Special Screening on Wednesday (Tuesday's TEDxNY is still on the schedule.)

There will be a special screening of The Cove this Wednesday, April 14th, from 6-8pm, followed immediately by specialist Dr. Diana Reiss.

This event requires an RSVP! Please email TRAINING@GREY.COM if you would like to attend.

Dr. Diana Reiss

Diana Reiss, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology, Hunter College.

Diana earned her Ph.D. in Speech and Communication Science from Temple University and is an internationally recognized researcher in animal cognition and communication.

Her research focuses on marine mammal cognition and communication, comparative animal cognition, and the evolution of intelligence. Her work also involves the rescue and rehabilitation of stranded marine mammals. In 1982, she developed a laboratory at Marine World in California, where she investigated the nature of dolphin communication and cognitive abilities. She was one of the scientists instrumental in the campaign to protect dolphins from being killed in tuna nets that resulted in the labeling of "dolphin safe" tuna. In addition, she was a scientific advisor on the Emmy award-winning documentary, The Cove, a founder of the Center of Animal Intelligence at the National Aquarium, and a co-founder of Thinking Animals, Inc. which will bring scientists from around the country to New York for a public symposium on animal Cognition and Behavior in May 2011.

Diana's work has been published in numerous international scientific journals and book chapters and has been featured in many television science programs, included Nature, National Geographic, Wild Kingdom, the Today Show and several BBC nature shows.

TEDxNewYork 4/9/2010 Temple Grandin

TEDxNewYork 4/2/2010 Woody Norris (2005)

TEDxNewYork 3/25/10 Kary Mullis (2009) & Eva Vertes (2005)

TEDxNewYork 3/16/10 Dan Barber (2010)

We're back! March 16th

Please RSVP to:

training@grey.com 

to attend tomorrow, March 16th.

See you soon!

Thanks,

The TEDxNY crew

TEDxNY cancelled 3/2 & 3/9

Sadly, due to technical difficulties (ie construction in our meeting hall at Grey) TEDxNY is cancelled for the dates of 3/2/10 & 3/9/10.

TEDxNewYork 2/16/10 Jamie Oliver (2010)

CAMEO at TED2010: TEDxNY (that's you!)

yo! short video on TED mainstage about the TEDx program. the video that rattled through the many faces of TEDx events all around the world in 90 seconds. but i saw you!!! you, my friends were there... because you are there. here. at TEDxNY week after week we get together and watch and talk.

i gave a talk about running TEDxNY the day before TED started, in the pre-conference programs where we get nitty-gritty-- TEDsters talking to TEDsters before we sit and get quiet to watch the amazing 40 speakers on the main stage. in a way, that's kinda like what we do at TEDxNY. we listen but we talk too.

my talk was called "Curating the Conversation" and in 3 min i had to break down what it is we do every week. we watch a TEDtalk and then we listen to each other. i am so happy to share the job with Don of wrangling strangers together to bring your wisdom out of hiding in your brains and into the world. your ideas. worth spreading.

i got to end my talk with this very simple thought. every week i am lucky to be in the room with you all and encourage an environment of respectful sharing of ideas. i love it dearly. but if i am a curator, you, my friends are the art, you make the art.

take a moment to stand back and look at yourselves. i do. it's a beautiful view. and you are the idea worth spreading, TEDxNY is the best idea i could bring to TED2010.

grateful, humbled,

(sappy) chel

Something that hit my radar today...

http://sundance.bside.com/2010/films/countdowntozero_sundance2010