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**Tip: Opening up TED's interactive transcript is very helpful to understand her talk and also looking over her web site on the Environmental Health at Clinic at** **[] ** **. (2 paragraphs)**
 * Describe how Natalie Jeremijenko has based her research on "new technologies are an opportunity for social transformation" to perform "small actions that can amount to a significant effect to improve local environmental health". **

**Natali Jeremijenko work is described as experimental design, xDesign. She hopes to explore how new technologies can be utilized to help improve local environmental health. She frames health in an external way. ** **One of Jeremijenko’s experiments is the tadpole. She prescribes the tadpole bureaucrats to the impatients with concerns about water quality. Tadpoles are believed to be very sensitive to contaminants and hormone-mimicking substances that may be in the water. Due to this, the tadpole development is affected. After the project, impatients explain what they found out and what they think should’ve been done about their water quality. **

** Choose two projects on HowStuffisMade at ** **[] ** ** and write about how they are made. **

** Gelato: ** Before the gelato is made, mint is torn, mangoes are washed and chocolate is melted. Then the dairy base is poured into the batch freezer along with the flavour ingredients. In 15-20 minutes, the gelato comes out from the batch freezer smooth and creamy. The gelato is then smooth into the container.

**Fortune Cookie:** The fortune cookie is made with sugar, flour, eggs and water. The making of the cookie is highly automated. The machine squirts batter onto the griddles in a rotating wheel. The flat cookie wafers then pass through an oven and are baked at about 375 degrees. When the cookies are properly positioned, a mechanical arm puts the fortune paper on the cookie and the machine folds the cookie. After the cookies are cooled and hardened, someone inspects them to ensure good quality. Once quality is ensured, they are returned to the mechanized processing. An employee loads the cookies onto a conveyer belt, which sends them to a machine that wraps the cookies in individual plastic packages.


 * Why is it important that we understand how stuff is made as part of our systems analysis and design process? (1 paragraph) **

It is important to understand how stuff is made so that, designers can better figure out how to improve designs. Also, this will help identify opportunities for innovation and better managing of the process efficiently and effectively.