Jim Yong Kim : Doesn't everyone deserves a chance at a good life?

                           

TED 2017

Jim Yong Kim : Doesn't everyone deserves a chance at a good life? (transcript)

Summary

The speaker is the President of the World Bank Group.

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital programs.

The World Bank comprises two institutions: IBRD and IDA.

The World Bank Group comprises five institutions that are IFC, MIGA, ICSID and include two of the World bank.

He thinks that the World Bank Group has to work to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity. However, it is not easy. There are many problems that are too expensive and complicated to solve, and there are differences between the opinion of the bank and people who live there.

The Bank side thoughts that the cost-effective thing is just to focus on vaccination and maybe a feeding program.

However, the local people wanted a hospital, school, and the opportunities to provide their children.

So this was fundamentally wrong among them firstly. The World Bank has focused so much on just economic growth, the government of each country wants to shrink their budgets and they want to reduce expenditures in health, education and social welfare. It can't be the better world. Then the World Bank Group only works to end extreme poverty is not the current way that the world progresses from now. In developing countries, the important things are being jobs and employment.

The World Bank Group newly addresses it, collects money and your ideas. This is the problem that is not only the World Bank Group and developing countries but also all people to live better lives.  Everyone deserves a chance at a good life.  

The following is five international organizations:

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD),

International Development Association (IDA),

International Finance Corporation (IFC),
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and

International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

Words in this story

upheaval / a violent or sudden change or disruption to something.

preferential / of or involving preference or partiality, constituting a favor or privilege. priority. special, better, privileged, superior

effective / successful in producing a desired or intended result.  successful, capable,

efficient / (especially of a system or machine) achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense.

expenditure / expense, expenditure, cost, charge, the action of spending funds.

Zeresenay Alemseged : The search for humanity roots

                             

TEDGlobal 2007

Zeresenay Alemseged : The search for humanity roots (transcript)

Summary

It turns out that over the past 6 million years ago, the human ancestors started walking upright and they used the stone tools in Africa.

Around 7 million years ago, there seems to have been the division point between humans and chimpanzees.

Since the 3.3 million years ago, they had very projecting canines though they still had some adaptation for tree climbing and had sounded more like a chimpanzee. It was changing slowly and progressively.  

We can know a lot about them and even evolution in the making from fossils. When new fossils, babies', are found, we can know more in detail because the baby fossils were missing before but they don't preserve well.  

The fossils become the hard evidence though it’s very complicated endeavor to find. It seems to take for five years to find, clean, prepare and classify it.

The speaker is a paleoanthropologist, and his job is to define man’s place in nature and explore what makes us human.

Is it to start walking or using tools or having a growing brain?

We today have the knowledge, the technology, and sophistications though we have pressing big challenges.   

Against them, can it be said that we are humans?

As a human, responsibility is always changing. We have to choose to promote the world peace with courage to independent each country.  

We have the power to positively confront our problems because our ancestors started walking upright and forward.

Words in this story

paleoanthropology /pey-lee-oh-an-thruh-pol-uh-jee or, esp. British, pal-ee-/ the branch of anthropology concerned with fossil hominids.

pressing / (of a problem, need, or situation) requiring quick or immediate action or attention. urgent, critical, crucial, acute

division / the action of separating something into parts, or the process of being separated.

diverged / (of a road, route, or line) separate from another route, especially a main one, and go in a different direction

Regina Dugan : From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone

                                   

TED 2012

Regina Dugan : From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone (transcript)

Summary

I thought that this was a very scary story, I don't know what other people think about, though. I think that a true story must purposely switch with another story that people will be moved also, and You'll probably realize it from Chris Anderson's questions.

"What's the payload it could be?"

Japan had been put a ban on development of airplanes for a few years after the world war Ⅱ. It's because Japan likely created great vehicles to start a new war and the world wanted to delay its development.

DARPA means the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. It is said to be independent of other military research and development, and to report directly to senior Department of Defense management.

( I think it is unlikely.）

The speaker explained that DARPA is a magical place where scientists and engineer challenge existing perspectives at the edges of science and under the most demanding of conditions.

( It'll mean that you have to devote your skills for the country to protect and earn because you are in the top position and you can use the national budget.)  

The currently developed technologies, for example, mach- 20 glider, hummingbird and nano-tech are literally great skills. However, all things can work together because they're connected by the Internet. This is not only better things but working really worse. Developing the technologies, businesses and government won't be able to separate with from military and money, even if there is a really deep sense of your responsibility.

Firstly, Superhero must clearly have a dream, it rids his fear but he doesn't say, “We've got to fly it first. Well, I don't think we ultimately know what it will be, right. We've got to fly it first”.

Words in this story

surpass /  excel, endure, keep out

sonicate /noun, verb/  sonication /noun/  sonically /adv/  subject (a biological sample) to ultrasonic vibration so as to fragment the cells, macromolecules, and membranes.

maneuverable / (especially of a craft or vessel) able to be maneuvered easily while in motion.

inconceivable /adj/ not capable of being imagined or grasped mentally. unbelievable, mysterious, strange

Erika Gregory: The world doesn't need more nuclear weapons

                               

TEDWomen 2016

Erika Gregory: The world doesn't need more nuclear weapons (transcript)

Summary

Japan is the only nation to have been hit by nuclear bombs. The famous cities are Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and It’s said to have killed over 100,000 people instantly but hundred of thousands of others would become horribly ill.

Now, nine nation of the world still has over 15,000 nuclear weapons. Furthermore, today’s nuclear weapons are hundreds of times more powerful even than its two cities received one. It is still enough to end all life on the planet.

Japan has the principle called Three Non-Nuclear Principles.

It means that Japan shall neither possess nor manufacture nuclear weapons, nor shall it permit their introduction into Japanese territory.

However, it is unstable because North Korea’s recent nuclear weapons tests and China started to gain power.

Nine nations are the United States, Russia, France, England, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel.

And then, the speaker didn't mention that there is the rule called Nuclear sharing. Some countries which don't have nuclear weapons can use nuclear weapons as a form of renting.

In the first place, I think that people don't think that this is real thread. It's because people want to protect their countries, for protecting them, nuclear is needed and they think that they won't be killed.  In the world, the accidents involving nuclear also have never seemed to announce. Thus people strongly think that they should have it when they see the images of Hiroshima or North Korea hit it to Japan who doesn't have it.

Not having it means to be shot might be carved in our brains.

Words in this story

engage / occupy, attract, or involve (someone's interest or attention).

ask, beg, request, rely

retaliatory /adj/  retaliation /noun/ the action of returning a military attack; counterattack. revenge, vengeance, reprisal.

renaissance / reconstruction, revival, the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.

Markus Fischer : A robot that flies like a bird

                              
TED 2011
Markus Fischer : A robot that flies like a bird (transcript)
Summary
In this TED talk, you can see a robot which can fly like a bird. It's named SmartBird. Birds fly only by flapping their wings. It’s reproduced by ultralight weighted materials with carbon fiber, and by the gear that exactly transfers the circulation of the motor.
The company that creates it aims energy efficiency by the very lightweight structure as professionals in the field of automation, and aims to learn more about pneumatic and air flow phenomena.
SmartBird showed us beautiful flying indoors.
However, I'm worried whether SmartBird can fly outside a building before the wind because the previous talk said that machines will be susceptible to disturbances such as wind gusts.

Words in this story
pneumatic /n(j)uːmˈæṭɪk/ containing or operated by air or gas under pressure.
propulsion /prəpˈʌlʃən/ the action of driving or pushing forward
proportion /prəpˈɔɚʃən/ a part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole.
aerodynamic /ɛ̀roʊdaɪnǽmɪk/
efficiency /noun/ the state or quality of being efficient.
efficient /adj/ (especially of a system or machine) achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense.

Raffaello D'Andrea : Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future

                                 

TED 2016
Raffaello D'Andrea : Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future (transcript)

Summary

Famous Japanese robots that are ASIMO, PEPPER, and AIKO cannot fly. From now, flying machines and drone will likely grow more in popularity. Flying has been a human dream for a long time. The human entrusts robots with the ability people don't have which is flying. They can do what humans can't do, but a human creates them.

I've heard that it is difficult for flying objects to hover thus airplanes draw spirals. However, the current flying machines can efficiently fly in level flight more than helicopters and they can hover also. It can be improved by new control architectures and algorithms, furthermore, machines can learn through practice. It'll be soon able to recover no matter what state it's in and with a remote control.

The flying machines of sophisticated techniques were introduced this time. I hope that they can comfortably fly without pain and sadness and they don't lose their beauty.

Words in this story

Affectionately / dearly, dear

entrust / assign the responsibility for doing something to (someone).

pain /noun/  painful /adj/

sadness /noun/ sad /adj/

many things that →what

The best TED talk for me

Hi! Good morning.
Last Sunday, a sad thing happened to me.
I couldn't answer a question to a teacher. The question was what TEDtalks and who the speaker was my favorite.
I have too many talks l love and I thought that I shouldn’t tell her what she doesn't know.  Thus I couldn’t choose one that time though I want to answer it next time and I prepared it. However, a lesson time will be over if I explain all. what shall I do?😂😂😂

No.1, Roman Mars:  Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed (my blog page)
This is the best TED talk for me because the speaker tells us about flag design. He is obsessed with flags.  He is working as a radio personality and he has a radio program: 99% Invisible. Thus his voice is very beautiful. You can learn about flags and designs a lot. The flags are close to us always and work on our emotions though we don't notice it. I love flags also and I'm, in fact, obsessed with it. That's why this is the best talk for me.

No.2, Dan Ariely : Are we in control of our own decisions?(my blog page)
The answer is yes. We think that we make decisions ourselves though we are always controlled by our unconsciousness unconsciously.
I like this kind of story that is about choice. We have many things that we don't know even about ourselves. He has five TED talks. I enjoyed them.

No.3, BLACK: My journey to yo-yo mastery (my blog page)
He is a Japanese.  He is not that good at English though he stood at TED stage. However, they are not important. Nothing can stop his passion. It gave me great courage.

Sarah Kay 2 : How many lives can you live?

(transcript)

Sarah Kay 2 : How many lives can you live?
Summary

This is Spoken word poetry that is the art of performance poetry. This time, the title is strange because people think that human being can never live some lives. However, the thought might be nonsense. If you use Spoken word poetry, you might be able to be anything you want to be. It’ll be only a matter of time but there is no limitation based on age or gender or race or even appropriate time period.

It means that you are always you who have been something, the current you is great, no one experiences your life and it has worth talking.

And then, everyone has tough experiences that no one can tell and laugh at. You don't know what to tell them though they might wait to be told by you. There is no wrong way but no right answer.

People who tell something by using Spoken word poetry and who listens to it, both have stories that they want to capture or embrace but let it go also. This is your great life.

Words in this story

capture /  catch, seize,  arrest

abandon / give up completely,  desert, leave

freckles / a small patch of light brown color on the skin, often becoming more pronounced through exposure to the sun.

Sarah Kay 1 : If l should have a daughter…

(transcript)

Sarah Kay 1 : If l should have a daughter…
Summary

What is a speaker?

The speaker was really used to talk on the stage more than anyone I watched ever.

In fact, for a decade, she has performed at the Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan. At the same time, when she was in high school, she had created Project V.O.I.C.E. with Phil Kaye who was a partner and surprisingly a guy. This was a way to encourage her friends to do spoken-word with them.

The mission of Project V.O.I.C.E. is to entertain, educate and inspire by using spoken-word poetry. They are now teaching it in the world.  

In the countries where English is spoken, doesn't the created poetry by people want to sit on paper? I think that poems are only written, are quietly read, or only swims on the paper and people listen quietly to it in Japan.

However, spoken-word poetry is different. It is the art of performance poetry like poetry and theater had a baby. This is very much true because I felt to watch like flying words on the stage and to appear question marks in my head.

Firstly, writing a poem might be a little bit hard though you can start from what you know. It is about collecting up all of your knowledge and experience. Then you can write what you want to know and what you don't know also. What you don't understand is changed by writing a poem. You can overcome something through it.

The important thing is that you think that you can do this, you will continue, you love this, and this makes you you. Of course, they lead to all things you want to do.

So this is a new way that everyone can communicate with you.

Even the things nobody understands you, someone will listen to it, if you try to express yourself with a little courage.

Her performance "Point B" is dedicated to mothers of the world. They are great and popular anytime and anywhere.

I hope that all Japanese people can be proud of her performance "Hiroshima". There is hope in front of us.

Words in this story

indignant / feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment.

poet, poem,  poetry / a person, rhyme, a genre of literature.

The whole audience gave her a standing ovation.

She received a standing ovation from the spectators.

Mandy Len Catron 2: A better way to talk about love

                             

TED 2017

Mandy Len Catron 2: A better way to talk about love (transcript)

Summary

The speaker tells us that we need to change our culture or our expectations about love, firstly. It's because, in our culture, it’s thought that it values lifelong monogamy and we want love to feel madness but we want it to last an entire lifetime.

We assume that love is with great pain and suffering, we are victims of love, love is madness and we longed to have dramatic love. We are in a passive while falling love and we think that our happiness is how we are loved, and your sadness how much we love.

However, the speaker suggests you don't think that love is to control you or that you consent to love but you think that you can create love with your lover more. Although this is the difficult thing, love has been like the collaborative work of art. You can decide your love yourself and you don't talk about your love that you are gaining or losing in your relationship but you can talk about what you have to offer. This is the better way to talk about the love she thinks.

However, I want to add that people must already do something for their love. Just they’ve talked about their love that is sadness and dramatic when they talk about. They can't change the way to talk about only love but without love, they use the same way to talk about love.

Words in this story

smite smote smitten / strike with a firm blow.

monogamy / the practice or state of being married to one person at a time.

prophecy / a prediction. forecast, prediction, expectation, anticipation

Matthieu Ricard 2 : How to let altruism be your guide

                            
TED 2014

Matthieu Ricard 2 : How to let altruism be your guide (transcript)

Summary

Altruism means unselfish devotion to others, philanthropy, benevolence, and the wish: you want others to be happy and to find the cause of happiness.

The speaker tells us that only an altruistic society can solve our world problems. It means that in the world, it should be simply having more consideration for others both individually and socially. And then, the most important thing we confirm again is that we humans have an extraordinarily potential for goodness. We're not irredeemably selfish and we can do behave altruistically. If we choose a little bit more voluntary simplicity than now and more qualitative growing than quantitative, we can save the world. We don't need sustainable growth anymore but need sustainable harmony. Cooperative learning, unconditional cooperation working and stop competition within corporation lead to a more altruistic society. We need to dare altruism.

Words in this story

altruism /noun/ altruistic /adj/  the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.

irredeemable / not able to be saved, improved, or corrected.

voluntary / done, given, or acting of one's own free will.

vulnerable / susceptible to physical or emotional attack or harm.

Matthieu Ricard 1: The habits of happiness

                            

TED 2004

Matthieu Ricard 1: The habits of happiness (transcript)

Summary

The speaker tells us that happiness is the state that your mind is fulfilled. However, in your mind, emotions of jealousy, intense grasping, obsession, and hatred are build up for a long time or they might inherent in your mind and they destruct to inner well-being. Thus, you can't look for happiness from outside. Even if you feel pleasure, it’s different to happiness because it’s losing with your experience.

You have to know about yourself that is the state of your mind. It means to be aware of charging your destructed emotions. Your consciousness focuses your cognitive the fact. Then pleasure counteracts jealous, freedom works against intense grasping and obsession and benevolence and loving kindness work against hatred. It takes time for your habits to be fixed though this is the only way to be happy. Happiness ultimately determines the quality of your experience. It is worth a lot of work.

Words in this story

benevolence / mercy, compassion, charity, goodness

counteracts / act against (something) in order to reduce its force or neutralize it.

determine /  control, decide, regulate, direct

Guy Winch: Why we all need to practice emotional first aid

                              

TED 2014

Guy Winch: Why we all need to practice emotional first aid (transcript)

Summary

This is really true that we are inclined towards our psychological health. We sustain psychological injuries even more often than we do physical ones. For example, they're like failure, rejection, loneliness. We are ignoring them but our mind is hard to change once we become convinced. Then in our mind, one of unhealthiest and most common that is rumination occurs. It means to continue chewing over and again. You think that you don't do that though you just can't stop replaying the scene of psychological injury in your head for days, sometimes for weeks on end. Now it can easily become a habit and it's very costly. You'll spend so much time for upsetting and negative thoughts, it leads you to putting yourself at significant risk for developing clinical depression, alcoholism, eating disorders and cardiovascular disease. That’s why we all need to practice emotional first aid. The solution the speaker tells us is to break the urge to ruminate. It can do by just having even a two-minute distraction. You force to concentrate on something else until the urge passed and your outlook will be changed also you become more positive and more hopeful.

You can't see your psychological injuries and you don't know where you put a band-aid on. However, you, this time, know that you have to take care of your emotional hygiene and your body. Especially by building emotional resilience, your quality of life can rise dramatically.

Words in this story

rumination / act of regurgitating food and re-chewing it, act of chewing cud.

demoralized / despairing, having the characteristic of a low morale, given up.

inclined / have a tendency to do something. likely.

distraction / a thing that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else. interruption.

Martin Seligman: The new era of positive psychology

                               

TED 2004

Martin Seligman: The new era of positive psychology (transcript)

Summary

This is a talk much packed with the stories about what happy is.

The speaker tells us that positive psychology is the new era psychology which has three aims that concerns with building people's strength well, making their lives fulfilling and they can have interests in the best thing in life. Then the important mission is whether psychology can make people happier or not.

The speaker, in the past, thought that people were able to be happy if he made them not depressed, not anxious or not angry. It meant that relieving misery was building happiness. It's not different.

And then people also think that happier people are more religious, they are in better shape, they have more money, they're better looking, they have more good events and fewer bad events. However, they haven't adapted to them.

A kind of person who feel happy is not only having positive emotion but also there's flow in life and there's meaning in life.

Don't pursue of only pleasure, because it's no contribution to life satisfaction.

Having positive emotion, the pursuit of meaning and engagement bring you happiness.

Words in this story

rigorous / extremely thorough, exhaustive, or accurate. severe.

eudaemonia / well-being,  welfare

variable / not consistent or having a fixed pattern; liable to change.

Shawn Achor : The happy secret to better work

                                   

TEDxBloomington 2011

Shawn Achor : The happy secret to better work (transcript)

Summary

We believe if we work harder, we’ll be more successful, and if we’re more successful if we work harder. It's because we are taught that this is the foundation way on  how to have our motivation by school and companies. Our brain is thought that we always change the goal post of what success looked like. We hit one target and we’re going to change it. We’ve pushed happiness over the cognitive horizon, as a society. Thus we think that we have to be successful, then we’d be happier.

However, in fact, our brains work in the opposite order. Our brain at positive performs significantly better than at negative, neutral or stressed. It means that if we can find a way of becoming positive in the present, then our brains work even more successful as we're able to work harder, faster and more intelligently. We don't seek success firstly but we need to be positive always. It'll bring you happiness and success.

The way the speaker found is to write down three new things that you’re grateful for, for 21 days in a row. Your brain is trained and starts a pattern of scanning the world for the positive.

This is the formula for happiness and success that is opposite of what everyone thinks. Only you know the secret way that happiness really works for your success.

Words in this story

console / comfort (someone) at a time of grief or disappointment.

comfort, sympathize with, commiserate with, show compassion for,

prestigious / inspiring respect and admiration. having high status.

ripple / a small wave or series of waves on the surface of water, especially as caused by an object dropping into it or a slight breeze.

Anne Lamott : 12 truths I learned from life and writing

                                 
TED 2017
Anne Lamott : 12 truths I learned from life and writing (transcript)
Summary
The speaker is a writer who has a grandson calls Nana that means granny from him.
This is a talk that is full of humor, and lessons from her experiences.
It was a little bit difficult for me to grasp them and the audience often laughs at though l couldn’t do it. However, I think that I’ve gotten a point in my own way. And if I tell you what she talked simply, it would be that your life is great and you can definitely do it regardless of your age. You can start anytime and anywhere.

You might think that around your world systems are not good. 1)
It can’t be changed. If you think that you want to avoid it or you take a rest, you can't do and it works again. 2)
Parents have to learn to let go of their children. Children shouldn’t seek mom’s help also. The speaker strongly said to stop helping so much. However, no one can do that. 3)
Don't compare yourself to others. It makes you worse than you already are. If you're not sober, this is from God means “gift of desperation”.  Let it go. 4)
I didn't know that everyone thought that the same thing why chocolate with 75 percent cacao was so bitter. Everyone has an experience in which he/she was deceived by appearances. 5)
Writing something is meaningful. It’s worth like you were born. 6)
Books, media and written literature often say that it is not true. 7)
You can do it no matter what family you have. 8)
I think that number nine is the most important of all. We shouldn’t eat too much everyday. Your desire shouldn't be fulfilled by only eating. 9)
After all, humor and laughter help you. 10)
Go outside and look up. You are free, your life is not put on lid and limit is decided by you. 11)
Death means that the person will live again fully in your heart if you don't seal it off. I try to think that limits make my life meaningful. 12)

The problems you now think won't be big problems if you start acting on it with love.

Words in this story
go figure / used when you tell someone a fact and you then want to say that the fact is surprising, strange or stupid.
let it go/ to stop criticizing or annoying someone.
paradox / contradiction
contrary / opposite in nature, direction, or meaning.
desperation /
a state of despair, typically one that results in rash or extreme behavior.
grief / deep sorrow, especially that caused by someone's death.

Clint Smith 2: How to raise a black son in America

                             
TED 2015
Clint Smith 2: How to raise a black son in America (transcript)
Summary
America is a country with great economic power in the world. In the field of education, the world could see that boys and girls can receive it equally here, and the former president was a black American.  However, even currently in America, only a small thing can be a good reason to kill black American people who are not only adults but kids. Their parents still have to teach them how to grow up as black sons in America. For example, a black kid must not play in a hotel parking with soakers, hide behind cars, and they have to take off their hood when the sun goes down. They are done by white kids but black kids must not do the same things just to stay alive. They are the same kids and they have to be able to grow up safely, freely, anytime and anywhere.

"No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so."

Words in this story
tombstone /túmstòʊn/ gravestone
vigilante /vìdʒəlˈænṭi/ vigilante / a member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority, typically because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate.