{"id":643435,"date":"2013-02-21T16:20:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T21:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=69901"},"modified":"2013-02-21T16:22:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T21:22:02","slug":"in-short-a-powerful-spoken-word-reflection-on-bullying-the-history-of-bill-cosbys-sweaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/643435","title":{"rendered":"In short: A powerful spoken word reflection on bullying, the history of Bill Cosby&rsquo;s sweaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='586' height='360' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ltun92DfnPY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here, some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs this week:<\/p>\n<p>In case you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, <a href=\"http:\/\/tothisdayproject.com\/\" >To This Day<\/a> is a beautiful collaborative project that combines spoken word poetry and a flurry of eclectic animations to raise awareness about bullying.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lisa_harouni_a_primer_on_3d_printing.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/cf39ae7b9d34312e6064d9a53ce65283e8ce3ba9_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa Harouni: A primer on 3D printing\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Lisa Harouni: A primer on 3D printing<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a>Soon you, too, will turn out to be a replica of yourself made from a 3D printer. For now, a two-million-year-old whale fossil will suffice. [<a href=\"http:\/\/cenblog.org\/artful-science\/2013\/02\/17\/two-million-year-old-whale-fossils-printed-with-3d-technology\/\" >CENtral Science<\/a>] Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/02\/07\/7-talks-on-the-wonder-of-3d-printing\/\" >seven TED Talks on the wonder of 3D printing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The famous Bill Cosby sweater has a surprisingly interesting history. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/smartnews\/2013\/02\/the-fashion-world-has-no-excuse-but-theres-a-good-reason-bill-cosby-wore-crazy-sweaters\/\" >Smithsonian.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>In the 1950s, nuclear bombs increased the amount of Carbon-14 in the air, allowing scientists today to carbon date human tissue. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/smartnews\/2013\/02\/nuclear-bombs-made-it-possible-to-carbon-date-human-tissue\/\" >Smithsonian.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/jessica_green_are_we_filtering_the_wrong_microbes.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/ed257bd93f4076a3ef03b450c15a5c97651adc47_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Green: Are we filtering the wrong microbes?\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Jessica Green: Are we filtering the wrong microbes?<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a>A new paper by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/jessica_green_are_we_filtering_the_wrong_microbes.html\" >TED Fellow Jessica Green<\/a> on better ways to estimate diversity in the body. [<a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2013-02-small-numerous-ways-diversity-unseen.html\" >Phys.org<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Did you know: You only need 39 digits of pi to be able to measure the circumference of the observable universe? Now you do. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FpyrF_Ci2TQ&amp;list=UUoxcjq-8xIDTYp3uz647V5A&amp;index=1\" >YouTube<\/a>] Watch\u00a09-year-old Chirag Singh <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2012\/03\/14\/my-passion-for-pi-chirag-singh-on-tedxtalks\/\" >confess his irrational love for Pi at TEDxYouth@BommerCanyon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The true story of a false story that just wouldn&#8217;t die. [<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/02\/wi-fi-as-free-as-air-the-totally-false-story-that-refuses-to-die\/\" >Ars technica<\/a>] Check out our playlist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/playlists\/21\/media_with_meaning.html\" >Media with Meaning<\/a>, for many talks on the future of journalism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/70532_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a>Are all writers miserable? Philip Roth says yes; Elizabeth Gilbert says no; writer Avi Steinberg weighs in. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2013\/02\/elizabeth-gilbert-versus-philip-roth-is-writing-torture.html\" >The New Yorker Page-turner blog<\/a>] Watch Gilbert&#8217;s classic TED Talk, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html\" >Your elusive creative genius<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A thoroughly fascinating look at the &#8220;extraordinary science of addictive junk food.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/24\/magazine\/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?src=me&amp;ref=general\">NY Times<\/a>] Reminds us of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/jamie_oliver.html\">Jamie Oliver&#8217;s TED Prize wish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/69901\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/69901\/\" \/><\/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=69901&#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\/mNvaGCFk2Zs\" 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: In case you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, To This Day is a beautiful collaborative project that combines spoken word poetry and a flurry of eclectic animations to raise awareness about bullying. Lisa Harouni: A primer on 3D printingSoon you, [&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-643435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643435","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=643435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}