{"id":642463,"date":"2013-02-14T18:24:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T23:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=69432"},"modified":"2013-02-14T18:24:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T23:24:21","slug":"in-short-looking-for-love-during-chemo-kierkegaards-love-letter-to-a-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/642463","title":{"rendered":"In short: Looking for love during chemo, Kierkegaard&rsquo;s love letter to a pen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-69456\" alt=\"well-suleika-infertile-tmagArticle\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/well-suleika-infertile-tmagarticle.jpg?w=530&#038;h=422\" width=\"530\" height=\"422\" \/><br \/>\nHere, some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs this week, with a light Valentine&#8217;s Day theme:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Suleika Jaouad, who writes about being young with cancer, talks about the embarrassing but very real prospect of being a sexually active cancer patient. [<a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/14\/life-interrupted-crazy-unsexy-cancer-tips\/\" >The NYTimes Well Blog<\/a>] For other unconventional responses to cancer, watch Ananda Shankar Jayant&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/ananda_shankar_jayant_fights_cancer_with_a_dance.html\" >talk on fighting cancer with dance<\/a>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Data visualizationist and programmer Olivier H. Beauchesne maps Wikipedia geotags to uncover some unexpected connections across the tome. [<a href=\"http:\/\/olihb.com\/2013\/01\/23\/a-map-of-the-geographic-structure-of-wikipedia-topics\/\" >Collaborative Cybernetics<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/leslie_morgan_steiner_why_domestic_violence_victims_don_t_leave.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/bbfa62818807b138c85e93b779840877d0f4753c_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie Morgan Steiner: Why domestic violence victims don&#039;t leave\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Leslie Morgan Steiner: Why domestic violence victims don&#039;t leave<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read Leslie Morgan Steiner&#8217;s CNN article, &#8220;Why abused women stay in bad relationships,&#8221; in which she calls on lawyers to provide pro bono work to victims of domestic violence. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/02\/10\/opinion\/steiner-domestic-violence\/index.html?eref=rss_opinion&amp;cid=sf_twitter\" >CNN<\/a>] Make sure to watch her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/leslie_morgan_steiner_why_domestic_violence_victims_don_t_leave.html\">TED Talk on the same topic<\/a>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>An 18-minute documentary on the future of interactive design, along with eight insights. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/1671611\/8-insights-about-the-coming-era-of-interactive-design\" >Co.DESIGN<\/a>]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Soren Kierkegaard&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day ode to his love &#8212; a pen. [<a href=\"http:\/\/theamericanreader.com\/13-february-1947-soren-kierkegaard-to-julie-thomsen\/\">The American Reader<\/a>]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>On Tuesday night, TED Fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/fellows.ted.com\/profiles\/jon-lowenstein\" >Jon Lowenstein<\/a>&#8216;s documentary about gun violence in Chicago aired on Channel 4 News in the UK, before the U.S. State of the Union address. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/chicago-gun-crime-shot-dead-17-hours-obama-laws\" >Channel 4<\/a>] See our <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/02\/12\/barack-obamas-2013-state-of-the-union-talks-for-deeper-thinking-on-the-issues\/\">annotation of Obama&#8217;s speech, in TED Talks and playlists<\/a>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>How moshing taught a physics grad student about the dynamic of human collective motion. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2013\/02\/mosh-pits-teach-us-about-the-physics-of-collective-behavior\/273087\/\" >The Atlantic<\/a>]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Here, 34 tips from the Vimeo Video School on shooting a video promo for a nonprofit. The featured lesson was created by the film production crew, What Took You So Long?\u00a0\u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/videoschool\/lesson\/345\/how-to-make-a-non-profit-promo-video\" >Vimeo<\/a>]\u00a0They also happen to be behind\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=RgZIEn5Is9E\" >this video chat with Hans Rosling<\/a>\u00a0from the TEDxSummit in 2012.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Simply sublime watercolors accompanying stories by beloved Italian author Italo Calvino. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/06\/yan-nascimbene-italo-calvino\/\" >Brain Pickings<\/a>]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t feel bad if you&#8217;ve failed the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinvisiblegorilla.com\/gorilla_experiment.html\" >invisible gorilla test<\/a>. Eighty-four percent of radiologists, who seem to have superhuman attention spans, fail, too. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2013\/02\/11\/171409656\/why-even-radiologists-can-miss-a-gorilla-hiding-in-plain-sight\" >NPR<\/a>]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Is a wearable wrist computer on the horizon? Will we soon all be wearing iWatches? Perhaps so. \u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/10\/disruptions-apple-is-said-to-be-developing-a-curved-glass-smart-watch\/\" >NYTimes Bits blog<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Photo: Anne Francey<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/69432\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/69432\/\" \/><\/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=69432&#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\/LIbZW4gtVCU\" 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 this week, with a light Valentine&#8217;s Day theme: Suleika Jaouad, who writes about being young with cancer, talks about the embarrassing but very real prospect of being a sexually active cancer patient. 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