by Andy Puddicombe (Christian Par)

In this ted talk, Andy Puddicombe wants to explain us how to meditate, he explanis that nowadays the people doesn’t stay 10 minuts to don’t do nothing.

He says us that we have to learn that meditate is not only put incense and sit in dificult positions, and that we have to experience the present moment.

Christian Par

by Joe Landolina (Christian Par)

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 could save lifes, for exemple if someone shot you to the leg and we apply this gel we will stop the bleeding very fast and we will save our life.

Christian Par

5 ways to kill your dreams, by Bel Pesce (Ignasi Velzquez)

It’s a woman that explains the five ways that we should not do to get own dreams. The first thing is that success is achieved with effort, not sudden, and she puts the example of him, that she obtains the MIT working hard. The second thing that you wouldn’t do to obtain your dreams believe’s that another person has the answers for yourself. Third, don’t stop when growth is guaranteed, you must be ambitious. Fourth, to get your dream you shouldn’t blame to other person, because it’s your dream, and if you want him, you will do all that it’s in your hand to taked. Finally, the last point is believe that all that matters are the dreams, and that’s wrong, because you have a live that you won’t leave to get your dream, because get your dream is a specific and momentary moment, perhaps life and the way of life is long and she can give you more than one moments of felicity.

Ignasi Velzquez

The best kindergarten you’ve ever seen (Aitor Basterra)

This conference is about a school for small kids located in Tokyo. It is different from other kindergartens because the shape of the building is a circle and there aren’t walls (they think that the students have to learn with the noise and experiencing the different temperatures). The playground is on the roof and there are some trees that the kids can climb. Moreover the school has a playing area that is a little bit dangerous because the philosophy of the kindergarten is that the kids have to learn with some danger because life sometimes isn’t safe and they learn to help their friends.

Aitor Basterra López 

Terry Moore: Why is 'x' the unknown? (Giulia Pérez-Pujol)

Giulia Pérez-Pujol Nichilo

Terry Moore: Why is 'x' the unknown?

This Ted Talk from Terry Moore explains why the letter “x” is the unknown letter that is always used in mathematics and in our lifes, like: the price x, the x files, project x, …

Moore says he studied Arabic 6 years ago, and says that is a language absolutely logic and that’s the reason why the algebra and all the mathematic systems of occident were formulated by the Arabian people.

The problem appeared when Arabians wanted to inculcate this mathematics in Europe, because there are some Arabian sounds that didn’t exist in the European language, so the sound “sh” means “something” but with the prefix “al” it means “something unknown”.

So the Arabians borrowed the sound “ck” from the classic greek that sounds like “ji”, and consequently, it was translated to latin that means the letter “x” for the Europeans.

In conclusion, the letter x is the letter that means the unknown because the Arabic language have lots of sounds which didn’t exist in the European language.

Shimpei Takahashi: Play this game to come up with original ideas

This Ted Talk is presented by a Japanese toys designer named Shimpei Takahashi. In the conferanec Shimpei explain us that we should not think about the analyzing data or about the possibles sales we sholud only think about come up with ideas.

After that he shows many toys that he created using a technique called Shiritori, this techinque is used for create originals toys, we have only to link the finals lettres of diferents word and the ideas will come.

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

Roc Castelló

The key to success? Grit, by Angela Lee Duckworth (Ignasi Velázquez)

This TED Talk, explains what we should foment to have success. Angela during a lot of years investigated students, military, doing test and stadistics. She found that not the most intelligent persons haven’t the bests marks. At the first time she doesn’t know why, but after she found the key. She explains that perseverance is the best form to reach the goal. She doesn’t know, the form to develop perseverance, but the most similar with perseverance is growth mindset, this idea believe that the ability to learn is not fixed, that can change with effort. She finished saying she are searching more information to know about perseverance.

Ignasi Velázquez

Play This Game to Come Up With Original Ideas, by Shimpei Takahashi (Júlia Santanach)

Shimpei Takahashi is a creator of games. Since always he have had a lot of ideas, but the pressure to use data as a starting point for design quashed his creativity. Then, he found the form to obtain new ideas: Shitori.

This device called Shitori takes three words, then it relates the words and creates a new idea that have relation with the three words at the same time.

Finally, Takahashi explain that Shitori is not necessary to create ideas: We only have to associate words to obtain new ideas.

Júlia  Santanach

How to Speak so that People Want to Listen, by Julian Treasure (Borja Galofré)

In this Ted Talk, a man called Julian Treasure talks about the human voice and how to speak so that people want to listen.

When someone in gossiping, judging, being negative, complaining or lying, most people don't want to listen what he is saying.

Using in a correct way our voice, ( his register, timbre, prosocly, pace pitch and volume) we can speak powerfully and desing enviroments consciously for sound. Only in this way, people will listen to us.

Borja Galofré

How we unearthed the spinosaurus by Nizar Ibrahim (Àlvaro Voltà)

Nizar Ibrahim talk about spinosaurus, a rare and unknown dinosaurs that have different characteristics of a lot of this creatures

He say that once a group of people found spinosaurus bones in Sahara desert but with the II world war it disappeared but they conserve some draw and some text about this kinds of animals, so they have the necessary information to know the spinosaurus.

As the documents they have spinosauros was bigger than T-Rex, the giants of this creature, it had the teeth similar than the crocodile but stronger and a little bit bigger and knowing how were its bones they could deduce that it was a water dinosaur and he used to live in rivers.

Nizar say that it was strange that this terrible creature not be known, T-Rex is the most popular dinosaur for his big size and spinosaurus it was bigger and he want that people know this incredible animal.

Àlvaro Voltà

Why I Love The Vultures by Munir Virani (Àlvaro Voltà)

Munir Virani talk about the vultures, a bird species that have a high risk of extinction.

Firstly he make a compare vultures with politicians, he say that when you see a vulture, it remembers you to a politicians

Munir talk about the types of vulture there are in world, and where are the major part of them,  in Kenya and he ask the public why do they think vultures are important for humans. The answer is that vultures help to bacteria’ to remove the organic material and the died animals, so they clean up all the organisms and the bones of animals that would discompose in long time, so they help to ecosystem.

The second part of his talk is about why are the vultures in risk of extinction  and he said that the major part of them died with some poison or substances the human put inside the animals to cure or kill and in consequently vultures eat when the animals died and they dead as well.

The solution of this problem is not a local one unless a international because vultures travel to other countries and move a lot, so all the world would have to care the substances they put in animals and try to see the consequences could become if we manages this kind of poisons.

Àlvaro Voltà

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

The Best Kindergarten You've Ever Seen, by Takaharu Tezuka (Júlia Boronat)

The Best Kindergarten You've Ever Seen, by Takaharu Tezuka

I have watched this ted talk from Takaharu Tezuka which shows the original design of a japanese kindergarten. It is a round building with a big round playground in the centre. The roof is part of the playgroud too. This way children can go up and down playing inside or outside whenever they want. There are also some trees where kids can climb without the risk of be seriously injured because below them we find a safety net. Another feature of this kindergarten is that there are no boundaries between classrooms, so children don't feel they are in a box.

I decided to watch this video because I wanted to know why they had designed a kindergarten so different than the common ones. At the end I have realised that there are advantages and disadvantages, like everywhere.

The year I was homeless (Cristina Peralta)

Becky Blanton is a writter and a journalist. She learned to be invisible because three years ago was a worker homeless. Her father dies and she starts to travel and lived in a camping with her cat and rottweller. 

First, she has time to relax but then she starts to thing about her life, about the things that she had and has now. And arrives to the conclusion that the society values and qualify a person for their home.

Thousand of people work full and part-time jobs, and live in their cars. But society continues to stigmatize and criminalize living in your vehicle or on the streets. So the homeless, the working homeless, primarily remain invisible.

But if your ever meet one, engage them, encourage them, and offer them hope. The human spirit can overcome anything if it has hope.

I think people are not where they live, where they sleep, or what their life situation is at any given time. I think that everybody needs hope always, because it's the best way.

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

How to live passionatelly no matter your age, by Isabelle Allende (Kassandra Lumbera)

Isabelle Allende is 71 years old who tries to live passionatelly.

 ̈When we start aging? ̈ society decides this, probably at the age of 65. But Allende explains that we start aging at birth and we all experience differently. We all feel younger than our age, because the spirit never ages.

What Allende has lost in the last decades? She has lost people, places, and the boundless energy of her youth and she is starting to lose independence and it scares her. Ram Dass says that independency hurts, but if you accept it, it's less suffering. Allende has lost a lot of things, but she has gained freedom, lightness, softness and spirituality. She tries to live mindfully and be present in the moment.

So, how can she stay passionate? She says yes to life, trying to stay in love... Allende has chosen to stay passionate engaged with an open heart. She works on it every day.

Kassandra Lumbera

Do schools kill creativity, by Ken Robinson (Berta Queralt)

In the video "Do schools kill creativity" presented by Ken Robinson, he speaks on that the schools only teach the education and don't treat the creativity which in a school would be necessary to treat this topic.

He speaks on that they center very much on academic topics and on the other hand on the art and the music they leave it aside and say to the pupil that if he devotes himself professionally to these topics, it won't go a long way.

Once the child is already a young man they don't worry as himself it has a manners minimum in the education.

The educational system of now is done only for the academic integrity, and that is necessary to change it and to teach the creativity.

In my opinion, I agree with the thought that Ken Robinson proposes. Nowadays, in the majority schools only are fixed in  the level academician of that pupils, when they would have to concentrate much more that the pupils go out of these educational centers being persons.

Berta Queralt

By Lizzie Velasquez (Alba Bassas)

I choose this video because it's a great inspiration for me, this girl it's my afflatus because she explains how to deal with the problems, and how we do it.

First of all, trust oneself this is the most important rule for you. The second rule, i thing that is the reverse psychology, use problems to have more strong. and thirdly not be afraid of anything or anyone.

In my view this is the best example of the superation. This lessons these are the lessons I've learned in this video by Lizzie Velasquez.

Thanks Lizzie because you help many persons with your lessons.

Alba Bassas

My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe (Alex Dass)

Summary

In this ted talk explain about the Alzheimer, one guy have grandfather with this disease for this reason, this guy (Kenneth Shinozuka) investigates for find the solution for the problem of Alzheimer. In this moment no have cure of this disease but this guy invents one sock for when the patient getting up alert the person to care. This stock has Bluetooth, when do the pressure to stock send message the mobile to care. Now this guy sell this product for every world because improve care the persons of Alzheimer.

Opinion

My opinion about this ted talk is very positive because I think this guy have a future promising. The invent created is very utility, for the society because much people have Alzheimer. In conclusion, say the maybe in one close future this guy fined the cure of this disease.

Alex Dass

Taking Imagination Seriously, by Janet Echelman's (Berta Queralt)

A book written by her “Art of Thought”, in the fifth chapter mentioned a series of characteristics that the creative persons have: dynamic, inventive, bold, hard-working and independent. These features, they are those who belong to the stage of the lighting.

In Janet’s discussion, after obtaining a few conclusions, the way of seeing the art changed completely.

The curiosity, the creativity and the imagination, there are the fundamental props them to work every day, since these features will change our life and the world. The society uses these features but the problem is that it does not make a good use of them.

In summary, the human beings we are lucky to have the aptitude to create across the imagination and with this gift the persons we don’t make use of it to the maximum. We have the instrument to create things, if there are the fiction and the creativity can use to obtain conclusions every day.

Berta Queralt

Adora Svitak (Borja Galofré)

Adora Svitak is a child prodigy who says, that the world needs is "childish" thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to learn from children as much as to teach.

When she thinks about Imperialism, world wars, politicians, she realize that adults are responsible, on the other hand she can see a lot of good actions peformed by kids for example Anne Frank, Ruby Bridges or recently Charlie Simpson. In all these examples age has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Is because she thinks that the age-discriminatory word “childish” should be abolish. She supports the idea that both children and adults must to learn each other.

She loves to write from she was 4 years old, she has wrote over 300 short stories, she wanted to get published, her parents support her, but unfortunately many publishers weren’t so encouraging, one of them said that they didn’t work with chlidren... strange way doing business...

I want to emphasize two main ideas, one is that adults can learn a lot from kids and another that adults must lend an ear today to children, because they are the leaders of tomorrow.

Borja Galofré

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

Here a young woman named Ted McKenna Pope and has 14 years appears. This tells us that when she was 13, convinced one of the largest toy manufacturers in the world, Hasbro, to change the way they sold one of their best sellers. All this was because she has a brother, Gavin who loved to cook but then realized that in ads and kitchenettes boxes of Hasbro's marketed specifically for girls. And they did just showing pictures of girls in boxes or in advertisements, and had kitchenettes flowery prints in bright pink and violet, very specific colors of the female gender and thus were transmitting a message that only girls should cook, not children. And this much discouraged his brother think the chef could not because he believed it was something just for girls.

Then she decided to make her voice heard Hasbro to tell them what they did wrong and ask them to change through a website called Change.org. So she created a petition and add a YouTube video Hasbro basically asking them to change the way they marketed the kitchenettes showing children in ads, on boxes, especially using less feminine colors.

Your request tube very successful. He was interviewed in all these national media and press.

Finally, Hasbro invited him to his office to show me her new kitchenette in black, silver and blue. She says that moento was one of the best moments of your life. And he could also realize that he had turned activist since she could change something, even as a child.

Tati Torrents

How to make stress your friend, by Kelly McGonigal (Maria Rodríguez)

This Ted Talk talks about stress, because thanks to a studio made by her she concludes that stress is not a bad thing, the bad thing is believing stress is bad, and that believe is what could cause the death.

The oxytocin is the gland that appears when, for example you give a hug to someone, but it’s also the gland of stress. Some people say that we should inhale oxytocin to become more compassionate and understanding.

The biological response of stress takes you to tell someone how do you feel and that helps you to connect with people obliging you to say how do you feel. The oxytocin is a natural anti-inflammatory. It acts over the body. The heart also have receptors for this hormone.

All these benefits are when you have social contacts and you receive social support. So if you help someone you will liberate more of this toxin.

She finish the talk, talking about an example about making stress someone next to you. Because people who spend time carrying for others do not show an increase of stress levels. Carrying created resilience to stress.

The way you think and the way you act can transform your experience in front of stress. When you chose to see your response in front stress like something positive is when courage appears. She says that stress give us access to our heart.

Maria Rodríguez

Angel Vermeulen: How to go to space, without having to go to space (Esteve Azemar)

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

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

Angel Vermoulen is a man who Works with the NASA in a project named Hi-Seas which consist in investigated the effects of staying in a small place living with a few people. There he had been thinking about a new system of feed and about our future in the space.

He began to think about a new project called Seeker which is about investigated prototypes that re-envision human habitation. The idea is send a few people in one of those prototypes that are like starships. Those starships has been created in different countries like Holland, Slovenia and they were made thinking about ecology, human and technology. Nowadays they think about built one of this prototypes in China, specifically in a place very arid that makes to think more about sustainability.

With all, he pretends to fins our future in the space exploring the integration between technologies, people and biology and exploring our local traditions for integrate all things into future.

In my opinion, I think that is a good made this kind of investigations because is true that it’s seems that we think a lot of how we are going to live if we are going to live in the future into the space. 

https://www.ted.com/talks/david_eagleman_can_we_create_new_senses_for_humans?language=en
I have watched this ted talk from David Eagleman which shows that our experience of reality is constrained by our biology. This means that we feel the surronding world through our senses. For example, we are able to see a little range of waves while honeybees can feel ultraviolet waves. The same happens with smell, touch, hearing and taste. Each animal feel the world in a different way depending on the receptors they have. However, our brain works with electrochemical signals and it doesn't matter where they come from. That's why artificial hearing or vision help deaf and blind people. David is not only interested in sensory substitution, he's working on sensory addition too. He has designed a vest that converts some kind of information it percieves into electrochemical signals that our brain can undestrand somehow.
I have enjoyed this video because I could follow the explanations easily although the information was a bit complex. Refering to David's idea I think it could be a revolution.