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Why studying bees can teach us about human loneliness | Sarah Kocher | TEDxNewEngland
TEDx Talks· 2025-10-19 17:00
[Music] Did you know that strong social bonds can be as good for your health as quitting smoking. Or that connecting with someone, even briefly in a checkout line, can help to improve overall happiness. There are reward centers in our brain that get a little boost whenever we give to charities or we help someone in distress.Social connections hugely benefit our health. But there can also be costs when we lose these connections. Loneliness can increase a person's risk of death by 26% in any given year.We all ...
College students learning to identify and support mental health struggles
NBC News· 2025-10-17 20:30
Well, one program looking to combat the alarming mental health crisis on college campuses is called Mental Health First Aid. It is a training course aimed at teaching students how to spot and support someone who is struggling. NBC News correspondent Ellison Barber got an inside look at how one student is using his training to make a difference.>> It's very easy to think you're the only person struggling, but there's plenty of other people that have gone through similar things. Blake Torres is a sophomore at ...
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TechCrunch· 2025-10-16 18:02
Company Vision - The company aims to address loneliness, which the founder considers the biggest disease globally [1] - The platform is designed to revalue human interaction and emphasize the importance of being human [1]
You Are a Part of the Body of Humanity | Alice Frank | TEDxPacific Avenue
TEDx Talks· 2025-10-16 15:25
[Applause] How many of us sometimes feel like we are starving for love? Like it's something out there and we have to figure out how to get it in here. And we do so much to try. We wear things, we don't wear things, we say things, we don't say things, we buy things, we buy more things. But who can blame us really? Because look around the world, it's very obvious that love is a lacking resource. I mean, like food. 1 billion people on the planet are starving. And yet, wait a minute. We actually know that there ...
The Power of Connection: Addressing Chronic Loneliness | Iza Correll | TEDxPacific Avenue
TEDx Talks· 2025-10-14 15:09
[Applause] Loneliness doesn't just hurt, it kills. And that's not a dramatic statement, but a fact based on science. Loneliness raises our all cause mortality rate by 26%.And in combination with social isolation, that goes up to 30%. And yet we're still treating it as something elusive or soft like it's a weakness. But I'm Dr.. Isa Carell and I'm a USPA dy licensed as a clinical officer in Kenya and a doctor of medical science specialized in global health. And at just 24 years old, I became the founder of O ...
LONELY PEOPLE NEED TO DO THIS
The Diary Of A CEO· 2025-09-27 22:30
One of the most powerful things that anyone can do, believe it or not, is to have someone each morning that they text good morning to. I know this is going to sound trivial, corny, and I'm happy to take the heat on this one. Find a a friend and in particular men who lack friends completely because there's a greater percentage of those, although it's certainly the case that many young women and women are um lonely as well.Find someone who you can communicate with each morning. Just a good morning text. Serio ...
