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So the kids give me the words, right? I put it into a narrative, which means that this paper is written in kidspeak.
所以孩子們給了這些文字，我把他們改成了敘述文，也就是說這份報告是用孩子的口吻寫的。
It's not written by me. It's written by Amy and the other students in the class.
它不是我寫的。是由Amy和班上的其他學生們一起寫的。
As a consequence, this science paper begins, "Once upon a time... ." The results section, it says: "Training phase, the puzzle... duh duh duuuuuhhh." Right?
結果，這份科學報告的開頭是，“從前……”，結論部分寫著“訓練階段，難題……介樣介樣介樣。”對嗎？
And the methods, it says, "Then we put the bees into the fridge (and made bee pie)," smiley face.
至于方法，是這么寫的，“然后我們把蜜蜂丟進了冰箱（還做了蜜蜂派），”笑臉。
Right? This is a science paper. We're going to try to get it published. So here's the title page.
這是一份科學報告。我們要想方設法讓它被發表。這是封面。
We have a number of authors there. All the ones in bold are eight to 10 years old.
我們有好多位作者。基本上每位的年齡都介于八至十歲之間。
The first author is Blackawton Primary School, because if it were ever referenced, it would be "Blackawton et al," and not one individual.
第一位作者是Blackawton小學，因為如果它被參考了，將會變成“Blackawton等人”，而不是某一個人。
So we submit it to a public access journal, and it says this. It said many things, but it said this.
然后我們將它投給了一份公眾期刊，它說了這個。
"I'm afraid the paper fails our initial quality control checks in several different ways."
它說了一大堆，不過最重要的是這個，“我恐怕這份報告在好多方面都無法通過我們的初期質量審查。”
In other words, it starts off "once upon a time", the figures are in crayon, etc.
換句話說，它以“從前”開頭，圖是用蠟筆畫的，等等。
So we said, we'll get it reviewed. So I sent it to Dale Purves, who is at the National Academy of Science, one of the leading neuroscientists in the world,
于是我們說，我們會拿來再修改一下的。于是我把它寄給了Dale Purves,他是國家科學院的一名世界領先的神經科學家，
and he says, "This is the most original science paper I have ever read and it certainly deserves wide exposure."
他說，“這是我所看過的最原汁原味的科學報告了，它值得被更多人看到。”
Larry Maloney, expert in vision, says, "The paper is magnificent. The work would be publishable if done by adults."
視覺專家Larry Maloney,說“這份報告真是出色過人。它若是由成人寫的話就能被發表了。”
So what did we do? We send it back to the editor. They say no.
于是我們做了什么呢？我們又把它寄回給了編輯。他們還是不給發表。
So we asked Larry and Natalie Hempel to write a commentary situating the findings for scientists, right, putting in the references, and we submit it to Biology Letters.
于是我們請Larry和Natialie Hempel為科學家的發現寫一些情境評估，放在參考里，然后我們把這份報告投給了《生物學通訊》，
And there, it was reviewed by five independent referees, and it was published. Okay?
它被五位獨立評論員審核了，然后被發表了。
