Your body language shapes who you are (Yixin Jin)

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. In this video, Social psychologist shows how “power posing” standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident, can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain. I like to observe the body language from others because it can let me know what is he or she is thinking. And boy language will never lie, all the action you did was natural. So every time when I want to know somebody I will talk to him and look what he did. 

Yinxin Jin

The Magic of Truth, by Marco Tempest (Berta Queralt)

The magicians use tricks to make us believe in things that aren't real. The tricks used are equal to lie but beforehand knowing that the tricks are cheating us. He confirms that everybody lies in innocent things.

The different types of art (music, paint. literature, architecture, esculture...) use tricks to create a pleasant feeling like in the magic also ocurred.

The magic profesion is the most honest in the world. The magician promise to all people to trick them and they will achieve it.

Berta Queralt

This gel can make you stop bleeding Instantly, by Joe Landolina (Adrià Castellví)

Joe introduce briefly how works any human cell and what happens when you receive a wound or injuries that gel have the ability to stop the hemorrhage and safe to lose a big quantity of blood or safe your life.
Joe show with a short video the effect of the gel and after cover the wound the body with time slowly recover and repare the injure and found him more healty. 


To sum up ,he explain an real example to brush over the gel ,the example is is you imagine that are a soldier in frontline and you recive a shoot in one leg , can you dead in three minutes for bleeding or sit one moment in firecover open you backpack and apply the gel ,stand up and keep fighting.

Thats a really impressive discovery and very useful.


Adrià Castellví 

Break the silence for suicide attempt survivors, by JD Schramm (Silvia Pers Pérez)

John was a guy whose life was, apprently, pretty good. He was about to sell his NY appartment at a six-figure profit before having had it for only five years, he'd just been offered a teaching appointment at the school where he graduated from, which meant he'd get a salary and, for the first time in his life, benefits... Things were going really well for John but despite all of that positive-y things, he was struggling with an awful depression. This illness kicked him so hard that, on June 11th, 2003, he climbed to the fence of the Manhattan Bridge, ready to leave from life. Miraculously, he survived. Even though he broke some bones, punctured his lung and was unconscious for some time, more or less until he reached the pathway of the Staten Island Ferry, he survived. The passengers, who noticed his cries of pain, helped him to get to the Bellevue Hospital.

John's work was really hard: he had to put his life back together in all extents, and he had little or no support.

According to some researches, 95% of people who attempt suicide will fail the first time, but if they do attempt again, they are 37 times more likely to successfully take their lives. Our society doesn't have the resources to help all those people, and what's more, the stigma that surrounds suicide makes people like John feel more isolated.

This man knows this story very well, and it's the first time he talks about it in public. He also tells us that, after the attempt, John lost a beloved teacher in 2006 and a good friend last year to suicide. He knew as well that he needed to get past taboos to talk about an idea worth spreading, and that idea is about people, people who have decided to put the pieces back together, and therefore people who need more support, resources and help. Because it gets better, sooner or later it will get better. John knows this story so well to the point he's John. And he sends us a clear message: "If you are someone who has contemplated or attempted suicide, or you know someone who has, please talk about it, because you can save a life (or more than one)".

Silvia Pers

By Sara Bergbreiter (Christian Par)

Sara Bergbreiter is a microroboticist that is creating a really small robots, like the size of an ant, and letting to the robots to jump or run without no more power tha magnetism, she propouse us the big influence that this robots could affect to our society in devastations like earthquakes or helping in medicine.

Christian Par

How to buy happiness (Tati Torrents)

This video talks about money and happiness. In the that are two things that many of us spend much of our time thinking either trying to win them or trying to increase them. That money can not buy happiness.

They made a small natural experiment in which CNN wrote an article about what happens to people when they win the lottery. First, they spend all the money, and secondly, it ruins their social relationships, in fact, having more debt and worse friendships they had before they won the lottery. People began writing fantasizing about what they were doing well and as I said before, many of these comments, made many of these people do antisocial. It also says that money often makes us feel very selfish and do things just for ourselves.

So they did two groups, one money the spent on themselves and the other who spend it on other people, to measure their happiness and see if they be happier. It is clear that they in the group they was spent it on other people were happier than the other group that they stayed the same.

I wanted to choose this video, because the subject interests me a lot and I really like being able to help others without expect anything change.

Tati Torrents

Why you should care about the whale poop, by Asha de Vos (Roc Castelló)

Why you should care about whale poo, by Asha de Vos

This conference presented by Asha de Vos talks about the importance of the whales and why we must stop the whaling hunting.

Fisrt of all Asha explains that whales are in danger extinction and that damages the human  and the environment, because the poop of the whales aliment many species for example eel-shaped, after talks about the importance of the meat that animals can found in the dead whales.

In conclusion, this ted talk explain the importance of the whales and how they help at the marine food chain.


Roc Castelló

Don't Like Clickbait? Don't Click, by Sally Kohn (Júlia Santanach)

Sally told us that nowadays internet it’s not a private site. All you click, all you read or all you write in  internet is public for people and it could be bad, it could be an ugly place. She is talking about nasty personal attacks, especially if you are a woman, gay, a person of colour or more than one at the same time.

The solution of Sally is that we have to overlook all that we click.

Júlia Santanach

How do You Define Yourself, by Lizzie Velasquez (Borja Galofré)

How do you define yourself, by Lizz Velasquez

A very interesting exhibition of Lizzie Velasquez, a girl of 25 who suffers a rare disease caused to have been gestated without amniotic fluid. She has never weighed more than 29 kilos. She can eat as much as she wants, but she can never gain weight because of her illness, she also has no vision in her left eye.

But what is really interesting is that she has learned to overcome her disability thanks to the great love of her family so being able to face the harshness with which society has treated her.

She has finally achieved all her goals and dreams, writing a book, finish college, and being a motivational speaker. Her most important words and summarizing her philosophy of life are: Who are you? & what defines you?

The power of your mind and your soul is more important than your appearance.

Borja Galofré

Why I Make Robots the Size of a Grain of Rice, by Sarah Bergbreiter (Júlia Boronat)

Why I make robots the size of a grain of rice, by Sarah Bergbreiter

I watched this ted talk from Sarah Bergbreiter which shows a new kind of robot, a tiny one. Sarah and her lab team studied some little insects like ants to make a robotic version with the same body system. Insects are able to move over rough terrain or jump"long and high". A tiny robot with these abilities can be useful. For example, after an earthquake they can help looking for survivors under the rubber. Moreover, they might swim through our blood in future because they are amazingly tiny.

Personally, I'm not much interested in robot's technology but this video attracted me and I really enjoyed it. I think it's easy to understand what they did and why. Furthermore, the video shows that wild life is an inspiration source for technology, as we have already seen.

Júlia Boronat

Happy Maps, by Daniele Quercia (David Miranda)

Happy maps, by Daniele Quercía

This engineer, who is working now for yahoo, forms part of a develop team that wants to avoid the shortest route for moving from a to b. I think this app that they’re developing will be very famous cause the human been is curious been for natural. Daniele explains the origin of his idea when using always the shortest route decided to change form a big road full of noise and cars and, discovered a route throw a quiet place under the trees and beauty buildings.

The idea is to travel throw the city spending more minutes. In change you’ll have a different experience with every route and appreciate the beauty of your city.

I don’t really know who are going to catalog the entire city but, it isn’t an easy task not all the people have the same reactions. I could imagine that they will develop an app were you can vote the route and clasificate-it.

They conclude the explanation using the Spanish frase: “si piensas que la aventura es peligrosa prueba la rutina es mortal” if you think that adventure is dangerous try routine is deadly.

David Miranda

See Invisible Motion, Hear Silent Sounds, by Michael Rubinstein (David Miranda)

See Invisible Motion, Hear Silent Sounds, by Michael Rubinstein

This is one of the best Ted talks I have ever seen. This research group has developed software that cleans up the video showing us the tiny variations within. This technology has no specific utilities yet therefore has some interesting qualities. so you may think that this development team have sort of high definition cameras with short frame rate but, in fact they’re working with common cameras, also is important to know that hi-Tec cameras will give a clear “image” because it’s video is carring more data.

The first use do they give to the camera is chemical utilities. By processing the changes between frame rate the program is able to show your breathing, or show how your ace changes color when blood goes throw-it.

The second ability do they give is sound detecting sound is a vibration that goes throw air, liquids and solid objects. With this software they’re able to extract the sound of videos by watching the mile-metric changes in objects like glasses or plastic bags.

Finaly the presenter shows the team, the support companies and explains to us their next step “catch the sound of light” (in space there’s no air so, sound can’t move. So many movies and games doesn’t apply this like COD ghost,)

David Miranda.

Yes, I Survived Cancer. But That Doesn't Define Me, by Debra Jarvis (Cristina Peralta)

Yes I survived cancer but that doesn't define me (Debra Jarvis)

In 2005, Debra Jarvis was working on a cancer centre and she received the news that her mother had cancer, and five days later, the news that she has cancer.

She was treated in the same centre where she worked. She learned a lot during her process and curation.
She said that only one part of the cancer experience is about medicine, most of it it's about feelings and losing and finding yourself.

But sometimes she feels like people overplay and comment about what she has, without knowing anything of it.
For her, hear words who spoke from the experience was the best, but of those that didn't, she thinks that they were saying bullshit.

In my opinion, it is never late to be a simple survivor. Claim your experience, don't let her do it, because if you do I believe you be can attract, you will not grow.
I think that no one can tell us what our experiences mean, we have to decide what they mean.

Cristina Peralta

For More Tolerance, We Need More ... Tourism?, by Aziz Abu Sarah (Ignasi Velàzquez)

Aziz Abu Sarah is a tourism entrepreneur. He’s a Palestinian man. Initially at the conference explains his fury to people of Israel during his childhood, because his brother dies after he entered in prison for throwing rocks to Israelic cars. But when he was eighteen he studied Hebrew, in his class where Jews. After the contact reach the conclusion that his wall of fury, anger that is separating him to de
israelic persons is the consequence of ignorance. He explains that the tourism and meet other culture decrease the racism of people, but punctuate that the tourism is necessary searching the contact with people of these territory and not hotel to hotel. Aziz comment his experiences and his good results about the travels he do around the world.

Ignasi Velàzquez

This Gel Can Make You Stop Bleeding Instantly, by Joe Landolina (Júlia Boronat)

This Gel Can Make You Stop Bleeding Instantly (Joe Landolina)

I have watched this ted talk of Joe Landolina which shows a new way to heal wounds more quickly. He has discovered a kind of gel which is able to stop traumatic bleeding instantly. Joe explains how the gel works with our body and the advantages it has. The most important characteristic of that gel is that its effect is immediate. Thanks to that the probability of dying is fewer, so this new medical gel can save the life's patients with traumatic wounds like soldiers. In my opinion the adjective that fits better on this gel is: useful. I don't know if it will be expensive or cheap, if it will be difficult to produce or if it will generate economic benefits, but if it works as well as Joe says I'm sure it will be useful. Personally, I trust in this gel like a new method to stop bleeding. 

Júlia Boronat

Hidden cameras that film injustice in the world’s most dangerous places (Nicole Trumper)

Oren Yakobovic is an Israli men who has an organization call Videre.

Their principal job is to verify and publicizes human-rights abuses that the world needs to know. The leads of the organization have been travelling undercover to places where community was suffering abuses and atrocities for understand how they can help

They use hidden cameras which can camouflage with the environment for record injustices that are happening in the world’s most dangerous places, particularly in rural areas, where there are happening a lot of things but nobody can see it because is far from the public eye.

This way of film is for guaranty the security of them and for this reason the organization sometimes works undercover.

Is important to know how to chose the information for document them about the situation that they are leaving, to understand the risk of the locations and to have an alternative plan if something go wrong.

Is essential to verify information and make sure that is credibly. For this, is necessary to know where and who records the films.

At last, is important to know how to use images to create a change. Sometimes it’s putting on the media, sometimes it’s working for changes laws but the most effective way to create a social change is to work with the community.

He explains some real cases about people that, with hidden cameras, recorded some atrocities that they were living.

One of them is the story of Mery, women from an African village who belong to the wrong party and received threats from them and uses violence during the elections. She recorded the situation and a party meeting with a small hidden camera that no one else can see, risking her life, with the objective of stop them and to protect herself and her community.

Her films broke the impunity of the party, she and her friends force the party for not to use violence during the election and saved a lot of lives.

Another example is Fatuma, women from Kenya who is part of women that are fighting abuses in that country, trying to change it. Every day she is violated and grabbed and she want to change this situation.

Nicole Trumper

Why You Should Care About Whale Poo, by Asha de Vos (Júlia Santanach)

The woman called Asha de Vos is a whale conservationist and she said that we have to save whales, not only for their personality and their beauty, but because whales are ecosystem engineers.

There are two reasons to save whales: whale poo and rotting carcasses.

The whale poo is necessary to the creation and development of the phytoplankton and their rotting carcases are benefit a lot of spice of fish.

Whales help too much, because if we leave their rotting carcases in the ocean, they trap and hold excess carbon from the atmosphere, so they help to delay global warming.

The conclusion is: save whales to help us.

Júlia Santanach

The Best Gift I Ever Survived, by Stacey Kramer (Silvia Pers)

Brand strategist Stacey Kramer starts her talk asking us to envision a golf ball-sized
wrapped gift. This gift's gonna do incredible things for us such as bringing all our
family together, make us feel loved and appreciated and help us reconnecting with old
friends and acquaintances. It will also recalibrate what's most important in our life and
help us restore our faith, as well as making us have a different (and more positive)
vision about our bodies and our mental health. It will give us long vacations and nice
privileges too, and people's vision about us will change. It will definitely change the
vision we have about life.

But this gift has some issues: it costs $55.000. Still want one? Do you guess what is
it? It comes in a biohazard bag, it's in your brain and it will involve neurosurgery...
Because it's an hemangioblastoma.

Although this isn't a present she's sure nobody would want, Mrs. Kramer wouldn't
change her experience: having to face that issue deeply altered her life in unexpected
ways,  the ways she's told us about.

Her advice is that , when we face something unexpected, unwanted and uncertain,
consider what we're about to do...

...Because it might just be a gift.

Silvia Pers Pérez

Learn to read Chinese ... with ease! (Yixin Jin)

I think learning to speak Chinese is a hard task. But learning to read the beautiful, often complex characters of the Chinese written language may be less difficult. This character can make Chinese more easy to learn, every word can be a picture show the mean of this word. It's more easy to memory a picture than a word. That's the most important point to learn Chinese. As I am studying anthers languages, I will find the character and follow it. 
Anyway, everyone should find the best way to learn language not only Chinese.



Yixin Jin

I am the son of a terrorist. Here's how I chose peace, by Zak Ebrahim (Christian Par)

I am the son of a terrorist. Here's how I chose peace, by Zak Ebrahim

In this Ted Talk, we see Zak Ebrahim, son of a islamic terrorist. His mother is american, and they live together in EEUU. Since Zak was born, he grown with a radical islamic father, he hate everything that his father tells him to hate. Since one day, when he start university, he discovers that all that his father telled him, was a huge lie. SInce that day Zak and his mother change her names and began a new life.

With this talk, Zak show us how with education he choose the peace way, and not the criminal like his father.

Christian Par

Meet the mom who started the Ice Bucket Challenge (Kassandra Lumbera)

Nancy Frates, a mom, explains how the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge started. On a family vacation her son Pete broke his wrist. After six months, Pete called his parents explaining that he has found a doctor with a diagnosis for him. So, Pete and his parents went together to the doctors. When they came in, there were four doctors waiting for them. A doc said: “it’s not a broken wrist, is not damage and is not an infection. Pete you have ALS and there is no treatment and cure for it.”

Pete organized a family dinner where he will explain his illness. Pete’s family and friends had been trying to find out any way to help him. Today, Pete is completely paralyze and he can’t speak.

One day when Pete was in NYC said: I’m taking the ALS ice bucket challenge, so he put the bucket over his head and said: I’m nominating… and he send it to Boston. The following days friends and family took this challenge. Pete’s uncle, the webmaster, had been studying how this challenge had globalized. Famous people like Justin Timberlake done the ice bucket challenge. Youtube has reported that over a hundred and fifty countries have posted videos of the challenge and Facebook has 2.5 million.

Nowadays they had recollect one hundred twenty-five million dollars.

Pete has inspired his circle to choose to live in positivity.

Kassandra Lumbera  

This conference presented by Joe Landolina talk about the creation of a gel that can makes you stop bleeding instantly.

In the last four years Joe has been working in biomaterials wich help to heal the body. This gel collaborates with the body to regenerate quickly our tissues and stop the bleeding in less than three seconds.

This gel has been an important discovery, this product can help us from the dead, for example, if someone shot you to the leg and we apply this gel we will stop the bleeding very fast and we will not have to wait a doctor, because sometimes if the wound it's big and dangerous be alive or dead will depend of a seconds.

Nowadays they are testing the gel with animals but early they will test with humans.

https://www.ted.com/talks/joe_landolina_this_gel_can_make_you_stop_bleeding_instantly/transcript?language=en#t-107074

Larry Burns: The future of Cars (Esteve Azemar)

Larry  Burns: The future of Cars



http://www.ted.com/talks/reinventing_the_car



Larry Burns explains that nowadays there is a lot of cars on the earth and this is not a good thing because is spend a lof of energy.

So, he decides to design a car which have a new fuel cells and hydrogen, a very important thing is that if we organitzed ourselves good, we can have an efficient hydrogen for make this type of cars, because we can get the hydrogen in a lot of ways.

With this, he wants to make cars that spent less energy, and with this new things, we can to arrive to make the car a generate of electricity that we can use for a lot of things.

Matthieu Ricard (Borja Galofré)

Matthieu Ricard

Mattiheu Ricard, French Buddhist monk who lives in a hermitage in the Himalayas, a beautiful and remote place on earth. Despite this, the outside world might affect them without mental self control.

When Mattiheu was young he studied molecular biology at the Institute Pasteur in Paris, but the ways of life led him to be a Buddhist monk.

The main theme of the exposition is happiness. Mattiheu explains that people often confuse happiness with pleasure and therefore is best to seek personal well being.

For someone, the definition of happiness is to remember pleasant moments from the past or pursue a better future, but others think that they live with intensity the present is desirable.

Wellness only achieved through internal individual work, shaping our mind, looking inside ourselves and not in material things outside.

Only with experience and time, molding the mind, it is possible to achieve what some exceptional monks get, however this available to everyone to be satisfied and happy living each his life.

In summary, we should be happy with ourselves looking for our welfare beginning with ourselves, performing acts of generosity without seeking external rewards. Knowing that life is full of ups and downs, we face with peace and serenity to be happy.

Borja Galofré

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Guys!

As you see, even during this (not long enough) repairing break I've thought about you. I wish you all have time to disconnect and fill your batteries up for the next term, and to prepare the remedial exams (some of you).

Anyway, apart from sending you season's greetings, I would like to remind you about your homework, the summary of a TED talk. Don't forget about improving your English! And use the time you have to start a enjoyable reading!

See you soon.

Marçal