{"id":641853,"date":"2013-02-09T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=69007"},"modified":"2013-02-09T10:58:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T15:58:56","slug":"in-short-the-true-story-of-kid-president-the-danger-of-dr-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/641853","title":{"rendered":"In short: The true story of Kid President, the danger of Dr. Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"586\" height=\"330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IcZVGjG6LWM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Here, some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs from this (and last) week:<\/p>\n<p>The true story of Kid President: Watch this behind-the-scenes video of everyone&#8217;s favorite new politician. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=IcZVGjG6LWM\">YouTube<\/a>] And make sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/kid_president_i_think_we_all_need_a_pep_talk.html\" >watch his pep talk<\/a>, posted on TED last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/michael_specter_the_danger_of_science_denial.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/162500_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Specter: The danger of science denial\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Michael Specter: The danger of science denial<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a>An absolute must-read by Michael Specter, on the cult of Dr. Oz and the dangers of unverified &#8220;health benefits.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2013\/02\/04\/130204fa_fact_specter?currentPage=all\" >The New Yorker<\/a>] Don&#8217;t miss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/michael_specter_the_danger_of_science_denial.html\" >Specter&#8217;s talk on science denial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alice Dreger, who gave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/alice_dreger_is_anatomy_destiny.html\" >a talk at TEDxNorthwesternU<\/a> about her work with people on the &#8220;edge of anatomy,&#8221; interviews Joe Schwartz, 17-year-old son of <em>New York Times<\/em> writer John Schwartz, about his father&#8217;s new book, <em>Oddly Normal<\/em>. The book is about Schwartz Sr.&#8217;s struggle to raise Joe, who is gay. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2013\/01\/growing-up-gay-in-2013\/267455\/\" >The Atlantic<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>A gorgeous photo of a man feeding swans in Krakow. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2013\/01\/a-man-feeding-swans-in-the-snow\/\" >This is colossal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/47403_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a>Clay Shirky gives his rebuttal to Aaron Bady, in defense of MOOCs. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2013\/02\/how-to-save-college\" >The Awl<\/a>]. Watch Shirky&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html\" >talk on institutions vs. collaboration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Scared is scared<\/em>: A short film that resulted when the director asked a six-year-old what her film should be about. [<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/58659769\" >Vimeo<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Silence, wonderful silence. A blissfully curmudgeon-y piece on the last bastion of quietness in public life: The Amtrak Quiet Car. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/18\/opinion\/sunday\/the-quiet-ones.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\">The New York Times.<\/a>] Also check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/julian_treasure_5_ways_to_listen_better.html\">Julian Treasure&#8217;s 5 ways to listen better.<\/a> (Start with &#8230; silence.)<\/p>\n<p>Sheryl Sandberg deems a 3-year-old slideshow from Netflix on office culture and hiring practices &#8220;the most important document ever to come out of the valley.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/technology\/businessinsider\/article\/SHERYL-SANDBERG-The-Most-Important-Document-4249399.php#ixzz2KLLJLohN\" >SF Gate<\/a>] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/sheryl_sandberg_why_we_have_too_few_women_leaders.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/acd634e9df033ccf8054acb31b5107408e945a2a_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a>Watch Sandberg&#8217;s talk, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/sheryl_sandberg_why_we_have_too_few_women_leaders.html\" >Why we have too few women leaders<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can use a 3D printer to print a tiny version of yourself, or you can use it for something useful: like visualizing geometric proofs. Check out some equations turned into objects. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/gallery\/3d-archimedes\/3\" >New Scientist<\/a>] And check out our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/02\/07\/7-talks-on-the-wonder-of-3d-printing\/\" >playlist of talks on the wonder of 3D printing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ridiculous but beautiful photos of pigeons, aka &#8220;rats of the sky,&#8221; accompanying Carl Zimmer&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/05\/science\/pigeons-a-darwin-favorite-carry-new-clues-to-evolution.html\" >article on sequencing the pigeon genome<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2013\/02\/05\/science\/pigeon-grid.html?ref=science#index\" >The New York Times<\/a>] Also check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/parasite-tales-the-jewel-wasp-s-zombie-slave-carl-zimmer\" >Carl Zimmer&#8217;s TED-Ed lesson<\/a>, sure to gross out your child, and probably you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/neil_harbisson_i_listen_to_color.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/d06593f2820b67dbb5abfceaa20aa8240d779850_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Neil Harbisson: I listen to color\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Neil Harbisson: I listen to color<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a>GE Focus Forward announced the winners of its Filmmaker Competition, and the Grand Jury Prize Winner is about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/neil_harbisson_i_listen_to_color.html\" >Neil Harbisson, a familiar face at TED<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/focusforwardfilms.com\/contest\/13\/cyborg-foundation-rafel-duran-torrent\" >Focus Forward Films<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, MIT chemists are able to map the location of proteins inside cells to get a sense of what&#8217;s going on. [<a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2013\/mapping-the-living-cell-0131.html\" >Web.MIT.edu<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Watch Hello Kitty get launched into space by a 7th-grader. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/2013\/02\/04\/watch-this-amazing-12-year-old-launch-a-hello-kitty-into-space\/\" >Scientific American<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the 21st century, it may be that no home will be complete without a computerized communications console.&#8221; Walter Cronkite predicts the future in 1967. [<a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/13\/02\/the-home-office-of-the-21st-century\" >Kottke<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Ascend and experience London from the top of the Shard with an interactive tool made by the Guardian UK. Look for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/antony_gormley_sculpted_space_within_and_without.html\" >legendary sculptor Antony Gormley&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0flyover about the British Museum. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/interactive\/2013\/feb\/01\/view-from-top-shard-london-interactive\" >Guardian UK<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/69007\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/69007\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=69007&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/Ezf1QKvp-M0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs from this (and last) week: The true story of Kid President: Watch this behind-the-scenes video of everyone&#8217;s favorite new politician. [YouTube] And make sure to watch his pep talk, posted on TED last week. Michael Specter: The danger of science denialAn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}