Takanori Nakagome : Dance knows no borders- Connect the world through dancing and live streaming
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Hello, guys!
I’m, Takanori Nakagome, a professional Hip-Hop dancer like this.
(Applause)
Today, I'd like to talk about how dance makes world peace. I run an education program that connects Asian children with children in other countries mainly in Africa through dancing and the internet live streaming. I started this project alone four years ago but now many people and the organizations have cooperated in this project and l have taught dance to more than 15000 children in 23 continues and have connected 3000 children. Yes, and they dance together and they teach dancing with each other and they perform dancing each other and finally, they dance together at the same time by using Skype, Google hangout and so on.
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It looks so fun, right?
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Why l started the project is... it’s because of my experiences.
This is my childhood.
(Pictures, Laughter)
When l was a child, l was really shy and l didn’t have a lot of self-confidence. I was really shy, but after working for a while, l decided to pursue my dream which was to travel around the world to teach dancing and it changed my life because l build good relationships with many people in the world and we respected with each other, each other’s differences and l realized l also have a value as the person that l am and so I want children to have same experiences so that l started to connect children from around the world to teach, to dance and the internet live.
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Actually, yeah, like this and this project always moves me a lot, for example, this is during one mouth stay in Rwanda, l connect, "Rwanda, Japanese," Rwanda elemental school students and Japanese elemental school students for one month and they danced together and they, they made a dance video together.
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And there was a boy called Basil in 6th grade. He was like... he was like a leader, he was smart, he spoke English very well, and also he was a great dancer but he, he was a little bit of show off and seems like reluctant, but by interacting with Japanese children for one month, they became good friends and actually his birthday was just Christmas Eve and, and the final day of this workshop was also 24 this December, the Christmas Eve, and l and they danced together. Finally, the Japanese children surprised him by singing happy birthday and the usually nonchalant him, Basil, was severe. Like I'd never seen before and held back tears while listening to their singing become they danced together for one month and they became really great friends and in this ways, l think the world can change through having fun and becoming friends and learning each other, learning from each other. I would like you... l want to show you my activities videos.
(Video, Applause)
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Thanks. In my opinion, people from all of the world are able to get along well with each other, the great rest of the country the culture and l believe “Dance has the power to bring world peace. I wanner make a peaceful world through connecting people from all over the world through dancing and becoming friends.
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Thank you so much.
Top 10 New Year's Questions for 2020
It is unfortunate that I couldn't write over 200 articles of my blog this year.
1. What did you learn about yourself from this year 2019?
I've learned about me. I work hard every day, though, something that l did was very small and unfortunately, there didn't seem to be piled up. Something that is left is only a lot of my homework. Hahaha
2. Which relationship meant the most to you this year and why?
In business, many customers bought our company’s products by using the internet this year, thus people going to real shops are really decreasing. We think that we have to create relationships with them more. It means that we have to think about how to attract customers to real shops.
relationship /noun/ connection, relatedness
3. What was one of the biggest challenges you faced this year and how did you handle it?
The biggest challenge l faced is to get up early and go to bed also early. I think l cloud get up earl because l like to take English lesson in the morning, though, it’s difficult to go to bed early. I’m really tired this year.
4. What was one of your proudest moments from this year and why?
My proudest moments from this year is that l have work and I create the position that l can create work forever! even robots will steal our jobs soon.
5. What was one of the most meaningful compliments you received this year? Why was it so meaningful to you?
Of course, customers compliments to us is the most meaningful because it gives us the power to work.
6. What did you do for fun this year? What was one of your favorite memories?
The most enjoyable time for me is when I am waiting for English lessons starting. I wonder whether l can answer well to teachers’ questions or not, l can use the same difficult words that l learned yesterday or not and so on.
However, after the lessons, I thought that l couldn't speak a lot today, too 💢 Tomorrow, l will do my best! Hahaha
7. If you could change one thing from this year, what would you change and why?
I wanted to go to the gym...I feel a lack of exercise.
8. What was the most meaningful thing someone did for you this year?
Although my English progress is very slow, many teachers teach me English
9. If you were to brag about one of your accomplishments from this year, which one would it be and why?
"Our company's products are great!" It's because there are many products that haven't been thought in Japan.
brag / big talk, tall tale
10. Given all your experiences, insights, and lessons learned from 2019, what's the best advice you could give yourself for 2020?
Losing something is not fear, all things must have risks. I have no choice but to do it. Good luck.
Cara E. Yar Khan·TEDWomen 2019
The beautiful balance between courage and fear
Summary
I didn’t realize that the speaker used a wheelchair completely. She was diagnosed with a severe disease that leads to quadriplegia but that is no proved treatment or cure.
However, the most disheartening thing was not to be diagnosed but to listen to other people's advise. They told her to quit her international career, give up marriage, and there were limitations to have dreams and ambitions. However, the speaker ignored them. She thought that obstacles and fear don't necessarily immediately set thus she must have been able to have one way or another with courage.
All people’s lives are already scary. For our dreams coming true, we need to be brave. In facing our fears and finding the courage to push through them. Our courage has to outweigh our fear.
The speaker tells us a lesson of our life which is finding the balance between fear and courage is important and understanding what is and what isn't a good idea.
She doesn’t give up her career which is working around the world, climbing Grand Canyon, and swimming in the river. One after the other, she is done.
Words in this story
quadriplegia /kwädrəˈplēj(ē)ə/quad ri ple gi a
Rabiaa El Garani·TEDMED 2018
Hope and justice for women who’ve survived ISIS
Summary
People always say that justice is about punishing the perpetrator or perpetrators might change their minds as humans. And then, committed crimes have been recorded and recognized by the rule of law. Where should victims be? Should they be quiet alone? No, they should, of course, reclaim their dignity and find closure with their trauma. This must be a credible justice process. They are brave survivors and they need to connect again to their own self-worth, to their families, and to their place in a society that values them. Not giving condemnation but giving compassion and bearing witness is an honor. Seeking their justice should be hope and healing.
In the past, people hide cruel things that ISIS did, though, survivors now have the right to be resilient. The speaker works for them but she is also a survivor.
Words in this story
resilient /adj/ resilience /noun/
Nick Bostrom·TED2019
How civilization could destroy itself — and 4 ways we could prevent it
Summary
The speaker’s story is always and really difficult, so l remembered that the previous one was also difficult. It’s because l think that he knows about many things that we don’t know but he can’t tell us.
The speaker is a philosopher who comprehends the computer. This time, he seemed to release a new book “Simulation”. This will deserve the campaign.
On his assumption, the computer level seems to be the same as a human soon. The computer can learn and act like humans. And then, can humans continue controlling them at that time? A lot of people died in the war. You can say that its computer doesn’t go to war definitely, can’t you? The computer is created by humans. This civilization is also created by humans, though, it could destroy itself.
Thus, the title is How civilization could destroy itself. Without noticing, we will set a button that no one knows where and when we would make a mistake.
The speaker suggests 4 ways that we could prevent it.
One is not to restrict technological development and it shouldn’t have strict rules but should democratize.
Second is to reduce the number of people who are incentivized to destroy the world, it’s thought that it won’t work well, though.
The third is to stop the danger in real time. The world requires ubiquitous surveillance and everybody would be monitored all the time.
The final is that the world has to correspond with the macro and global level problems.
I think that in the story when we could extract all the balls from the urn, we’d benefit greatly, it won’t be true. I'm gonna read the book.
Valorie Kondos Field·TEDWomen 2019
Why winning doesn't always equal success
Summary
Why winning doesn’t always equal success is that because your life is still continuing, just you couldn’t win only this event. The event might be an important exam, election and the last match, though, you must have practiced really hard. It means that you are a champion in your life and you are successful.
The world and a lot of people strongly believe that winning at all costs is successful, but it’s wrong and a crisis.
The speaker realized that there were beautiful lives for losers after winning of one person. Real success is developing champions in life for our world, winners, and losers. All challenges must lead you to fortifying as a whole human being and it’s important to produce and train champions in life in every single walk of life without compromising the human spirit. Everyone can have motivations to want to be great again by redefining success.
Lorna Davis·TED@BCG Mumbai
A guide to collaborative leadership
Summary
The story is a guide to collaborative leadership and why this will be needed.
Our world can’t work only to have one great hero now. Furthermore, people strongly believe that heroes help them and their boss should be a hero who must have better leadership.
However, only one person who has the answer is ludicrous and all people must be needed and expected.
Now, the world works by collaboration. It’s between companies and other industries, leaders and labors, communities and companies, and etc.
Not only getting benefits but we have to solve the most important problem. 1)
Before people have a plan, collaborators declare their goals. 2)
It can’t be achieved alone. 3)
A leader who must be a hero is an illusion. We have to have better collaborative power with our leaders.
Dan Reinstein·TED-Ed
How does laser eye surgery work?
Summary
José Ignacio Barraquer Moner was a Spanish ophthalmologist and he was a pioneer of laser eye surgery. It can correct refractive errors: imperfections in the way the eye focuses incoming light. It’s called Keratomileusis and its surgery is known as LASIK. (laser in-situ keratomileusis) We feel scared of eye surgery, however, it’s accurate enough to etch words into a human hair and the technique is currently about as likely to damage your eyes as wearing daily disposable contact lenses for one year. It means, l don’t want to say, if you use contact lenses over one year, your eyes will get damaged more than surgery. The process takes less than 30 seconds for each eye. If its surgery operates your body, it’ll be too small to feel anything thus l think you won’t feel any pain. The technology can restore not only myopia (short-sightedness) and
hyperopia (far-sightedness) but also presbyopia (aging eyes). The problem seems to be only expensive, right?
Barraquer was fed up with glasses. It led to founding great surgery. However, l think that it’s important for people how to be looked more than how to look.
It’s because when pretty girls and good looking boys wear glasses, people rashly get glasses like being them and laser surgery will be used for faces more than eyes. People want to be beautiful more than they can look at something well. I think so too. I use glasses because it must cover wrinkles on my face and my face itself. People must see my glasses before they know my face. Hahaha
Cornelia Geppert·TED Salon: Brightline Initiative
A video game that helps us understand loneliness
Summary
This was a significant story of the game that the speaker created by her own experiences. I don’t play games, though, l think that the thoughts must help us really. The game title is “Sea of Solitaire” and it seems to be also sold in Japan. In the game, you battle the “monsters” of loneliness and self- doubt that everyone has. In fact, those emotions don’t completely vanish even in the game but joy is something that we cannot really embrace or touch. The key message is to not only chase for joy or happiness but to embrace all your emotions and bring them into balance, being OK with sometimes means not to be OK. The way to overcome it seems only to share your stories or to balance. Everyone has an inner monster that is born out of negative emotions. We want to kill them, though, we seem to have to understand that humans are complex beings. If you barely feel, you can get stimulation or if you feel too much, you can move towards lowering those peaks. The wide range of emotions and struggles makes us what we are: humans.
Mitchell Katz·TEDMED 2018
What the US health care system assumes about you
Summary
There are many challenges low- income patients face. They work even on Sunday to pay the rent, don't have enough money to use Uber, don't have friends to call doctors, and sometimes can't use English. Health care is built on a middle-class model thus it doesn't meet the needs of low-income patients. And then, by everyone hoping economic development, it becomes difficult to close the disparity in health care.
The speaker is Mitchell Katz who is the CEO of the largest public health care system in the US which is working on those.
It's the health care system, though, the important thing is not that you are a doctor. The needs of low-income patients are to listen to their languages, to explain their diagnoses verbally because some people can't read papers, even speak. They need inexpensive cell phones to call doctors. Sending letters many times, giving a steady supply of food, enabling to use refrigerator, bathroom and a bed where they can sleep without worrying about violence while they are resting, and so on, those are what low-income and homeless patients need. The right prescription for a homeless patient is housing, only providing them with health insurance is not working well. It must reduce costs more than they go to doctors after being a serious illness and they can be helped without noticing, some of the patients die.
Kelsey Leonard·TEDWomen 2019
Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans
Summary
When we hear about rights, we think about human rights and we think that humans are equal and great because we do a lot, for example, we can understand each other, can create many things, can learn, and so on. However, having rights means to restore to a normal or upright position, and a right in the first place shows morally correct, just, or honorable. Humans in the past didn't have the same rights, some humans were sacrificed but water is now sacrificed for us. We pollute lakes, rivers, and seas but we forget that we can't live if there is no water. Just water has to be restored to a normal or upright position and it must mean that lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans.
Water is essential to life, only healthy water can create better ecosystems, it leads to thriving and creating connections not only for humans but also humans, animals. plans and so on. It's all and water is life.
The speaker said that Indigenous peoples like herself were not citizens under the law, but they gather on today. Water is the same. We can regain clean water with the same rights as humans like creating beautiful communities.
Kara Logan Berlin·TEDxSantaClaraUniversity
3 ways to be a more effective fundraiser
Summary
Money definitely is needed when we have something that we want to do, however, it's thought that money is a burden on us because we don't learn about money well that there is much different thought about money. Even collecting money for helping people, we think that it's an embarrassing and ugly thing. The speaker said that it's baggage.
The speaker is a fundraiser who corrects money and how to overcome feeling embarrassing. The most important thing is to change your feelings that is about wealth and money, 1) the importance of building relationships, 2) and how to ask for what you want. 3)
A fundraiser has to work for a donor who comfortably offers money to someone who has something that he/she wants to do, someone who uses its money, and, of course, herself.
Everyone has different thoughts about money, though, money makes the world go round with your idea.
P.S.
Her company seems to be “Harvest,” l think, it’s really a good name because the meaning is harvesting your dream, right?
And then, I first didn't know why she said many times, "baggage!".
However, I remembered that even in Japanese, something that we think which is a burden is baggage. It might mean that thinking money is not my baggage but my baggage is now piled much homework! In the first place, I don't have money for thinking about it. hahaha
Kelsey Johnson·TED@NAS
The problem of light pollution — and 5 ridiculously easy ways to fix it
Summary
In December, people are excited about coming Christmas and in the cities, illuminations are really beautiful. However, always lightening cities is light pollution that I don’t know.
The speaker is an astronomer thus she could see real satellite pictures from space that are very beautiful illuminations, though, she tells us that at night, we can't see a truly dark night sky which is a big problem. It'll break a biological clock for not only us but also animals and plants. It's relating to our diseases, for example, cancer and so on, and small creatures are eaten because of brighter light, they are caught. The ecosystem will be breaking. Illuminations cost is high and it uses much energy.
It will be better for us to have to do something that is even small.
The speaker suggests 5 ridiculously easy ways to fix it. It's funny because it seems to be ridiculous.
Don't use lights brighter than you need to. 1) Don't use lights when you don't need them. 2) Those lights you're using, make sure they're shielded down, so they're not shining up into the sky. 3) Use LED lights. If you have a choice, don't buy the blue ones. 4) Advocate for this. 5)
Today, we know that in our world, there is a problem of light pollution and there are 5 things that we can do to fix it.
Deepa Narayan·TED Talks India: Nayi Baat
7 beliefs that can silence women-and how to unlearn them
Summary
I wondered how to unlearn.
7 beliefs that in the article, were explained by the speaker are that you, especially a girl, shouldn’t think about your body, 1) you should be always quiet, 2) you have to be a people pleaser focally, 3) you have no sexuality, 4) don’t trust women, 5) you should think your desire is duty, 6) be totally dependent on men. 6)
It's thought that those seven habits are good, moral snatch life away from girls, and positioning men to abuse. A habit is just a habit but every habitat is a learned habit. When it must be changing, people can unlearn them and personal change is extremely important. Still, there are such kinds of some areas where not only the speaker lives in but other people live in surprisingly.
Those are the reasons why women and men are not equal. Even women have been educated, employed and they earn income, it won’t be changing easily. The system of every social foundation has to be changing. The speaker tells us that it’ll take two more centuries, though, it should start and it should stop learning those habits. This is unlearning. I think that the TED stage that is not TED women is really better. Only just women can’t change this. “Men adjust”, the speaker said.
Cathy Mulzer·TED@DuPont
The incredible chemistry powering smartphone
Summary
It started in December from today and this month must be loved by many people, especially children because it includes Christmas Day. The speaker also said that a device that people are now addicted to is coming to you on the day as Christmas presents. However, we don’t think a lot about when the device was made and the speaker suggests that we have to know about it more because it must become your cool sidekick and the best friend. It’s not just code and battery making software engineers but this is a great gift from the chemistry.
The display of our smartphone is embedded within organic polymers, l thought that it’s liquid crystal. It can take electricity and turn it into the blue, red, and green that we enjoy in our pictures. The great adhesive that of course thanks to chemistry bind electrodes in the small area of smartphone. For the brain and some circuits board of our smartphone, chemistry seems to enable all of those layers. And then our devices will be more powerful, faster and miniaturized. For 5G, chemistry must work more. We always say that technology developing is now really great but chemistry really helps it, we really don’t know about it, though. We have to thank chemistry and I hope that the divide is not a product that makes people only addicted.
Somehow, l struggled to understand what the story told us this time.
What is “impostor syndrome”?
An impostor is a liar and in the article, “Begin it now” and why is it used for your benefit?
The speaker is an entrepreneur who is successful. He had about 70 employees, his company was about four years old when he got a prize. I wondered why he was an impostor. That time, the speaker met a big person who had been running his business for 40 years and he had 30,000 employees. He was a really big entrepreneur, however, he had been continuing his business with feeling the same way that was impostor syndrome. One idea hit me, l understood it, and l also have done always.
I use words: you become an actor or actress as you are being “impostor syndrome”. It means to act, perform, play to the end. In the story, a clipboard was used also.
“Begin it now” and “be a knock on the door” means that l call those “be switched on”, so turn on your switch, start acting your life, and you control it. The speaker uses a word that is “Harness”.
“Impostor syndrome” must mean that “Fake it till you become it?(you make it)” and pretend what you want to be, another similar article said. For the speaker's marriage, it seemed to be successful. His wife might do but it's successful.
Successful people don't feel like frauds seem to be wrong. They have done more on the stage or have taken the stage a lot.
This time, I couldn't pretend to be a person who speaks English well, unfortunately. hahaha
This is the similar article that my teacher love, thus she used it three times in our class, though, I forgot completely
Amy Cuddy·TEDGlobal 2012 Your body language may shape who you are
Sydney Jensen·TED Masterclass
How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers?
Summary
People must be surprised at the title because it was talking about teachers but we think that teachers are very smart, strong and would have the power that makes the students understand not only studying but also all things. I think that this is the reason why teachers are struggling emotionally and everyone, especially not only parents but also students, must depend on teachers too much.
First, we have to understand again that schools are the places where students can study the most and the environment that students are really able to study have to be made by every baby who means not only schools and teachers but also parents, students themselves, people who live in the same place, communities and its country.
What do you think about this era and technology development that give students the best opportunities to study? Will it do students well? I think that more temptation will hit students than before. Thus students come to teachers with diverse and tough circumstances. More than before, they need to be able to communicate, collaborate and problem-solve.
When teachers emotionally support our kids, people and communities should support our teachers. Kids studying well means to become communities, cities, and counties better.
This year, l haven’t been able to updated my summaries plenty. In this situation, l learned from my teacher how to control my time. I’ll share it.
Ways to manage time
1. Prioritize- I had to complete most of my daily tasks at work by the end of the day, so I had to prioritize by deciding what was very important
2. set a goal- In the coming year, I want to set a goal of how many lessons in English I would like to complete by mid year
3. plan ahead- As with setting my goals, I have to plan ahead of just how i should achieve that, also check of possible obstacles and how to tackle these
4. track your time- I intend to track my time going forward so I can account for my productivity
5. take time to yourself- After a hard days work, it is necessary for me to take time to myself and best way is to unwind by having a glass of wine
David Asch·TEDMED 2018
Why it's so hard to make healthy decisions
Summary
Why is it so hard to make healthy decisions?
It’s because it’s strongly thought that humans must have the most rational move of all and they’re all constantly calculating the costs and benefits of every one of our actions to make the perfect right, however, it hasn’t been right.
Our actions are always irrational, even we know that it’s wrong. The fine doesn’t work well also. Car accidents are dangerous, though, people sometimes don’t use seatbelts. People want to be slim, though, they eat chocolate a lot. People know that spreading diseases have to be stopped, though, they don’t wash their hands sometimes. People believe that not buying lotteries makes them regret.
We fundamentally care what others think of us, though, we seem to be irrational.
Dan Ariely·TED Salon: Brightline Initiative
How to change your behavior for the better
Summary
I love the speaker’s talks the best. It’s not too much to say that his talk changed my behavior thus l have been able to study English! so let’s find out.
Your mother must say and say many times that you shouldn’t do something or you should do that, though, you can’t change your behavior. In fact, giving information, even having advantage information or simply good information is not a good recipe to change behavior.
If we want to change behavior, we have to change the environment. The right way is not to change people. It’s to change the environment, we have to think of what frictions there are for changing the environment, and giving much fuel as possible that is the most amount of motivation and energy to do that is important. Furthermore, sometimes money doesn’t work as motivation and energy. It means that we don't always know what would work best. Assuming and our intuition sometimes misleads us.
I love thinking about such things. For example, if there is a problem in my office, everyone must give a lot of reasons that are bad and good information. However, l think what frictions there are. Is it time, places, tools, and sizes? When their environment will be changing, they won’t see their problems unconsciously. Only a lot of information can’t change anything, it's important for our environment to change your behavior for the better.
P.S.
I seemed to write about some important things that humans genetically have the no-action benefit and seem to like doing things that are illegal and immoral.
Jackson Katz·TEDxFiDiWomen
Violence against women-it’s men
Summary
This was an amazing title that made us really expected. We must have been thinking that violence against women is not women’s issues but it’s men for a long time. However, being understood seemed to be difficult because it’s TED women. We wanted men to listen to it, though, audiences were all women. My head was not clear.
The speaker explained that we have to train men to be a greater leader who understands this issue is men’s issue.
I agree that silence is complicity, though, women seemed to protect ourselves by ourselves.
Laura Rovner·TEDxMileHigh
What happens to people in solitary confinement
Summary
I think that the story is not fair. It’s because without telling risks, the speaker explains about people in solitary confinement are dangerous as humans but Nelson Mandela also. ADX is the US federal government’s only supermax prison. A cell is the size of a small bathroom with no significant human contact for years or even decades. It deserves the dehumanizing effects of long term solitude on the mind, personality, and sense of self. Furthermore, she said that the prison system is the concern and responsibility of every citizen. The speaker’s last words were that the conditions in ADX implicate our tax dollars, public safety and, most of all our shared belief in the inherent dignity of every human being.
And then, we will imagine that prisoners have to be released. However, this is a suggestion of abolishing solitary confinement.
A new system like fixing their minds might be important, though, huge bad things might occur by them again. And again, I think that the speaker only wants to oppose Trump or...
Words in this story
solidarity /noun/ unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals with a common interest; mutual support within a group.
solitary /adj/ done or existing alone.
James Logan·TEDxLondon
How we're using dogs to sniff out malaria
Summary
This was a really funny story from one amazing idea that by training dogs, they must find people with malaria because they have an incredible sense of smell. The speaker’s performance in which a dog standing on stage and testing was great.
The research seems to has a probability of 81 percent. Furthermore, the speaker thinks that we can’t deploy dogs everywhere thus by using the data with technology, he hopes to develop wearable tech. It’s that, for example, the color of a patch that you wear on the skin changes when you’re infected with malaria by detecting in your sweat. Malaria is one of the causes that kill many people yet.
Kaitlyn Sadtler and Heather J. Faust·TED-Ed
Why haven't we cured arthritis?
Summary
Why haven’t we cured arthritis yet? Now, technology is growing, thus we think all things can be solved soon. According to the article, there are over 100 different arthritic conditions, it’s trickier to prevent than we think and l think that our immune system works hard to protect us.
Due to those, we seem to think that our arthritis is not cured when we feel pains.
I have been thinking for a long time that arthritis can simply be traced to an old sports injury. When it’s getting cold, it hunts. I try to wear something or use supporters.
The article tells us that our lifestyle choices are also important. Hahaha.
Inés Hercovich·TEDxRiodelaPlata
Why women stay silent after sexual assault
Summary
Why will women stay silent after sexual assault?
It’s because a thing happens that is worse than the rape itself. It’s “BLAMING THE VICTIM”. The speaker explained it by using questions, though, l think that it makes the story difficult.
A young woman going to clubs, going to clubs with friends, and wearing miniskirts, those things don’t look her a victim. Even avoiding killing, she is not a victim. Unable to resist to survive turns that not to resist.
Furthermore, it’s thought that men are strong existingly, women can’t live if they can’t marry, and talking a lot is shameful in Japan. Not only women are unable to speak but also women who don’t speak is ordinary in Japan. Thus l don’t know what that responsibility in this story means.
The speaker’s last sentences are women will continue to be unable to speak and we will all continue to be responsible for that silence and their solitude.
Paul A. Kramer·TED Salon: Border Stories
Our immigration conversation is broken — here's how to have a better one
Summary
First of all, my thoughts that TED speakers tell us great things seem to be wrong. The story is, this is often used in Japan also, not relating to immigrants.
For example, when newscasters announce a car accident, they have to emphasize one thing to collect attention. They say that “an immigrant did that!” If immigrants stop driving, there are many car accidents. We have to think about what should be changed. Maybe, it might be a brake pedal of car or the problem of streets or driving of humans.
Thus l think that only the speaker divides immigrants. It’s because he said that he doesn’t know whether immigrants can be useful tools, 1) whether immigrants can become more like us, 2) and whether immigrants are parasites in the story. 3)
Not only immigrants but all people have the right, responsibility, and equality as humans. It’s not as parasites but it’s not as immigrants. They are as humans to have the right.
It's said that by Trump's election, a huge divide occurred. It seems to be continuing. Removing this divide must be able to have a good conversation with all people.
Toby Kiers·TED@BCG
Lessons from fungi on markets and economics
Summary
The story was really difficult because the speaker told us that she was going to talk about two topics that weren’t normally talked about together, and that’s market
economies and fungi. What? Why do fungi relate to our economy markets? If we trade fungi, can we get benefits? When I saw the faces of audiences, their faces were very serious like not understanding.
Her explanations are that human economies are not persistent, 1) people beg, borrow, steal cheat, though. 2) Exchanging stocks and bonds are sometimes unsuccessful.
However, about fungi, it can be thought that there is a market economy of fungi that is continuing 400 million years old, and it connects millions of traders simultaneously, and it’s persistently survived mass extinctions. 1) It doesn’t rely on cognition to decisions but it does absently, begging borrowing, stealing and cheating. 3) It’s exchanging essential resources. So far, it seems to be ideal.
However, there are aspects without photosynthesizing, stealing the carbon and giving nothing in return, and don’t have altruism. There are no trade favors, though, the fungus helping dying or struggling plants don’t occur unless it directly benefits the fungus itself.
The conclusion that the speaker wanted to tell us must be that we can learn many things from fungi on markets because it’s natural. Although you will think that it’s ruthless, you must rely on computer algorithms more. Computer algorithm and fungi, they both operate in similar. It’s uncognitive ways and the fungus just happens to be a living machine. What do you think?
I wrote this that looks better, though, l don’t understand yet.
P.S.
I want to tell you that fungus is that it’s a really simple and easy word called “KIN(菌)” in Japanese!! Why am I troubled by its pronunciation?
I've greatly suffered to pronounce fungus, fungi, and funguses. I want to shout in Japanese, “KIN, KIN, and KIN”. There is no singular and plural in Japanese. Furthermore, the meaning of pronunciation “FUN” of fungus, fungi, and funguses is feces in Japanese, it’s also used as Hmm that is not good, though. “FUN”
Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck·TEDxCERN
The price of a "clean" internet
Summary
I’ve just thought that it’s impossible to clean and to be healthy on the internet. Just, we trust it too much because of being really useful.
Without buying books, you can know many things from the internet and without using pens and paper, you can tell many people your thoughts a lot and very soon. Additionally, we are taught that it’s great to show your opinions, to create something by yourself, and to know many things. You must be proud of being able to use the internet, And then, something that you don’t know or you couldn’t do makes you feeling shame.
Due to those, l think, shocking and disturbing content will be interestingly shared. Of course, money also helps them. People know that it’s evil, though, gathering adults seems to produce bad things sometimes.
Now, a little and light manner is bad influences, though, people don’t realize.
Not only the side of updating disturbing content but also people who share it unconsciously is criminal. It’s a very serious crime.
Facebook, Twitter, Google, and companies try to stop it. Why was a raping video shared 16,000 times before it was removed? Deleting, ignoring and your good manners will create a clean internet.
Tyler Cowen·TEDxMidAtlantic
Be suspicious of simple stories
Summary
I am very sorry that the speaker stood on the TED stage only one time.
It's because I really love such stories that are written about human behavior and the behavioral economy sharply and funnily.
We are taught that we have to believe teachers, parents, great people, and stories that they say, though, the title says that be suspicious but it's especially simple stories that are, I think, understandable easily and after all, people can't remember difficult, complex, and messy stories or don't want to remember them.
However, simplicity means that the point of a narrative is stripped away and is written about good versus evil. 1)
We believe and depend too much on simple stories but it's very hard to get away with those. 2)
And then, with stories, outsiders manipulate us. 3)
The speaker's message is that we try to be suspicious of simple stories more because our lives are messier and it'll be okay to be more comfortable with messy, though, we must not be self-deceptive but we are not that we are fundamentally reasonable.
Lori Gottlieb·TED@DuPont
Change your story, change your life
Summary
In the story, the speaker’s jokes and examples were really funny and her English wasn’t difficult. I laughed sometimes when I read this.
In fact, what I was thinking while reading is that my English skills might be improving because it didn't have words that l didn’t know, in the story, The Problem of Living was too personal, you shouldn’t ask those of someone, even therapists, and you should solve it by yourself because l was taught of it by my mother. My mother always said to me, “No.”
“I wanted to have a private English lesson.” “No, it’s expensive.”
“I would work part-time jobs.”
“No, you will be badness.”
“I want to eat something.” ”No.”
“I want to...” ”No.”
And then, l decided to do all things by myself without asking.
Is it that l edit my story?
I do write my masterpiece.
P.S.
My mother always said no, though, she asked family members about LAUNDRY often.
“When does she do the laundry?”
“It’s too much today”
“It’s a rainy day thus it’s tough to do laundry.” etc and etc...
Laundry seemed to be the biggest problem for her.
Additionally, my teacher was really great. She taught me that there were a lot of perspectives. She tells me that I do my homework if l have time and even when l couldn’t do it, l can have lessons. I’m really happy every time.
Richard Coffin·TED-Ed
What causes an economic recession?
Summary
Recession means an economic crisis that is a decline in the gross domestic product during two or more consecutive quarters and what causes recessions?
In fact, there are countless variables that contribute to an economy’s health thus it’s difficult to pinpoint specific causes.
Simply, it's the wrong balance between SUPPLY and DEMAND so it’s a mismatch.
In the article, INFLATION is written first. Goods and services get more expensive, people can’t buy, companies use and borrow more money to sell, and all things are getting more expensive thus people can’t buy forever. The market can’t escape from its inflation. Here, if governments and central banks have better policies, for example, printing money, declining interest rates, and income upping, it might moderate.
However, not inflation but in times of economic prosperity, some recessions occur. It's because there are many goods and services because of prosperities. Companies use and borrow more money to sell, though, people can't buy or use those because it's too much. I think that this is the Japanese situation and the population is declining rapidly. It means that there are few people to buy something or use some services. Companies can’t get benefits so the recession is continuing.
Furthermore, Japanese people without me have a habit of saving and they love quite cheap places. Thus DEFLATION occurs more than inflation in Japan.
In fact, the Japanese character of the economy is written as the scenery and MIND (EMOTION) of a person. Thus a bad economy is really related to our mind. The story also says that. I think that psychology more contributes than money.
At last, the story tells us that new data of the recession will be helpful for future recessions.
I think that what people want to know must be not only about those reasons but also what they have to do. However, economists and psychologists are scholars who are not businessmen and who don't have companies. Although some successful men tell us about how to succeed in a recession, it's past things already. Those are just stories of the reference, though, I think that people believe those strongly. Those are only ASSUMPTIONS and POSSIBILITY. I think that doing what economists and psychologists don't say is leading to successes while referencing their stories.
These are important words for understanding a recession.
SUPPLY, DEMAND, INFLATION, DEFLATION, ASSUMPTIONS, POSSIBILITY
Densho·TED-Ed
Ugly History: Japanese-American internment camps
Summary
I, probably other Japanese people also, didn't know about the story.
Densho is a nonprofit organization based in Seattle, Washington, which collects video, oral histories, and documents regarding the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It’s the Japanese American Legacy Project, and Densho is the Japanese words which means to pass on to future generations.
The first sentence of the story: On December 7, 1941, 16 years old Aki Kurose shared in the horror of millions of Americans when Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor. Shared must mean that she was an American who used English but probably still couldn’t use Japanese and she, of course, didn't know about the plan. However, her name was Japanese, her appearance was Asian, and her family was Japanese. Those reasons let her and Japanese American alienate, why?
Her family, of course, didn't know about the Japanese planes completely, though, why do people separate people by appearances? Is it a race and who teaches them that?
After the war, they returned where they lived before, though, postwar prejudice made finding work difficult. There was discrimination. Many ex-incarcerees, particularly members of older generations, were unable to rebuild their lives after the war.
In those, Aki Kurose who worked with the first interracial labor unions and joined the Congress of Racial Equality. She and young incarcerees began a movement calling for the United States to atone for this historic injustice. In 1988, the US government officially apologized for wartime incarceration-admitting that’s the catastrophic result of racism, hysteria, and failed political leadership. Three years after this, Aki Kurose was awarded the Human Rights Award from the Seattle Chapter of the United Nations. It tells peace and respect for people of all backgrounds. Additionally, she who as a teacher impacted thousands of students. She continued telling that multicultural and socially conscious education are important.
However, people still judge all by its appearances in the World. When are ugly Histories over and how can people understand peace and respect for people of all backgrounds? What does it mean that asking whether you are Japanese, or Chinese or Korean?
Words in this story
interment /noun/ burial, act of burying
atone /verb/ compensate
Tina Arrowood·TED@DuPont
A circular economy for salt that keeps rivers clean
Summary
I didn’t know that salt had needed for icy roads because of using salt to deice roads. However, it ends up in freshwater rivers and makes their water undrinkable.
Furthermore, other industries seem to drain salty industrial wastewater in the rivers.
The speaker tells us that those industrial-water users' practice has to change soon.
Reuse water more not to use clean water every time. 1)
Remove Salt in water before draining. 2)
Use recycled salt as our sources. 3)
And then the study seems to find that with technology, membranes that can separate salt and water can work well. Not only salty water but also industrial wastewater has to be more recycled.
For keeping rivers clean, circulation should be thought seriously.
Lawrence Lessig·TEDxNYED
Re-examining the remix
Summary
Before Trump administration coming, the story seemed to be told so in the title, the remix must mean conservatives and liberals to make better America.
The speaker tells us that we need to learn openness that is a commitment to a certain set of values and sharing activities. The Right side has to learn values on the Left that will do health care or global warming legislation or something.
However, not mixing but completely, separating the situation is current America after electing Trump and the next election comes soon. We are worried whether it’s continuing or not.
The speaker was a person who gave up announced his candidacy because Trump did. I want the speaker to assist Trump to make great America again. I'm sorry for expressing my mind too much.
"Don’t be junk that flows across the tubes in the internet" the speaker said in the story.
Juno Mac·TEDxEastEnd
The laws that sex workers really want
Summary
The law that sex workers really want is full decriminalization and labor rights as workers.
After reading a few times, I really understood that this was the really great story that Japanese people would never understand because they couldn’t still say that men and women are equal.
In the first place, sex work is work like we do, however, people think and see that they are degrading, 1) and they aren’t like humans who don’t have the right. 2)
Prostitution should be banned completely but the side of buying is also banned leads harming workers and societies in fact. Relating sex is complicated even making legal or regulation, of course, under the illegal working, it’s more difficult to work safely. Sex workers are not criminals but not victims too. Even feminists have all kinds of complicated feelings when it comes to sex. We have to see the underlying causes but we do not only see a particular manifestation of gender inequality.
Julie Cordua·TED2019
How we can eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internet
Summary
In the first place, it’s strange that there are communities that sexual abuse is normalizing 1) but it’ll bring communities benefit. 2) It’s because there are people who want to buy it is also strange. 3) According to the article, child sexual abuse material was in fact eliminated nearly in the late 1980s because new laws and increased prosecution made it simply too risky to trade it through the mail. However, it’s not over. By coming of the internet, the market exploded. 4)
I don’t know that only few pictures are spreading or numbers and victims are growing, though, it’s not important. Why can’t all adults understand that kids should be protected from abuses? 5) Why does someone buy it or why does someone help to spread it but they win? 6)
The speaker’s team searched that abuse files come from just 12 companies and they created a system to be able to stop a known piece of abuse material when someone tried to upload it. Little by little, it works, children started to be helped by the National Center. When many societies start to use it, the speed of removing child sexual abuse material from the internet will increase dramatically.
The title: How we can eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internet is just, we want to help kids from the things that all people know that it's wrong, though, a big system has to be created and cooperation of many companies are needed.
I found a great talk unexpectedly. The speaker is an overseas student of Ukraine. The talk that could never be told by Japanese people because they have positions that they want to protect. I somehow wanted to translate this into English, the talk should be known by many Japaese, though. hahaha. I'm inspired by him and I study more to know the world. He has his YouTube channel : Inaka_Andrew
This is what I have wanted to say for a long time.
Nazarenko Andry: 21st The Public Constitution Forum
0:31
Thank you for your introduction. My name is Nazarenko Andry. Five years ago, l came to Japan from Ukraine. Probably, I have lived in Japan when the discussion about a Japanese constitutional amendment was firing the strongest. Thus l heard the words "peace" and "war" many times.
0:47
A few years ago, Ukraine is a country which was invaded by Russia and a part of the territory was dispossessed, even now the fight is continuing and victims are increasing every day. I came from such a country "Ukraine" and that’s why I've concerned the discussion by all means. People for safeguard carelessly use the word “war” as a threatening word is the current situation of my country.
1:10
And then the insistence of people who are against constitutional change is very alike with the mistakes that Ukraine did. I felt a strong sense of crisis. Simply, what self-pacifists say is that it won't be attacked if the country doesn't have armies and doesn't threaten neighboring countries. All fights can be solved by conversations with peace. Allowing the right to Collective self-defense is dangerous because wars of different countries will be involved.
1:42
Here, it'll compare the policy that Ukraine had continued before being invaded with. In 1991, when Ukraine became independent from the Soviet Union, it had a lot of nuclear weapons and armies of one million. However, it's high cost, it'd be warned by neighbor countries, it's dangerous, and Ukraine handed over every nuclear weapon. Instead, Ukraine concluded An international treaty called The Budapest Memorandum on Security, and it's entrusted self-defense to other countries. And then, the armies of one million decreased to two hundred thousand, it means that one of five disarmament was carried out. Furthermore, for stopping involving with a major power, Ukraine hasn't joined a military alliance completely like NATO. This must be the Pacifism that the Japanese Communist Party thinks.
2:35
I want people who think that the policy is great to go to Ukraine by all means (applause) and I want to hear their opinions while watching destroyed cities which were burning out by war, children who have to hide underground in school because of falling missiles, and graves of the war dead that is included the lives who couldn't live even twenty years old.
Is this the future of Japan you want? If there are the words you have that can stop wars, we want to know it. When you are in safe places, you always talk about that. Why have you never gone to the front of wars yet to tell the spirits of peace? I want to hear that. (applause)
3:27
In my opinion is that without suppression, no countries are possible to have peace and suppression means not only physical. If by referendum, many thousands of Japanese people go to polls, they will vote in “constitutional change”, it means that “ Japan doesn’t admit the forcibly imposed law by other countries. We govern our country by ourselves. The self-defense force protects Japan, we cooperate with the SDF and protect the right of SDF members”. Showing such strong wills will be, I think, the greatest suppression. (applause)
4:13
On the other hand, how do neighboring countries understand the situation of not changing the constitution? Japanese people will quietly follow the imposed rules forever to be attacked with force. They won’t make an action even taking Japanese territory, abducting citizens, flying missiles, breaking treaty and many times invading territorial waters occur. The Japanese parliament doesn’t make a decision, doesn’t take the action even though severe crisis has come but they’ve continued unimportant discussions. Thinking such things must be really the fact that it can’t be possible to be in uninvited war, I think of that. (applause)
4:55
There are people who think that “this is delicious of persecution” and "unrealistic" that is being invaded by neighboring countries, but Ukrainians had also thought about the same things until 2014. The thoughts were had by everyone. However, in retrospect of being too peaceful, that was one of the tactics of foe who let people think that fight won’t happen. I understood that.
5:20
Alright, in the Constitution of Japan of the introduction, the words "the peace-loving peoples of the world" are used. I want to believe that the majority of citizens love peace in any country. However, are there neighboring countries of Japan where authorities understand people‘s requests? North Korea, China, and Russia are quite dictator countries. Even citizens of those each country really love peace, if authority orders to fight, they can’t say No.
5:55
And then, opposition parties aren’t able to persuade the same Japanese people who use the same Japanese language, though, why they think that they can do let foreigners who have completely different nationalities understand not to have wars. I can't understand why they think so. (Applause) Additionally, they many times say that discussion is necessary, though, they have a pose to escape it is absolutely strange also.
6:21
In the world condition becoming more serious, it shouldn’t extend the problem of constitutional reforms relating to remaining the nation any more. Japan now sees a chance historically. Whether they can catch it or ruin it, it'll decide how descendants evaluate current Japanese people better or worse. In a new era named Reiwa, believe that Japan will be governed with the constitution based on the Japanese spirit finally. And then Japan is independent, being an equal member of the international community must be worth for Japan and the world. Thank you for your kind attention.
Words in this story
dispossess /verb/ deprive (someone) of something that they own, typically land or property.
insistence /noun/ claim, assertion, opinion, advocacy
self-pacifists) pacifists /noun/ a person who believes that war and violence are unjustifiable.
entrust /verb/ assign the responsibility for doing something to (someone).
appraises
Siddhartha Mukherjee·TED2015
Soon we’ll cure diseases with a cell, not a pill
Summary
The speaker said that current medical treatment can be explained by six words: Have disease, take pills, kill something. Well, it’s said that an antibiotic was nothing short of transformative. It’d course through your body, find its target, lock into its target (a microbe, etc) and then turn off a lock and key. The idea are lock and key, killing something, and helping a lot of people. However, it’s a limit. It’s worked only 250 of a million.
After a long studying, one new idea was born. It’s not killing something but growing something. Your medicine could be a cell from a pill and in your body, it’ll stop suicide genes from growing. The malignant cells are dying like cancer, though, new cells stop it and those are growing in your body and your own cells might be able to be new cells. It’ll be the result to incorporate genomics into multi-order, semi-autonomous, self-regulating, like cells, organs, and environments.
The true curing not killing something will come soon.
Melissa Fleming·TEDxThessaloniki
A boat carrying 500 refugees sunk at sea. The story of two survivors
Summary
The speaker’s question: Could we be inspired by what happened, and take a stand for a world in which every life matters?
The story tells us a really true core. The important things are not that two refugees could survive, that the life was small, that 498 people drowned and died, and that smugglers were notorious. Just, it’s better that people can thrive where they are so they don’t become refugees who ride dangerous boats.
And then, the news that two people could survive makes more people ride boats, it’s strange, right? It leads more people to dying.
You must understand the answer to the speaker’s question.
Words in this story drown,drowned,drowned /drάʊn/ droun/ verb/ die through submersion in and inhalation of water.
Will Hurd·TED Salon: Border Stories
A wall won't solve America's border problems
Summary
Current media is, l want to say, really and prejudicially telling people the news. It’s true in Japan also.
In the article, the professor tells us the wall wasn’t built to directly solve the problems and the direct reason that many children were separated mustn’t be the wall. However, people strongly want to connect those two things.
Streamlining legal immigration is the goal of the wall.
And then, Children must be, I think that because I am an outsider, intentionally brought there because it’s illegal. Parents know that America takes care of children humanely, even illegally entering.
Professor also tells us that specifically, in the Northern Triangle: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, there are some of the key roots and the amount of money which is given to those countries shouldn’t be decreasing and taking care of children humanely is continuing.
The reporter’s question: How do we convince all Americans to understand what you say that more unites us than divides us?
My answer is that the reporter’s side divides us, so with reporters (media ), things that America has done should be told more correctly
Kishore Mahbubani·TED2019
How the West can adapt to rising Asia
Summary
The speaker seems to be a Singaporean. Thus the side of West isn’t the US, is it?
He tells us that for working in the West, being minimalist, multilateral and Machiavellian are necessary and it’ll bring happiness to people. However, if Machiavellian shows to prefer the benefit of own country, the story must be selfish.
Probably, the population of China, India, and Africa is big and those have many races, languages and regions thus he examples being minimalist and multilateral and his one more example is that the global village council is the UN.
I want to think that his meaning is to listen to the voice of the silent majority. In the past, Asian countries, small countries, and developing countries couldn’t say anything. In fact, Japan was also oppressed by even the UN because it’s a small country that is said to have World War 2. Even though there are many victims by nuclear weapons, even now the treaty isn’t promised by South Korea, and missiles are used by North Korea to attack Japan, the world mustn’t have unprejudiced judgments. For the world peace and happiness of people, people and the UN have to work.
Emmett Shear·TED2019
What streaming means for the future of entertainment
Summary
Streaming is a method of transmitting or receiving data over a computer network as a steady, continuous flow, allowing playback to proceed while subsequent data is being received. It’s a big difference between downloading. It’s not after doing but while doing, right?
In the past, when entertainment came to us, those isolated us. It means that TV, games, videos and so on stopped us to go outside. We could enjoy watching movies without going to theaters alone.
However, streaming can connect us again.
It can share, interact, connect and create more intimate communities. Enjoy new connections.
António Guterres·TEDGlobal>Geneva
Refugees have the right to be protected
Summary
I thought that in the article, the commissioner was a good speaker. In fact, he, a Portuguese, had been the United Nations High Commissioner for REFUGEES since 2005 to 2015, and the talk starts the most important thing that is addressing the root causes, but forgetting about root causes, for now, looking at the phenomenon.
I, l realize now, think that in the first place, my premise is wrong.
It should be that it’s natural to receive refugees. All conditions have to prepare and organize it properly. It’s because refugees are increasing in the world but multiplicatively, new conflicts occur but the old conflicts never died, furthermore the power of the international community is worse. It means that unpredictabilities tend to prevail, it’s clear that all societies will be multiethnic, multicultural, multi-religions in the future and it’s important to welcome and integrate effectively in our world. failure leads to terrorisms
The welcome sides have to have more solidarity, it’s not time to divide, it’s not a problem of number and thinking about being invaded is also wrong. Properly prepare to protect the right that refugees have.
Sonaar Luthra·TEDSummit 2019
We need to track the world’s water like we track the weather
Summary
First, l thought that the title was not clear.
The speaker seemed to want to explain that the weather has much data to stop growing worse because climate change is really dangerous and many people know about it, though, water doesn’t have any data but it’s important and it’s possible to be polluted.
Even we have a lot of data to do something for climate change, we don’t do anything now. Thus what do we do to water? The contaminated water affects not only our food but animals, fish, and all plants. It might be polluted already thus governments might track the water and it needs much money. Reality doesn’t exist until it’s measured. Tracking is necessary for our water. We buy drinking water anytime and anywhere thus we must forget that water is important.
The news that a young climate activist Greta Thunberg gave a speech in New York was formally announced in Japan for the first time, this week. The response of the Japanese people made me very sad. It was not to decrease CO2 and not to eat less meat but to stop making a speech because she is not an adult. What?? I know that our economy is important and the shop that serves meat will go out of business if all people don't eat meat, though, I don't think that their answer is right and I won't have friends to talk like the story.
Luisa Neubauer·TEDxYouth@München
Why you should be a climate activist
Summary
Why the speaker became a climate activist is being with Greta Thunberg who is now really a famous climate activist and is a student who has started Friday striking for organizing climate action.
And then the speaker tells us to do the same thing. She said why you should too is that she could do and we don't have time to wait for anything.
What you should do is to understand climate activists. 1) you have to think about your job and companies around you. We must get out of a zone of convenience. It must show that energy is used too much. 2) You do it with friends because getting out something alone is difficult and scary. 3) Let’s get out of the zones of convenience and join forces and start taking ourselves more seriously. 4)
Young-ha Kim·TEDxSeoul
Be an artist, right now!
My comment
I heard similar stories a lot!! I want to think that this is not the original talk of the speaker. The reason is not that he is Korean but I've read about 800 TED talks. And then he didn't use English unfortunately. I recommend the following story.
Emilie Wapnick·TEDxBend
Why some of us don't have one true calling
Sandeep Jauhar·TEDSummit 2019
How your emotions change the shape of your heart
Summary
We must hope that our heart is healthy and our heart wants to have and feel love. On Twitter, you must have seen a picture that a bride hears a man's beating of the heart. The man has the transported heart from the bride’s father who was declared brain dead. The appearance is a stranger, though, people want to think that the heart is her father.
Then, if you have a permanent artificial heart, you are you, aren't you?
The speaker explains the problem by using Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a temporary heart condition that develops in response to an intense emotional or physical experience. It seems to be known as stress cardiomyopathy or broken heart syndrome also. In this condition, the heart's main pumping chamber changes shape by affecting the heart's ability to pump blood effectively and its chamber is similar to Takotubo. Toko means octopus, Tubo means a pot, and Takotubo means a vase to capture octopus in Japanese. The name surprises us.
Affecting means that we want to think that the heart is not a machine. How do you think about the benefit of science: pacemakers, defibrillators, coronary bypass surgery, and heart transplants? And then, people will die by emotional stress, though, it can’t be treated by changing your heart.
Michael Tilson Thomas·TED2012
Music and emotion through time
Summary
I don’t have good memories about music because l can’t play instruments, sing songs well and dance also well. Furthermore, my mother said to me that listening and dancing Michael Jackson made me bad always to stop doing that. I wanted to dance to “Thriller” with my friends.
The speaker’s father said, “There are only two things that matter in music: what and how ”. My mother seemed that she didn’t want me to know them. However, l could be curious about other them.
And then, why people love music is that they have something that they want to tell you. It’s a person-to-person thing. I seemed to learn it from other things.
A person who is curious about music passes other people. It leads someone to being alive, amusing and giving inspiration. Passing something through time is a great thing.
Jessica Shortall·TEDxSMU
The US needs paid family leave- for the sake of its future
Summary
Family leave means a period of time allowed away from work in order to deal with a family situation such as taking care of a baby or an ill family member.
This was really a shocking story because I knew that many people have thought that it has framed the problem as only a mother’s issue. It means that people who are men, who have had babies already, who haven’t have babies yet, and who have decided not to have babies think that the problem is not for theirs.
It’s because we live in a competitive society.
What you can’t go to an office and can’t work are losing and not getting benefits. If a rival business man can’t come to a competition, you might get more orders. Men must think that on the markets thus women can’t work well. It must occur unconsciously. That’s why the problem is really difficult.
Carl June·TEDMED 2018
A “living drug” that could change the way we treat cancer
Summary
The story tells us a completely new way the world treats cancer.
It’s because, we know, our immune system doesn’t work in the cancer situation, though, the new way put receptors and CAR T cells into a body that has cancer and it seems to become able to fight against cancer with our natural immune system. There are many types of cancer but it can’t be cured in the past, though, little by little, the ways are researched.
The study took thirty years. It’s great and the speaker says that it’s sheer coincidence. I think that for that, the taught study have to be continued.
In Japan, the way has been just accepted this year in February. Especially, for blood cancer of young people, it’s going to be used first and insurance coverage will be thought.
At last, the thing that is given up, our immune system can’t cure, is changing. That’s why it's said to be a living drug.
Nick Hanauer·TEDSummit 2019
The dirty secret capitalism-and new way forward
Summary
The speaker tells us that the reason for rising inequality and growing political instability is that our world now has a bad economic theory. It’s that companies only think about their capitalists like the speaker who is really rich and then only they become rich forever. It doesn’t bring equality and cooperation. Thus the speaker tells us it should change and new economic rules are necessary.
First, our world is too complicated to service something simply. 1)
The economy is people and it’s necessary to include more people in more ways. 2)
The purpose of the corporation is not to enrich shareholders but to serve customers, to do with workers for communities. 3)
Having greed too much 4)and depending large scale too much 5) are not good.
We must have a new economic thought and have to be able to work equally and cooperatively and enjoyably.
However, if the world changes like that, inequality will come from somewhere and the speaker must be rich forever. The title calls him the dirty secret capitalist, doesn't it?
Sarah Jones·TED2015
One woman, five characters, and a sex lesson from the future
Summary
The speaker’s talk has a solo show and l was really surprised when l watched her another TED talk for the first time that was more difficult than this. I haven’t known about a solo show, American news, American famous characters and English.
I wonder when I understand her English, and that the future in the title shows what years later. This time she played 5 characters, though, she played 11 characters before. Wow! My eyes had turned into dots.👀
This is a play called "Sell/Buy/Date." “Sell” means, you know, that woman and girls sell themselves, “buy” means that guys buy women or girls, and “date” will show dates with money. Those mustn’t be right, though, some people say that there’s no choice and they have justice because there is yes or money. What a bad excuse it is!
Five characters are an elderly homemaker, a “sex work studies” major, an escort, a nun-turned-prostitute and a guy at a strip club for his bachelor party.
They show really different perspectives on sex work. One woman saying sex itself is natural but the sex industry seems to mechanize or industrialize it and the second woman considered sex work to be empowering, liberating, and feminist, though she, herself, notably, did not seem keen to do it. The third woman, who actually was a so-called sex worker did not agree that it was liberating but she wanted the right to the economic empowerment. The fourth woman saying not only prostitution itself but proscribed roles for women in general prevented her from ever finding who she was.
Does legalizing lead to solving all and does reforming occur reality?
And then most people did not know was the average age of an at-risk girl being introduced to the sex industry was 12 or 13.
This is a future lesson, though, someday, can the situations change?
Words in this story
bachelor /noun/ˈbaCH(ə)lər/ a man who is not and has never been married.
notably /adverb/ ˈnōtəblē/ especially; in particular.
Anna Deavere Smith·TED2005
Four American characters
Summary
A book, the title is On the Road, seems to be famous and it seems to have a film version. The talk is that the book seemed to be played by the only speaker. It’s said to be a solo show, thus by just reading, l couldn’t understand completely.
Four American characters are Studs Terkel, Paulette Jenkins, a Korean shopkeeper and a bull rider, Rodeo.
And then those people are not successful. There is a person who lies, another person who kills a child, and one other person is put in the riot.
I don’t know why the story became famous in the United States where the country must love to have dreams, rights, and freedom, though, it doesn’t have all.
Does it want to say that the reverse is also true?
If you say a word often enough, it becomes you.
If you continue to think that you don’t want to be, it doesn’t become you.
I think it’s not true.
Words in this story
riot /noun/verb/rīət/ take part in a violent public disturbance.
reverse /noun/ a complete change of direction or action.
Family, hope and resilience on the migrant trail Summary I’m sorry that l don’t like such kinds of stories. It’s important to know what happened on the US-Mexico border, to migrate in search of a better life, and pictures make us sad, though, humans must create their better countries their own hands first. Whether a country is safe or not and whether there are gangs and terror happen or not, each country has responsibilities to protect their citizens and citizens have to cooperate with their countries. Almost all countries are independent countries. Not leaving but creating your own country by your hands.
