What is Home? Growing Up Between Cultures | Abeer Yusuf | TEDxTerryTalks
Abeer Yusuf talks about the difficulty in answering the question “where is home?” Born in India, raised in Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Malaysia, Yusuf…
Read articleBi the Way, We Exist | Viet Vu | TEDxTerryTalks
In this TEDx talk, Viet speaks about the complexities of coming out as bisexual and the positive and negative reactions that he received from his family…
Read articleThe Role of Alternative Campus Press | Urooba Jamal and Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki | TEDxTerryTalks
How do we build stronger social movements? How do we engage students with activism and social movements? These were just some of the questions that led…
Read articleUniversities and the Future of Innovation | Ekateryna Nova | TEDxTerryTalks
Ekateryna Nova talks about how the current education system fails to reflect new research on what fosters innovation and creativity in schools. According to Nova, scientific…
Read articleUnderstanding Situated Knowledge in our Everyday Lives | Swinzle Chauhan | TEDxTerryTalks
Do our attitudes make us who we are more than our circumstances? Swinzle Chauhan certainly thinks so. In this TEDx talk, she talks about how different…
Read articleLiving on the Boundary: Exploration at the Edge of Physics | Joel Hutchinson | TEDxTerryTalks
Why do we explore? Joel Hutchinson speaks about using the “holographic principle” as an interdisciplinary tool to provide insight into how science and nature actually works…
Read articleWhy You Should Talk to Strangers | Aliya Dossa | TEDxTerryTalks
Aliya Dossa has a story to share. Actually, she shared exactly 101 stories through her project called “101 Days, 101 Strangers, 101 Stories,” where she documented…
Read articleDear UBC student: please vent your frustration and tell us what deserves a #megafacepalm
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Read articleTEDxTerry Talks 2014. Saturday, October 25th at the Life Science Center. Ticket info here.
Buy Tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/tedx-terry-talks-2014-tickets-8781113547 For the 7th year running, we’re game on with this wonderful student conference. If you haven’t had the chance to attend before,…
Read articleThe Beauty in Brokenness: Redefining Self Compassion and Mental Illness: Dylan Stirewalt at TEDxTerryTalks 2013
When Dylan turned 3, her mother gave her custody to her father and started a long journey that would see her struggle with homelessness and mental…
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