In this TED video, she explains how “through her art, she discovered similarities between American Sign Language and music, and she realized that sound doesn’t have to be known solely through the ears, it can be felt, seen and experienced as an idea.” She share a little bit about the history of American Sign Language, ASL, plus a bit of her own background. French sign language was brought to America during the early 1800s, and as time went by, mixed with local signs, it evolved into the language we know today as ASL. So it has a history of about 200 years. She was born deaf, and she was taught to believe that sound wasn't a part of her life. As a Deaf person living in a world of sound, it's as if she was living in a foreign country, blindly following its rules, customs, behaviors and norms without ever questioning them. She learn and mirror that behavior. At the same time, she has learned that she create sound, and has seen how people re
In this vidio Terry Moore reveals that he has an answer to the all questions asked of us. The question is, Why does the letter X represent the unknown? Like in math class, but now, it's everywhere - The X prize, The X-Files, Project X, TEDx. Where does it come from? About six years Terry decided to study Arabic, which turned out to be a very logical language. Writing a word or phrase or sentence in Arabic is like assembling an equation, because each part is very precise and brings a lot of information. That is one of the reasons many of us come to the conclusion that science, mathematics, and engineering in the West today have actually been used in the first centuries by Persians, Arabs, and Turks. Includes a small system in Arabic called al-jebr. And al-jebr is roughly translated to "System to match different sections." Al-jebr finally came to England as an algebra. One of the many other things. The Arabic text containing the wisdom of mathematics finally reached