Tom Rivett-Carnac : How to shift your mindset and choose your future

 Tom Rivett-Carnac·TED2020

How to shift your mindset and choose your future

Summary

The speaker is a Political strategist. When people face big problems, he has to lead them to their better future, even in the state of coronavirus pandemic, wars, boring meetings, and climate changes. People are in trepidation, restiveness, and fear. These in the world are painful, though, we weren’t powerless against it, we can rise to meet the challenge. The speaker suggests adopting a mindset of “stubborn optimism”. It must move us. We can shift our mindset and choose our future.

P.S. For me, not to think about returning to a former state, it never comes back, so when I've realized it, l could shift my mindset and choose my future. I don’t think that l have positive thoughts, l don’t know that it’s because I'm Japanese. Furthermore, I've always felt that optimism mightn't be serious more than being positive.

Kristalina Georgieva : How to rebuild the global economy

Kristalina Georgieva·TED2020

How to rebuild the global economy

Summary

The speaker, Kristalina Georgieva, is a Bulgarian economist and the head of the International Monetary Fund since last October 2019. She was working before the World Bank Group, thus she explained how to use money in this coronavirus spreading. The economy is standing still around the world. Especially, poor countries must suffer. If we do nothing, farms are going to go massively bankrupt, people would be unemployed, the economy would be scarred, and it’s going to make the recovery more difficult.

IMF is rapidly doing the financial injection, monetary policy stimulus, and various help. It did a bent moratorium for the poorest countries to their official bilateral creditors. Inflation is also worried

It’ll take time for recovery, even in 2021, it won’t be a full recovery, but partial. The speaker suggests that preparing for a crisis, seeking help, offering help, and working together are important. It’s amplified. IMF is addressing a better diagnosis, protection, and help. After the coronavirus, it doesn’t go unequal, but it should be fairer, equitable, and a more sustainable world. The speaker tells us that worries won’t help and positive action will.

P.S. l didn’t miss the speaker’s great answer!! She said that let me say something, we need everyone and we need this mixture of experience, knowledge, and predisposition when Chris asked that women are better at handling nuance. It’s not fair that the cause of success and failure is whether you are a man or a woman.

Words in the story

moratorium / legally authorized delay in the payment of money due, abandonment of debts; temporary cessation of an activity (especially when dangerous or harmful)

Refik Anadol : Art in the age of machine intelligence

This is a moment when a building could dream.

In 2018, for the symphony's hundred-years anniversary, the Los Angeles Philharmonic collaborated with media artist Refik Anadol collected everything recorded in archives of the LA Phil and WDCH and projected onto the building’s exterior skin. It amounted to digital memories of  77 terabytes and 42 projectors. It's amazing unbelievably.

P.S. I think that it's wonderful if it'll project onto Shibuya Scramble Crossing in Tokyo, Japan, known all over the world. 

Refik Anadol·TED2020 

Art in the age of machine intelligence

Summary

The speaker is a media artist. He seemed to be growing up in Istanbul. He uses data as a pigment and paints a thinking brush that is assisted by artificial intelligence. Using architectural spaces as canvases, he collaborates with machines to make buildings dream and hallucinate.

Onto the TED stage, curated TED talk from the past 30 years was projected!!

It’s really amazing to be able to remember all the questions of 7,705 talks that have ever been asked on the stage.

It means to be an AI in the 21st century. It’s in our hands, humans, to train this mind to learn and remember what we can only dream of.

Uri Alon : A COVID-19 "exit" strategy to end lockdown and reopen the economy

 Uri Alon·TED2020

A COVID-19 “exit” strategy to end lockdown and reopen the economy

Summary

First, l thought that this was a great title that everyone was finding and the story was recorded on May 20, 2020, when many countries were in lockdown.

In the story, the speaker suggests a cycle that will exploit a weakness in the virus’s biology and potentially cut its reproductive rate to a manageable level. When a person gets infected, they’re NOT infectious for about three days. You don’t infect others for the first three days and after two days, on average, you get symptoms. Thus we’re proposing a strategy which is four days of work and then 10 days of lockdown, and it can be repeating. It seems to be better because you don’t seem to start to infect your coworkers by the end of that four days, though, there is a possibility that you infect people at home. However, by creating some groups, it might be solved.  ”A” family members go out for four days, next ”B” family members go out. When children go to school, parents go to work. It might be difficult for hospitals, schools, and people with low income, though, there is a huge risk that our economy stops completely for a long time. It’ll be important to try it at the level of a town, a region, and a month.

Some people and companies will work effectively. Several industries that are hotels, tourism, dining require more thought and adjusting.

Lastly, by concentrating testing on people at the end of their 10 lockdown days, it can reduce the test number and when case numbers are decreasing, people can feel relief.

In Japan, people often had told about the exit strategies of A COVID-19, though, it turned to how we live with coronavirus called “WITH CORONA” today. It must be correct. Probably, there is no exit. It’ll be important to prepare for the next strong infection or a big accident.

Dallas Taylor : What silence can teach you about sound

 Dallas Taylor·TED2020

What silence can teach you about sound

Summary

I didn’t know about “4’33” completely. I thought that was a broadcast accident, it’s too long, even if it's 3 seconds, the moment of no sound is long for us.

We unconsciously and always seem to hear something and when we say that we are ready to listen, it’s not true.

There’s basically no such thing as silence. Our bodies are making a sound. 1)

Music isn’t the only kind of sound worth listening to. All sounds are worth thinking about. 2)

Can you think about “4’33” which is the way that helps you focus on accepting things? 3)

We can be more conscious of what we hear. 4)

And also, we can enjoy more the magnificence of hearing and listening by knowing silence. 5)

Joseph Shin : How doctors can help fix the broken US asylum system

Joseph Shin·TEDMED 2020

How doctors can help fix the broken US asylum system

Summary

Asylum seekers are people who ask the protection granted by a nation to leave their native country as political refugees to flee persecution.

They will take on violence or be tortured. Faintly, they left their country, though, they couldn't have evidence that were documents or videos. It’s difficult to be granted protection.

The speaker is a physician. He tried to document their medical evidence with lawyers. He created a case that a person was granted asylum.

the speaker suggests that there are many people who can be helped if the US asylum system changes. Children are also taken on violence by parents and the case will apply to them. For that, doctors and lawyers can cooperate. Now, a lot of people ask the protection granted.

Erin Baumgartner : Big data, small farms and a tale of two tomatoes

 Erin Baumgartner·TEDxNatick

Big data, small farms and a tale of two tomatoes

Summary

Her data and two tomatoes’ stories were interesting. The waste-management system researched about where your trash goes when you throw something away by installing small sensors into pieces of trash and throwing them into the waste system. Surprisingly, it was moving through the city, across the state, and across the country... it’s trash!! It means highly inefficient!!

Our food has the same system as that. In the distant farm, for example, tomatoes are created, when those are still green and hard, it’s picked, it’s gassed to turn red, and they travel at least 1,600 miles to get to your house.

Thus coming from a distant farm means that it’s high cost and it wouldn’t be delicious, though, companies can get benefits. Even if there are wastes, they can get it. Agricultural information and technology can carry a lot of products to many places where tomatoes couldn’t grow, though, in your area, small farms must grow high quality and tasty tomatoes.

The important things are quality, taste, no waste, and whether all people who work in small farms and customers can be satisfied.

The speaker insists on eating local food is an evolutionary act.

Daniel Alexander : You will surprise yourself (and other pearls of wisdom)

Daniel Alexander Jones·TED2020

You will surprise yourself (and other pearls of wisdom)

Summary

I didn’t understand completely what happened in the story.

The speaker is Mr. Daniel Alexander Jones who is a theater artist. He started to say, “I've got people in me, Jomama Jones is the person in me, l turn to as a guide”.

What? And next, a woman with curly hair appeared in the darkroom. I stared at her and l thought that she must be him, she was beautiful more than l expected, and she will guide us somewhere...

Somehow, l heard that she said, “ Do you like my HAIR?” It’s because l was interested in her curly hair and she said something while touching her hair.

It was her hands, by using your hands, breaking apart will mean to overcome stereotypes, and you can be freed.

Dayananda Saraswati :The profound journey of compassion

Dayananda Saraswati·Chautauqua Institution

The profound journey of compassion

Summary

This is a really important story that recently, we have forgotten because l think that people are centered on the world or anything.

The speaker tells us that compassion should be centered on oneself. It’s not that we shouldn’t be centered on ourselves, but compassion. Actually, we don’t have true compassion first. Thus the speaker uses the words it’s a profound journey. We can feel sympathy and empathy naturally.

Empathy is to only understand another's feelings. Sympathy is also to understand what the other person is feeling even without you feel it.

Compassion needs your personal development and bigness. By mandate, you cannot make a person compassionate. Compassion is an emotional response and action. An empath is a window through which you reach out to people. It leads to compassion. If you have compassion, you can reach out to others naturally.

If you don’t have compassion, you have to fake and make it. It must lead to discovering compassion. We need to get the right teaching, it’ll also lead to discovering compassion. As humans, we have to have compassion. Compassion means the feelings that have prompted us to take action to relieve the suffering of another person. 

Words in this story

pro·found / of great depth

Heidi Larson : Rumors, trust and vaccines

Heidi Larson·TEDMED 2020

Rumors, trust and vaccines

Summary

Actually, I've wanted to know about the solution to this story. It’s because my mother hasn’t believed in vaccines strongly. I left home, thus l could get my medicines, though, my sister is at home. She hasn’t believed in vaccines and medicines that l used. I am getting better, though, she is not changing.

In the story, the speaker explores how medical rumors originate, spread, and fuel resistance to vaccines worldwide. I was really surprised at the story. I thought the accident has happened only in Japan, the reason is that newspapers and media in Japan are always spreading about populism, and my mother loves to read one bad newspaper.

However, it’s worldwide and people who are most likely to vote for a populist party seem to be the ones most likely to strongly disagree that vaccines are important, safe, or effective. They don’t want to agree with the government, big business markets, and elite scientists. Just, that’s it. They don’t think that children can be helped and side effects are not big. Most people believe that vaccines are good, though, the belief is under attack and the lives that can be helped cannot be helped. Mothers refuse to vaccinate for their children.

The speaker tells us that first, explaining to stop the disease. Talk, listen, and build trust with each other, though, l think that opponents never listen to us, but they must think that we never listen to them also. it parallels forever.

D-L Stewart : Scenes from a Black trans life

 D-L Stewart·TEDxCSU

Scenes from a Black trans life

Summary

I was really surprised at the story because the speaker told us that the black people of transsexual and transgender haven't been seen as humans.

And then, the speaker suggests three ways for living.

To transform your thinking about blackness and gender.

To be loud by talking about the risk to confront false assumptions and other’s fear and biases.

To be mindful and pay attention and believe what Black trans people say about our own lives.

The scenes that the speaker explained in the story were too horrible.  It must be because maybe people think that they can live, even they eat a lot of creatures and a lot of people choose not to have children. It means that they couldn't agree about diversity. 

However,  it can't leave our diverse species and varied species that can't be left means that there is no environment where we can live.

We don’t know what happens in the future. We have to live and survive with all creatures.

Words in this story

dehumanize /de·hu·man·ize/ deprive of human character or spirit, make mechanical, make routine, mechanize (also dehumanize)

sovereign/ possessing supreme or ultimate power

Alex Rosenthal : Think Like A Coder, Ep 1- Ep 3

Alex Rosenthal·TED-Ed

The Prison Break | Think Like A Coder, Ep 1

Summary

I've watched Ep9 by chance before watching Ep1. In the 9, a human was killed by a robot shockingly. I wanted to know about the reason and l was surprised at A in the title was Alex Rosenthal who was creating puzzles. I cannot help but read it.

In the story, A girl named Ethic and her companion robot named Hedge attempt to save the world. They, of course, have to solve programming puzzles to collect THREE artifacts. I now realize that l can’t understand the key programming concept that is a loop. Can l continue to read this? Just it’s a little mistake, it might kill Ethic in Ep9. I wonder so...

Ethic has to say exactly what Hedge does, and this is the challenge of Ep1.

Inside the keyhole is a red dial that can be rotated to one of 100 positions numbered 1 through 100. When the dial goes to the right position, it turns green and unlocks the door. 

The command that won't work well : Try1 and check the light. If it turns green, open the door, and if not, try2. If that doesn’t work try 3. All the way up to 100.

Hints : A loop of the key programming concept, it can be one or more instructions and it should be simple and precise to iterate, repeat, and do a specified number of times.

For loop is to specify the number of times it repeats.

Until the loop is to do an action until a condition is met.

While loop is to turn an action while it’s continuing.

Correct command : To try every combination in succession. Try 1 and check the light. If it turns green, open the door, and if not, try 2. If that doesn’t work try 3. All the way up to 100.

The Resistance | Think Like A Coder, Ep 2

Summary

The challenge of Ep2 is to find the leader of an underground resistance movement who knows the location of the first of three powerful artifacts. Hedge and Ethic don’t know the name. The leader has green eyes. If the leader has red hair, their name has at least one consecutive double letters. If the leader wears glasses, their name has exactly 2 vowels. Otherwise, their name has exactly 3 vowels. There is exactly one person for whom there are all true. ??? I can’t understand programmings and Vowels. OMG.

Hints : This time, we can use a conditional. If A, then B, or if A is true, perform instruction B. Otherwise, carry out instruction C.

Correct command : The point is to mark a check, it can move on to the next question. If mark an X, the person is not a leader and blanks are ok.

Mark a person who has green eyes. marking an X is not a leader.

Next, mark the person who has red hair and whose name has at least one consecutive double letters. Marking an X is not a leader.

Mark the person who doesn’t have red hair and wear glasses and whose name has exactly 2 vowels. marking an X is not a leader.

Mark the person who doesn’t have red hair, doesn’t wear glasses and whose name has exactly 3 vowels!

The leader named Adila could be found. She tells Ethic and Hedge that it needs to reprogram the furnace bots to revolute and to steal the first artifact: the Node of Power.

The Furnace Bots | Think Like A Coder, Ep 3

Summary

I watched Ep 3. In the last, Adila was clenching her fists, though, l couldn’t explain how Hedge reprogramed but l couldn’t write the challenge as well.

Hints : We can use a piece of information called a variable. It’s basically containers that hold onto numbers, words, or other values.

Correct command : With a loop, Hedge can pick any bot at random, look inside its furnace, and store that serial number as a variable. It’s repeating until the stored variable equals 0.

Adam Alter : Why our screens make us less happy

Adam Alter·TED2017

Why our screens make us less happy

Summary

The reason why our screens make us less happy is that screens steal much time from us, it’s limitless, and current screens rob us of stopping cues also.

Steve Jobs who created an iPhone that has amazing screens said that his kids don’t use it and the limit that how much technology they use is necessary. There are people who don’t use their own products because they know that it has withdrawal symptoms. 

Some screens and apps are enriching, though, using the other one too much makes us miserable. We’re really bad at resisting temptation. We should have time not to use it and put it far away sometimes. It must lead to our richer and meaningful time. 

Julia Watson : How to build a resilient future using ancient wisdom

Julia Watson·TED2020

How to build a resilient future using ancient wisdom

Summary

The speaker is an architect. She has traveled the world studying ancient innovation and found great indigenous technologies from living cultures that are still in use and a lot of ancient monuments that are already collapsed as well.

She thought that before that, it could be kept, it will be wonderful and hit upon an idea that we could seed creativity in crisis.

It’s because the great indigenous technologies that the speaker has seen is now threatened by climate change, wildfires, contamination, floods, and drought. It’s by humans. We have to prevent them for symbiosis and coexistence with nature.

Jose Antonio Vargas : 3 questions to ask yourself about US citizenship

 3 questions to ask yourself about US citizenship

Summary

I think that probably, it’s instinct. The reason why we ask you about where you came from is to protect ourselves and we just must want to know instinctively what people don’t know.

The speaker is an American. He was born in the Philippines. His green card was fake, though, his ancestors came to America in the right way. In the past, the U.S welcomed a lot of immigrants legally.

They have their green card and immigration was America’s lifeline. They have worked hard in the U.S. for a long time.

However, people want to ask the speaker about where he came from. It’s because his face is brown. Thus people ask him the same question many times after answering that he is an American. When he asks a man, "where did you come from". The man answers, "I’m white".

White is not a country, isn’t it? The man was clearly rude.

The speaker wanted citizenship as participation, as contribution, and as education. He suggests that it can be judged by three questions.

Where did you come from?

How did you get here?

Who paid?

P.S. l couldn’t understand whether the story was right or not. It’s because the problems of immigrants are complicated. Still, many immigrants come to the US from various countries. It leads to accidents. Some people become a better American, though, some people might participate in terror, robbery, etc.

I think that now is the time to create better countries before you leave the country. Even in Japan, there are many Japanese people who want to leave Japan. They seem that they don't love Japan, though, I think that we have to create our better own country first.

(I fixed it because there were elementary mistakes.😅😅)

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King, Anthony D. Romero : The path to ending systemic racism in the US

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King, Anthony D. Romero·TED2020

The path to ending systemic racism in the US

Summary

The thing that was mixed might be my brain. I thought about a lot of things that are not only the story but also Japanese problems about politics, men and women, population, violence, etc. while reading this. It's because I think that the story also doesn't say about only racism. And then I was surprised at the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr appearing. 

First, I summarised what four famous people told us. 

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed by police. After that, the demo of black lives matter is not stopping now, even during COVID. It's because, I didn't know, on March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor and on February 23, 2020, Ahmad Arbery had been shot by police.  They had been black...

1

Phillip Atiba Goff is the founder and CEO of the Center for Policing Equity and works with police departments across America. It's including in Minneapolis where George Floyd was killed. He tells us that the way of making progress is that we put forward public safety that empowers particularly vulnerable communities. In the first place, the police is not necessary for public safety and its budgets should invest vulnerable communities where black residents have unpaid debts. There is no justice for George Floyd, though, it's not enough to only reform the police system.  Public safety including investing, being able to go to hospitals and clinics, having insurance, etc. have to change for communities.

2

Rashad Robinson is the president of Color Of Change, a civil rights organization that advocates for racial justice for the black community. His story is complicated, though, I think that this is in around the world and this is important. It's called "Normalizing Injustice".  When you hear about one black man, you think that all black men do or about one police does something, you think that all police do it. It just leads to small things being bigger. The structures that harm them should be fixed. The base is that a racist criminal justice system requires a racist media culture to survive and a political inequality follows economic inequality. 

3

Dr. Berbice King is the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. When she was five, her father was assassinated. She was too young to know what her father had done. However, she suggests that the only way forward is that we repent for being a nation built on violence and should choose nonviolent coexistence. For a long time, violence continues to win and creates poverty, racism, and militarism. It must lead to violent CO-annihilation. It means that both sides are extinct. Freedom is never won and here, it needs a revolution of values. Every industry should start doing antiracism work. Only changing society can stop violence and racism.

4

Anthony Romero is an executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). I've heard that ACLU is not politically motivated, though, I don't know whether it's true or not. He surely said that whether or not a cigarette pack has a proper tax stamp, whether or not a 20-dollar bill was forged, people should not lose their lives. That's not worthy of spending dollars on police. It should invest in local communities.  Let's focus on the most important and the most serious of crimes. That's it. 

I understood that in the story, they are completely different people who took part in the demo where people like Chinese who couldn't relate to the accident mistakenly are in to sway. I didn't know who was cheering Tramp and there was no emotion in the story, but it must be better to move forward to end systemic racism. 

Anthony D. Romero : The ACLU's call to defund the police

Anthony D. Romero·TED2020

The ACLU's call to defund the police

Summary

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed by police. After that, the demo of black lives matter is not stopping now, even during COVID. It's because, I didn't know, on March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor and on February 23, 2020, Ahmad Arbery had been shot by police.  They had been black...

Anthony Romero is an executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). I've heard that ACLU is not politically motivated, though, I don't know whether it's true or not. He surely said that whether or not a cigarette pack has a proper tax stamp, whether or not a 20-dollar bill was forged, people should not lose their lives. That's not worthy of spending dollars on police. It should invest in local communities.  Let's focus on the most important and the most serious of crimes. That's it. 

The story is excerpted from The path to ending systemic racism in the US.

The full discussion →The path to ending systemic racism in the US

Dr. Bernice King : The US needs a radical revolution of values

Dr. Bernice King·TED2020

The US needs a radical revolution of values

Summary

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed by police. After that, the demo of black lives matter is not stopping now, even during COVID. It's because, I didn't know, on March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor and on February 23, 2020, Ahmad Arbery had been shot by police.  They had been black...

Dr. Berbice King is the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. When she was five, her father was assassinated. She was too young to know what her father had done. However, she suggests that the only way forward is that we repent for being a nation built on violence and should choose nonviolent coexistence. For a long time, violence continues to win and creates poverty, racism, and militarism. It must lead to violent CO-annihilation. It means that both sides are extinct. Freedom is never won and here, it needs a revolution of values. Every industry should start doing antiracism work. Only changing society can stop violence and racism.

The story is excerpted from The path to ending systemic racism in the US.

The full discussion → The path to ending systemic racism in the US

Rashad Robinson : How to channel your presence and energy into ending injustice

Rashad Robinson·TED2020

How to channel your presence and energy into ending injustice

Summary

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed by police. After that, the demo of black lives matter is not stopping now, even during COVID. It's because, I didn't know, on March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor and on February 23, 2020, Ahmad Arbery had been shot by police.  They had been black...

Rashad Robinson is the president of Color Of Change, a civil rights organization that advocates for racial justice for the black community. His story is complicated, though, I think that this is around the world and this is important. It's called "Normalizing Injustice".  When you hear about one black man, you think that all black men do or about one police does something, you think that all police do it. It just leads to small things being bigger. The structures that harm them should be fixed. The base is that a racist criminal justice system requires a racist media culture to survive and a political inequality follows economic inequality. 

The story is excerpted from The path to ending systemic racism in the US.

The full discussion → The path to ending systemic racism in the US

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff : The bill has come due for the US's history of racism

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff·TED2020

The bill has come due for the US's history of racism

Summary

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed by police. After that, the demo of black lives matter is not stopping now, even during COVID. It's because, I didn't know, on March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor and on February 23, 2020, Ahmad Arbery had been shot by police.  They had been black...

Phillip Atiba Goff is the founder and CEO of the Center for Policing Equity and works with police departments across America. It's including in Minneapolis where George Floyd was killed. He tells us that the way making progress is that we put forward public safety that empowers particularly vulnerable communities. In the first place, the police is not necessary for public safety and its budgets should invest vulnerable communities where black residents have unpaid debts. There is no justice for George Floyd, though, it's not enough to only reform the police system.  Public safety including investing, being able to go to hospitals and clinics, having insurance, etc. have to change for communities.

The story is excerpted from The path to ending systemic racism in the US.　The full discussion → The path to ending systemic racism in the US

Marcelo Mena :The economic benefits of climate action

Marcelo Mena·TED2020

The economic benefits of climate action

Summary

This was a pretty good story because people try to create a better country hard after COVID-19. 

The speaker, the former environment minister of Chile, answered that people started looking around through this pandemic. They might pollute their air by barbecues, buying a lot of clothes, or eating a lot. Requiring blowing up an economy must mean to destroy the environment.

Chile recently committed to net-zero emissions by 2050. Net-zero refers to balancing the amount of emitted greenhouse gases with the equivalent emissions that are either offset or sequestered.

Chile has large coal-fired power plants being situated where people live and with higher mortality rates. Many trees were cut, thus if we change our actions, we will lose more people than COVID.

The former environment minister of Chile tells us that there is the responsibility as a fiduciary. It’s important that people in the country think about that, their consensus is continuing, for climate action,

there are economic benefitｓ. There are transitional and physical risks to change energies, but we should have an action.

Words in this story

fi·du·ci·ar·y / trustee, one who holds property or power for the benefit of another (Law)

Katherine Eban : A dose of reality about generic drugs

Katherine Eban·TEDMED 2020

A dose of reality about generic drugs

Summary

The speaker is an investigative journalist. I thought that this was an old story when she started to talk. It’s because it took about 10 years to explore imitated generics medicines after she received a phone call in 2008. It has said about the side effects of generics, releases, and no effects of generic medicines.

Generics medicines have no brand name and not protected by a registered trademark thus it’s affordable, it can help many people, and it’s based on the FDA’s reassurance.

However, it has been light regulation but the data was falsified. By inspecting plants in India and China, much fraud was found. Failing testing drugs were sold also, it should get thrown out.

The speaker suggests that rigorous oversight, unannounced inspections, and systematic testing of drugs are more necessary. And then patients can demand more quality and safety as well.

Words in this story

swindle/ cheating, fraud, deceptio

John Lewis and Bryan Stevenson : The fight for civil rights and freedom

John Lewis and Bryan Stevenson·TED Legacy Project

The fight civil rights and freedom

Summary

The interview was recorded in November 2019. The speaker, John Robert Lewis, was an American politician, a civil-rights leader, and not only worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee but also spent his life fighting for freedom and justice for everyone. 

He died this July. I've just seen the news that his body covered with the American flag crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge before reading the article. The bridge is known as Bloody Sunday. 

In the past, there was violence to fight civil rights and freedom, however, Dr. King had taught him to love while enduring some of the brutalities. It requires the philosophy and the discipline of nonviolence that are to respect the dignity and the worth of every human being and never give up on anyone. The speaker's work must be redemption to tell the history. 

Two black men were told in this story. The fight is continuing. As a society, still, there is something that the country hasn’t embraced. They also said that they haven’t really wanted to acknowledge the legacy of slavery and the history of lynching and segregation. People want to skip over the apology part. This is the most shocking story for me as a Japanese, so...

We have to reject something with courage and respect when we face it that was wrong. It’s not resistance, not hatred, and not ignoring, but it's for our civil rights and freedom. We have to catch it with our own hands. It's not given. 

Farish Ahmad-Noor : Why is colonialism (still) romanticized?

Farish Ahmad-Noor·TEDxNTU

Why is colonialism (still) romanticized?

Summary

The speaker said that he encountered the limits of history, thus, he needed to engage with sociologists, anthropologists, political economists, above all, people in the arts and the media.

History is so important and going beyond history is more important.

We are all social beings and historical beings.

We carry history in us. For example, it’s in the language we use, in the fiction we write, in the movies we choose to watch and in the image that we conjure when we think of who and what we are.

We carry history with us, history carries us along, and we are determined by history. It has tough and serious parts, on the other hand, it has great and beautiful parts.

We are determined by history, though, we don’t need to be trapped by history and be victims of history.

While reading the story, l was thinking where the speaker was coming from. The title is why colonialism is still romanticized, l was wondering which country was colonized but is it romantic?

He comes from Southeast Asia and a historian.

Southeast Asia has many countries that were colonized by various countries and those countries were independent. However, being independent, creating own countries, without military power, governing is so hard, furthermore, people had many dreams that after independence, they must be happy soon, though, it’s difficult.

We are trying to do many things that don’t get better results immediately. It must create histories, we cannot see results, though, we live. It’s not related to which country we live in.

I think that the story has to be read by not only Asian countries but also all countries. Studying something means to encounter the limits and then overcoming it and it’s repeating.

Panti Bliss : The necessity of normalizing queer love

Panti Bliss·TEDxDublin 

The necessity of normalizing queer love

Summary

The speaker is an Irish activist 1) and a gay 2) who tells us that she is not young. 3)

For a long time, she thought that she was jealous of straight people because they could be casually holding hands in public that is a small thing, though gay couples could never do that. LGBT people have to put up to be safe or not to be an object of ridicule or scorn.

It’s expected for LGBT to put up with those things, it’s thought that same-sex marriage can’t possibly be a “marriage”,  it's sneeringly described things as gay always,and it’s not normalized anything,

She said that despite appearances, she is just as ordinary, just as unremarkable, and just as human as you are.

An Irish, gay and elderly people are human as we are. Irrespective of race, sex, and age, we are ordinary people.

Words in this story

ho·mo·pho·bic /adj/ having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against homosexual people

straight people / a heterosexual person.

put up with / be patient with, tolerate

Be fed up with / be tired of, have enough of, be at wits end with