calculate the amount each person paid, add up the total bill (blue=?, green=?, red=?, 500 yen plate = 500 yen), then divide
The document discusses several safety signs and messages. It apologizes for any inconvenience caused by restricting access to dangerous areas for safety purposes. It emphasizes that safety is the top priority and asks for forgiveness and caution while work is being done.
1. Josh Silver Demos Ajustable Liquid-Filled Eyeglasses
I'm going to tell you about one of the world's largest problems and how it can be solved.!
!I'd like to start with a little experiment. Could you put your hand up if you wear glasses or contact lenses,
or you've had laser refractive surgery? Now, unfortunately, there are too many of you for me to do the
statistics properly. But it looks like -- I'm guessing -- that it'll be about 60 percent of the room because
that's roughly the fraction of developed world population that have some sort of vision correction.!
!世界最大級の難問とその解決策について お話したいと思います。 まず最初にちょっとした実験をしてみ
ましょう。 メガネをやコンタクトレンズをつけていたり レーシックを受けたことがある人は手を挙げて
ください。 残念なことに該当者が多すぎて正確な統計がとれませんね。 しかしおそらく推測によると、
該当者は60%程度でしょう。 先進国で視力を矯正している人の割合が だいたいこのくらいですからね。!
!The World Health Organization estimates -- well, they make various estimates of the number of people
who need glasses -- the lowest estimate is 150 million people. They also have an estimate of around a
billion. But in fact, I would argue that we've just done an experiment here and now, which shows us that
the global need for corrective eyewear is around half of any population. And the problem of poor vision, is
actually not just a health problem, it's also an educational problem, and it's an economic problem, and it's
a quality of life problem.!
!世界保健機構の試算によると・・・まぁ、 世界保健機構では眼鏡を必要とする人の数について様々な試
算をしていますが 少なく見積もって1億5千万人であると言われています。 10億程度という試算もありま
す。 しかし、実際、今ここで行った実験によって 視覚矯正器具は世界の約半数の人から 需要があるとわ
かりました。 そして視力低下の問題は、単に健康上の問題にとどまらず 教育上の問題、 経済的な問題、
そして生活の質の問題でもあるのです。!
!Glasses are not very expensive. They're quite plentiful. The problem is, there aren't enough eye care
professionals in the world to use the model of the delivery of corrective eyewear that we have in the
developed world. There are just way too few eye care professionals.!
!眼鏡はそんなに高価ではありませんし、大量に生産されています。 問題は、視力矯正器具を正しく装着
できるような アイケアの専門家が不足していることです。 彼等は先進国にしかいないのです。 この深刻
な専門家不足に対応する方法もあります。!
!So this little slide here shows you an optometrist and the little blue person represents about 10,000
people and that's the ratio in the U.K. This is the ratio of optometrists to people in sub-Saharan Africa. In
fact, there are some countries in sub-Saharan Africa where there's one optometrist for eight million of the
population.!
!ではスライドを見てください。これが眼鏡調製の専門家で、 青く小さい人は約1万人を表しています。
これがイギリスでの比率です。 こちらがサハラ以南のアフリカでの眼鏡調製の専門家と人口の比率で
す。 実際、サハラ以南のアフリカには 800万人を1人の眼科医が診ているような国もあるのです。!
!!!!!
2. Josh Silver Demos Ajustable Liquid-Filled Eyeglasses
How do you do this? How do you solve this problem? I came up with a solution to this problem, and I
came up with a solution based on adaptive optics for this. And the idea is you make eye glasses, and you
adjust them yourself and that solves the problem.!
!どうでしょう。どうすれば解決できるでしょうか。 私はこの問題を解決する方法を思いつきました。 そ
して補償光学を基礎にした解決策に行きついたのです。 その解決策とは、自分で眼鏡を作成し、 これに
より眼鏡調整士不足という問題が解決できるのです。!
!What I want to do is to show you that one can make a pair of glasses. I shall just show you how you make
a pair of glasses. I shall pop this in my pocket. I'm short sighted. I look at the signs at the end, I can hardly
see them. So -- okay, I can now see that man running out there, and I can see that guy running out there.
I've now made prescription eyewear to my prescription. Next step in my process. So, I've now made eye
glasses to my prescription. Okay, so I've made these glasses and ... Okay, I've made the glasses to my
prescription and ... ... I've just ... And I've now made some glasses. That's it. (Applause)!
!それでは今から1人で眼鏡が作成できることを証明してみせましょう。 眼鏡の作り方をお見せします。こ
れをポケットに入れます。 私は近視でね。一番後ろのサインを見ても、ほとんど見えません。 で
は・・・よし、これであそこを走っている人が見えるようになりました。 あそこで走っている人も。 こ
れで私の処方に合った眼鏡が調製できました。 では次のステップに移りましょう。 私の処方に合った眼
鏡が調製できました。 はい。眼鏡を調製したら はい。私の処方に合ったこの眼鏡を調製したら あとはこ
うして・・・ これで眼鏡のできあがりです。(拍手)!
!Now, these aren't the only pair in the world. In fact, this technology's been evolving. I started working on it
in 1985, and it's been evolving very slowly. There are about 30,000 in use now. And they're in fifteen
countries. They're spread around the world.!
!世界には他にもこのように調製できる眼鏡が存在します。 この技術は日々進歩してきています。 1985年
の開発以来 非常にゆっくりではありますが進歩してきています。 現在、使用されているのは約30000
組。 15カ国で使用されており、世界中に広まりつつあります。!
!And I have a vision, which I'll share with you. I have a global vision for vision. And that vision is to try to
get a billion people wearing the glasses they need by the year 2020. To do that -- this is an early example
of the technology. The technology is being further developed -- the cost has to be brought down. This pair,
in fact, these currently cost about 19 dollars. But the cost has to be brought right down. It has to be
brought down because we're trying to serve populations who live on a dollar a day.!
!私はひとつのビジョンをもっています。それをこれからお話しましょう。 視力に関する国際的なビジョ
ンです。 そのビジョンとは2020年までに10億人の人が それぞれ必要とする眼鏡をかけられるようにする
ことです。 これは、まだ始まったばかりの技術でしかありません。 技術はさらに進化を続けています。
コストも低減しなければなりません。 現在ではこの眼鏡は19ドルの費用がかかっています。 しかし、コ
ストは低減しなければなりません。 1日1ドルで生活しているような貧しい人々に使ってもらうためには
コスト削減が必要不可欠なのです。!
!!!
3. Josh Silver Demos Ajustable Liquid-Filled Eyeglasses
How do you solve this problem? You start to get into detail. And on this slide, I'm basically explaining all
the problems you have. How do you distribute? How do you work out how to fit the thing? How do you
have people realizing that they have a vision problem? How do you deal with the industry? And the
answer to that is research.!
What we've done is to set up the Center for Vision in the Developing World here in the university. If you
want to know more, just come have a look at our website. Thank you. (Applause)!
!この問題はどうすれば解決するでしょうか? さらに詳しく見てみましょう。 スライドを診てください。
あらゆる問題を簡単に説明しています。 配布方法は?フィッティング方法は? 視力に問題があることに
気付いてもらうには? メーカーへの対応は? その答えが調査です。!
私たちは発展途上国視覚支援センターを この大学に創設したのです。 詳細については、ウェブサイトを
ご覧下さい。ご清聴ありがとうございました。(拍手)!