av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 15, 2018 | Ted

America’s school systems are funded by the 50 states.
In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and weighted with worsening deficits — with the financing of education at the losing end.
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 15, 2018 | Ted
Det blir lite extra mycket TED idag. Föreläsningar om skilda ämnen som jag tycker är viktiga och som jag hoppas att du också kommer att tycka är viktiga, intressanta och värda att titta och lyssna på.
Allt är inte fakta, en hel del är vinklingar, funderingar och ideér. Alla är däremot värda att sprida vidare och lyssna till.
Nu kör vi!
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 12, 2018 | Ted

Malika Whitley is the founder of ChopArt, an organization for homeless teens focused on mentorship, dignity and opportunity through the arts.
In this moving, personal talk, she shares her story of homelessness and finding her voice through arts — and her mission to provide a creative outlet for others who have been pushed to the margins of society.
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 11, 2018 | Ted
Every human deserves protection under their country’s laws — even when that law is forgotten or ignored.
Sharing three cases from her international legal practice, Kimberley Motley, an American litigator practicing in Afghanistan and elsewhere, shows how a country’s own laws can bring both justice and “justness”: using the law for its intended purpose, to protect.
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 10, 2018 | Ted
”Hold your breath,” says inventor Tom Zimmerman. ”This is the world without plankton.” These tiny organisms produce two-thirds of our planet’s oxygen — without them, life as we know it wouldn’t exist.
In this talk and tech demo, Zimmerman and cell engineer Simone Bianco hook up a 3D microscope to a drop of water and take you scuba diving with plankton. Learn more about these mesmerizing creatures and get inspired to protect them against ongoing threats from climate change.
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 8, 2018 | Ted

Robb Willer studies the forces that unite and divide us. As a social psychologist, he researches how moral values — typically a source of division — can also be used to bring people together.
Willer shares compelling insights on how we might bridge the ideological divide and offers some intuitive advice on ways to be more persuasive when talking politics.