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 * 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".**

**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)**

Natalie Jeremijenko bases her research on new technologies to perform improvements on the local environment. She does this through an environmental health clinic at NYU. This environmental health clinic takes a twist from a regular health clinic. Patients are called “impatients” and instead of recieving a medical prescription, they receive a prescription to improve environmental health. This take on bettering one self deals with improving externally before you can improve yourself internally. In other words, by improving the health of the environment and our surroundings, we are improving our own health.

One example in her research studies was the social transformation with fishes. She placed 6 feet beams, 3 feet under water, 3 feet above, with lights that turn on when there are fish. These lights also change colour according to the quality of the water. Using cell phone technology, you can even text and communicate with the fish, bridging the gap between person and environment.

**Choose two projects on HowStuffisMade at [] and write about how they are made. (1 paragraph each/2 paragraphs)**

__How Are Jelly Beans Made?__

It can take up to 10 days to make a jelly bean. First master confectioners cook the flavoured slurry to create the sweet soft centers. Then a machine called a Mogul delivers the precise amount of cooked slurry into the jelly bean moulds. The jelly bean mould is a mould with 1260 impressions of the jelly bean shape. It is filled with corn starch. The corn starch is then shaken off before reaching the conveyor belt where it receives a shower of sugar. It takes about two hours for the process to complete, in which it spins in a specially designed stainless steel drum. Workers then pour in coloured syrups and flavours. This is repeated four times. Finally the centers are coated with granulated sugar to help the drying process.

__How Are Fortune Cookies Made?__

The fortune cookie is made from four simple ingredients -- sugar, flour, eggs and water. Fortune cookie-making is highly automated. A machine squirts batter onto griddles in a rotating wheel. As the wheel turns, the flat cookie wafers pass through an oven and are baked at about 375 degrees. The paper fortunes are then loaded by a mechanical arm that grabs hold of the fortune as another arm sweeps the cookie from the rotating wheel. Once properly positioned, the arm places the fortune on the cookie and the machine folds the cookie. After the cookies have cooled and hardened, it is manually inspected, breaking the automation process. It is then placed into another machine that wraps them 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 very important that we understand how stuff is made as it allows designers to understand the process involved in making products. This will give the designer a better understanding of competitors and their techniques. It also allows for the improvements in design by pin pointing problem areas that can be fixed to save time and money compared to the competitors to gain an upper hand.