Simone Bianco and Tom Zimmerman : The wonderful world of life in a drop of water

Simone Bianco and Tom Zimmerman TED@IBM

The wonderful world of life in a drop of water  (transcript)
Summary
I thought that a drop of water meant a drop of rain, but this was really a drop of water.
There is a creature that can live in only one drop of water.  It's plankton that we learned in school by using pictures.

Plankton drifting or floating in the sea or fresh water is a small and microscopic organism.
They grow by photosynthesis and break down organic matter. They have the power to regain the environment. It works by solar energy. It's wonderful, however, it's too small for us to see.

One man who is a physicist think about our environment.
He realized that increasing surface's temperature on the earth won't be better for plankton than for us. If we see struggling plankton, we must care about them and our environment more.

That time, there was another man who was an inventor. When he explained his invention that was the 3D microscope, the man was there by chance.

Now, we can see a life of plankton by cooperating two men. The life is the our origin of recycle.
If it's stopped, we can't live. We have to use plankton's power to regain our world environment.

Words in this story
grudge /noun/  ill will, enmity
sustain /verb/ keep, maintain, preserve
rally /noun/ tournament
relay /noun/ hook-up
rely /verb/  depend on, count on
asphyxiation /noun/ apparent death
starvation /noun/  extreme hunger, lack of food
neocortex /noun/ cortex