WiTT’s September meeting featured a screening of selected presentations from TED, TED Global, TEDx and other events that look at how women use, influence, and create technology and technology-based solutions.
We screened the following talks:
Catherine Mohr
How I became part sea urchin
https://www.ted.com/talks/catherine_mohr_how_i_became_part_sea_urchin
Jamie Paik
Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves
https://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_paik_origami_robots_that_reshape_and_transform_themselves?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
Marjan van Aubel
The beautiful future of solar power
https://www.ted.com/talks/marjan_van_aubel_the_beautiful_future_of_solar_power?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
Mariana Mazzucato
Government — investor, risk-taker, innovator
https://www.ted.com/talks/mariana_mazzucato_government_investor_risk_taker_innovator?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
Carole Cadwalladr
Facebook’s role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy
https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_the_threat_to_democracy?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
Kate Darling
Why we have an emotional connection to robots
https://www.ted.com/talks/kate_darling_why_we_have_an_emotional_connection_to_robots?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
We also recommend a fun talk from this year’s TED: Danielle N. Lee: How hip-hop helps us understand science
As we discussed at our event, Carole Cadwalladr’s work is threatened by a lawsuit. In her words: ‘A businessman who funded Nigel Farage’s Leave.EU campaign – Arron Banks – and who is under investigation by the National Crime Agency, the British equivalent of the FBI, has filed formal proceedings against me. The result is that I will be tied up in litigation for months in a move that press freedom organisations have called an “abuse of law” to “silence a journalist” .’ If you would like to support Carole and her work, you can find her GoFundMe page here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/democracy-the-fight-back