What the Young people don’t intesested for the culture (Marc Benedicto)

Young people today are not interested in culture. I think that there are several factors that

influien, such as adolescence, new interests ... even so I think the pricipal problem is the

development of new technologies. Abuse of the Internet, easy communication and video

games have really problems for the teenengers. Currently, young people live in a virtual world

and have lost interest in cultural tradition. In addition, this stage to maturity, is a time of

change, where they want to try new sensations and new experiences and they lose all interest

to study and learn new knowledge.


Marc Benedicto

How paintings can transform communities, by Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn (Ignasi Velázquez)

How paintings can transform communities, by Jeroen Koolhaas and Der Urhahn

This talk, which is explained by two artist Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn, is a project that he thought and they go to the favelas of Rio, in his neighborhoods starting painting a boy who flying a kite. Later, they continue painting and they settled in a house in the favelas, they could hear shots that occurred between police and bands. The project increment and develop more bigly, they received around 100.000 dollars, and paint with helping of some volunteers a big part of an a neighborhood. Philadelphia liked a lot his project, and asked them to paint part of houses in poor areas. The results were spectacular and gave the streets a singularity.

Ignasi Velázquez

 

David Anderson: Your brain is more than a bag of chemicals (Silvia Pers)

David Anderson, a neurobiologist, agrees with Dr. Insel about the intense human suffering that many people are going through due to mental illnesses such as autism, depression and schizophrenia. They complain about the treatment that suspected diagnosis of depression receive (a questionnaire) in front of what suspected diagnosis of cancer get (a bunch of tests such as bone scans, blood tests, ...), and he stand up to get the reliability of the popular belief about treating mental illnesses wrong. 

They denounce that our brains are treated like a kind of bag of chemicals in which we add meds in order to cure diseases, but we're doing it in rough outlines. Psychiatric disorders are actually disturbances of the neutral circuits that mediate emotion, mood and affect, and we're treating them like a lack of salt in our brain soup. In other words, we're treating a complex computer like a bag of assorted simple stuff. 

Specific mental illnesses are located on some regions of our brains, so we have to focus on fixing that brain regions instead of pouring drugs all over the nervous system (If we need an oil change on a motor and we pour the oil all over the car, a little oil will end up where we want it), and that's causing awful side effects. Researches showed proof about that: some neurons are specifically designed to carry through explicit behaviours. Therefore, their manipulation can end up activating, destroying or inhibiting some processes. That can be easily done in fruit flies due to their simple brain structure, but that's a bit more difficult in humans, although it's possible. 

The problem is that this study was made with fruit flies, but... Do animals have emotion-like states and/or complex mental disorders? Apparently, they do, and it's been proved since the 70s. But the puff-o-mat strenghten this theory with an experiment that delivered little brief air puffs to fruit flies put into lab's plastic tubes. As they kept recieving briefs, the flying period after the puff-o-mat stopped was longer, so it turned out something we could name as 'fruit fly hyperactivity'. That hyperactivity was persistent, long lasting and graded, which are the properties of emotion-like states. The experiment was done with mutant fruit flies as well, and it showed that some of them would need longer time to calm down. These mutations were located on dopamine receptors, so the scientists gave them cocaine, and they calmed down faster. 

Not by chance, ADHD/ADD is caused by something we could name, using a non-scientifically accurate name, 'mutant dopamine receptors'. Flies can actually learn, and the hyperactive ones had learning disabilities, just like people who suffer from ADHD/ADD. The popular belief think that is the hyperactivity what causes the learning disability, but it comes out that that could be completely upside down: maybe it's the learning disability what causes the person to search for other things to focus their attention on because they aren't learning. But maybe they're independent factors.

Nowadays, dopamine is used to treat ADHD/ADD, but the meds that are given just pour the substance all over the brain soup instead of focusing on the areas that actually have a lack of dopamine to fix the disorder. Thus, we need a new generation of treatments that are targeted to specific neurons and specific regions of the brain that are affected in particular psychiatric disorders.

To sum up, we need more researches about the human brain in order to discover the cure to many complex mental disesases. Those researches should be focused as well on setting up new meds which should be more effective and have less side effects.

Silvia Pers

How schools kill the creativity (Yixin Jin)

After I watched this video, I realize that I was think about it too. A simple exemplar, we ask a child what does he going to do when he grow up,  he will answer quickly, be a teacher, be a doctor, be a boss....and then, we ask the same question to a high school student, he will say: I don't know. That's the big different between the child and a student. I think schools kill the creativity because there's so many rules and student all the subjects, maybe some subjects that they don't like. And what they learned in school is nothing about creativity, they are just study. They only want high mark and don't make attention with other more important things.

Yixin Jin

Should you donate differently? (Yixin Jin)

This video is from Joy Sun, she is a women who is helping poor people. Luckily, I have the same opinion with this women about how to give money to poor people. The answer is: give money directly.

I think poor people know what they need better than us, sometimes we give things actually they don't need. And why don't us give money to then and buy thing with themselves?  Also this way is more easy than other way, we don't need to think about what they need and how to bring it. Other important  reason is that if we give money directly, there is no agency and no corruption. That the most important for me, because I don't want bad gay get our money.

Yixin Jin

WHY THINKING YOU'RE UGLY IS BAD FOR YOU, Meaghan Ramsey (Cristina Peralta)

Why Thinking you're ugly is bad for you (Meaghan Ramsey)

When you are a baby and you look at you out on a mirror you see your reflections with all your perfections and imperfections that you have, but you always think that you are gorgeous. All mums always says that to you.

But you ask yourself: When do I stop doing this or thinking this?

Love the way that we look it's very important. You always hear at home, at school and all around yo move that it's important. But ten million people every day say: I'm so ugly!
Also thousand of people post videos asking to other teenagers if their are pretty or not.
There are trends inspirations about how to have a "perfect body".

I think that we are spending much time on the appearance of people and not what about their other aspects of their identities.
So let's show to this people that the way they look it's only one part of the identity of a person. And the true is that we have to love them, we have to love ourself, our face and our body.

So love this lema: "Kiss your mirror".

Cristina Peralta

The brain in love, by Helen Fisher (Alba Bassas)

The Brain in Love, by Helen Fisher

Helen Fisher is a neurology and she studied the brain and if there was a relation with love.She explained,there a 170 societist around the world experimented the love in their brains and anyone society didn't find love.
Also she said, love always wasn't a happy experience. Because sometimes somebody rejecte the love, the person, the relationship, the situation.. And this is not a good feeling. Because the sometimes the questions were, love it's good for me? It's a necesary?
Yes! It's necesary beacause i'ts a physical requirement. So for example: It´s the same necesary like drank or ate. You can't stop thinking about another human being and we didn't have any control in our brian. 
And... What it's my opinion, it`s very simple, the love is a good feeling, and everybody must be find it in his live. Also its necesary for the world to feel in love, yes it's difficult but it's powerful sensation.

Alba Bassas

Why videos go viral, by Kevin Alloca (Esteve Azemar)

Why videos go viral, by Kevin Alloca

Kevin Alloca is a youtube trends manager. .He explains why some videos on internet became viral.

Nowadays, you can be a famous person for put a video on youtube. The think that make a video viral, is that must have a surprising facotr. 
In a lot of situations, there are famous people that says something a abut one specific video and then, a lot of people began to talk about that, making this viral. 
Finally, he arguments that the main character of the new kind of media, is make the thinks surprising. 

In my opinion, I think that have a lot of reason, because videos that have more viewers are the one that are complety unexpected.

Esteve Azemar

Antibiotics by Ramanan Laxminarayan (Júlia Boronat)

Antibiotics by Ramanan Laxminarayan
I have watched this ted talk of Ramanan Laxminarayan which is about antibiotics. On this video he explains the importance of antibiotic treatments, but he also tries to warn us about the consequences of misusing them. If we don’t reduce our antibiotic consume, the bacteria will become more and more resistant. As a result, the treatment won’t be effective and we will be forced to invest more money in new antibiotic researches. He says we take too many antibiotics because we use them in a wrong way. Not all the diseases are caused by bacteria, therefore not all the illnesses have to be treated with antibiotics. For example, we need an antivirus to fight against the flu, not an antibiotic. That’s a thing that many people don’t know. The solution in this case is easy, it’s education. I think it’s important to teach this kind of things to prevent wrong treatments. 

Júlia Boronat

THE NEW SOLUTION TO DETECT CANCER (Marc Benedicto)

THE NEW SOLUTION TO DETECT CANCER

 The new technology that shows the video, sounds really amazing. Not only does it work to

accurately detect early stages of cancer, it is an inexpensive form of technology that is easy

to afford, is easy to use and has the capacity to be accessible to everyone. It seems like a lot

of people that elect to not participate in cancer screenings and preventative measures do so

because of the high costs of health care.

To individuals with financial effort, medical imaging and frequent visits to the physician are

luxuries that simply aren't possible. Early detection is the key to surviving cancer. The low

cost of this technology and its ability to detect a variety of cancers would make it much easier

for low income individuals to get screened for cancer and have access to the preventative

measures that everyone deserves.

Marc Benedicto

A New Theory of Motivation, by Daniel Pink (Borja Galofré)

A New Theory of Motivation is presented by Daniel Pink

Using several examples “The Candle Problem”, “Enterprise experiences” like Google Atlassian, etc… Daniel Pink proposes that businesses should review the way to motivation because there’s a mismatch between what science knows and what business does.

Organizations should focus on these drives when managing their human capital by creating settings which focus on our innate need to direct our own lives (autonomy), to learn and create new things (mastery), and to do better by ourselves and our world (purpose). 

Daniel Pink explains the new idea called, ROWE (results-only work environment) which focuses more on the output (result) rather than the time/schedule, allowing employees to have flexibility over when they complete tasks.

Borja Galofré

A garden in my apartment, a Ted Talk by Britta Riley (Berta Queralt)

A garden in my apartment is a Ted Talk by Britta Riley.

"Grow some of our food, is one of the best things we can do for the environment".

Britta wanted to grow your own food at home , so he developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles , the system could provide natural light and climate controlled all year to grow vegetables . A device provides plant nutrients , light and temperature varies with the microclimate of each window , which will determine what kind of plant is best for your window and if you need organic nutrients.

Cultivation got a salad a week in a typical window of an apartment in New York. And the cherry tomatoes , cucumbers, and all kinds of things.

Window Farms has been developed according to the needs and experience of each contributes to improving.

I agree with Riley for a more sustainable environment .

Secondly, I agree with the idea of ​​growing their own food.

Finally , I like the way your team uses current cultural trends and meet different áreas.

Berta Queralt

Meaghan Ramsey: Why thinking you're ugly is bad for you (Nicole Trumper)

Meaghan Ramsey: Why thinking your're ugly is bad for you

What is appareance? How this aspect affects to the young teenagers?

When people are very little, like two or three years old, most of them love their self and

they are always looking at a mirror and smiling in front of it.

But when they get older, especially when they are teenagers, they usually don’t like

their self. That happens to a lot of young girls.

The most important problem is that young people are more concentrated on their

appearance than in their others identities aspects, and they sometimes things that this

is one of the most important part of their identity.

 Their beauty concepts are base on models that sometimes promote anorexia or they

aren’t “real” because their photos have been manipulated, this affect their too much.

For example, some of young girls’ prefers not to do basic things that are essentials for

the human because they don’t like their appearance, there’re others that don’t go to

school for the same reason and they have low marks because they can only thing

about how they look like.

It also affect to health because they usually practice less sport, don’t eat fruits or

vegetables and they can also have eating disorders.

They also have more risk of depression because they have a low self- stem, and is

easy to influenciated them, that’s why some of them who drinks and smoke, affecting

this to their bodies.

Another important problem is that they usually don’t know how they can separate real

life of online life, they don’t have privacy on their life and is very important for them, for

example, the comments and likes that they recieve on webs like Facebook or Twiteer,

because they thing that if they have more they are more pretty and people like them

more than another who don’t have a lot of posts.

There’re three essentials thing that society can do for help to solve this problem:

The first one is that kids have to be educated for body confidence, helping their to have

self-stem and auto confidence.

The second one is that people have to be more carefully with the pictures and

comments that they do, because this influenced a lot to the teenagers.

At last is very important to work together

In conclusion, for young people, especially for teenagers girls, the appearance is a very

important factor on their lives and a essential thing for their identity, but is important to

teach them that this not the unique important characteristic of their identity and this not

define their self.

For these reasons is important to take care about which pictures are publicated at the

nets, the models that are their inspiration and is also important to educate this aspect,

because in the future is going to help for not have low self- stem and also for don’t

have all the problems that have been mencionated.

Nicole Trumper

The shocking move to criminalize nonviolent protest: Christian Par

In 2002, investigative journalist and TED Fellow Will Potter took a break from his regular beat, writing about shootings and murders for the Chicago Tribune. He went to help a local group campaigning against animal testing: "I thought it would be a safe way to do something positive," he says. Instead, he was arrested. With this act he start to investigate how could nonviolent activist protest be terrorism, cause the FBI says that are terrorism. He found that huge companies have the power to influence the goverment. Like change laws.
She says to us how activism changed to eco terrorism.

Photos that give voice to the animal kingdom, by Frans Lanting (Júlia Santanach)

Frans Lanting: Photos that give voice to the animal kingdom

In this video, Frans Lanting, a nature photographer, tells us the trip that he did to an island not far of Vancouver. Where, he met a tribe called kwikwasut'inuxw. The boss of the tribe tell him a story about the animals. He says that once upon a time, all animals in earth were one, even if they were different on the outside, inside they were all the same. The animals joined together in a cave and let behind all the skins, raven shed his feathers, bear his fur, and salmond her scales. And they would dance together. But one day, a human arrived and laughted about them, and the animals didn't join never more.
Frans Lanting explains that we have a lot in common with the animals, and we have to learn to live in armony and be only one.

Júlia Santanach

31 days underwater, by Fabien Cousteau (David miranda)

Fabien Cousteau: What I learned from spending 31 days underwater

We already know that is so difficult to develop certain research in certain locations. Working under water requires lots of equipment; you also have limited time (oxygen).

This ted talks show as a specific way to research in the top of the sea using underwater laboratories. It used to be underwater laboratories but nowadays there’s so few.

These laboratories have higher efficiency than every day immersion you must remember that your bottle oxygen have’s moreless one hour of autonomy but you have to start going up when you’ve half bottle (the ascension must be really slow or you can die).

Another advantage of these laboratories is that fish use to lose fear. They comment that by a week the fishes started to ignore them, they recognize the team as a neighbor allowing them to approach and research closer

In conclusion these laboratories are much more efficient but, you must be prepared psychologically and physically to be one month under water.

David Miranda

My underwater robot, by David Lang (Roc Castelló)

My Underwater Robot

My underwater robot  it's a Ted Talk cofernece displayed by David Lang. David, years ago started a project with his friend Eric, they wanted to explore an underwater cave trying to find gold, but they don't had the money for bought a robot, so they decided to creat one.

To stard the creation they opened a web page to receive information about how creacte their robot, when they got the information they could did the robot finaly they made a cheaper robot.

The cration of this cheaper robot was important because people started to made their robots and made possible the exploration of the sea for everyone.

Roc Castelló

Second deadline

Hello everybody!

Today you have submitted the TR, congratulations to all of you for your effort and the ones that haven't handed it yet, don't lose heart, work thoroughly and you will reap the rewards of your labour.

Now that you have a little bit more time, don't forget that next Friday (14th) is the deadline for the second review of the TED talks.

See you tomorrow.

Marçal

Why the universe exists -By Jim Holt (Adrià Castellví)

Why the universe exists

-By Jim Holt

The main idea is to explain why exists the universe ,at the beginning and the rest of video he speak some funny commentaries, but his main idea and expression is serius.

He explain some of principal teoris of the universe , interesting teories but obviously non of that have confirmed yet. 

In my opinion ,his way to explain is very good because they explain all organized and clear , with technique words but easy to understand. 

To add ,the teoris are very very true and false ,all of them ,because if you put to think about them al have a part of reason of mystery. 

Seems like the human not able to understand how the universe form and work it , but we live inside and really good i think.And altrougth yet that humans are still not prepared to understand not for this reason we going to surrender, one day we will be prepared to understean and we fined it. 

Adrià Castellví

Phobia about swimming (Borja Galofré)

Phobia about swimming

A man tells his childhood. He was born prematurely and his left lung was collapsed at birth.

The water always scared him because he didn't swim.

Once he was at the summer camp where there was a lake. Suddenly, the camp bully caught him by his ankles and he tried to drown, luckily camp supervisor arrived to impose order. Since that moment he terrifies to swim.

Now, at age 31, he tries to reconsider the question of swimming. After he has took classes of swimming and he has talked with professionals, all these attempts haven't been useful.

Step by step he has learned and he has left behind the fear that he felt to swim, until the point of love swimming.

Borja Galofré

Why lunch ladies are heroes, by Jarret J.Krosoczka (Júlia Santanach)

TED TALK Jarret J.Krosoczka: Why lunch ladies are heroes

When he wrote his first book, he returned to his school and he saw his lunch lady. He went to said hello and he discovered that she have a live over the school. When he was conscious that the lunch ladies have a life when she ends the journey, he wrote a book series called lunch ladies: a history of lunch lady that she have to fight with some robots and bus monsters.

The history was received by the kids very well and the lunch ladies said “thank you for do a superhero like us”.

When the lunch lady of Jarret died, he was conscious that he was very important to her because he recognised the hard work of the woman.

After that, the kids starts to do something’s to the lunch ladies like histories about all of them and she were so happy because thanks to the Jarret book’s the kids knows what kind of effort have to do the lunch ladies.

(Júlia Santanach)

Ted Talk: Christian Par      

                              

Mark Bezos is a volunteer firefighter that tells us a story of one service they had to go, that his superior told him that had to go to the house on fire and take a pair of shoes for the woman of the House. After get extinguished the fire, a few days later the woman wrote a letter to the volunteers thanking the job did it by them. With this act, Mark shows us a big lesson: Don’t wait to be a hero. He says that everybody can make a little change in others life by helping with the few you have. 

Where to train the world s doctors cuba (Ramón Pratdesaba)

Where to train the world s doctors cuba

For whom it may concern:
In her speech, Gail Reed brings out the fact that the best doctors in the world are coming from the most unexpected country: Cuba, which we always think of as a “Communist” or/and an “undeveloped” area.

Whatever our political views of Cuba may be, Gail Reed mostly focuses on Cuba’s Public health system, which happens to be one of the best in the world. Why is it? We may ask.

Apparently the Cuban system is the best because it is based upon giving the best education to the poor in order to give the best care to the poor. This idea is the basis for the Havana’s Latin American Medical School, whose students are spreading its revolutionary ideas through the world while helping others.


Ramón Pratdesaba

A drone s eye view of conservation (Alba Bassas)

A drone s eye view of conservation

I liked this video because it's good idea, it's fantastic that animals for example:the bengal tiger,asian elephants and rhinoceros, could be control from air by drones,that means we detected the poachers immediately because the rainforest are very big, and always the rangers arrived late. Not only to save the animals, also study the animals directly from the nests in rainforest.For example orangutan. In this TED talk explained the drones aren't useful only for war other way to help us animals and the rainforest study.

Alba Bassas

Yes, I survived cancer but that doesn't define me (Julia Boronat)

Yes, I survived cancer but that doesn't define me

I have watched this ted talk of Devra Harvis. She is a chaplain who has a regular contact with cancer patients because she works in a hospital. One day she was diagnosed with cancer and she overcame the illness through treatment. In this speech Devra says that she wouldn't define herself as a cancer survivor. She explains we should claim our traumas. They shouldn't be more than experiences that we have to overcome. Another thing she realized as a result of her disease is that nobody can tell us how we will feel,in other words, each experience has a meaning and this meaning is completely personal.
Fortunately, I haven't suffered a trauma of such great magnitude. However, I agree with her. I believe that this kind of experiences are important in our life because they affect us strongly, but they don't define us, as she says on the video.

Julia Boronat

Save the ocean feed the world (Esteve Azemar)

 Save the ocean feed the world

Jackie Savitz is a biologist marine that talks about the problems of hunt fish in the oceans..

She explains, that since 1980, we fish as much as we consume, but now we consume more than they reproduces.

For that, she thinks about differents conditions that the fish sector must achieve. First, keeping safe the zones of the planet where we found more fish. Later regulate the quantity of fish that we hunt and protect differents ecosystems for the fish to grow up. Finally, we must fight with the illegal fish.
With all of that, we can get a sostenibility fish.

In my opinion, I think that Jackie Savitz has a lot of reason because fish is an indispensable food for our development.

Esteve Azemar

A drone s eye view of conservation (Berta Queralt)

A drone s eye view of conservation 

There are a lot of animals in constant threat of poachers. The most usual solution is to send soldiers and rangers covering the area and combating wild life crime’s. This is too dangerous and very expensive. For this reason they build a drone, park conservation application.

Conservation drone has tremendous potential to take picture following different routes and forest. The main task are: to check deforestation and health of forest, To create three-dimensional model (dimensions surface and volumes), to find out camp fires at night, to discover areas never explorer before, stitch the pictures creating a map of landscape and to track the movement of animals with a radio-collar.

Drones are like a small plain (composed by aircraft + autopilot+ payload+ software) and it is very cheap in maintenance (as a computer).

I think it is really a clever and economical tool (or toy) for different research and application tasks used by governments, conservation organizations and biologist. There is another version of drones, smaller once (as a finger) that it has been used as spy in different applications. It is amazing!

Berta Queralt