Janet Stovall : How to get serious about diversity and inclusion in the workplace

Janet Stovall at TED  (transcript)
How to get serious about diversity and inclusion in the workplace
Summary
In this story, inclusion must come from subsumption that is to include something within a larger and more comprehensive group.

It'll mean to include the problem of diversity within discrimination.

I imagined it from the speaker's three ideas that are to use real problems, real numbers, and real results.
It's because business can dismantle racism, though, college can’t do it now but diversity is a more important problem.
It doesn't really speak to in America, though, racial discrimination is more the most prominent form.

When people think about racial discrimination,  a problem of diversity tried being solved is plotted by her three ideas.
It's because that real results are to be able to work in the better environment and to be solved a problem of diversity.
Look, we must have a feeling that we can do it.

Words in this story
comprehensive /adj/  including all or nearly all elements or aspects of something.
gentrification /noun/ property value by selling property topeople wealthier than the current owners.
prominent /adj/ important; famous
segregate /verb/ separate, set apart
earnest /adj/ diligent
honest /adj/ sincere

Kevin Rudd : Are China and the US doomed to conflict?

Kevin Rudd at TED2015  (transcript)
Are China and the US doomed to conflict?
Summary
Are China and the US doomed to conflict? The speaker's answer is, of course, "No" and the speaker said that he is here to help. I thought that it's a great answer and I also wanted him to help that South Korea and our country Japan were really and strongly doomed to conflict.

First is his opinion.
In the near future, you know, China will be the largest economy country in the world and it'll affect all of us in ways including the air we breathe, the water we drink, the fish we eat and so on. Thus he said that we have to challenge to have peace, to prosper, and not to repeat the tragedies of war again with having will and imagination.
It means that the two countries don't solve all problems but think about a new start heartily.  It doesn't accept the radically different political system but knows them heartily. The speaker studied Chinese language and history and experienced that two completely different people brought together.

However, in my opinion, we have to think about those with our head and the speaker tells us to go with the heart, though, we can't do. We don't want to go, and Japan has already apologized, gave money and thought heartily, but the opponent overturns many times but says that we believe the opponent is wrong. Our economic help is continuing, though, what happens?

I think that the speaker will be too Chinese, he speaks English very well and he thinks that he is neutral, though. The fact he experienced that two completely different people brought together is different from a fact we want to do something that radically different countries do.
Yes, countries history will doom to conflict. We have to change.

Words in this story
doomed /do͞omd/ likely to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome; ill-fated.
bring together / set up a meeting between people

Angel Hsu : How China is (and isn't) fighting pollution and climate change

Angel Hsu at TED2018  (transcript)
How China is (and isn't) fighting pollution and climate change
Summary
All countries now have to fight pollution and climate change for our earth. This is no time to say that other countries should do and your own country does something to reduce.

China is always said that China is the world’s biggest polluter, however, China is a big country and has 1.3 billion people, even if each person only releases a little, it becomes the biggest number and China depends on coal energy is the reason that China is the world’s biggest polluter.

However, China’s government starts to tackle the pollution problems because Chinese people were becoming aware of its human health effects, the government was keeping it secret, though.
The government has been making an enormous investment to clean air and to use renewable energy like hydrogen, wind and solar.

Due to releasing big pollution, reducing hasn't still caught up, though, you must make sure having an effect now.

Words in this story
greenhouse gases /noun/ a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation, e.g., carbon dioxide and chlorofluorocarbons.
bankrupt / (of a person or organization) declared in law unable to pay outstanding debts.

Mary Lou Jepsen : How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains

Mary Lou Jepsen at TED2018  (transcript)
How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains
Summary
A new technology that the speaker invented is a system that you can see deep inside your bodies and brains by using red light and sound. It can track tumors, measures neural activity, and can possibly replace the MRI machine with a cheaper, efficient and wearable system.

It can say that it's extraordinary at finding blood, in fact, blood absorbs light and flesh scatters light. For example, you can see tumors that has five times the amount of blood as normal flesh, whether blood carries oxygen or not and deep inside of lungs by using the new system that she invented.

It means that you can detect early cancer, pneumonia, and stroke. 1)

Light and sound will become compact, portable, inexpensive medical machines, 2) and can reach your brain through your skull, you know, it can say this is brain-computer communication without surgery or implants.

This invention has many possibilities.

Words in this story
utilize /verb/ make practical and effective use of.

Rice field art in Gyoda city

By rice field art in Gyoda city, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, You can see the Nazca geoglyphs in Peur this year.
Diary
I went to Gyoda city in Saitama Prefecture on Wednesday to bring our company's products for a committee of rice field art in Gyoda.

Rice field art is an effort to plant some kinds of rice with different colors. It becomes fields to a canvas and to be expressed letters and patterns by growing rice plants.
Rice field art in Gyoda has ten years of history and in 2015, was certified as Guinness World Record as "the biggest rice field".

This year, "Hummingbird" and "Condor" which are very famous for the Nazca geoglyphs in Peur have emerged as the world's largest rice field art in Gyoda with another big condor and ancient lotus. The big condor was designed by a staff in Gyoda because the theme for this year was "Great Wings" and ancient lotus was a symbol of Gyoda city. In fact, the place where you can see the biggest rice field is famous for the park where beautiful lotus flowers blossom in July and early August.

I was happy that the staffs of the committee used our company's products and I could see the great rice field for the first time.
In Japan, there are many wonderful places where Japanese people don't know, we must learn about the world from there more, and do international exchanges with the world.
Furthermore, next year will be the 120th anniversary year when Peru has started accepting Japanese immigrants.

Words in this story
lotus /noun/ any of a number of large water lilies, in particular.
certify /verb/  verify, guarantee, attest, validate, confirm

Walter Hood :How urban spaces can preserve history and build community

Walter Hood at TED2018   (transcript)
How urban spaces can preserve history and build community
Summary
In the title, history shows our past, thus build community can show our future, so urban spaces should be places which can preserve the past and create the future, right?
People have various history. They remember them sometimes and they forget them sometimes.  They want to remember better things, but want to forget worse things.

However, great things happen when we exist in each other's world. 1)
Although we divide all things twoness, it'll be better that there's an ambiguity.  2)
People have empathy, 3) the traditional belongs to all of us, 4) and there are many different ways to remember something. 5)

Landscapes can help those.  A place you stand now might be a place where wars or fights occurred, or where black people and white people were divided, or where women suffered. The speaker works to create such places. Urban always changes new, though, people can remember history there.

Words in this story
resilient /adj/  flexible, pliable
resistant /adj/ : impervious to, unsusceptible to, immune, invulnerable to

Leticia Gasca : Don't fail fast — fail mindfully

Leticia Gasca at TED Salon  (transcript)
Don't fail fast — fail mindfully
Summary
We’ve heard that we can learn many things from failure thus don't worry and don't have to be embarrassed. The speaker created a platform where people can share their failure stories to help each other. They could know that by sharing, their bonds grow stronger and collaboration becomes easier.

However, business is a commerce and a trade. There is a mutual connection between customers and company. In the company also, there is the mutual connection between employer and employee. If one side fails, another side gets risks. Even if one side can have a great learning opportunity, another would stop receiving an income.

It’ll be important to put aside the idea of publicly humiliating failed entrepreneurs, though, we must put aside the idea that failing fast is always the best.

Business has a mutual connection.

Impacting the consequences of the failure of businesses,  being aware of the lessons learned, and being aware of responsibility included failure will be needed. The speaker suggests those called "fail mindfully".

Words in this story
mindfully /adv/ heedfully, advertently
humiliate /verb/ make a dent in, mortify, humble, shame