Exhortations to save the earth

This was one of the best speeches that I've seen so far on TED. This woman puts lots of feeling into her talk and everything that she says is very real and recent. She considers the idea of today's life, in which human beings are creatures that are losing themselves and their senses, hiding behind new technology. Everything is changing, inevitably, but it need not be for the worse. People have stopped caring about surroundings, looking only at their own future. The speaker urges people to start to cooperate with each other. She believes that we were originally created to go through life not alone but with a companion because this is who we are. We are able to make great things but only with a second person. She is trying to show us our wrong paths and suggest that we should start to seek wisdom in elders because they are the last generation that are still acting rightly. 

We can mostly learn from this speech that we should find the golden mean between heart and head. We should rely more on our senses and try to trust people because we are made to exist together.

for whose who want to find out more:

http://blog.ted.com/2011/02/23/curating-humanitys-heritage-elizabeth-lindsey-on-ted-com/#comments

Is Europe held together?

Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor has the future of Europe in her hands. Unfortunately she seems to have no vision for the EU even if she holds the key to resolve the euro zone's sovereign-debt crisis. German voters don't wont to let weak counties as Greece, Ireland or Portugal to the euro zone that is forming the Eu's economics policies to be greatly enlarged. But steal Germany is playing a crucial role of keeping Europe together. Can Angela make it? Maybe it will start to split apart soon.

Pain for polish society...

Government reform seems to be a pain for polish society. The government makes decisions that are not acceptable for most people living in Poland. Prices are constantly rising. Taxes and new fees are making us poorer and poorer. What is left is the polish sense of humor about bad times and a perspective that there will be a better tomorrow. Prices of medicine are also rising which will hit mostly poor demographics such as the elder generation. This group also faces problems such as decreasing retirement pensions, higher prices of food and more problems with public hospitals and clinics. By now Poland is one of the countries with the worst healthcare and the most ill seniors in the European Union. There is no hope for an improvement soon. The government is making some aspects even worst. Does it not care about its reputation?

Are errors made by human genetically built into our kind?

I've seen one of the TED talks and I found it very interesting.

A woman was talking about the human as a creature that is naturally forced to make mistakes even though it is amazingly intelligent, the smartest of all animals. She and her student group performed tests on both capuchin monkeys and the studio audience because of the fact that we have common ancestors. They wanted to check if the origin of our errors is genetically built into our kind or if it's a result of complicated environment we've created. The results of the test were surprising. Both we and monkeys make the same mistake when trying to choose the better of two options. This shows that the origin is genetic and we, as members of the human species, have to deal with this disorder. On a positive note, despite many inabilities such as lack of wings or fins we are still clever enough to invent some appliances that can help us deal with this kind of thing. Luckily we learn from our mistakes.

link to the blog where you can find this speech:

http://efeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/03/ted-talks-homework-k.html