Smruti Jukur Johari : What if the poor were part of city planning?

Smruti Jukur Johari·TEDWomen 2019
What if the poor were part of city planning
Summary
This was also a great story that taught us how choices are difficult.

The speaker experienced the title: what if the poor were part of city planning. In a workshop, for poor families from a slum nearby, people chose shipping containers to live. It’s because it was sustainable, scalable, and affordable. However, a lady from the slum asked them, “Would you choose to live in it?”

Why did people choose what they didn’t want to live for the poor? They should broaden choices, not force choices on poor people. The speaker showed us some pictures and said, “accommodate poor people, not evict them, give them a choice to be a part of our cities. Cities and governments can work together.”

The result is what we can’t think. They create home-based where women can work while taking care of children, a space where large families can sleep, and a lot of individual toilets for children. Its picture really made us impressed.

Niels Diffrient : Rethinking the way we sit down

Niels Diffrient·TED2002
Rethink the way we sit down
Summary
By chance, the speaker sent a great chair all around the world.
The speaker tells us that he doled out a piece of his romance to anybody who’d pay for his chair. It’s his sense, aesthetic feeling, for the experience revolving around a designed object. He works as a designer for 25 years, he said that he started with a lot of loose ideas, and it continued roughly eight or nine years. He didn’t start with styling sketches. He loosely thought about people in the office, at the workplace.

People who work at their office are sitting in front of computers all day long. Chairs shouldn’t interfere with them, give people stress, and have a lever to adjust. His chair can accommodate people comfortably, it can automatically balance your weight almost, and it needs only a few simple adjustments.

A boy who fell in love with airplanes and was drawing it day after day became a great designer to create wonderful chairs. I like this kind of story also because it makes me interestingly RETHINK what I don’t think before.

Words in this story
steal, stole, stolen / take another's a property without permission, rob
dole /verb/ give donations to the poor; give out in small amounts, hand out sparingly
interfere / impede, obstruct

Lisa Mosconi : How menopause affects the brain

Lisa Mosconi·TEDWomen 2019
How menopause affects the brain
Summary
Menopause means the ceasing of menstruation. when this occurs, It’s sometimes using for the period in a woman's life. (It’s typically between 45 and 50 years of age)

The speaker explains that women are more likely than men to have Alzheimer’s disease that comes from brain aging. When women lose their reproductive system, it’s easy to happen. It’s because the interactions with the reproductive system are crucial for brain aging in women. It impacts our hormones also. Thus there are many of the symptoms of menopause: hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, memory lapses, depression, and anxiety.

The speaker suggests that hormonal therapy can be helpful to alleviate a number of symptoms, though, it’s not currently recommended for dementia prevention.

And then, what we can do today to support our hormones and their efforts on the brain is not to require medications but do require taking a good look at our lifestyle: the food we eat, how much exercise we get, how much sleep we get or don’t get, and how much stress we have in our lives.

Lastly, she said that it’s really important to understand the female brain. Brain health is women’s health. There are no differences in cognitive performance between men and women before and after menopause.

P.S. I've heard that MEN are more likely than women to have Alzheimer’s disease because men retire their works. However, women have a lot of works: cooking, washing, cleaning, take care of children, grandmothers, grandfathers, and etc. even if they quit their job. We have to more study not to have Alzheimer’s disease.

Words in this story
alleviate / reduce, ease, relieve

Bill Gates looks to the future

The TED Interview
Bill Gates looks to the future
Summary
Bill Gates had the TED on six occasions before and the interview was recorded in the last year, 2019 when it’s before a coronavirus spreading.

By the coronavirus spreading, the word is completely changing. The world where the story tells has been built. It’s splinting, being selfish and short-term. Furthermore, some people say that socialism like China may work more than capitalism or democracy. OMG...
Media, T.V., and newspapers diss all things too much. On the SNS, it’s said that the innovation of Facebook or Twitter will be wrong, though, It’s the problem of users.

However, Bill Gates has had a solution already in the talk. It’s that we are improving lives, stay generous, stay innovative and countries work together.

Words in this story
in·tan·gi·ble /inˈtanjəb(ə)l /adj/ unable to be touched or grasped, not having a physical presence
splin·ter /'splɪntə(r)/ break off into small slender fragments

Vernā Myers : How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them

Vernā Myers·TEDxBeaconStreet
How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them
Summary
I was really surprised at the example of the speaker because we must experience it definitely and unconsciously.

When you are on a plane piloting woman, you must think that it’s awesome!! However, if it’s often turbulent and bumpy, you will have a question. “Can she drive? You want a guy pilot”.
This is a bias that we don’t even know.
(In Japan, when women politicians are chosen, people are really worried, it’s the same.)

The speaker is a black woman. She tells us that black people also have biases and even if a person studies a diversity consultant, he/she also has biases.

We have to understand the fact that our brain automatically associates. Don’t think that we don’t have. 1)

Move toward instead of away . For example, try to say young black men, women politicians, foreigners, and etc.instead of away from them. 2)

Not to hide the ugliness of racism. We have to tell it to children and even grandmother and grandfather. No one deserves it. 3)

Words in this story
default /noun/ failure to fulfill an obligation, especially to repay a loan or appear in a court of law.

Heather C. McGhee : Racism has a cost for everyone

Heather C. McGhee·TEDWomen 2019
Racism has a cost for every one
Summary
For a long time, activities to stop racism are continuing, though, racism is still widely spreading, impacts on public policies, and remains divided.

For example, it’s said that black people are gangs, drugs, and crimes more than white, and then black people couldn’t use some public areas. 1)
A park is for white only, but it’s funded by all citizens. 2)
Even though a loan was not fair for everyone, it led to a financial crisis. 3)
In a factory, white workers think that they ain’t voting yes if the blacks are voting yes. 4) OMG!

The speaker suggests that only a person having a privilege gets benefit, it leads to dividing and a huge loss. About public areas, redistribution must be fair. Investing in our greatest asset means to invest in all of our people. It creates a better world.

Words in this story
racism / discrimination or intolerance of people of other races

Artūrs Miksons·TEDxRiga The benefits of expressing your emotions (constructively)

Artūrs Miksons·TEDxRiga
The benefits of expressing your emotions (constructively)
Summary
When you have an emotional reaction, it’s never logical. It’s biology and illogical means that when somebody feels something, you can't explain it well, even if you try it but it won't be right.

In the story, it’s not that a girl wants many cookies but she only wants someone to be with and listen to her. By an appearing granny, it’s solid.
A crying baby didn’t want to sleep, be held, be changed a diaper, be fed milk. Just the baby was sad and want to be with parents or someone, so you can feel what a baby is feeling to just be with.
When the speaker feels that he doesn’t want to stand a stage, when his father had passed away, and when his patients ask him many questions, naturally emotions are expressing, however, it doesn’t have reasons, you can’t explain it correctly and no one understands you. However, somebody who is with you must feel you.

P.S. Is it the same that when I study English, I feel that I want my teacher to be with me?
Does it mean that people need compassion?

Words in this story
con·struc·tive·ly /adv/ in a way that has or is intended to have a useful or beneficial purpose