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Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music and helping us all realise our untapped love for it and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences and new connections.
Tags: Benjamin Zander, bring out the best, classical music, comicStyle, create joyful harmonies, Gail Penney, guest conductor, Ideas worth spreading, lifeStyle, main blog, mindStyle matters, new connections, new experiences, On music and passion, open minds, penneylane, penneylaneonline, performance, speaker on leadership, Ted Talk, turnStyle, untapped love, VidStyle, www.penneylaneonline.com
In this deceptively simple 3-minute talk, Dr. Laura Trice muses on the power of the magic words ‘thank you’ to deepen a friendship, to repair a bond, to make sure another person knows what they mean to you. Try it.
Tags: Betty Ford Clinic, coach, comicStyle, creative skills, develop, Dr. Laura Trice, fulfillment, Gail Penney, Help, How to Work Any 12-Step Programme, Ideas worth spreading, journaling, Laura Trice, lifeStyle, main blog, mindStyle matters, music, penneylane, penneylaneonline, practices, Promises Clinic, self-awareness, set goals, Suggests we all say Thank you, Ted Talk, therapeutic programme, therapist, turnStyle, VidStyle, Writing in Recovery, www.penneylaneonline.com
Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor programme with Israel’s juvenile inmates and was touched by both their intense difficulties and profound successes.
Tags: applied computer science, Chairman of the Computer Science Education committee, challenging bike rides, comicStyle, computer science professor, develops innovative courses, difficulties, educator, Efi Arazi School of Computer Science, founding Dean, Gail Penney, Harvard University, IDB Professor of Information Technologies, IDC, IDC Herzliya, Ideas worth spreading, Interdisciplinary Center, Israel, Israel's juvenile inmates, Israel’s first private Inversity, Israeli Ministry of Education, life lessons, life passion, lifeStyle, main blog, mindStyle matters, mountain biker, Noam Nisan, non–profit Iniversity, NYU, open source software tools, outdoor programme, penneylane, penneylaneonline, profound successes, public role, remote locations, Rides of Hope, science education, Shimon Schocken, support, teaching, Ted Talk, The Elements of Computing Systems, turnStyle, University of the People, VidStyle, www.penneylaneonline.com
Philosopher-comedian Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the way everything connects. She’s a brilliant trickster, poking holes in our fixed ideas and bringing hidden truths to light. Settle in and let her ping your brain.
Tags: actor's reality, amusing, background, brain, bring hidden truths to light, cerebral, comicStyle, complicated states of being, connects, Emily Levine, Emily Levine's theory on everything, fixed ideas, Gail Penney, Ideas worth spreading, improv theatre, jokes, lifeStyle, main blog, math, mindStyle matters, modern mind, penneylane, penneylaneonline, Philosopher-comedian, post modern, quantum logic of and/and, science, scientifically informed take on life, serious connections, shape her worldview, society, Ted Talk, thoughtful, trickster, turnStyle, untouchable not-quite-truths, vein of humor, VidStyle, www.penneylaneonline.com
Human growth has strained the Earth’s resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognise this and change behavior. His research has found nine ‘planetary boundaries’ that can guide us in protecting our planet’s many overlapping ecosystems.
Tags: change behaviour, chemical pollution, Climate change, comicStyle, Earth's resources, Executive Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute, Fokus magazine, Gail Penney, global water, guide, human growth, human-made threats, Ideas worth spreading, Johan Rockstrom, key Earth processes, key Earth systems, leading voice, Let the environment guide our development, lifeStyle, loss of biodiversity, main blog, major system crash, mindStyle matters, natural resource management, new approach to sustainability, ocean acidification, overlapping ecosystems, penneylane, penneylaneonline, planetary boundaries, policy, protecting our planet, research, science, science of climate change, society, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, strategies to build resilience, Swede of the Year, Ted Talk, turnStyle, VidStyle, water-scarce regions, www.penneylaneonline.com
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