Jordan Reeves – TED-Ed Community Manager I’m going to be totally honest with you. What I’m going to share with you today is something I’ve not shared with anyone before and… Read More »Leaving Your Old Way of Thinking: Jordan Reeves at TEDxBirmingham 2014 (Transcript)
Venkata Macha – TRANSCRIPT During the summer after tenth grade, I started working with a cancer researcher at a local college. My dad knew other high schoolers who were working… Read More »Where Taking a Radical Approach Can Get You: Venkata Macha at TEDxBirmingham (Transcript)
Amy Bickers – TRANSCRIPT As a writer, I’ve spent my career thinking about stories and how they work. I’ve fit dramatic pieces into narrative puzzles, and I’ve thought about what… Read More »Why I Decided to Stop Saying “This Happened for a Reason”: Amy Bickers at TEDxBirmingham (Transcript)
Kenneth Rimdahl – TRANSCRIPT Well, this is fermented tea leaves that people in Northern Thailand use for eating. Yes, this is the same leaf, and it’s from the same plant… Read More »Forest Friendly Tea from Lanna Tradition: Kenneth Rimdahl at TEDxChiangMai (Transcript)
Sheri Berman – Author As you heard, I’m going to talk about democracies and there’s lots of new democracies in the world today, but a lot of them are not looking… Read More »Why Democracies Fail – And Why That’s Okay: Sheri Berman at TEDxNewYork (Transcript)
Will Stephen – Saturday Night Live writer Hear that? That’s nothing. Which is what I, as a speaker at today’s conference, have for you all. I have nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch.… Read More »How to Sound Smart in Your TEDx Talk: Will Stephen at TEDxNewYork (Transcript)
Ben Lillie – High-energy particle physicist So this is Lithium, It’s got 3 electrons, 3 protons and usually 4 neutrons, and you probably don’t think about it very much. Umm, right?… Read More »Lithium: An Unexpected Journey: Ben Lillie at TEDxNewYork (Transcript)
Adam Galinsky – American psychologist Speaking up is hard to do. I understood the true meaning of this phrase exactly one month ago when my wife and I became new parents.… Read More »How to Speak Up When You Feel Like You Can’t: Adam Galinsky at TEDxNewYork (Transcript)
Philip Pettit – Irish philosopher I guess everybody in this room reckons that freedom is an ideal. It’s built into DNA of our culture, it’s built into the DNA of our… Read More »How Do You Know If You’re Truly Free? by Philip Pettit at TEDxNewYork (Transcript)
Joanna Ebenstein – Producer I grew up in California in the 1980s, which was a very sunny, extroverted culture. And I had an interest in darkness and death, which did… Read More »Death Like You’ve Never Seen It Before: Joanna Ebenstein at TEDxNewYork (Transcript)