Journal 1001: February 2010

The first ted talk I watched was about the world record holder for not breathing. David Blaine, a magician, was able to hold his breath for 17 minutes and 4 seconds on live television. In this ted talk, Blaine tells about his motivation and process in accomplishing his goal.

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_blaine_how_i_held_my_breath_for_17_min.html

Motivation: To do what others can do, be the best, disprove scientific data, beat others, do what he says he can do to everyone.
Process: Researching how the body works, talking to doctors, working way up from 3 minutes to 5 minutes (for 45 minutes) with minute long breathing breaks in between. He learned about how to purge (when you breath a certain way to release co2 from your body so its easier to breath). Also lost weight and ate healthier to make it easier. Held his breath live on Oprah against previous record holders. Couldn't move much and had to try to lower heart rate to conserve energy so that he could hold his breath longer.

The second ted talk I watched was about "A warm embrace." This product is a substitute for an incubator. It was created because hundreds of premature babies were dying because they couldn't stay warm and incubators weren't always sufficient enough and were also too expensive for most hospitals, people, and places to afford.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_chen_a_warm_embrace_that_saves_lives.html

The idea behind this product was the death of so many babies (usually premature). The product needed to be simple and affordable. Instead of the couple grand incubator, the new product is a warm embrace and it only costs 25 dollars. My concern when watching this actually was that it was increasing population, but Jane Chen addressed that in her closing saying how most people in other countries anticipated death at a young age and would have more children because of that. If they didn't assume that their child was going to die, they were less likely to take that precaution of having more children.

The third ted talk I watched was about what effects your health. Bill Davenhall talks about how geography effects your health.

http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_davenhall_your_health_depends_on_where_you_live.html

These things effect your health too:
-life places (like work, school, home, the location of your home, where you spend all your time)
-How much rest you get and where (home, away from home)

___% at home/community
___% away

And they never talk about them at the doctors office.

A lot of your health also depends on the amount of unclean air you breath in your life, plus when you're developing as a kid.

Doctors ask you a million questions about family history and your health history at the office. but they never ask about what kind of water you drink, food you consume, where you've lived.
Bill Davenhall had a heart attack because of where he's from (most likely). And that's not in any medical record.

Data for every community in the united states that gives you place history (can do it on iphone) should use that in doctors office as part of an assessment.

Should be mandatory to teach physicials about value of geographic information.these programs need to be supported. Future doctors need to know this.
Billions of dollars on electronic health record- should include geographic information.

If people know or had known about this type of impact geography has they could tell their boss not to locate them there- health risk to employees and it's bad for their business.
People may've made different decisions with more knowledge.

Jack Lord, md said this almost 10 years ago.

Geography matters.
Geography can keep you healthy if you do the right things and live in the right places.

"Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity ... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet."

—Leonardo DiCaprio

The 11th Hour actually does cause you to think in a different way. You certainly can't believe everything you hear or fall victim to it's suggestions without extra research and knowledge. However, one thing that this movie talked about that was an extremely large point was that we aren't separate from nature- we are part of it. This point requires no research aside from looking around us. All that a human body is is a superior make up of the same types of cells that make up most other organisms. In a scientific way, there's not a huge difference. A while back I saw this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y sad as it is, it really brings reality to your eyes. This bird imitates the sounds humans make with machines because it thinks that they're beautiful and complex- it doesn't know that those are the sounds of the things that will likely destroy him in the future. The fact that the bird hears these noises often enough also brings about a great realization. Deforestation, unnecessary usage of non renewable resources, and so forth really needs to stop. The complete halt of these things is out of the question, seeing as we rely on them so much. However, minimizing the amount we take out of the environment is a good place to start. The movie talked about so much that's just really hard to recapture but the overall message stays... to look at what we're doing. We are part of nature. If we continue as we are, the inevitable outcome of the planet and our species will arrive that much sooner.