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Showing posts with label TED. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TED. Show all posts
Nuclear, yes please
"The anti-nuclear movement to which I once belonged has misled the world about the impacts of radiation on human health. The claims we have made are ungrounded in science, unsupportable when challenged and wildly wrong. We have done other people, and ourselves, a terrible disservice."
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Why I changed my mind about nuclear power | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxBerlin
Testimonial injustice / The Credibility Gap / How communities evaluate knowledge
"testimonial injustice, wherein a speaker receives an unfair deficit of credibility from a hearer owing to prejudice on the hearer's part."
Aqui
The Credibility Gap: How Sexism Shapes Human Knowledge | Soraya Chemaly | TEDxBarcelonaWomen
It's a man's world...but what does that mean? Today, when you Google "Are Women...?" the most likely suggested answer you'll get is "Evil." What does the suppression of women's experiences and knowledge in culture and media mean in terms of human understanding? How does a global suppression of women's experiences, perspectives and storytelling result in injustice and inequality? This talk dives into the question of what male-centered culture really means.
Defining Implicit Bias:
Also known as implicit social cognition, implicit bias refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner. These biases, which encompass both favorable and unfavorable assessments, are activated involuntarily and without an individual’s awareness or intentional control. Residing deep in the subconscious, these biases are different from known biases that individuals may choose to conceal for the purposes of social and/or political correctness. Rather, implicit biases are not accessible through introspection.
Aqui
The Ten Words Every Girl Should Know: Stop interrupting me; I just said that; No explanation needed.
"You cannot be a feminist unless you have a sense of humour! It's a rule."
Soraya Chemaly
Remembering memories, and happiness vs well being
The riddle of experience vs. memory | Daniel Kahneman
The experiencing self lives it's life continuously. And it has moments of experience one after the other.
What happens to these moments? ... The psychological present is said to be 3 seconds long...
– They are lost forever. Most of them don't leave a trace. Most of them are completely ignored by the remembering self.
What defines a story are changes, significant moments and endings. Endings are very, very important.
The biggest difference between the experiencing self and the remembering self is the handling of time.
Time, has very little impact on the story.
But... It's the remembering self that makes decisions... We go on vacations in the service of the remembering self.
Why do we put so much weight on memory, relative to the weight we put on experience?
So... The two selves bring up two concepts of happiness.
The happiness of the remembering self is not about how happily a person lives. It's about how satisfied or pleased a person is when that person thinks about her life.
The main lesson that we (researchers) have learnt is that they're REALLY different. You can know how satisfied a person is with their life, and that really doesn't teach you much about how happily they're living their life.
We know that happiness is mainly being satisfied with people that we like. Spending time with people that we like. There are other pleasures but this is dominant.
We should not think of happiness as a substitute for well being. It is a completely different notion.
It is very difficult to think straight about well being.
We do not attend to the same things when we think about life and when we actually live.
Aging / Numbers / Biometrics
TEDxSF - Joe Betts-Lacroix - Stayin' Alive: Don't Go Gentle into that Good Night
The Sens foundation:
Mission: The Foundation catalyses progress toward a comprehensive panel of rejuvenation biotechnologies through its growing global networks and collaborations, and through key research projects, executed in its own Research Center and numerous affiliated universities, research organizations and other centers of excellence.
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VIUM:
Vium is a translational medicine company focused on improving the success of drug development. Through the creation of more precise and reproducible disease models, Vium’s digital platform provides physiological biomarkers that enable better decisions on which compounds should be advanced to the clinic.
Vium’s Digital Vivarium™ and Vium Cloud is the gold-standard in vivo platform combining computer vision, artificial intelligence, machine learning and sensor technology to non-invasively collect and derive insights from digital biomarkers. The Vium platform continuously captures physiological metrics and behaviors non-invasively, providing more sensitive and accurate data collection, leading to more replicable studies. By providing researchers with these continuous, rich data sets, the platform enables them to identify which digital biomarkers, or combinations of biomarkers, are the strongest indicators of disease.
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The Quantified Self - Know thyself through numbers
Gary Wolf: The quantified self
Autoconhecimento através dos números.
Aqui.
Age is the biggest predictor of early disease onset
Could your thoughts make you age faster?
"Researchers are finding that your mental patterns could be harming your telomeres — essential parts of the cell’s DNA — and affecting your life and health. Nobel-winning scientist Elizabeth Blackburn and health psychologist Elissa Epel explain." Aqui
Motivated reasoning
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up your men to collect wood, and give orders and distribute the work. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You think you're right, even when you're wrong.
"If you really want to improve your judgement as individuals and as societies, what we need most is not more instruction in logic or rhetoric or probability or economics. Even though those things are quite valuable. But what we most need to use those principles well, is the 'scout mindset'. We need to change the way we feel. We need to learn how to feel proud, instead of ashamed, when we notice we might have been wrong about something. We need to learn how to feel intrigued instead of defensive, when we encounter some information that contradicts our beliefs. What do you most yearn for? Do you yearn to defend your own beliefs? Or do you yearn to see the world as clearly as you possibly can?"
Julia Galef
"This is a case of what scientists refer to as “motivated reasoning,” a phenomenon in which our unconscious motivations, desires and fears shape the way we interpret information. Some pieces of information feel like our allies — we want them to win; we want to defend them. And other pieces of information are the enemy, and we want to shoot them down."
