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QUESTIONS

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions ):

1. What is an extraordinary gift according to the speaker?
2. And what does she consider as total freedom?
3. At what age does her mother let her go backpacking off to Greece?
4. What specific phrase changed the speaker’s life? The day when her whole life started.
5. How long did she learn to navigate after hearing that phrase?
6. She actually managed to get a ride on a Whitbread Round the World Race boat. But she went as what?
7. Was she a good cook?
8. Who sponsored Maiden?
9. They sailed around the world with what message?
10. Maiden is sailing around the world on a five-year world tour for what purpose?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Have you ever been sailing? Where did you sail to?
2. Where in the world would you like to go sailing the most?
3. Have you ever felt seasick? Where were you?
4. How many meters long was the biggest boat you have ever been on?
5. When did you last see a sailboat? Where was it?
6. If you were to build your own sailboat, what would you name it?
7. In many countries sailors don’t know how to swim, what do you think of this?
8. Are there any famous sailors or ship captains from your country?
9. How does a sailboat move forward against the wind?
10. What would you fear most if you went sailing far into the ocean?

Stop being a bystander in your own life━ Tracy Edwards  (11分05秒）

「人生はA地点からB地点に行くようにはいきません。人生は波乱万丈です」と、セイリングの伝説、トレイシー・エドワーズは語ります。この刺激的なトークで、はみ出し者だった十代の頃の自分がどのようにして、乗組員が全員女性である史上初のヨットのスキッパー（船長）として、最も過酷な海上レースに出場するまでになったか、そして現在は世界中の若者の夢の実現を、どのように支援しているについても語ります。

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QUESTIONS

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions ):

1. What does the speaker call the machine that could brush one’s teeth?
2. Is her toothbrush helmet recommended by dentists?
3. When did she finish making this toothbrush helmet?
4. She carved out this little niche for herself on the internet as what?
5. What did she say is the easiest way to be at the top of your field?
6. She came up with a setup that would guarantee success 100 percent of the time. What was that setup?
7. What is the first step in her process of building a useless machine?
8. What was one thing she was really nervous about giving presentations?
9. What did she call that device which rotates around and you can put anything on it?
10. What is the true beauty of making useless things to her?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What’s the best invention ever? Why? Who invented it?
2. What’s the worst invention ever? Why? Who invented it?
3. Who’s the most famous inventor that you know? What are his inventions?
4. What would you like to invent?
5. Do you think time machine is a future invention?
6. Do you think inventions always have some bad side effects?
7. Do you think one day people can live on other planets? What inventions do they need to realize this dream?
8. Do you know any inventor who was not successful when he was alive?
9. Do new inventions always create new problems?
10. What is the world’s most useless invention?

Why you should make useless things━ Simone Giertz  (11分48秒）

素晴らしく突飛な創作品が披露されるこの心温まる楽しい講演で、シモーン・イェッツは役立たずな装置を作ることについて語ります。彼女の発明品は、野菜切り機にせよ、散髪マシーンや口紅装置にせよ、上手くいくことは（あったとしても）めったにありませんが、そこにこそ意味があります。彼女は言います。「役立たずなものを作ることが素晴らしいのは、最善の答えが何か必ずしも分かっていないと認める点にあります。世界がどうなっているのか分かっているという頭の中の声を切るんです。歯磨きヘルメットは答えではないかもしれませんが、少なくとも疑問を呈してはいるのです」

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QUESTIONS

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions ):

1. Who did the speaker beat in 1895 and become the World Chess Champion?
2. 12 years later, he was fighting against one computer in a match called what?
3. In the most famous human-machine competition since John Henry, the speaker played two matches against the IBM supercomputer. What is the IBM supercomputer called?
4. When he first met Deep Blue in 1996 February, how many world championship games had he played?
5. What should we do to get the most out of our technology, and to get the best out of our humanity?
6. In what year did the speaker play this human-plus-machine competition against another elite player?
7. Under what name was this human-plus-machine competition against another elite player?
8. What specific chess tournament produced a revelation in 2005?
9. Who participated in this tournament?
10. Who were the winners of that tournament?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Can you play chess?
2. Is chess a sport?
3. If you agree that chess is a sport? Why?
4. If you refuse chess being a sport, why?
5. Can you explain some of the rules of chess?
6. Can you name all the six chess stones and their moves?
7. Can you play any card games?
8. Is playing card games a sport?
9. Can you pick one card game you can play and talk about its rules?
10. When was the last time you played a card game?
11. Do you know any other brain sports like chess or cards?

Don’t fear intelligent machines. Work with them  ━  Garry Kasparov (14分41秒）

テクノロジーを最大限に活かしたいなら、私たちは自己の恐怖心と向き合わなければならないし、人間性の最善の部分を引き出したいなら、私たちは向き合った恐怖心を克服しなければならない、とガルリ・カスパロフは言います。史上最高のチェス・プレーヤーの１人であるカスカロフは、1997年、IBMのスーパーコンピュータであるディープ・ブルーとの記念すべき対局に破れました。今回、カスパロフは、知的なマシンが私たちの大いなる夢を実現していく助けとなる未来を展望します。

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QUESTIONS

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions ):

1. People who experienced a lot of stress in the previous year had a 43 percent increased risk of dying. Is it true or not?
2. Now the researchers estimated that over the eight years they were tracking deaths, 182,000 Americans died prematurely from what?
3. What is the 15th largest cause of death in the United States last year?
4. What does it get you if you’re breathing faster?
5. What would be the result for those participants who learned to view the stress response as helpful for their performance?
6. What are the typical stress responses?
7. But in the study, what happens when participants viewed their stress response as helpful?
8. What does the new science of stress reveal?
9. What is a neuro-hormone called and what are its functions?
10. Oxytocin is also a stress hormone; so, what happens when oxytocin is released in the stress response?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What kinds of things cause you to stress?
2. How can a lot of stress affect your physical health?
3. What are some good ways to reduce stress? What works best for you?
4. What kinds of jobs do you think are the most stressful?
5. How do you behave when you are under a lot of pressure?
6. Who are you most likely to talk to when you are worried about something?
7. Does feeling stress change the way you eat? How?
8. What sort of music do you listen to when you want to relax?
9. How can stress affect your sleeping patterns?
10. What do you think is the most laid-back job in the world?
11. What are some bad or unhealthy ways to relieve stress?
12. Does reading or watching the news cause you concern?

How to make stress your friend  ━  Kelly McGonigal (14分28秒）

ストレスのせいで心拍数は増え、呼吸は速くなり、額に汗が出て来たりします。しかし、ストレスが健康の敵とされてきた一方、ストレスが体に悪影響を及ぼすのはそう信じるからだ、と新しい研究が示唆しています。心理学者ケリー・マクゴニガルは、私達にストレスを肯定的に捉える様に促し、これまで知られていなかったストレスを軽減する仕組みとして、手を差し伸べ合う事を紹介しています。

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QUESTIONS

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions ):

1. In a recent survey of millennials asking them what their most important life goals were, how many percent said that a major life goal for them was to get rich?
2. How many percent of those same young adults said that another major life goal was to become famous?
3. What is the longest study of adult life that’s ever been done?
4. How long have they tracked the lives of 724 men, year after year, asking about their work, their home lives, their health, and of course asking all along the way without knowing how their life stories were going to turn out?
5. What are the lessons that come from the tens of thousands of pages of information that we’ve generated in these lives?
6. What is the first lesson about relationships?
7. How about the second big lesson?
8. What is the third big lesson that we learned about relationships?
9. Who were the happiest people in their 75-year study?
10. Whose quote is this: “There isn’t time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. How often do you arrange to meet friends?
2. How often do all the members of your family get together?
3. What differences has the internet made to people’s ability to keep relationships going over long distances?
4. In what ways can people keep in touch with friends/family over the internet?
5. Do you send/receive many emails to/from friends/family?
6. The human being is said to be a “social animal”. One of the main criticisms made of the internet is that we’re getting used to relating to people we’ll never meet. What are the implications of that?
7. Does it worry you that many children nowadays spend more time in front of computer games than actually playing with their friends?
8. How many friends can the average person truly have?
9. How many friends can you have on Facebook?
10. How would you define a friend? Do you have different kinds of friends?

What makes a good life? ━ Robert Waldinger (12分38秒）

人生を送るとき、何があれば、人は幸せを感じるのでしょうか？「富と名声だ」そう考える人は少なくありません。しかし、精神分析医のロバート・ウォールディンガーによれば、それは間違っています。75年に渡る、成人発達の研究の責任者であるウォールディンガーは、真の幸福と満足に関するかけがえのないデータを持っています。

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