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Friday Video: TED Talk – Does science ruin the magic of life? In this grumpy but charming monologue, Robin Ince makes the argument against.
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Friday Video: TED Talk – Sam Richards sets an extraordinary challenge: Can anyone truly understand and empathize with another?
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For years, stress has had to hang out in the category of unfounded acne causes, but not any more. According to researchers with Wake Forest University School of Medicine teens are 23 percent more likely to have increased acne severity during times of increased stress.
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Friday Video: TED Talk – Are we born to be optimistic, rather than realistic? Tali Sharot shares new research that suggests our brains are wired to look on the bright side — and how that can be both dangerous and beneficial.
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Friday Video: TED Talk – Behind those funny animal videos, sometimes, are oddly human-like problems. Laurel Braitman studies non-human animals who exhibit signs of mental health issues — from compulsive bears to self-destructive rats to monkeys with unlikely friends.
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Friday Video: TED Talk – What is your definition of power? How do you, as Bill Gates puts it, “show up for life.” Too many Americans are profoundly illiterate in power. How does this affect each of us personally in the bigger picture? As a result of this power illiteracy, some believe their lot is what they deserve; they continue to let others make decisions for them…they choose to opt out through willful ignorance.
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Friday Video: TED Talk – What’s the scariest thing you’ve ever done? There’s an astronaut saying: In space, “there is no problem so bad that you can’t make it worse.” So how do you deal with the complexity, the sheer pressure, of dealing with dangerous and scary situations? Retired colonel Chris Hadfield paints a vivid portrait of how to be prepared for the worst in space (and life) — and it starts with walking into a spider’s web.
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Friday Video: TED Talk – Nicolas Perony models the movement of animal groups to understand: what is the individual behavior that guides the behavior of the larger society?
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Friday Video: TED Talk – Sheryl Sandberg admits she was terrified to step onto the TED stage in 2010 — because she was going to talk, for the first time, about the lonely experience of being a woman in the top tiers of business.
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Friday Video: TED Talk (Part 1) – Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions — and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite.
