Rob Reid : How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity — and how we can stop it

Rob Reid·TED2019  (transcript)
How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity-and how we can stop it
Summary
In the past, everyone was opposed to gene recombination strongly. However, we must have forgotten it completely since we knew about food shortages and technology growth is great. We now crave enough food, entertainments, beauty, cleverness, health, energy, and even eternal lives. For them, animals' genes are edited, plants' genes edited, and your babies genes must be edited.

However, it doesn’t show that all people can be beautiful actresses who are like Ariana Grande. Just a small part of people can be, it’s less than winning a lottery, and most of the people and our important humanity are absolutely wiped out. It shows the most dangerous event we haven’t ever seen.

The speaker suggests some ideas that it can stop, though, we see that technology growth is more looking attractive in the world. The feeling dangerous is being vague.

Words in this story
nihilistic /adj/ rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless.
vague /véɪg/adj/of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or meaning

Heidi Grant : How to ask for help — and get a "yes"

Heidi Grant  (transcript)
How to ask for help — and get a "yes"
Summary
I was taught not to ask for help from my mother when l was a kid, thus I thought that l shouldn’t ask something and I have to do all by myself. However, l understood why my mother told me that this time.
It’s likely to feel incentives or payments and it leads to creating distant relationships.

The speaker also tells us the three important things when we ask for help.
It’s to avoid disclaimers, apologies, and bribes,1) to ask very very specific about the help you want and why, 2) and not to use emails and texts. 3)

It’s not easy to ask for help because it makes us feel vulnerable. We want to be strong, but after this, our world needs cooperation to our successes.
And then following up after asking is more important. We can ask for help and we have to help each other and one another and the world has to say and get a “yes”. We must hope such world.

Words in this story
transaction /noun/ interaction between two parties, negotiation, settlement, business deal.
bribe /noun/ a sum of money or other inducement offered or given in this way.
unsolicited /adj/ not asked for; given or done voluntarily.

Sarah Kay 3 : "A Bird Made of Birds"

Sarah Kay TED2019  (transcript)
"A Bird Made of Birds"
Summary
A few days ago, I've said that poems were difficult to understand because for understanding it, it'll require to know about words' meaning, writer's character, those backgrounds, and so on, though, l chose this because she whose mother is Japanese and whose TED talks are read by me is friendly. How fast she speaks this time again!

The story has her comment that she shares how and where she finds Poetry, she seems to love a poem that says, "The universe has already written the poem you were planning on writing," and the title is "A Bird Made of Birds".

Talking of a bird must be a bluebird which shows that your happiness is close to you or in your mind. For her, happiness is a poem. When she is in somewhere, the poem she wants to tell is already there somehow and her mouth unconsciously must start moving to create voices. This is her poem that she devotes always. The place that we live in, she said it's the universe, is where a great thing is born.

I am cheering for her and I want to see her when she will visit Japan next time. I was very surprised that two years have passed since reading her previous TED talks.

"If l should have a daughter…"　→　Sunday, July 23, 2017
"How many lives can you live?"　→　Monday, July 24, 2017

Esther Perel : Rethinking infidelity ... a talk for anyone who has ever loved

Esther Perel at TED2015  (transcript)
Rethinking infidelity ... a talk for anyone who has ever loved
Summary
First, I didn't know what to do after reading this story.
I'd thought that many people must have thought that it's not wrong to have an affair!! No, no, no!!

I've understood that the speaker just must want to make her TED talk have fun. It's because she is a professional and an expert to study about infidelity and she cures a lot of patients who are suffering from not only their partners have affairs but also they themselves have had affairs surprisingly, so this is the story that is talked for anyone who has ever loved to rethink infidelity.

The speaker doesn't tell us that it's right or wrong. Just people want to decide it, we don't understand about it well or in the first place, we don't understand why there are rules of marriage, infidelity and our trait. The definitions of an affair that the speaker like are a secretive relationship, an emotional connection, and sexual alchemy. With those and the era which entitles us to pursue our desire with straying tendency allows us to be happier. It’s difficult to stop it.

The example of the speaker using words "a patient of cancer" really shows our behaviors,  I first thought why cancer appeared, though. Various studies have revealed people's desires again, so all of us who are patients have tremendous bad desires biologically.

The conclusion of the speaker is that affairs are thought about hurt and betrayal, though, it's not the end and with growth and self-discovery, you would like to create a second one!

What an uncomfortable conclusion it is!!

Words in this story
monogamy /noun/ the practice or state of being married to one person at a time.
infidelity /noun/ adultery, immorality
affair /noun/ an event or sequence of events of a specified kind or that has previously been referred to. a love affair.

Rui Hachimura Is Ready to Make History for Japan in the N.B.A.

The New York Times  (article)
Rui Hachimura Is Ready to Make History for Japan in the N.B.A.
Summary
Super historical news has come to Japan. Japanese people are small thus selecting N.B.A was impossible, though, this time, Rui Hachimura became the first Japanese player ever selected. Hs is 6.8 feet tall, that means over 2 meters!!  The interviewer tells us that not only he is tall but also he is very very talented player and have a great jumping power.

There must be many Japanese people who don’t have an interest in basketball, who don’t know a lot of black and half-Japanese, and, I don’t want to say, who don’t know that there is discrimination in Japan.

Writing about that makes me a little bit sad, though, I saw his Japanese pride by putting a pin on his suits and with overcoming those, he, Rui Hachimura,  must be a more great player. Japan and the World are cheering for him.

Marie Howe : "The Singularity"

Marie Howe at TED Salon: Belonging  (transcript)
"The Singularity"
Summary
By chance, l found this poem and l thought that it wouldn't be using difficult English, though, it’s not easy to understand about poems, so poems are in the first place, difficult to understand because we have to know about words' meaning, characters, backgrounds, and even culture widely and deeply. When I saw the title, I've completely forgotten about Hawking singularity theorems. I thought about being single more than The Singularity, so the poem doesn’t show about happy things.

In the past, he, Stephen Hawking told us that we who lived on the Earth were the only civilization within a hundred light years though civilizations wouldn’t last very long. They destroy themselves. Them means, you know, us.

Even we don’t know difficult theorems, we can know about our daily actions against our earth. We must think about the whole Universe. It would be wrong thinking about living on other planets because we couldn’t live on earth.

Words in this story
tribute /noun/ accolade praise commendation salute testimonial

Anjan Chatterjee : How your brain decides what is beautiful

Anjan Chatterjee at TEDMED 2016
How your brain decides what is beautiful
Summary
In fact, I've read a book about why people are attracted by beauty. The book told the same things to this article and knock me down.

In the article, the speaker’s explanation of how your brain decided what is beautiful has been that it relates to averaging,1) symmetry 2) and hormones. 3)
Those parameters seem to make your face attractive. It seems to be for feeling adaptability to an environment, genetic diversity and health and leads to leaving species.

Therefore, not only men but also women typically find beauty and as reproductive advantages, it’s realized and it’s universal. Our brains unconsciously respond to attractive faces and have been printed in beauty is good for a long time. 4)  There are shockingly many social effects of beauty for attractive people who are looked more intelligent, are given higher pay,  and are given lesser punishments, you know, even when such judgments are not warranted.

The speaker apologizes about his explanation that might be lacking and inappropriate but tells us that it's printed in disfigured is bad also. 5) It means that with media, we can't treat people fairly and unconditionally.

This is the thing that I get from the article about how our brain decides what is beautiful. His last words have been that beauty is changing and the selection criteria for reproductive success from that time doesn't really apply today, life was nasty, brutish from a very long time ago, though.

My thought is that now also, life must be nasty and brutish because men and women seek beauty strongly with businesses, media, and the internet.   
It's without end and a man who says that it's not necessary to help ugly people appears. Its ugly meaning included not to have a job, not to be marred, and not to have babies. 

I who am not beautiful and not having babies is needless, aren't I?

The question has made me worried, even I've gotten a great answer.
In fact, we living now is really special and human species is very fragile that is the same as other species had been extinct already, thus it's said that diversity is important. For leaving human species, we have to cooperate to protect and help all.

This is the amazing answer, though, I couldn't feel that our behavior is right. I don’t think that the story is changing.

Words in this story
ping /verb/ silent g/ make or cause to make a ping.
nasty /adj/ dirty, unclean
brutish /adj/ mean, beastly