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I did very small research on Korea's 2012 President election.

This is my Five Ted Talk Summary

Personal development Jong-Min Yim SocioloGy Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies Patricia Kuhl is co-director of the Institute for Brain and Learning Sciences at the University of Washington. She did research on early language and brain development, and how young children learn. In her talk, she mentioned that babies are geniuses until they turn seven, when children reach seven, their talent in learning declines. She mentioned that, babies(citizens of the world) are able to discriminate all the sound of the languages, but adults or babies who passed their first birthday or right before their birthday, they are considered to be a ‘culture-bound listeners’, which means they cannot discriminate all the sound of the languages like 6~8 months old babies. However, to prove or to find why, she first tested same age of babies who are in between 6 to 8 months old from United States and from Japan by making them to listen “ra” and “la” sound(this sounds are important to English, but not to Japanese). So two babies got a same result. However, after two months, the result of two babies tremendously changed. Babies from United States did better than babies from Japan, which, babies have changed into ‘culture-bound listeners’ and also she learned that babies takes statistics as they listen to their parents or other people. She was amaze of the changes, so she did similar research again, and she got same results that, babies takes statistics as they listen and age between 6~8 months old babies have most high ability of learning languages. However, when babies pass their first birthday, they change from citizens of the world(6~8 months old, they have most high ability of learning languages) to culture-bound listeners(people who passed their first birthday. They take statistics only from their mother language, and cannot discriminate all the sound of the languages).

Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of Sixthsense Technology Pranave Mistry is PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab. Before his studies at MIT, he worked with Microsoft as a UX researcher, he’s a graduate of IIT. He did project on sixthsense technology. One day when he was using his computer, he thought what if he can search, take photos, play game, and watch movies or TV shows without computer and cell phone(so connect digital word with reality). He started to study how computer read motions like computer reads motions of mouse. He opened up the mouse and he found that there are two rollers that reads the ball in the mouse(the mouse is old, mouse with ball). He opened the another mouse and took out all the rollers out of two mouses and he taped to his fingers. He succeeded in making digital hand(you can draw objects with fingers in computer). However, he thought it was very inconvenient so he thought of making small computer with camera that can read motions. With his little devises, he took pictures without taking cell phone or camera out to take picture, he took picture with only his hand, making finger gesture that like he is taking one. Then he goes to white wall, and take out all his pictures out of his camera which it is in his pocket and check his pictures using wall as background. He turns his photo, delete his pictures on the wall with projector that is attached to his little computer and projects the pictures on the wall and camera which is also attached to the computer and reads the motion of Pranaye’s. He also search up some movies with only piece of paper, and watch movies with only piece of paper and earphone. He said this technology will lead to more advanced technologies. [] Recommend you watching the video(if you have time)amazing!!

Markus Fischer: A Robot that flies like a bird Markus fischer works in company that make cars. He was searching for something that can use very small amount of energy and can generate great power for long time. He figured out birds generate great power by just burning few amount of energy. Then be thought of making flying bird machine. He gathered all the bird experts and other experts that have ability or knowledges to help him make the flying bird machine. He succeed in making one and said that the machine is made to be look like sea gull. The reasons why sea gull is the model of the machine are, because sea gull can immediately drop the altitude, and they have particular wing spans that can create great amount of energy by burning least amount of energy. He actually brought the machine and showed how it will work and threw the machine on the air. The machine succeed in flying and flew on air for about a minute.

Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book Mike worked on some of the most complex tech projects of the past 10 years. Then he one day became co-founder of Delicious Monster Library. In the video, he show what he have made and studied. He shows his book by Ipad and Iphone. He introduce the book to the audience and show the function and style of the book. Book contains picture, videos and graphical images. People can open the images by two fingers while they are reading books, people can watch videos or documentary about the chapter or the topic of the page in the book. Also, people can experience what book is explaining and teaching by going to activity site and try out some activities that what book is teaching them. Book also contains interactive infographics that also teach or help students or learner to understand better. This interactive infographics work by just putting finger on top of the screen and swiping through the pages. From this fun interactive infographics and activities, people can learn better and people can enjoy learning. One of example he did for activity in the book was windmill. He blew air to the ipad and windmill started to run and showed images that generates power. In the presentation, he said, “Now people can read, and watch, but also can explore and can be entertain”.

Jonas Eliasson: How to solve traffic jams Jonas studied how small changes on crowded bridges effect traffic what makes people to bike to work or drive to work. He is currently living most compacted and complex area where there are lots of bridges and high ways. Every time when he choose to go to work by driving his car, he always late to his work. Then at the right time, government introduced the congestion fee, however, the fee was too small that people thought there will not be any changes in the traffic. However, 20 percent of the car during the rush hour was gone, disappeared. To the not great, but fair result, government kept the congestion fee system. Nevertheless, people hated the new rule, because it was once a free, but now, they had to pay for it, even though it was few Euro. After few years, government closed the congestion fee and saw the nightmare traffic jam again. Then Jonas conducted the huge survey about the traffic jam and people’s opinion about the congestion fee. Surprisingly over half of people he surveyed showed that they liked the congestion fee, because it reduces the traffic and reducing traffic means, less time on the road, and less time on the road means, saving gases. So many people liked the idea of congestion fee. So in his last few second of his presentation, he said, “ [|This is the power of nudges when trying to solve]  [|complex social problems, and when you do that,] [|you shouldn't try to tell people how to adapt.] [|You should just nudge them in the right direction.] [|And if you do it right,] [|people will actually embrace the change,] [|and if you do it right, people will actually even like it]  ”

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