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東ロボくんをご紹介します。このAIは、大学の入学試験で上位20%の成績を収めました—何も理解することなしに。ロボットがすぐ大学に入学するようになるわけではありませんが、東ロボくんの成功は人間の教育の未来に疑問を提起します。人間がAIより上手くできることについて子供たちが上達できるよう、私たちはどう助ければよいのでしょう？

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たった一種類の動物しか診ない獣医を何と呼ぶでしょうか？それは医師です。魅力的なトークの中で、バーバラ・ナッターソン・ホロウィッツは、健康に対する種を跨ったアプローチがどのようにして人間という動物の医療 ― 殊に心の健康 ― を改善出来るかを語っています。

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions):

1. What is the talk all about?

2. What is the name of the sugar the speaker is talking about?

3. What part of our body is being coated with this sugar?

4. What type of cell have more sialic acid?

5. What type of cell protects our body from diseases?

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6. In the picture slides shown by the speaker what color represents immune cells? Cancer cells?

7. What kind of medicine does the speaker’s team are developing in their

lab?

8. Who’s life was spared from malignant melanoma after taking new immune-stimulating drugs?

9. How does these new immune-stimulating drugs treat our body from cancer?

10. What danger the sialic acid (sugar) has to do with our body?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What’s your blood type?

2. Is it important to know our blood type?

3. Does the blood type tell about the personality of an individual?

4. Do you think Cancer is to be feared of?

5. Is Cancer the most dangerous and deadliest sickness or disease?

6. What will you do if you’ll find out you have a certain type of Cancer?

7. How will you manage if a family member is diagnosed with a stage 3

Cancer?

8. In your opinion, what’s the best prevention of any type of Cancer?

9. Do you think cancer patient’s life is miserable or contented?

10. If given a chance to visit Cancer Patients’ Center or hospital, what would do to make them feel better?

11. Are you afraid to die?

12. What is your greatest fear?

13. How will we know that an individual is suffering from Cancer
without them telling us or us asking them?

14. Are you living a healthy lifestyle?

15. What is the most life-threatening disease you’ve encountered in
your life?

16. What defense mechanism do you know of cancer patients upon
their onset knowledge of the disease on their body?

17. Have you known any cancer patient who have been healed and
have a prolonged life even after the doctor concluded the number of years left for him to live?

18. How was it, in your opinion, to take care of a cancer patient?

19. Can we inherit cancer from our family or relatives?

20. What three things will you do if you only have 24-hours left to live
in this world?

Part 3 (Activity):    

Vocabulary Match

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions):

1. What is AI?

2. What is Todai Robot Project?

3. What are the two different types of exams in the University of Tokyo?

4. Can Todai Robot read and understand? Why?

5. For the second stage of the exam which is written test, how many words are required to write?

6. How does Todai answer a written test?

7. Does Todai write a better essay than most of the students who took the exam?

8. In the distribution gap that she shows with Todai and half a million students who took the same exam, how much percent does Todai got from the test? Is it capable to pass the exam?

9. What is lacking about the AI?

10.  In her statement what is the real meaning of knowledge for most of the students?

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions):

1. Who was the speaker in the speech?

2. Horowitz was a cardiologist that specializes what?

3  What was the chimpanzee’s problem and what favor the veterinarian ask to Horowitz?

4. Barbara Horowitz is currently working with two companies. What are those companies?

5. According to the speech, physicians and veterinarians were essentially taking care of the same disorders in their animal and human patients. Name three disorders that were mentioned in the speech.

6. How did Horowitz discuss the exciting connections of diagnoses between cardiologists and veterinarians about fear-induces heart failure?

7. How did Horowitz tackle the exciting connections of diagnoses between cardiologists and veterinarians about self-injury?

8. How did Horowitz tackle the exciting connections of diagnoses between cardiologists and veterinarians about postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis?

9. According to the speech, what do you call a veterinarian who can only care of one species?

10. At Zoobiquity conferences, what can participants learn?

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions)

1. Should animals be kept in a zoo?

2. Do you agree that a dog is a man’s best friend? Why?

3. Have you ever seen a dog that helps people, such as one to assist a blind person or a policeman?

4. Do you think people should buy and wear fur coats?

5. Do you think it is acceptable to test cosmetics on animals?

6. Do you agree with testing on animals to find new medicines?

7. What do you think of hunting? Would you eat an animal that you killed yourself?

8. Do you think the most important thing by which psychopaths can be recognized is their attitude toward animals? Explain why.

9. Do you think it is a good pattern in general to judge people by their attitude toward animals? Explain why.

10. What do you think about GMO farm animals?

11.  Do you think people should be allowed to clone people or organs of people? Why?

12. Do you think that one-day science will find a way to make
people live forever? If so, do you think that that would be a good or a bad thing?

13. What do you think the worst disease to have would be?

14. What do you think about the health care system in your country? How could it be improved?

15. Do you think medicines are tested enough before they are put on the market?

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スクリーンに映る女性や少女たちはどれくらいいますか？社会科学者ステイシー・スミスは、メディアによって女性がどれほど過小評価されて描かれ、そうした描写が視聴者にどれほど破壊的な影響を与えているのかを考察します。ハリウッドに潜む性差別はデータに裏付けられています。それによれば、スクリーンに映る男性は女性の３倍を占めており、映画製作のスタッフ比率の格差はさらに大きいのです。

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「争いは悪いものであり、妥協、合意、協力は良いものである」という一般的な常識に、弁護士であり、生命倫理学の専門家であるジョナサン・マークスが異論を唱え、政府が産業と協力すれば、国民の健康や人権そして環境が脅かされるという根拠を示します。「公益」と「共通基盤」は別物であると改めて実感させられる、今の時代にふさわしい重要なトークです。

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アルツハイマー病があなたの脳の運命でなくてもいいのです—『アリスのままで』の著者リサ・ジェノヴァは言います。 この疾患の最新の研究を紹介するとともに、アルツハイマー病に強い脳を作るために私たち個人ができることについての有望な研究成果にも触れます

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超知的な人工知能(AI)の力を享受しながら、機械に支配される破滅的な未来を避けるというのは、どうしたらできるのでしょう？ 全知の機械の到来が近づきつつある中、AIのパイオニアであるスチュワート・ラッセルが取り組んでいるのは少し違ったもの──確信のないロボットです。常識や利他性その他の深い人間的価値に基づいて問題解決をする「人間互換のAI」という彼のビジョンに耳を傾けましょう。

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