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Date: Sunday, December 6, 2020

Course code: MASS2113/20

ID: 122004

TEDTalks 5 title: Machines replace humans

A study on the future of work in 2013 proved that one in every two jobs is at risk of being replaced by machines. Technology is responsible for this disorder because it is the most powerful branch of artificial intelligence.

Technology allows machines to learn from data and imitate some of the things that humans do. The field of machine learning started in the early 1990s. The tasks performed by some of the machines were simple: assessing the risk of allocation from loan applications, and sorting mail by reading handwritten zip codes. Over the past years, great progress has been made in this area, and Anthony Goldblum has mentioned to us what Kagel has done, which is working on the latest technologies of machine learning.

Anthony presented the results of the challenge that he did at Kagel in 2012.The challenge was to provide for an algorithm that could evaluate articles of high school students, and as a result of this challenge, one of the algorithms was able to match the scores that he set for human teachers last year. Then the company announced a more difficult challenge, which stipulates whether it is possible to take pictures of the eye and diagnose an eye disease such as Diabetic Retinopathy. Also, one of my co-workers from Kagel developed an algorithm that could match the diagnoses made by human ophthalmologists.

" Machines cannot compete with us when it comes to tackling novel situations" Antonio showed us that there are things we can do while machines cannot do them, meaning that these machines have not made much progress in the face of new situations. So that she cannot deal with things that she did not know many times before. It requires large amounts of past data to deal with any new situation.

Humans are not like this because they have the ability to connect separate things to solve problems they have never faced before, for example Anthony reminded the story of the physicist Percy Spencer, who was inventing radar during World War II and while working he noticed that the valve of the radar magnet melted his chocolate bar. Therefore, he linked his understanding of electromagnetic radiation with his knowledge of cooking, to invent the microwave oven. This is a clear example of the fact that machines cannot compete with us when it comes to the operator with new situations.

With regard to the tasks that need to be repeated in large sizes, these machines, with their increasing intelligence more and more, are able to carry out these tasks faster, such as evaluating articles and diagnosing some diseases. But there is still a need for some jobs that cannot be filled by machines, such as lawyers and accountants. We will need them to structure the complex tax and renew the lawsuit. Also, marketing needs to attract the attention of consumers and distinguish from others, such as exploiting the vulnerabilities of renewable events in the world. In the end, Anthony said, these machines would reduce the prestige of some jobs and make some jobs more difficult to find.

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https://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_goldbloom_the_jobs_we_ll_lose_to_machines_and_the_ones_we_won_t/details?rss=172BB350-0073&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ArabicPodcastBusiness+%28Arabic+Podcasts+%7C+Business%29#t-477

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ID: 122004

Date: November 29, 2020

Women have many, distinct and tangible successes in the field of international sports and in all activities and various sports.

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ID: 122004

Date: November 29, 2020

Topic: Sport is a way of life

Sport today is not like sport in the past. Today, sport has become a trade, and a commodity that makes a lot of money. So sport marketing plays an important role in the development and spread of sport.

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ID: 122004

Date: November 29, 2020

Words: 350

Many sports have been practiced throughout different eras, and the aim of them has changed with its development. It was moving from region to region and from year to year, with changes in the rules and conditions.

Sports from the past

The 32nd Summer Olympics, which was supposed to be held in Tokyo between July 24 to August 9, 2020, was postponed due to the corona virus. This was the first time that Olympic Games were postponed due to an emergency situation. Whereas, in previous years, some Olympic Games that coincided with world wars were canceled.

The Olympic Games is an international sporting event that includes sports in which athletes of both sexes participate in various competitions. And it was one of the results of physical activity in the ancient world which developed into a sport. Where the beginnings of sport were related to military training, for example: competition was a means of finding out if individuals were useful for service, also they used team sports to prove their ability to fight in the army.

In the year 776 BC, the sports began to appear, which consisted of foot and chariot races, wrestling, jumping, discus and javelin throwing, and often some of these sports were to prepare for wars and train for hunting.

In the Middle Ages, suitable sports for men were raising stones or bags of grain. As for women, they were simulated races for one dress, and on the other hand the peasants used to practice their favorite sport, which is popular football. These sports began to move from the countryside to urban centers, which led to influencing the rules and regulations on these sports. Also, the industrial revolution had a role in creating the opportunity for competition between different regions.

The industrial revolution helped develop sports, as technicians perfected the equipment and trained athletes to achieve physical fitness. Also, new games were invented such as: basketball, volleyball and team handball.

With the development of technology, sports continued to develop and the use of many modern equipment and technologies that helped organize some sports. twenty-first century witnessed the emergence of new sports such as adventure sports, for example: white water rafting, paragliding, kayaking, base jumping and skiing.

Sport started as a way for men to develop their skills in primitive hunting and warfare and then developed into recreational competitions.

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Date: Sunday, November 22, 2020

Course Code: MASS2113/20

ID: 122004

TedTalks 4 title: Life bandage

The invention of the smart bandage was made by Anushka, who is 14 years old, after learning about chronic wounds and the problems that some patients face, including difficulties in healing wounds such as diabetics, and it is a smart pad that tells caregivers when they need to change.

“So, while I was studying anatomy for a competition, I came across the topic of something called chronic wounds”. Here was Anushka's beginning to recognize chronic wounds. Where Anushka defined chronic wounds as normal wounds that any person could be exposed to, but he failed to heal naturally. Anushka discovered through research that there is a correlation between the level of moisture inside the wound dressing and the healing stage in which the chronic wound will be dormant.

From a young age, Anushka was wondering about how the world would move, so from a young age, she began researching and reading in academic newspapers and participating in scientific competitions and exhibitions. It was during this trip that Anushka discovered the topic of chronic doses and began to research and investigate the issue more broadly. Where Anushka said he drew her attention to the fact that she found statistics that said that there are more people in the United States with chronic wounds than people with breast, colon, and lung cancer, as well as leukemia. One of the statistics also mentioned that 50 billion dollars have been spent worldwide to treat chronic wounds.

“And that's what inspired me to keep going, and I hope it inspires many others to also do work like this”. Anushka’s love for science and knowledge of what is going on around her was one of the reasons that inspired her to continue to embark on a new experiment in inventing a solution to the problem of chronic wounds. After the studies that I read and the continuous research that I researched, Anushka’s enthusiasm for taking the challenge and discovering a cure increased. Through her discovery of the relationship between the level of moisture inside the bandage and the healing phase, Anushka You decided to design a bandage that measures the level of moisture inside the wound and mainly works to speed up the healing process.

Anushka was 14 years old and worked in a small garage. She mentioned some of the difficulties that she faced, as she was not granted a grant, she did not have enough money, and she did not have many resources. Also, it had to adhere to some standards because this product will interact directly with the body, that is, it must be biocompatible with the body. As she designed it and paid for itself.

Anushka goes on to explain some of the problems encountered in designing this product. “as all scientists have stumbles along with their work”. I encountered problems in the first generation of sensors, for example in how to get nano-size ink in a cartridge without spilling, and also that it was unable to control the sensitivity of the sensors. Despite the difficulties that Anushka faced, she continued her attempts to make her invention a success, as she used the money she received from the prizes in the festivals in which she participated to build her sensors. After the success of her invention, Anushka encouraged the listeners to continually research and work on developing research because it could make a difference in human life.

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https://podcasts.apple.com/om/podcast/teen-scientists-invention-to-help-wounds-heal-anushka/id470623175?i=1000413228148&l=ar

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ID: 122004

Date: November 15, 2020

Formula 1 races continued to evolve in terms of the construction of race circuits and safety standards, and car makers tried to use modern technology year after year to equip their the cars. To win.

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Date: November 15, 2020

Topic: Facts about F1 cars

Formula 1 cars are exciting and amazing, with a lot of information, facts, and exciting and amazing things that many do not know about.

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ID: 122004

Date: November 15, 2020

Words: 350

 We live in an era that is almost supersonic, where it is difficult to handle and keep up with the speed of his discoveries and his development, so why not have a super-fast car transporting us through it?

New speed record for cars

In 2020, the Tuatara set the fastest speed in the world in North America. Its speed reached around 331 miles per hour.

During the Philadelphia Auto Show, the Shelby Supercars SSC revealed the Tuatara, which came to compete with other companies for the title of the fastest car in the world, such as Bugatti and Koenigsegg and Hennessy, who show cars with the latest speed technologies.

On the tenth of October, the Tuatara Shelby supercar SSC overtook its competing cars to get the title of the fastest car in the world. It was manufactured in Washington and weighed 1247 kilograms, and the car came equipped with an 8-cylinder V8 engine, which is twin-turbocharged, with a capacity of 5.9 litters, which equals a power of 1750 horsepower, and there is a V-Max engine that is part of Carbon fibre design.

Cars were the beginnings of the world of speed when two men (Panhard and Levasseur) from France decided to run a car race from France to Bordeaux and from Bordeaux to France, where the Panhard and Levasseur used a car containing an engine of their own design, as they travelled 1175 kilometres at a speed of 20 kilometres per hour.

Panhard and Levasseur developed the idea of racing with several journalists to help with advertising and marketing for their new car. After Levassor became the leader in the automobile industry, he realized in 1891 that the vehicle should be in front of the car. Then Levassor drove the car that he built and made by Huh and his racing partner, where he was able to be the first to arrive in the race.

It was the Paris-Bordeaux-Bordeaux-Paris race that made Panhard and Levasseur a major force for the automotive industry in France, and this race was a strong impetus to establish the Automobile Club in France and help establish many French companies as well as the emerging industry, in addition to inspiring them to Hosting auto races to lay the groundwork for Formula One racing And Formula One cars are among the fastest racing cars on organized roads in the world.

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Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Course code: MASS2113/20

ID: 122004

TedTalks 3 title: Music as therapy

In the year 2013 in America, the cost of treatment for neurological diseases was estimated at 89 billion dollars, so Aisha was able to overcome her disease Tourette's syndrome with music.

When Aisha was 6 years old, she suffered from convulsions and involuntary movements without knowing the cause. These symptoms were preventing her from practicing her natural life, as she mentioned “I could no longer go to school, see my friends or even eat out, because my tics would attract the attention of everyone in the room” . After seeing a doctor in New York City, she was diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome. Tourette's syndrome is an irreversible neurological disorder that is a series of movements and voluntary sounds expressed by nerve convulsions.

Aisha mentioned that there are drugs that can be useful to relieve these convulsions and seizures. But these medicines had side effects on Aisha, including that she had numbness in her legs that prevented her from walking. Also, some other medicines had hallucinations such as that she saw green people running after her. Then she continued to try different drugs, and every time she got bad side effects that made her stop taking the medicine.

" music has the ability to uplift our lives and heal us from within."This is Aisha's message to people with neurological diseases, as Aisha shares her discovery of the role of music to alleviate her seizures. After each shift, Aisha used to lie down in her room, then her mother would play music and lie down with her, as Aisha used to after each shift or when she felt that she was in a state of notch or frustration, she hurried to listen to music or play the piano or write songs.

Here Aisha began to notice the lack of symptoms and the severity of convulsions, so she began to research whether there were cases that had been cured by music previously. One of the cases that she found was a member of the American Congress, Gabriel Jefors, who was shot in the head, losing her ability to speak, as therapists encouraged her to sing thoughts that she could not pronounce, and through this technique the member of Congress was able to regain her speech. This gave Aisha a strong impetus to continue the therapy through music.

Aisha told us how music works as a pain reliever, as scientists have found that our brains release a natural painkiller known as the hormone oxytocin and a well-felt chemical called dopamine when we hear music. Where music also works on blood flow and affects the heart rate and respiratory rate, in addition to it lowers the levels of cortisone responsible for neurological symptoms thus relieving anxiety. One of the advice that Aisha gave was that if we encounter people who suffer from neurological diseases in our lives, we recommend music therapy.

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https://podcasts.apple.com/om/podcast/what-its-like-to-have-tourettes-how-music-gives-me/id470623182?i=1000433741580&l=ar 

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Date: November 1, 2020 

Tobacco was the same as other commodities traded by merchants, which spread around the world.

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Date: November 1, 2020

Topic: Smoking is a way to perish

(Your appearance appears to be older than your age) A sentence always directed to smokers indicating the effect of smoking on the human body.

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ID: 122004

Date: November 1, 2020

Words: 350

Since tobacco was considered one of the customs and traditions in the past until it became a harmful habit that was banned by countries.

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 Tobacco smoking between past & present

Smoking was banned in some public places in Singapore in 1970 by state law, to protect non-smokers from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke.

This law was issued after they saw the health and environmental damages spread around them due to smoke emitted from smoking. Several years after the law was issued, designated smoking areas were established, according to specific conditions.

Among the reasons and arguments for banning smoking in some countries were studies and medical evidence in addition to environmental explorations and studies. Contrary to what was in the past, where tobacco smoking was widespread among people and its multiple uses without awareness and enough knowledge of the harm it might cause.

Smoking has spread since ancient times among peoples, so the use of tobacco varies with time and place. The reasons for using tobacco among the Native Americans were: if it had a present role as performing some rituals and social ceremonies, and on the other hand, it had medical uses such as a treatment for dental pain, a treatment for ear pain and also as a pain reliever as it was used as an antiseptic, and from other reasons it was It is considered as a gift to form social bonds and, is also presented as an offering to the gods, in addition to it is considered a sacred plant.

Through the experiences between the Americas and Europe, the Europeans took the habit of smoking, as they had multiple reasons, including They considered it a new herb that could be combined with other herbs to produce popular medicinal medicines. A cure for cancer, as was thought.

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  Smoking gradually began to spread around the countries of the world, so it began to move from the Americas and Europe to Asia and Africa in all respects. The first half of the twentieth century was the golden age of cigarettes, and with the passage of time and the spread of awareness of the dangers of smoking, however, the spread of the phenomenon of smoking continues until After the emergence of anti-smoking movements and the high prices and imposition of taxes

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ID: 122004

Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Course Code: MASS2113/20

TEDTalks 2 title: Our senses are in other organs

Did you know that the nose is not the only one that has olfactory receptors? But the olfactory receptors are distributed in other parts of the human body as chemical sensors for other functions.

As we previously assumed, olfactory receptors are odors detectors located in the nose. And they work as chemical sensors in the nose that make us enjoy the sense of smell. "One study estimates that humans can detect up to one trillion different odors. A trillion. It's hard to imagine, but your nose has the molecular machinery to make it happen." Jennifer Pluznick

We as humans have many olfactory receptors in our DNA in various parts of our body that perform other functions as chemical sensors. It is distributed in some unexpected places of the body such as muscles, kidneys, lungs, and blood vessels. For example, these olfactory receptors help the lung to sense and respond to inhaled chemicals, and also have a role in muscle cell transport and the treatment of wounds.

The olfactory receptors are part of the chemical sensors. As there are many types of cells and tissues in the body, chemical sensors are used to track the rate of concentration of hormones, metabolites, and other molecules. For example, when drinking a cup of coffee, the olfactory receptors found in the liver reveal chemically the rate of change in the concentration of chemicals in the bloodstream.

"In my lab, we work on trying to understand the roles of olfactory receptors and taste receptors in the context of the kidney." Jennifer Pluznick. If it turns out that the kidney possesses the olfactory receptors and the taste receptors. Here we also discover that not only the tongue possesses the taste receptors. One of the most important olfactory receptors in the kidney is the olfactory receptor 78, which appears in cells and tissues important in regulating blood pressure.

Here we realize that one of our five senses is not limited to one organ only, but rather is distributed in different parts of the human body and performs different functions. This may change our understanding of some aspects and functions of human organs.Also, various other studies are awaiting for many organs and tissues, which may show us that there are other receptors with different functions.

URL: https://podcasts.apple.com/om/podcast/you-smell-your-body-not-just-your-nose-jennifer-pluznick/id470623801?i=1000390904684&l=ar 

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Date: October 18, 2020

The beginning of the rebellion…the end of slavery

Behind this day (25 of march) there are many sacrifices and struggles to attain slave freedom.

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Date: October 18, 2020

The triangular trade of slave  

The slave trade across the Atlantic was the largest deportation in history as they were considered a commodity to be traded between countries.

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Slavery and the slave trade, that crime that struck the African continent, halted its cultural growth, corrupted its social fabric, and created an inferior complex for its peoples.

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Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2020

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 Law 2191 was adopted in June 2019 in Oregon, United States of America. Which provides for students to be allowed to take leave for the comfort of their mental health. Where it was approved by the House of Representatives. After Hailey Hardcastle presented this law project to make mental health a priority for schools.

 Hailey began her journey to take care of her mental health when she was six years old, where she agreed with her mother to take three days off in each course to comfort her mental health. Hailey's childhood was difficult as her character was anxious, and she was thinking of things that other children would not think of. Hailey suffered some panic attacks and crises; at times she was more productive and other times she couldn't do anything.

 The days of rest were the tool that led Hailey to happiness and success, which made her now use this skill to help other students with their mental health challenges. When she reached high school, she was able to manage her mental health, and her successes continued until she became president of the Oregon Association of Student Councils. At the annual summer camp in 2018, a forum was held to discuss the mental health of adolescents and it was attended by about 100 students from different secondary schools. Students shared various stories of the mental health crisis in their schools. The results of the forum were amazing due to the sympathy and credibility of the debate.

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 Also, one of the reasons that prompted Hailey to continue for the sake of psychological comfort for students is the increase in suicides during that period in her state, after hearing many stories of students whose suicides occurred in their cities. This prompted her to do some research to find that suicide is the second leading cause of death. In Oregon, ages 10 to 24 were more likely to commit suicide. A few months later, she created a committee called Students for Oregon Health.

After they created a Student Committee for Oregon Health, they brought up Bill 2191 in the House of Representatives that would provide for students to be allowed to take leave for the comfort of their mental health as well as for physical health. Finally, the law was approved in 2019 after intense pressure on the authorities, research, and promotion, and this was a big move of its kind for students who suffer from psychological problems and disorders that were the cause of their low academic level. And this law helped many children to take care of their mental health and was also a reason to save the lives of some. There are students from different states trying to pass similar laws.

as Hailey says, "But first you need to understand that while not everyone has a diagnosed mental illness like I do, absolutely everyone -- all of you have mental health". From here we realize that not only those suffering from mental illnesses need psychological comfort, but we all need to pay attention to the psychological aspect as we care about the physical side, which has a related effect, as there are psychological diseases that have physical symptoms such as headache, nausea, and shortness of breath, including mental health, affects all of us. Mental health and physical health are similar and should be treated in the same way, so it is natural, just as the body gets tired sometimes and needs health care, also the psychological state of a person may go through bad times and need rest. Take care of the mental health of your children and adolescents to be more productive and successful in the future.

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https://www.ted.com/talks/hailey_hardcastle_why_students_should_have_mental_health_days/transcript#t-235843