av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 31, 2019 | Ted
Some of us learn best in the classroom, and some of us … well, we don’t. But we still love to learn — we just need to find the way that works for us. In this charming, personal talk, author John Green shares the community of learning that he found in online video.
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 25, 2019 | Ted
Chernobyl was the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident and, for the past 27 years, the area around the plant has been known as the Exclusion Zone. And yet, a community of about 200 people live there — almost all of them elderly women. These proud grandmas defied orders to relocate because their connection to their homeland and to their community are ”forces that rival even radiation.”
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 23, 2019 | Ted
Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library — every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history … It’s all free to the public — unless someone else gets to it first.
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 22, 2019 | Ted
”There are facts, there are opinions, and there are lies,” says historian Deborah Lipstadt, telling the remarkable story of her research into Holocaust deniers — and their deliberate distortion of history. Lipstadt encourages us all to go on the offensive against those who assault the truth and facts. ”Truth is not relative,” she says.
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 18, 2019 | Ted
Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus studies memories. More precisely, she studies false memories, when people either remember things that didn’t happen or remember them differently from the way they really were. It’s more common than you might think, and Loftus shares some startling stories and statistics — and raises some important ethical questions.
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 11, 2019 | Ted
Phil Plait was on a Hubble Space Telescope team of astronomers who thought they may have captured the first direct photo of an exoplanet ever taken. But did the evidence actually support that? Follow along as Plait shows how science progresses — through a robust amount of making and correcting errors. ”The price of doing science is admitting when you’re wrong, but the payoff is the best there is: knowledge and understanding,” he says.
