Posts Tagged ‘ted talk’
Upcoming speaking events
In case you’re interested in hearing me blather, here are a few of my upcoming storytelling and speaking engagements: February 18: Literary Death Match at Laugh Boston (7:30 PM) I’ll be competing against three other authors for the title of Literary Death Match Champion. Ticketing info here. February 20: The Moth StorySLAM at Housing Works…
Read MoreMy TED Talk (if you listen closely)
On Saturday, I gave a TED Talk on Creativity and Compassion at Western Connecticut State University. It was an interesting conference that was sponsored by the school’s Center for Compassion, which was launched earlier this year after the Dalia Lama visited the school. Once the video has been edited and published, I will post it…
Read MoreAn analysis of humor that will make you a funnier person
This is supposedly a TED Talk about the anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon, but it is also a dissertation on the nature of humor and what makes things funny. It’s brilliant.
Read MoreWe need a lot more of super model Cameron Russell, but not for the reasons you’d expect.
Resolutions that didn’t make the 2013 list
In deciding upon this year’s New Year’s resolution, several were discarded for a variety of reasons. Among them were the following: Set a new personal best in golf. I may have excluded this from my list simply because I am afraid that it is not possible. My lowest score for nine holes is a 46,…
Read MoreShut up, Torie Bosch.
In a piece about the Decembeaver (I’ll let you read about it on Slate if you’d like), Slate’s Torie Bosch writes: So we’ve made it through Movember, that silly month in which men on your Facebook wall grow out their mustaches “for cancer.” (Because one cannot simply donate to groups like the American Cancer Society—a…
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