How to make a financial plan you’ll actually stick to.
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Author: learningnight
Learned Helplessness
An inside look through a depressed person’s eyes and, at one point, from a hospital psych wing. I will discuss depression under social and psychological lenses: methods of treatment, what makes it an illness and not an emotion, why it is just as crippling as physical chronic conditions, how to support people with depression.
Slides available on Prezi.
Play With My Tools – Designing Interaction at the Exploratorium
Last year, a team of 30 neuroscientists, engineers, designers, and artists created the world’s first interactive laboratory of brain technology at the Exploratorium museum. In this talk, I will offer an inside view into our design process, and takeaways for how to creatively communicate scientific topics
Slides available on Google Slides.
The Singing Instrument
Singing comes from a musical instrument just like piano or trumpet music – but the instrument is you! Everyone can sing – learn about how the voice works with lots of interactive activities.
Drug Development Process
Let’s learn about drugs! That is, the process of making the pharmaceutical ones. From R&D to approval and everything in between.
Happiness Hacks
“Some things I tried over the course of 4 months that I’ve found really boosts my baselines happiness levels. Happiness → compassion, courage, resilience, greater productivity, more love, a more fun life!”
Refugee Crisis
Breaking down the refugee crisis, as seen from first hand experience in the camps. The issues at a global scale and on an everyday-life-in-the-camp scale.
Lockpicking Workshop
Explanations on the theories of how locks and various tools used to pick them work. Followed by a hands on workshop with a see-through lock, and many other practice locks.
Bean-to-Bar Chocolate
Where chocolate comes from, how it’s made, and issues in the chocolate supply chain such as fair trade. Plus chocolate samples!
Biotech in Brief
Current events in biotech from revolutions in genome editing (CRISPR) to organs on a chip explained and what they mean for science and your health.
