Featured Talk:
Save What You Love by Jonathan Franzen
TEDxSantaCruz is excited to announce the release of local resident and renowned writer and essayist Jonathan Franzen’s TEDxSantaCruz 2019 talk about climate crisis and the urgent need for humanity to adapt to current realities of the Anthropocene, including the sixth mass extinction. Entitled Save What You Love, he invites us to acknowledge harsh facts of the climate crisis, and to work fiercely and urgently to preserve as much of the planet’s biodiversity even as efforts to mitigate the crisis continue.Featured Talk: Thieves of Hope: Moving Past Your Worst Mistakes by Lara Love Hardin
Lara Love Hardin shares her story of redemption and brings to attention "Thieves of Hope."
An Ordinary Man
Activism, Nonprofits,
Meet Curtis Reliford, an ordinary man who wanted to do something meaningful with his life. Through his annual cross country trips delivering donated goods from Santa Cruz to New Orleans, Curtis followed his heart to help others and discovered his true purpose in the process.
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Your Ecosystem On MSG
Health, Nutrition,
Learn how a common food additive may be impacting your human ecosystem through a mother biochemist's journey that helped her daughter eliminate her autistic behaviors.
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Neuroconservation — your brain on nature
Nature, Science,
Marine scientist and ocean advocate Wallace "J." Nichols explores the neuroscience of our brains on nature, and posits that our love of the natural world holds the key to preserving it.
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The Greeks had a word for it – thymos!
Health, Science,
The Thymus Thump introduces people to their thymus gland, the master organ of the immune system, and the solution to the mind/body problem, with a commentary on the Greek root--thymos--the middle region between reason and desire.
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TEDxSantaCruz:Activate Mar 8, 2014
Meaning and connection from the brink of chaos
Health, Psychology,
With an onslaught of technology and accelerating complexity, we're at risk of become dehumanized as our brains are torn between competing priorities: Data versus People. The solution is surprising and simple, and it starts with a tiny gift.
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TEDxSantaCruz:Activate Mar 8, 2014
Badass democracy – reclaiming the public commons
Activism, Community, Design,
With the lowest number of community gathering places of all first world nations, it's time for the USA to transform space into place. This talk will describe a grand but doable community-level strategy that is already underway across the American grid.
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Sustainable ocean management: Back to the future in Micronesia
Activism, Ocean Conservation,
NicoleCrane urges us to communicate with each other to see how together, we may collaborate to come up with ways to solve the problems that are harmful to our oceans and environment.
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TEDxSantaCruz:Activate Mar 8, 2014
Saving Endangered Languages Through Music
Music + language (songs) activate our brains, hearts and souls. By using songs, we can learn foreign languages and saved dying tongues.
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Science Not Fear: Drug Policy and Medical Research
Activism, Health, Psychology, Science,
Director for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelics Studies (MAPS) Virginia Wright makes the case for legislating drug policy based on science, rather than fear.
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