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TED: Cristina Domenech: Poetry that frees the soul - Cristina Domenech (2014)

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“It’s said that to be a poet, you have to go to hell and back.” Cristina Domenech teaches writing at an Argentinian prison, and she tells the moving story of helping incarcerated people express themselves, understand themselves — and glory in the freedom of language. Watch for a powerful reading from one of her students, an inmate, in front of an audience of 10,000. In Spanish with subtitles.

Hybrid cloud offers lesson in data privacy

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Pictures are memories of your life: births, weddings, vacations and many other occasions. Many of us put these pictures on Facebook or in cloud storage. Many of us put our photos in public clouds and do not even know it. The recent news of celebrities who had compromising photos stolen and exposed to the public may have come as no big surprise to some. Sure, it may be easy to think this happens only to…
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TED: Robert Muggah: How to protect fast-growing cities from failing - Robert Muggah (2014)

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Worldwide, violence is on the decline, but in the crowded cities of the global south — cities like Aleppo, Bamako and Caracas — violence is actually accelerating, fueled by the drug trade, mass unemployment and civil unrest. Security researcher Robert Muggah turns our attention toward these “fragile cities,” super-fast-growing places where infrastructure is weak and government often ineffective. He shows us the four big risks we face, and offers a way to change course.

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