TED: Den dolda påverkan från sociala nätverk

av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 21, 2019 | Ted

We’re all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nocholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits — from happiness to obesity — can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don’t even know.

https://www.ted.com/talks/nocholas_christakis_the_hidden_influence_of_social_networks?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

TED: Så måste Twitter förändras

av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 19, 2019 | Ted

Can Twitter be saved? In a wide-ranging conversation with TED’s Chris Anderson and Whitney Pennington Rodgers, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey discusses the future of the platform — acknowledging problems with harassment and moderation and proposing some fundamental changes that he hopes will encourage healthy, respectful conversations. ”Are we actually delivering something that people value every single day?” Dorsey asks.

TED: Facebooks roll i Brexit och hotet mot demokratin

av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 17, 2019 | Ted

In an unmissable talk, journalist Carole Cadwalladr digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK’s super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Tracking the result to a barrage of misleading Facebook ads targeted at vulnerable Brexit swing voters — and linking the same players and tactics to the 2016 US presidential election — Cadwalladr calls out the ”gods of Silicon Valley” for being on the wrong side of history and asks: Are free and fair elections a thing of the past?

https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_the_threat_to_democracy?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

TED: Kan Jorden slukas av ett svart hål?

av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 16, 2019 | Ted

From asteroids capable of destroying entire species to supernovae that could exterminate life on Earth, outer space has no shortage of forces that could wreak havoc on our planet. But there’s something in space that is even more terrifying than any of these — something that wipes out everything it comes near. Fabio Pacucci examines the probability of Earth being gobbled up by a black hole. [TED-Ed Animation by Astroplastique].

TED: Kör på och hitta på nya ord

av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 15, 2019 | Ted

In this fun, short talk from TEDYouth, lexicographer Erin McKean encourages — nay, cheerleads — her audience to create new words when the existing ones won’t quite do. She lists out 6 ways to make new words in English, from compounding to “verbing,” in order to make language better at expressing what we mean, and to create more ways for us to understand one another.