Majora Carter : 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship

Majora Carter·TEDxMidwest
3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship
Summary
3 stories that the speaker chose this time had the same point that was to solve a problem. It’s tackling social and environmental problems at the same time with the same solution yields great cost savings wealth generation and national security. It’s necessary to have entrepreneurship because amounts of philanthropic dollars were spent on social problems for a long time, though, an improvement was a little but many things became worse.

A city had a plan of building a jail, however, it cost high, spending a person to jail was also high but many people in jail before, went back into prison again. A woman in jail before, thought about building not a jail but a system that is employment and education for not going back to it again. 1)

The next city had problems that are lacking water, though, heavy rain and urban heat island but money was used for those individually. A man thought about creating a cool city by green naturally absorbing storm water. Electrical consumption for air-conditioning went down and not using air-condition leads people to being healthy. 2)

Another city changed destroyed a coal-mining town to having a clean wind energy town. It takes a lot of time, though, avoiding mountaintop removal, producing payback forever. 3)

Those must be new cities that reducing costs but creating employment and solving social problems.
Not only some people get benefits, not only philanthropic dollars are used but working together, embracing lands, power systems, and people, and repairing them also. Building cities that have hope and possibility.

Randall Munroe : Comics that ask "what if?"

Randall Munroe·TED2014
Comics that ask “what if?”
Summary
My friends recommended me a book that was “What if?” written in Japanese language, I thought that the writer might introduce the book, it was a great hit, thus l chose this.

The speaker seems to be a Web cartoonist, but his cartoon is a simple stick figure. He answers simple what-if questions by using math, science and, of course, cute comics.

What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent of the speed of light?
What is the best and fastest way to hide a body scientifically and realistically?
Prove whether or not you can find love again after your heart’s broken.
If all digital data in the world were stored on punch cards, how big would Google’s data warehouse be?

I think that people have a lot of strange questions, but it’s important to have an interest in many things, however, is it helpful to know those answers?
Yes, the speaker said that it’s really comfortable, fun, the math is not all that advanced and it’s like nothing more than solving Sudoku puzzle. What?

I really loved Sudoku puzzle and Sudoku is a Japanese word!! I might enable calculating those, l now have a computer thus if l guess some formulas, l must be able to do. What?

It’s not whether it’s helpful or not. It’s really fun to be able to solve and know about something that we don’t know that’s very surprising mathematically, scientifically and earnestly. The speaker’s simple stick figures must really help it also and the reason that he became famous must be an answer from Google.

Google sent the speaker the answer of punch cards by using punch cards puzzled but coded and the answer was “No comment”. Google has humor always!!

However, having the most full of humor must be the speaker who answers the question of how big Google’s data warehouse would be by using glaciers.

Alanna Shaikh : Why COVID-19 is hitting us now — and how to prepare for the next outbreak

Alanna Shaikh·TEDxSMU

Why COVID-19 is hitting us now-and how to prepare for the next outbreak 

Summary 

I think that before we think why COVID-19 is hitting us now, we have to stop spreading it. Every day, people are dying and many people claim that the ways are bad but shameful incidents of xenophobia happened in a lot of places. We mustn’t have time to do those. 

Stop doing those, we have to cooperate with one another. 1)

Don’t wear a face mask that should be for sick people and health care providers. 2)

Understand that it’s really hard to get a good quarantine in place and to set up travel restrictions but it’s not the best. Let’s stop our moving as possible. 3)

Wash your hands a lot, sanitize your phone, not to use it as often in public, and don’t touch your face. Of course, don’t rub your eyes, don’t bite your fingernails. 4)

Stop stockpiling!! It’s just blind panic. 5)

The most important thing is that we have to know that this is not the last major outbreak we’re ever going to see. There’s going to be more outbreaks and epidemics. That’s a given. This is a result of the way that we are interacting with our planet. 

The world have to learn how to stop outbreaks for new diseases. We should identify it and treat it. 

Words in this story 

zo·on·o·sis / zo͞oˈnōsəs, zōˈnōsəs/noun/

a disease which can be transmitted to humans from animals.

Jim Hudspeth : The beautiful, mysterious science of how you hear

Jim Hudspeth·TED@NAS
The beautiful, mysterious of how you hear
Summary
We can’t see in the middle ear of ourselves. Even if you can see others’, it would be too small but too dark to see.

However, in the talk, the speaker will bring you into the middle ear. It means that you must feel being in the middle of an organ about the size of a chickpea that is the organ of hearing that is the coiled, snail-shaped cochlea that we learn in the school. I knew that there were hair cells in it from a previous talk and l thought that hair cells and our hairs must be the same, though, it was wrong.

Those cells (the whole set of hair cells, as a group) seem to report to the brain exactly what frequencies are present in a given sound. That time, your brain can determine what melody is being heard or what speech is being intended.

What we can hear is a very small sound like a pin drop which means that our ear system is turned up. The emitting sounds happen in a really quiet room and it shows how active the hair cell can be. However, in a very loud environment like a sporting event or a musical concert, we don’t need any amplification and the system is turned down all the way.

And then, unfortunately, when human hair cells die, they’re not replaced by cell division, though, we hear big sounds always, we are in a noisy environment always, our hearing is deteriorating. 1)
We don’t know what the molecular motor that is responsible for the hair cells are well 2) and how the hair cell’s amplification is adjusted to deal with the acoustic circumstances also. 3)

The speaker and his team are now engaged in research trying to solve those issues and to resurrect those amazing hair cells.

Words in this story
resurrect /verb/ restore (a dead person) to life.
deteriorate /verb/ become progressively worse.
amplification /noun/ expansion
frequency /noun/ he rate at which something occurs or is repeated over a particular period of time or in a given sample.

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor : Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor·TEDxEasthamptonWomen
Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word
Summary
Before summarizing the talk, l have a question.
Why do we have to study and learn histories?
Is that an answer that is wanting to get great scores, passing tests, or having a better job?
And when we knew that our country had bad histories, we wouldn’t like our own country, ancestors, even grandfathers and we try to find perpetrators but bullying is also starting.
I think that for doing those, we don’t study histories. We have to help others, our country, Earth and want to live well. The thoughts wouldn’t make us bully and discriminate, even if our ancestors had done.
Japanese people also have crazy thoughts. Don’t study true histories, because becoming strong must lead to starting wars. OMG💢
The world should learn and study true histories more to help others and create a better world.

However, people don’t want to teach bad histories. In the story, there is a word that people never use because of bad history, its word was replaced by the N-word, though, some teachers didn’t know its changing but what to do. Hiding it, avoiding it, not teaching it and teaching true, all things were failing.

The N-word brings with it all of the complicated histories of US racism.
The nation’s history shouldn’t avoid it and the speaker’s failure experiences to teach it also shouldn’t avoid it. Don’t stop teaching and students must have amazing learning for their future. It should be so.

P.S.
“People cannot exist if they don't have their country”.  This taught me studying History and English were important.

Words in this story
surrogate /adj/ replacement

Dave deBronkart : Meet e-Patient Dave

Dave deBronkart·TEDxMaastricht
Meet e-Patient Dave
Summary
When the speaker was 56 years old in 2006, he was slowly losing weight because of stage 4 kidney cancer but it was growing out of his leg eventually snapped, skull, and tongue. And then, his median survival was 24 weeks. It was only for 6 months.
However, he could be where his daughter’s wedding party after a year and a half later, he stood this TED stage in 2011 also, and in 2020, now, he is still alive‼︎

The speaker said that the result was from websites and by using the internet, he found a lot of information. He created groups of fellow patients online and called on all of them to talk with one another. One patient community told him amazing things. Kidney cancer is an uncommon disease, usual treatments wouldn’t better and he could get phone numbers who know new treatment ways.
How wonderful a website is!
An American Cancer Society that the government approves didn’t know it, but patients know what patients want to know and it’s the power of patients' network. Electronic is done using a computer over a network thus the speaker is called e-Patient. Patients must have raw data and can help others. Meet e-Patent.

I fought with my English teacher.

In the English lesson, a teacher teaches a student English and a student teaches a teacher Japanese. My teacher said that this was a win-win situation.
However, my opinion was different.
In the English class, l want to study English.
Thus l think that l use Japanese, l teach my teacher Japanese, l receive Japanese messages that are translated English, and l am asked by Japanese, those are my loss situation and I was beaten by my teacher.

Speaking time which is shorter than my teacher means that I'm a loser. Not to be able to answer some questions or making mistakes is also my loss situation.
Continuing being beaten is a severe situation. If l quit the lesson, l think that my teacher is not a winner but she will be a loser. This must be a lose-lose situation.

If l could continue having a lesson, though, if it does not bring me better results or I couldn't reach my goal, I'll be a loser.

When l get my goal, l can be a winner, even if l quit a lesson, my teacher that time mightn’t see our win-win situation.

l think that a win-win situation doesn't come to us easily.
I don't want my teacher to use Japanese, she says that I understand well, but I don't think so. I told her many times.

I don't want to be a loser thus I continue studying English!!