Image: A funny scientist giving a talk, people laughing

15 minutes

[ Thought Leaders ]

How Teaching Improv Skills to Scientists Will Change the Future

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What would the world look like for us all if we could understand each other better? Alan Alda may be best known for his skills as an actor in the hit series M*A*S*H* but for the past two decades, he has been educating scientists on how they can communicate their important work to all of us. His methods aren’t just for Ph.D.’s though, they are skills every one of us can use to become better communicators!

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Image: underwater shot of three dolphins. One dolphin is looking at the camera!

25 minutes

[ Animals ]

What Are Animals Trying to Say to Us?

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What if animals have been trying to tell us things all this time… and we just can’t hear them? What if we could? What sort of insights could we glean from their experience in the world? Here’s a look at how technology is bringing us closer to them.

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Image: A diver close in front of a sperm whale

25 minutes

[ Nature ]

Sperm Whales’ Clicks are Expanding Possibility!

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What if sperm whales are communicating with language far more complex than we are? Could our view of ourselves change if we learn that they may be as capable of future planning, reasoning, and emotions like love and empathy? These mysteries are beginning to be unraveled!

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Image: cave drawings

12 minutes

[ Culture ]

Embracing a Language that Brings Us Closer 🙂

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You’ve probably shared a few of these in your messages if you’ve communicated through technology in the past decade, but could emotion depicting icons have an even longer history than we assume? And where could these emojis bring the human race in the future? Jenna Schilstra discusses this on the TED stage.

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11 minutes

[ Business ]

Cell Phone Charging Wisdom: How, Why, When

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We’ve all heard contradicting advice about preserving our cell phone batteries. Let’s look into something practical and sort this out once and for all!

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26 minutes

[ Culture ]

Can You Hear Me Now? From Operator to iPad

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Have you ever wondered what life was like before smartphones (or have you forgotten)? Here’s a reminder that will have you appreciating modern communication!

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6 minutes

[ Education Enrichment ]

Plants Can Talk to Each Other?

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It isn’t crazy science fiction, in fact, plants are able to communicate to warn each other of danger. You might not smell a freshly mown lawn the same again! Jump into this lovely TED Ed video and find out just how this works!

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Image: cartoon of how Bacteria communicate

21 minutes

[ Education Enrichment ]

Can Bacteria Talk to Each Other?

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Can single-celled organisms like bacteria communicate, or are they blindly moving through their lifespan, like tiny organic machines? Princeton University’s Bonnie Bassler has a fascinating answer.

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Image: Spotted dolphin

16 minutes

[ #ConspiracyofGoodness ]

Communicating with WILD Dolphins

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Imagine what it would really be like to understand the mind and communicate with another intelligent species on the planet. Dolphins may be the first.

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Image: letters coming from a childs mouth

13 minutes

[ Innovation ]

Donate Your Voice: VoiceID Technology as Unique as Fingerprints

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Imagine not having a voice, or sharing the same computer generated voice as Stephen Hawking? Can’t we do better? In her TEDtalk, Rupal Patel thinks we can.

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