Jane Goodall : What separates us from chimpanzees?

Jane Goodall·TED2003
What separates us from chimpanzees?
Summary
What separates us from chimpanzees? The sophisticated spoken language makes us so different from chimpanzees. We believe it strongly and the speaker knows it so far.

However, she who is a naturalist studying chimpanzees declares that it’s our arrogance. Over 40 years, she was studying chimpanzees and found that they had voices, emotions, capable of true compassion, and could start to make and use tools for a specific purpose. It was thought that only humans used and made tools. If we could continue to study wild animals...

They were suddenly disappearing because humans took out oil, timber, lands, forests and etc.

After all, what the speaker found was that it was getting wuzzier and there isn’t a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom.

What separates us from chimpanzees? It’s very wuzzy.

Humans have sophisticated spoken languages that can be used for coexisting with animals. The speaker transformed into an activist to teach it to children to protect animals.

Audrey Tang : How digital innovation can fight pandemics and strengthen democracy

Audrey Tang·TED2020
How digital innovation can fight pandemics and strengthen democracy
Summary
The speaker, Audrey Tang, is a Taiwanese free software programmer who has been described as one of the "ten greats of Taiwanese computing personalities" and now, works in the top executive cabinet as a digital minister in Taiwan.

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is an island country in East Asia. The People's Republic of China (PRC) is one of the world's only socialist states explicitly aiming to build communism. The Chinese government has been variously described as communist and socialist, but also as authoritarian. And then, it’s said that coronavirus was spreading from China and couldn’t be stopping.

However, Taiwan successfully countered COVID using the power of digital democracy tools that are three “Fs”.  It's fast, fair, and fun, so by using digital, better things can tell you quickly, even there are people who can’t use it, it’s fairly told, and rumors are stopped by funny humor.

Not only for COVID but also all political strategy, it should be that democracy improves as more people participate,1)
digital technology is one of the best ways to improve participation, 2) and
the focus is on the common ground found by prosocial media. 3)
However, participants are separated into various groups, 1) digital technology is not used well, 2) and different things are announced by antisocial media 3) in a lot of countries including Japan and probably the U.S.

The speaker tells us that the coronavirus can be seen as a great amplifier as well. Taiwan learned many things from SARS, and with helping technology, could create a strong strategy to fight COVID. The world must be able to do the same things. We can use technology that we can connect with each other. It can just resonate with one another, focus on scientific data accuracy, and act quickly.

This is the job description of Audrey Tang.
When we see the internet of things, let's make it the internet of beings.
When we see virtual reality, let's make it a shared reality.
When we see machine learning, let's make it collaborative learning.
When we see user experience, let's make it about the human experience.
Whenever we hear the singularity is near, let us always remember the plurality is here.

This was a great story that can help us from coronavirus and for our beautiful future.

Anastasia Penright : 5 steps to remove yourself from drama at work

Anastasia Penright·TED@WellsFargo

5 steps to remove yourself from drama at work

Summary

I’m working in a small company and the work always busy. Thus we couldn’t have drama at work. And then, when the work goes well, this is important, we must coexist with our coworkers without much drama.

There are 5 steps to remove our annoying workplace dramas.

1, Don’t have responses. What l did is important what l did.

2, Don’t think too much, especially about anxiety.

3, It’s not bad to have an outlet, for example, it’s for your energy, feelings, and etc. lt leads back to the positive.

4, To learn a new language. l thought that to learn English! Hahaha. It means to try to understand the other person’s perspective.

5, Sometimes, walking away from someone is important.

I think that this story must need now because of coronavirus, our environment is changing and the new generation and new thoughts are entering. We don’t have time to see and to chase drama.

What you do is not to have drama at work.

We have to work to revive the world economy.

Words in this story

vent / give free expression to (a strong emotion): he had come to vent his rage and despair. provide with an outlet for air, gas, or liquid.

David R. Williams : How racism makes us sick

David R. Williams·TEDMED 2016

How racism makes us sick

Summary 

Racial discriminations create disparities of income, education, economy, health and etc. The reason is only black. And then, for the reason, black people are sometimes killed by even police. 

Racism is a factor, though, the speaker suggests that to dismantle discrimination, it’s important to research, document, and measure more detail racism. It needs to reach self-esteem and stress. 

Being unfairly fired, 

Being unfairly stopped by the police, 

Being treated with less courtesy than others, Receiving poorer service than others in restaurant or stores, 

Being afraid because of black, and etc. 

There’s discrimination in medical care. 

There’s institutional discrimination like residential segregation by race. 

Overreact, stereotype, and individual thoughts and institutional societies must create racial discrimination. “There is nothing so unfair as the equal treatment of unequal people”. 

This must be the current situation. 

The last words make me consider discrimination against not only black but women. 

“We must dissent. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the hatred and from the mistrust. We must dissent because America can do better because America has no choice but to do better”.

Said Thurgood Marshall who was an American lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was the Court's FIRST African-American justice. 

Words in this story 

rig / assemble and adjust, make (a sailing ship or boat) ready for sailing by providing it with sails and rigging

implicit bias / unconditional

Bruce Aylward : Humanity vs. Ebola. How we could win a terrifying war

Bruce Aylward·TEDxPlaceDesNations

Humanity vs. Ebola. How we could win a terrifying war

Summary 

The story was posted in 2015. 

The speaker is a Canadian physician-epidemiologist. He was appointed co-lead of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)and served as one of the Assistant Directors-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Wiki said that. I was sorry that l haven’t heard his new messages about coronavirus yet. 

Recently, people will read more articles about Ebola because it might give us better ideas about coronavirus. Ebola virus and coronavirus probably survive in the type of bat. When people come in contact with wild animals that have been infected with a virus and probably sickened by it. The virus spreads from person to person through contaminated body fluids. And then Ebola causes severe fevers, diarrhea, vomiting, and death. This is a deadly disease. The speaker suggests four things that are critical to stopping Ebola. 

1) To understand this disease. 

2) How it spreads and how to stop it. It’s important to have systems that can find every transmission chain to stop transmission. 

3) To have specialized Ebola treatment centers and to protect people who are not only patients but also workers. 

4) To ensure safety for survivors and burial process with dignity is also important. 

When the disease curve starts to bend, just now we are here, the speaker tells us that there are two other big threats. 

Complacency and the media look elsewhere are risks. Can we put previous experiences to use this time?

Words in this story 

contaminated / polluted, poisoned

complacency / satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements

Mel Robbins : How to stop screwing yourself over

Mel Robbins·TEDxSF

How to stop screwing yourself over

Summary 

I love this kind of story! 

To tell the truth, your feelings are screwing you! It’s because your brain can be described to have autopilot and emergency brake systems. When you try not to do your routine, those systems start working. Thus physical force is required to change your behavior. We have to use the word “FORCE” when we do what we want to do. We are luckily born in four hundred trillion and we can start it forcingly. 

The speaker is a bestselling author, life coach, TV host, and CNN commentator. She published the book “The five-second-rule”. We can use this also. 

P.S. First, l mistook “Screwing” for “screaming”! Hahaha 

Words in this story 

screwing, screw /verb/ fasten or tighten with a screw or screws(noun)

screaming /shouting, yelling

Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin : Tiny robots with giant potential

Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin·TED@NAS

Tiny robots with giant potential

Summary 

I’ve heard that people can control about ten own robots in the next thirty years later. For example, you can open the door of your house without holding a key, You can turn on or off a TV or other devices without remote controls. 

Now, when we imagine a robot, we think that it has eyes, legs, hands, etc. and it can move faster. However, the story explains that it's a hair’s width in size like a microorganism. It won’t have eyes and legs but it has the only brain. The speaker said that the technology that you need to build a tiny robot already exists and it tells us when we have (coronavirus) infections in 30 years. Of course, it's without application, it can live in our bloodstream. Wow! 

Words in this story 

potential / having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future