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ted Radio Topics / Set OneEditor's Note - The pages that link to this main menu are all being "re-constructed" as part of our "mobile friendly" remodeling project. We'll get them finished and back online as soon as possible. These files are a great resource for teachers and students of all ages.
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....when people ask about the secret of happiness and you tell them, well, take more time in your social relationships, worry less about things and more about experiences, they kind of nod and look at you and say, yeah, but what about the secret? Because the secret of happiness is like the secret of dieting, there's no secret."... Dan Gilbert on TED Radio Hour
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...The drive for mastery, is very different from the drive for success. Like, success, if you want that, it typically means that you want a kind of approval, you know? I think mastery is about really valuing your own opinion of what you're doing far more really than almost anyone else's. That is the heart, of mastery, just loving the process."... Sarah Lewis on TED Radio Hour
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"I think number one is curiosity - it's the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality... I have young filmmakers come up to me and say, you know, give me some advice for doing this. And I say don't put limitations on yourself. Other people will do that for you. Don't do it to yourself. Don't bet against yourself. And take risks."... James Cameron on TED Radio Hour
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"If you allow the educational process to self-organize then learning emerges. It's not about making learning happen, it's about letting it happen. The teacher sets the process in motion and then she stands back in awe and watches as learning happens. I think that's what all this is pointing at."...
Sugata Mitra on TED Radio Hour
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Synchronization, which is part of that whole empathy mechanism, is a very old one in the animal kingdom. And in humans of course, we can study that with yawn contagion. Humans yawn when others yawn. And it's related to empathy. It activates the same areas in the brain. Also, we know that people who have a lot of yawn contagion are highly empathic. Frans de Waal on TED Radio Hour
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Cities are the place where a lot of change happens, not just for individuals, but for whole societies. And so historians have caught on that, if you want to understand any particular era or any particular region of the world, look at what's going on in the largest cities at that time or in those places and then you'll get a - a good idea of where the - the driving forces of change are playing out. Stewart Brand on TED Radio Hour
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I think it's a catastrophe when arts programs are cut from schools. But you can be creative in science, in maths, in technology and history, and anything that really - that's touched by human intelligence. And literacy is a great example of the extraordinary flowering of human intelligence; the ability to record thoughts and to respond to them, to understand them, to interpret them. Sir Ken Robinson on TED Radio Hour
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I think that the biggest change right away, both in Berkeley and in Boulder, was putting in salad bars. When people could actually see fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, whole grains, healthy proteins, really see salad bars, see kids eating salads, I think that that was a wonderful first step in trying to make people understand that it shouldn't be about chicken nuggets and Tater Tots and chocolate milk. Ann Cooper on TED Radio Hour
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I worked with my father every morning as a milkman. And he would get me up at five in the morning when all of my school friends are in bed. And we'd drive around the streets and deliver milk. And he wouldn't say very much to me... And so I was allowed - in this very creative time in the day, you know, as light was coming up - to dream. And I dreamt and dreamt and dreamt about futures I might possibly have... Sting on TED Radio Hour
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When I take it to Lake Tahoe with my wife, I can either drive myself as a human driver or I can have the car drive me. And my wife usually begs me to let the car drive. Why? She actually feels safer. If you look at the ability of a self-driving car to stay in the lane and not to speed and keep a good distance to the car in front of you, it actually does better than me. Sebastian Thrun on TED Radio Hour
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So what do you think happens when you pat a 20-something on the head and you say, you have 10 extra years to start your life? Nothing happens. You have robbed that person of his urgency and ambition, and absolutely nothing happens. When a lot has been pushed to your 30s, there is enormous 30-something pressure to jumpstart a career, pick a city, partner up and have two or three kids in a much shorter period of time. Meg Jay on TED Radio Hour
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