How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed

By: Daniel Levitin
Neurosiencist.


Daniel start explaining some of his own troubles like one time his forgot his keys and was the night and was a deep freeze moreover on the morning he need to take a fly to another place but he can't enter in her own house.
So he take a stone and broke one of the windows.
The next morning go to the airport but he forgot her passport so he need to return to his own house take the passport and for lucky he arrived in time.

Then was talking this with a friend and he finally arrived to the conclusion what you can't control the trouble like hi can make order with the keys or passport but he can control how he will face the trouble.

When we are stress our our brain produces one substance that is toxic for ours, that substance abolish our primary functions of metabolism and others ,include the rational function.
This is because in the past when you are the prey and face the predator your body waste all energy in keep focus to make a fast and quick and obiously good choice. The body eliminates that funtions because if you are ate that troubles than you could have ,don't have importance now.

So ,in other words when we are stress we are in a complication situation that can't be hard but also can't be controlled and you need face you trouble like if the trouble would be the predator, so the solution than Daniel propose is to make all in order , all as you can of course and try to imagine the trouble like a place where you are searching something and with order you will be able to find that you are searching for, the solution of you trouble.


To sum up , in my opinion the solution works, because despiste you don't eliminate the toxic substance you make another substances with right choices whose allow to keep calm and face the troubles like a simple task of order.
You will be using your brain ,yeah i know it's strange and different way to use it that we aren't usually use but is really useful so , if you are reading this think the next time when you have a trouble and then try to order the troubler like if you are searching a key.

Thanks for reading and have a nice day.

-Adrià Castellví

Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over Europe?

In this Ted Talk, a woman that have been in a lot of caves with his husband, try to explain us that the ancient cultures from a lot of years ago, are very interesting to study, she already did it, she went to a lot of already explored caves and in the 75% of this caves she and his husband found new and unknown paintings.

This woman try to explain us that the signs that are in all around Europe are very similar, they are just 32 signs that are used like a signs language.

That makes us think, because if this signs language were a way of communicating of the oldest cultures we know, we are in front of the oldest signs language known.

In all this caves appear signs like a triangle or a circle, trying to tell us something that we are not able to understand, but in the past, they made that in the cave to tell people that came later that there happened something, or even to tell them that the place wasn't very good, or a lot of other things, like where to find food, or even where to find people.

Finally, I think this Ted Talk have been very interesting to listen, and to sum up, I would like to say that i didn't know a lot of this signs symbols in all the caves of Europe, but now I know that they were used to communicate with others.

Jofre Torner

The surprising way groups like ISIS stay in power

The surprising way groups like ISIS stay in power

In this Ted talk I can see a girl called Benedetta Berti who study the actions that make terrotist groups or other cain of assossiation that makes caos and destroy all the things that they would like. Benedetta talk about the behavior of this groups like ISIS when they aren’t kiling people. She says that to stop this terrorist groups we must have to know her interests if we like to kill them. The most per cent of terrorist groups no only shoot and kill everyone, also behind all of this attacks they have a political influence. This groups like ISIS have a diferent adversting like journals that with this type of comunications different people can join this groups. And no only this, they have diferents legal bussines like construction of structures that with this money they can pay the diferents thing that they use to be stronger. A very important thing is that this terrorist groups to get the support of the society they offer protection and security. To sum up when we think about this groups we can’t consider only the kills and attacks that they made, but also they have a lot of political and economical things that we surprise with them.  

Could we cure HIV with lasers? by:Patience Mthunz

Could we cure HIV with lasers? 

by:Patience Mthunz

Patience Mthunz ,explains that nowadays if we have a headache we just swallow an aspirin and in sexteen minutes, the aspirin arrive at the zone were is originated the headache. Then he starts to explain a solution to eradicate HIV, without hurting other organs, and more eficiently than taking drugs.

She starts explaining how actually we try to slow down the synthoms of the virus. During the  trajectoroy of does medicines a part of that medicines arrive and another part of does medicines get diluted in the blood and don't have the same effects to the virus.

She had an idea that was to cure the HIV with the help of a micro laser, that makes a hole that inmediatly close to the infected cel, to put the drugs directly inside the infected cell.

She propose to do that with a machine, that is based in three parts the first part is a camera to see the cell , the second part is the micro laser to make the hole, and the last one is a drug sprinkler that have the drugs to introuce into the hole.

But nowadays this technology is being tested in the laboratories with tubtests, and in petri dish. But maybe one day will eradicat HIV from our body.

To conlcude Patience Mthunz propose a new system to eradicate HIV this one is a  micro laser, but nowadays we don't have technology do it.

Alex Tallada

MY PHILOSOFY FOR A HAPPY LIFE BY SAM BERNS: (Irene Vezzoli)

Sam is a seveenteen-year-old girl who is a victim of progeria, a very rare illness which only affects 350 people around the world and which effects include a lack of weigh, heart deseases and no hair.

She explains  that two years ago she wanted to play the snare drum in the school band, but there was a problem. Each of those intruments weights 50 pounds and she weights less than 25 pounds. So logistically it was impossible for her to carry it, but she wanted to play it in the school band so bad, so Sam and her family worked with an engineer to design a lighter instrument and after a log time working, they constructed a 6 pound snare drum.

Next, she explains that a year ago in an interview we was asked the question “What is the most important thing people should know about you?” and her answer was as simply as “I have a very happy life”. Even though she has to deal with a lot of obstacles in her life all produced by progeria, she tries as hard as she can to life a happy life. In her opinion, there are two aspects for a happy life. The first is  “be ok with what you can’t do because there’s so much you can do” and the second is “sorround yourself with people you want to be arround”.

To conclude she sais that she has been following this philosophy all her life and thanks to that, she is now able to live an almost normal and happy life.

THE LOST ART OF LETTER-WRITING - Marina G.M.

THE LOST ART OF LETTER-WRITING

In this TED talk a woman, whose father died ten years ago, talks about the legacy that people leave when they die and about the lost art of letter-witing.

 Lakshmi Pratury tells us that when her father died he left to her handwriting letters and a note book with his thoutghts about her and suggestions for improvement. Since that day she has never recieved a letter and it has made her realise we are loosing them.

She says that the legacy has to be a kind of value, not economic, not things without any personal touch and that she has decided that when she dies she will leave her son  a note book published with her father's thoughts and her owns.

To end up with her speech, she reads a note she took at her father's cremation. She regrets she hasn't spent enough time with her father and she says he should had been with him during the two years he was ill and that she would change everithing she has done since then only for a hug.

Could we cure HIV with lasers?

Could we cure HIV with lasers?

This video speaks about the virus of VIH, and the new solution with advanced technologies, with lasers.

When the people swallow a medicaments these are dissolution in the stomach and this is a problem for the people with VIH. When they takes a drug, this reduce the number of virus in the blood, but have secondary bad effects because are slow to arrive the destination and this can weak up and can infected other zones of the body.

Actually exist a solution, the drugs can take directly on the center of the virus, with lasers. This lasers are powerful and super tinny and is injected on the membrane of the cell with the drug, in microseconds the hole it is immediately repaired. The objective is to transport this technology in the human body, this is possible with a mechanism with three heads, the first is for the incision, the second is a camera and the third is an injector with the drug.

One day this technology it can be used to total eradication of the virus, yes, the cure for the VIH.

Toni Garau Gil

Alzheimer's is not normal aging - Dr. Samuel Cohen

This video talks about Alzheimer's disease and Dr. Samuel Cohen claims about the lack of attention that the society puts to prevent it compared with other diseases. We must take care of this disease because more than 40 million of people suffer it currently and it supposes almost the same number of deaths than cancer.
Meanwhile in USA invests 5 billions USD to study and battle cancer, only 0'5 billions USD are allocated to research Alzheimer.
Doctor explains what suppose this degenerative disease and some of its stages.
I think it's very important to prevent it and following it, step by step, the healing or if already developed, stop the process.


link: http://www.ted.com/talks/samuel_cohen_alzheimer_s_is_not_normal_aging_and_we_can_cure_it#t-460854

LGBT ARROUND THE WORLD

In this TedTalk, two gay girls explain to the public how is the life for gays, they try to explain to everyone, to make them understand, that being gay, transexual, lesbian... is not something bad, and that some places should start to fight for equality.

During their talk, they showed us a lot of places that they visited from all arround the world, they where looking for gay people leaving in places that being gay is very bad. They were asking this people how the life is for them in their country. Most of the people that were interviewed knew that there is no equality in their countrys, but it's just about time that the equality arrives to every place in the world and not in the western countries.

I would like to think that this is true, but unfortunately i think that there are many closed minds, even in the western countries, that make the life of this people harder or even impossible. Some people don't even know that they are making homophobic actions while they do them. So what i think is that we need a lot more time to change the world to equality, new openminded generations have to arrive and accept this people normally, because they are normal.

Jofre Torner

Underwater astonishments

This video talk about the different species that we can found in the oceans. The person who presents this topic is David Gallo, who is an ocean explorer. David says that humans only and know the 2% of the species and zones that exist in the oceans. In this zones we can found a lot of animals and plants.  The oceans are more richer in biodiversity than tropical forests, which tells us we do not know much of our planet, and that we don’t know a lot of plants and animals. David finally teaches us different images of marine species that and explains what happens in them, including octopus,  different species of extravagant fishes, and they says the because of their actions.

Street art with a message of hope and peace

This text is about a man who used to paint graffitis, he wanted to give a message of peace and love. This man explains, that the first time he painted on a building, in his native town in Tunissia, decides to write messages of peace, using his mother tongue, Arabic.

He was also surprised to seethat journalists of all the world , were going to see his works. For the Iman , that was de owner of the first building he painted, the graffitis were not only graffiti, they transmited a message. He also says that even the Arabic people, have to pay attention to understand the meaning of the graffitis. He aslo went to Rio de Janeiro, were people asked him to make a grafitti for Gabriela Torres Barbosa, that was a very important person in the Fabelas. In the begining people of the Fabelas, didn't know the meaning of his writting, but after an explenation of what it means, they were very grateful to him for what he had done.

Alexjandro Tallada

How to succeed? Get more sleep.

The value of sleep

 Arianne Huffington shares an small idea that can unlock a billion of big ideas.

She explained that long time ago she fainted from exhaustion and this experience helped her to rediscover, in the hard way, the value of sleep. So, she started to study its value with medical doctors and scientists. And her research taught her that the way to be more productive, more inspired, more joyful in life is getting enough sleep.

We have had a lot of brilliant leaders in bussiness, in finance, in politics,.. making terrible decisions. This means that a high IQ does not mean that you're a good leader, because "the essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it heats the Titanic".

Furthermore, what is good for us in a personal level, what is going to bring more joy, gratitude, effectiveness in our lifes and be the best for our own career is also, what is best for the world. So she urged to shut our eyes down and find out the great ideas that lie inside us, to shut our engines and discover the power of sleep.

To sum up, sleeping  can increase our productivity, our happiness and our smarter desicion making, so sleep enough guys.

Toni Garau Gil

AN INTERNET WITHOUT SCREENS MIGHT LOOK LIKE THIS

Tom Uglow is the designer that talks on this video, he speaks about the future, the future with new technologies and the natural solutions and simple tools can coexist.

First, a good design should be natural and simple, but the phones are not natural and of course not simples. More people think that we are addicted with the phones, but really we are addicted the information that it goes in them. We waiting get all in any places, like a weather, or online matches, with only one click.

All humans we like the simple tools, and this man design simple tools for different situations. One of them is an object that capture your feelings, and when you arrive in home you can see the different feelings that you had in all of the day, and only is a little box.

To sum up, say that is a good idea for the future and I am very excited for see this objects one day, and think that in the future have a simple things with a lot of information, is incredible.

WHAT I’VE LEARNED FROM MY AUTISTIC BROTHERS - Marina G.M.

WHAT I’VE LEARNED FROM MY AUTISTIC BROTHERS

Faith Jegede explains how her life has changed because of the fact that her two younger brothers are autistic and how it has influenced her worldview.

One of her brothers is Remi, who is 22 years old, is speechless and has the virtues as unconditionality honesty, respect and he has an incredible memory. He remembers, for example, songs from their childhood. 

The other is Samuel, who is 16 and who also has an impeccable memory, for example, he can remember conversations of his childhood.

She thinks they are incredible and because of her positivism, as most people think they aren’t ordinary, she think it’s because they are extraordinary and she praises the fact that we are all different, she says this is a gift and that normality would force us to hide it. 

In conclusion, Faith Jegede is proud of the pure and innocent nature of her brothers and about how it has made her realise about that they exist different worldviews and that there is not better form to be than beeing ourselves. She ends her speech saying: “Please, don’t tell me I’m normal”.

Marina G.M.

How we can grow new brain cells

 -Sandrine Thuret

Topic : "You can grow new brain cells.Here's how"

As the most of us know, when we are child we learn easly when we are adult.

When we grow up and getting older is more hard to learn something but even been old we can regenerate the nervous cells that help to everything to our brain. 

That event happened in the hypocampus ,until now that part of the brain have the function manly of memory but seems like there is more than that.

Sandire and other scientist have discover a new function of the hypocampus .Also can regenerate brain cells and this is a amazing discover because means we can upgrade and improve our sanity health our brain capacity and the quality of our memory.

That fenomen is know as Neurogenesis.

Neuro Genesis study how we do that and more interesting how we could use it.

So the manly question is ... We can control it ? The answer is yes 

The key to control that ability is with some of our activities whose can beneficent Neurogenesis or can blocked. 

For Instance , run ,health food , have sex ( yes , have sex to ) there are some of activities than let control Neurogenesis

Now things that aren't good for Neurogenesis are been stressed or sleep few hours.

When the scientist show to pictures of two people one usually runner another  without doing exercise never , the person who run have the hypocampus really envolved in comparation and have a lot of nervous cells more than the other simple person.

And to sump up a few surprises more , the Neurogenesis also cure the symptoms of depreasure even with or without antipsychotics .

If you have an unlucky and have a several wound or lines that impide you run don't worry ,not only run work , also other fysical activities would work to.

My personal opinion is that discover is wonderfull , with positive actions we help our brain and even improve our memory or other mental skills which are really necessary in everything we can forge our brain not only with our age also with a good life style.

Even more , this are the scouting reports of her functions , in the future imagine we can use that to cure the heavy troubles and mental disfuntions destroying the corrupted nervous cells and replaced for news cells that we ourselves create.

Really amazing , thanks for your time of reading i hope that you are enjoyed as me.

  -Adrià Castellví 

Ji-Hae Park: The violin, and my dark night of the soul (Roc Vela)

In this rather short but interesting TedTalk, the incredible musician Ji-Hae Park explains her relationship with music whilst playing the violin. The TedTalk begins with the touching violin concerto "Summer" in A minor by Antonio Vivaldi , a powerful and really expressive piece of baroque music.

After this short opus, she tells the audience that, although she may look happy, she suffered a severe painful depression that only her beloved instrument could stop, as her family and friends' words didn't help her at all. She then plays the sorrowful Nocturne for piano and violin in C-sharp minor by Fréderic Chopin, and in the middle of it Park says that her only desire was to be a successful musician, but the pressure that it meant ruined her life. She now plays because she WANT TO, not because she HAS TO, and the Nocturne ends with a heart-warming applause.

Finally, she explains that she has finished a project called "Baroque in Rock", in which she mixes old music with modern one, such as rock. She plays a part of it, but before that she tells the audience that changing their perspectives will transform them and the whole world.

In conclusion, Ji-Hae Park talks about her relationship with music while playing it, and explains her depression when trying to become successful. In my opinion, it is very common in musicians to pass through a large depression, usually because the teachers' pressure (mostly in conservatories and other certificated music schools), and we should play music only when we want to.

Roc Vela

WHITE PRIVILEGE AND BLACK GENOCIDE

WHITE PRIVILEGE AND WHITE GENOCIDE (BY CAMERON RUSSEL), Irene Vezzoli:

Cameron Russel, who has been working as a model for ten years, says that the image is very powerful, but also superficial. It has a huge impact on our lifes and except for surgery, there’s very little that we can do to transform the way we look like.

She explains that she became a model because she’s a pretty white skinny girl and nowadays, this is the description of sexyness. Furthermore, she thinks that if she was a black girl, she probably wouldn’t be working as a model.

As an experimented professional, she knows that all of her photos are retouched, and she says that they doesn’t reflect reality, because they are constructions made by another group of professionals. In her opinion, this makes the rest of the society feel like they’re less, that they are ugly, because they do nothing but compare their bodies with the models ones.

She also points out that she doesn’t understand why so many girls want to become models when they can be whatever they want and have better lifes than models have.

To conclude, she says that we all should be more comfortable knowing the power that our image have on our sucesses and on our failures, and it shouldn’t scare us.

Relative pronouns and second Tedtalk

Hi students, have a look at this page, it's a good summary of the relative pronouns.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/relative-pronouns

By the way, next Friday 6th of November is the deadline for the second Tedtalk review.

Marçal