TED: Så finansierar falska handväskor terrorister

av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 24, 2019 | Ted

What’s the harm in buying a knock-off purse or a fake designer watch? According to counterfeit investigator Alastair Gray, fakes like these fund terrorism and organized crime. Learn more about the trillion-dollar underground economy of counterfeiting — from the criminal organizations that run it to the child labor they use to produce its goods — as well as measures you can take to help stop it. ”Let’s shine a light on the dark forces of counterfeiting that are hiding in plain sight,” Gray says.

TED: Du har ingen om var kameler egentligen kommer ifrån

av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 22, 2019 | Ted

Camels are so well adapted to the desert that it’s hard to imagine them living anywhere else. But what if we have them pegged all wrong? What if those big humps, feet and eyes were evolved for a different climate and a different time? In this talk, join Radiolab’s Latif Nasser as he tells the surprising story of how a very tiny, very strange fossil upended the way he sees camels, and the world. This talk comes from the PBS special ”TED Talks: Science & Wonder.”

Det här är historien om hur IBM hjälpte Rodrigo Duerte att övervaka filipinska medborgare

av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 21, 2019 | Ted

Inside the Video Surveillance Program IBM Built for Philippine Strongman Rodrigo Duterte

JAYPEE LAROSA WAS standing in front of an internet cafe in Davao City, a metropolitan hub on the Philippine island of Mindanao, when three men in dark jackets pulled up on a motorcycle and opened fire. That summer evening, Larosa, 20, was killed. After the shooting, according to witnesses, one of the men reportedly removed Larosa’s baseball cap and said, “Son of a bitch. This is not the one.” Then they drove off.

Larosa’s murder, on July 17, 2008, was one of hundreds of extrajudicial killings carried out in Davao City, now a city of 1.6 million, while Rodrigo Duterte, now president of the Philippines, was mayor there. Years before launching his notorious, bloody “drug war” across the country, Duterte presided over similar tactics at the local level. During his tenure as mayor, according to a 2009 investigation by Human Rights Watch, death squads assassinated street children, drug dealers, and petty criminals; in some cases, researchers found evidence of the complicity or direct involvement of government officials and police.

Källa: Inside the Video Surveillance Program IBM Built for Philippine Strongman Rodrigo Duterte

TED: Den dolda påverkan med sociala nätverk

av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 20, 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.

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TED: Den förlorade konsten att skriva brev

av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 16, 2019 | Ted

Lakshmi Pratury remembers the lost art of letter-writing and shares a series of notes her father wrote to her before he died. Her short but heartfelt talk may inspire you to set pen to paper, too.