TED Prize 2007 My with: Let my photographs bear witness

TED 2007
TED Prize 2007 My with: Let my photographs bear witness (script)
Summary
Every picture has a powerful influence on people.
By using the pictures, we can show another opinion to politicians or military leaders.
The images also have resistance to war and racism. They not only record history but they can  also help change the course of history.
The pictures become part of your collective consciousness.
This evolves into a shared sense of conscience and changes impossible to possible and inevitable.
It means that society's problems can be identified and solved by only showing the pictures. So visual journalism can reveal the true face of war. It can show anti- war movement and lead to a factor in conflict resolution. There's a vital story that needs to be told.
Photographers want to tell us them. They seek your opinion...
They seek your opinion because you take part in is important. These photos and you can appeal the refusal that someone accepts the unacceptable. For the speaker, continuing to take pictures means to continue wars in the world which might be a far place from where you live. However, people are still struggling. The problem might not be solved if you don't identify it. The war is also the same. There must be some ways to identify this if you forget it in the digital era.

Angélica Dass: The beauty of human skin in every color

TED2016
Angélica Dass: The beauty of human skin in every color (script)
Summary
Being not part of the foreign countries with mixid races, I thought that everyone there was close, even if they had different skin color. The world abolished slavery 128 years ago. Then African-American Civil Rights Movement occurred 53 years ago. However, there are still some places which different skin color and hair are not accepted. It's not only about the places but also about people who do not accept. The speaker herself sometimes gets used to it and sometimes accepts it.
Have you ever seen the industrial palette, Pantone?
 In the world, there are lots of kinds of colors and in the Pantone all slightly different colors are very beautiful. So in the world, there are many kinds of skin colors as much as the Pantone has, and all skin colors are beautiful. Then the world should be a place wherein everyone can feel proud of their own skin color. They have to be able to love their own color. The speaker tells us that the discrimination won't disappear by itself.  She continues to take portraits as a photographer to abolish it, and she makes us realize the beauty of human skin in every color.
Words in this story
abolish /  put an end to, get rid of, scrap, end, stop

TED Prize 2017 winner Raj Panjabi Four difficult truths highlighted by the Ebola epidemic

2017 TED Prize winner Raj Panjabi
Four difficult truths highlighted by the Ebola epidemic (script)
Summary
The Ebola is a very serious infectious disease with fever, bleeding inside the dody, and it leads to death. Due to incubation period whcih is three weeks, it's difficult to know who is infected with. This is a zoonotic disease meaning that it can spread from animals to humans but touching dead body is also dangerous.
The speaker looks back at the Ebola epidemic. He was born in Liberia. Fortunately, he could attend medical school in America, in 1990. It's because of a civil war, though. He returned Liberia in 2005. In 2007, he founded the nonprofit: Last Mile Health to serve as a physician in rural areas. In 2014, the Ebola erupted in not only in a rural area of Guinea where a boy died of Ebola but also in wide areas of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and other areas. He faced them and fought the Ebola disease with the government. Although in 2016, the Ebola was put no longer an international public health emergency, he said that we have to prepare for the next epidemic or other diseases.
From this his experience, he gave us four lessons. 1) We can't create areas which there aren't doctors. Placing them all area might be high cost though it's too expensive and too difficult to save patients after a disease epidemic. 2) You don't have the despair and fear to fight a disease. If you close doors, the epidemics doesn't solve. 3) Creating good health care community is important. Then people can learn about diseases. 4) In usual lifestyle, health care system should work.

Cameron Sinclair: The refugees of boom-and-bust

TED2009
Cameron Sinclair: The refugees of boom-and-bust (script)
Summary
Boom-and-bust cycle refers to economic fluctuations that the expansion is rapid and the contraction is severe.
The speaker is an architect and he was rewarded with the TED prize in 2006. His wish was to help more people to improve global living by connecting and working with designers around the world. He really supports the designers and construction companies though he knew the issue of workers rights in the construction industry. In the UAE, for blinding skyscrapers, many migrants went there to make money for their families, but now more than 300 skyscrapers have been put on hold or cancel. When some constructors have gone bust by the financial collapse that happened, the workers lost their all lives, documentation, passport, and tickets for going home. There is no way to come back home. In fact, before when they have worked there, they had to live in poor areas where there is no water, no air conditioner and even no payment of wages.
And then, he surprisingly said that on this issue, there's no other road. We have to think about the new system that they can work well like you worry about your job. They are paying the price of this financial collapse. We shouldn't forget it.

Edward Burtynsky: Photographing the landscape of oil

TEDGlobal 2009
Edward Burtynsky: Photographing the landscape of oil (script)
Summary
"Do you know how we use the land?" The speaker said and he showed us his pictures which no one can have never ever seen. We could see it at the first time.  They can't be said that we used the land. We have broken but destroyed it. In the world, there were many beautiful landscapes but they started to be completely transformed by people who use car, planes, tires but they are wasted.
They are the results that are our large industries using oil. However,  its speed has gathered momentum. It can show us its end. This is the reason that there are his photographs here which teach us it. Oil comes from the ocean and phytoplankton but it takes for a long time.
Probably, we spend it all only 45 years. His photographs are powerful enough for us to deal with that more seriously.

TED Prize 2005 Edward Burtynsky: My wish: Manufactured landscapes and green education

TED 2005
TED Prize 2005 Edward Burtynsky:
My wish: Manufactured landscapes and green education (script)
Summary
We have opportunities to see beautiful pictures of the landscape a lot. Everyone probably likes it. However, the beautiful natures that we saw are starting to change by our hands. There are many landscapes which were completely transformed by people who created the big highways, mines and piling a lot of tire and garbage. Unfortunately, we have to involve in them to live. For this reason, they should be sustainable. We have to pay out redemption and know reality more. The speaker continued to take photos which have beautiful aspects have dirty sides. Its meaning includes scary or horrible.
He showed us some pictures of China which were like a bombed out landscape. Dams, nuclear power stations, and coal burning furnaces, we need them though they have problems you know. So we have to understand that craving energy, seeking labor market, creating skyscrapers and moving into urban lifestyle are horrible things.
He wishes us to see them with Imax film to solve those problems.You can be largely influenced by his film that is worthly. It would lead to getting new ideas.
He also wishes to gather solving ideas from young kids with contests and to be read his blog that is about how to positively change our world in a better way quickly.
In this TED, they're incredible pictures that make our acts sad. However, we have created those manufactured landscapes. Thus we should watch them, know them and change them to sustainable things. We have to start the green education immediately.
Now, ten years have already passed.

TED Prize 2006 Cameron Sinclair: My wish: A call for open-source architecture

TED 2006
TED Prize 2006 Cameron Sinclair: My wish: A call for open-source architecture (script)
Summary
What you design is not what you design a jewel that you try and crave only yourself. The speaker started an organization to get architects and designers involved in humanitarian work. It's not only about responding to natural disasters but also involved in system issues. Additionally, it can be collected ideas, resources including money and knowledge. The design should be innovative and sustainable design and can really make a difference in people's lives.
In the world, there'er many people who have the issue of housing crisis even without Africa. By using the internet, he embraced an open source model to join anyone,  anytime and anywhere in the world. After the disasters, the organization could raise funds and started projects immediately.
The housing issue means not only emergency shelter or transitional shelter. Mobile health clinics, the clinic within the community or theater, telemedicine center,  a utility room which elderly people can walk, and the best designed toilet etc. ideas aren't going to end. The internet would be put where places are slums in poor severity. It leads to innovations. The design with open source can help more people to improve global living by connecting and working with designers around the world.

Words in this story
humanitarian / man of virtue.
crave / hope. carve / marked
scarce / poor

TED Prize 2009: Jose Antonio Abreu: The El Sistema music revolution

TED 2009
TED prize 2009: Jose Antonio Abreu: The El Sistema music revolution (script)
Summary
The EL Sistema music revolution.
The EL Sistema is the National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras and Choirs in Venezuela where music and art were thought of monopoly of elites.
However, in there, children can have opportunities to be musicians through all their lives regardless of classes, color, and financial status. They can play music with them beyond those problems. In poverty, the most miserable and tragic thing is not the lack of bread or roof but the feeling of being no one, no identification, or no public esteem. That's why the speaker said that the children's development in the orchestra and the choir provides them with a noble identity and inspires in them a sense of responsibility, perseverance, and punctuality through playing music.
This greatly helps them not only in school but also in the family and community.
The children can discover that they are important to their family and community. It leads them to work for and makes an invention for themselves and their family and community.
You can understand how the music can change poor children to professionals when you listen to the EL Sistema. The music they play can contribute in and make the revolution in their own and society.

Words in this story
solidarity /  unity
fraternity / friendship
esteem / respect and admiration, typically for a person.
punctuality /  authenticity
revolution / an instance of revolving

Alexander Betts: Our refugee system is failing. Here's how we can fix it

TED 2016
Alexander Betts: Our refugee system is failing. Here's how we can fix it　(script)
Summary
Refugees can contribute to your country. Your thought that refugees are inevitable cost or burden to society is wrong.
You know that many refugees don't have anywhere to go but some children of refugees still died. It shows that an international refugee system doesn't work because it's created over 50 years ago.
The speaker tells us four ways that the host states and communities, our societies and refugees themselves can benefit. We have to update the way that we think about the refugee issue internationally.
1) Refugees are the human beings like everyone else but they're just in extraordinary circumstances. We need to provide them with opportunities for human flourishing. It means that we provide not only shelter and food but also education, the right to work and access to capital and banking.
2) To increase economic zones for refugees to be able to work widely.
3) To create a matching system between states and refugees.
For instance, students with university places or matching kidney donors with patients you can use can be applied to them.
4) To allow to get humanitarian visas. It leads to saving lives, removing the chaos from borders and stopping the smuggling.
Refugees intensively move to one country. Thus this causes confusion. This situation has to be solved immediately. Many countries should cooperate with one another and fix the role.

Words in this story
humanitarian / man of virtue. a person who seeks to promote human welfare; a philanthropist.
aspirations / desire, wish, aspiration,a hope or ambition of achieving something.
migration / movement from one part of something to another.
refugees / a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
flourishing / developing rapidly and successfully; thriving.

TED Prize 2009 Jill Tarter: Join the SETI search

TED 2009
TED Prize 2009 Jill Tarter: Join the SETI search (script)
Summary
Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence is called the SETI which uses the tools of astronomy to try and find evidence of someone else's technology out there. Out there means opposite side where you think there is someone who looks at the sky the same stars which you look up to. You are you who live here, here.
The nearest galaxy to us is 2.5 million light years. It means any signal we detect would have started its journey a long time ago. You might not see its result while you live but if you work together from now, you might see the detection of the first extraterrestrial signal. And then, the thoughts give us that we are not the pinnacle of evolution. We are a small part of the story of cosmic evolution. Something happens here is the small thing that we can't understand. From out there, we actually all belong to only one tribe which is Earthlights. The perspective of humans on this planet might be changed, even if SETI does not find anything. It should be continued.
The discovery of intelligent life beyond Earth would eradicate the loneliness and solipsism, that has plagued our species since its inception. And it wouldn't simply change everything, it would change everything all at once.
Wird in this story
terrestrial / of, on, or relating to the earth.
solipsism / the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.
inception / the establishment or starting point of an institution or activity.  beginning, commencement, start, birth.

TED Prize 2009 Sylvia Earle: My wish: Protect our oceans

TED 2009
TED Prize 2009 Sylvia Earle: My wish: Protect our oceans　(script)
Summary
I also know that seeing swimming fish attracts people in the sea. They don't know that they are eaten by people. In the beautiful oceans, we can touch and swim with them. However, our oceans are harmed by what we put into it or by what we took out of it where all the assets are. It means that not only fish can't swim there but also we can't live on our Earth where we live now. With every drop of water we drink but every breath we take connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth we live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea. Over time, most of the planet's organic carbon is cleaned by microbes. The ocean drives climate and weather, stabilizes temperature, and shapes Earth's chemistry. Water from the sea forms clouds that return to the land and the seas as rain and snow, and it provides our home for about 97 percent of life in the world.
No water means no life but the oceans have lost their own resilience. You think that our earth has its power that doesn't matter what we do, is wrong.
Now technologies are helping us to understand what is happening and what is our impact on the Earth. We have to know the problems more to make the Earth an enduring place. The speaker works to identify critical places of our Earth. Now is the time to protect our oceans.

Deeyah Khan: What we don't know about Europe's Muslim kids

TEDxExeter 2016
Deeyah Khan: What we don't know about Europe's Muslim kids (script)
Summary
I found the reason that the adults reject their kids hard in this article. I couldn't do that. They might be there but I didn't understand it. Who understands that the reason parents hate their children so much is because they make their daughters think they can do whatever they want. This is the old custom but they want their daughters to become like them yet. We don't know the reality that kids are still struggling. We shouldn't pretend not to see it that they do. We should walk with all kids in the world on the new path.
Words in this story
intolerant /in to le rant/ not tolerant of views, beliefs, or behavior that differ from one's own.  bigoted, narrow-minded, small-minded.

Nathan Myhrvold: Cooking as never seen before

TED 2011
Nathan Myhrvold: Cooking as never seen before (script)
Summary
We naturally think that we want to see anything that we've never seen before. We all are interested in our food because we eat something every day. And then we don't eat all food raw, in fact, cooking is the science. Understanding why cooking requires knowing the science of cooking. I think that it leads to cooking something well and eating something deliciously. You can esteem values of food and cooking.
The speaker shows us the food while cooked cutaways. This is the magic view which the reason is that food become delicious and you've never seen before.
Words in this story
esteem /  respect, admiration, acclaim, approbation

Grammys 2017: Read Adele's speech in full, 'my artist of my life is Beyonce'

Grammys 2017: Read Adele's speech in full, 'my artist of my life is Beyonce'(script)
Summary
Adele won Grammy award for best album this year.
I read this article before I watched the video. Thus, I think that Adele broke her Grammy in two and gave half to Beyonce is the idiom.
This was waiting to happen.
Fighting with two great women. They have an experience that is a wonderful thing that has children for women, who sometimes might be struggling but they don't say that. They respect each other.
The result is that they are there. If only you are one person, you can't achieve the goal.
Adele and Beyonce are the admiration of us. We hope we can listen to their songs and they sing forever.

TED prize 2005 Robert Fischell: My wish: Three unusual medical inventions

TED 2005
TED prize 2005 Robert Fischell: My wish: Three unusual medical inventions (script)
Summary
The speaker who is an inventor explains about his three inventions. And then, he tells us his three wishes.
It's thought that in developed countries, medical technologies are pretty high. However, the response to acute myocardial infarction is quite late. It's because 75 percent of the patients who go to an emergency room with chest pains don't have AMI: acute myocardial infarction. They're not taken very seriously. It takes more time to get their electrocardiograms of the heart and brain. When they see a doctor, their heart muscle has died.
1) A device he invented is used by inside a person. When the person has a blockage, it sends the alarm to external devices which records his/her baseline electrogram from 24 hours ago. It won't take a time to get a doctor.
2) His second invention is a device which an aura of the migraine headaches can be erased. The cause that you get migraine headache is the thing like an electrical impulse. Thus, the equipment creates a magnetic field to counteract that and auras are erased. Then the migraine doesn't occur.
3) And then, he explains that epilepsy can best be treated by responsive electrical stimulation. By placed a device into the cranial bone where the epilepsy seizure begins, it can provide stimulation before the clinical symptoms occur and seizures disappear. It can treat treating psychotic disorders.
He wants especially two devices that can use for the migraine headaches and psychotic disorders to be used many people in the world. These are the new ways to cure patients suffered with them.
He has one more complicated story that is about malpractice litigation. Lawyers should not get from its jury but the patient or spouse should agree not to file a lawsuit even if some failures occur. It doesn't mean to give up the right to trial by jury. The patient and spouse understand their treatment more, they agree to a settlement and it's not necessary for physicians to leave from their jobs. This is the end of all his wish to decrease the cost of medicine.
Words in this story
unusual / rare,
acute /  severe, critical,
counteract / act against (something) in order to reduce its force or neutralize it. prevent.
 treating psychotic disorders
clinical
cranial / of or relating to the skull or cranium.

Larry Brilliant:The case for optimism

TED 2007
Larry Brilliant:The case for optimism (script)
Summary
The year before the speaker told this speech, his TED talk told us that he and his team worked to eradicate smallpox. Although it came back sometimes finally it's eradicated at that time when there was no smallpox program. Smallpox killed more people than all the wars in history. Thus he said that it makes us optimistic. It's because it created a bond by working together and fighting against it beyond countries, every race, every religion and every color.
He lastly said how they can't make you feel optimistic for the future though I think that this is dangerous.
It's because it sounds like we don't have to do anything for solving our world problems but our world problem is only one.
The last sentences should be explained that we can fight alongside each other to solve our world problems from now also because we created the bond to eradicate smallpox difficulty found. His optimistic thoughts should make to use for fighting to our future problems.
Words in this story
legislation /  law(s), body of laws, rules, rulings
conquer / overcome.  defeat, beat, vanquish, trounce
reignite / ignite or cause to ignite again

TED Prize 2006 Larry Brilliant: My wish: Help me stop pandemics

TED 2006
TED Prize 2006 Larry Brilliant: My wish: Help me stop pandemics (script)
Summary
The key to eradicating smallpox was early detection and early response.   The speaker was working in a program that is to eradicate smallpox. Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by a virus. Its patients had many spots all over their body. Smallpox killed more people than all the wars in history. The worst thing was that people didn't report if they had a care of smallpox in their house. It's because they thought that it was the visitation of a deity but ideas wrong to bring strangers into their house when the deity was in the house. Vaccination wouldn't work, because next year, there'd be 21 million new babies. It's so many. For eradicating smallpox, you have to find every single case of it in the world at the same time. He and his friends went door to door with pictures. They showed every single house and said that in your house, there is a kid or a person who has this kind of symptom. They made over one billion hours call. This surveillance system, early detection and early response led to smallpox eradication. In the world, there is some possibility to infect with malaria, yellow fever, yaws, and polio. It failed against them.
Infectious diseases kill so many people. The horrible things should not exist, but it's getting worse because travel is getting so much better.
However, we knew that the key is early detection and early response. We build an early detection system that's freely available to anyone in the world. If in the system,
all languages can be used, all people can find a hidden pandemic and immediately contain it. His wish is to build the system to stop pandemic of horrible infectious diseases.
Words in this story
perspective  / outlook, forecast, view
pandemic /  widespread, prevalent, pervasive
detection / the action or process of identifying the presence of something concealed. coming to light,  perception, awareness

TED Prize 2008 Neil Turok: My wish: Find the next Einstein in Africa

TED 2008
TED Prize 2008 Neil Turok: My wish: Find the next Einstein in Africa (script)
Summary
Nowadays, the areas where we are living are quite developed. Almost all kids can receive a good education and people can study something after graduating also. Big changes are happening in the world, but Africa has left behind. In fact, all of the aid doesn't work for Africa is more independent. So to be able to be independent is the most important thing. There are just tons of bright kids in Africa but they are starved of opportunity. If they can learn more skills, especially mathematical and science skills in industry, government, and education, they can be a person who is able to solve their problems themselves and help Africa. The speaker set up an African Institute for Mathematical Sciences that's called AIMS which can give all African students the best opportunities. The best teachers are gathered from in the world and from a whole of Africa, students are recruited. They can use computers and receive to tutor anytime. Young African people mold a person who can help their own Africa. This is the best way to help Africa for them and us. There's no reason why it doesn't spread. The speaker hopes that this system really works and gives birth to the next Einstein.
The words in this story
mold / form, shape, make
starve / be hungry, go hungry

TED Prize 2008 Dave Eggers My wish: Once Upon a School

TED 2008
TED Prize 2008 Dave Eggers My wish: Once Upon a School (script)
Summary
Could you nicely do your homework when you were a student?
How about your sons and daughters? They will be addicted to video games and TV or they couldn't concentrate at home. They also have to do English homework even if their family couldn't speak English. Then teachers have to deal with so many problems. It's because teachers have to work hard for their students keeping up at grade level but some of them have learning disabilities and very often are the under foundation. Nowadays they have five classes of 30 to 40 students each. They don't have time to work with the students one on one.
However, the speaker thought that someone who is not a teacher can probably be one on one attention. For example, writers, editors, journalists, graduated students, and assistant professors who have sort flexible daily hours and an interest in English. And then he connected them and city's students, so to be shared their office or its next door with a tutoring center. They're working there, at 2:30 pm, the students go there and they give their hours in the afternoon to the students in the neighborhood. They work a little bit later. The students can receive one to one guidance there. They can get one grade level higher and above all, they can finish their homework before they come back home. It leads them to having a courage and connecting to city's adults. Not only their problems but city's problems are able to be solved by its community. In your city, children are fine that means your city is fun. You can also create the community in your city. There're many things that you can help children and your city which you can change. You know that it's important to do the homework with one to one guidance of which the places is needed in your city.
Words in this story
flexible / capable of bending easily without breaking.
evangelical / of or according to the teaching of the gospel or the Christian religion.
sterile / not able to produce children or young.
untenable / (especially of a position or view) not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection.