Takanori Nakagome : Say what you want to do

I translated a talk that was told in Japanese into English. The speaker is the only man whoｍ I have met before and who stood on the TED stage in November 4, 2018.

Takanori Nakagome at TEDxKyoto
Say what you want to do

0:30
I do connect children in Japan, Africa, and the world through "Dance×the Internet". Until now, I've taught over 15,000 children, gone to 22 countries, and connected more than 3,000 children. I just think that you can’t imagine the situation and l want you to see pictures, first.

0:43

In this photo, l was in Uganda. In the next photo, these children are in Ethiopia. Japan and Uganda and Ethiopia, I connect dancing children of both countries by relay. I connected many children who live in Africa. I did Japan and Vietnam, Cambodia, and other Asian countries also. By dancing together, they can be good friends beyond the different languages and cultures. In the photos, they really look fun, right?

1:15

I, today, want to tell you the message is only one. It’s that “Say what you want to do”. You probably think that you are ashamed to say that, even you can say that, you can’t change anything and you can’t be changed by it. There will be such people. However, when I’ve said what I want to do, my life started changing dramatically. I want to talk about the story, today.

1:36

Those photos are my faces.

(Laughter)

You know, this face is when l was an elementary school student. Next face is when I was a junior high school student and the last one is when I was a college student. It’s changing, isn’t it? Right? Now, I fly around the world thus you think that I'm active, but I didn't take action from the beginning, I was a person who couldn't try challenging what I wanted to do, I didn't have confidence in myself, and I had a complex. In those photos, I had been a bashful boy. When I was a child, I always thought that I compared me with my old breather. My grades were lower than him, l couldn't pass a school where he could go, and I was not good at sports. The reason that I started dancing was that he started. I thought that he was cool when he was dancing thus I thought that I wanted to start it too. When I was in college, I danced too much almost every day.

2:40

However, I didn't have confidence in myself, I had something that I could be obsessed with dancing, though. I couldn't build a good relationship of trust with around me. In my high school, I experienced that I was bullied thus I couldn’t believe people around me at all. I was afraid of contacting with others, bud while l just danced every day at the same place, I became nice with others, and the feeling that I wanted to be nice more if I was deceived was growing. I was able to change little by little. And also, my senior in my university recommended that l taught children dance. It was really fun. Like that, l did nothing but dance in my college life.

3:24

I had a vague dream in my college life. I wanted to travel around the world, see the huge world, and do something that was big. I longed to travel around the world while thinking that, but l couldn't go there when I was in university because l was afraid of going. There were three reasons that I couldn't do. First, l thought that I was not good at speaking English. I was at the bottom at my university but I didn't’ speak it completely. I was afraid of using English. I thought that I couldn't communicate with other people when l go abroad. That’s impossible.

4:04

The second reason was that I get my stomach ache easily.

(Laughter)

It’s really true. I thought that I who get my stomach ache easily couldn't spend in severe environments of overseas. And the third one was that I was afraid of all foreign countries and going there. I thought about that. From the beginning, I who didn't challenge myself to new things. I felt scared about itself. I longed to travel around the world, though, I couldn't do. I longed to study abroad, though, I couldn’t do. Nothing special happened, I graduated from the University, found my work, and started working.

4:40

As a businessman, when I started working, I was asked by my students whom I taught dance in my college life and their parents often. They said, “They wanted me to teach dance again!” They told me like that.
“I wanted to do, though, I was busy thus I couldn't do.”
I refused by answering like that. However, saying that I was busy was just a poor excuse. My real intention was that I was afraid of doing that. I didn't experience that l voluntary did something, gathered people together and held a meeting. I didn’t have confidence and I was afraid of doing that. When four years passed after being a businessman, a turning point arrived in me. It’s an exchange meeting related to education that I unexpectedly took part in. Words unintentionally and carelessly escaped my lips at that time. “ I was thinking that I wanted to teach people dance, though,... I’ve said like that. There, there were many people related to education who have passion. My words had brightened at their eyes.
“You do try it! You can do it!” They said and gave me a push on my back.
“Why can’t you do it? You don’t have reasons that you cannot do, don’t you?” I was asked a lot.

5:41

“You can use some community center to teach dance for children, you must be able to make a little time on a weekend, and then children and their parents who want you to teach them dance must help you.” “Try it only once!” They gave me pushes strongly and powerfully.

5:57

And then, as a businessman, while working, I started to teach dance for children on weekend as a volunteer. Over 20 children gathering, the lesson was successful. I was really happy to have had such a great time.

6:11

Saying what I want to do and there is the help that many people give me can create a space where people can become happy. The thought came to me and it was my first experience. It might be small for others, however, for me, it was the big event. I really knew that something that I wanted to do was that I could do it. Stopping to procrastinate what I want to do. I thought about that. After the lesson, in the train, I felt my heart beating that meant to be really happy. I thought that I could do what I wanted to do. And then, when I arrived at my home, l saw a paper in my room.
“I want to travel around the world”. It’s written when I was a student and it continued putting up on the wall for a long time. It’s from I was a student.

6:48

I thought that someday, it’ll be better to be able to travel around the world, though, I must be able to do it, right now. I hit upon this idea. I will never hesitate again. I quit my job that I worked for four years and I'd taken my departure to travel around the world. I decided to travel around the world while teaching dance. Teaching dance is my favorite thing.  There must be many things that l want to do by saying what I want to do before and after my trip. This was my first solo trip of overseas became my first journey around the world.

(Laughter)

7:21

Thus I didn’t know about trips completely. I was reckless. I was said often. Year! I just continued saying to all people who I meat that I wanted to teach dance and to travel around the world. I also wrote it on SNS and my blog. Thereafter, someone introduced me to a traveler and a person who related to education in overseas countries. In fact, I was really afraid of speaking English thus I went to the Philippines to study abroad in the first two months. It’s my language study abroad. What I learned at that time was, of course, words and grammars were important, though, moreover important things were my feelings that were what I wanted to tell and what I wanted to know about. Those feelings are more important was what I learned.

8:02

And also, when I thought that I would delay taking a step for something that I want to do, my Filipino teacher said to me, “All things come to you into appropriate timing, thus for you, now is the best timing”. She told me that. The words became precious to me.

8:25

I finally had my journey around the world and it really showed that. That time had been the best timing because there were many wonderful encounters. When I first went to the Philippines to study abroad, I always said that I wanted to teach dance. And then a staff of a kiosk in my school in the Philippines gathered children in the neighborhood for me. I was able to take a dance lesson with them. It’s really fun. In Malawi, in Africa, I told people that I wanted to teach dance. And then all the people in the village helped me. Amazingly, l was able to hold a big dance festival with 2,000 children. It’s great. It took ten hours by bus to go to the school of the village in the photo. The bus swayed a lot and my stomach hurt to go there.

(Laughter)

9:09

And then all the people in the village welcomed me heartily and everybody helped me. I have a film in Malawi. I want you to watch this.

(Film)

(Applause)

10:04

Thank you. It’s really fun and the children also looked very fun. Various people helped me and I was thanked by them also. This comes from what I wanted to do. Beyond the different countries and cultures, I was able to make friends around the world. I first thought that I was afraid of people, however, I was able to make friends around the world. It made my life really remarkable. My values and my view of the world were widely spread. Through dancing exchanges, I was able to have confidence in myself.

10:46

I became able to think that everyone has each their own values each other. A child of two, a grandpa and grandma danced smartly and sexily. I was able to feel that everyone looked cool, they genuinely recognized me, and they had their own values each other. I’ve come to think about that.

11:05

Like that, I was changing. From the beginning, the start was from saying what I wanted to teach dance. When I finished my travel around the world, I’ve come to think that I wanted various children to experience like my experiences. I want children to expand their world and potential and to be friends with children all over the world. I became to think about that so I opened my dance school after I came back to Japan and I fly around Japan and the world to connect children through “Dance×the internet” by relay. This is now my activity. For the future, I want to create a community where people of all ages can learn together. Dance and the internet are my tools for me. My purposes are expanding the world and potential of children and having confidence in them. Those are my purposes.

12:07

I want to give not only children but also various people a push on their back because they gave me a push on my back many times. By that, my life has dramatically changed. It’ll be better for you to have fear. I think that what you are afraid of something is what you really want to do. You can't escape from what you want to do. You will know how to do it after you start it. In my case, it’s saying what I want to do.  And then many people cooperated with me and I was able to create a happy space.

12:41

However, there might be people who are opposed to your opinions, though, you are the only one who can talk responsibility for your life. It isn't like anybody takes it then anyway so you have to make your own decision and go ahead are important. I think about that. In my case, it’s saying what I wanted to do and I was able to take a step.

13:05

 If you and everybody want to take a new step, say what you want to do, please. Doing that will lead your life to expanding widely. It must be your first step. I hope that our world will change for a more better place where everyone can do what they really like. I think about that. Thank you.

(Applause)

Top 10 New Year's Questions for 2019

Top 10 New Year's Questions for 2019.
1. What did you learn about yourself from this year 2018?
I've learned about Japan and  I'm Japanese strongly by reading books, studying English, and working hard from this year 2018.
It includes good things and bad things. Good things are that in Japan, I can be a businesswoman,  continue to work hard and continue to study English. Bad things are that problems of Japan are piling up every day and Japanese people have to think about political issues.

2. Which relationship meant the most to you this year and why?
I think that the relationship with books is very important for me because there are much fake news and individual comments on the internet and the media but it leads people astray.  We have to read many kinds of books to learn more than using the internet and the media because people who read books are now decreasing.

3. What was one of the biggest challenges you faced this year and how did you handle it?
Not giving up and continuing working are the biggest challenges for me who is not young and pretty. In Japan, women have faced many challenges because of only that. The way handling is to keep a low profile.

keep a low profile / do not stand out

4. What was one of your proudest moments from this year and why?
My proudest moments from this year is that people become happy with our company's products. It's because we have those products, however, in the world, more products, and stuff are said not to be needed.

5. What was one of the most meaningful compliments you received this year?  Why was it so meaningful to you?
Of course, customers compliment us is the most meaningful because it gives us the power to work.

6. What did you do for fun this year? What was one of your favorite memories?
Without thinking about anything, working, eating, and sleeping, reading TED talks and books is the sweetest thing for me. And then updating my blog is my favorite thing and this year too, I'm going to write 258 blog articles. It’s the same as last year, I've thought that l could write in an earlier time, though.


7. If you could change one thing from this year, what would you change and why?
I wanted to use English more for going out. I try it next year, in fact, l sometimes guided foreigners to a destination in English. I thought that I could ask them other things more than I thought thus I try talking with them more next year. I can do it!
By the way, the thing that I wanted to change last year has been the following and I could do it, I just saw it, though.

"I want to read Japanese books more. This year, I always read TED talks".

8. What was the most meaningful thing someone did for you this year?
A person said to me, "Existing a very small company and having a job are wonderful in Japan".  It's the most meaningful thing for me.

9. If you were to brag about one of your accomplishments from this year, which one would it be and why?
Although I don't have something to brag, continuing to work and study English would be deserved to be bragged about.
brag / big talk, tall tale

10. Given all your experiences, insights, and lessons learned from 2018, what's the best advice you could give yourself for 2019?
Existing and running my company is great. Don't worry, I can do it next year too.

Finn Lützow-Holm : How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy

Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad at TED Salon: Samsung (transcript)
How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy
Summary
The problem of data is bigger recently because more people become users who have smartphones in their hands but they won’t be able to stop using it. Thus companies can take their data always without them knowing. And then cooperating with adds, it can deceive them. From now, more devices will be used and there is no rule to protect us.
The speaker who is Norwegian is working to protect consumers’ right in his country. He tells us that it’s not fair to put the burden of responsibility on the consumer and companies and government don’t deceive people but have to build trust with users by using data. Technology should only benefit society.

P.S.
I've heard that many Swedes are now put a microchip into their buddies to live usefully. Probably, American and Japanese must think that it’s dangerous to take data. In the beginning, Norwegian and Swedes seem to have confidence in technologies. Thus I think that the story would be told. We have to be careful more, governments will do nothing, and companies want to get more benefits. The reason will be the result of seeking always economic growth.

Words in this story
deceive /verb/ (of a person) cause (someone) to believe something that is not true, typically in order to gain some personal advantage.
exclusive /adj/ excluding or not admitting other things.

Thomas Barnett : Let's rethink America's military strategy

Thomas Barnett at TED 2005  (transcript)
Let’s rethink America’s military strategy
Summary
I thought that this was the title that threatened Japanese people who lost in World War 2. However, the story was not about World War 2 but about the Cold War.
Cold War is said to start from the difference of ideology between capitalism and socialism after World War 2. Capitalism was the United State with its allies the Western regions and socialism was the Soviet Union with its satellite states the Eastern regions. The term "cold" is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides. It continued over 40 years, the summit, Bush and Gorbachev would declare an end to the Cold War and after that, the Soviet Union collapsed.

I think that America must have had wanted to win clearly. Losing, uncertainty, and unable to find the perpetrators of 9/11 won't be allowed.
In fact, each country searches the reason to attack others to stand the top to get territories, energies, and money. Even the lines are decided, countries wait a chance. Its line is called the anti-access, area-denial asymmetrical.

The countries know that it’s important to be at peace and not to kill people. However, for that, there are countries which try to fight and for that, there is a country which doesn't have weapons, soldiers and law to fight. It is Japan.
Now, over 10 years passed from the story was told. The world is always changing. North Korea and China started to have power.

For protecting own country and being at peace, it will be obvious what we have to do.
Japan has to think more about what to do. Military strategy means now to be at peace and protect own country and the world. The mission of Japan is to protect Asian. Japanese people have to think and study more about this. I felt it by reading the story.

Words in this story
overwhelming /adj/ very great in amount.

Ricardo Semler : How to run a company with (almost) no rules

Ricardo Semler at TEDGlobal 2014  (transcript)
How to run a company with (almost) no rule
Summary
I’ve read a book about our brains. It tells us that our brains always seek to do all things easily and unconsciously thus humans like rules unconsciously. It’s because in our world, following it means that you are protected from dangerous things that are traffic accidents, giving many things and scolding thus people hope that there are rules. And then it gives us better excuses. You can say that there is a rule thus you can’t do something or everyone follows it you have to do. The sameness relaxes you and you don’t need to think about many things that are complicating. The thoughts that you think that time is that if someone doesn’t follow rules, it will break your peace and comfort of mind. Thus people love rules to follow.
However, this is the thing that just only many people do. They definitely say that it’d be better to play and spend with their family when you know about your terminal days.
How about my explanation of the story?
I think that people more understand it than the speaker tells. About education, I think that it’s the same thing. If you learn many things that are the same around you or you can think that you are in a place where everyone is in, you and your parents can really relax.
However, the world where you can have a much wiser future must be beyond rules. It’s invisible, you need to have the courage, you have to think many things well, and complicating.
Nevertheless, you want to be in rules for your better future, don’t you? That’s all.

Words in this story
radical /adj/ revolutionary, progressive
bureaucracy /noun/ civil service, government
idleness /noun/ laziness

Sam Harris : Science can answer moral questions

Sam Harris at TED 2010  (transcript)
Scientist can answer moral questions
Summary
I was very surprised that the word "Science" was used to answer moral questions. No one think about that, however, what if the words “general public, many people and justice of modern” are included, it’d be understandable. The speaker seems to show those by the words "your values" and "your religion". It’s because morals mean righteousness, conforming to accepted standards and having integrity. It’s not reducible to a concern about conscious experience and its possible changes. You must know that science changes many things that we think that it’s right but we think that many people say right is right also.

Now, many people have their smartphones more than the year when the spreader told this story thus it often occurred, right? We know that common sense, normal intelligence, and moral are just what many people do. Thus a sense of value and religion is changing and it's different from person to person. We always want to decide what to be right, though, we have to know that there is something that can't persuade the others. It’s because it’s not science.

The title is not that science can answer that moral is right but by many people doing, something becomes right, common sense, and moral is not right.
With this in mind, we have to think about moral progress with richness for our well- being.

Words in this story
integrity /noun/ the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.

Mike deGruy : Hooked by an octopus

Mike deGruy at Mission Blue Voyage  (transcript)
Hooked by an octopus
Summary
I didn’t think that the speaker who didn’t look romantic was fascinated with an octopus thus I thought that he hacked information from the Pentagon in Washington D.C. somehow. Why did I think that an octopus and the Pentagon were the same? Hahaha〜〜

Surely, an octopus that is a creature of invertebrate is strange. It’s soft-bodied and eight limbs. Many people would only look at it in a book, however, moving creatures are huge differences and many people wouldn't have the opportunity to see a swimming octopus in the deep ocean. The speaker is one of the people who has seen it there and its impression made him shoot films of octopus to be known by many people. And then it leads many people to knowing about deep oceans where creatures life and death cycle is repeating every 30 or 40 years, there is a lot of areas of death but there are areas having strong recovering powers so we have to know about happening now in what happens in deep oceans right now. We don’t think that the problem of oceans is so large, global, and overwhelming issues of the world but we have to look in our heart and our places where we live in and fix it.

Creating a healing zone, even it’ small, it will start growing. It changes our behavior and affects the environment. We have to fix our oceans healthily. We mustn't be said that it's neglected because we’ve never seen it. We have to feel our important deep oceans with him and creatures that live in there.

Words in this story
hang, hung, hung /hˈæŋ/verb/ suspend or be suspended from above with the lower part dangling free.
hack, hacked, hacked /hˈæk/verb/ cut with rough or heavy blows.
hook, hooked, hooked /hˈʊk/verb/ attach or fasten with a hook or hooks.
hock /hάk/noun/ the joint in a quadruped's hind leg between the knee and the fetlock, the angle of which points backward.
invertebrate /noun/ an animal lacking a backbone, such as an arthropod, mollusk, annelid, coelenterate, etc. The invertebrates constitute an artificial division of the animal kingdom, comprising 95 percent of animal species and about 30 different phyla.

Japanese dance teacher connects Rwandan and Japanese children

The New times RWANDA'S LEADING DAILY November 29, 2018
Japanese dance teacher connects Rwandan and Japanese children  (article）
Comments
This is the first time for me to read the article of Rwanda and I've met this Japanese dance teacher before.
The purpose of his activity is to create the society where children in the world can meet, learn and become friends beyond the differences of countries, languages, and cultures and implement the world where everyone can challenge their favorite things with respecting differences and having confidence.
I hope that he will succeed as Japanese.
P.S.
I have something that I am a little worrying about. In his video, African children called him their Chinese teacher before. It's a very small thing, though, I want his activity not to be changed in the near future but to remain in history as one Japanese teacher. It's because similar things often occurred. 

Dana Kanze : The real reason female entrepreneurs get less funding

Dana Kanze at TEDxPeachtree  (transcript)
The real reason female entrepreneurs get less funding
Summary
For a long time, the business world and market should be equal between male and female, though, the speaker tells us that there is still the cycle of implicit gender bias in start-up funding. It's considered to be done insidiously thus people can’t directly see and hear.
She who studies impact gender bias in start-ups tells us more interesting. The reason that females get less funding is not only male VCs do but also female VCs do and the solution is not to change questions but to change answers. She said that female entrepreneurs have to recognize the prevention questions and answer to garner higher amounts of funding.
And then, in the last, the word “together ”that she said means not male and female, and not VCs and all entrepreneurs but she and only female entrepreneurs, she said that men and women fight a chance to grow and thrive, though. It’s not really fair.

Words in this story
insidious /adj/ proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects.
subtle /adj/ (especially of a change or distinction) so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe.
implicit /noun/ implied though not plainly expressed.

Li Wei Tan : The fascinating science of bubbles, from soap to champagne

Li Wei Tan at TED@Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany  (transcript)
The fascinating science of bubbles, from soap to champagne
Summary
The speaker must want to tell us that science is always close to us. When you wash your face in the morning and when you drink a carbonated drink, the bubbles are from doing science.
The bubble that children make while playing, penguins swim and release, ships produce, medicines are carried by and the flavor of champagne is carried by is science.
You can be more interested in it. There is science in microscopic things. Also, it’s hidden but it must be fun.

Words in this story
resistance /noun/ opposition
relentlessly /adv/ stickily

Nadjia Yousif : Why you should treat the tech you use at work like a colleague

Nadjia Yousif at TED@BCG Toronto  (transcript)
Why you should treat the tech you use at work like a colleague
Summary
This has been an interesting story because the words that treat and ignore were used for our technologies, so we have to treat the tech that we use at work like a colleague.

It's because the speaker who is a technology advisor is often said that technology leads to the benefits fail despite huge investment is put into it. In fact, technology projects are sometimes canceled and there is technology that is never used and it’s wasted.

And then the reasons that it’s wasted are that the people on the front lie to use it are skeptical and even afraid. They don’t want to remember how to log into and use. In my opinion, they just don't want to lose their job but they will be in trouble if the tech does their work very fast.

Thus in your company, the tech that people think that it’s wasted can work more, owner have to teach them treating technology like a team member. The speaker suggests to use Org charts, look for people and posts are better for machines. It’s important to be able to work well together and have a tenuous relationship. It means a human and machines like colleagues.

Stop wasting technology, we must feel happier about working with technology. Embracing its idea must lead us to performing better and being happier.

Words in this story
flail /verb/ wave or swing wildly
induce /verb/ provoke, give rise, bring about
be in trouble / have difficulty, have trouble, get into trouble, be in difficulties, be troubled

Richard Dawkins : Militant atheism

Richard Dawkins at TED2002  (transcript)
Militant atheism
Summary
Again, l thought that the story was really difficult for me, though, when l knew about the speaker who was a writer who wrote a famous book that I've just read, l started feeling that l might love the story. Hahaha〜〜 (The title of the book has been The Selfish Gene. )

An Atheist is, you know, a person who believes that God does not exist and militant means to be aggressive or combative. The title can be explained that there is an aggressive person who is an atheist, the speaker, and not American.

Why is he militant?

In fact, he is an atheist but he is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. I think that he wants people to listen to him and want people to think about our world scientifically. They must depend on God too much and they always say God. It’s saying too much because people don’t know that religion teaches them to be satisfied with trivial, supernatural non-explanations, blinds them to the wonderful, real explanation that scientists found, and is massively financed by many foundations and institutions.
In America, the latest survey shows that Christianity that takes with nearly 160 million is the largest group, the third group is Jews with 2.8 million, however, the second largest group is non-religious or secular in fact. It’s strange because it’s cheated by politicians who want to win in an election thus something that is wrong with atheists who are lonely is not true.
Don’t be afraid of evolution and the scientific worldview must be so much more exciting, poetic, and filled with sheer wonder than the religious imagination.
The speaker tells us strongly that as a human, people have to understand the theory of evolution, atheists, and scientific arguments.

After writing this, the talk became interesting for me because many people are members of no religion in Japan, though, they are not atheists but not only Christianity but also religion, even Buddhism is not talked about. It’s a taboo. And then there is one more taboo story. Before World War 2, Japanese people believed that the Japanese emperor was our God. Thus Japan was a strong country which always won against other countries because people could strongly unite to protect our emperor who was God. When Japan lost World War 2, the Japanese emperor declared that the emperor was a human, people didn’t believe it, though.

Thus l think that this situation will be similar. People don’t think about well and they depend on God and emperor too much. The thought that God, emperor, and government help us should be stopped. We have to do by our hands.

Words in this story

trivial /adj/ unimportant, stupid, foolish

secular /adj/ worldly

sheer /adj/ pure

Kary Mullis : Play! Experiment! Discover!

Kary Mullis at TED2002  (transcript)
Play!Experiment!Discover!
Summary
I hadn't understood about the speaker completely after reading the story,  thus l read his Wikipedia, the same things were written, after all.

He is a famous American biochemist who had invented PCR ( the polymerase chain reaction) and who had received several prizes. And then I knew that the title: Play! Experiment! Discover! and little bits strange things that he told us showed him really.

The word "Play" shows that he loves to go surfing and he hit upon the idea that he won the prize when he was driving to go surfing with his girlfriend.

"Experiment" is like the play for him. He said in the story that he realized that he had always been like a little scientist because he had done things that are like experiments that had been invented 350 years ago and he thought that he was a boy who had a brain that could think about what science was naturally from birth.

Doing experiments about you think about what, why and how it is, writing down and making observations, it leads to building up a theory of how this stuff works and to discovering all the rules. 　

A process is what you think of as science and you can start with some ideas. This is his discovery.

Some strange things are that he has scientific thoughts that are AIDS denial and climate change denial.

He is a man who really enjoys his life and the talk was told over 15 years ago, however, he must still be like a boy who celebrates the curiosity, inspiration, and rigor of good science. He will continue to play, experiment and discover forever.

Science is done for your little reasons and curiosity that are your little idea to get true information and not to be worried by unnecessary things.
Do science!

Words in this story
rigor /noun/ the quality of being extremely thorough, exhaustive, or accurate.

Carla Harris : How to find the person who can help you get ahead at work

Carla Harris at TEDWomen 2018  (transcript)
How to find the person who can help you get ahead at work
Summary
An evaluation is an assessment and it’s difficult that a person makes of judgment about another person because it makes it subjective. When there is a human element, people cannot have a 100 percent meritocratic environment. We have to know very well that this thing always happens, even our world is said to be meritocratic and equal.
Thus the speaker suggests that we need a sponsor who has a measure of subjectivity. It’s irony. It doesn’t show that you don’t waste your power but you can use the power that you can ascend in any organization. This is the thing to be the same table.

Words in this story
meritocracy /noun/ a thought is that your skill is more excellent than anything
subjective /adj/ existing in the mind; personal

Katharine Hayhoe : The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it

Katharine Hayhoe at TEDWomen 2018  (transcript)
The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it
Summary
I don’t hate a man who is a president in the United State, however, I'm disappointed about what he said,
“It’s cold outside. Where is global warming now?”
For him, around him, and the U.S., the most important thing is the growth of economies and not losing people’s job.
Now, with helping media, SNS, and political division, it’s not talked about and there are many people who don’t believe in climate change.
However, we’re already being affected by a changing climate but it’s really obvious. In India, people try to use LED bulbs to save energy and even in China, the coal plants are shut down to clean air.

Climate change is the problem for everybody on our Earth and it should be fixed immediately. We should work together more. It starts talking about it beyond divisions of economics, politics, religion, and communities.

Words in this story
incandescent /adj/ glowing white with heat
increment /noun/ increase, addition, growth, gain, profit

Ashley Judd ; How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control

Ashley Judd at TEDWomen 2016  (transcript)
How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control
Summary
I have a question that the problems about sexual harassment and patriarchy are always discussed at TED women, though, I think that men really take part in this incident. Eventually, men must want to stand above women. In Japan, the story is taboo, even women stand in the grate women way. Bullying is sly and lasts forever.
Humans face always with the problem of discrimination between men and women, white and black, and … next is online abuse that may be also discrimination because it includes hate speech.

The speaker seems to be a famous actress who found cyberbullying and violence by her experiences, however, she continues seeking legal action and lending her voice to growing demands for a safe internet free from abuse. She works for legislators recognizing it.

Words in this story
patriarchy /noun/ rule or domination by men, social organization in which the father is the highest authority

Amy Herman : A lesson on looking

Amy Herman at TED@BCG  (transcript)
A lesson on looking
Summary
Somehow, I love this kind of story that to be able to train my skill that is this time, visual intelligence.
Simply, it’s to learn about seeing and converting observable details into actionable knowledge with the insightful talk. It can save a life, change your company, and help understanding many things. It’s also able to enhance perception, look for what isn’t there. It means that you can have the ability to find visual connections where something may not be apparent, you can understand the new consequence.

The speaker tells us its four points are assessing, analyzing, articulating, and acting. If you look at something with a critical eye a little bit, you must know that things go wrong. It demands our daily attention. Good luck!

Words in this story
perception /noun/ sense, feeling, intuition
perspective /noun/ viewpoint, outlook; vista, view

Graham Allison : Is war between China and the US inevitable?

Graham Allison at We the Future  (transcript)
Is war between China and the US inevitable?
Summary
I’m very surprised that there are people who want to have a war between the U.S. and China and the reason is rising China.

I’d thought that one country which was bigger could contribute to other countries, though, it’s wrong.

The speaker shows that 2500 years ago, the reason of the war in Greece had been the rise of one and the reaction of the other one. Not only pride and arrogance but also, even, provocation of a third person leads to wars, history repeats itself always, and this time also, nobody has a feasible plan for escaping history as usual.

We people must learn history, must have an order for peace and prosperity, however, we must condemn people who refuse to study history.

This is the plan that war between China and the U.S. is inevitable.

Words in this story
dominant /adj/  presiding, ruling, governing, controlling, commanding
collision /noun/  crash, accident, impact, smash, bump, hit
arrogance /noun/ haughtiness
provocation /noun/ action or speech that makes someone annoyed or angry, especially deliberately.

Franklin Leonard : How I accidentally changed the way movies get made

Franklin Leonard at TEDxVeniceBeach  (transcript)
How I accidentally changed the way movies get made?
Summary
I think that the speaker’s idea is unfortunately not a way to create better movies in the present age.
It’s because people now have smartphones in their hands thus they know about many amusements that are TV, YouTube, Instagram, Camera, role-playing games, and so on. The important thing is that they can be main characters, leading parts, producers, supervisors, cameramen, and models soon by using their smartphones and a lot of moving images are updated every day. People live their own lives hard with passion. This must be the best move.

Even the speaker change the way movies get made, even he writes better scripts a lot that no one uses for movies, and even those are nominated, l want to give him the same words that he said in this speech, no one wants to see his.

What he said that no one wants to see movies about women over 40 means that he doesn't understand that all people live their lives with passion and spirits hard and what he can’t create not only their movies but also all his movies doesn’t have humans heart.

Movies aren’t made to sell. Movies are made for people who have something that they want to tell or have to tell with passion. When it can be shown, the movie must be watched by many people naturally.

Words in this story
connotation /noun/ comprehension

Chad Frischmann ：100 solutions to reverse global warming

Chad Frischmann　TED　2018　　（transcript)
100 solutions to reverse global warming
Summary
We must know that global warming is a long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system. It’s provoked by the increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases caused by human activity.

We think that we have to do something immediately.

This time, the speaker’s idea is really interesting. He suggests to reverse it and to know about the word Drawdown.
To reverse is moving backward and overturning. Drawdown is a new way thinking about and acting on global warming and the point is in time when atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases begin to decline on a year-to-year basis. It means to take out more than putting into.

Furthermore, he suggests 100 solutions to reverse global warming and surprisingly, our food system has been that eight of the top 20. It means that changing decisions we make every day about the food we produce, purchase and consume is one of the most important to reverse global warming. Why can’t we change it?

Producing food too much and wasted food are always emitting astounding greenhouse gases.
From the beginning, preventing food waste leads to solving lacking food problem, cutting down forests, infertile lands, and emitting gases.
If it’s with reducing the estimated global population, it leads to reducing demand for electricity and saving the cost.

We have to think Drawdown beyond sustainability towards regeneration.

Words in this story
provoke /verb/ anger, irritate, annoy, incite, instigate; stimulate, arouse
cascading cascade /verb/ flowing out

Rachel Wurzman : How isolation fuels opioid addiction

Rachel Wurzman at TEDxMidAtlantic  (transcript)
How isolation fuels opioid addiction
Summary
I thought that I often heard stories about opioids this year thus I checked why.
According to my research, a science magazine in the U.S. seemed to have said that people's lasting pains must be taken away by medicines of opioids. After that, the number of opioids’ fatalities was dramatically increasing in 2016 more than the number of traffic and suicide fatalities. Although some doctors knew that, patients who used opioids have become opioid addiction.
And then the speaker found that not having opioid-receptor linked with terrible loneliness by herself experiences.
Taking many opioids fills in opioid-receptor in your body, it makes social interactions difficult to feel rewards, and isolation births more feeling lonelinesses that the situations are social disconnections, addictive drugs, abnormal neurotransmission on involuntary movement and compulsive behaviors. It converges in the striatum that places in your brain. Like that, isolation fuels opioid addiction. This is the opioid crisis.

Words in this story
syndrome /noun/ condition, illness, complex
striatum /noun/ cortex of the brain.
reciprocal /adj/ mutual
fuel /verb/ supply or power (an industrial plant, vehicle, or machine) with fuel. cause (a fire) to burn more intensely.
converge /verb/ (of several people or things) come together from different directions so as eventually to meet.
neurotransmission /noun/ nerves spreading and communication

Tarana Burke : Me Too is a movement, not a moment

Tarana Burke at TEDWomen 2018  (transcript)
Me Too is a movement, not a moment
Summary
Our world has many problems. I understood this time that the problem that we don't know is not solved definitely.

The Me Too movement is a movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault. Many people and I thought that it started from October 2017 when a famous actress was frank sexual harassment on Tweeter and other actresses used "#MeToo".
People knew that in not only the American movie industry but also common industries, there was a lot of sexual harassment. Authority, power, privilege, and money could be building blocks of sexual violence and continue hiding it. it made victims numb for a long time. Finally, the problem could be known by people in the world as an important problem with helping SNS.

However, in fact, from over one decade, #MeToo was used by the speaker. It's been in 2006. The speaker is a black woman and in a black community where it occurred usually. No one thought it's the problem and people were numb.

All human rights are important more than authority, power, privilege, and money,  so those are an the problem that have to be dismantled.

Beginning, I didn't understand why the words numb and dismantle were used many times in the story, but now I understood.

Still, in Japan, people are numb. Authority, power, privilege, and money are strong. Although it's said that utilizing females workforce is important, it's thought that positions are important. This piled up situations must be dismantled, though, it's difficult. The hero who tries to break this, even who is a man will be hidden by authority, power, privilege, and money. It's out of date.

The speaker hopes that for future generations, the world has to be dismantled. The Me Too movement must not be stopped for a moment.

Words in this story
owe /verb/ have an obligation to pay or repay (something, especially money) in return for something received.
utilizing utilize  /verb/  make practical and effective use of

Jared Diamond : How societies can grow old better

Jared Diamond at TED2013  (transcript)
How societies can grow old better
Summary
This, my summary must be the biggest summary in this year because I've just thought about this problem. In fact, Japanese society is too good for elderly people and it has to be urgently started solving because the Japanese population is aging really rapidly.
I am very surprised about the big differences between the U.S. and Japan in this situation.
First, l will summarize this article. It'll be better to be divided into traditional societies 1) and modern societies. 2) And then we will understand the speaker’s suggestions. 3)
Next, l want to write current Japanese circumstances 4) and last, my opinions but I want it to be how societies can grow younger better and elderly better. 5)

1)
First, the speaker talks about growing older in traditional societies.
By the way, the speaker lives in a large and modern society which is America.
In the story, traditional societies are traditional, small, and tribal societies where surprisingly seemed to be more diverse than our modern, recent, and big societies. It means that there are big differences among traditional societies about the treatment of the elderly. There had been much worse and much better also.
The worst example of traditional societies is that elderly people are rid of by neglecting, not feeding, not caring until dying, and killing them.
The reasons are helpless but elderly people had to do their own parents and they know that it happens to them.
It's because nomadic, Arctic and deserts areas are unsteady, younger people who can shift camp have to be survived and food that is always not enough there has to be provided only to them.

However,  there are traditional societies where elderly people are cared for, fed, and they remain valuable. It's areas which are farming societies, sedentary, and need elderly people's knowledge, experiences, and culture about politics, medicine, religion, songs, making and producing. The reasons might be not to have letters, but those were important.

2)
What about next that is about modern societies where the speaker lives in?
We see that America is a big country and has dreams, however, he tells us that elderly Americans are in a low status and at a big disadvantage in job applications and in hospitals but they end up living separately from their children, relatives, and friends. And then some of them live in separate retirement homes.
The reasons for the low status of the elderly in the U.S. are placing a high value on work, 1) emphasizing on the virtues of self-reliance and independence, 2) and worshiping of youth.3)

This difference between traditional societies and modern societies must come from becoming remarkable longer lives and better health in old age. The changes were better, though, there has been a big burden for young people.

By living alone, by retiring from the workforce, and by changing rapidly technology, elderly people lose social ties, they don’t have anything to do, and then they are put in the low status.

3)
The speaker’s suggestions for improving the value of elderly people are that entrusting caring for children because mothers have their work, creating more opportunities to listen to elderly people to avoid risks because they must have a lot of experiences, and understanding human relationships from elderly people must be huge values.

The most important thing is to learn with respect. Tribal or modern societies shouldn't be scorned, however, shouldn’t be romanticized. Just, miserable modern societies of elderly people must be changed and he is a writer who writes about this problem.

4)
The story really surprised me because my father told me in the past, that Japan was the country where elderly people felt small to live but in America and other countries, elderly people enjoyed their lives with hobbies. Japan had to become like that, however, Japanese circumstances are now big improving for elderly people. They receive a high pension, create their positions in the workforce but they don’t do the work, control politics and education not to make Japan better but to build waste organizations not to lose their positions but it’s used our taxes. The cost of those, pension and hospital are obviously lacking and the Japanese debt is bigger, though, no one does anything.

5)
Why has those world appeared?
My opinion is that human thoughts are out of date. It’s both countries which are Japan and America also.
The speaker also tells us that 60 years later, what elderly people learned when they were children is no longer useful because technology is rapidly changing today. Thus all people have to continue learning to live better always.  Even children will face that what they learned is unnecessity soon. It's faster than we face because of technology growing but it can't be stopped. We have to change our thoughts by learning.

The thoughts that younger people have to care about elderly people and money and high positions make elderly people happy and jobs give people enough money must be nonsense.
We have to learn that from learning, graduating is no longer.
Learning must teach us that it'll be better that 90 years elderly people care about 70 years because they are healthy. There are many happy people who don't have enough money and high positions, robots take away our jobs definitely and how societies can grow not only old better but also all better.

Words in this story
vary /verb/ be different
fluctuate /verb/ change differ shift alter
allocation /noun/ assignment, allotment, quota

AJ Jacobs : My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee

AJ Jacobs at TED Salon  （transcript）
My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee
Summary
This is a lovely story that the speaker gives us a small idea that we can use from today and it can make us really happy.
It's gratitude.
The speaker is a writer and he realized that a cup of coffee that he drinks in the morning makes him happy and it's come him after many people had worked for. There are people who plant coffee beans, who harvest them, deliver them, and who sell them. Furthermore, people who build roads and shops are also needed.
Why can't we thank them?
Every little thing around us is worth it. Thanking them must be great. Before we focus on the negative, let's appreciate them.

Words in this story
gratitude /noun/  thank /verb/noun/ grateful /adj/ appreciate /verb/
deceptively /adv/ in a way or to an extent that gives a misleading impression
in person /adv/ immediately, directly

Alex Edmans : What to trust in a "post-truth" world

Alex Edmans at TEDxLondon Business School  (transcript)
What to trust in a "post-truth" world
Summary
Although I couldn't understand the title, I made some sentences for understanding it.
I don't know about what to trust in "post-truth" world.  I can know about what to trust in a "post-truth" world because there is factual evidence.

Now, in our world, many people have smartphones in their hand thus they can know about a lot of things soon, though, they don't confirm whether those have evidence or not, even whether those are true or not and they make a judgment what is good and bad.
This is  a "post-truth" world

Those are only posted on the internet, though, people believe those. It leads to misunderstanding often. It means that a person who posts a fake news is a right person. However, a person who is posted by someone that he/she lies if it's not true becomes a bad person. The things and news go the same way.  People believe only one viewpoint without seeking others.
The speaker suggests that we listen to different experts say more different things.  We should not make decisions when we only see the number of likes and retweets.  It must mislead us. We have to know about what to trust in a "post-truth" world well.

Words in this story
disprove /verb/ prove that (something) is false.
dissent  /noun/  disagreement, difference of opinion

Özlem Cekic : Why I have coffee with people who send me hate mail

Özlem Cekic at We the Future  (transcript)
Why I have coffee with people who send me hate mail
Summary
This is a story that gives me courage really and I knew about differences of culture between other countries and Japan. It's that to have or try to have conversations and discussions even with people who send you hate mail.  In Japan, people don't feel that conversations and discussions are important thus in classes of schools, students do only learning, thinking and memorizing something.
However, it won't lead to creating a better world.  The speaker tells us that conversation is the most difficult thing in a democracy and also the most important.
Thus she challenges it. She tries to have coffee even with people who send her hete mail. And then she realized that people who send her hate mail just felt that she is a strange and scary person. Against hate mails, not defeat but use kindness, confidence, and courage.
She goes to their house with those and food to have conversations. When they eat together, it must be easier to find what they have in common and make people together.

Words in this story
conviction /noun/ belief, conviction, faith
demonize /verb/ portray as wicked and threatening.
common /adj/  usual, ordinary, familiar, regular, something shared

Deeyah Khan : What we don't know about Europe's Muslim kids

Deeyah Khan at TEDxExeter  (transcript)
What we don't know about Europe's Muslim kids
Summary
I am one of the people who doesn't know about Europe's Muslim kids and that there is discrimination without places where black people live. I thought that white people and brown people are the same and some problems can be solved by education, living together, parents help, being famous, and kindness.  Furthermore, the speaker is beautiful thus I thought definitely that there was no discrimination against her, though, it's wrong.
There are communities where it's unacceptable and dishonorable for a woman to be involved in music, to be so present in the media, to marry or to be in relationships with people who she chooses, and also to divorce them. And then those become culture and honor. It means that girls and kids are forced to be married and abused based on honor. This is the norm and honor. Unfortunately and ironically, its young people’s feelings channel toward violence as terrorists.

The speaker realizes that she has been the same person for a long time. She started to use a camera and films to tell people those realities to help them. There must be a way that they can live happily and freely. The cycle must be stopped and a society that supports young girls and kids.

Words in this story
apathy /noun/ lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern. indifference, lack of interest, lack of enthusiasm
betray /verb/ cheat, turn traitor

Dawn Wacek : A librarian's case against overdue book fines

Dawn Wacek at TEDxUWLaCrosse  (transcript)
A librarian's case against overdue book fines
Summary
This is also a difficult problem for me because in Japan, people can use libraries for free and they don’t need to pay something when they have books that are overdue, but it’s only five books. If you have them, you can’t borrow other books until you return them.

However, Japanese libraries have a system that you can secretly return those books that are overdue. It means that you aren’t known about it by anyone and you aren’t scolded by anyone. It’s that libraries have a box to be able to put those books after libraries are closed and before libraries are opened.
I often use this box because l am busy. I can’t go to the libraries the day when l have to return books or l can’t finish reading books. However, l want to borrow other books that are expensive. I learn from my mother that reading books is very important and everything that you borrow has to be returned by you.

Japanese libraries are working by our taxes. Thus l pay taxes by working hard for all Japanese system, It might not be enough, though, people have to work for it.
From my examples, you must understand whether overdue book fines are needed or not.
I hope that people continue to think that reading books is important more than using smartphones and learn about moral.

Words in this story
overdue /adj/  late, behind schedule, behind time, delayed
fine /adj/ wonderful, excellent, small
fine /verb/ punish (someone) by making them pay a sum of money, typically as a penalty for breaking the law.
fines /noun/ a sum of money exacted as a penalty by a court of law or other authority.
librarian /noun/ a person, typically with a degree in library science, who administers or assists in a library.

Scott Fraser : Why eyewitnesses get it wrong

Scott Fraser at TEDxUSC  (transcript)
Why eyewitnesses get it wrong
Summary
If you are an eyewitness who doesn't see an incident but watches TV programs, you must experience the same things. You tell us that an actor appeared the day before yesterday and the actor appeared yesterday too, however, they aren't often the same person. You must say that you don't watch well because of the TV, but if it's an accident, you can't watch it because you will be in a panic, so the absoluteness that people say when they see or watch is not absolute.

People really believe in their memories that are true and accurate. This is the reason why eyewitnesses get it wrong.

We all have to be very careful because all our memories are reconstructed memories that are continued producing by original experiences and something that's happened afterwards. Thus our memories are not accurate and are not correct if we thought that those were vivid.

And then the speaker tells us one more important suggestion that its uncertain memories lead not to agreeing with science in the courtroom.
People have to know that scientific evidences and how those are important more than eyewitnesses without emotion that we believe in our memories are really correct.

Words in this story
eyewitness /noun/ a person who has personally seen something happen and so can give a first-hand description of it.
malleable /adj/  pliable, ductile, plastic, pliant, soft, workable
cautious /adj/ careful, heedful, attentive, alert, watchful

Elizabeth Loftus : How reliable is your memory?

Elizabeth Loftus at TEDGlobal 2013  (transcript)
How reliable is your memory?
Summary
Please read and correct this, it’s looked to run off the main subject, though.

The speaker is a psychologist who studies memories that is especially false memories. It’s different to study when people forget.

And then her last words are really soft, it’s that she tells us that we should all keep in mind that our memory is a fragile thing like liberty, though, it’s very dangerous.

Our memories are strongly influenced by even planting false memories but we can’t reliably distinguish true memories from false memories. We need independent corroboration.

How reliable is your memory?

The speaker’s suggestion is to have a discovery that we can’t reliably distinguish true memories from false memories and to be tolerant of everyday memory mistakes.

The story is the end here, though, l can’t be tolerant of Japanese histories.
About some wars, the world believes that Japan did wrong things. Especially, Korean people even now learn that Japanese is an enemy that is really bad. It’s planted for a long time.
Japan is the country that has helped many countries when they were independent, some Japanese continued issuing their visas when citizens flee from wars, and Japan donates many developing countries.

I hope that independent corroboration that people learn the world histories has really efficiency to understand false memories.

Words in this story
reliable /adj/  dependable, good, well-founded, authentic
distinguish /verb/  differentiate, tell apart, discriminate between
corroboration /noun/ supporting evidence, evidence that confirms or supports a statement, theory, or finding; confirmation
collaboration /noun/ joint work, cooperation,
effect /noun/  effectiveness, efficacy, result
efficiency /noun/  productivity, capability

About a part-time job

What do you think Japanese people want to have as a part-time job?
Quiz
I thought that the quiz was an interesting question, though, my teacher wasn't interested in. Hahaha～～😅

1, What do you think Japanese people want to have as a part-time job?
Somehow, l could answer all the three highest popular part-time jobs in Japan currently!
I thought that it shows Japanese people’s thoughts. I want you to answer that also and of course. I will explain Japanese current backgrounds, you can ask me if you have questions, and l want to know about how your county’s people think about the part-time job. Let’s get started!

The third is the one that I also want to work there someday. It can give people dreams. Customers who have gone there surely can be happy. The magnifying power to enter is very high. It’s about 1/100. It’s said that the training to work is also hard thus other companies want to hire people who have experience working there. The place is where you really want to go if you come to Japan. However, it’s expensive.

The second one is the big company that has shops in the world. In Japan, many foreigners and elderly people are working there because there are a lot of its shops, workers are lacking, and speaking English is needed. When l will retire in the future, l think that l want to work there.
There are its shops in the Philippines, l think that elderly people won’t work there, though.
I often go there because it’s not expensive.

The first rank shop is where there is in the Philippines also. Probably, in the mall, there must be. Young people often use it to update Instagram. I don’t use it because it’s always crowded and it’s expensive. However, it’s really popular. People seem to want to boast about working there.
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The answers are that the third is Tokyo Disneyland, Second is McDonald, and the first rank is Starbucks coffee.

2, What are the three highest part-time jobs in your country?

Gretchen Carlson, David Brooks : Political common ground in a polarized United States

Gretchen Carlson, David Brooks at TED Dialogues (transcript)
Political common ground in a polarized United States
Summary
Last year, Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States.
This is the story after a little while his election.
In America, Liberia is called left side and Hillary Clinton was a candidate for the presidency. Conservative is called right side and Donald Trump was elected as a president somehow despite he was said that he was a man like breaking the words political correctness.

Is there or is it returning political common ground completely in a polarized the United States? Probably, no. No one feels it, despite the election was over. People go beyond it but they are disgusted with each other, even they are family.

This TED dialogues must have had been holed to have the same political common ground in a polarized United State.

A woman guest was visited for the left side and a man guest was Trump side, of course. However, they aren’t disgusted with each other on the stage. A woman who is on Clinton side tells us that there is a lot of anger, though, it’s important to watch a television news show or read a column that you normally wouldn’t. See both sides. It means that if you’re a liberal, watch something that’s very conservative. You gain perspective of what the other side is thinking. Stop only saying that you don't like the opposite side. Learn to speak both languages. Don't watch certain entities because you have no idea what the rest of the world is talking about.

Start coming together and it would start creating political common ground together.

People must think that our world becomes better.

P.S. I love the words “Make America great again”.

Words in this story
political correctness / the avoidance, often considered as taken to extremes, of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against.

Daniel Kraft : The pharmacy of the future? Personalized pills, 3D printed at home

Daniel Kraft TED Salon: Optum  (transcript)
The pharmacy of the future? Personalized pills, 3D printed at home
Summary
The speaker tells us that We live in a medication nation which is United State, though, I think that Japan also deserves that.

Japanese people love taking medicines and Doctors give them a lot of medicines to get much money. Thus Doctors can say that patients ask the doctor want to give medicines and Japanese patients believe that doctors are quite right. Japanese people don't think about the number of too many pills, side effects and our much money is used.

However, those are dangerous. The number of too many pills and side effects caused by medicines kill patients more than diseases. Countries money that means our taxes are used and a few medicines' companies get a lot of benefits.

The speaker who is a doctor study about 3D printer can print medicines at each patient's home.  It can avoid giving too many medicines because by helping the computer, wearing a small patch can calculate your proper dose.

It's important to hope technology developing and to know about taking medicines too much.   If we don't do that, there is no better pharmacy of the future and medicines don't lead us to our health.

Words in this story
prescribe /verb/ (of a medical practitioner) advise and authorize the use of (a medicine or treatment) for someone, especially in writing
Physician /noun/  doctor, doctor of medicine, MD, medical practitioner
adapt /verb/ match, adjust
pediatric /adj/ with children
morbidity noun/ state of being diseased

Charles C. Mann : How will we survive when the population hits 10 billion?

Charles C. Mann at TED2018  (transcript)
How will we survive when the population hits 10 billion?
Summary
Now, in 2018, the world population is 7.1 billion. I've often heard that　in the near future, it'd become 8 billion. However, it seems to continue increasing. The speaker tells us that in 2050, 10 billion people will live on earth. However, it means that if human species might not be extinct. It can't be laughed by us because the species that is outbreak is going to hit edge the petri dish certainly.

The speaker suggests ideas to avoid extinction, I think that he has prejudices, though.
However, we can't say that because we don't have time to survive. We stop only waiting to develop technology to help us and stop only using lose and conserving.  We can't save our earth and 10 billion people if we are divided or we don't listen to other opinions.
The point is to work together. Climate change, lacking food, lacking water, and lacking energy might kill us before 10 billion. We have to cooperate to live together.

Words in this story
extinct /adj/  vanished, lost, died out, no longer existing
starve /verb/ (of a person or animal) suffer severely or die from hunger.
compel /verb/  force, pressure
protozoa /noun/ simple and old organisms
transgress /verb/ contradict, oppose, be inconsistent with

Matt Russo : What does the universe sound like? A musical tour

Matt Russo at TEDxUofT (transcript)
What does the universe sound like? A musical tour
Summary
This is a story I haven't understood completely.
In the first place, I thought that the subject was the universe sound. It means
I didn’t understand that in the title, the verb was “sound” or “like”. Ｈahaha～～

It’s strange that the speaker is an astrophysicist and a musician, isn't it?

He tells us that planetary orbits have the hidden rhythms and harmonies, outer space is not really silence and not lifeless place also, and it produces its own unique melody. Music and astronomy seem to have deep connections, there is geometry in the humming of the strings, and there seems to be music in the spacing of the sphere there. What? What does it mean?

And then he said that he got to the TRAPPIST-1 system that I heard for the first time.
This is an explanatory system discovered last February of 2017. It seems to be seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a star.

I didn't understand what the TRAPPIST-1 is something to hear, however, its sound fascinated us, it’s very beautiful, and it’s enough worth.

No one is creating the pitches or rhythms and it's just brought into the human hearing range.
One tone beats out a rhythm. It's simple and two tones join. Three, four, five, and six tones join. It just only joins but it doesn't create and it's not created. Each sound is simple and just beats out the same pitch. And after all, when seven planets have entered, we can hear a drum for every time two planets align.

This is what the hidden rhythms and harmonies that the planetary orbits have, isn't it?
I feel that it’s like the life of ourselves and consonant is great.

Our planet has had a lot of things that we don't know. From now, Like this TRAPPIST-1 of the resonant chain and K2-138, new things seems to be discovered also.

Words in this story
resonant /adj/ (of sound) deep, clear, and continuing to sound or ring.
consonant /noun/  in agreement or harmony with.
astronomy /noun/ the branch of science that deals with celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole.

Celeste Headlee :10 ways to have a better conversation

Celeste Headlee at TEDxCreativeCoast  (transcript)
10 ways to have a better conversation
Summary
Conversation is the informal exchange of ideas by spoken words, though, you know, our conversation becomes one-sided conversations, an argument, fighting against others, and so on. It’s not  conversation but people don’t listen to each other and they make their decisions based on what they already believe.

This time, the speaker teaches us how to talk and how to listen to have great conversation that you’ve made a real connection or you’ve been perfectly understood. It’s without wasting your time, getting bored, and offending anybody.

Don’t multitask. Don’t pontificate.
Give simple questions. Go with the flow. Ask something that you don’t know. Don’t equate your experience with theirs. Try not to repeat yourself. Don’t care about small things. Listen and be brief.
The concept is to be interested in other people to be able to talk, even people who you don’t like. We must enjoy conversation. It makes others enjoy also.

Words in this story
conversation /noun/ the informal exchange of ideas by spoken words.

Frances Frei : How to build (and rebuild) trust

Frances Frei at TED2018  (transcript)
How to build (and rebuild) trust
Summary
I didn't understand the story, thus I'm going to write about Uber in Japan and whether Uber systems are trusted or not. It must lead to understanding this story.

Uber is a new service to connect a person who has a car or bicycle and time to a person who finds how to move or deliver something. 
By using application, those people can meet anywhere and anytime.
However, those people see at the first time thus people don't know each other, the people are introduced by application, though. People think that the important thing is trust here because people who don’t know each other have to start the business.

However, I think that before people use Uber, there are few trusts there. It’s because they are not companies but individuals that don’t have guarantees for customers and will get big money individually. Additionally, we see that tax companies are struggling.

The important purpose of service or business is to help people who are worried, to have passion, to do with pride and to allow all people to be happy. I don't feel that Uber thinks about that. It's only to get money easily. Tax companies have those thus trust is built. It takes for a long time, however, deep trust can be rebuilt again if it's lost. This is my way on how to build and rebuild trust.
God would inspire me with the power of doing my homework.

Words in this story
unprecedented /noun/ never done or known before.
wobble /noun/ an unsteady movement from side to side.
jeopardy /noun/ danger of loss, harm, or failure.
allow /verb/ admit (an event or activity) as legal or acceptable.

Kristie Overstreet : What doctors should know about gender identity

Kristie Overstreet at TEDxLivoniaCCLibrary  (transcript)
What doctors should know about gender identity
Summary
I thought hard that the patients who are transgender had to be treated as female or male while reading the story. However, l was sorry that my thought was wrong in the first place.

It’s to think that there are only two genders that are male and female is wrong but there are those two and whiteout those that are transgender is also wrong.

In the first place, it’s in the first place. In the first place, we had been just assigned a sex at birth based on our genitalia. A most important thing is that someone is assigned male at birth, though, that person lives her life with a sense of self as a female is female. Thus she visits gynecology hospital.

1) For doctors attention: it happens the opposite thing that a person is assigned female but she lives as a male. We call her transgender male but he also visits gynecology hospital for his health care so doctors have to treat those patients with the correct pronouns and name and have to give dignity and respect. It's highly likely that the rest of the staff will do too. Doctors can’t say that it’s not trained on how to care for.

The speaker tells us who might not see them yet that we have to understand it well, we have a new way of thinking about transgender, and it will be better for us to be separated with three groups. It's doctors, transgender communities, and the rest of us of the group.

2) For transgender communities attention: in the transgender community, people need to be empowered to speak up for their health care needs. It’s because their health care is not known by many people.

3) For the rest of us attention: even we have to think that a transgender individual is human, just like you and us. people competent and trained health care provider, just like you and us. 

The last sentence of the speaker means that transgender people are already changing, doctors are in the change, and the rest of us will face soon. This is one kind of change in the world. The title show doctors, but all people give dignity and respect to all people as humans.

Words in this story
binary /adj/ having two parts
spectrum /noun/ range of colors

Musimbi Kanyoro : To solve the world's biggest problems, invest in women and girls

Musimbi Kanyoro at TEDWomen 2017  (transcript)
To solve the world's biggest problem, invest in women and girls
Summary
If we can be a little more care for others or around ourselves, it's a little more, the world must change amazingly.

Investing means to expand money with the expectation of achieving a profit.
It must be better not only money but also other resources like time, your heart, and words. It leads someone or something to achieving their goals.

And then the word Isirika that is Maragoli language in Kenya will be the usual word like Emoge or Sushi that was the Japanese language in the past, but now it's used by the world.

"Isirika" is a pragmatic way of life that embraces charity, services, and philanthropy all together. The essence of "Isrika" is mutual responsibility for caring for one another and generosity,

The speaker is a CEO of the Global Fund for Women. She works for collecting money is invested in women and girls with its soul "Isrika" because this must be the solution to solve the world's biggest problem.
It's important for women and girls to know how to protect themselves and to live well. Let's share this.

Words in this story
Invest /verb/ expend money with the expectation of achieving a profit.

Christine Porath : Why being nice to your coworkers is good for business

Christine Porath at TEDxUniversityofNevada  (transcript)
Why being nice to your coworkers is good for business
Summary
l wonder that there is a person who studies tough thing.
The speaker studies the effects of incivility on people and then she shows why being nice to your coworkers is good for business.

Incivility is disrespect or rudeness. It includes a lot of different behavior.
If a boss made insulting statements, it made people less motivated, lost time worrying about what happened, and some people left their job. It’s contagious and by seeing or reading rude words, it happens. Your group and team lake the attention or awareness.
The speaker tells us that it comes from stress but just one person is incivility, it affects its group, and it costs enormously.

However, if there is small respect there, it'll be also contagious. Small things can make a big difference. Thinking people, sharing credit, listening attentively, humbly asking questions. acknowledging others, and smiling become big impacts.

Being nice means to spread small respect. Lifting others comes to you finally.

Words in this story
incivility /adj/ rudeness, lack of politeness, rude behavior
civil /adj/ courteous and polite.
contagious /adj/  infectious, catching, infective
attentively /adv/ carefully, profoundly, deeply, at length
agile /adj/ quick, fast, prompt