Our story of rape and reconciliation | Tom Stranger / Thordis Elva

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In 1996, Thordis Elva shared a teenage romance with Tom Stranger, an exchange student from Australia. After a school dance, Tom raped Thordis, after which they parted ways for many years. In this extraordinary talk, Elva and Stranger move through a years-long chronology of shame and silence, and invite us to discuss the omnipresent global issue of sexual violence in a new, honest way. For a Q&A with the speakers, visit go.ted.com/thordisandtom.

TELL YOUR STORY IN A WAY PEOPLE WILL CARE… RETURN ON RELATIONSHIP

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When you tell your story in a way that people will care, you create a relationship, a connection, a value that goes beyond immediate $’s and cents. It is what creates conversation, the content that creates trust, loyalty and advocacy. All of this will scale no matter the follower count because the vast majority ... Read more

Kelman Seminar: The Media in the Age of Trump and Brexit

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The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution presents:
The Media in the Age of Trump and Brexit
with
Ann Marie Lipinski
Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism
and
Helen Boaden
Shorenstein Fellow
Director of BBC Radio
 
Monday, February 27, 2017
4:30 – 6:00 PM
CGIS South
Tsai Auditorium, S-010
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
About the speakers:
Ann Marie Lipinski is curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism

The incredible inventions of intuitive AI | Maurice Conti

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What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system? Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and robotic systems that come up with (and build) radical new designs for bridges, cars, drones and much more -- all by themselves. Take a tour of the Augmented Age with futurist Maurice Conti and preview a time when robots and humans will work side-by-side to accomplish things neither could do alone.

Understanding Different Negotiation Styles

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In the business world, some negotiators always seem to get what they want, while others more often tend to come up short. What might make some people better negotiators than others? The answer may be in part that people bring different negotiation styles and strategies to the bargaining table, based on their different personalities, experiences,
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What time is it on Mars? | Nagin Cox

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Nagin Cox is a first-generation Martian. As a spacecraft engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cox works on the team that manages the United States' rovers on Mars. But working a 9-to-5 on another planet -- whose day is 40 minutes longer than Earth's -- has particular, often comical challenges.

My son was a Columbine shooter. This is my story | Sue Klebold

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Sue Klebold is the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the two shooters who committed the Columbine High School massacre, murdering 12 students and a teacher. She's spent years excavating every detail of her family life, trying to understand what she could have done to prevent her son's violence. In this difficult, jarring talk, Klebold explores the intersection between mental health and violence, advocating for parents and professionals to continue to examine the link between suicidal and homicidal thinking.

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