Hi. (Laughter) I did that for two reasons. First of all, I wanted to give you a good visual first impression. But the main reason I did it is that that’s what happens to me when I’m forced to wear…
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The art of starting over, every day | Sarah Mansfield
When I was 14 years old, I was hit by a car and had to relearn how to stand up, walk, talk, and write. While I don’t remember actually slamming into the windshield, or breaking the side mirror off with…
Can a Simple Piece of Paper Change the Way We Eat? Kavita Shukla at TEDxManhattan
Translator: Cristine Molina Reviewer: Rhonda Jacobs So today I’d like to tell you about a simple idea that could change the way we eat. It looks like this. It’s a piece of paper with a distinctive maple-like scent. That scent…
Stoicism | The Art Of Tranquility (Seneca’s Wisdom)
Seneca The Younger was a philosopher who held an important position in the Roman Empire, and is one of the major contributors to the ancient philosophy of Stoicism. Seneca once exchanged letters with his friend Serenus, on how to free…
Marc Pachter: The art of the interview
The National Portrait Gallery is the place dedicated to presenting great American lives, amazing people. And that’s what it’s about. We use portraiture as a way to deliver those lives, but that’s it. And so I’m not going to talk…
Nathalie Miebach: Art made of storms
(Music) What you just heard are the interactions of barometric pressure, wind and temperature readings that were recorded of Hurricane Noel in 2007. The musicians played off a three-dimensional graph of weather data like this. Every single bead, every single…
Can you solve the bridge riddle? – Alex Gendler
Taking that internship in a remote mountain lab might not have been the best idea. Pulling that lever with the skull symbol just to see what it did probably wasn’t so smart, either, but now is not the time for…
The overlooked art of receiving feedback | Russell Lazovick
I can’t dance. I see other people moving gracefully, interpreting what they hear through their bodies with elegance and creativity and a clear connection to the rhythm, to the beat. They twirl, and they hit, and they collide, all almost…
Can you solve the river crossing riddle? – Lisa Winer
As a wildfire rages through the grasslands, three lions and three wildebeest flee for their lives. To escape the inferno, they must cross over to the left bank of a crocodile-infested river. Fortunately, there happens to be a raft nearby.…
