Emory University primatologist and 2011 TEDxPeacthree speaker Frans de Waal recently spoke with the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver, Canada, about the impact of societal inequity on primates. MSNBC science writer Alan Boyle covered his speech and used a similar 2011 speech on YouTube at TEDxPeachtree in his entry. “The role [...]
Premier Dance Performance- CORE Share and Enjoy
TEDxPeachtree Poem Recitation- Daniel Weingarten Share and Enjoy
Inventing the Future, Edison Style- Sarah Miller Caldicott Share and Enjoy
Inventions: An Anatomical Discourse- Richard Cope Share and Enjoy
The Transformative Power of Multimedia Storytelling- Courtney Spence Share and Enjoy
Crisis Rethink- John Copenhaver Share and Enjoy
Teaching Artists Performance- Atlanta Music Project Share and Enjoy
Autism: Disruptions in Early Human Social Adaptation Mechanisms?- Ami Klin Share and Enjoy
Your Brain: The Ultimate Remote Control- Adriane B. Randolph Share and Enjoy
20 March 2010
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is call TEDxPeachtree, where x=independently organized TED event. At our TEDxPeachtree event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep [...]
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29 March 2012
TEDxYouthDay is coming back later this year after a successful kick-off event last November at Piedmont Park which drew 130 students. The second version, set for November 19, will be dubbed TEDxYouth@TheBeltline, according to organizer William Teasley, director of research at the Atlanta Education Fund, a non-profit which provides opportunities for Atlanta kids to pursue [...]
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22 March 2012
Amy Lee Segami has found her happy medium merging talents in engineering and art. While those two may not seem very compatible, she’s honed these skills and combined them into a career that she loves as an internationally renowned speaker and consultant. Segami’s motivational TEDx presentation about her two loves, “What if You Could Paint [...]
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15 March 2012
With a degree in economics and an MBA in marketing, I’m an unusual breed of journalist who also happens to write about “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” and “The Walking Dead.” I love numbers and track Arbitron and Nielsen ratings religiously. I have been fascinated by the debate over the efficacy of tax credits in [...]
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08 March 2012
The face of the world is made of extroverts – the outgoing, the social and the assertive – but look closer and you’ll see the introverts standing quietly in the back, not the least bit troubled that they might go unnoticed. Our society, however, favors the extroverts. Susan Cain is an introvert and yet there [...]
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