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Today's TED video was about a man who believed through research and planning, that in the year 2070-2100 we would lose %30 of our crops we have today which might not seem a lot and might seem a long ways off but he said that we would need more time then that to store all our food into Sea banks where they are safe. He said the crop failure will be because of climate changes and because of climate changes the plants won't be able to adjust quick enough and they will disappear. He said that food was dried up and put into these Sea banks which were really just a freezer in the sea floor, but natural disasters happen everyday and they lose some of their food. He said if we don't act now, our next generation might not survive.
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Todays TED video talked about a girl named Miru Kim who liked to look deeper into things then just the outer layer because she knows that there must be hidden layers beneath so she went to New York city and began to explore around and found lots of urban ruins that were to be torned down and took photos of them to make art and she put herself in the photos to imagine what it would be like to be there in the past and she also found some people down there too who visited those places of a daily basis. She said the places were mostly abandoned subways, factories or sewers but they all had a unique piece to them all.
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Todays TED was about a woman named Natasha Tsako's who was an actor who uses technology to help her in her acts. She made a play called Upwake where she pretends to be a character named Zero who lives in another reality and acts around with images moving around in the background. She showed us a clip from her act and then preformed a little bit too. She explained that people act more freely when she dresses up as Zero and she believes that theater acts bring everyone together and differences won't matter.
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Todays TED video was about a man named Dan Pink explaining the ways and works of motivation. He started off explaining a problem a scientist made called the candle problem where you had to get the candle on the wall without letting the wax drip down and all you get is a set of matches with a box full of nails and the candle. He said he told one group of people that if they finish first they would get $20 as a motivation and he just told the second group to finish it fast. He said the second group without the motivation won because they weren't under a lot of pressure as losing and winning $20 and they thought of how to do it but the first group was too focused and didn't think out of the box. He said the answer was to take out the pins needles from the box and but the candle on top of the box was would be nailed to the wall with the needles. He said he tried this again but took the needles out of the box for a different 2 groups and the motivated group won because the answer was really clear because there wasn't any needles in the box so they just raced ahead to do it. he said this happened many times for the past 40 years and i have to agree that i have experienced too because in Math class i was versing one of the smartest kid in a multiplication question and the winner got a gummy worm, i had to erase many times because i was rushing and there were a lot of tricky parts but my opponent rushed too and we both took really long to figure it out.
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Todays TED video was about a man named Adam Savage who had a obsession for making replicas of famous things like he making a replica of the Dodo bird skeleton and a replica of a eagle who was suppose to be used in a famous movie back in 1944. He showed pictures of the things he made and even brought his eagle sculpture which looked really nice. I think he really has a passion for making replicas of sculptures and he said he made money out of this too fro the past 15 years which i found really amazing because doing a job that you love and gives you money is what everyone wants but not everyone gets.
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Today's video was about a woman named Qi Zhang who could play the organ of the Ridiculous fellows from the Love for Three Oranges.She was really good at it too and she could change the sound of the keys to be a drum or a trumpet to a crow or a duck and she changed it swiftly so you could barely see the movement and wouldn't stop playing. It sounded like a whole band was playing instead of just herself and she also had to memorize the whole 3 minute long piece of song so it must've been a real challenge for her because it would be for me.
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Today video was about a man named Golan Levin who studied art and engineering and decided to make digital art because there weren't much of those on the internet. He said us humans should use the tools we have in our day to produce what we can and that we should make digital art which he did. He showed many of the projects he made for example he made huge black pipe with a robotic arm in the middle and a googly eye on the end and it would turn to look at the object that was moving the most. He also a telephone with an eye in the middle of the dial keys and it would look at you and blink when you blink. He did a lot of cool stuff with digital pictures and electronics too like when you made a shape with you hand on this screen he made, the shape you made will turn red and fall down to the bottom of the screen instead of going away.It was a really cool video and I was very interested.
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Todays TEED video was very short but it said a lot. The woman named Carolyn Porco who explained that recently they sent a shuttle out to Saturn and found that there were a burst of water vapor that came from a side. Then they studied it farther and found out that Saturn had many resources we have on earth and those that we need to survive. She explained that one day we might be living beside the stars in the moon.
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Todays ted video i watched was about a man name Dan Ariely who talked about decision making. He said that we always pick the better deal but when theres 2 good deals and one bad deal that's similar with one of the good deals, the deal that's good and similar with the bad deal gets chosen.he showed many examples and he also said that when you pick something, afterwards you always think that the other choices were better which i have experienced many times myself.
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Today's video that i watched was about a woman named Brenda Lauren who asked why girls don't play video games. Sure they play video games just not as much as boys do. When i play video games i usually see boys as other players and maybe a girl here and there but just mainly boys.I wondered about the same question not too long ago so this i could tell that im not the only one who had thought of this question from this video.She talked about some theories she had which i thought were not very reasonable like for example she said that girls like to study and work more then boys and that boys like to play more. I disagreed with that but she talked about some more facts and surveys they did around the neighborhood and it showed that girls did work harder and boys preferred to play over work.
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Today's video i watched was about a woman named Sarah Jones who was a woman who could act out different characters with ease and so she did. She pretended to be some of her friends and teachers which was very entertaining in my point of view. I'm not sure of what to say about her except she was very humorous and i enjoyed watching her preform especially because she can change her voice to have different accents like a Chinese accent, a British accent and an Indian accent.She explained some things about each persons life and made it funny in a way each time. IF there was a rating system for TED videos i would definitely give it 5 stars.
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The video i watched today didn't say much but instead the 3 people who were talking showed a 10 minute long video and explained each thing. The topic of the video was sea life and which was also why i chose it because i was always fascinated by sea life because their were such big sea creatures and creatures that look really weird which i would be scared of. He showed some animals i have never seen before because he also said that they came from the bottom of the sea and usually going down that low would be really hard but his crew managed it and got some amazing footage's. I can't really explain what the creatures looked like because they were so far out i couldn't have imagined them. He did say that their were volcanic smoke everywhere and bacteria was everywhere too and that the bacteria usually combine together to make 150 foot long creatures that roam the bottom of the sea.I was really excited when i saw this video and wanted to see more when it was over.
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Todays TED video that i watched was about a man named Joshua Klein who was convinced that crows where highly intelligent because of their behavior. For example he showed a video of a crow that was put into a room along with a weight that was down a tube and a metal wire. The crow bent the wire into a hook and lifted the weight from the handle and got it out of the tube. Just by that video i was convinced that crows were smart but he continued on and showed another video where a crow dropped a nut into the busy streets and let the car tire crush the nut open then when the walk signal was on, the crow went to the middle of the street to eat the nut. He also said that after that day, crows where seen everywhere doing the exact same thing so they learn from each other. I was beginning to wonder where he thought of studying something as far out as crows when he explained tha he was at a cocktail party with his friend and his friend said the crows in his backyard where really getting to him so he wanted to kill them but he told his friend to train them but his friend said that was impossible so he decided to prove him wrong. He also invented the crow vending machine where there's a lot of pennies littered around the machine and when a crow sees it, it'll put the coin into the slot of the machine and the machine will spit out a peanut for the crow. It was a weird invention but he showed a video where his plan worked and lots of crow came to do the same thing.
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Once again today I’m writing another article of the video I saw on TED. The subject of this particular video was about happiness which is mostly the reason I chose it. Nancy Etcoff was the person who explained what happiness really was. She said that we all wanted happiness and some of us do all kinds of stuff to get it like taking depression pills for example. She also said that depression and anxiety was rising quickly around the world while happiness didn’t change a bit. The good thing was that she told us that more people were happy then not which was a relief because I wouldn’t want to live in a world of sadness and stress. The one thing I already knew that she said was that emotions change the way you do everything and can change your opinion of something which I experienced today when my sister kept slapping me and I just lost my temper and yelled at her. She said that it’s easier for us to detect something bitter then to detect something sweet. My opinion is that this video spoke the truth, and that I agree with it all the way. Everyday I feel like I have more depression then happiness and this video proved it to me that that was true.
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Today im writing another article on a TED video i saw. This one was about a man named Micheal Pritchard who made a water filter that could turn really disgusting undrinkable waste into clean fresh water in seconds. He named his invention the Lifesaver and all you had to do was put the dirty water into the lifesaver, then pump the pump at the end and just drink from the top. He made a demonstration by filling the Lifesaver with rabbit poop, sewer water and water from a flood. He pushed the pump in and out 3 times then popped the lid open to drink. He said he came up with this idea when he saw the Asian Tsunami which forced everyone to drink the dirty flood water which caused diarrhea and death and when Hurricane Katrina hit the side of America damaging all food supplies and water. He also concluded that people were shooting each other just for water. In my opinion, this man has a good heart because he cares for others and did something about it. He didn't just sit down at home in front of his TV watching the news talk about the tsunami instead he wanted to help get ready for the next natural disaster. I can connect to him because I want to help others too. I want to build a automatic crab opener so people won't have to struggle with taking off the shell of the crab to get to the meat.It's very struggling to open the shell just to get a little bit of crab meat. With the automatic crab opener, it can take off the crab shell for you and so you won't have to. All you have to do is eat it.I've seen many people cut their hands or get their shirt dirty just to open a crab so i decided to help them out just like how Micheal helped out the people who got struck by the natural disasters.
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In the morning today my dad told me to write a article on a story on TED which is a application on the iPod where people tell their life story in a video. The video I saw today was about a old lady who wants people to believe we evolved from sea apes and provides a theory which I didn't understand. She was very determined but scientist says she is wrong. While I watched this video I felt sad for her because she was so determined but still turned down. This has also happened to me many times like for example in track and field I would usually be on the first rally team but in this year I was on the third. I was so confident that I would get first team that I became in the last. The old ladies theory might sound funny and childish but she thought about this topic a lot and devoted many years into her work yet to be turned down and a laughing stock. She said that there has to be another change from apes to sea apes before changing to humans because sea apes have more of a resemblance to humans. This was an awkward video but a quiet enjoyable one too.

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