The war in Ukraine could change everything Summary
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israel. He is a famous historian, an author, and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His bestsellers are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014), Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2016), and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018). He appeared in TED talks sometimes when people were worried about our world because he had precise ideas that we wanted to ask. For example, when the US president was changed, when technology was rapidly growing, when the coronavirus started spreading, we were troubled, then he gave his comments to us.
The moment is probably starting the war between Ukraine and Russia.
Yuval said that the key issue of the war is that President Putin has a fantasy that Ukraine must return to Russia, for Putin, it’s not related to whether Ukraine is an independent nation or not. It's a strong feeling of denial of Ukraine’s right to exist. Ukraine doesn’t want to return and the Russian people and Ukraine don't want to start a war. Ukraine doesn’t have weapons to win and Ukraine’s President said that in the past, Ukraine had made a mistake abandoning the nuclear weapons it had inherited from the Soviet Union. Countries that don’t have nuclear weapons are not better and are always attacked or threatened. Is it strange because they must be great countries that hope for world peace? Many countries give weapons to Ukraine now to help Ukraine.
And then Yuval explains that we’ve built based on collaboration, in our future, it depends on being able to cooperate and understand, otherwise, we will become extinct as a species, and the war in Ukraine could change everything, because of the shock waves destabilizing the whole world and someone's technology leads to another regional conflict. It means that people have smartphones, and actively participate in the war, though, information isn't true. We should think that we don't know everything that is happening. In the end, I listened to the shocking words that as a historian, people should be liberated from the past... Even in Israel where Yuval lives, where people study their own history hard, people also suffer from too much history. Germany who is now the leader of Europe is also afraid of the Nazis' history.
Everyone should kind of free themselves from the memories of the Second World War. The Russian people don't want this war and they are not rich but poor. They couldn't eat enough.
When Japan lost WW2, the Japanese Emperor asked McCarthy to help all Japanese people without the Emperor and to give them food.
Putin and China which might connect this conflict, and where Yuval is not an expert on, listen to your own country's citizens' voices. They don’t want this war and in your countries, there are many people who couldn’t eat enough.
It’s difficult to be liberated from the past, it’s not the same as not learning or studying.
By2026, I'm going to update my 940 articles!! It means I would read 2000 TED talks I like.
Shabana Basij-Rasikh·TEDWomen 2021 The dream of educating Afghan girls lives on Summary
I've completely forgotten about the previous story of the speaker. In Afghanistan, women who could go to school were rare, thus the speaker was fighting the situation. It has changed little by little, though, the Taliban are back. Schools were burned, girls had to stop to go to shool or go away. The speaker started making plans to bring students in SOLA overseas for a study abroad program.
The speaker ran a program where girls lived at SOLA to educate girls and to break barriers.
This was what they do at SOLA in Kabul in Afghanistan, though, you can't see it in Kabul now.
SOLA's girls now study different places. The speaker fights to be able to come them back to Afghanistan and all girls can go to school.
Ruchi Sinha·The Way We Work 3 steps to getting what you want in a Summary
This was an interesting and useful story, we must use it.
To be in my shoes means to be in my situation.
The 3 steps are to do your research, to prepare mentally for the negotiation, and to be in the other person’s shoes. The important thing is to create a win-win situation, not only your victory.
Kathryn Kolbert·TEDWomen 2021 The end of Roe v. Wade — and what comes next for reproductive freedom Summary
Roe vs Wade is the landmark1973 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that legalized abortion and established a woman's right to choose to end a pregnancy through abortion.
The speaker told us that it must end with the end of Roe v. Wade. It doesn’t mean to ban abortion!! She explains that opponents argue three things when they say that they want to ban abortion. It’s about religion, protection of fetal rights, and protection of women’s health.
However, religions already have a wide variety of views on abortion to HELP it. Fetal rights protect the rate of infant mortality and programs for children more. The protection of women's health is that abortion is already an extremely safe surgical procedure.
The speaker’s view is that opponents who want to ban abortion mean to be all about contributing women who are unable to operate. Women are unable to be equal participants in our society.
P.S. In Japan, abortion is strangely legalized, though, women feel to be controlled by men or society. The world says that in Japan, women can't be in higher positions. However, the Japanese birth rate is really low, though, the reason is not an abortion.
For having children, l don’t think that it’s easier to do something than worry about it, though, we have to create a society where people who want to have children can have it.
Jane Velkovski·TED Salon: UNICEF The life-changing power of assistive technologies Summary
The speaker is a 13-year-old boy and a passionate football fan. He told us that in addition to that, he’s a kid with a disability, though, he’s free to go wherever by being independent with his chair. It was a donation from another family overseas.
However, he knew that this assistive product isn't used by 90 % of people who need it and people only stare at it.
If you see a wheelchair user, rather than staring and wondering about them, look around and see if there’s something you can do to help. From small changes, be able to live with freedom and independence like him.
Don’t lose your dream.
He strongly believes that everyone can play all around the globe: men, women, abled, disabled, young, and old. He has a dream to be a coach of a football team. We need to make sure that everyone is able to play.
Maria Van Kerkhove·TEDWomen 2021 How to end the pandemic — and prepare for the next Summary
I was depressed after listening to the article. I really wanted to know how to end the pandemic and how to prepare for the next. The speaker told us something, though, it was the same as we Japanese people did. We donated vaccines to other countries a lot, even homelessness was vaccinated with government support and there are no people who don’t wear a mask in Japan for a long time. Furthermore, she said that it prolongs and it depends on us. I think that we can't do it anymore.
Thanks, Whitney, and I want to meet Chris Anderson. He soon must tell us ending the pandemic. We have to continue to do all the things that we’ve been doing.
In Japan, infectious people are decreasing rapidly now, even omicron was found in Japan.
The Core of Cool Japan: Sustainability vs. Stagnation | Roland Kelts | TEDxHaneda
Just, I unexpectedly found the TED talk. I thought that the story was the best to show about Japanese people who have spent by "Jisyuku" during COVID-19, however, it seemed to be told in 2015. I was really surprised about it. You can enjoy knowing about "Ganbaru", "Gaman" and "Jisyuku".
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0:16
I'm going to depart a bit from my usual subject and talk a little bit about a very precious subject to me which is myself. My mom is Japanese and my dad is American and I was raised just north of Boston in a region called New England. And it was very white at that time, not just in the winter, it was a very white community. I didn't know anyone Japanese besides my mother and her family and certainly didn't know anyone who is half-Japanese which is my situation, "ha-fu".
0:59
So one time when I was actually playing hockey, I played hockey as a kid. I was sitting on a bench and my mother who never came to my athletic events came in with my father. And a guy down the bench looked down at me and said, "Wow, man, I didn't know your mom was Chinese!" I didn't correct him, I didn't see the point. Later, someone who knew slightly more about Asia said, "So that, you're Japanese that means you eat fish raw". And the picture in my heat was you know like holding a salmon, or bass or something from head to tail and trying somehow to know on the scales when it was fresh out of water.
1:41
I didn't think I could do it, but I did eat sushi when I visited Japan with my mother and I found at that time, even as a child that I thought Japanese culture was very strong that it had these fundamentals characteristics that made it a very strong and bonded culture. Later, when I moved to Japan, of course, it was many years after the Bubble had burst and so everybody was talking about Japan's stagnating economy. The amazing thing to me, however, having lived here now a number of years is that Japan's economy, seems to me to be quite sustainable, quite strong culture.
2:23
And so I've put up here the title "Coping with stasis" How a supposed sick man of Asia might be a model for us all. That's what a lot of economists would call Japan, the sick man of Asia as if the country was doddering along. And what I've decided to do was look at some. What I really think are very fundamental strengths of Japanese culture is the separate stasis from sustainability or stagnation from sustainability. So I've just isolated a few here, to think about what makes Japanese culture strong, and maybe for other cultures, especially in the developed world which is facing a similar situation declining populations increasing poverty, and so on. What makes Japan strong in the face of these circumstances.
3:14
The first one many of you would be familiar with if you live here is "Ganbaru". You hear it all the time, right? It kind of means like "Fight hard" "Do you best in any circumstance", "Try your hardest to do well". And you can see here is a photo of volunteers in Tohoku after the disasters, the quake, and the tsunami, "Ganbaru" was like a call to action, a call to get together, and do their best in the face of adversity. But it can also be applied to a sort of lowly salary man who has to run off to work every day. You can see here his family, his neighbors, they're all cheering him on, "Ganbaru, Ganbaru". And if you've ever spent time with the salary man and tried to keep up with his schedule you really do have to "Ganbaru", it's hard work, it's a lot of late nights.
4:11
Another concept here is "Gaman". Basically to endure, to withstand, to persevere in the face of adversity. A very similar concept but as you can see it's the idea that you can withstand anything, you can take anything, and you can do so with whining or complaining. IT can be applied to be daily life especially to a city like Tokyo where you're stuffed into a train car and it's amazing how Japanese people are able to maneuver their bodies and shift their ”Keitai” (Mobile phone) and turn their rucksacks and put them on the floor and managed to get everyone in the train. In the States, in New York, or in San Francisco, if a really packed train car comes by people just don't get on. They just go "Ugh" they go up and get a taxi, they just give up. In Japan, people " Gaman" no matter how crowded the train is.
5:13
"Jishuku". some of you obviously know what it means the concept roughly of restraint or being able to restrain yourself and restrain desires. I think it's really quite remarkable. Now, there are massive exceptions in Japan, obviously, but that notion that you can, for example, turn off the lights and just use your computer screen for lighting in order to save electricity and that you can restrain desires for the betterment of everyone. You know, very different concept again, in the United States. you know, where they have "Go for it" "Live for the moment" this idea "Get what you want" "Take what you can". "Jishuku" is a very different concept I think. (Laughter)
6:00
I think these concepts are together and what I admire so much about Japan is that they are there to sustain stability and harmony in society. And I think it's quite effective if you look now despite Japan being stagnant unemployment is at a historic low. I think 3.4%, crime is declining. Again, Tokyo was named the safest city in the world, just a few months ago.
6:31
These kinds of things could, I believe, improve other cultures abroad facing the challenges of the future. I actually authored a book on the popular culture in Japan and its popularity overseas. And I still write about popular cultures such as anime, manga, and Cosplay, and so on and as you know, probably, the government has a Cool Japan campaign underway where they're trying to promote the coolness of Japanese culture through pop culture, images, and graphics. What I would call upon the government to do and those of you who live in Japan to do is to promote these characteristics to push the real deeper strengths of Japan and let people know how sustainable culture can be when harmony and stability are prized.
Fly away with me: Yoko Ishikura at TEDxTokyo 2014 Summsry
Today, I found a great talk held in 2014.
Finally, all people thought that it's too late though, the Japanese government decided to establish a NEW department that was dealing with digital matters on September 1, 2021: Digital Agency, and the speaker was elected its Chief Digital Officer. Japan is told that for women it's difficult to be in a managerial position but she is a woman who is now 72 years old!!!
In the talk, she was telling about her story like predicting that event. She told that her life was as a kite that can fly freely. I think that it's really her. When a string of the kite was cut, the tough situation came to her, though, by changing the kite, she has continued to fly. Now, she must use the kite with the motor because she is the first Chief Digital Officer.
English and Intercultural Communication | Ayame Mochizuki | TEDxGKA
Intercultural Communication is to communicate with people from different cultural backgrounds or social groups as ours.
The speaker tells us the keys that we have to keep in mind when we think about English and Intercultural Communication.
Japan's English level is low and mainly due to our cultural backgrounds lack of opportunities. This situation can be proved by emerging ourselves in English. 1)
English is important for various reasons such as commonness and advancement in globalization and its importance will keep increasing as globalization advances. 2)
Intercultural communication is a crucial skill because it allows us to reach out across different cultures and acknowledge their value. 3)
The speaker summarized her speech. Having a second language has helped me greatly not as Japanese, not as an English speaker but as a person. Some people may be unwilling towards this change. Undoubtedly, having a second language should not change us it's a completely different person, however, that doesn't mean it won't make a difference in us. Having a second language should improve us and by preparing us for a globalizing world widening our view of the world along with deepening our understanding of the unique and different identities of others and ourselves by interacting with many different people from the various cultural background. We can combine all the good aspects of these cultures and build up our own one-of-a-kind unique identity that will make us a person free from the narrow views of a single nationality and make us global individuals.
Adam Grant·TEDMonterey How to stop languishing and start finding flow Summary
Languishing means to deteriorate, waste away, and suffer. It’s a sense of emptiness, stagnation, and ennui.
Still, a lot of limitations continue in the world because of COVID. We want to return to normal lives, and do something more productively. It must lead to forgiving our grief.
However, the speaker realized that the antidote to languishing does not have to be something productive, it can be something joyful.
Playing games with not only children but also adults, sleeping until the afternoon, and not being able to do your lists will be better now. Having fun must bring flow soon! Flow means to result, proceed, and arise.
When you’re ready, you can start finding the flow that lights a path out of the void.
Stop searching for your passion | Terri Trespicio | TEDxKC
Summary
The title must have surprised many people. Somehow, l understood what the speaker wanted to us, l knew that passion was not a job, l was often asked why l’ve worked passionately always, and it's because when I work hard, when I do what l have to do hard, my passion follows me.
Just start doing because to live a life full of meaning and value. You don’t follow your passion.
Let's design social media that drives real change Wael Ghonim • TEDGlobal>Geneva • December 2015 Summary
The story was told about six years ago. The speaker has already said that the Arab Spring revealed social media’s greatest potential, but it also exposed its greatest shortcomings.
A polarization is primarily driven by our human behavior, however, social media shapes this behavior and magnifies its impact.
Rumor is spreading among more people quickly, people can easily stop to mute and block a lot, they must forget that people behind the screen.
It becomes really hard to change our opinions even if new evidence arises. In our social media, could people truly discuss and talk with each other? Does it lead to solving something?
The speaker, in fact, stood on the TED stage in 2011, and said, “if you want to liberate society, all you need is the Internet.”
In 2016, the speaker in this TED told us if we want to liberate society, we first need to liberate the Internet.
In 2021, we now must use the Internet liberally too much without having civility and believe that the polarization in the world must be solved by using the Internet.
Could we build a wooden skyscraper? Stefan Al • TED-Ed • July 2021 Summary
Mjøstårnet is the world's tallest wooden building made almost entirely from the trees of neighboring forests in the Norwegian countryside. It was built in 2019, it started with the invention of glue-laminated timber called glulam, and engineers developed cross-laminated timber called CLT to battle powerful winds.
In fact, the timber can be shaped quickly using computer directed cutting machines,
engineered wood can be prefabricated in a factory, and
it’s biodegradable materials thus less waste.
By earthquake and fire, cracked wood panels can be easily replaced, and the CLT gives enough time to evacuate from fires.
The timber is a renewable resource, and
it is easier to heat and cool buildings with less energy waste.
It couldn’t be told that CLT is not strong enough to support a 40-story building and requires vastly more lumber than traditional wooden construction, though, even if only buildings under 30 stories were built from wood, it would reduce the carbon footprint of those structures by more than 25%.
We have to know about technological advancement to protect our earth.
3 reasons you aren’t doing what you say you will do | Amanda Crowell | TEDxHarrisburg (transcripts) Summary
We always say that this week, we are going to go to the gym or have English classes three times, though, it’s difficult for us to start doing it.
The speaker discovered the reason that there are three powerful mindset blocks that are keeping you locked in a cycle of defensive failure.
YOU think that somewhere in your heart, you can’t do it.
You think that Your IDENTITY must not do it.
SECRETLY, you don’t want to do it.
Ironically, those defensive failures have protected you from real failure, thus you can't start doing what you want to do, so you have to change your mind to productive failure from defensive failure.
The speaker, it’s a funny and great story, just wanted to be a mother who can chase a child. She did a triathlon. She only got her head clear, and she began to take steps. If you will do the same, you’re doing those two things, nothing can stop you.
Dan Barber·TED2010 How I fell in love with a fish Summary
The story was taken about over ten years ago. Could we change our agricultural and business systems? I think that is why we had faced the pandemic strongly. Still, humans eat meat and fish too much without thinking about depleting resources.
To create better rotations must be the better business. Agriculture, fish, and animal industries also have to have such thoughts. Humans eat too much, and then other animals lose their food. It’s strange, isn’t it?
The speaker really likes to eat delicious fish, like falling in love with a fish. He wants to continue to eat it. For continuing it and our good food of the future, we have to stop the agribusiness model now. We have to raise fish more, plant vegetables, thus we need rich soil and oceans. Not only we but also all animals eat forever and to create a better cycle is our responsibility.
Crystal Rasmussen·TEDxLondonWomen A queer journey from shame self-love Summary
The talk is for anyone who is struggling with becoming exactly who they’re meant to be.
The speaker is a gay. His journey started not to find himself in the mirror, he lied, and then, he felt self-hatred because he couldn’t believe things that were objectively true. It means that he didn’t believe that he is a gay, though, it was his shame, but he chose to live safely and he realized that he didn’t need everyone to accept everything about him.
Khalil Ramadi·TED Fellows: Shape Your Future Electronic pills that could transform how we treat disease Summary
Electronic pills are called digital pills, smart pills, and ingestible sensors as well. By a small jolt of electricity, it can target and treat chronic diseases and it contains “bionuges”: bursts of electrical or chemical stimuli, light, and modulation, can control appetite, aid digestion, regulate hormones. lt leads to treating diabetes, obesity, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s. It doesn’t need chronic drugs, drills, surgery, and hospital stay. People will avoid side effects, Furthermore, even happiness and reward can be controlled by it. This must be a new gold standard in health care.
Nina Westbrook·How to Deal with Difficult Feelings How to support yourself (and others) through grief Summary
This past year, because of the pandemic, has been full of both personal and collective grief. We’ve never experienced it but we have correlated the grief with the loss of a dream and we couldn’t embrace it.
However, the speaker suggests that you can give yourself permission to grieve and ask for help. Don’t ignore your grief. Even, in your grief moment, it’s okay to feel joy or pleasure and it’s important to set and plan a new goal. It’s also okay to take time, up and down your feelings. This is the process to live well.
Brian Kateman·TEDxCUNY How to reduce your diet's carbon footprint — without going vegan Summary
Recently, we often hear the words vegan, vegetarian, and diet’s carbon footprint.
A vegan means that a person follows the diet or philosophy of veganism which rejects the commodity status of animals.
A vegetarian means that a person believes in vegetarianism which is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat including fish, eggs and etc.
Diet’s carbon footprint is also called Food’s carbon footprint, or foodprint. It means that the greenhouse gas emissions produced by growing, rearing, farming, processing, transporting, storing, cooking, and disposing of the food you eat. Could we be a vegan or vegetarian for stopping greenhouse gas emissions? It'll lead to stopping climate change.The speaker asked us. Unfortunately, he wasn’t a vegan and vegetarian, but he suggests that we can be a reducitarian soon.
A reducitarian is someone who’s making the conscious choice to decrease the amount of meat they consume. You don’t need a drastic lifestyle change but you can set manageable and therefore, actionable goals to gradually reduce your meat consumption.
In fact, only 5% of Americans consider themselves to be a vegetarian, however, if the rest of all people would be a reducitarian who ate meat before try to eat it only on the weekends, it must reduce food’s carbon footprint dramatically and obviously!! We will save our planet, improve our health and save a lot of animals.
Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski The cure for burnout (hint: it isn’t self-care) Summary
The speakers are identical twin sisters and the coauthors of a book about burnout. They experienced burnout and one knew it, but another didn’t know it. You mightn’t know it.
Burnout is not spreading in the workplaces but expanding now. Decreasing sense of accomplishment, separating what you do and what you feel, though, working harder and harder. It leads to emotional exhaustion, physiological symptoms, huge stressors, and then, relaxing is not going to be an effective means of recovering from burnout.
There’s a lot of overlap between burnout, depression, anxiety, grief, and rage, though, if you feel exhausted, you could pass through the tunnel, find the cycle of stress, and be aware of what is going on in your body.
With kindness and compassion, you’re able to turn toward difficult feelings. Not self-care or autonomy, you need connection and love.
The speakers grow up in a household where feelings were not allowed and they were not close their whole lives. They were isolated because they’ve been told that it’s stronger to be independent, though, it doesn’t seem to be true. It’s not too late. Because of the pandemic, everyone who works hard alone possibly faces burnout. However, you deserve care and love.
