Students of the year 2017-18, welcome to this blog, welcome to the tedtalks activity.
You have to post your summaries of the first tedtalk under this post by the 16th of October. In your comment you have to include your name and a link to the tedtalk you have chosen.
I hope you learn a lot of things from this activity and you also enjoy it!
https://www.ted.com/talks/bahia_shehab_a_thousand_times_no#t-321969
ResponEliminaIn this video, we can see how an Arab woman explains her work when she was invited to a congress held every 100 years that deals with Islamic works in Europe.
Apart from this work, which was based on all kinds of ways of saying not appearing in different works, these works I use to paint them on the street when the Islamic revolution of 2011 arose.
From the outbreak of the revolution explains different facts that pass in Cairo, Egypt. Cases like nudes by the army to women, or shot at men who are blind, ...
Victor Marimón Luna
https://www.ted.com/talks/marco_tempest_maybe_the_best_robot_demo_ever?language=en
ResponEliminaThis video begins introducing Marco Tempest and his robot named Edi.
The robot is design to make it closer to the people.
Tempest says a very curious phrase: " Robots can't anticipate human actions". This means that robots always have to be below humans.
New technologies can help us a lot in our lives.
At the end of the video Marco makes a little magic performance with the robot.
In conclusion this new technology has seemed interesting to me and that technologies can do very innovative things.
Ona Urquizu Cáceres
https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_suarez_a_12_year_old_app_developer/up-next
ResponEliminaThis Ted talk is about a 12 year old kid, named Thomas Suarez, who has inveted and developed two Iphone apps, one of them is called Bustin Jeiber. Thomas started creating apps with basic programs like Java. His personal goal is that children of more less his age, learn to create videogames and apps. With the money he will raise with his apps, he will donate it for organizations that teach how to create apps.
In the whole video, he explains how and why he create his apps, and his currently objectives.
I chose this video because I found it interesting that a child of only 12 years, has created 2 apps himself, when I don't know how to create one.
-Bea de la Cruz
https://www.ted.com/talks/william_kamkwamba_on_building_a_windmill#t-179564
ResponEliminaOne day after school William Kamkwamba found a book in the library about energy. Next, he built a windmill with the knowledges he learnt to generate electricity for his house, the windmill generates 12 Whatts, with this power it can turn on four lights bulbs and two radios.
He's at the moment looking for materials for building a big one to provide energy to irrigate the village crops.
Ferran Sanz Vela
Thomas Suarez with 12 years he started developing apps, the first was Earth Fortune, an app that show us diferent colors of the earth depeanding in your fourtune. Later he mada an app called Bustin Bieber, this was the most succefull that he made until now. Then Thomas want to give lessons to how made an app.
ResponEliminaThomas for the futer wants to create more apps not only for IOS system also for android, and he wants to continious with the app club and find other ways to students to show knowleg with others.
I chose this video beacuse in many times I want to create some apps but never i know how, beacuse don't show how to create one in any place.
ROGER HERRERO MENDIZABAL
ResponEliminahttps://www.ted.com/talks/david_lee_why_jobs_of_the_future_won_t_feel_like_work#t-594238
This video talks about why jobs of the future won't feel like work.
Explains us that our inovation in tecnologi that we are putting ourselves into a jobless future. Calculates than in 10 years over 20 milion jobs will be substituded by robots. To avoid the robots invading our jobs, David Lee says that we need to crate jobs or adapt them to unlock our talents. He says that becous in weekends we are diferent people for example we are carpenters, mecanics, artists... Maybe robots can do faster a work like screew up screews to weels but they cant invent things, they dont have imagination they will only do one thing, screew, for wat they are programed.
David Lee explain how we could change jobs to avoid beeng replaced for robots.
BRU SANZ VELA
ResponEliminahttps://www.ted.com/talks/joseph_redmon_how_a_computer_learns_to_recognize_objects_instantly
The TED TALK that I've seen is "How computers learn to recognize objects instantly" by Joseph Redmon.
Joseph explain the evolution of how computers recognize diferent objects. First he says that few years ago computer vision researchers thought that computers wouldn't be able to identify diferent objects, Nowadays, computers can recognize them in real time. He talks about the "YOLO" method of object detection, and he give us some examples of the utility of this system, for example in surgerey.
ORIOL ESCODA PEREZ
ResponEliminahttps://www.ted.com/talks/nikki_webber_allen_don_t_suffer_from_your_depression_in_silence?language=en#t-365737
This ted talk, is about mental health. It tells us that feelings make us human, and that people who diagnose anxiety and depression are ashamed of it, although in reality there are many more cases than we believe, the only thing is that they do not tell. Another thing that tells us is that in the black culture, depression is seen as a sign of weakness and that creates that the patients do not count and do not receive professional help. She tells us that she has learned a lesson, life has ups and downs and is unpredictable, but life is beautiful.
BERNAT TORNER
ResponEliminahttps://www.ted.com/talks/apollo_robbins_the_art_of_misdirection#t-313575
The art of misdirection:
This ted talk is about attention we give to things surround us. Apollo Robbins, the man who is talking starts with a little explaining about what he's going to do. He explain he is a pickpocket, but not a usual pickpocket, he use a different method to steal what he wants. He explain that normal pickpockets use things to distract your attention and take whatever. In that moment he make the public pay attention on what he wears.Then he start explaining his method. Apollo Robbins does it in another way: he make you focus on your "Frank", the "guy" we all have in our brain who catches the information and save it, and while you are focused on your "Frank" he takes whatever he want. In this ted talk Apollo take someone from the public and show how he does his work with a touch of humor. Finally, when the man who helped Apollo with his show go to sit, he asks; "now, with eyes opened, what do I wear?" He changed something of his look and no one saw it. I think it's so interesting but in real case my wallet would be stolen because I don't really pay attention on that things.
Bernat Llorens Recasens:
ResponEliminahttps://www.ted.com/talks/levon_biss_mind_blowing_magnified_portraits_of_insects#t-308995
This video talks about insects, but not in the way we imagine like how they reproduce or how they feed the colony. A man, explain how his daughter changed his life. The child, took an insect from the garden, and decided to put it in the microscope to see how it looked. When the father saw that, he couldn't belive it, it seemed like he was looking at the Galaxy. The appearance of that beattle shocked him, and he began to start a new project.
In the video, he explains how, he left his job as a famous footballer photografer ans started to take photos of insects with an especial camera with a lot of pixels. The Cambridge Univesity borrowed him their collectioon of unique insects to let him take photos of the collection. He spent three weeks per each insect and finally, he achieved his objective to create a website with all the speial and unique insects of the world photographied.
Nowadays, he is still taking photos of insects to make his collection a little bit bigger every day.
Sofi Testor:
ResponEliminaJAMIE OLIVER
Teach every child about food
America’s well known for its bad food habits and huge amount of obese people. Jamie Oliver, is an English chef whose aim is to raise awareness about this problem that lately has been growing bigger. He emphasizes the three main places were modern-day life happens: street, school and home and concludes saying that nowadays, children eat junk food in every of them. The street is full of fast food restaurants, schools sell sugary unhealthy food twice a day (breakfast and lunch) and parents have completely lost the habit of transferring food recipes and culture to their children. In the end of the monolog, he encourages Americans to start a healthy movement, because – as he says- if America starts, the world will follow.
https://www.ted.com/talks/karen_thompson_walker_what_fear_can_teach_us#t-664530
ResponEliminaMaría Nogales:
Karen Thompson talks about what can we learn about fear, which we see it as a weakness and we shouldn't.
She starts talking about a story of a boat that was going to drown, so they had three options: go to an island where was full of cannibals; go to Hawaii, which supposes go through storms; and the last option was the longest so they would die of starve. They decided to go to the third option because they knew what was going to happen so they weren't afraid. One or two days after they were eating themselves because they were starving, so just because of the fear they had to go to the island full of cannibals, most of the boat died.
She also compares fears with stories because they both have suspense, you don't now what's going to happen next, so we are the authors of this stories.
The conclusion of Karen is that fear is a gift of the imagination because it shows the truth.
https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_allocca_why_videos_go_viral/discussion?language=en#t-50072
ResponEliminaThis ted talk is about Why videos go viral. Kevin Alloca it's a trend manager of Youtube and he professionally watch videos on Youtube.
A long time ago be famous seemed so difficult but now web video can become famous any of us. In a minute there are shared 48 hours of videos on YouTube and only a tiny per cent have more than one million of views.
The complete unexpectedness makes the audience grow up and this is a new kind of media. Anyone have access and the popularity is defined by the audience.
You can make anything to etertain and this type of videos will define the entertainment of the future.
I choose this video because I watch videos on Youtube and I check viral videos and some videos are simple videos with silly stuff so I was wondering why his videos are successfull. The silly stuff entertains and makes you laugh and that's the key of the question.
Inés Mulder
https://www.ted.com/talks/greg_gage_how_to_control_someone_else_s_arm_with_your_brain#t-198315
ResponEliminaIn this ted talk we can see how Greg Gage is talking about how to control a another person using ''electric materials''that he bring to the presentation. Greg ask a volunteer to go out to do the experiment, the name's of the volunteer is Sam. He is going to put the 'electrodes' in his arm and then Greg is going to control the volunteer with his brain. when Greg finish putting all the electrons he begins with the experiment and then the sam's arm starts to make some strange noises. when she move her arm or her muscles, the motor action app that is capturing the movement begins to move.
Now Greg ask one more volunteer to come, the volunteer's name is Miguel and he's goona do exactly the same and he's going to control the Sam arm. Sam is controlling her arm and the Miguel's arm with his brain. And here ends the presentation of Greg.
Dani Latorre
https://www.ted.com/playlists/171/the_most_popular_talks_of_all
ResponEliminaThis Ted Talk is about a heath psychologist who explained to the audience that the way they thought stress was, wasn’t really it. A lot of people think that stress is a bad thing this heath psychologists thought also that was a bad thing and ell her patience that it was bad. Until she decided to change the perspective of it making it a good thing that was really all about. People who thinks stress can cause dead and died are not people who was stressed, they were just people who think that stress causes dead.
With the help of the audience she put all of them in a test making them more stress, and she really did it. She proved that all what people felt during this test wasn’t stress. That this state is just what people think it is stress but it is really good. Stress is all about what people think it is, if people overcome what this challenge(stress) is all about their bodies are more confident. She also talk about a social stress experiment were people were ask “how much stress they had in a year” and “how many people they help with their stress” as a result people who helped other were more healthy than the people who did not help.
All in all how you think and how you act can change what stress is, if you think stress can be helpful it starts to become part of the courage. And connecting with stress with people this can create resilience.
Andrea Marie Mercado Silang
What I learned in as a prisoner in North Korea - Euna Lee
ResponEliminaEuna is a journalist who was doing a documentary on the border of China and North Korea with a friend of hers.
While they were on their last day of shooting, her friend shouted because she saw korean soldiers behind her. She ran together with her friend to the Chinese land, because these soldiers couldn't do them any harm if they were there. Euna ran but her friend fell and she didn't leave her alone she tried to help her friend. But, the soldiers caught them, they had riffles and they were very young.
They brought them to place when the guards were kind to them and they stayed there for 140 days, one guard gave her boiled egg, and the another one gave her a jacket because she was freezing cold. Then, she met two female guards who she made friends with.
She saw humanity in them, and she understood that, she was raised to "hate" north koreans, that she forgot that they were also humans.
She learned that when they talked about friends and family, they all shared the same vision, and that when people talk crap about North Korea, she doesn't remember anything but these guards.
-Mai Bayaborda Silang
SOFIA TESTOR
ResponEliminahttps://www.ted.com/talks/manal_al_sharif_a_saudi_woman_who_dared_to_drive#t-828934
A woman who dared to drive
Every person in this world has some rights, rights that must be equal for all of us. Nevertheless, there are some countries in which religion has led to the breach of this universal human rights. And one example of it would be the right to drive a car, just as men do.
Manal al-Sharif was the first women to raise awareness of this unfair hindrance going on nowadays, well into 21th century. After her brother was detained twice for giving her his car keys and forced to quit his geologist job, Manal decided enough was enough and started her campaign: “join the wheel”. In first place, she created a YouTube canal sharing her discontent with social patterns that women are supposed to follow where she showed the consequences that she had had for doing something that was supposed to be legal: driving a car. Moreover, she opened both, Facebook and Twitter accounts so that the situation was conveyed all over de country and world. Things didn’t turn easy to her: she was threated of being raped and killed, furthermore, she was put in jail during nine days for driving a car and her son suffered bulling in school.
After lots of issues and rough times, in she achieved her main goal, in June 2th 2018, a new policy will start to be carried out, a policly that will allow women to drive in Arabia Saudi.
https://www.ted.com/talks/john_mcwhorter_4_reasons_to_learn_a_new_language/transcript
ResponEliminaThis ted talk explains 4 reasons why we have to learn new languages.
These four reasons, explained by John McWhorter and all are included and gives examples about the different languages that exist in the world. all the languages can be interesting, since in some languages there are articles such as, for example, the word "table", which in English has a generalized article, instead, in Spanish, a female article is attached.
In conclusion, the author of this ted talk, says that one of the most obvious and most interesting reasons, is that with today's technology, everyone can learn a new language and he recommends it a lot.
In my opinion, it is important to learn new languages, although with English, which is the "world language",also I'm not interested to learn more languages.
https://www.ted.com/talks/taylor_wilson_yup_i_built_a_nuclear_fusion_reactor#t-39186
ResponEliminaIn this vidio Taylor Wilson speaks of 17 years.
Tells us that nuclear fusion is the energy of the future.
With 14 years already began to work with nuclear fusions.
He tells us about his fusion reactor that he has in his garage
In conclusion i think nuclear reactors are very dangerous and you do not have to play with that because they can cause major disasters.
Pablo Campillo Dachs.
The Ted talk I’ve seen it’s about a Harvard Law professor that dedicates his life to release innocent people from jail that have spent more than a decade behind bars. He explained three particular cases. The one that shocked me the most was about two fifteen years old boys who got arrested for something that they didn’t do it. And when the professor finally gets the opportunity to release them after thirteen years in prison, one had already died there.
ResponEliminaIn conclusion, I really liked the topic of the Ted talk, I found it very interesting and easy to understand. So I really recommend it.
Carlota Martin.
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ResponEliminahttps://www.ted.com/talks/asha_de_vos_why_you_should_care_about_whale_poo
ResponEliminaWhales are in danger of extinction because of hunting and they killed whales for their fat and bones. They made a campaign called "Save the whales" for not killing them, since they are the enginieras of the environment.
The video tells us that thanks to whales facilitates the growth of phytoplankton. Having whales in the ocean is very beneficial for the ecosystem. Whales are important in the nutrient cycle. Dead whales are also very helpful as they help slow down global warming.
In conclusion, this video tells us that we must understand the true value of having whales.
Ona Urquizu
https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days
ResponEliminaThe video explains that Matt Cutts influenced by a philosopher, decides to try something new for 30 days.
The idea was to do something you would never do for 30 days.
Matt started doing things he would never have done.
He realized that if someone wants something in 30 days you can get.
In my conclusion is that Matt is right and if you want something, no matter what, but if you propose you can get it.
Pablo Campillo Dachs.
https://www.ted.com/talks/nikki_webber_allen_don_t_suffer_from_your_depression_in_silence#t-382928
ResponEliminaNikki Webber talks about how bad is hiding your depression.
She starts talking about her experience on depression and anxiety, she says that when the doctor told her that she had depression she didn't told anyone, so she decided to hide that depression with a smile and without telling anyone.
Then she explains that his nephew killed himself because of depression, and it was surprising because him and her were so close and he never told her about struggling that type of things. Since that day, she started researching about this mental disorder.
When she found all the information she needed to understand this issue, she decided not to stay in silence and told her close ones that she was suffering.
The conclusion of this ted talk is that having feelings doesn't mean being weakness, and that the solution of depression is not shaking it off, the solution is telling it to your family or your friends, in this way you can also help others and make them feel that they are not alone.
María Nogales.
https://www.ted.com/talks/alexa_meade#t-286603
ResponEliminaAlexa Meade - YOUR BODY IS MY CANVAS
This Ted Talk explains how Alexa Meades express her own way of art using the body of the same person that she is painting. This way, she is able to take a three-dimensional scene making it look like a two-dimensional painting making it look from any angle that you take a picture a two-dimensional one.
This idea all started with shadows, the abstinent of light was the thing that she was fascinated in, she started painting the shadow of objects that she wanted, until she made the shadow of one of his friends, but not only that, she painted all of the highlights and dark spots on his body when she realized that she was taking the painting and making it her friend bringing him back to a painting.
She realized that this project would change her entire life; she began painting food to painting herself, and people who wasn’t embarrassed of being exposed in public places. When she started a project with Sheila Vand, painting with milk, was the time when she realized that what she had in mind before all this started would change what she wants to do now.
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ResponEliminaThe TedTalk i've seen it's about how fake news does real harm.
ResponEliminaOn April 14 Boko Haram kidnapped more tha two hundred girls from Chibok, Nigeria. This crime became epitomized by #BringBackOurGirls but the government of Nigeria called the crime a hoax. Stephanie Busari it's a journalist and she She explains that she is very angry that the government did nothing, and that if these families have suffered for their daughters, and that if that family were rich, they would have found their daughters before. She says we have to stop and think about the real-life consequences of the information we share.
This TedTalk it's so interesting and makes you think about the real problems around the world, I recommend it.
https://www.ted.com/talks/stephanie_busari_how_fake_news_does_real_harm#t-374699
Inés Mulder de Fontcuberta
Nil Jaimejuan
ResponEliminaTed Talk - How can groups make good decisions?
This ted talk explains the difficulty of making decisions in group. It explains how interesting is the process of coming to a conclusion in group. It tells to us about the importance of having independent and opposite ideas between ourselves to be able to complement them with those of other ones.
Mario Singman and Dan Ariely have performed experiments around the world to see how groups can interact to reach better decisions
I think that it is a very interesting chat since he speaks to us about the power that has our mind to come up with new ideas by the interaction with others
I recommend it if you want to know more about this
https://www.ted.com/talks/mariano_sigman_and_dan_ariely_how_can_groups_make_good_decisions#t-54421
Nil Jaimejuan Gonzalez