We can now share what TEDxCbusers think of Columbus and what Columbus (+ surrounds) thinks of TEDxColumbus. Men who are reminded of their own shortcomings and mistakes every morning they wake up and look out the window to see the 20’ tall razor wire fences that surround their current residence, and I find myself thinking about all the little things I have done the last 15 years to improve my own “signal” from the horribly degraded version it was all those years ago. (Who did the most? Open Translation Project. Wilson: A black man goes undercover in the alt-right, https://www.ted.com/talks/theo_e_j_wilson_a_black_man_goes_undercover_in_the_alt_right, Alice Goffman: How we're priming some kids for college — and others for prison, https://www.ted.com/talks/alice_goffman_how_we_re_priming_some_kids_for_college_and_others_for_prison. And the brain, whether it would think differently, wake up, open up, or be fed or fueled or blown altogether, was the biggest beneficiary, but not the only one: a few came to “open my heart,” “feed my soul” or “to be moved to act differently.” Other reasons, from most repeated to least: Community (connecting, conversing, celebrating); To Support Someone (a speaker, mostly); Personal Growth (motivate, refuel, “clear the cobwebs”); Fun; and To Listen to Others. I hope her next TEDx talk will lay out specifics of how to accomplish her goals. She argues that these prisons serve to create casts and manage "caste control." TED Books. Is it TED talks?

Sociologist Alice Goffman spent six years in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood and saw first-hand how teenagers of African-American and Latino backgrounds are funneled down the path to prison — sometimes starting with relatively minor infra... Theo E.J. ". The difference is that inside a prison the opportunity to feel that connection is few and far between. Their posts are below (please add your own in the comments). Consider these quotations from Michelle Alexander’s talk: During a 30-year period of time, our nation’s prison population quintupled.

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TED-Ed videos. Interestingly, in these career-focused times, less than 5% of respondents mentioned a professional title or identity. We have the highest rate of prison incarceration in the world, dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like Russia or China or Iran. Watch, share and create lessons with TED-Ed, Talks from independently organized local events, Short books to feed your craving for ideas, Inspiration delivered straight to your inbox, Take part in our events: TED, TEDGlobal and more, Find and attend local, independently organized events, Recommend speakers, Audacious Projects, Fellows and more, Rules and resources to help you plan a local TEDx event, Bring TED to the non-English speaking world, Join or support innovators from around the globe, TED Conferences, past, present, and future, Details about TED's world-changing initiatives, Updates from TED and highlights from our global community. The reemergence of nightlife, missing in Mogadishu for 20 years, speaks to the simple needs and simple solutions that can have a huge impact on a culture. He shared stories about bringing a dry cleaning shop to Mogadishu, figuring out how to run cappuccino machines without electricity—in a city with no functioning electrical grid after years of war—and how solar-powered street lights allowed people to stay up after dark to socialize with neighbors, and shops to stay open late. As of 2004 more Black men were denied the right to vote than in 1870, the year the 15th Amendment was ratified prohibiting laws that explicitly denied the right to vote on the basis of race. We are all hopeful of the same future with the same goals: That every man and woman regardless of race or religion will have a voice and the platform to share ideas. TED Series. Dr. Susan Nittrouer was talking about hearing loss, cochlear implants and the deaf learning to speak without impediments. I really was humbled by all of the praise offered to the Marion Correctional team. I absolutely loved the event. Judging by word count alone, to learn and to be inspired were the top two reasons.

Watching as a curator is always fun because it is an opportunity to…borrow ideas for our event, and learn from their glitches and glories. The entire production was great and I got something from every TEDx talk. I felt like getting up and running to my kids’ school to demand change. Anarchists advocate a self-managed, classless, stateless society without borders, bosses, or rulers where everyone takes collective responsibility for the health and prosperity of themselves and the environment. I felt free for a few hours. Alexander said that nothing less than a radical revision of the criminal justice system, with attendant major upheaval and social change, will combat this problem. I mean think about it, have you ever thought about something that went well? How did I go from contemplating a degraded signal to pondering my daily failings and my obsession with them?

I will always be someone who broke the law, someone that society holds to a different standard than someone who hasn’t.

Podcasts . However, in my opinion, the title is a bit of a misnomer. Talks from independently organized local events. 19:38. ", New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Daniel Royston, live-stream at MCI

Only 1 was a resounding NO!

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TEDx Talks. Watching TEDxColumbus live from inside Marion Correctional had the same effect as watching any live event, we felt connected to the event. So…she said in a paraphrased kind of way…”you can’t contemplate what you see or hear unless the signal is degraded.” And it was this, this simple phrase that totally made my TEDxColumbus day. Kendra Hovey is editor and head writer at Follow This. But a thinker and speaker as deep and talented as Michelle Alexander may be just the person to do it.

Wayne Snitzky, live stream at MCI Is it TED talks? I felt honored to be a part of the TEDxColumbus simulcast here at Marion Correctional. TEDx Talks 765,342 views. Instead, an absolutely overwhelming majority said their talent was helping others. Among the rest that were more detailed in their response (73), the emphatic, superlative, decorated YES (62)—as in, the big bubble-lettered YES, Abso-freakin-lutely Yes, Yes x 10, even Yes x 1,000—beat out the tentative YES (11)—as in, 1/2 Yes; Yes…but barely—by a ratio of nearly 6 to 1. In case I'm missing something important here. “Others” was usually non-specific, but some subsets emerged, namely youth, community and animals.

Talks … The answer to this question typically came in pairs (“to grow and connect”) or in triplicate+ (“to be inspired, enriched, motivated, to make change”). Nah we get vote brigades all the time. The changes she’s suggesting—decriminalizing marijuana, restoring voting rights to felons, dramatically shrinking the prison population, etc.—will be an incredibly difficult sell in a nation whose elected officials can’t even keep the government open.