Stuart Brown : Play is more than just fun

Stuart Brown at Serious Play 2008
Play is more than just fun  (transcript)
Summary
This is an unfortunate story. The speaker didn't receive a grant to study about play. It's because it's thought that play is just playing and there is an old thought there.

However, it turned out that play was biologically and practically important like sleep and dreams. It's not our preparation for being adults and the future but our basic for survival and public health.
We have to keep playing in our lifetime, and we don't have to forget it.

However, it doesn't mean to think that work and play are different and also we need both times to work and play. It seems to be better to be combined and infused, and then we would receive a byproduct of the play.

And then social play makes our cognition, emotions, and physicals develop. Especially playing with our hands early in life leads to creating a skill to solve problems.

However, l think that playing by using smartphones with hands won’t be  worth it.

Play must be our inherent Animal sensation.
We have to enjoy naturally and we must not ignore to play signals. We have to listen to our inner voices that are curiosity and exploration.

Words in this story
insight /noun/  intuition, discernment, perception, awareness, understanding
clinical /adj/  detached, impersonal
improvisation /noun/  impromptu,  unrehearsed, unprepared
flirtation /noun/ play, fun

Scott Galloway : How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google manipulate ouremotions

Scott Galloway TEDNYC 2017
How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google manipulate our emotions  (transcript)
Summary
How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google manipulate our emotions?
The answer is that they became our bodies’ parts and Got.
The speaker showed us a picture. Now, Google is a brain in the head, Facebook is a heart and Amazon is an organ.  If we don't have them, we won't live now, we didn't have them in the past, though. And then Apple that created iPhone is God or religion because people really worship their iPhone.
Probably, people understand that they can't have time when they aren't with them, but they are really grateful to them.
The speaker won't be able to separate from them also because to use them is really useful.
However, he said that he doesn't feel any empathy for them, but it’s not their fault.
This is our fault.

Surely, people depend internet too much and those four companies have strong powers are dangerous in our economy.

l didn't understand what the speaker really wanted to tell us.

Words in this story
catalyze /noun/ cause or accelerate (a reaction) by acting as a catalyst.
disarticulate /verb/ separate (bones) at the joints.
scrutiny /noun/  examination, inspection, survey
overstate /verb/  exaggerate, overdo, overemphasize

Mariano Sigman : Your words may predict your mental health

Mariano Sigman TED2016
Your words may predict your mental health  (transcript)
I rewrote this recently. Somehow, it became different.
Summary
I think that the subject that your words may predict your mental health is already used around us. For example, your mother always notices your changes or your friends know soon that you have a boyfriend.
There are many signs that show your changes and it will send unconsciously from you.

This time, he tried to convert those signals into algorithms because he researched that those signals were used for a long time. First, people seemed to be hearing and obeying someone’ voices. And then people began to recognize that someone's voice was their inner voice that was the introspection and it tried to write them.

Now, people write more than before because there is the internet. They use Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and other social networks. There are many opportunities to write, thus the speaker thinks that those words may predict people's future mental health more than before. Also, technology helps it.

However, l think that the thoughts that people don't write anything will be more important.


Your words may predict your future mental health
Summary
We can know that the speaker wants to tell us that our words may predict our future mental health from the title.
His idea is that our ability we initially have to imagine, to be conscious and to dream is not different to the past. It's because people obey voices when they hear something that is not hallucinations but they have the ability to think about their own thoughts. It has been their inner voices. He calls it our introspection and he said that it can be examined in a quantitative and objective manner.
I like his thoughts, because I believe that people can listen to and see their own introspection and they can notice a strong hunch that is a strong intuition. It means that we have a premonition that something bad or good would happen.
However, in the past, it might come from the words we write or we say, I think that today will be different. The world is always changing and we always use computers. I think that in the computers, our introspection will be charged, and even there is the average, it will be far different to our personal.

Words in this story
convert /verb/ change, turn, transform
conscious /adj/ aware, awake, alert, responsive
introspection /noun/  the examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes. self-analysis, self-examination, soul-searching
hallucination /noun/  delusion, illusion
perceive /verb/ notice, realize

Yuval Noah Harari : Nationalism vs. globalism: the new political divide

Yuval Noah Harari TED Dialogues 2017
Nationalism vs. globalism: the new political divide (transcript)
Summary
The reason that l love his thoughts is that he straightly says what humans are for is for nothing, we might not be able to live disturbingly, though.

Although audience's laughed, l thought that's the truth.

It's because we, humans, only say that our own side is right, we don't see our separated world, and there is no compromise or conversation with people having different opinions.

The side of nationalism tries solving only countries  problems while ignoring neighboring countries.

The side of globalism wants to tackle about world problems though there are  no leaders and no big money.

We have to know about our real division. It’s not between liberals and conservatives but between global and national.
It can be said that it needs for us completely new political model and completely new ways of thinking about politics.

The solution the speaker suggests is not to globalize the economy and turn it back into a national economy or globalize the political system. It really needs high-level loyalists and commitments beyond the nation. It must not stop on the national level but be misled by identities.

We are struggling with the fictions that we have created and it's important to be liberated from it.

Words in this story
retrograde /verb/  backward, backwards, reverse, rearward
diagnosis /noun/ detection, recognition, discovery, pinpointing; opinion
immense /adj/  huge, vast, massive, enormous
emerge /verb/ come out, appear,
construction /noun/  building
irrelevant /adj/ not connected with or relevant to something.
irrational /adj/  unreasonable, illogical, dumb, inept, silly, mad

Gospel according to John Chapter 14

Gospel according to John Chapter 14  (article)
Summary
My father died on March 19, 2018.
He was a Christian and he loved reading the Bible. Jesus says a word truth always in the Bible, thus my father named me Mari（眞理) that meant the truth. 　
In the Bible, its pronunciation of a Chinese character is  Sinri and anther pronunciation is Mari.
I was glad when the pastor read a passage from the Bible in his funeral because it's Chapter 14 of Gospel according to John.

“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me".

Death comes to all of us.
However, we, humans, can't prepare it always and we only ask for help without understanding and believing Jesus.
We are stupid.
Jesus vicariously went there in where his father is before us.
When we go there, they say us brothers.
My father’s gone there that mean to die a peaceful death.

A dead body has to be cremated by law in Japan.
My brother’s sons put their letters that were written by Japanese characters they just started to learn on my father’s body in the coffin.
They are too small to understand about death. However, they picked up his bones to bury.
The life is inherited.

Sally Kohn : What we can do about the culture of hate

Sally Kohn TEDWomen 2017
What we can do about the culture of hate (transcript)
Summary
Culture means cultivation or something that we grew or produced.
The speaker tells us that hating is our culture.  We, humans, produce or are taught to hate.
We feel hateful and we think that there are hate and a problem there.
However, the problem is in our mind that thinking that we hate something.

We are not designed and not destined as human beings to hate. Hate Muslims, Mexicans for Americans or hate Chinese, Korean for Japanese are not our DNA.

We can change our thoughts that we hate something because we are the one who shapes that culture.
We, our side, have to change that thinking something is hate.

Words in this story
hate /noun/ detestation, dislike
hateful /adj/ arousing, deserving of, or filled with hatred.
destine /verb/ intend or choose (someone or something) for a particular purpose or end.
sanctimonious /adj/ making a show of being morally superior to other people.
hospitality /noun/  friendliness, welcome, helpfulness, kindness,
hostility /noun/ unfriendliness, enmity
facilitate /verb/  make easy/easier, ease, make possible
facility /noun/  institution

Pico Iyer 3: The beauty of what we'll never know

Pico Iyer at TEDSummit 2016
The beauty of what we'll never know  (transcript)
Summary
I've heard that currently, the answers almost all students say are the same because there is the internet.

People think that they know everything, they can know many things quickly, and they don't think that they don't know many things.
And then they give up something that  they try to know when they notice there are many things that they don't know.

However, the speaker tells us that what we don't know and what we try to know must be the power that pushes us forwards and lifts us up.

We have to think that it is wonderful for us to be able to make some new discovery.
This must be the true meaning of beauty that we'll never know.

Words in this stroy
exhilarate /verb/ make (someone) feel very happy, animated, or elated.
treacherous /adj/ disloyal, faithless
trishaw /noun/ a light three-wheeled vehicle with pedals, used in East Asia.

Pico Iyer 2 : The art of stillness

Pico Iyer at TEDSalon NY2014
The art of stillness  (transcript)
Summary
The art of stillness the speaker suggests is to try considering going nowhere.

He was a travel writer and he suddenly realized that he was racing around so much and he never caught up with his life, he worked enjoying and hard, though.

Nowhere was magical unless you can bring the right eyes.
To develop right and appreciative eyes are going nowhere.

Spending relaxing and resting without TV, car and even smartphone must lead to listening your own voices and remaking your entire life.

Please experience this luxurious time and realize that going nowhere leads you into a wonderful time.

Words in this story
nowhere / no place
stillness /noun/ silence, quiet
sabbath /noun/ a day of religious observance and abstinence from work, kept by Jews from Friday evening to Saturday evening, and by most Christians on Sunday.
the ten commandments /
a divine rule, especially one of the Ten Commandments
interpretation /noun/ explanation
exhaustion /noun/ fatigue
exhilarate /verb/  excite, refreshing
diversion /noun/  putting to another use
sit / sitting     site / siting

Pico Iyer 1 : Where is home?

Pico Iyer at TEDGlobal 2013
Where is home?  (transcript)
Summary
The speaker suggests that it'll be better for us to change our thoughts about our home from now. 1)
It's because now, many people become international and multicultural. People have one home associated with their parents, but another home associated with their partners also. They will have a third home connected with the place where they happen to be and where they dream of being. Thus, home for them is really a work in progress, it's constantly adding upgrades, improvements, and corrections. Still, it won't be soil but soul.

Always traveling, emigrating, and you have your home only inside you are beautiful things that you can choose your sense of home. 2) Where you're going is more important than where you come from now.

You can think about your home where you stand now. 3) By movement, your home might be changed and it's natural.

Words in this story
ache /āk/noun/ pain, damage
skeptical /adj/  dubious, doubtful

Stephen Hawking : Questioning the universe

Stephen Hawking at TED2008
Questioning the universe  (transcript)
Summary
Stephen Hawking who was a very famous cosmologist and theoretical physicist died on March 14, 2018.
He left us many words that we must not forget.
In this TED talk, he tells us that we who live on the Earth are the only civilization within hundred light years though civilizations don't last very long. They destroy themselves.

He explained about the universe politely by answering three questions.
1) Where did we come from?
2) Are we alone in the universe?
3) What is the future of the human race?

The universe can spontaneously create itself out of nothing. Now, in the universe, we must be only life. There is a possibility of other lives appearing though it'll take over ten billion years. We have made remarkable progress though it's too selfish to protect the Earth.

It'll be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years. Our technical young man ability changes the environment for good but ill also.

Words in this story
abduction /noun/ kidnapping, taking captive, carrying away
salutary /adj/  beneficial, advantageous, good, profitable
suppress /verb/ seize, calm
extrapolate /verb/ guess

Rupal Patel : Synthetic voices, as unique as fingerprints

Rupal Patel at TEDWomen 2013
Synthetic voices, as unique as fingerprints  (transcript)
Summary
I was sorry that this was no time to choose a voice of Siri in the iPhone.
In our world, there are many people who are unable to speak.

Currently, by helping some technologies, some of them are able to have the voice like Professor Stephen Hawking who uses an American accented voice.

However, girls, kids, and women who lost their voice use this voice that he uses.

According to the speaker’s research, saying is the vibrations generated by your voice box that is pushed through the rest of vocal tract that all people have.
It means the people not only who lost their voice later in life but also who can't speak when they were born.

By combining a voice that is created by the vibrations and a similar vibrations’ voice that is collected by voice donates, a unique voice having identities is created.

Our voice has a unique voiceprint like fingerprints that reflects our age, size, lifestyle, and personality.

It's needed for people who use synthetic voices.

Words in this story
synthetic /adj/ man-made
prosthetic /adj/ artificial
generate /verb/  cause, give rise to, lead to, result in, bring about, create, make, produce, engender
fingerprint
surrogate /noun/ sacrifice, replacement

Peter Diamandis : Stephen Hawking's zero g flight

Peter Diamandis at TED2008
Stephen Hawking's zero g flight  (transcript)
Summary
Stephen Hawking who was a very famous cosmologist and theoretical physicist died on March 14, 2018.
His dream was to travel into space because he thought that life on Earth was at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disasters.

It means that the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.

Thus, the speaker helped his dream, people thought that he was too old, too weak, and too dangerous to go there because he used a wheelchair, though.

The speaker worked to take Stephen Hawking into weightlessness into zero-g.

The world of weightlessness is like you are in space.

Stephen Hawking could ride an airplane that NASA has to train their astronauts in a state of weightlessness.

We have to bring its photo into space when we live there.

Words in this story
genome /noun/ the haploid set of chromosomes in a gamete or microorganism, or in each cell of a multicellular organism.
parabolic /adj/ of or like a parabola or part of one.
weightlessness /noun/ zero gravity, drifting, floating
homage /noun/  respect, honor

Matilda Ho : The future of good food in China

Matilda Ho TED2017
The future of good food in China  (trnscript)
Summary
“After all, we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children”.
This speaker’s thought is really true and most of the people don't think or they forget it.

The speaker said that in China, everyone and everything are in a hurry. Especially about food, growing more and selling more food need chemicals and pesticides, and it harms people’s bodies and grounds.

She tells us that it must be time to need being patient to clean our earth and to prepare healthy food for our children.

Patience doesn't mean to have the ability to wait but to know how to act while waiting.

She works to bring healthy food in China which is a difficult country to be patient.

I think that now, Japan also needs patience, Japanese people are called patient, though.
The way that government uses country's money clearly creates big debts that our children have to pay.

We should think what we have to do now more.

Pay loans back for our children, clean our Earth, prepare healthy food and pass
batons to our children.

Words in this story
patience /noun/  tolerance, restraint, self-restraint
patient /adj/  patiently /adv/
mindful /adj/  aware, conscious
sustainable /adj/ able to be maintained at a certain rate or level.

Simone Bianco and Tom Zimmerman : The wonderful world of life in a drop of water

Simone Bianco and Tom Zimmerman TED@IBM

The wonderful world of life in a drop of water  (transcript)
Summary
I thought that a drop of water meant a drop of rain, but this was really a drop of water.
There is a creature that can live in only one drop of water.  It's plankton that we learned in school by using pictures.

Plankton drifting or floating in the sea or fresh water is a small and microscopic organism.
They grow by photosynthesis and break down organic matter. They have the power to regain the environment. It works by solar energy. It's wonderful, however, it's too small for us to see.

One man who is a physicist think about our environment.
He realized that increasing surface's temperature on the earth won't be better for plankton than for us. If we see struggling plankton, we must care about them and our environment more.

That time, there was another man who was an inventor. When he explained his invention that was the 3D microscope, the man was there by chance.

Now, we can see a life of plankton by cooperating two men. The life is the our origin of recycle.
If it's stopped, we can't live. We have to use plankton's power to regain our world environment.

Words in this story
grudge /noun/  ill will, enmity
sustain /verb/ keep, maintain, preserve
rally /noun/ tournament
relay /noun/ hook-up
rely /verb/  depend on, count on
asphyxiation /noun/ apparent death
starvation /noun/  extreme hunger, lack of food
neocortex /noun/ cortex

Renata Salecl : Our unhealthy obsession with choice

Renata Salecl at TEDGlobal 2013
Our unhealthy obsession with choice  (transcript)
Summary
Unhealthy things are harmful things, of course, it's not better for our bodies and environment.
Our choices are, now,  not rational choices but just we want to think that we made the right choice.

Our choices are influenced by our unconscious and communities and made by guessing what other people think about our choices and by looking at what they are choosing. 1)
When we choose something, we only imagine that we become more successful and free personally. 2)
However, we are turning a blind eye in front of big information.
We don't realize that there is ignorance and denial are on the rise, our market is haphazard, and changing is more rapid than we think. 3)
We should go beyond thinking about individual choice.

People are obsessed with the unhealthy situation.

When people will just wake up again and everything will be the same as before, no political or social changes are needed, nothing needs to be done just now, and others need to act before us.

There is no better choice when people are in there.

Words in this story
inadequacy /noun/ defect, deficiency
brief /noun/  short, flying, fleeting
capitalism /noun/  free enterprise, private enterprise, the free market
critiques /noun/  analysis, evaluation, assessment, appraisal
randomness /noun/ haphazardness
pacify /verb/ soothe, calm

Becci Manson : (Re)touching lives through photos

Becci Manson at TEDGlobal 2012
(Re)touching lives through photos (transcript)
Summary
Thank you for helping Japan after the tragic tsunami on March 11, 2011.

I am grateful that the speaker told us this beautiful story in tears and I’ve just found it luckily. Today is the day when seven years have just passed since then.

The speaker participated in volunteer work to help Japan after a big earthquake and a tsunami. Some towns had been devastated and almost all things were buried in soils and debris. Many volunteers from not only Japan but also other countries cleaned to rehabilitate there.

And then, in the evacuation center, many muddy photos were being collected unknowingly.

People in the photos but people having those photos were probably in the soils. That's why volunteers would think that they had to do something.

Through the internet, more other people help fix those photos. When owners of them appeared, cleaned the photos were given to owners emotionally.

People must make sure that photos really have the power to connect people to people, even strangers beyond the time.

There is even a small thing that can help people in our hands.

Words in this story
restore /verb/ reinstate, bring back, reinstitute, reimpose
gut /verb/ remove the guts from, disembowel, draw, eviscerate
evacuation /noun/ the action of evacuating a person or a place

Howard C. Stevenson : How to resolve racially stressful situations

Howard C. Stevenso at TEDMED 2017
How to resolve racially stressful situations  (transcript)
Summary
There is a scary story about a tsunami in Japan. It's not that a tsunami is dangerous but humans’ action is dangerous.
About 100 years ago, a very big tsunami came to a small village. Many people were killed. The rest of people built a stone monument as a sign that ahead of here was dangerous to live because of a tsunami. People started to live above there and to train running away from tsunami while remembering the big tsunami and looking at the sign.

However, as the months move on, people forget them. They started live in cities which were built over reclaimed shorelines which were ahead of the sign, around it, many buildings were built, they didn't become realizing it, they forgot it, and again a tsunami came there. Of course, many people died. Mothers must teach their children that tsunami is dangerous and Children must learn it, but they are caught by a tsunami.

The speaker used the word tsunami in the TED talk.
Still, there is a racial problem in our current world that black people are not treated as human but they who are adults and children also are killed suddenly when they see others. They can't call police because police also kills them. The accident occurs like a tsunami. It's too sudden to run away.

Teaching, learning, and making rules can't stop its accidents. Black people are placed in the stressful situations always, but it's created by humans. It's not a natural disaster like a tsunami.
Humans must have a love at least for their children. People Just imagine their own when they see black people. The only solution is this and revenge is not a solution.

Words in this story
dehumanization /noun/ depriving of human character or spirit, turning into a beast.
segregation /noun/ isolation
reputation /noun/  popularity, repute, fame
decomposition /noun/ corruption, decay
whimpering /verb/ sob, weep, cry

Keller Rinaudo : A mini robot — powered by your phone

Keller Rinaudo at TED2013
A mini robot — powered by your phone  (transcript)
Summary
A robot means a machine controlled by a computer that is used to perform jobs automatically.
The speaker created a robot which was powered by your iPhone. 1)

He thought that the robot anyone could use should be small, portable, friendly, cute, and it's not expensive. 2)

The more important things he thinks are to be able to set it in motion even from far places literally and completely and intuitively, and the robot should fit you. Everyone can train the personal robot that is suitable for each individual. 3)

The most important thing is what you want to do by using the robot. 4)

After all, it depends on your creativity and imagination.

Last, I want shapes of eyes to be put on a robot because Roomba and Google home also don't have it, Romo has it, though. They look more friendly.

Words in this story
creepy /adj/ weird,  horrific
uncanny /adj/ frightening
intuitive /adj/  instinctive, innate, inborn, inherent, natural
semantic /adj/ relating to meaning in language or logic.

Kayla Briët : Why do I make art? To build time capsules for my heritage

Kayla Briët at TED2017
Why do I make art? To build time capsules for my heritage  (transcript)
Summary
Culture is our civilization that shows the way of our life.
There are big differences between generations, times and places.

Heritage is a culture created in the past and having historical importance.

A time capsule is a portable container to keep something. It is filled with objects considered to be typical of the present period in history. It's buried because people can study them in the capsule much later, even if they forget them.

We create many things every day though we forget many things that are included our important ancestors and culture. When people are separated, mixed, ignored and denied identity, they became invisible they hid their customs and culture. Those are forgotten.

The speaker grew up in Southern California, her mother is Dutch-Indonesian, her grandparents lived in China as immigrants and her father was in a minority group in Northeastern.
She knew that mixed culture was herself, it's important identity and native heritage, but it'd be forgotten in time.
She works to keep, to tell them, to connect the unknown past to the present. It has to continue the unknown future.

Words in this story
norm /noun/ something that is usual, typical, or standard.
immerse /verb/ sink, plunge, soak
indigenous /adj/ native, original
reclaim /verb/ fill up, beat away, turn up