How butterflies self-medicate?, by Jaap de Roode (Júlia Boronat)

How butterflies self-medicate?, by Jaap de Roode

I have watched this ted talk from Jaap de Roode which shows that butterflies choose medical plants to lay their eggs. Firstly, he says we don't stop looking for new drugs or vaccines every year because the pathogens continue to evolve. Some animals have been helping us with this scientific task throughout history. Jaap de Roode explains that monarch butterflies could be one of this useful animals. He has found out that these insects are able to know which plants have medical milkweed to feed their offspring and avoid it getting sick.

In my opinion, this could be a new way to improve our drugs. Animals and plants have developed their own techniques to protect them from pathogens. I think we could learn a lot from them and we could adapt their skills to humans afterwards.

Júlia Boronat

Kerwn elazari is a cybersecurity expert that says that to evolve and improve, we need hackers that force it. They are a lot of they that plays against the system and do ilegal things, but it exists a lot of them that helps to the population and we don't now about it. For this reason she insist that we need hackers on this cyberworld, because they will help us in a lot of aspects.
Christian Par

(Borja Galofré)

Post Tim explains his experience when he was 7 years old, he had a recurring nightmare (a witch coming toward him while he was in a cage) and he told his mother one night; she replied  him that it was just a dream and he came back to sleep. He did so and something amazing happened that night, when he fell asleep again he had the same dream, but what is more important, he was conscious in the dream,  this is what scientists call a lucid dream, that occurs during REM phase, are very real dreams, that experience helped him not to be afraid of that witch nomore.

Experiments have been conducted by many scientifics to verify the existence of these dreams and know more details about. The results are incredible and also hopeful. Because it has been concluded that this kind of dreams, can be easily self-induced and can be of great help.

Such dreams can help many people, not only to avoid nightmares in cases of post traumatic shocks, but also to improve performance or to achieve professional athlete or in business for people who wish to reach high objectives.

Therefore asks everybody to contribute in the study and experimentation in this field, not only scientific but also individuals to advance, to enjoy more the onirics moments and to find out how far people can get the power of our mind to well used.

Borja Galofré

The voices in my head, by Eleanor Longden (Silvia Pers Pérez)

Eleanor was a girl who, after having ended her high school studies, started university. People had high expectations on her, and her first semester was pretty alright. But in the second, while she was leaving a room, she heard a voice saying "She is leaving the room", and nobody around seemed to have said anything, but the voice was a real thing.

Soon, this voice started to tell all she did in third person, and she made what she calls "my first mistake" (because the voice didn't seem to be innocuous anymore): telling a friend of hers she heard a voice. Far from seeming accepting, said friend was quite horrified and she advised Eleanor to seek medical help, which is, according to her, "my second mistake", because the voice started being harmful to her and to others. The college GP, from whom she sought advice, was told about the low self-esteem, angst and fears about the future that surrounded her life. But the he seemed to be shocked when Eleanor talked about the voice. So shocked he even dropped his pen, swung around and referred her to a psychiatrist, who diagnosed her with schizophrenia: a diagnosis caused by, among other reasons, sexual abuse suffered as a child.

After uncountable psychiatric hospital admissions and so many drugs taken, Eleanor's learned to live with the voices. Now she doesn't spend nights protecting her parents from an apparent danger with a plastic fork anymore, and instead of it she's learned to understand what the voices mean. For example, if the voice tells her that something bad is happening outside, she doesn't take the literal meaning but she understands it as the voice's telling her that she is insecure. That way she can do something positive about it.

So positive she got her psychology graduate ten years later with the highest grade her university had ever given, and a master a year after with the same merits. She's worked in mental health services (where she learned to ask "What's happened to you?" instead of "What's wrong with you?" and had the opportunity to help people who had the same problem as her), and she's also a member of the Hearing Voices Movement, an association that doesn't see voices as bad things but as a sane way our brain has to tell us that something's wrong. 

Silvia Pers Pérez

The killer American diet that's sweeping the planet (Cristina Peralta)

In this conference will speaking about the which is cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension all of which are completely preventable for at least 95 percent of people just by changing diet and lifestyle.

We puts an example Asia's  gone from having one of the lowest rates of heart disease and obesity and diabetes to one of the highest. And in Africa, cardiovascular disease equals the HIV and AIDS deaths in most countries. So there's a critical window of opportunity we have to make an important difference that can affect the lives of literally millions of people, and practice preventive medicine on a global scale.

Heart and blood vessel diseases still kill more people, than everything else combined, and yet it's completely preventable for almost everybody.

He says now there is an epidemic of obesity: two-thirds of adults and 15 percent of kids and that diabetes has increased 70 percent in the past 10 years, and this may be the first generation in which our kids live a shorter life span than we do.

The idea that he proposes with other companies is they can make a diet it fun and sexy and hip and crunchy and convenient to eat healthier foods.

I think it is a good idea so we see it not as hard dieting.

Cristina Peralta

The Best Gift I Ever Survived - by Stacey Kramer (Giulia Pérez-Pujol)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKbet4RdSo4

This Ted Talk is called: "The Best Gift I Ever Survived" by Stacey Kramer.

This monologue begins explaining a gift that we unknown. This gift can change the life of anyone. It improve the life quality and give us hapiness. 

The gift which Stacey is talking about is the medicine or cure for the stroke that her son had.

This "gift" cost $55.000, and it has changed Stacey's life for better.

Now her son is cured. And Stacey's family is so happy for the results of this medicine.

The conclusion of this Ted Talk is that all of us should value our health and the welfare of the family. Because there are people who suffer a huge disease and can't have the privileges that we have. 

Giulia Pérez-Pujol Nichilo.

Pimp my ... trash cart?, by Mundano (Alba Bassas)

In my view the Catadores are superheroes,because they are a vital part of cities of the world,they recycling 90% the rubbish. Around 20.000 milions of catadores are in the world in Bolivia, Chile, Turkey, Argentina, South Africa... They make a social work in the cities.Recicling give jobs, cleaning.So the man who explain this history is a Brazilian guy who painting in the streets, he's and artist. Also he do a crow founding to help the people collect "Pimp My Carroça".This fundation help this persons with her style,medicines,dentist.. And also help the sociability with the city.

Alba Bassas

How painting can transform communities, by Haas&Hahn (Alba Bassas)

How painting can transform communities (Haas Hahn)

In my opinion this video is very interesting because is the good idea for help people leaves in favelas.In Rio there are some cities in to the city.This little cities like Villa Cruceiro it's a big example how the people help to this favelas.But not only give money to paint their hauses. It's a new project to involve the people who lives in  the favela. We know the live in this favelas aren't very easy,because the gangsters,drugs and violence are common in this places.One way to help is one big project to change the color of their hauses,then their can see some colors in his live.After paint the first three hauses,the success was wonderfull and fantastic for Vila Cruceiro.

Some people in Philadelphia hear the project of Hass and Hahn and call them to visit one street degraded neighborhood in Philadelphia.

Alba Bassas

How to speak so that people want to listen, by Julian Treasure (Adrià Castellví)

Julian starts explaining whose are the main reasons because when you are speaking to somebody or any specific friend or partner and he can hear you but anybody are listening to you.

The main reasons are: gossips, judging, negativity, complaining, excuses, lying and dogmatism
And this is a big trouble, to end this he propose a easy solution with one word, HAIL, he give her own meaning to this word. 

H Honestly (if you aren't ,you did not come very far)
A Autenticity (just be yourself)
I Integrity (try with your own way) 
L Love (all with love are better)
So this is the first step to make our objective but the things doesn't end here.
The next step that you need to do is: 
Is so important the intention or your thoughts to say something that the way that you explain. In other words, your register,timber,prosody,pace,pitch and volume have the same important than HAIL.
Because when you adapt your voice, speed, calm, intensity, vocabulary, and your posture to  do it, change a lot the attention of the receptor/s.
And this helps very much to gain attention and your sound , gain harmony and with all of this when you speak your voice has gain powerfull speaking and this means more conciencius listening , and with last thing the creativity becomes receving and finally that transform the sound in the most and main instrument to understand the people ,and he ask: 
Who want this world ? with this essay understanding .

So in my opinion i answer : 
I want , and i really like this Ted talk, dosen't also for the english learning, furthermore for the idea of the best way to communicate to the others witch is really amazing.
PD: keep your own way and never let to be yourself 

Adrià Castellví 

Fabien Cousteau: What I learned from spending 31 days underwater (Esteve Azemar)

Fabien Cousteau: What I learned from spending 31 days underwater 


http://www.ted.com/talks/fabien_cousteau_what_i_learned_from_spending_31_days_underwater

Fabien Cousteau is a man who has a lot of curiosity of the oceans. So, he decided to investigated the ocean, and for that, he things that the best way, is living underwater, in the ocean. For that, he lives during 31 days in a submarine laboratory underwater, named Aquanat.

There, they go out into the water a lot of times for explore more the ocean, all for have a connection between humans and animals, where he found animals that he didn’t see. Also, the investigated the relation between the corals and the pollution and they use a high quality time-lapse video camera that helps to him to watch things that with our eyes we can’t see.

In conclusion, he said that he had a dream and he fight for it so, nothing is impossible, and if we must dream and fight for this things that we dream.

I think that Fabien Cousteau has a lot of reason, and if we can get something or believe in something we must fight for it. 

The mathematics of love, Hannah Fry (Cristina Peralta)

The mathematic Hannah Fly explains a fascinating journey around the loving patterns of people and as we can manage them to find our right partner.

Hannah Fly says that everyone that wants a partner had been doing after a hard mathematic work. So she has done a work called: ‘Why I don’t have girlfriend?’.

In her work she talks about a boy, Peter Backus, who tries to evaluate his chances to find a loving partner.

Of all of the available women in the UK, all Peter’s looking for is somebody who lives near him. somebody in the same age range, somebody with a university degree, somebody he’s likely to get on well with, somebody attractive and somebody who’s likely to find him attractive.

And comes up with an estimate of 26 womens in the UK.

But love doesn’t really work like that. Human emotions aren’t so much ordered and easy. So she presents two examples of a scale of be attractive or not in a website called OKCUPID. If you take someone like Portia de Rossi, everybody agrees that she’s a beautiful woman, but she’s not a super model. And you compare Portia de Rossi with someone like Sarah Jessica Parker, some people think that she is fabulous and other people seems to think that she looks like a horse. So if you ask people how attractive are Portia de Rossi and Sarah Jessica Parker, and the score is about 1 and 5 points, the avarage will be similar.

So, if someone thinks that you are attractive, you’re actually better of you think.

Couples have to don’t let them go but if you don’t want to be compromised to have a succesfull relationship, you must think about maths!

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

New TEDtalk

Time to do the third TEDtalk of the term. You should submit it by the 23rd of February!

How do You Define Yourself? by Lizzie Velasquez (Marta Rabassa)

 Lizzie is a girl who has a very rare syndrome; only two people in the world have it, including herself. She cannot gain weight, so she can eat whatever she wants without gaining weight. She has never weighed more than 64 pounds. And if that were not enough, she cannot see by the right eye, so she thinks: “All the people who are rude with me go to my right hand”.

When she was born the doctor told her parents that she would not be able to talk, think or do anything by herself. She was the first child. Her parents told the doctor: “We want to see her. Take her home and love her” and that’s what they did.

When she went the first day to the kindergarten she hasn’t any idea that she looked different from other kids. She went in and she went to say hi to a little girl and the girl looked her like she was a monster. So Lizzie thought: “She’s really rude”.

Lizzie makes us the next question. “What defines you?”. A question that for her was very difficult to figure it out. She thought that what defines her washer body, but her parents showed her that what defines her was her way of being. “You are the one that decides what defines you”, she says.

When she was at high school someone posted a video of her, 8 seconds long, no sound, thousands of comments. People in the comments posted: “Please Lizzie, just do a world a favor, put a gun on your head and kill yourself”. “I’m gonna let people who told me all of that define me? NO!”

She turned around all that negative things and she used it as a ladder to climb up to her goals and this is what she did. Her goals were: be a motivational speaker, write a book, graduate college, have her own family and her own career. Eight years later she has written three books, and she has finished the collage.

She advises telling us: “Use that negativity to make your life better, because you will win”.

Happy Maps, by Daniele Quercia (Ignasi Velazquez)

This TED Talk is called by Daniele Quercia, a man who explains that the short travel is not the best travel or the way that please us. The conclusion at these affirmation be sought in one day that he doesn’t take the short way to he’s job and take other way a little bit much longer but much nice. At these moment he take team and do a map that have two ways, one for the shortest  way and the other the way that it’s more happiness because have nature and are beautiful. With these explication urge to all of us to change our costumes to be less cumbersome.

Ignasi Velazquez

Are You a Human? (Alvaro Voltà)

The presentation of Ze Frank is about a test that he do at the public to check if all the people there are,are  human or not. To make sure if are or not, Ze Frank ask to the people typical things everybody have done it in their  childhood and other questions about things have happened when the people were young or teeneger and people have to raise his hand if the thing he said it applies to them. By this way Ze Frank mix the humor and laught with entertainment test that the public enjoy whith it.

Alvaro Voltà

The Danger of Silence, by Clint Smith (Jimena López)

The Danger of Silence, by Clint Smith

Clint Smith is a poet and educator whose work blends art and activism. As a teacher,  he has internalized the message that says Martin Luther King in 1968:
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends".

Klint says we see the consequences of silence in the form of discrimination, violence, genocide and war. In his classes he encourages his students to explore the silences in their own lives through poetry. Create a culture in the classroom where students feel safe to share the intimacies of their own silences. Klint has 4 basic principles, which explains before starting the course: read critically, consciously write, speak clearly, speak your truth. He realized that if he was asking them to lift the voice, he had to say his own truth and say that also often he couldn’t do it. He makes clear that is a son of a catholic family in New Orleans, and that as tradition during the Lent taught the better thing that it was possible to do is resign something. He stop taking refreshments, McDonald's, … But until one year,he sacrifice to speak.

Klin makes clear that he spend most of his life saying to the people what they wanted to listen and not what they needed to listen. Dishonor his pupils for not defending them, ignored a child and a vagabond. "We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't," says Clint Smith.

In conclusion, he says that this year, he will live every day as if there were a microphone tucked under his tongue, a stage on the underside of his inhibition.

Jimena López de Lamadrid

Yes I Survived Cancer but That doesn't Define Me, by Debra Jarvis (Jimena López)

Yes I Survived Cancer but That doesn't Define Me, by Debra Jarvis

Debra Jarvis is a women who is a chaplain in a hospital for 30 years. In particular, she worked in a cancer center. In 2005, Debra’s mother was diagnosed with cancer, five days later Debra also have it. She was treated in the same hospital where she worked and she started making treatments.

Debra learned that the cancer is not only medicine, most dependent on the feelings and the faith. And discover that the objects are the least important in life. She makes clear that medicine has done a great job and that is wondeful.

Debra says to ignore who speaks of how we feel, we must paying attention to who speaks from his own experience. Because our experience only can we know.

She tells the story of a woman who treated in the past , she saw her one or two years later and excited they started talking. She told her that she had been horrible and how hard it had been. Debra was limited to hug and said, "Get down off your cross" and she said from the voice of experience.

She concluded the speech by saying: ‘’ being in the tomb means doing our own deep inner work around our wounds and allowing ourselves to be healed. We have to let that crucified self die so that a new self, a truer self, is born. We have to let that old story go so that a new story, a truer story, can be told. Claim your experience. Don't let it claim you.’’

Jimena López de Lamadrid

A Circle of Caring, by Jok Church (Tati Torrens)

A Circle of Caring, by Jok Church

This video is about a man who will tell us about circles and epiphanies.

This shows a painting of a circle that painted a friend, a complicated circle, your circle. He says he was the strangeness of his class, he was beaten every week until one day one of her teachers saved his life, letting me go to the bathroom in the teachers' lounge. The teacher he told that would like to see him in a few years when the breading and adult. He had to leave town and met his partner.

After a few years his teacher called him to tell him I had to see it, since this had pancreatic cancer. When they viewed realized I had to be hospitalized. Since then, the care of her until the day of his death.  This says that complete their circle because she could see he adult.

The epiphany is that death is part of life. She saved his life; and saved his own. He says that life needs this help all those people who want.

In this video I have been able to observe a very nice part where two people were taken much love and spend the years pass were still together.

Tati Torrens

The Courage to Tell a Hidden Story, by Eman Mohammed (Maties Valls)

The Courage to Tell a Hidden Story, by Eman Mohammed

Nowadays, countries like Palestine or Gaza are in religion war. Also in these countries and all Muslim countries the women are very discriminated because her religion tells that the woman is lower than man. These in catholic or developed counties not happen because woman is introduced in labor world, and also they are freedom of expression.

I think that the Muslim countries have to pact the territory and allow women to enter in the labor market. In 21th century, I believe that the woman would have to have, in all the world countries, their rights and able to work at what she likes and not be obligated to do what others say.

To sum up, I hope that in a few years woman in Muslim counties and around the world could not be discriminated or abused because is humiliating and embarrassing that in 21th century woman cannot do the work that they like, for example the women in the video couldn’t study photography because her gender.


Maties Vall

Nancy Lublin: Texting that saves lives (Cristina Peralta)

Firstly, Nancy Lublin talks about mobile phones, with which we can speak with our friends and family, we can talk calling, we can send photos and videos, so we can communicated.
It seems to be the best way to communicate a father or a mother with their son.

The teenager sends and average like 3.339 text messages in one month, and a girl sends 4.000 text messages. Girls seems to be much more impulsive, they open de message at the second, they read them, but mostly they don't answer.

Secondly, Nancy Lublin participated in a program of United States that it's objective was to send text messages to teenagers who needed help. They recieved unexpected messages from this kids like: "Today I don't want to go to school, people calle me faggot" or "I harm myself, my parents found out and I stopped doing, but an hour ago I returned to do it" or "He violate me, my father".

In my point of view, I think that this program is a good creation because is very efficient, fast, safe, quiet and secret.


https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_lublin_texting_that_saves_lives?language=en

Mark Bezos: A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter (Esteve Azemar)

Mark Bezos: A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter 

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


Mark Bezos is a fireman volunteer who works in a non-profited organization called Robin Hood.

He explains his first fire, where he was the second volunteer, so, he might had to do something.
There is a woman who looks how her house was burn. The capitan told to the first volunteer to save her dog and to him to enter for take some shoes for the woman, a thing that for him dosen't seems important. Later they enter for save the treausers for the woman. Weeks later they received a letter form the woman saying thanking for all, including for the shoes.

With that, he learn that even the smallers details matter. That we must help other people because is an opportunity to make the life of someone better.

I think, that Mark Bezos have reason and even the smallers details are important, because all of us can help someone and with that, make the things easy for this person.