Yuko Mor : Why we need more dogs in hospitals

Yuko Morita at TEDxShimizu  (transcript)
Why we need more dogs in the hospitals
Summary
The title really surprised me because I didn't like dogs but I didn't know about facility dogs also so I was a typical Japanese person who considered that dogs should be outside houses, of course, outside hospitals and being patient was a virtue in the hospitals. I was sorry that I didn't know anything.

The speaker works with a facility dog as a handler of a service dog to support kids and their families who are suffering from incurable diseases emotionally.

In fact, facility dogs are positive influences for those kids and their families and working commonly in Europe and the US, though, facility dogs had been totally unprecedented in Japan which has a culture that dogs should be outside houses, of course, outside hospitals.

A facility dog is considered as medical staff not only to heal mentally but also cure physically. A facility dog creates great bonds with not only patients but their families and handlers. Especially patients' Kids can have courage enough to hang in the hospital. Handlers trust facility dogs thus the dogs also trust handlers and they can work together. If kids have to leave this world forever, facility dogs can heal to their parents.

Curing diseases don't seek an only high medical level. It requires mental　satisfaction and a quality hospitalized life.
Facility dogs can create an environment which is healing disease proactively. It must mean a good hospital.
This is the answer why we need more dogs in the hospitals.

Words in the story
unprecedented / never done or known before
troublesome /adj/ causing difficulty or annoyance
proactively /adv/ (of a person, policy, or action) creating or controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than responding to it after it has happened

Nora McInerny : We don't "move on" from grief. We move forward with it

Nora McInerny at TEDWomen 2018  (transcript)
We don't “move on” from grief. We move forward with it
Summary
Just the speaker and l seem to be different on how to heal from grief.

The speaker this time created a community where people can talk about their dead person and say the things that the other people don't want to hear about death.

She is a writer and podcaster. She faced deaths of her baby, her father, and her husband in just a few years and it would seem to make her do.

Probably, when someone faces the same thing to her, they would say that they can't imagine and they think that they want to move on from grief immediately or they would do nothing in the middle of sadness for a long time.

In the community she created, people like that can be there comfortably, can talk about deaths they faced, and don't impossibly need to forget anything, however, they can move forward with grief. With it, they might find love again so probably, they think that they mustn't find in such situations. It doesn't mean that they've moved on, or they forgot deaths. It's allowed to move forward with grief.

Words in this story
audible /adj/ can be heard
enormity /noun/ something terrible or atrocious

Lorrie Faith Cranor : What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd?

Lorrie Faith Cranor at TEDxCMU  (transcript)
What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd?
Summary
This has been a really interesting and funny story because I could have known, probably you've known, that now people have problems with passwords frustratedly.

After all, the speaker tells us that we mustn't think that we want to find a password that we can easily remember and type because someone can guess our password easily.

Furthermore, she tells us that it’ll be better to write some passwords down on a paper more than to reuse one password many times.

I think that people’s frustration won't be reduced because it means that to guess easily 1) thus people will use fingerprint, face and eyes authentication 2) and people think how to recover will be better when they forget their passwords and how to stop sites if those are taken over, 3) the speaker didn't tell them, though.

We have to try to think about something that is not a happy thing when we create our passwords because the password will be guessed easily. This is the words the speaker told us at last.
It was also good for the spelling of the word "pa$$w0rd" to have humor.

Words in this story
authentication /au then ti ca tion/noun/ certification, hallmark

Rodrigo Canales : The deadly genius of drug cartels

Rodrigo Canales at TEDSalon NY2013  (transcript)
The deadly genius of drug cartels
Summary
The story is really true and it's too true to impugn so we must know the reason that there are people who sell illegal drugs. It’s because there are big demands 1) and the systems that drugs are carried are created by saying good people who are, for example, the police, army, and government. It's greatly sophisticated construction. 2) The most important thing is that we are tolerant and agreeing. It means helping consumption of drugs. 3)

We always seek areas where we can live comfortably, however, we shouldn't be there. We shouldn't ignore difficult social problems and people have to fight against the deadly genius of drug cartels are us.

Words in this story
cartel /noun/ syndicate, association, joint concern
flinch /verb/ hesitate
conventional /adj/ ordinary, usual
impugn /verb /imˈpyo͞on (silent G) dispute the truth

Why people in Finland Are So Much Happier Than Americans

Why people in Finland Are So Much Happier Than Americans  (transcript)
Summary
The world says that the richest county is America because the number of GDP is the top always. However, the World Happiest Report announces that the happiest country is Finland for the second year in a row. Why?
What Finland is doing so well is having
a strong social safety net, 1)
a high-quality education system, 2)
a commitment to closing the gender gap. 3)
Those lead to success to less homeless, not to feel the gender gap and to spend with fathers and children more than mothers.

There are many countries which believe that economic growth will bring well being. However, it creates only anxiety, stresses and inequality.
The report suggests to cooperate with governments and individuals and to be able to make policies and strides of well being. Additionally, it says that in the country, the job of the government is to provide a higher quality of life for its citizens and citizens are responsible for what they choose.
My comments
I think that this is a great article to know how to make strides for other countries and it must be good news, though, people and the media use it to blame governments. Especially, it blames Trump and the Japanese prime minister. The Japanese version of this article focuses only on the rank of Japan and tells us that it's falling.
Being happy is not related to ranks and comparison with others.  It's important for everyone how to make an effort.
I hope strongly that Japan which is a good country should be more announced and Japanese people should have confidence in it.

Words in this story
stride /noun/ step, pawn, stride

Wendy De La Rosa : 3 psychological tricks to help you save money

Wendy De La Rosa (transcript)
3 psychological tricks to help you save money
Summary
This is a big problem for us to save more and spend less every day for a long time. The speaker suggests that it'll be difficult for us to do it if we don't create psychological tricks by understanding our savings behavior. It turned out that environments around us impact our behavior hugely.
It’s that you try being in a little different environment where you can change your intentions.

Here are three tricks.
Knowing always your income and focusing our future self more than our present self. 1)
Committing what you want to do more specifically and financially. 2)
Decreasing small and frequent purchases more than big. 3) For examples, it's bank fees, coffee, snacks and so on.

We hope strongly to save big money quickly, though, the important thing is changing our environment a little and continuing. It's the same to study English and save money. For doing patiently, we can create our environments.

Words in this story
intention /noun/ determination to do something, in particular, plan; aim, goal, purpose
force /verb/ make a way through or into by physical strength, break open by force.
focus /verb/ pay particular attention to.

10 Signs You Will Suck at Programming

10 Signs You Will Suck at Programming (article)
Summary
My friend who is a great programmer shared the article on the SNS with a cool comment.
"This is the philosophy to be able to apply in many of your life. More than it, the philosophy will be created by being on top of something and then it must have common points and deserve applicability".
My thoughts are that it's impossible to be a programmer for me who is not young and haven't learned about programming before. However, for a person who is trying something to be on the top, the story must be worth to apply.

P.S. The title and expression in the story surprised me because it was really negative but many English articles that I've read before used positive ones.
"If you do something, you will never be successful as a programmer." OMG!

10 Signs You Will Suck at Programming
1 Lack of curiosity
Naturally, you have to be curious about what you want to be.

2 Lack of autonomy and resourcefulness
This is a natural thing that you have to learn and study independently to have many skills and knowledge without asking others. I think that books must give us those.  I laughed at this item said that force yourself to google questions before asking someone else for the answer. I wonder if there is a person who wants to be a programmer who doesn't use google and I think that the internet won't teach us the most important thing. We have to find it by ourselves.

3 Lack of persistence in the face of a problem
If we are making progress, there are always new problems that come to us. I think that a person who can continue to fight against problems persistently will be successful.

4 No feeling of success in overcoming a problem
Although problems are continuing, solving old problems and even small problems must give you power and good experiences. Feeling those is the way to succeed.

5 Impatient about learning and understanding
Don't give up. We have to learn and understand what we want patiently.

6 Getting bored/tired from thinking
For what we want, we mustn't get bored and tired. We can enjoy and excite for what we want.

7 Inability to think for yourself
We have to think about what we want by ourselves that are the most important for what we want.  Others do nothing for it.

8 Rigid, narrow and/or disorganized thinking
I think that thinking flexibly, widely and systemically is important.

9 Needing the "right" answer instead of recognizing a spectrum of "good" and "bad" answers
I want to explain it that all things are changing always. One thing that is good today might change bad or you might have better answers tomorrow.

10 Not paying careful attention to details
It's important for us to be able to pay careful attention to details.  I think that we won't realize important things lying close to us.

The story has a bonus and conclusion also.
It tells us that having a business mind is important. It means that it can help many people who willingly pays it.  Being on the top of something is great and its process must be great. we can do it.


Words in this story
inevitable /adj/ unavoidable
inability /noun/ inadequacy, inappropriateness, impropriety
disorganize /verb/ disrupt the systematic order or functioning of
order /noun/ regularity, system. method
suck /verb/ be very bad, disagreeable, or disgusting