I made the conscious decision to #letothersin to my journey with breast cancer. What if we adopted that mentality to social media? Instead of making it about portraying an ideal life, what if we made it about sharing the raw footage? What if we encouraged others through our social outlets? Read more…
“The Wolf Crystal” is a project whose creation came about because of artists connecting with each other and collaborating. It is a work of art that encompasses several concepts: technology (drones, microelectronics); entertainment (live performance, immersive theater experiences, dance); and design (puppets, sculpture, animation, illustration). It started as an exploration Read more…
Social psychologist Karen Shackleford talks about how fictional stories are so consuming because they help us satisfy one of our greatest human needs: the need to develop social expertise. While it’s been a stereotype that nerdy film and tv fans lack social skills, the latest scientific research shows the opposite Read more…
Dennis Gillan has survived the loss of two brothers to suicide and uses his time on the TEDx stage to help people combat loneliness. He explores his fear of dying alone only to discover his true fear is living alone. Dennis Gillan is a national thought leader on the topic Read more…
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A group of local volunteers are planning the seventh year of TEDxHickory, a full-day event to be held November 23, 2019 at the The Belk Centrum at Lenoir-Rhyne University. The independently organized event — TEDxHickory— is licensed by TED and will feature a combination of live speakers and TED Talk videos Read more…
One of the most often asked questions of actors is “How do you learn all of those lines?” and yet, that is the often the easiest and perhaps least important ingredient to a successful performance. Different actors approach the task in different ways and their knowledge of lines isn’t really Read more…
Over the past 100 years we have experienced major changes in the way we experience art. But perhaps no medium has experienced more change than the way we experience movies and films. With movie theaters consolidating and focusing more on the number of times they can show a film and Read more…
We live in a time in which our knowledge is growing at an unprecedented rate. It is changing not only how we live but also how long we live. It is not unusual for people to now have a full third of their life ahead of them after they retire. Read more…
Roben relives the trauma he shared with his hometown of Miami, which by 1981 became America’s murder capital. Roben hosts the show Full Disclosure, which airs on NPR One and iTunes (FullDRadio.com). He is the author of Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami. A regular Read more…