av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 14, 2024 | Bluesky, Mastodon, TED
Menopause isn’t just hot flashes, says gynecologist and sexual medicine specialist Maria Sophocles. It’s often accompanied by overlooked symptoms like painful sex or loss of libido.
Shedding light on what she calls the ”bedroom gap,” or the difference in sexual expectations of men and women in midlife due to societal norms, Sophocles advocates for education, medical advancement and a new understanding of menopause — because sex should be pleasurable and comfortable for everyone.
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 11, 2024 | Bluesky, Mastodon, TED
Conversation is a battlefield with only one winner. Or is it? Comedian and author Jordan Klepper believes we can get better at talking to each other (and perhaps save democracy) by learning how to lose.
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 5, 2024 | Bluesky, Mastodon, TED
”The world’s most important advanced technology is nearly all produced in a single facility,” says AI expert Rob Toews.
He describes how one company in Taiwan, TSMC, manufactures nearly all the most advanced semiconductor chips — a crucial technology that powers everything from phones to electric vehicles to next-generation artificial intelligence — and breaks down how geopolitical tensions in the region could paralyze the global field of AI.
https://www.ted.com/talks/rob_toews_ai_s_single_point_of_failure?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 27, 2024 | Bluesky, Mastodon, TED
Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing 18-minute indictment of irrational beliefs. He throws out a challenge to the world’s psychics: Prove what you do is real, and I’ll give you a million dollars. (No takers yet.)
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 16, 2024 | Bluesky, Mastodon, TED
One day around 850 CE, a goatherd observed that his goats started acting abnormally after nibbling on some berries. The herder tried them himself, and soon enough, he was just as hyper.
As the story goes, this was humanity’s first run-in with coffee. So, how did coffee go from humble plant to one of the world’s most consumed beverages? Jonathan Morris traces the history of this energizing elixir. [Directed by Harry Tennant, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Stephen LaRosa].
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 9, 2024 | Bluesky, Mastodon, TED
We don’t have to sacrifice our freedom for the sake of technological progress, says social technologist Divya Siddarth. She shares how a group of people helped retrain one of the world’s most powerful AI models on a constitution they wrote — and offers a vision of technology that aligns with the principles of democracy, rather than conflicting with them.
