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Jeffrey Crespo | How to be Fearless in a Violent World

All suffering, misery, and pain we see around the world is due to ignorance about the nature of our mind ...
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Rhondda Robinson Thomas | The Power in Calling a Name

We experience three deaths: your last breath, your body buried, and your name spoken the final time. Only by calling ...
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Douglas Vakoch | Talking to Extraterrestrials

For over fifty years, astronomers have pointed their telescopes to the sky, looking for signals from advanced civilizations—a project called ...
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Ann-Marie Adams | Digital Discourse: Promise or Breach?

Ann-Marie Adams loves words, written and spoken. She has framed a lifetime of work around public engagement via employment in ...
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Paulette Unger | How Open Dialogue Can Develop More Self-Directed Learners

To tackle novel problems of the future, the skills needed go beyond technology applications and written communication, and must include ...
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Cynthia Thurlow | Intermittent Fasting: Transformational Technique

Two-thirds of women 40-59 years old are overweight and more than 1/2 are obese. Intermittent fasting can help women lose ...
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Jianan Sun | Self Driving Cars: Good, Bad, or Indifferent

Technological innovations have changed the way we think, we behave, and we interact. What forms of transportation service should we ...
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Jarell Rochelle | How I Moved from Fame to Purpose

What is our obsession with fame in the Western culture? Most everyone either wants fame, wonders about what it feels ...
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Phillip McCreight | Masterful Thinker

Given that we are living in an increasingly dynamic world, it is important to examine unconventional approaches to face change ...
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Pooja Mahajan | Living the American Dream

Does the American Dream still exist? In this talk, Pooja hopes to inspire the listeners to reevaluate the meaning of ...
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Jil Littlejohn | Being Greenville

Greenville provides a space and place even for those who were born to fail. Jil discusses leveraging human capital, community ...
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Courtney Leak Nesbitt | Woke and Well

People should consider if they are standing up for what they believe in a healthy and productive way and are ...
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Keith Groover | The Glide: A Musical Instrument for All

Most musical instruments have high barriers to entry that are physical, technical, or financial. Keith Groover designed an instrument that ...
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Jeff Dugan | Tiny Fibers for Big Jobs

Etched-plate technology is a exploding new approach to making fibers. Fibers so tiny they can’t be seen can now be ...
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Edward Anderson | Responding to Poverty in America’s Schools

Children of poverty, when met with strategy and intervention, can be as successful and productive as their non-impoverished peers; but ...
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Phillis Wheatley Repertory Theatre | Group Performance

Enjoy a performance by the theatre of youth from Phillis Wheatley. Providing opportunity for young people to experience their self ...
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Jessica Sharp | The Brain on Poverty

Jessica Sharp is the Director of Volunteer Services for a local food distribution nonprofit. Jessica has served as the Diversity ...
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TJ Rumler | The Missing Link about Missing Kids

TJ Rumler is a Social Worker and Attendance Supervisor for Grenville County Schools. TJ served in the U.S. Army, completed ...
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Apparao Rao | Enhanced Performance in Imperfect Materials

Apparao Rao is a professor of physics and director of The Nanomaterials Center at a national university. Rao is a ...
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Jonathan Parker | The Art of Conversation

Jonathan Parker is the Director of City Involvement for a large local church where connects the church to the city ...
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Shivani Nadarajah | Memoirs of a Makal

Shivani is a local Greenville comedian and improviser with Alchemy Comedy Theater. She was the runner up in the 2014 ...
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Chase Michaels | The Economics of Buying Local

Chase Michaels is the CEO and Founder of Locally Epic. Chase is a strong advocate for supporting the local economy ...
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Jaime Firecoat | Remove the Fear from Honest Living

Jaime Fivecoat is a retired manager at an international tire manufacturer. Jaime is a Board Member of the Obesity Action ...
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Hank Ehlies | Justice to Decriminalize Mental Illness

Hank Ehlies is an Attorney at Law at a local law firm. Hank has spent over 31 years defending the ...
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