From 2015 to 2019, on the 2nd Sunday of each month, Kathy Ramundt and Eleni Skevas hosted a TED Talk Discussion Group. We viewed a TED Talk from TED.com and then discussed it. This program was sponsored by the Roseville Area Senior Program and the Ramsey County Library and open to anyone. It’s another great way to bring people together to share ideas and make connections.
Our original series of talks has ended. If you, or someone you know is interested in hosting a new set of discussions, please let us know!
2019 |
Leader | Month |
| Climate Change (TBD) | Eleni Skevas | October |
| How to Make Stress Your Friend (Kelly McGonigal) | Kathy Ramundt | September |
| A kinder, gentler philosophy of success (Alain de Botton) | Kathy Ramundt | August |
| Can a Divided America Heal (Jonathan Haidt) | Kathy Ramundt | July |
| A Juror’s Perspective on the Death Penalty (Lindy Lou Isonhood) | Kathy Ramundt | June |
| · Feeding the World by Reducing Food Waste (Elena Matsui)
· How to End the Food Waste Fiasco (Rob Greenfield) |
Kathy Ramundt | May |
| Beware, Fellow Plutocrats, the Pitchforks are Coming (Nick Hanauer) | Eleni Skevas | April |
| How the Blockchain is Changing Money and Business (Don Tapscott) | Kathy Ramundt | March |
| There’s More to Life than Being Happy (Emily Esfahani Smith)
What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness (Robert Waldinger) |
Eleni Skevas | February |
| Human Trafficking is All Around You. This is How it Works (Noy Thrupkaew) | Kathy Ramundt | January |
| TED Talk | Leader | Month |
2019 |
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| A Juror’s Reflections on the Death Penalty (Lindy Lou Isonhood) | Eleni Skevas | June |
| Feeding the World by Reducing Food Waste (Elena Matsui) | Kathy Ramundt | May |
| Beware, Fellow Plutocrats, the Pitchforks are Coming (Nick Hanauer) | Eleni Skevas | April |
| How the Blockchain is Changing Money and Business (Don Tapscott) | Kathy Ramundt | March |
| There’s More to Life than Being Happy (Emily Esfahani Smith)
What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness (Robert Waldinger) |
Eleni Skevas | February |
| Human Trafficking is All Around You. This is How it Works (Noy Thrupkaew) | Kathy Ramundt | January |
Past Years
| TED Talk | Leader | Month |
2018 |
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| Spark: How Youth Thrive (Peter Benson) | Eleni Skevas | December |
| How Trees Talk to Each Other (Suzanne Simard) | Eleni Skevas | November |
| How to Transform Apocalypse Fatigue into Action on Global Warming (Per Espen Stoknes) | Kathy Ramundt | October |
| The Agony of Opioid Withdrawal and What Doctors Should Tell Patients about it (Travis Rieder) | Kathy Ramundt | September |
| My Descent into America’s Neo Nazi Movement and how I Got Out (Christian Picciolini) | Eleni Skevas | August |
| How to Make Stress Your Friend (Kelly McGonigal) | Eleni Skevas | July |
| What a World Without Prisons Could Look Like (Deanna Van Buren) | Kathy Ramundt | June |
| Ending Gender (Scott Turner Schofield) | Kathy Ramundt | May |
| Our Story of Rape and Reconciliation (Thordis Elva & Tom Stranger) | Kathy Ramundt | April |
| Poverty isn’t a Lack of Character, It’s a Lack of Cash (Rutger Begman) | Eleni Skevas | March |
| How Reliable is Your Memory (Elizabeth Loftus) | Kathy Ramundt | February |
| Let’s End Ageism (Ashton Applewhite) | Eleni Skevas | January |
2017 |
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| Rise of the Useless Class (Yuval Noah Harari) | Kathy Ramundt | December |
| Robots with Soul (Guy Hoffman) | Eleni Skevas | November |
| How to Separate Fact from Fiction Online (Markham Nolan) (TedX talk) | Kathy Ramundt | October |
| The Ethical Dilemma of Designer Babies (Paul Knoepfler) | Eleni Skevas | September |
| The Case for Engineering our Food (Pamela Ronald) | Kathy Ramundt | August |
| The Sibling Bond (Jeffrey Kluger) | Kathy Ramundt | July |
| How Fear of Nuclear Power is Hurting the Environment (Michael Shellenberger) | Kathy Ramundt | June |
| Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things (David Rose) | Kathy Ramundt | May |
| Why Some of us Don’t Have One True Calling (Emilie Wapnick) | Pheng Vang | April |
| The Myth of Legal Immigration (Sheena Koshy)
Through the Eyes of an Illegal Immigrant (Erik Gomez) |
Kathy Ramundt | March |
| We’ve Stopped Trusting Institutions and Started Trusting Strangers (Rachel Botsman) | Eleni Skevas | February |
| Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality (Brian Little) | Eleni Skevas | January |
2016 |
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| Older People are Happier (Laura Carstensen)
Life’s Third Act (Jane Fonda) |
Kathy Ramundt | December |
| How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion (Peggy McIntosh) | Melissa | November |
| The Surprising Decline in Violence (Steven Pinker) | Eleni Skevas | October |
| Price of Shame (Monica Lewinsky) | Kathy Ramundt | September |
| Government – Investor, Risk Taker, Innovator (Mariana Mazzucato) | Eleni Skevas | August |
| My Stroke of Insight (Jill Bolt Taylor) | Eleni Skevas | July |
| Compassion and the True Meaning of Empathy (Joan Halifax) | Melissa | June |
| A Prosecutor’s Vision for a Better Justice System (Adam Foss) | Eleni Skevas | May |
| A Drone’s Eye View of Conservation (Lian Pin Koh)
No Roads, There’s a Drone for That (Andreas Raptopoulos) |
Kathy Ramundt | April |
| Science Can Answer Moral Questions (Sam Harris) | Kathy Ramundt | March |
| The Power of Introverts (Susan Cain) | Kathy Ramundt | February |
| How to Overcome Your Biases. Walk Boldly Toward Them (Verna Myers) | Kathy Ramundt | January |
2015 |
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| The Paradox of Choice (Barry Schwartz)
Are We in Control of Our Own Decisions? (Dan Ariely) |
Kathy Ramundt | December |
| The Danger of a Single Story (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Everyone Around You has a Story the World Needs to Hear (Dave Isay) |
Kathy Ramundt | November |