When We See Us - Rwanda and the power of traditional wisdom - Jeanne Adili Ndatirwa - TEDxBerlin#rwanda #eastafrica #tedtalks #fyp #foryou #explore #explorepage #africa

We’re excited to finally share with you all our very first #NOWMoment Video Project episode. This one features Generation Now! Exhibition 2013 artist, Azim Fakhri.

Fakhri shares an honest story about what inspired him to start creating graphic art that captured his own view of his homeland Afghanistan, and much more. Find more of his art here: https://www.artrepresent.com/kabul-knight

Solidarity is not a crime

Why I fight for solidarity | Pia Klemp

Since June 2018 Klemp and nine other crew members of the IUVENTA are under investigation for 'aiding and abetting illegal immigration to Italy' - because they saved the lives. The IUVENTA and its crew were involved in the rescue of over 14,000 people in distress at sea. Today they face up to 20 years in prison.

What lies ahead of the crew is a marathon - not a sprint. The trial is expected to last between 3 and 4 years and the total cost of the trial will be 500,000 €. The iuventa10 are fighting a legal and political fight against the criminalization of solidarity with refugees and migrants.

Performance | Alice Phoebe Lou | TEDxBerlin

It ruffled up my feathers  And it barked on up my tree When suddenly it seemed all the fingers Were pointing on up at me And the footsteps in the sand Were all getting washed up by the sea To leave me in stitches Bursting at the seams Bursting at the seams When the sun came out to greet me I only saw the wolves from my dreams 

This is my Berlin Blues song Sometimes life can get a little wrong But it won’t be long Cause it just makes me strong 

 And there is a place where we one day will delve Where there’s no more walking on eggshells  Where ideas are for free, oh it’s the place to be Your great mind’s no longer the minority  And I’ll see you there with your hands in the air Where the canvas is bare And there’s no more despair And your third eye will stare Nothing can compare There’s not one care And I’ll see you there I’ll see you there.

Mallence Bart-Williams Change your channel (TEDxBerlinSalon, 1/26/15) [h/t]

So, I promised more #BigPussyEnergy stories ♥️ It’s Sunday. Get comfy - it’s Storytime 🤗 ... . . It was about six months ago when I signed up for a womb healing course. My intention was to develop a deeper and more intimate relationship with my womb. I’d been following @mallence and @secretceres for a few years. I valued her approach - she spoke so boldly and assuredly about issues that I am also really passionate about - like African regeneration and womb health. I admired her work in Sierra Leone with the sharity model of economic empowerment with @xxx. I had also heard her describe her own personal transformation since delivering the TEDxBerlin talk which brought her to my attention and to the attention of many. You should watch that presentation. So, when the opportunity arose to sit in circle with her and undergo womb healing, I felt called. . . It was a powerful 5 days. The work did not end there though ... we’re still integrating and I’m watching with such awe as each of the women I sat in circle with continues to transform and shed more layers of the conditioning that prevents us from blooming, in our own unique ways on our own paths, as nature intended. . . So, where was I? Oh, yes, womb healing and Big Pussy Energy. In the months following the course, I have increasingly connected to my own intuitive wisdom, mostly by following the directions that come from within, my womb. This inner guidance system is what I call #BigPussyEnergy. If you are womb-free, you can still connect to this energy system but I can’t tell you how because it is not my lived experience or my focus. I’d still love to hear your stories though. . . So, how I experience this guidance is that the more I commit to keeping my womb space clear of toxic energy and conditioning, the more in tune I am with my personal desires. This way, I make choices that nurture and sustain life, beginning with my own. It is this nurturing of energy that creates an irresistible magnetic field for everything that belongs to me to find me: I never chase, I attract. Thank you, Mallence and all the amazing women I sat with in circle ✨♥️🌸. Until next time, folks ... more #BigPussyEnergy musings to come ... https://www.instagram.com/p/CM8inE7h4Ux/?igshid=1uo1587mv7nvm

Performance | Alice Phoebe Lou | TEDxBerlin

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Don’t get fooled or conned again — 5 tactics to look out for

Priya Mistry

People and businesses routinely use five techniques to get us to do what they want, says presenter and broadcaster Alexis Conran. Here’s how to recognize them.

Most of us get fooled or conned on a regular basis. No, we’re probably not falling for Ponzi schemes or those “send us your password” phishing emails. But we set aside our better judgement all the time in less dramatic instances — we go for the “buy two, get one free” offer at the drugstore and walk away with more band-aids than we can use in 20 years; we order the chef’s daily special because it sounds, well, special but it’s really the restaurant’s way to off-load fish on the verge of going bad; or we get distracted from an alarming increase in crime in our community by a press conference from the mayor where she touts a promising rise in high-school test scores.

What’s fascinating about examples like these is that while they’re perpetrated by other people or entities, the real work of persuasion largely takes place in our heads, according to UK-based presenter and broadcaster Alexis Conran. “Magic and sales and scams and political beliefs all happen in the mind of the spectator,” Conran points out in a TEDxBerlin talk.

Conran’s career has taken him from actor to magician to the BBC show The Real Hustle where he and a team used confidence tricks to fool passersby and then explained how they worked. They deployed a particular set of superpowers — a set of tools used by many people and organizations in our everyday lives. “Their superpower is using the right words, asking the right questions, and putting people in the right situation to do exactly as they’re told,” he explains.

Because the process of being fooled takes place inside our minds, it’s up to us to realize when we’re being taken. How? By being alert — not overly jumpy, suspicious or cynical, just aware — to the methods deployed by businesses, politicians, and others that nudge us into doing or thinking what they’d like us to to do or think. “I’m not saying they’re all crooked, I’m not saying they’re all criminals, but they’re all trying to do the same thing — they’re trying to sell you on a story, to get you to buy into their narrative,” explains Conran.

Here are the five principles used to get us to buy into their stories:

Misdirection

Misdirection is an age-old tactic used by thieves of all kinds. It’s why pickpockets snatch wallets when they know we’re occupied by an outdoors concert or fireworks display or by reading our phones or books while we commute.

Misdirection can occur on a more subtle level, too. It’s why companies and governments often release bad news on Fridays or before major holidays — they’re obliged to announce a weak earnings report or the so-so unemployment rate but they’re hoping that the weekend or holiday distracts us from fixating on it.

In the run-up to the Brexit vote in 2016 — as journalist Carole Cadwalladr so memorably found and explained in a TED Talk — specially targeted Facebook ads led people to believe that Turkey would be joining the EU, which would cause Turkish migrants to flood into the UK. This was not true, but pro-Brexit forces used distractions like these to influence people to vote “yes.”

Time pressure and opportunity

Both of these are classic sales techniques, and they’re frequently combined for maximum impact. It’s why supermarkets have ongoing special offers. Because a “buy one, get one free” promotion (opportunity) on canned tuna lasts just one week (time pressure), we feel like we must stock up right now.

Similarly, time-specific sales like Black Friday and Cyber Monday also lead us to spend more than we typically would things — these made-up “days” create an artificial but extremely real feeling of urgency in us. “Putting people under pressure makes them make mistakes … it’s much easier to manipulate people when they’re acting under pressure than if you give them time to examine the facts,” says Conran.

Opportunity also assumes quieter forms. Think of all the “free” social-media accounts, online services and newsletters that you’re signed up for. In truth, no one is out there offering us something for nothing. Whether it’s our money, our data or our time, we’re always giving back something in return.

Social compliance and social proof

Social compliance refers to how “we respond to people in authority and to badges and uniforms,” according to Conran. While this is essential to the functioning of our society — it’s why the sight of a police car can make drivers immediately slow down — but it also leaves us vulnerable to people like Bernie Madoff who rely on the appearance of competence and expertise to disguise what they’re really doing or the abusers who depend on their profession — take the clergy, for example — to evade notice.

Social proof refers to how “we constantly look to others around us for clues as to how to behave,” says Conran. “That’s a very, very powerful thing because as a hustler, I know that all I have to do is manipulate your environment to get you to behave the way I want you to.”

You can see social proof in action at the airport. Even though it’s nowhere near a flight’s boarding time, most of us scan the people around us to know when to start queueing up. After a few passengers stand near the gate, more of us will get up to join them and the number quickly grows. Social proof also fuels much of the behavior on Facebook, Twitter and other platforms — similar to a snowball growing in size as it rolls downhill, a large number of “like”s will attract more “like”s as people click their approval upon glimpsing how many others in their network are doing so.

Now that you know these five tactics, you can use them to spot scams and to recognize when you’re being manipulated. This attitude doesn’t just apply to our interactions with other people. “Be careful when you read headlines and news,” says Conran. “Be careful when you feel emotionally moved by the headline, and be even more careful when you agree with the headline or when the headline makes you happy, because that’s when you need to watch out.”

Watch his TEDxBerlin talk here:

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alexis Conran is a presenter, broadcaster and writer based in the UK. Find out more about him at alexisconran.com

This post was originally published on TED Ideas. It’s part of the “How to Be a Better Human” series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice from someone in the TED community; browse through all the posts here.

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Nguyen-Kim mit Tom Buhrow auf der Media Convention Berlin 2019

Nguyen-Kim, deren Eltern aus Vietnam stammen, machte 2006 am Bergstraßen-Gymnasium in Hemsbach das Abitur. Von 2006 bis 2012 studierte sie Chemie an der Universität Mainz und am Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ab 2012 arbeitete sie als Doktorandin an der RWTH Aachen, der Harvard University und dem Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Polymerforschung und wurde 2017 an der Universität Potsdam mit einer Arbeit über Physikalische Hydrogele auf Polyurethan-Basis promoviert.

2015 startete Nguyen-Kim den YouTube-Kanal The Secret Life Of Scientists, um Stereotype zu Wissenschaftlern und Nerdsinfrage zu stellen und einem jungen Publikum wissenschaftliche Themen zu vermitteln. Zusätzlich ging im Oktober 2016 ihr YouTube-Kanal schönschlau online, der von funk produziert wird, einem Gemeinschaftsangebot von ARD und ZDF für Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene. Zeitweise moderierte sie auch den Kanal Auf Klo und Lernvideos für das Fach Chemie im für funk produzierten Format musstewissen. Ihr Kanal schönschlau wurde 2018 in maiLab umbenannt und hatte im September 2019 eine halbe Million Abonnenten.

Nguyen-Kim ist Moderatorin im WiD-Projekt Die Debatte und gehört mit Harald Lesch und Philip Häusser zum Team von Terra X Lesch & Co. Im Wechsel mit Ralph Caspers (zudem mit Ranga Yogeshwar bis zu dessen Ausscheiden im November 2018) moderiert sie seit Anfang Mai 2018 die Sendung Quarks.

Auszeichnungen

2012: Dritter Platz bei der Falling-Walls-Conference in Berlin für die Präsentation Breaking the Wall of the Human Cell

2014: Gewinn von Science-Slams in Aachen und Bochum

2014: Vortrag auf der TEDxBerlin-Konferenz als Gewinnerin des -Wettbewerbs Spotlight@TEDxBerlin

2015: Gewinnerin des Kölner Bullshit Slams mit einer Präsentation zum Thema Klimawandel

2016: Erster Platz in der Kategorie Scitainment mit dem Beitrag Trust me, I’m a Scientist beim Webvideo-Wettbewerb Fast Forward Science 2016 (ausgerichtet von Wissenschaft im Dialog und dem Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft)

2018: Grimme Online Award in der Kategorie Wissen und Bildung sowie Publikumspreis des Grimme Online Award

2018: Georg von Holtzbrinck Preis für Wissenschaftsjournalismus

2018: Erster Platz bei Fast Forward Science in der Kategorie Substanz, erster Platz beim Community Award und ein Webvideo Excellence Award

2018: Gewinnerin Webvideopreis Deutschland

2018: Journalistin des Jahres 2018 in der Kategorie Wissenschaft, verliehen durch das Medium Magazin

2019: Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis

TEDxBerlin: Pia Klemp - Why I fight for solidarity