Comments by "Brenda Rua" (@brendarua01) on "TED" channel.

  1. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” MLK
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  2. This is a very thought provoking presentation. Thanks for sharing!
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  3. Maybe the A.I. will be smart enough to answer whether we should build A.I?
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  4. To get lost in a different world is the gift of literature and music. But they need time. Ironically our devices meant to give us more time actually demand more. Thank you for the reminder to smell the flowers, to read slowly.
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  5. A brilliant presentation! I feared she would be pushing a drug. But no. She's informative and entertaining. Well done!
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  6. Cool! Thanks, TED!
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  7. I love hearing the different languages and views of different cultures. "From no where and from everywhere," a delightful phrase. Thank you for sharing an providing the translations. And please continue to mix these kinds of things in.
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  8. Gosh. I never thought about this before. Learned something new, and that makes for a good day. Thanks!
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  9. I think she's wearing rose colored glasses. She has some good points. Devices can be an educational tool, but only one of many in a tool box. There are many risks in these things. She seems on the verge of making them a fetish. Sara uses early fears about TV and implies they were baseless, as an analogy to support her advocacy. But TV has known risks that bear out some of the concerns people had. I recommend Jerry Mander's "Four Arguments For The Elimination of Television" (1978) where he talked about the way TV can be a learning tool, but confuses us about the nature of the experience. He also talks about the risks of advertising and marketing, and how they were moving from being informative to being tools to create need. He overstated his case. Some things didn't pan out. But it is a good representation of those times and now. TED has had several presenters tell us about how the tech companies create products to hook people on using them. And you see this all around you. Just go outside and note how many people are checking their devices rather than actually talking to people or engaging in the world around them. Look at how devices restrict the varieties of social experience and put everyone in their own confirmation-bias bubble, and you have part of an explanation for the current problems with our culture and politics.
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  10. The U.S. broke up big monopolies in the past. It is time to do so again.
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  11. The site he mentions is:http://microsculpture.net/ I am in awe at the technology and beauty he has mastered. Knowing the master-level work going into each image only makes it better. Thanks for sharing!
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  12. What a lovely perspective!
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  13. What a wonderful presentation! I applaud his vision and drive. The background he provides gives a context of local problems and how they can be solved locally, but in a global market.
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  14. I have some problems with this presentation. First, the title is click bait. The presentation is about protectionism, not the real reason jobs are disappearing, which he says is automation. Second, his examples of the cost increase due to an increase in duties seems specious. The 30% should only apply to the products/components affected, not the retail price of the car, TV or skin product as a whole. Third, the whole argument seems short sighted since these manufacturers are undermining their own markets by laying off the workers who they need to be buying their goods. On the whole, this is not up to the standards I expect from TED.
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  15. This is a lovely and important presentation. I was lucky enough to hike virgin old growth wilderness in Oregon and Washington states. This was much like he shows. This summer we in the Pacific NW had almost a solid month of smoke due to forest fires in Canada and the Columbia gorge. It was a health hazard and the ash caused damage. You could look directly at the rising and setting sun, when you could see it.
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  16. Well if they are painting then they can't be killing each other.
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  17. I almost can't believe the knee jerk reactions of most guys in the comments. It's likely most did not listen to the whole talk. It's guaranteed they don't comprehend the talk. The question is why and did they even try? The perfect case in point is they guys who say they would react aggressively to a man grabbing them to move them. These guys don't have the empathy or intelligence to put themselves in the place of the woman, who is fearful because that is the ingrained response for her. And the very odd thing is that this is the experience of their sisters and mothers, their cousins and aunts their wives. You brave, insightful, brilliant guys need to explain to me how it is you let your family be subjected to this. I think it's all posturing and hot air.
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  18. Much of what she describes in Britain has also been found in the U.S. and Canada. In both locations, critics have claimed that it is all "only correlation." But that is myopic and self-serving. In fact the public housing policies provide a controlled experiment on the effects of poverty. Outcomes are similar no matter the ethnicity or race. For example, those in poverty have less upward mobility relative to their parents than those in the middle to upper middle classes, when all other known factors are allowed for.
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  19. Thank you for sharing this. It's a telling tale about the dark shadows of America. "A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Ghandi
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  20. Historically, governments do the initial research, exploring, etc. They serve to prove the idea. NASA is a good example. Only after this work is done will investors make a commitment in a quest to make a profit. We are seeing this in action now. I think we would have seen it with Columbus and Drake, too. Both had support of kings and queens and their treasuries.
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  21. She has the heart and wisdom of a poet laureate. I am in awe. Thank you for sharing this.
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  22. I love her being funny. Gives a sense of the coffee pot chat, light hearted speculation, the "but what if?"! Dollars to donuts someone wanted it to be the Enterprise saucer.
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  23. What a wonderful presentation! She has a perspective that offers insights on a wide range of subjects. Thanks, TED!
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  24. Nicely done. Thank you for sharing. You put the helicopter parents in a fresh light. Girls can box and wrestle, race cars and sail around the world. But let's remember bravery can be practiced in leadership, music and art, politics too. It's about confronting that little voice that says "I can't" as much as confronting all the others telling you so.
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  25. I'm confident that you will improve your world. Thank you.
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  26. Why can't we require people who present statistics to provide the source information? A footnote at the bottom could give the name of the study or paper, where it was published, how it was funded. If that's too much, the note could provide a url to the information. Without such transparency, we should be highly skeptical of the validity and soundness of the numbers and should suspect the motives of the presenter. I realize that one also needs some literacy in basic statistics. But at least it's a start. Then who knows what's next? Error bars? Variation and deviation? Significance? Oh, be still my heart!
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  27. This was very nice and informative! I wish she had talked more about how ancient cultures did not see blue or have a name for it, then address how the change took place. The "Wine dark sea" has always fascinated me.
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  28. I did not know of this. They leave me with goosebumps and wanting more. Thank you for sharing!
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  29. I am glad to see the native nations coming together in the U.S. and Canada. It is time to support them with $$$ and voices. There are legitimate treaties that have been run over by both countries over the decades. It is time to stand up. It is time to go to the U.N. and demand membership, and demand full treaty rights.
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  30. Great idea and nice presentation. Thanks TED!
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  31. Curly hair, silver and funny! OMG!
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  32. What an inspiring talk! David Lee shows how we are at a cusp, one where humanity can blossom when freed from drudgery, or where we collapse into a degraded morass of skilled elites and unemployed drones. I'm reminded of the early social and economic theories of work, and how it can nurture and enable our potentials to be fulfilled, or it can be twisted toward other ends such as mere efficiency or profit or status, and thus alienate people from their work and from other people. Sound like Marx, Marcuse to you? You'd be right. Have we come full circle? Or maybe it is the historical dialectic at work?
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  33. Freedom Fund. What a brilliant idea! I hope it spreads. The country would be much better for it. But that still leaves correction of the system to be done.
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  34. What a wonderful presentation! Thank you TED.
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  35. So many firsts for the public! Amazing. I wonder when and if we will see this technology in the field.
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  36. We needed to hear something from the perspective of teachers. This is hard to hear but it needs to be heard. We've come a long way since the Columbine shooting in 1999, as shown by the reaction of the students an public response. Her history of the 2nd Amendment and the NRA shows that both are fluid and can be changed. The current knee jerk response of gun owners regarding the 2nd Amendment is shallow and childishly simplistic. This right, in our era, is an anachronism and a shame. It is time we join the modern world.
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  37. I've heard many of these names and places, but never had anything to tie them together until now. This is a lovely talk. Thanks!
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  38. Segregation that was supported by federal mortgage programs to boot.
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  39. This was so nerdy, but great fun. Thanks for the laughs!
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  40. A nice presentation. But what she missed about Silent Spring was the interconnection of everything. She's right that we understand genetics much better. But she didn't show any studies done about any impacts beyond humans. What happens to animals that prey on the mosquitoes and their offspring? How long do you follow that chain? I want these studies done before going further. Do we even know what we don't know at this point?
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  41. While it wasn't exactly her main point, I was struck by the ways she presented so much of her information. It was a treat to go beyond pie charts and lines, to think beyond X and Y axis. The nuances of checking the time that she brought out certainly gave that a human touch.
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  42. Some great ideas here. I suspect we're going to need a combination of things.
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  43. It's a great talk, loaded with information I had no idea of. This is exciting! But I'm left feeling nervous, even a bit queasy. The presenter kind a cavalierly acknowledges problems. I cringed when if flippantly said assign 30% of your brain power to worrying. I've seen too many engineering and architecture failures. As a programmer, I know well how tough quality control is under best of circumstances. Just wail until the bean counters start nipping at resources, how officers react to board pressure to increase profits - by cutting costs.. We have seen corporate officers cause global recessions to make an extra buck. It will happen again as this stuff moves to the factor floor and production contends with safety. Think we know how to manage ecology by introducing new players? Ask Australians how much they like their rabbits or those cute little frogs that are taking over. Ask UA grain farmers who are forced bo buy seeds from Monsanto because they need resistance to herbicide used buy a farmer upwind. The law of unintended consequences is nebulous and mysterious - but real as a brick. Not that terrorists will care about any of this. I'm generally pro technology and an optimist. We've come a long way since 1900 and live very well across most of the world. But I am hoping that AI will offer some solution to the "budding" mess the bio-revolution will bring with it.
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  44. What an admirable young woman! I applaud her vision and initiative. We need more young adults following her example. Right of access to clean water will soon be a serious rights issue around the world. Detroit is not even the tip of the iceberg. Corporations know this. They are buying and/or stealing rights to water in order to make a profit. What happens when you can't afford your liter?
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  45. A lovely tribute. Thanks for sharing!
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  46. And here come the triggered snowflake right wing. Like clockwork. I see the knocks against CNN but they said Manafort would be indicted today - and he was. Cry me a river as your house of card delusions starts tumbling down.
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  47. She's treating a symptom, just like the U.S. legislature. The big stinky fish is out of water and floundering in death throws. Health care for profit is immoral. The U.S. needs to join the rest of the western world.
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  48. It looks like you didn't hear a word she said. Positively brilliant example of doing it wrong. Thank you.
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  49. Lovely presentation. Thanks for sharing. *Kicks back and awaits the triggered flat-earth-type deniers.
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  50. All you dudes feeling threatened and vulnerable enough to complain need to pull up your man panties. Listen and learn - or do you know everything? Oh wait. You think you do, it's in your genes. Figures. I enjoyed hearing her perspective and learning things. Thank you, TED. Thank you, Cheyenne.
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