TED Talks are always interesting and help bring a new perspective on to numerous topics and differing areas of research.  While I can strongly say that I enjoy almost every TED talk I watch, the one I most enjoy is the TED talk that discusses why helmets do not in fact prevent concussions.  This TED talks discusses one of the sports world’s most interesting questions.  CTE is an injury that plagues football players and inflicts huge amounts of struggle into the brains of players.  Consequently, many companies have been researching how to improve protection for players to reduce these injuries which at times can be fatal.  The presentation given by David Camarillo helps break down some of the most recent research and sheds light onto research that he and his own team have been completing.  Interestingly enough, Camarillo points out that helmets worn to prevent brain inflicted damage currently do very little.  These helmets only minorly reduce potential brain injury.  As a result, Camarillo and his team set about to find a new, safer helmet.  What he discovered along the way was that mouth guards in contact sports like football actually do more to reduce the risk of CTE than helmets do.  This is extremely groundbreaking and obliterates the research of so many people prior.  In addition, it puts emphasis on a new area which is mouth guards and the potential that they could have.  Camarillo’s work is promising and demonstrates that there is a bright future ahead of reducing head trauma and CTE risk.

For my research I would likely like to look at the paradigm shift in the monetary system in this country.  This would be historical research and would look at how the monetary system developed and why it developed in this country.  In addition, it would investigate changing perspectives during the time that caused a shift in opinion on why people originally did not want a monetary system and why all of a sudden, they did.  I would likely use primary sources as my main source of information to craft my argument that way I would have first person perspectives included in my research.