[Music] [Applause] [Music] What do you think is a common threat. between all speakers, the ones you have heard so far and the ones you will hear after you. Help me out if you can please.What do you think is a common thing between all the speakers. Speech beautiful. Thank you.Spiral journey story beautiful. Thank you. How many of you heard you would say that all of the speakers we are using a beautiful instrument called our voice to share our message from the stage.Are your hands. Thank you. And how many of ...

Weirdest part of CT for me is you’ll make a longform post about something and get tons of great conversation/interactions, but without fail there will be a handful of ppl that are like “ok but what about ”Like what exactly is going on in the heads of these people? ...

I've been teaching in college classrooms for 20 years and there's something that I've noticed that I want to share with you today. Let me paint the scene. It's 2005 and I'm teaching at the Ohio State University.I'm a new teacher and I'm young and I'm insecure. So, I like to arrive in my classroom early. I arrange the space.I sort my papers. I might write something on the board. And before long, students trickle in.It's Ohio State, so often they're chatting about football, but on a good day, they might be ch ...

Are we ready for the conversation yet? https://t.co/SReyuZKmZBEasy (@EasyEatsBodega):The conversation yall not ready for. https://t.co/R6M4qwDIE4 ...

When it comes to the politics of deeply divided places and people, there is no such thing as an easy or a straightforward conversation. Every conversation is complex and very challenging and often involves extreme levels of violence. I come from the central highlands of Sri Lanka which was not where the island's 30-year civil war happened.The war happened in northern and eastern Sri Lanka regions with a Tamil majority. Coming from the Singhala community, the country's ethnic majority, war to me in my young ...