av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 31, 2019 | Ted
“Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” Mochael Wolff’s account of President Trump’s early tenure, sold more than four million copies, spawned a TV deal, prompted the president to threaten legal action and led to the ouster of Stephen K. Bannon from the White House and Breitbart News.
On Tuesday, Mr. Wolff returns with a sequel, “Siege: Trump Under Fire.” Author and subject seem well-matched: A pair of acid-tongued gossipmongers fixated on the foibles of New York’s elite, Mr. Wolff and Mr. Trump are gifted storytellers who are unafraid to punch back.
Källa: Mochael Wolff Talks ‘Siege,’ Trump, Journalism and His Definition of Truth
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 30, 2019 | Ted
Facebook’s ”like” and ”share” buttons are seen 22 billion times a day, making them some of the most-viewed design elements ever created. Margaret Gould Stewart, Facebook’s director of product design, outlines three rules for design at such a massive scale—one so big that the tiniest of tweaks can cause global outrage, but also so large that the subtlest of improvements can positively impact the lives of many.
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 28, 2019 | Ted
What’s haunting Carrie Poppy? Is it ghosts or something worse? In this talk, the investigative journalist narrates her encounter with a spooky feeling you’ll want to warn your friends about and explains why we need science to deal with paranormal activity.
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 27, 2019 | Ted
Adults tend to think of kids as ”future citizens” — their ideas and opinions will matter someday, just not today. But kids make up a quarter of the population, so shouldn’t they have a say in what the world they’ll inherit will look like? Urban planner Mara Mintzer shares what happened when she and her team asked kids to help design a park in Boulder, Colorado — and how it revealed an important blind spot in how we construct the built environment. ”If we aren’t including children in our planning, who else aren’t we including?” Mintzer asks.
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 26, 2019 | Ted
Privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian sees the landscape of government surveillance shifting beneath our feet, as an industry grows to support monitoring programs. Through private companies, he says, governments are buying technology with the capacity to break into computers, steal documents and monitor activity — without detection. This TED Fellow gives an unsettling look at what’s to come.
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 25, 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.
