In this TEDx talk, Ambreen explores how some of the most powerful businesses are born from society’s hardest problems. She reflects on how the COVID-19 lockdown exposed a critical contradiction: while cities shut down, waste continued to accumulate, revealing deep gaps in waste management, environmental responsibility, and opportunity. The talk challenges the stigma around waste collection, highlighting the systemic barriers, informal networks, and resistance faced by anyone attempting to formalize the sect ...

Resetting the clock. Big news for 136 million US users who can't help but scroll through Tik Tok. The yearslong battle over who will finally control this app has reached a conclusion as Bite Dance, the Chinese owner, signed a binding agreement now to hand over control of US operations to a group of American investors.Bite Dance was required to divest or face a ban in the US under a national security law upheld by the Supreme Court in January. Let's bring in CNBC senior media and tech correspondent Julia Bou ...

Salve a tutti, io sono Manuele Mureddu, sono un illustratore e un autore di fumetti e oggi proverò a raccontarvi passo passo con calma la storia del fumetto e della Sardegna e la storia del fumetto in Sardegna. Per iniziare a parlare di questo dobbiamo fare un piccolo passo indietro e cercare di capire come funzionano le arti visive in Sardegna negli ultimissimi anni dell'8 e soprattutto in quel momento storico particolare. Le arti visive, soprattutto ci occuperemo in questo momento di pittura e di disegno, ...

Immaginate questa scena. È una sera d'inverno fredda. Rientrate a casa con la vostra auto, parcheggiate, scendete e vi avviate verso casa.Dall'altro lato della strada vedete il vostro vicino stazionando la ricarica della sua nuova auto elettrica. Un qualcosa di inimmaginabile. 15 anni fa.Entriamo a casa e veniamo avvolti da un dolce teppore e da una luce morbida. Ma questo comfort non è un comfort normale, è un comfort che arriva dalla nostra comunità energetica, un gruppo di persone che ha deciso di condiv ...

Possiamo riconoscere nella produzione musicale isolana, non strettamente riconducibile all'ambito tradizionale, un riferimento a quella che potremmo definire canzone di protesta e denuncia sociale di impegno civile e politico. proveremo a tracciarlo questo percorso per i tempi più vicini a noi, anche se un principio di questo filone possiamo già coglierlo in inni e composizioni poetiche che risalgono a oltre due secoli fa, nel periodo della cosiddetta sarda rivoluzione tra il 1793 e il 1796 in cui furono pi ...

Many people may hear the word astrourfing and assume I'm talking about the stiff, unforgiving sports field that absolutely roasts you the second it gets above 80°. You know the one where the rubber pellets or dirt gets in your socks and is just really annoying or the stiff underlay the cement or rock wrecks your joints and you feel incredibly sore afterward. Oxford reference actually defines astrourfing as promoting a product, service, or idea by seeking to create the false impression that it enjoys widespr ...

I want to be rich. You know, private plane rich. An apartment in New York, a villa in Jamaica, a cheree in Paris, a house in Aspen rich, a luxury car for every day of the week rich.It's called FU money. You know, forget about it money. In all actuality, I want what we all want to live comfortably, travel on occasion, spend time with those we love, and spend less time worrying about finances.To find this kind of rich and to get the financial security we seek without hitting the lottery, we got to think about ...

Every single one of you in this room is a liar. Especially me. The biggest lie we tell, it happens every time you buy something you don't need.You tell yourself you're buying a thing, you're not. You're buying someone you want to be. The truth is, I've stolen from you, not your money, something even worse. I've stolen how you feel about yourself.For 20 years, I've been a professional manipulator. I've made millions of dollars making you feel like you're not good enough so I could sell you the cure. Today, I ...

I didn't expect one of the most profound lessons of my life to come from a bunch of sweaty teenagers in a basketball drill. But there I was. I was picking up my son from basketball practice and caught the last few minutes.His coach was running a drill where he set the boys up twoon two. Two boys on offense trying to score, two boys on defense trying to prevent them from scoring. The boys on offense were told that they were allowed six passes and one opportunity to shoot and score.I watched with casual inter ...

I once overheard a baby boomer-aged individual sharing a story with his co-workers as he boarded a plane in front of me. Their discussion was so compelling and controversial that I ultimately shared it as a poll on Instagram. He said, "I'm never hiring anyone under the age of 40 again. This week, my Gen Z assistant took off five days for her sick cat. I can count the number of times I've taken sick days for myself in 20 years on one hand. All of his co-workers, they they laughed and commiscerated over this ...