av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 14, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, TED, Threads |
Digital strategist Deja Foxx went viral for speaking up at a town meeting — and then learned the harsh cost of being in social media’s crosshairs.
She welcomes us to the “girl internet,” a growing ecosystem of women-led platforms that prioritize privacy, community and respect. ”We’re building a new, better way of being online, no matter your generation or your gender,” she says.
av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 6, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, TED, Threads
What if the worst ideas turned out to be the most interesting? Mischief-making artist Gabe Whaley shares how he built a collective of artists whose seemingly bad ideas — like selling 5,000 keys to the same car — often go viral and sell for thousands of dollars. His playful experiments show why it’s worth leaning into the absurd … because you never know what might happen.
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 29, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, TED, Threads
Parenting an eye-rolling teenager glued to a gaming system is not a simple feat, but what if you could turn screen time into an opportunity for connection?
Hannah Boquet shares how she decided to play video games with her kids and discovered the power of esports to foster trust, communication and essential life skills. Dive deeper into how you can strengthen family bonds, support your child’s development — and maybe even be considered “cool” by your kid.
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 12, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Socialt, TED
Gen Z-slang kryllar av nya ord som ”unalive”, ”skibidi” och ”rizz”. Var kommer de här uttrycken ifrån – och varför blir de populära så snabbt? Lingvisten Adam Aleksic undersöker hur sociala mediers algoritmer förändrar både vårt språk och hur människor ser på sin egen identitet.
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 1, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, TED
If DNA is just a string of letters, could AI learn to read it … or even write it? Bioengineering researcher Eric Nguyen reveals how AI has upended the rules of biology, potentially creating a future where disease is cured with personalized medicine, extinct species are resurrected (Jurassic Park, anyone?) and microbes designed for Mars make interplanetary life possible.
Learn more about how the world’s first AI-designed CRISPR model successfully edited genes — and what it means for our understanding of life itself.
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 14, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, TED, Threads
Before algorithms ruled our feeds, the internet was a mess — glitchy, chaotic and full of unexpected magic.
Internet culture writer Michael Sun reflects on the wild digital world of the 2000s — and makes a funny, wry case for why we need to reclaim its spontaneity, weirdness and genuine connection. From niche Facebook groups to loading music onto your iPod, it might be time to borrow from the past.
