Random Talks

The funny and entertaining Brian Little leads us to consider the introverts and extraverts in our lives, why we sometimes act out of character, and wh

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-turn… We live in an age of protest. On campuses, in public squares, on streets and social med

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/who-is-sher… More than a century after first emerging into the fogbound, gaslit streets of Victorian

View full Lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-interp… Language is complex, and when abstract or nuanced concepts get lost in translation, the

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-we-l… At this very moment, people are lining up somewhere to scare themselves, be it with a t

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/one-of-the-… As simple as it seems, it’s often impossible to accurately translate the word you witho

There is a fallacy between the relationship of old age and learning a new language. Deb Fallows contradicts this myth delcaring that the mature brain

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-origin-… Check out PatrickJMT’s YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/patrick

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/this-is-spa… In ancient Greece, violent internal conflict between border neighbors and war with fore

While anger can feel powerful in our bodies, many of us use angry behavior to avoid dealing with things that make us uncomfortable. Compassion gives u

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-contro… The first encyclopedia contained 70,000 entries and over 20,000,000 words. It was broke

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-is-thi… On first glance, the painting “Las Meninas” (“The Maids of Honor”) might not seem terri