A garden in my apartment - Cristina Peralta

Britta Riley talks about how that interdependence is now an extremely powerful social infrastructure that we can actually harness.
A couple of years ago she reads and article in which argued that growing even some of our own food is one of the best things that we can do for the environment.
At the time that she was reading this it was the middle of the winter so she can't do.

She works in how NASA has been using hydroponics to explore growing food in space.
To a vegetable plant, her apartment has got to be about as foreign outer space but she can offer natural light and year-round climate control.

Two years later, she now has window farms and food growing indoors. So a window farm requires a farmer, and he must decide what kind of crops he is going to put in his window farm.
It's like a technical complex idea. Britt and her workers make the investigation of a product called hydroponic that it's the fastest growing vegetables in United States.

We are rediscovering the value and to declare that we are all still pionners.
I think it is a good way to protect and make grow the environment of our planet.

https://www.ted.com/talks/britta_riley_a_garden_in_my_apartment

(5)How we found the worst place to park in New York. 

Ben Wellington is a data scientist from New York. He’s pretty amazed will the last government movement in his city, Free data. It could be crazy but data is very important to find quickly solutions in a city with billions of people.

B.Wellington explains that lots  of  city different departments started to publish information in pdf, this format makes people hard to work with because you can’t copy and modify information but, several  users by using a special decodification systems they  generate programs that lock download and extract certain information from certain department allowing them do work with graphics. The most amazing example is from traffic control by analyzing information people made a map where in certain part there was a really big number of fines made. In that locations they`re certain areas near fire hydrant (were you’re not allowed to park) really bad marked. Thanks to free data these problems have been success.

According to Ben this is the way of making a efficient city.

https://www.ted.com/talks/ben_wellington_how_we_found_the_worst_place_to_park_in_new_york_city_using_big_data

(Text#5 over 5) David Miranda 27/3/2015

(4)Think your emails are private? Think again 

Andy Yenis a scientific who worked in CERN during several years there a group of scientist and engineers came out with an idea of a mail encrypted and save.

Actual mediums of communication (mail, faceboock, twiter) work thanks to publicity. If we watch mail structure we soon realize that we have many lost information age, location, interest, etc. Publicity requires data to target potential clients so they are able to get the information in our mails and profiles and we cannot do anything.

There’s many ways to create a codification of mail or information but we need the other people to have the key to answer the problem. That means a lot of problems: first of all how do you give the code to contacts all over the world and, also codification programs require a pretty knowledge of informatics.

Andy Yenis , and his team have made a mail that codification the letter whiz the destiny person code (public code)so the answer code (private code)is the only one can unlock the message. With this software you are able o sent messages without danger.

One of the keys of the project is not dependence from media. This project has been sported from private donations making our privacy safe.

https://www.ted.com/talks/andy_yen_think_your_email_s_private_think_again

(Text#4over 5) David Miranda   27/3/2015

(3)A magical search for a coincidence.

     

Helder Guimaraes is a magician. In the ted talks he makes a show explaining by “magic” the world of coincidences. His actuation splits in three parts:

The fist trick consist in transform that card in the public choice one;  the second trick  he left over a chair a notebook and  cards, he ask to the public to say color, symbol, number of card an also another number. The magician then goes throw the chair and takes the cards and by the last number the public said finds a notebooks piece of paper, ten he gets the notebook an finds the card in a broken page; On his last trick he ask somebody for a dollar then ask that person to take a billet and turn it over and over so the serial number isn’t visible, then ask five people to reorganize the cards, he takes them and throw almost all to the floor the cards in his hand are exactly the same 5 last serial numbers.

Under the tricks we have a specific speech, the magician at the start  says that 90% is crap but, also if we think we think (he said) we can find a coincidence. In my opinion what he means is the next think. if you look the last trick with the bill and don’t think it’s quite amazing, soon I realized ¿why the latest five numbers? So after a quick lock in internet I discover that that five last numbers are the database (where it have been made, the reserve where it pertains, etc) I think the magician prepare the trick to get these numbers but, (here the big deduction) knowing how quickly does the money change is pretty amazing that that bill have that serial number. I think that’s the message of the magician “amazing consequences are everywhere”.

https://www.ted.com/talks/helder_guimaraes_a_magical_search_for_a_coincidence

(Text#3 over 5) David Miranda 

  27/3/2015

(2)I was held hostage for 317 days.                                          

    

Vinent Cochetel was sent to Chechnya to working for UN Commissioner on Refugees. All of the workers knew what they were faction, as a security they’re using armored cars, changing the way to home and even, changing the home frequently. They all were having several armed protection.

Vincent was going to leave the country; it was going to leave the country when he was kidnapped by local militia. He had a big shock that teleported him to an “automatic stage” because they’re pointing with a gun, as sun he recovered the conciseness he realized that they weren’t going to kill him. He explains for fist time the experience of 317 days prisoner on small room under the ground. He was attached to the bed only allowed to do 4 steps around, he only had the light of a candle while was eating bread and soup. In the room he only had two buckets one for water and one for waste. He had fear about being executed if the captors were bored or drunk and also, tormented about they family. Also the captors make nail for the food when he passed four days without he nailed.

During this year he was took from one place to another severely interrogated until his liberation day. Cochetel ask governments to protect humanitarian workers because if they’re attacking hem they’re attacking humanity because helping others is what make us different from animals. So every time humanitarian worker gets kidnapped they are attacking humanity essence.

https://www.ted.com/talks/vincent_cochetel_i_was_held_hostage_for_317_days_here_s_what_i_thought_about

(text#2 over 5) David Miranda  27/3/2015

 (1)What if 3D printing was 100x faster?                                                        27/3/2015                                                                       

                                            

Joseph and his team have been working for two years with 3D printing technology.  Today’s 3D printers are printing over and over again, plastic on plastic, to get the models. This technology have tree basics problems:  the first problem is that they’re very slow, the second one is that they can’t get several models because they’re very complicated, the third one is that printing over and over again makes small lines that make fragile the object, and the forth problem is that 3D old printers can’ t print small things.

 Joseph and his team made of engineers, chemist and physics are using a very special technology to make 3d objects. This new machine “grow objects” the machine have a high definition violet light projector, over that light they have a special glass panel that allows oxygen cross and, an special pool full of the plastic material. Te combination of the light projector and the oxygen makes solid she thinks that we want and, a hydraulic hand pulls slowly the object out of the pool with the same speed of growing.

The advantages of this printing technology are amazing theses printers can build object in minutes, with high definition, with specific plastic and, even microscopic structures. According to Joseph have several applications on chemistry, engineering and development along specific modems quickly.

https://www.ted.com/talks/joe_desimone_what_if_3d_printing_was_25x_faster

(Text #1 ) David Miranda

(Christian Par)

David Blaine, is a great magician who explains us how he could break the record of being underwater, with a 17 minuts mark, is the record in the world. He explains us how he train everyday and finally could get it. It's a hard motivational video very interesting.

Christian Par

The killer American diet that's sweeping the planet (Tati Torrents)

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.

Tati Torrents

(Maties Valls)

In this TED the presenter explains his childhood in Israel. He says that as a child threw stones at cars with his brother. Then says that his brother was in jail when he was 18, and later he die. But when he was 18 he wanted to work, so he had to study Hebrew.

When he was a student he wanted that people connected. Then he created a company for people interact. After that, he explains the adventures he had with a friend of Chicago. He gives the example of tourism, because for him, people have to interact with other people to know they culture and not far in the bus taking pictures.

Finally, he thinks that people have to change. I believe this man is absolutely right. His way of connecting with other people travelling from other countries can be a good idea, so we can know the culture of other cities in a different way.

Maties Valls

(Maties Vall)

The TED explains the adventure that the scientist Angelo had. He had been a commander for NASA Mars simulation last year, and he created a multicultural community of art all over the planet. And recently, he has actually been combining both.

He explains the experiment. HI-SEAS are a project sponsored by NASA on the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii, and it's a research program to study the effects of the isolation of small crews. He lived in this dome for four months with six more scientists, for him was a very interesting experience.

The research was a food study and also they developed a food system for the astronauts who will leave out in the space for a long time.

In conclusion, I think that scientists are trying to redefine how we look to the future in the space for invent technology. And also I purpose that it could be a very good idea to develop a food system for the astronauts.

Maties Valls

(Maties Vall)

The TED explains that the civic technology is sometimes referred to as technology for good, using technology to solve human problems.

An example is in 2010 in Uganda, he says that he were working on a solution that allowed local populations to avoid government surveillance on their mobile phones for expressing dissent. This technology was deployed later in North Africa to help activists stay connected when governments were deliberately shutting off connectivity of population control. Also in the world of smart phones and apps, there is a big movement to help people with  health problems with applications that track the number of calories that you burn...

In conclusion, you will think about the next big thing, as entrepreneurs, as engineers, as makers, that you think about the unintended consequences of the things that you're building, because the real innovation is in finding ways to include everyone.

Maties Vall

by Patricia Ryan (Borja Galofré)

Patricia Ryan came to the Persian Gulf over 30 years ago, contracted by the British Council to teach English in Kuwait, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, etc ..

She explains that she has lived a lot of changes in this area, as many changes have occurred in the world also, for example that languages nowadays are disappearing faster than ever, every 14 days disappears a language and when a language dies we don’t know what dies with it.

It makes us think about the importance of knowing how to speak English,  no doubt, to succeed in the world of nowadays you have to speak English, you have tu study in a British or American University. But also it is not fair that there lbe a ot of people who cannot access to this learning. She expresses that not to speak English is not equivalent to not having good knowledge, and failing an English exam doesn’t mean that they haven’t an impressive and necessary cultural wealth for other people

She ends saying that we have to celebrate our diversity, we must  take care of our language and we have to use it to share ideas.

Boja Galofré

Francis de los Reyes: Sanitation is a basic human right (Esteve Azemar)

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

Francis de los Reyes is an engineer who stayed a lot of time investigation about improve the sanitation problem because there is a lot of people in the world that can’t have a good sanitation and this made that a lot of people died.

For solve this problems some governments put some public toilets but this are not good and makes that all the waste of this toilets contaminated the cities.

The problem is that this places where the sanitation is not good, the water in contaminated and the energy is not enough. So what it must do is keep the traditional System of the sanitation for transports the waste to the treatment plants, a thing that in a lot of places didn’t happen. And who must pay all of this is the governments.

Now they began to remove all the waste with other technic for no contaminated the people and the cities, because have a good sanitation is essential in the life.

In my opinion, I think that have reason because is too important to have this things clean if we don’t want to have serious illness. 

How to go to space ,without having to go to space, by Angelo Vermeulen (Adrià Castellví)

He's a boss of one team in the many groups of the NASA, and they are researching tree inevitable points to life in the space. his project whose is called HI-SEAS his a installation of many buildings in the volcano of Hawai ,how a recidence of surface experimental. The objectives are two:
- Made a little ship that let they moving in zero gravity and after in the gravity os Mart.
- The second is do some experiments to have biological food that they can recollect and use in deep space by the humans.

Moreover they do extra-vehicles trainings. And for do the research he needs a good cooperation in the Team ,also need let to all members of the time ,some free space and be patient.And of course work always in team ,work as one. 
This let him learn very leadership to keep the teem together in the psycologicals troubles and hard moments and also grow up the good moments. 

PD: if people how him have exit ,maybe the humanity can go to the stars and explore the galaxy the universe and life for a very looooooong time. :')
I hope to i will can travel to the space one day only before i die 

Adrià Castellví 

Your body language shapes who you are, by Amy Cuddy (Alba Bassas)

Your body language shapes who you are, by Amy Cuddy

In my opinion this body technique is true because it can easily help you in your live.

It can be considered as a very effective way of changing your mind , because if you change your mind, you can also have different behaviors, and so your live.

I will try to use it in my daily live, that means a stressing live .

Because 2 minutes of acting like superwomen in front of the mirror, can´t be bad at all, can it?

Alba Bassas

How butterflies medicate themselves?, by Jaap de Roode (Álvaro Voltà)

Jaap de Roode make a comparation between the medicament we use the humans heel disease and how it do the animals, specially the insects, concretely the monarchs butterflies.

As the humans, the mammals and all the animals there are in the world, all fall ill but the humans don’t prevent the disease unlike insect or the monarchs butterflies. There are a parasit that hurt the butterflies when they just born and also there are a plant, witch is eating by the monarchs, that have a spore that repel this parasite. Jaap made an experiment putting two plants, one with spores and the other one without it and they puted a lot of females butterflies. He did an sadistic and more than the 70% went to lay to the medical plants (the ones with spores).

To conclusion Jaap say that in a future he hope that humans can learn something about this animals, this king of thing avoid us of a lot of disease.

Álvaro Voltà

What I saw in the war, by Janine di Giovanni (Aitor Basterra)

Janine di Giovanni is a war reporter and she explains her work and her personal experiences. She has worked around the world in countries like Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Congo or Syria. She tells different memories related with war like for example in 1994 when she covered the genocide of Rwanda. There she saw a big pile of people that were dead, she also remembers a mother with her baby in her arms.

In 2004 Janine had a baby, but she had to go to Iraq’s war. But she met a friend who told her that she shouldn’t go because she would miss a lot of beautiful things about her son and she returned home.

In conclusion, Janine has a hard job because she sees the horrors of the wars, she can’t help the population who suffers them and her life is in danger.

Aitor Basterra

“Am I dying?” The honest answer, by Matthew O'Reilly (Nicole Trumper)

Matthew O’Reilly is a veteran emergency medical technician on Long Island, New York. He has been a first responder in a number of incidents where the patient is dying and he can’t do anything.

There’s a little- known documented medical term called “impending room” that is a symptom that happens when the patient is going to die.

He’s trained to respond to this symptom after reevaluate the patient’s condition.

The problem that he used to have was that he didn’t know if he had to tell them that they are dying or if the best answer is to lie for comfort them.

The first time he faces this trouble he didn’t know what was the best answer to the question: Am I going to die? , so he prefers to lied to the patient because he was afraid.

But this change five years later, when he responded to a motorcycle accident where the rider had suffered critical injuries and was dying.

Matthew decided to tell to the rider the truth, which he was going to die.

The patient only accepted the diagnostic and he felt in peace.

Since that moment Matthew always tells the truth to his patients.

There are a lot of reactions in front of this situation.

Most of the patients accepted and try to be in peace with theme.

Some find this moment for forgiveness about bad things that they had made.

There are some that need to be remember, they need to feel immortality and the last types of people are the ones who have to know that their life had meaning and that they don’t waste their life.

Nicole Trumper

Want to be an activist? Start with your toys, by McKenna Pope (Nicole Trumper)

McKenna Pope is a teenager that explains her experience for make people understand that everyone can make a change.

When she was 13 he convinced to the American toy company Hasbro for change the way that they marketed one of their most famous product, an Easy-Bake Oven.

She did this because her younger brother, Gabi, loved to cook, but he worried about using an Easy-Bake Oven — because it was a toy for girls. Her brother realized that in the commercials and in the boxes of the products were only women’s pictures and also they had very gender-specific colors to females, like pink or purple.

So she tried to change this and she decided to wrote a post in the Change.org page, which is an online petition-sharing platform where everyone can make a petition and share it with all the social media networks, like Tweeter, YouTube, Facebook... and made her online petition for the American toy company Hasbro to change the pink-and-purple color scheme on the classic toy and incorporate boys into its TV marketing

This petition started to take off very quickly; she was interwoven by national outlets.

Hasbro change his product, creating new an Easy-Bake Oven in black, silver and blue.

She realized that her opinions counts and she was able to make a change but for achieve her objective she had to pass a lot of obstacles, like for example people that were disrespectful with her and with her family, and it discouraged her.

But then she realized that there are always going to be people that won’t be agree with you, so if you want to make a change, just do it. 

Nicole Trumper

Why do we need to end the war on drugs? (Aitor Basterra)

In this conference, the famous drug policy reformer Ethan Nadelmann answers the principal question of this polemic: Why do we need to end the war on drugs?

The reformer says that continuing with this world war against the drugs won’t have good results and the best example to prove this is that even the United Estates of America have tried to stop the use of drugs, they haven’t achieved their objective. When we ban the consume of drugs, people continue consuming them although they are illegal.

The governments prohibit the drugs to reduce the consume, but the real solution is to legalize them to regulate the consume. Moreover, if drugs are legal, the drug trafficking bands would disappear.

The legalization would probably increase the consume of drugs but only adults can use them and Nadelmann thinks that the consume would be responsible.

Aitor Basterra

Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model, by Cameron Russell (Ignasi Velázquez)

Cameron Russell it’s a model that explains the other face about the world of fashion. Cameron starts commenting that the image it’s powerful and superficial, and this image have a big impact in our lives. She continues answering some questions that people normally ask him. She explains that the qualities of models it’s a lottery that you will have or not, and say that the world of model and the images that brands create aren’t real, have a lot of tweaks, and a very big team of professionals created the image attractive for the people. And these are the cause that the girls don’t like her bodies in premature lives. In the last question she answer that lives of model is full of insecurity and it doesn’t make the happiness. She concludes saying that with this talk pretends convince to people that they can be more than a model, that image isn’t the success. 

Ignasi Velázquez

Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model (Álvaro Voltà)

The TED TALK was about a model she explained her professional life, during the video she answered questions about her model life.

She said that image is very powerful and change the person too much, she considered that, long time ago, be a model was to have a sexy body and a nice face but nowadays be a model is much more complicate, you have to have a slender legs, soft and white skin, shine hair etc… and this kind of girl verily it doesn’t exist, it’s only the image and the models when they are makeup. She putted 2 photos in her presentation, the first one when she is being a model and the other one when she is a “normal person” and she affirmed she looked like a different person, when she is a model she only has to think about show the best image about the perfect girl and when she is a normal person she was realizing that made girls think that to be attractive is completely necessary be like a model.

To sum up she emphasize that people not only have to look the image of other people and she want that people realized that it doesn’t exist the perfect women, you can be different of a model and be attractive at the same time.

Álvaro Voltà

Jaap de Roode: how butterfiles self-medicate

This conferance is presented by Jaap de Roode a biologist. First of all Jaap explain us that human it's not the only animal that has de ability to self-medicate, many animals can do it for example the elephant that eat some plants to improve their digestive system.

But the important of the conferance it's that Jaap discovered that also the insects have the ability to self-medicate, he discovered doing some exeperiments, for example whatching if the butterfiles preefer to put their eggs in a medicinal plant or an a posionous plant.

In concluison Jaap think that the future of the medicine it's on the behavior of the butterfiles.

Angelo Vermeulen: How to go to space, without having to go to space

Angelo Vermuelen is a scientist, he has been a crew commander for a NASA Mars simulator last year.

Angelo Vermulen in this conferance talk about the creation and the development of starships for the survival of the humanity in the future in possibles travels in the space.

Angelo make some models of starships and to known if they where efficnets live inside their models to known if they are ready to be self-sufficients.

Finaly Angleo talks about some news projects of starships with Camilo Rodriguez

http://www.ted.com/talks/kenneth_shinozuka_my_simple_invention_designed_to_keep_my_grandfather_safe#t-332603
I have watched this ted talk from Kenneth Shinozuka where he explains what he has invented to help his grandfather and other people who have Alzheimer's. His idea consists of a sensor placed in the heel of the patient's sock which is connected to the caregiver's smartphone. This way, when the elders put their feets on the floor the caregivers know it because their phones start ringing.
In my opinion, it's a great improvement for people who is affected by this disease. Someone could think it's simple and not so amazing. However, it's very practic and it can make a difference in their lifestyles. Furthermore, this creation could be applicable to solve other problems.

End of the 2nd term

This is the fourth and last TEDtalk of the 2nd term. I hope this exercise will help you improve your listening skills and also learn interesting things from the speakers!

When is the deadline? The last day to submit your TEDtalk reviews for this term is the 21st of March (included).

Happy maps, by Daniele Quercia (Nicole Trumper)

Daniele Quercia is a scientist and engineer who lived in Boston and worked in Cambridge. He bought a racing bicycle and bicycled every day to work. For find the way he uses him mobile phone and went throw Massachusetts Avenue, the shortest route.

He uses this route but after a month he decided to change it and he felt really surprised because it was beautiful, but he also felt shame because he only trapped in him mobile app, but it only show the shortest path, but he didn’t enjoy the ride.

This experience changed him research to understand how people experience the city. He uses a tool to replicate social science experiments at web scale and he created new maps where people can find the most enjoyable route.

Create this routes is possible with a little bit of imagination, thinking about which parts of the city people find beautiful.

With two colleagues they decided to make a simple experiment; they built a crowd sourcing platform that people have to choose between two images and say which one is more beautiful and based on this idea they find the routes that make people happier.

Then he joined Yahoo Labs and with Luca and Rossano build a new map of the city that consist in a cartography weighted for humans emotions, so people can see the happy segment, the beauty segment or the quiet segment apart from the shortest one.

They also use the smell, the sounds and the memories of people for create new segments

They are trying to avoid the single path, so people can enjoy more the city where they live and it also helps for prevent the routine

Nicole Trumper

Old books reborn as art, by Brian Dettmer (Nicole Trumper)

Brian Dettmer is an artist who cut books for make art. He has done a lot of works; his first one was “Alternate Route to Knowledge”.

He’s interest in the texture,   the text and the images of the book, that’s why he tries to stand out things that he likes, connecting the words with images because when we read our brains create images

He uses a lot of materials, like varnish the outside and then he carve into the surface of the book whatever he find interesting.

He also uses other materials like clamps, ropes, weights for hold things before he varnishes.

He uses a lot of techniques like break out the box of the traditional book, so the book becomes sculptural.

He thinks that people are disturbing by destroying books and they don’t want to throw a book because they considerate a book as living things, as a scale of a body.

Brian considerate a book as a body but also as a tool, as a machine, as technology and as a landscape, that’s why he use materials that remember to a landscape.

He also thinks about the future of the books, what is going to happen with them because now most information is intangible, we can found it in a computer, that’s why is very easy that they start to extinct but he don’t thinks book are going to disappear, in far they are going to evolve and they will become in another form.

Nicole Trumper

How I work to protect women from honor killings, by Khalida Brohi (Alba Bassas)

When she was young Khalida knows in the big injustice due to killed her friend for honor killings. In Pakistan every year killed one thousand people for that reason and Khalida things that it's a big drama. The traditions and customs in Pakistan are very old and off season of century XXI. The women rights wasn't very respected in this countries. The woman rights in western countries are very far to this islamic countries,we undersand the woman must be the same rights in every country on the  world. Against the cruel customs or traditions.

Alba Bassas

How to go to space, without having to go to space, by Angelo Vermeulen (Ignasi Velazquez)

It’s a man who is developing a project that is financed by NASA, he is the commander of these project. The project is about the effect of isolation with a group in a smallest space, simulating the same conditions in Mart. He and other participants lived in a dome for six months. He does another simulation during four month. He said that both simulations were very interesting. He explains that are not simple live with other people during time in a small space, that it’s very psychological. He develops a new project that search new ships prototypes to live people, to live in Mart or in the space. He and a team develop three structures who were presented in different cities. Now he and a companion are developing another simulation in Chile. In conclusion they were searching different forms to life in the space.

Ignasi Velazquez

How to make stress your friend, by Kelly McGonigal (Kassandra Lumbera)

Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist to make sure welfare and happiness.

Stress can makes us sick. It increases the risk of all from cold to cardiovascular disease.
She believes that she converted the stress on the enemy, so she changed her opinion.
Now she wants to change our opinion.

A studied realized in the states participated 30000 people. People who thought that stress was harmful die, but people who has a lot of stress but don't think that is harmful they have a minor risk of death. During 8 years previously died 182000 american people. They didn't die for stress, they died because they thought that stress was harmful. This study made McGonigal think if we can change our perspective about stress and make us more healthy? Science believes that it's possible. If we change our opinion about stress it changes the answer of our body.

A studied realized in the University of Harvard taught how to reformulate the answer to stress, like: if your heart beats fast it just that its preparing for the action or if you're a breathing too fast it means that more oxygene is arriving to brain.

McGonigal objective is not to break up with stress, only to prepare you to face stress.

Kassandra Lumbera

How to go to space without having to go to space, by Angelo Vermeuler (Alex Bernat)

In this video, Angelo Vermeuler explains a research program that tries to study how would be to live in Mars.

He had been four months isolated in a simulator with six person which meant lots of psychological challenges, including sleep problems. He learnt about how to keep a crew productive and happy.

Angelo admits that some day we are going to inhabitate the space. But for it we need to do more research.

Another project challenges to come up with starships prototypes which would ensure surviving in the space. It invites people to reimagine our future one step away from Earth. Many countries took part on it.

The objective of this projects is to learn how to create a new future introducing architecture, biology... and old traditions at the same time.

Alex Bernat