Bruce Aylward : Humanity vs. Ebola. How we could win a terrifying war

Bruce Aylward·TEDxPlaceDesNations

Humanity vs. Ebola. How we could win a terrifying war

Summary 

The story was posted in 2015. 

The speaker is a Canadian physician-epidemiologist. He was appointed co-lead of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)and served as one of the Assistant Directors-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Wiki said that. I was sorry that l haven’t heard his new messages about coronavirus yet. 

Recently, people will read more articles about Ebola because it might give us better ideas about coronavirus. Ebola virus and coronavirus probably survive in the type of bat. When people come in contact with wild animals that have been infected with a virus and probably sickened by it. The virus spreads from person to person through contaminated body fluids. And then Ebola causes severe fevers, diarrhea, vomiting, and death. This is a deadly disease. The speaker suggests four things that are critical to stopping Ebola. 

1) To understand this disease. 

2) How it spreads and how to stop it. It’s important to have systems that can find every transmission chain to stop transmission. 

3) To have specialized Ebola treatment centers and to protect people who are not only patients but also workers. 

4) To ensure safety for survivors and burial process with dignity is also important. 

When the disease curve starts to bend, just now we are here, the speaker tells us that there are two other big threats. 

Complacency and the media look elsewhere are risks. Can we put previous experiences to use this time?

Words in this story 

contaminated / polluted, poisoned

complacency / satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements

Mel Robbins : How to stop screwing yourself over

Mel Robbins·TEDxSF

How to stop screwing yourself over

Summary 

I love this kind of story! 

To tell the truth, your feelings are screwing you! It’s because your brain can be described to have autopilot and emergency brake systems. When you try not to do your routine, those systems start working. Thus physical force is required to change your behavior. We have to use the word “FORCE” when we do what we want to do. We are luckily born in four hundred trillion and we can start it forcingly. 

The speaker is a bestselling author, life coach, TV host, and CNN commentator. She published the book “The five-second-rule”. We can use this also. 

P.S. First, l mistook “Screwing” for “screaming”! Hahaha 

Words in this story 

screwing, screw /verb/ fasten or tighten with a screw or screws(noun)

screaming /shouting, yelling

Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin : Tiny robots with giant potential

Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin·TED@NAS

Tiny robots with giant potential

Summary 

I’ve heard that people can control about ten own robots in the next thirty years later. For example, you can open the door of your house without holding a key, You can turn on or off a TV or other devices without remote controls. 

Now, when we imagine a robot, we think that it has eyes, legs, hands, etc. and it can move faster. However, the story explains that it's a hair’s width in size like a microorganism. It won’t have eyes and legs but it has the only brain. The speaker said that the technology that you need to build a tiny robot already exists and it tells us when we have (coronavirus) infections in 30 years. Of course, it's without application, it can live in our bloodstream. Wow! 

Words in this story 

potential / having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future