Danielle Allen :An ethical plan for ending the pandemic and restarting the economy

Danielle Allen·TED Connects
An ethical plan for ending the pandemic and restarting the economy
Summary
A lot of news about coronavirus are announced every day. We try to understand them as much as possible. However, there are many differences in countries, cities, jobs, populations, ages, insurances, and etc. Living Environment and, of course, our backgrounds are also different. Among them, we have to stop coronavirus spreading and restart the economy. What do you believe and what do you do?

The story tells us that the world is facing two existential threats. It’s a public health emergency and an economic crisis.
It should be solved ethically and democratically. It means to avoid activities or organizations that do harm to people or the environment and accord with the principles of democracy with the practice or principles of social equality.

And then, the most difficult thing must create an equal public health system. Public health aims to improve the quality of life through the prevention and treatment of disease including mental health. The definition is "the science and art of preventing disease”, prolonging life and improving quality of life through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals.

I think that Japan must have a better system from the beginning because the death rate is low this time but there are many elder people. In the parks of the cities, we can drink water, of course, you can wash your hands with clean water and free of charge there. It can be thought about many people can live in the city cleanly. However, we are afraid of infection and losing a job, when we hear that someone is infected in the office or everybody might be an asymptotic carrier.

The story was recorded in April. I think that each country has to find a different solution for their own country and to help others. Japan can work more to help other countries.

Joia Mukherjee : How to quickly scale up contact tracing across the US

Joia Mukherjee·TED2020 (The TED talk was recorded May 27, 2020.)

How to quickly scale up contact tracing across the US

Summary

Contact tracing is the process of identifying people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus in order to slow its spread. It was thought about a fundamental tool in the fight against COVID-19, though, it doesn’t work well.

The speaker is a chief medical officer of Partners in Health where over 1,700 people work for the country’s most vulnerable communities to protect them.

She tells us that COVID-19 is a threat to the health of people who are the poorest.

And then, she suggests that by using a contact tracing process, COVID-19 has to be stopped.

However, not only the threat is for the poorest but also it must turn to for all people. I think that the threat is not the coronavirus. It must be to lose their job and not to be able to live there. Many people don't want to use a process of contact tracing, because we have to work to eat. 

Thomas : Why violence clusters in cities — and how to reduce it

Thomas Abt·TEDMED 2020
Why violence clusters in cities — and how to reduce it
Comments
I don’t think that the story is told by an American because he said that the first reason is politics. It’s because I have a strong image that in America, there are many things that can change without politics.
It won’t be better to say that the Defense Department spends about something. Especially the Defense Department works a lot for all American people.
The second reason is more cops and the third is race. Thus a communication bridge will be never created. In the current generation, if a black man who is a bad robber was killed by police, the demo: Black lives matter will occur, but then other police and people who know nothing will be killed for a change. The police doesn’t kill the black man. Is it the right thing?

The violence reason is not only the race, probably, but it must also change the social systems. It should be a city where people don’t think that they want to kill others from worries, vexations, anger, and sadness.

Nitish Padmanaban : Autofocusing reading glasses of the future

Nitish Padmanaban·TEDxBeaconStreet
Autofocusing reading glasses of the future
Summary
The condition of presbyopia is to lose our ability to refocus our eyes because of getting older. It’s that near objects come into focus, but far objects necessarily go out of focus. We have to constantly switch back and forth between wearing and not reading glasses. However, Benjamin Franklin invented “ double spectacles”, it’s called bifocals. It had the line, though, it’s ridden and the focal power can vary from top to bottom smoothly. 1) There is another solution to use contact lenses or take LASIK surgeries. 2) It works, though, it means that two eyes see slightly different things. And then, the speaker suggests Autofocusing reading glasses that he studies. It can estimate focusing distance automatically. It means that you don’t have to think about it. 3) However, it’s bulky. It looks heavy objects yet, but soon, it must be improving.

Words in this story
pres·by·o·pi·a / farsightedness caused by loss of elasticity of the lens of the eye, occurring typically in middle and old age.

Yves Béhar : How surfboards connect us to nature

Yves Béhar·Small Thing Big Idea
How surfboards connect us to nature
Summary
If a person appears from a faraway while standing on the water suddenly, we will not forget it. This must be the pull of surfing. You want to make it succeed, thus you continue to find better surfboards. I didn’t know that before world war 2, people were interested in it. After that, surfboards were customized and it continues to fascinate people.

David Biello : How the compass unlocked the world

David Biello·Small Thing Big Idea
How the compass unlock the world
Summary
I’ve completely forgotten that the compass is embedded in my phone and I haven’t ever used it. It’s because Google maps can find not only our way north but how long it takes time to there. Technology growing is great!

By using a compass that turns towards the Earth’s magnetic pole, we can find our way north. It’s no matter where the sun is and where the stars are. It essentially laid out what north, south, east, and west.

Al Gore : The new urgency of climate change

Al Gore·TED2020
The new urgency of climate change
Summary
By reading the story, almost all my questions are solved. Probably, l live in Japan thus l didn’t realize because there are many things that aren’t announced.

1, In the world, the coronavirus kills many people and infected people are increasing now. We haven’t known when we can get vaccines yet.
In Japan, hospitals still have many beds for patients luckily and the number of deaths is low, however, people don’t try to work. The economic situation is worst, though, demonstrations don’t happen but the opposite demo to the world happened. People have stopped people’s moving to stop the infection.

2, The Japanese prime minister said many times during coronavirus season, “Protecting employment was important”.
However, many people lost their job because of coronavirus and economic standstills. Furthermore, technology is growing. Soon, for cars trains, buses, convenience stores, and etc. people won’t be necessary to work as robots work. Air is clean outside, there are no traffic jams, there are a few people on the trains, it’s comfortable, there are no overtime works and long time meetings in the office. Some people can get assurances and supports when they lose their job. I don't think that employment could be protected.

3, Before lockdown and stay at home, people rush to buy toilet papers, much food, and masks. However, for producing those, we use huge energies. When we have a problem that is about coronavirus this time, we always forget about energies.
Japanese energies situation is worst as well. Our land is small, thus using wind and solar energy is difficult. We buy high-cost fossil fuel because nuclear energy is dangerous, people love cheap priced products, though, for fossil fuel, using much tax is not announced.

The story tells us that wind and solar energy can decline costs for manufacturing, transportation, and agriculture. It can create employment and decreasing carbon emissions. Not only Japan but the world are, in fact, subside fossil fuels at ridiculous amounts. Petroleum (oil) is exhausting but nuclear energy is dangerous. We can understand what energy is. It should be renewable and sustainable.

4, The most important thing is to think about the crisis of modern capitalism. During coronavirus, many people say that
socialism must be important because in China, coronavirus could stop soon and the economy is increasing, though, l didn’t understand it. The correct answer is to change the form of capitalism. Capitalism is at the base of every successful economy. It balances supply and demand. Just now we ignore the values. It means that measuring the way is not only the GDP. Our thoughts are investment education, health care, mental health care, family services, grand waters, resources are important. Changing those can create better capitalism and democracy. It must lead to decreasing inequality.

5, Because of capitalism unrelenting growth is not the climate crisis. The only way to go forward is to regulate, to force businesses to do the right thing. The generation wants a nice income, but they want to do something more than just making money.

P.S. The speaker is a Democrats and a Climate advocate. Trump is a Republican. The story tells us that young Republicans are demanding a change in climate policy. I love Trump but I don't like the Japanese Minister of the Environment who is young as a politician, though, the election will be held this November. OMG.

Titus Kaphar : Can beauty open our hearts to difficult conversations?

Titus Kaphar·TED2020
Can beauty open our hearts to difficult conversations?
Summary
The speaker is an artist. His paintings are really shocking. He is a black man who tells us at the beginning of the story. The things that must be said are not always lovely, but if they’re reflective of the truth, it makes them beautiful. The things that he said are histories of black and white people. The color, form, technique, and compassion that he uses are really unique, it’s enough to have important and difficult conversations. It can pull everyone in.

I didn’t know about some people who have appeared in his picture and I researched. There was a history that l didn’t know well but l didn’t want to know.

And then, the speaker tells us that there’s something beautiful in truth-telling.

I think so. The thing that I didn’t want to know, though, it was really important and l thought that the painting was beautiful and great.

However, it’s not that we understand its history. The speaker also said he reconnected with his father, but he didn’t know how to make a place for him in his life. As with most things I don’t understand, he works a project out in the studio. It’s an exploration of the criminal justice system, though, he is not asking the questions and answers.

This must be true beauty.

P.S. As a Japanese, the country which is building statues should be silent.

Paola Antonelli·Small Thing Big Idea Why pasta comes in all shapes and sizes

Paola Antonelli·Small Thing Big Idea
Why pasta comes in all shapes and sizes
Summary
I thought that the reason why pasta comes in all shapes and sizes is to perfectly pick up some of the sauce, 1) absorb the sauce better, 2) and feel on the palate 3) and touching the tongue better as well.

Pasta means “paste” in Latin. It’s about together water and durum wheat. It existed for centuries and in the 17th century, it became more mass-produced. There are long, short, fresh, and dry. The short one called Penne has various kinds that are like butterflies, little ears, shells, and etc.

In fact, the shapes belong to the people. In the past, grandmothers of each family were trying to improve on the thinness of the walls of the pasta. It seems to be from a homemade dish.

Ariel Waldman : The colorful critter world of microbes in Antarctica

Ariel Waldman·TED2020
The colorful critter world of microbes in Antarctica
Summary
By helping technology, we can see microbes in Antarctica. The speaker is an Antarctica explorer and she introduces strange creatures in Antarctica. She climbed down a long metal tube inserted into the sea ice of the nine-feet-thick and found critters that were in tiny pieces of dirt. The size is under micrometer and by our eyes, it can’t be seen. There are creatures like glass. It’s amazing.

By seeing micro creatures in motion, we must gain better insight into the lives of the otherwise invisible. We don’t understand just how many creatures we share our world with yet.

Jon Gray : The power of the Afro pick

Jon Gray·Small Thing Big Idea

The power of the Afro pick

Summary

I didn’t know that this was the Afro pick. It’s a styling tool that is full of black histories and pride. It reminds us of the black music, the black power movement, and federal court as well. The woman with Afro fought for her living it. For them, the Afro picks are the fist of the day. We can understand the roots and origins of black power.

Words in this story

er·go·nom·ic / pertaining to human engineering

Bill Gates : How the pandemic will shape the near future

Bill Gates·TED2020
How the pandemic will shape the near future
Summary
The story was recorded on June 29, 2020.
At the beginning of June, a lot of people started to go to their office, thus people infected with coronavirus are increasing again. So far, death rates are not high, though, it could be quite bad in the fall season.

And then, the most surprising thing for me is not to have a black-and-white view on the relative trade-offs. It means that it can’t say that it will be better to go to school or offices, though, it will be worse to go there. A lot of people want answers, for example, we can’t go out this month, though, it’s okay next week.
However, there are no better answers, so even if expertise tells us a comfortable thing, they might see only one aspect.

The next surprise is that there are fights about the vaccine. Which companies or countries can find it and who will be injected. Is it elderly people, babies, richer or poorer?

There are some crazy conspiracy theories, it made us surprised also. Some people think that the vaccine that Bill Gates would roll out would plant a microchip in people to track their location. Gates Foundation donates a lot of money to help people, though, why are there fights there?

Bill Gates thinks about helping a lot of people, especially in Africa. Trump has to create a strong US of which the economy is important.  WHO has to raise money for their work. I couldn't find the next words.

Jane Goodall : Every day you live, you impact the planet

Jane Goodall·TED2020
Every day you live, you impact the planet
Summary
About seventeen years ago, the speaker told us that if we consciously buy the things that are ethical for us to buy or not to buy, we can change the world overnight. And then, she this time tells us that every day we live, we made an impact on the planet. This is the one seed of her hope that she wants to plant in our mind. The huge danger is apathy.

She was a naturalist studying chimpanzees and discovering an astonishing series of facts about what tools chimpanzees could use.  However, humans have invaded natural habitats too much, kill, eat, traffic animals. She transformed into an activist. It’s because she didn’t make decisions about better relationships between people and nature. We lose all spiritual connection with the natural world. We’re looking for short-term monetary gain or power rather than the health of the planet and the future of our children.

Her project which is “Take Care” called “TACARE” works for helping people to find ways of living without destroying animals’ environment. It creates forest where chimp groups can live and it’s worked.

National Geographic launched her extraordinary film titled “Jane Goodall: The Hope”.

She creates a place where all young people can think about really helpful but harmless technology for us and animals. If we all do the bits that we can do, surely that makes a whole that eventually will win out.

Karen DeSalvo : How tech companies can help combat the pandemic and reshape public health

Karen DeSalvo·TED2020
How tech companies can help combat the pandemic and reshape public health
Summary
The story made me think a lot as well.

1, A lot of people couldn’t understand what the important things were to delay the spread of COVID-19 more than testing soon, because it can provide not only scientists critical time to create a vaccine but also seriously ill patients can use beds. In the first place, to test more people had given trouble to workers and scientists, though, people wanted to get the test only by themselves.

2, And then, people were continuing to tell many things about coronavirus by using SNS. It was including true things, though, there is so much information. People didn’t know what to do, people just want to protect themselves and help others, though, the virus is still spreading.

3, People want to find infected people while protecting privacy. They strongly believe that this is the solution. Communism China said that to control privacy was solution and coronavirus was stopped, it was not true though.

4, What is Public health? It aims to improve the quality of life through the prevention and treatment of disease including mental health. The definition is "the science and art of preventing disease”, prolonging life and improving quality of life through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals.

And then, the speaker was appointed by Google as a new chief health officer on October 17, 2019. Is it by chance? Has someone already known about coronavirus spreading since that time? What a great timing it is! The speaker, Karen DeSalvo, is an American business executive, physician, public health expert, and furthermore, a woman.

Billions of people come to Google every day asking for information. This is a tremendous opportunity to have the right information and resources to be able to make good choices. Not only to stop this pandemic but also for improving companies and people’s health, public health and prevention are important. This is this company: "Google" which can continue to do it.

Alex Rosenthal : The joyful, perplexing world of puzzle hunts

Alex Rosenthal·TED Salon: Radical Craft
The joyful, perplexing world of puzzle hunts
Summary
The story is really interesting. It’s because the speaker not only loves to unlock puzzles but also create it. His head seems to be full of it always so when he starts at a turtle and when he watches a TEDtalks, he thinks that it must be a puzzle.

In fact, puzzles give you ideas.
The moment of finding clues is the aha moment. Finding other ways and a hidden layer of information is the aha moment. Shifting perspective, seeing unexpected of places, and having more multiple perspectives are also the aha moment.
Puzzles improve our lives in various ways, it’s great training, and constructing an aha is a very powerful tool. There’s a deeper fulfillment, you can have a new direction.

I think that our life is a kind of puzzle. If we are in a difficult situation, those things must help us.

The words in this story
perplexing / confusing, complicated

Ali Kashani : A friendly, autonomous robot that delivers your food

Ali Kashani·TED2020
A friendly, autonomous robot that delivers your food
Summary
The speaker is a designer and an AI specialist. He introduces us to an autonomous delivery robot like a shopping cart with cute eyes that he created.

It can help reduce carbon emissions. It’s because in America, so many cars are used to deliver food every day. Cars used much energy, need parking spaces, and need even drivers. The robot is small, it doesn’t need much energy and drivers.
It can run narrow and bumpy roads and has cute eyes. It makes robots more human and we feel relieved. Before, objects can’t get from A to B without human help, though, new sensors and AI could change that. During the pandemic, robots must work well.

Jane Goodalll：How humans and animals can live together

Jane Goodall·TEDGlobal 2007
How humans and animals can live together
Summary
The answer to how humans and animals can live together is our choice.

The speaker was studying chimpanzees and she found that there’s no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animals' kingdom. Chimpanzees are so like us. They have voices, emotions, and can use tools.
In the past, we lived on the planet with amazing animals, though, we’re destroying the only home we have. We cut trees, take oil, and then it leads to world climate change, droughts, flooding, disease, poverty, and hunger. People have lost hope and they are depressed or apathetic. All these different problems are interconnected and impinge on each other. However, Nature is amazingly resilient, humans have a brain that can use technology.

We can make choices as to how we live each day. What we buy. What we wear. With the question, we can think about how this affects the environment around us and the life of our children when they grow up.

Words in this story
pa·le·on·tol·o·gist / geologist who researches geological periods through the study of fossils
im·pinge / collide, hit, infringe, encroach

Jane Goodall : What separates us from chimpanzees?

Jane Goodall·TED2003
What separates us from chimpanzees?
Summary
What separates us from chimpanzees? The sophisticated spoken language makes us so different from chimpanzees. We believe it strongly and the speaker knows it so far.

However, she who is a naturalist studying chimpanzees declares that it’s our arrogance. Over 40 years, she was studying chimpanzees and found that they had voices, emotions, capable of true compassion, and could start to make and use tools for a specific purpose. It was thought that only humans used and made tools. If we could continue to study wild animals...

They were suddenly disappearing because humans took out oil, timber, lands, forests and etc.

After all, what the speaker found was that it was getting wuzzier and there isn’t a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom.

What separates us from chimpanzees? It’s very wuzzy.

Humans have sophisticated spoken languages that can be used for coexisting with animals. The speaker transformed into an activist to teach it to children to protect animals.

Audrey Tang : How digital innovation can fight pandemics and strengthen democracy

Audrey Tang·TED2020
How digital innovation can fight pandemics and strengthen democracy
Summary
The speaker, Audrey Tang, is a Taiwanese free software programmer who has been described as one of the "ten greats of Taiwanese computing personalities" and now, works in the top executive cabinet as a digital minister in Taiwan.

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is an island country in East Asia. The People's Republic of China (PRC) is one of the world's only socialist states explicitly aiming to build communism. The Chinese government has been variously described as communist and socialist, but also as authoritarian. And then, it’s said that coronavirus was spreading from China and couldn’t be stopping.

However, Taiwan successfully countered COVID using the power of digital democracy tools that are three “Fs”.  It's fast, fair, and fun, so by using digital, better things can tell you quickly, even there are people who can’t use it, it’s fairly told, and rumors are stopped by funny humor.

Not only for COVID but also all political strategy, it should be that democracy improves as more people participate,1)
digital technology is one of the best ways to improve participation, 2) and
the focus is on the common ground found by prosocial media. 3)
However, participants are separated into various groups, 1) digital technology is not used well, 2) and different things are announced by antisocial media 3) in a lot of countries including Japan and probably the U.S.

The speaker tells us that the coronavirus can be seen as a great amplifier as well. Taiwan learned many things from SARS, and with helping technology, could create a strong strategy to fight COVID. The world must be able to do the same things. We can use technology that we can connect with each other. It can just resonate with one another, focus on scientific data accuracy, and act quickly.

This is the job description of Audrey Tang.
When we see the internet of things, let's make it the internet of beings.
When we see virtual reality, let's make it a shared reality.
When we see machine learning, let's make it collaborative learning.
When we see user experience, let's make it about the human experience.
Whenever we hear the singularity is near, let us always remember the plurality is here.

This was a great story that can help us from coronavirus and for our beautiful future.

Anastasia Penright : 5 steps to remove yourself from drama at work

Anastasia Penright·TED@WellsFargo

5 steps to remove yourself from drama at work

Summary

I’m working in a small company and the work always busy. Thus we couldn’t have drama at work. And then, when the work goes well, this is important, we must coexist with our coworkers without much drama.

There are 5 steps to remove our annoying workplace dramas.

1, Don’t have responses. What l did is important what l did.

2, Don’t think too much, especially about anxiety.

3, It’s not bad to have an outlet, for example, it’s for your energy, feelings, and etc. lt leads back to the positive.

4, To learn a new language. l thought that to learn English! Hahaha. It means to try to understand the other person’s perspective.

5, Sometimes, walking away from someone is important.

I think that this story must need now because of coronavirus, our environment is changing and the new generation and new thoughts are entering. We don’t have time to see and to chase drama.

What you do is not to have drama at work.

We have to work to revive the world economy.

Words in this story

vent / give free expression to (a strong emotion): he had come to vent his rage and despair. provide with an outlet for air, gas, or liquid.

David R. Williams : How racism makes us sick

David R. Williams·TEDMED 2016

How racism makes us sick

Summary 

Racial discriminations create disparities of income, education, economy, health and etc. The reason is only black. And then, for the reason, black people are sometimes killed by even police. 

Racism is a factor, though, the speaker suggests that to dismantle discrimination, it’s important to research, document, and measure more detail racism. It needs to reach self-esteem and stress. 

Being unfairly fired, 

Being unfairly stopped by the police, 

Being treated with less courtesy than others, Receiving poorer service than others in restaurant or stores, 

Being afraid because of black, and etc. 

There’s discrimination in medical care. 

There’s institutional discrimination like residential segregation by race. 

Overreact, stereotype, and individual thoughts and institutional societies must create racial discrimination. “There is nothing so unfair as the equal treatment of unequal people”. 

This must be the current situation. 

The last words make me consider discrimination against not only black but women. 

“We must dissent. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the hatred and from the mistrust. We must dissent because America can do better because America has no choice but to do better”.

Said Thurgood Marshall who was an American lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was the Court's FIRST African-American justice. 

Words in this story 

rig / assemble and adjust, make (a sailing ship or boat) ready for sailing by providing it with sails and rigging

implicit bias / unconditional