What can a teacher do when they see a student wasting their potential? The first step is to figure out why they’ve detached. The reason—and solution—is too often ignored in our schools. Nathan Ahlgrim is an educator driven by curiosity. While earning his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Emory University, an Read more…
Have you noticed how divided we are? Grammy award-winning violinist-producer Miri Ben-Ari shows us how harmony works in music and society with a fascinating analogy and live demonstration that features Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” timeless speech. Ben-Ari says “enough for the division,” it’s time to create Read more…
Stress, it’s everywhere we turn. Each day a new headline reveals how to beat, reduce or manage stress, as it if is the enemy to be feared. Stressing about stress has been the problem, yet what if it’s actually THE SOLUTION? Research reveals how our brain and body can work Read more…
The closing piece in this TEDxTalk is about unity in the midst of diversity through the medium of music and the spoken word. After all, without true diversity there is no real unity. Otherwise there’s nothing to be united, right? I wrote this piece out of my own frustration with Read more…