by Neema Saberi | Aug 15, 2016 |
TED Talk: Kelli Swazey In Tana Toraja, weddings and births aren’t the social gatherings that knit society together. In this part of Indonesia, big, raucous funerals are at the center of social life. Anthropologist Kelli Swazey takes a look at this culture, in...
by Neema Saberi | Aug 15, 2016 |
TED Talk: Karen Thompson Walker Imagine you’re a shipwrecked sailor adrift in the enormous Pacific. You can choose one of three directions and save yourself and your shipmates — but each choice comes with a fearful consequence too. How do you choose? In telling...
by Neema Saberi | Aug 15, 2016 |
TED Talk: Candy Chang In her New Orleans neighborhood, artist and TED Fellow Candy Chang turned an abandoned house into a giant chalkboard asking a fill-in-the-blank question: “Before I die I want to ___.” Her neighbors’ answers — surprising,...
by Neema Saberi | Aug 15, 2016 |
TED Talk: Ash Beckham In this touching talk, Ash Beckham offers a fresh approach to empathy and openness. It starts with understanding that everyone, at some point in their life, has experienced hardship. The only way out, says Beckham, is to open the door and step...
by Neema Saberi | Aug 15, 2016 |
TED Talk: Daniel Goleman Daniel Goleman, author of “Emotional Intelligence,” asks why we aren’t more compassionate more of the...
