Majora Carter : 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship

Majora Carter·TEDxMidwest
3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship
Summary
3 stories that the speaker chose this time had the same point that was to solve a problem. It’s tackling social and environmental problems at the same time with the same solution yields great cost savings wealth generation and national security. It’s necessary to have entrepreneurship because amounts of philanthropic dollars were spent on social problems for a long time, though, an improvement was a little but many things became worse.

A city had a plan of building a jail, however, it cost high, spending a person to jail was also high but many people in jail before, went back into prison again. A woman in jail before, thought about building not a jail but a system that is employment and education for not going back to it again. 1)

The next city had problems that are lacking water, though, heavy rain and urban heat island but money was used for those individually. A man thought about creating a cool city by green naturally absorbing storm water. Electrical consumption for air-conditioning went down and not using air-condition leads people to being healthy. 2)

Another city changed destroyed a coal-mining town to having a clean wind energy town. It takes a lot of time, though, avoiding mountaintop removal, producing payback forever. 3)

Those must be new cities that reducing costs but creating employment and solving social problems.
Not only some people get benefits, not only philanthropic dollars are used but working together, embracing lands, power systems, and people, and repairing them also. Building cities that have hope and possibility.

Randall Munroe : Comics that ask "what if?"

Randall Munroe·TED2014
Comics that ask “what if?”
Summary
My friends recommended me a book that was “What if?” written in Japanese language, I thought that the writer might introduce the book, it was a great hit, thus l chose this.

The speaker seems to be a Web cartoonist, but his cartoon is a simple stick figure. He answers simple what-if questions by using math, science and, of course, cute comics.

What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent of the speed of light?
What is the best and fastest way to hide a body scientifically and realistically?
Prove whether or not you can find love again after your heart’s broken.
If all digital data in the world were stored on punch cards, how big would Google’s data warehouse be?

I think that people have a lot of strange questions, but it’s important to have an interest in many things, however, is it helpful to know those answers?
Yes, the speaker said that it’s really comfortable, fun, the math is not all that advanced and it’s like nothing more than solving Sudoku puzzle. What?

I really loved Sudoku puzzle and Sudoku is a Japanese word!! I might enable calculating those, l now have a computer thus if l guess some formulas, l must be able to do. What?

It’s not whether it’s helpful or not. It’s really fun to be able to solve and know about something that we don’t know that’s very surprising mathematically, scientifically and earnestly. The speaker’s simple stick figures must really help it also and the reason that he became famous must be an answer from Google.

Google sent the speaker the answer of punch cards by using punch cards puzzled but coded and the answer was “No comment”. Google has humor always!!

However, having the most full of humor must be the speaker who answers the question of how big Google’s data warehouse would be by using glaciers.

Alanna Shaikh : Why COVID-19 is hitting us now — and how to prepare for the next outbreak

Alanna Shaikh·TEDxSMU

Why COVID-19 is hitting us now-and how to prepare for the next outbreak 

Summary 

I think that before we think why COVID-19 is hitting us now, we have to stop spreading it. Every day, people are dying and many people claim that the ways are bad but shameful incidents of xenophobia happened in a lot of places. We mustn’t have time to do those. 

Stop doing those, we have to cooperate with one another. 1)

Don’t wear a face mask that should be for sick people and health care providers. 2)

Understand that it’s really hard to get a good quarantine in place and to set up travel restrictions but it’s not the best. Let’s stop our moving as possible. 3)

Wash your hands a lot, sanitize your phone, not to use it as often in public, and don’t touch your face. Of course, don’t rub your eyes, don’t bite your fingernails. 4)

Stop stockpiling!! It’s just blind panic. 5)

The most important thing is that we have to know that this is not the last major outbreak we’re ever going to see. There’s going to be more outbreaks and epidemics. That’s a given. This is a result of the way that we are interacting with our planet. 

The world have to learn how to stop outbreaks for new diseases. We should identify it and treat it. 

Words in this story 

zo·on·o·sis / zo͞oˈnōsəs, zōˈnōsəs/noun/

a disease which can be transmitted to humans from animals.

Jim Hudspeth : The beautiful, mysterious science of how you hear

Jim Hudspeth·TED@NAS
The beautiful, mysterious of how you hear
Summary
We can’t see in the middle ear of ourselves. Even if you can see others’, it would be too small but too dark to see.

However, in the talk, the speaker will bring you into the middle ear. It means that you must feel being in the middle of an organ about the size of a chickpea that is the organ of hearing that is the coiled, snail-shaped cochlea that we learn in the school. I knew that there were hair cells in it from a previous talk and l thought that hair cells and our hairs must be the same, though, it was wrong.

Those cells (the whole set of hair cells, as a group) seem to report to the brain exactly what frequencies are present in a given sound. That time, your brain can determine what melody is being heard or what speech is being intended.

What we can hear is a very small sound like a pin drop which means that our ear system is turned up. The emitting sounds happen in a really quiet room and it shows how active the hair cell can be. However, in a very loud environment like a sporting event or a musical concert, we don’t need any amplification and the system is turned down all the way.

And then, unfortunately, when human hair cells die, they’re not replaced by cell division, though, we hear big sounds always, we are in a noisy environment always, our hearing is deteriorating. 1)
We don’t know what the molecular motor that is responsible for the hair cells are well 2) and how the hair cell’s amplification is adjusted to deal with the acoustic circumstances also. 3)

The speaker and his team are now engaged in research trying to solve those issues and to resurrect those amazing hair cells.

Words in this story
resurrect /verb/ restore (a dead person) to life.
deteriorate /verb/ become progressively worse.
amplification /noun/ expansion
frequency /noun/ he rate at which something occurs or is repeated over a particular period of time or in a given sample.

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor : Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor·TEDxEasthamptonWomen
Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word
Summary
Before summarizing the talk, l have a question.
Why do we have to study and learn histories?
Is that an answer that is wanting to get great scores, passing tests, or having a better job?
And when we knew that our country had bad histories, we wouldn’t like our own country, ancestors, even grandfathers and we try to find perpetrators but bullying is also starting.
I think that for doing those, we don’t study histories. We have to help others, our country, Earth and want to live well. The thoughts wouldn’t make us bully and discriminate, even if our ancestors had done.
Japanese people also have crazy thoughts. Don’t study true histories, because becoming strong must lead to starting wars. OMG💢
The world should learn and study true histories more to help others and create a better world.

However, people don’t want to teach bad histories. In the story, there is a word that people never use because of bad history, its word was replaced by the N-word, though, some teachers didn’t know its changing but what to do. Hiding it, avoiding it, not teaching it and teaching true, all things were failing.

The N-word brings with it all of the complicated histories of US racism.
The nation’s history shouldn’t avoid it and the speaker’s failure experiences to teach it also shouldn’t avoid it. Don’t stop teaching and students must have amazing learning for their future. It should be so.

P.S.
“People cannot exist if they don't have their country”.  This taught me studying History and English were important.

Words in this story
surrogate /adj/ replacement

Dave deBronkart : Meet e-Patient Dave

Dave deBronkart·TEDxMaastricht
Meet e-Patient Dave
Summary
When the speaker was 56 years old in 2006, he was slowly losing weight because of stage 4 kidney cancer but it was growing out of his leg eventually snapped, skull, and tongue. And then, his median survival was 24 weeks. It was only for 6 months.
However, he could be where his daughter’s wedding party after a year and a half later, he stood this TED stage in 2011 also, and in 2020, now, he is still alive‼︎

The speaker said that the result was from websites and by using the internet, he found a lot of information. He created groups of fellow patients online and called on all of them to talk with one another. One patient community told him amazing things. Kidney cancer is an uncommon disease, usual treatments wouldn’t better and he could get phone numbers who know new treatment ways.
How wonderful a website is!
An American Cancer Society that the government approves didn’t know it, but patients know what patients want to know and it’s the power of patients' network. Electronic is done using a computer over a network thus the speaker is called e-Patient. Patients must have raw data and can help others. Meet e-Patent.

I fought with my English teacher.

In the English lesson, a teacher teaches a student English and a student teaches a teacher Japanese. My teacher said that this was a win-win situation.
However, my opinion was different.
In the English class, l want to study English.
Thus l think that l use Japanese, l teach my teacher Japanese, l receive Japanese messages that are translated English, and l am asked by Japanese, those are my loss situation and I was beaten by my teacher.

Speaking time which is shorter than my teacher means that I'm a loser. Not to be able to answer some questions or making mistakes is also my loss situation.
Continuing being beaten is a severe situation. If l quit the lesson, l think that my teacher is not a winner but she will be a loser. This must be a lose-lose situation.

If l could continue having a lesson, though, if it does not bring me better results or I couldn't reach my goal, I'll be a loser.

When l get my goal, l can be a winner, even if l quit a lesson, my teacher that time mightn’t see our win-win situation.

l think that a win-win situation doesn't come to us easily.
I don't want my teacher to use Japanese, she says that I understand well, but I don't think so. I told her many times.

I don't want to be a loser thus I continue studying English!!

David Heymann·Currently What we do (and don't) know about the coronavirus

David Heymann·Currently
What we do (and don’t ) know about the coronavirus
Summary
This seems to be the latest findings about COVID-19. (COronaVIrus Disease from 2019)

1, What happens if you get infected with the coronavirus?
For the majority of people, infection would be less serious and it looks like a very mild disease. For health workers, the elderly and people with comorbidities have to be careful but it’s a very serious infection and there is no immune system now.

2, Who are the people who should be most concerned about this?
In developing countries, epidemic is dangerous because many people don’t have access to good medical care thus it’ll spread more rapidly.
In industrialized countries, the elderly and people with comorbidities will be at risk.

3, What pre-existing medical conditions put people at higher risk?
Especially the elderly with pulmonary is at higher risk.

4, Where can we find up-to-date information?
From the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta and the World Health Organization in Geneva, we can find it and we have to understand and contribute in our own way to prevention of major spread.

5, You led the global response to the SARS outbreak in 2003.
How does this outbreak compare?
It seems to be a much less virulent virus than SARS.

6, Have we responded adequately at border crossings, such as airports?
It’s not easy to judge people in the incubation period. We have to be more careful.

7, What's the timeline for a vaccine?
It's probably soon, though, the speaker said that it’s at least a year...
In Japan, a kit that can test easily and simply whether you have or not seemed to be discovered already.

8, What questions about the outbreak are still unanswered?
In the enclosed area of a cruise ship, it spreads very easily.

9, What about the global response could be improved?
It’s important for every country to be able to do its best to stop its own outbreaks.

10, Will we see more emerging disease outbreaks in the future?
The speaker tells us that this is just a warning of what will happen in the future because the animal-human interface is becoming closer and closer together.

11, Is the worst behind us?
It’s difficult to predict, though, we must all be prepared for the worst-case scenario.

We don’t have time to fight to get masks and to say that the strategy of policy is not good. We have to learn how we can protect ourselves and protect others correctly from COVID-19.

Words in this story
co·mor·bid·i·ty /kōmôrˈbidədē/noun/
the simultaneous presence of two chronic diseases or conditions in a patient
susceptible /sus·cep·ti·ble /adj/ vulnerable, emotionally sensitive, impressionable

Sara Sanford : How to design gender bias out of your workplace

Sara Sanford·TEDxSeattle
How to design gender bias out of your workplace
Summary
The talk is really strong because the speaker tells us that our situation about gender problems continuing inertial yet, it has to be breaking and we need to take a step beyond Me Too. Not only men but women and the design of companies have to change their own behavior.

For example, to stop asking gender before performing or interview 1) and to stop having criticism related to personality, 2) those make women’s performance worse.

Our workplaces need to be actively anti biased. It needs actively action because its bias is there unconsciously and always and rankly. If we don’t change anything, over 50 years, even over 100 years, we won’t face gender equality.

Words in this story
tenet /noun/ principle, beliefs
inertia /in･er･tia/ɪnə́ːrʃə, -ʃiə/ a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged

Agnes Binagwaho : How women are revolutionizing Rwanda

Agnes Binagwaho·TEDWomen 2019
How women are revolutionizing Rwanda
Summary
I love the story and their thought.

Rwanda is a country where a tragic genocide had occurred. Even people survived, women were raped, they had to raise children conceived through rape, and HIV also spread. However, they thought that they had to rebuild a country for their children and grandchildren to have a place where they can call home with PRIDE. They forgave the perpetrator and became activists of peace and reconciliation.

The results are that in parliament, it’s the highest percentage of women,1)
For children, there is now the best campaign for vaccination, 2)
it’s reducing child, maternal, delivery and pregnancy mortality, 3)and then for improving the status of women, people, especially women study. 4) Furthermore, a system that young graduates can go back to rural areas and get a salary to live with their family is created. 5)

Rwanda’s revolution must continue forever because they have PRIDE for their country, it makes them full of joy and it makes them full of joy and have motivation.

Renée Lertzman : How to turn climate anxiety into action

Renée Lertzman·TEDWomen 2019
How to turn climate anxiety into action
Summary
I thought that the title was strange because it meant that before tackling the problem of climate change, we have to fight against our anxiety. The speaker tells us that three concepts that are being tolerant, having concept and keeping attune are necessary. Why?
It’s because, the speaker didn’t tell, by appearing Greta Thunberg, our world was completely separated between children and adults but all adults and companies were said not to do anything.

Adults have worked really hard to raise children and felt that stopping moving economic is more dangerous, though, this must be a result of climate change. We have to start doing but not to only believe that we can do it.

I have a bad story that l want you to listen to!

Now, in our world, a mask is completely a short supply, right!?
People have to wait in line to buy a mask in front of the store from 5:00 am. The shop opens at 10:00 am or 11:00 am, they don’t know whether the shop has or not, though,  if it has but only a few people can buy it.
One old woman that day waited in a long line from the early morning, the shop seemed to have masks and it started to be sold.
However, it quickly sold out and one old woman couldn’t buy it.
You must know that coronavirus is dangerous for old people.
And then lt made her angry and shout. “You are young! You who could buy a mask should give it to me!”
A young man said, “No! You should come here more early to buy!”
Her anger increased and she said to a salesperson, “You must have a mask more somewhere in the shop and should bring it to me. Don’t hide it!”

OMG...

This was announced on the TV and TV seemed to only want to tell us that masks are lacking, though, l felt really bad when I've heard it from my friend.
If l was there, l would give it to old women, Japanese people in the past were really nice, however, would it be changing? My friend also said that it’s not good to give it to a person who shout because there is a rule that people have to line up in Japan, though, if all few people who got it give only one sheet to her, she mightn’t be angry but the mask that people could buy there would be 5 or 7 sheets in a box.

I wonder that Japanese people must be kind and humble more and there must be something that is more important than getting a mask. Now is the time to think about what we have to do to help people. We don’t have time to say that the strategy that the Prime Minister decided was wrong also. The world has to cooperate to stop its epidemic.