Leah Chase and Pat Mitchell : An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine

TEDWomen 2017

Leah Chase and Pat Mitchell : An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine (transcript)

Summary 

In New Orleans, there has still been a famous restaurant Dooky Chase where white and black people come together, activists plan protests but the police doesn't disturb them during the civil rights movement. The speaker is its owner Leah Chase who is a chef and is known as the Queen of Creole Cuisine. 

When she was young, women couldn't have the education that we have today. At that time, whites and blacks couldn't eat and work together, and men and women weren't equal also. However, she worked hard, so her mother-in-law first started a little sandwich shop. Her mother was just a kind person, she liked to do things for you, and she liked to give. 

The speaker tells us that maybe that helped her out and nobody bothered her. It led to creating a safe haven where people who were working on civil rights could come together and work to change the laws. Then the restaurant became a bridge between the past and present, and she worked and did what she could do hard, even if she couldn't have a good education. 

Everyone can do something for their city. Living in the city means participating with everyone. We continue to give (feed) someone well. We, especially women today, are in great positions that she never thought she could see. We have to build more. 

Words in this story

cantankerous /adj/ bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative.

plaque /noun/  picture (award)

bribery /noun/ the giving or offering of a bribe.

righteous /adj/ correct, proper, accurate

"life is to endure fate, to frolic fortune and to fulfill a mission".

This is the famous quote that President Yoshimitsu Kobayashi at Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Inc.

「宿命に耐え、運命と戯れ、使命に生きる」

"life is to endure fate, to frolic fortune and to fulfill a mission".

I wanted to know how I could explain this Japanese quote in English for a long time. I used the internet though I didn't know. Please help me.

I made this sentence though I didn't have courage where people understand it well or not.  

I think that the quote really shows Japanese entrepreneur's mind that other countries probably never use "endure" for yheir life and also the mind of Japanese people who don't show what they really think. They secretly aim at achieving success and engage their mission.

So people say that their life must be fun, can find happiness and they can enjoy it though I think that life is tough. Only the moment you forget painfulness, you can feel happiness.

"life is to endure fate, to frolic fortune and to fulfill a mission".

All tests - Relational psychology - The river

My answer was the worst possible outcome.

All tests - Relational psychology - The river

Rank five people according to their actions in a scenario in which a lady attempts to cross a river in order to be reunited with her boyfriend.

Charlie and Linda who are very much in love and devoted to one another, are separated by a river with no way of getting across to the other side. On Linda's side of the river, there is a boatman who is able to take her over to the other side of the river but refuses to do so unless she pays him $100, twice his normal fare. Linda has no money and has no other way to get back across the river. Another man, Steve, then tells Linda that he will giver her $100 if she sleeps with him. Linda agrees to do so and on receiving the $100, pays the boatman who takes her over to the other side of the river. She is reunited with Charlie and they are very happy together. However, Charlie's friend, Felix, finds out what happened and immediately tells Charlie. On learning the news, Charlie finds Linda and ends things with her, stating that he wants nothing more to do with her.

My answer

Charlie

Felix

Linda

Boatman

Steve

This was the nasty story though all people would have its thought.

I hate Charlie the most and can't completely forgive him because he changes his mind. Even she did a bad thing though she did it for him. I think that he has to forgive her whatever may happen.

If Felix didn't say anything, people were happy. If l were Felix, I say nothing.

I think that Linda should think about other ideas to meet him, and boatman should bring her for free. Steve is a boring person but he has money.

What do those mean?

Analysis

Your task is to rank these five people, according to how much you sympathize with their characters or identify with their actions.

Here is what each character in the story represents:


Boatman: Business
Charlie: Chastity
Felix: Friendship
Linda: Love
Steve: Sex

Your answer reveals how you rank business, chastity, friendship, love and sex, and therefore their importance in your life.
People having similar ranking systems tend to be compatible - not surprisingly, since the above choices are an important indicator of character and values. People who give opposite or mutually random answers tend not to get along well.

Christen Reighter : I don't want children-stop telling me l’ll change my mind

TED 2016
Christen Reighter : I don't want children-stop telling me l’ll change my mind  (transcript)
Summary
I think that I can’t say its title aloud, because people think that women should give birth in Japan.
Nowadays, according to the article, one in five women in the United State seems not to have a choice that they have a child.
When the speaker was a child, she noticed that she never wanted children but she was continually asked when she got married and when she was going to have a baby.
And then, she had removed a single path to parenthood surgically. Doctors didn't agree with it and they showed disapproval though her decision was strong.
Women have the amazing ability to create babies though the world should not decide that it’s the woman’s value.
I think that this problem is like acknowledging transgender surgery.
We have to create a world where we can understand each other without surgery.

Words in this story
sterilization /noun/ disinfection
persistence /noun/ insistence, obstinacy, perseverance
bodily /adj/ of or concerning the body.
disregard /noun/verb/ ignore, take no notice of, neglect
cling /verb/ (of a person or animal) hold on tightly to.

Laura Schulz : The surprisingly logical minds of babies

TED 2015
Laura Schulz : The surprisingly logical minds of babies (transcript)
Summary
In this TED talk, the speaker tells us a special ability that very young children have. They can't talk yet though they can learn so much from so little and so quickly.
This is the fundamental mechanisms of human cognition and it seems to appear when they try to solve two problems that are  problem of generalization and of causal reasoning.
The problem of generalization means to be able to develop expectations about something and to extend it to almost everything for the rest of their lives.
Another problem of causal reasoning means how babies can use data when they make decisions on what to do.
It leads to being able to think about a connection between two things. Results of this experiment were remarkable, Chris Anderson said that the research was insane at the end of this talk, though.
I think that babies are really honest. I want to say what we are learning, we've had great ability, though.
Then the speaker left shocking messages to us.
This is a story about the problem of human minds but brains.
Our human minds can only perform thought we get the world right.
However. humans are fallible, we take shortcuts, err, make mistakes and we take world wrong in many ways.
This experiment has told us how we start from very small children and continue studying a lot of things.
We need more investment in our minds as same as an elegant form of technology, engineering, design, and brains to study.
We've started having with logical minds from very small children.
Is the way you go getting the world right?

Words in this story
abstract /adj/existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.
deliberately /adv/  intentionally, on purpose, purposely

Daniel Kahneman : The riddle of experience vs. memory

TED 2010
Daniel Kahneman : The riddle of experience vs. memory (transcript)
Summary
I knew that the speaker published some books about behavioral economics.
Economics is to deal with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, or the material welfare of humankind and to study it. It’s said that people preferentially and rationally think about their benefit.
However, people’s actions have been irrational. The speaker forces it.
He is a psychologist, a founder of behavioral economics and was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
He declared that economics should be mixed with people's actions, their emotions, and environment because of their irrationality. This is the new economics called behavioral economics.
Then he says that people aren't able to perceive their happiness unfortunately because of several cognitive traps. People are reluctant to admit complex things about happiness that is not a useful word. 1) They confuse between experience and memory 2) but they focus illusions. 3)
Those become the cognitive traps of human beings. When we think about our happiness, we can't think about the distinction between the happiness of the experiencing selves and the satisfaction of the remembering selves and also we can't think about them without disturbing. Our experiments turn our remembrance continuously. At that moment, it's not being confirmed. Between them, there is in conflict but they are really different. All things depend on how you think, and on whether you think of the remembering self or you think of the experiencing self.
However, among them, there are some types of laws and to study it is behavioral economics.
It will take a while and be necessary to be debated.

Words in this story
riddle /  puzzle, enigma
behavioral economics / a method of economic analysis that applies psychological insights into human behaviour to explain economic decision-making.
preferential /adj/ of or involving preference or partiality; constituting a favor or privilege.
reluctant / unwilling,

Margrethe Vestager : The new age of corporate monopolies

TED 2017
Margrethe Vestager : The new age of corporate monopolies (transcript)
Summary
This is the truth that the new age is coming for corporate monopolies though I think that this is a difficult problem.
I think that some examples are not good in the TED talk this time. It's because Google and Apple are thought to be very good companies by almost all people, even if they broke antitrust rules so far.  I thought that the speaker’s side must be thought to be wrong because she fined Google $2.8 billion for breaking antitrust rules, she asked Apple for $15.3 billion in back taxes, but she said that she wanted to keep European markets competitive. 
I think that I'm afraid that this is the same that general people run with the man who has the world record of 100 meters and thanks to him, people can have motivation.
However, it doesn't mean that he can do anything that is making trouble for others.
I think that current opposite opinions will be created from only your envy and just your hate and those won't have the good alternative ideas, especially government sites and organizations. I think that the true power of competition rules is in the people's thought. Rules should be able to draw its power.

Words in this story
fine /verb/ clarify (beer or wine) by causing the precipitation of sediment during production. She fined Google. She’s fined Google. she’s fined. She’s fine.
fine /noun/ very small particles found in mining, milling, etc.
fine /adj/ of high quality.
fine /adv/ in a satisfactory or pleasing manner; very well.