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Date and title Main points
the author advocated that
why and effective altruism is very
how of important to the world. He
effective shared this idea of effective
altruism altruism to improve the
world. the worst world will be
3/12/2017
changed through effective
altruism. People who need to
make a action, such as to
give both money and time.
Date and title Main points
Music is The Royal Alvert is a fantastic
great building and a lot of famous
2/1/2017 artists playe there.
Such as Edward Elgor, the
New language
Empathy - The ability
to understand and
share the feelings of
another.
Suffer - Experience or
be subjected to
(something bad or
unpleasant)
Mortgage - A legal
agreement by which a
bank, building society
Deflect - Cause to
change direction; turn
aside from a straight
course.
Treadmill - A large
wheel turned by the
weight of people or
animals treading on
steps fitted into its
inner surface, formerly
used to drive
machinery.
New language
Engage to interest
someone in something
and keep them thing
about it.
 Beatles. Moreover, music can
help people deal with some
problems and also can help
people to create and focus on
positive lifestyle.
Date and title Main points
A rigged game of monopoly
Does money that can disclose some
make you interesting things. It is
mean? entertaining, and also serious
9/1/2017 talk. Social psychologist Paul
showed his research about
people behave when they feel
in rish and this survey
showed people who trend
badly.
Glamour the special
exciting and attractive
quality of a person,
place or activity.
New language
Privilege an advantage
that only one person or
group people have,
usually because of their
position or because they
are rich.
Daunt to make
someone feel slightly
frightened or worried
about their ability to
achieve something.
Malleable easily
influenced, trained or
controlled.
Date and title Main points
Information is food. This is
Information new idea from professor JP
is food Rangeswami and he very like
17/01/2017 to eat savory dishes and
sweet food. He got the idea
from food in a robot and puts
information into robot as a
food so that information as a
food can cultivate the robot.
Date and title Main points
Is Britain This programme showed that
Racist some people have racist in
UK. It indicated that while
24/1/2017 people insulted black people
New language
Cultivate to prepare
land for crops
Hypothesis an idea or
explanation for
something that is based
on known facts but has
not yet been proved.
Merge to combine or
join together.
New language
Unidentified not
confirm being or having
an unknown or unnamed
source.
 on the bus. And this
programme organised to test
for racist in the street and to
invite three differents people
of black, Muslim and while
people.

Date and title Main points New language

This lecture talked about men Purchase to buy
and women who they spent something.
Gender and money differentially so that
Spending these differences can impact
1/27/2017 marketers and advertisers.
There is increasing in the
female economy so that
businesses are comfortable an
more attractive to women.

Date and title Main points New language

Dan on the DISC system is the
DISC universal language
Personality observable human behavior
Profile by learning these
1/31/2017 characteristics. This can
understand ourselves to
make good decision, easily
to find appropriately job for
yourself.
Date and title Main points
This programme describes 20
Why 30 is something of importance
not the new time. According to the
20 programme, was called Aha
moment. This is because 20s
10/2/2017 is very important time, like
Jay said that 30 is not the
new 20 because 20s is s
developmental sweat spot.
Compliance - the action or
fact of complying with a
wish or command
Introverted - Of denoting, or
typical of an introvert, shy
New language
Rewire to put a new
system of electric wires
into a building or
machine.
Trivialize to make
something seem less
important than it really.
Procrastination the act
of delaying something
that must be done, often
because it is unpleasant
or boring.
Date and title Main points
Body language has a big
Your body effect on how you feel, such
language as a powerful pose. If people
shapes who who show their power poses
you are to express their in confident
17/2/2017 and comfortable situation.
Date and title Main points
Manu Prakash and his team
A 50-cent have created a microscope
microscope that
made of paper that's just as
folds like
origami easy to fold and use. A
1/3/2017 sparkling demo that shows
how this invention could
revolutionize healthcare in
developing countries and
turn almost anything into a
fun, hands-on science
experiment.
New language
Dominance - Power and
influence over others.
body language- The
conscious and
unconscious movements
and postures by which
attitudes and feelings
are communicated.
Non-verbal
Pose- Present or
constitute
New language
Fold scope is a
completely functional
microscope, a platform
fluorescence, bright
field, polarization,
projection, all kinds of
advanced microscope
built purely by folding
paper.
Date and title Main points
This programme is about
Natures natures weirdest events,
Weirdest Events
such as sea foam in
31/3/2017 Australia, red wing black
birds and raining fish in UK.
according to programme,
what is happen for this
reasons. For example, in
New language
Predotor an animal that
hunts, kills and eats other
animals.
Toxic poisonous
Disorient to make people
confused about where they are
and where they are going.

dead fish in California, it is

because fish eats toxic algae
so that disoriented in the
surface and died without O2
because of photosynthesis
impacts on lack of O2