Ted Talk Summary

David Camarillo, in his speech at Ted, explains what a concussion is and why helmets do not prevent them. Camarillo, a former football player, has suffered concussions from football as well as biking. Camarillo aspires for a helmet that will prevent concussions and make risky activities safe. Camarillo adequately explains to his audience what a concussion is and why helmets do not prevent them through familiarity with the subject, awareness of audience concerns, and examples and illustrations.

This Tedx talk was by Ron Espiritu, an educator of ethnic, Chicano and African American studies for high school students in south Los Angeles. He has found that ethnic studies is empowering, liberating and transformative for young people. Ron talks about researchers finding that ethnic studies has positive academic and social results for students of all races and ethnic backgrounds. He talks about his grandmother being forced to wear a sign on her chest saying she won't speak Spanish. I never knew that schools were against different languages to this extent. I thought it was acceptable to speak different languages, I was very wrong. Ron goes on to talk about his mother who used her mother as an inspiration. He talks about his mother becoming

I watched a Ted talk given by Joshua Foer about memory. He started off by asking that everyone visualize random things in their homes. Then he started talking about a memory contest in which people all over the world come together to memorizes hundreds of numbers, names, faces, etc. He was fascinated by it. So, he wondered how they could memorize such things.

The TED Talk, “How I learned to communicate my inner life with Asperger’s” by Alix Generous, explains how she over came Aspergers and how to help others. Alix Generous is a undergraduate student at the University of Vermont who has more than three years of neuroscience research experience at the Medical University of South Carolina. Aspergers is “a high-functioning form of autism that impairs the basic social skills one is expected to display.” Some results of asperges’s are dramatic personalty switches, colorful personality with rich ideas, and hypersensitivity to texture. Most people think Asperger’s is a disadvantage but it helps people to think through an innovative mindset. “At 19, I won a research competition for my research on coral

When watching Anne Milgram: Why smart statistics are key to fighting crime Ted Talks, I learned a lot of surprising information. Milgram quoted that there is about 12 million of arrest a year but only 5% of the arrest are actually violent crimes that are recognized as mala in se. The rest of the arrest are for low-level crime like drug dealing. This was very surprising to hear because I never had heard this I always thought that the people who were in jail were actually people who committed crime like murder or rape. I found this very interesting because I didn’t understand why other criminal who have created mala in se crimes are not being arrested more or their crimes. After learning about who is in jail, Milgram went onto discuss how she

The topic of optimism bias, according to the Ted Talk, and overconfidence, from the textbook, are similar in the way they affect a person’s decision making. The Ted Talk conducted by Dr. Tali Sharot discusses optimism bias which is “our tendency to overestimate our likelihood of experiencing good events in our lives and underestimate our likelihood of experiencing bad events.” Overconfidence as described by the textbook is “tendency to overestimate the accuracy of our knowledge and judgements.” Both of these affect our thought process when making a decision. Dr. Sharot describes the studies she has performed in her lab and has seen first hand the way optimism bias influences people’s answers. She observed recently married couples what their

Sheena Iyengar's Ted Talk taught me that pressure and performance with choice is narrated by the individual. In America were under assumptions that ignite us to presume that as long as were in control of all our decisions, we can never look back to blame another for the lack of ones success. However, being opened to broader intakes when debating choices, may relief us and even increase our performance. Finding guidance outside of your teachings allows you step outside your comfort zone and recognize all perspectives, promptly giving you a closer look into all your choices. Believing theirs no one holding you back and your life is in your own hands can become overwhelming, despite its inspiration for self challenge. Browsing all other choice

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In the TED Talk “How Augmented Reality Will Change Sports... and Build Empathy,” by Chris Kluwe, it is stated that augmented reality will have many effects on sports and on society. For example, if an athlete was to use this form of technology, it could give him/her an extra second that he/she would need to react. In his talk, Kluwe states, “Well, imagine you're the quarterback. You take the snap and you drop back. You're scanning downfield for an open receiver. All of a sudden, a bright flash on the left side of your visor lets you know, blind side linebacker is blitzing in” (18). In this case, the quarterback is given a little extra time to get out of the way as the linebacker rushes in. These seemingly insignificant advantages can actually

In the TED Talk Sarah Kay performs a spoken-word poetry piece of hers titled “If I should have a daughter”. She performs this piece for three minutes and afterwards goes on to examine her journey into spoken word poetry. Throughout her examination of her journey she talks about how she started, how she helps others with starting, and how she realizes that she was meant to be a spoken word poet. At the end she performs one last poem to give more background about her life and poetry. Sarah Kay structures the whole speech and performance to have a consistent flow. She keeps her audience engaged by telling interesting stories and jokes.

After watching the Ted Talk video, I do agree with Hanauer and that inequality within the U.S and the triple down theory will only result in a economic decrease for all. What I found convincing was the overcasting theme of not status nor wealth but, the healthy competition for all classes and genders. This statement is logical and yet, fair, his example was that raising the minimum wage is one way to prevent the trickle theory and the decrease of economic growth. Simply, because rising the minimum wages benefits everyone and sets the foundation for a more equal ideology of economic balance pertaining to the United States.

When it comes to choice it always seems to be a love hate relationship: we hate making them, but we can’t live without them. Anyone can all look back to a time in our lives where they wish someone could just pick for us, or times when we wish there were more to choose from. All Americans have many choices, and it is such a part of our daily lives that we don’t even realize it. Barry Schwartz and Sheena Iyengar‘s TED talks bring up interesting ideas about choice, how people deal with them and their affects. They both state that although choice is good, it can also have negative effects. Schwartz explains what most people believe and experience with choice, while Iyengar shows cultural differences in choice making. Both Schwartz and Iyengar

In the Ted Talk video, "Want to help someone? Shut up and listen", Ernesto Slurry does an excellent job in explaining the three fundamental criteria’s that should be used by any sale person. He states that for a wise sale person he should apply the Ask, Shut Up and Listen to approach. The ask statement is used to engage a prospect into a conversation. A question is asked to makes the prospect answer the question. The sales person is supposed to listen to the response offered by the candidate. According to Ernesto, the journey does not only start at asking the question and the listening to the answer but in between there exist a sage of shutting up. The shut-up stage is relevant as it is the stage where the prospect is thinking about what to

Creativity is undervalued in many ways in education today. According to Lisa Phillips who is an author, blog journalist, arts and leadership educator, speaker and business owner, “there is a significant gap between what children are told is important for their future career success and what business leaders actually want from the emerging workforce,” which is creativity. She proposes the argument of disconnection between the demand of the artistic individual and the undervaluing of creativity in education and states that if we focus more on setting up and nurturing creative individuality in education, we produce more efficient workers and effective thinkers for the workforce (Phillips, par. 12). “If ever there was a time when creativity was necessary for the survival and growth of any organization, it is now...” – Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of

Creativity is undoubtedly the most essential element to social change in the daily life of people living in this era and society. Creativity as defined by Merriam-Webster’s dictionary is “the ability to make new things or think of new ideas,” ; creativity is in grave danger in today’s society, with the increased removal of the arts from public education and the increase of technology usage in children, kids are being programmed not to think, understand, and create for themselves. Social change is most directly driven by innovations in technology, education, and design through the creativity these innovations spark in the younger generations. Tan Le’s Emotiv delves into the idea that our communication with machines does not have to be limited to direct, physical interaction, and can occur within our minds, Ken Robinson focuses on the idea that public education is killing students creativity by valuing certain subjects over others, and finally Dale Dougherty reveals to listeners the wonderful world of makers and what they’re adding to society through thinking outside the box.