Digital Darwinism: Design the future before the world does | Jacqueline Schmidt | TEDxSouthlake
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-19 17:35
Let me start with a truth that's both thrilling and a little terrifying. We are living in the age of digital Darwinism. The tools are evolving faster than most of us can keep up.AI is exhilarating how we work, how we create, and even how we think. But here's the thing. This evolution, it doesn't replace humans.It enhances creators. It doesn't erase your voice. It expands your reach.The goal is not to become more like machines. It's to free ourselves from the rigid, the repetitive, and the exhaustive so we c ...
Bringing Goodbye Back To Life | Dr. Tonya Rivers | TEDxCulpeper Women
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-19 17:35
Have you ever had anyone call you with morning. Isn't that the worst. They sound like they need a morning doover before the day is even gone and they say it's because they're just not a morning person.What happens if you receive a text message with just the letter M. What's an M to you. It's a typo. To them it's morning.And you're thinking to yourself, that's all the time they have. But what if I text you GM right now. What would you say.>> Exactly. We've conditioned ourselves over these years to minimize t ...
Protecting Colombia’s endangered wildlife with Project SPARROW
Microsoft· 2025-12-19 17:31
We are here at the Magdalena River, one of the most endangered ecosystems in Colombia. There is less than 15 percent left of its original 4,000 square kilometers. Many species only live here, so if these forests disappear, they will disappear from the world.We cannot solve a problem if we cannot measure it. We know that for biodiversity experts to work, they need data. They need to go into the field, install new camera traps, install new acoustic devices, and then come back, sometimes finding out that the c ...
We'll miss you, Bertha Coombs! Today is her last day at CNBC
CNBC Television· 2025-12-19 17:30
Bertha, before you go, I've got one more item uh for today's news update. Bertha has decided to hang up the mic after more than two decades at CNBC. From her earliest days here reporting on Wall Street to covering obviously the biggest issues impacting our health care system, Bertha has helped countless viewers make sense of the complex topics in the world of business.She's been a steadfast colleague to certainly all of us. So Bertha, from all of us here on Squawk of the Street, from the entire CNBC family, ...
The Blue Economy: A Blueprint for Our Future | Ashley Edwards | TEDxSouthern Miss
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-19 17:29
It is often said that true intelligence is the ability to see the future. But what if seeing the future begins with surviving the past? Today, I'm going to ask you to do something bold with me. Together, we're going to attempt to see into the future. But in order to do that, we have to start by revisiting our greatest teacher, the history that we've lived. And in doing so, we're going to learn how the concept of the blue economy was born in Mississippi. So, to start, I would like to ask you to step into my ...
How wonder and rigor lead to results | Natalie Nixon | TEDxBerkshires
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-19 17:29
Last Thanksgiving day, I accidentally swam from the island of NeAs to the island of St. Kits. Now, in all honesty, just to clarify, I could have swam it as a relay, but I forgot that that was an option.I was on the island of Neas specifically at Wall-E Beach for a swim holiday with a a group called Swim Trekk. And the span of of of water between NeAs and St. Kits is about four kilometers.It's like two and a half miles. And the cool thing is that you can see the bottom of the sea the entire way. And there's ...
Considération sur les peuples premiers des Antilles (LSF) | Henry PETITJEAN ROGET | TEDxPointeaPitre
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-19 17:29
Henry petit Jean-Rog, merci d'être là, d'être avec nous pour pouvoir évoquer. Alors, tout d'abord ces 60 années de recherche archéologique. Écoutez Jean-Marc, je tiens à vous remercier d'abord pour votre invitation et ainsi que toute l'équipe parce que je suis absolument bluffé par tout ce que j'ai vu et franchement je suis je me demande presque ce que je fais là.Ah ben alors ça on va le savoir et vous allez pouvoir nous le dire. Vous avez écrit un livre d'ailleurs autour des Tainos, les Kalinas des Antille ...
If My Neighbor is Unwell, Then So Am I | Dr. Jennifer Lemacks | TEDxSouthern Miss
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-19 17:29
The north star that guides the direction of my work is a single phrase. If my neighbor is unwell, then so am I. And I'm here to advance the idea that our blue economy must include human health at its center.For strong coasts are built by strong, well people. When we hear blue economy, we think about energy, innovation, and technology tied to our oceans. It sounds like opportunity.It's the future. When we talk about it, we talk about marine biology, robotics, artificial intelligence, and eco-friendly materia ...
Mindset Matters: Takings Your Thoughts Captive | Jenna Hope Harris | TEDxSouthern Miss
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-19 17:29
[music] [applause] Your thoughts shape your leadership. Leadership shapes communities and communities shape the future. Your mindset is your greatest leadership asset and it needs to be recognized as such.Recent brain imaging from Queens University found that we have over 6,000 distinct thoughts a day. And that's just during our waking hours. They tracked changes in brain activity to measure when our minds shift from one thought to the next.That's hundreds of mental shifts every hour, whether we notice them ...
Where Workforce Meets Water | Dr. Courtney Taylor | TEDxSouthern Miss
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-19 17:29
Blue Economy & Workforce Challenges - The blue economy is growing, but the workforce is significantly underdeveloped [1] - Mississippi needs 19,000 additional workers in the blue economy sector by 2035, exceeding current production capacity [10] - Current funding models do not prioritize the trades and blue economy jobs needed for the future [10] Proposed Solutions & New Model - Advocate for a new model that rewards institutions for producing more talent in needed fields [8] - Suggests integrating career technical education into the curriculum starting in sixth grade [12] - Encourages work-based learning opportunities for students, starting with broad exposure in middle school and allowing motivated 11th graders to enter the workforce or post-secondary education [15][16] - Industry partners need to actively define required competencies and workforce needs [25] Mississippi's Blue Economy Potential - Mississippi has over 82,000 miles (approximately 131,967 kilometers) of rivers and streams, equivalent to circling the globe three times [5] - The blue economy in Mississippi is a $30 billion (USD) per year industry [19] - The blue economy accounts for 42,000 jobs in Mississippi, and globally it represents a $3 trillion (USD) industry with 100 million jobs, expected to double in 5 years [19]