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Jill Bolte Taylor: How to live a fuller, richer life — by tapping into your whole brain
Could understanding your brain be your key to living a calmer, fuller, richer life? In a follow-up to her wildly popular TED Talk, neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor shares her latest thinking about how the brain processes thoughts and emotions. Join us and use these insights to shape your own life.
Lucy Cooke: Get ready to rethink sex and sexuality, thanks to the animal kingdom
Gender in the animal kingdom is way stranger than fiction. Did you know that when a female clownfish dies, her male partner switches sexes? Join zoologist and New York Times bestselling author Lucy Cooke and rethink everything you thought you knew about sex, sexual identity and sexuality.
The Island of Missing Trees
Elif Shafak’s gripping novel traverses both cultures and time. It’s a delicately constructed story of love and grief, roots and branches (and songbirds), displacement and home, faith and belief - from a writer who’s herself "in between" cultures and multiple belongings. Discuss themes, questions and takeaways with Elif, alongside host and TED Global curator Bruno Giussani and your fellow members.
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If I purchase multiple memberships, can I get multiple totes?
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