Why the News Media is stealing from the Pro Wrestling playbook | Eric Bischoff | TEDxNaperville
Professional Wrestling and Political News Media have become the ultimate tag team, both utilizing the exact same techniques and formula’s for a very specific outcome. And the outcome is not what you think it is… In 1991, Turner Broadcasting’s World Championship Wrestling (WCW) recruited Eric as an on-camera talent. His entrepreneurial instincts and interests quickly
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How Generation Z Has Changed Who Our Celebrities ARE | John Comonitski | TEDxPSU
John Comonitski is a student, YouTuber and podcaster at Penn State University. John is in his third year and studying Computer Science and German. In the fall of 2018, John received first prize in the Leonard Center Speaking Competition for Engineers for his talk about IBM’s Watson and its potential to change how we diagnose
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What I learned from playing the cello | Gretchen Yanover | TEDxSeattle
Playing the cello taught Gretchen Yanover how to deal with anxiety. She believes that years of leaning the instrument against her heart created an opening to give big emotions a path out. Now, she hopes her music brings that sense of opening to others. Gretchen’s first piece is the evocative solo Heart and Sky. Then
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Shifting Gears when Murphy strikes | Mr. Raunaq Kakkar | TEDxYouth@HGS
Raunaq Kakkar, is a law graduate, after the numerous internships done, during law school both at the corporate and litigation side, he realized his true calling that of an entrepreneur and started a venture to help law students understand their law subjects better- through a digital law platform, Lawpreneurz, which aims to democratize the law
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A Different Triple Threat | Crystal Emery | TEDxBeaconStreet
When I enter a room in my wheelchair, I never know what its occupants will see first: my disability, my blackness or my gender. It is rare that they see me as a person. Crystal R. Emery is founder and CEO of URU, The Right to Be, Inc.,a non-profit content production company that tackles social
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How My Art Went Viral and I Became a Full-Time Artist | Amanda Oleander | TEDxSDSU
Amanda Oleander is fascinated by the way people live and behave behind closed doors. Her art depicts just that. Thousands of people resonate with her art, as evidenced by her large following on Periscope and Instagram. During her talk, Amanda shares about her journey into becoming a full time artist, how social media has played
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How design is changing our start-up ecosystem | Faruk Shuaibu | TEDxBUK
Faruq Shuibu talks about how design is serving as a building block for our start up ecosystem. Faruk Shuaibu is a graduate of Civil Engineering , who is immensely interested in Computer Science and technology. He is passionate about solving problems using a design first approach, he sees all skills, techniques and applications as a
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How to rethink age as a benefit not a barrier | Gillian Larson | TEDxTemecula
What holds you back from reaching your true potential: your age or your attitude and the expectations you believe the world demands? Instead of seeing age as a barrier, what if we viewed age and experiences as building blocks to create our future? This guiding belief has opened worlds of possibilities for Gillian Larson, including
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The Rise of Geek Culture | Jason Bischoff | TEDxSDSU
Jason Bischoff is a writer and creator in the entertainment world. His talk outlines the rise of geek culture in America and why it has become such a huge phenomenon. Jason Bischoff is a Writer/Creator and eleven year toy industry veteran, whose body of work includes contributions to four iterations of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™
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The Future of Magic is in Your Hands!!! | Yasas Gunaratne | TEDxKandy
Magicians don’t fool us, they entertain us! Yasas Gunaratne asks whether we ever consider, “oh that’s a green screen” while watching a CGI filled movie. However, when it comes to magic tricks how many of us rack our brains to understand how the tricks were performed? How many of us search online to watch a
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