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Something to brighten your day in the midst of Covid.
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January 26, 2005
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A great TED talk from Shawn Achor. We can all use a little more positivity in our lives.
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It's a skill we all need to survive. Here's a short TED talk on 3 Ways To Measure Your Adaptability-And How To Improve It by venture capitalist Natalie Fratto.
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A video from Marie Forleo that resonated with me today. We all feel underestimated sometimes.
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A TED talk for everyone from Dr. Ivan Joseph. It's a skill we could all use a little more of at times.
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August 10, 2009
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A TED talk from Tim Urban, because we're all guilty of procrastination on occasion.
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A little inspiration from Mel Robbins on this gorgeous summer Sunday.
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A TED talk from Rose Eveleth, because understanding how spice works will makes us better cooks and diners.
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March 27, 2010
March 27, 2006
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Hasn't everyone wondered this at least once?
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Do you hang out in the middle?
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February10, 2005
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Because in January we always seem to revisit bread baking and there is no one better than Peter Reinhart to provide inspiration.
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January 12, 2005
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When you have to protect your livestock, you can come up with incredible ideas and figure out how to make them happen. Sometimes we all need a little motivation to push us into becoming the creators and inventors we truly are inside.
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December 15, 2008
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This one's for Grandpa Steve and all of our other Jewish family, friends and readers. Happy Chanukah!
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I love this talk because it encapsulates the way I feel about the world. Smile. Be friendly, you never know when it will be welcome. Those small moments of connection make the world a better place
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Three thumbs up for this movie.
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Now they call them graphic novels and we all love them. There's something so powerful about the combination of words and illustrations. They resonate in a different way than either one alone. It's a great way to convince kids and adults that they actually like to read. A thought provoking and entertaining TED talk (with comics) by Gene Luen Yang.
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While we're thinking about yakitori, there's some interesting stuff in this video of Chef Shigetoshi Narita in Mexico via Eater.
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This video seems very appropriate as we head towards Thanksgiving. I've often pondered the wisdom of duck over turkey, less meat but so much more flavor. Sausage stuffed duck could be just the thing to get the ball rolling.
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One of my very favorite Ted Talks. Rita Pierson gets right to the point.
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A little inspiration for the beginning of the week from Tina Seelig via TED.
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This pasta video is insanely inspiring and informative. It's a must watch if you dig noodles.
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Because here in America we are constantly turning traditions inside out and upside down in pursuit of delicious food,
today we bring you the Best Beef Porchetta from Eater.
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It's always interesting to go back to where is dish was born and see how it's made.
This is an interesting (short) video from Lucky Peach TV. It makes me think about how to adapt the recipe for our own
kitchen, creating a porchetta that is smaller and more suited to our own tastes. The best videos should inspire you to do
something more on your own.
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It's summertime and my mind wanders to beaches and boardwalks and salt water taffy. Of course our favorite taffy is made in Brooklyn, not the beach, but some associations are hard to break. Here's a great video from Eater illustrating how Marissa Wu of Salty Road makes one of our favorite confections. Amaya and I watched this together while we munched on some of our favorite taffy--honey peanut for me and the deep dark chocolate for her.
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This is a public service video. We banned Kid's YouTube shortly after Amaya discovered it, many years ago. It baffled me. There were all these videos of kids trying different kinds of candy and acting out fan fiction of princess stories. It's a crazy place. There were people unwrapping toys and weird food challenges. It just wasn't anything we wanted her to watch. Just recently we've allowed her to watch regular YouTube, with parental restrictions activated, for the riddles and some educational animal videos. The other day she and her friend came running over to ask me what the word "rape meant." It was used in one of their "riddle" questions. So now YouTube is completely banned in our house unless there is active parental participation. There's no controlling what your kids can see, even if you're watching with them, but at least you can edit as quickly as possible. There's enough educational stuff out there to lull us into a false sense of security. We need to figure out how to create safe spaces online and accountability for the people who try to take advantage of a naive audience. The first step in fixing the problem is acknowledging that it exists. Then we can figure out how to take action to protect ourselves and our children.
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A cool look at the process of turning hand pulled noodles into a dish.
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Find happiness in your own way.
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June 18, 2005
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Damon Davis reminds us to use our fear to motivate, rather than allowing it to paralyze in this inspiring TED talk.
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May 25, 2005
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Amazing things can happen when one person is willing to step up and show others how they can help.
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Embrace the idea that what everyone thinks is impossible is actually possible. Fail a lot. Don't give up. Eventually Ashton Cofer and his science fair team found a way to turn used styrofoam products into activated charcoal. That's one reason of many reasons why this up and coming generation is going to change the world.
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This is an older Ted talk. Amaya and I watched it together. Birke Baehr, an 11 year old aspiring organic farmer, explains how to make good food choices. We agreed with everything he said. Sadly, we still have all the same issues as we did in 2010, but the system is changing and we have a much wider range of better choices today. Kid by kid we are making a difference.
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March 15, 2011
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With a week until we open Curiosity Doughnuts 2 and another snow storm headed our way, we're looking for some inspiration. Somehow a video about How To Make Stress Your Friend by Kelly McGonigal sounds like exactly what we need right now.
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March 6, 2005
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A Ted Talk from Richard St. John on the pitfalls of success and the eight principles that will let you achieve and sustain success.
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One of our favorite P!nk songs that is perfect for celebrating Valentine's Day.
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February 14, 2009
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Shimpei Takahashi is a toy developer with some great ways to help you generate ideas about whatever you are passionate about. His favorite game is Shiritori, a game where each player must speak a word that begins with the last letter of the the last word spoken. This brief and entertaining Ted Talk is in Japanese with English subtitles, but you should have no trouble following along. It's a great tool for generating new ideas and his stories about why he uses it will ring a bell for any of us who have tried to be creative in a market driven atmosphere.
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This is a five minute Ted Talk from Marily Oppezzo that will give you an easy technique to become a more creative problem solver. Who doesn't have five minutes for that?
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January 13, 2005
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In this Ted Talk Tim Ferriss presents a simple system for overcoming your fears and presents his case for stoicism.
On another note, the kindle edition of our book Maximum Flavor: Recipes That Will Change The Way You Cook is currently $1.99 on Amazon. Some of our favorite recipes are in there, including the doughnut recipe that eventually inspired Curiosity Doughnuts. If you haven't picked it up yet, this is the perfect opportunity.
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This one is not about food. It's a Ted talk that everyone should watch, a poem written and performed by Shane Koyczan. Everyone can relate to it because every word is true.
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A TED talk by Luvvie Ajayi. "Telling a thoughtful truth should not be a revolutionary act."
Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable is not an unusual idea, it's a common thread in any kind of physical training. It's definitely a philosophy that needs to be applied throughout our lives. Whatever it is that you want and whatever that's holding you back, do it anyway because that's the only way to make real change.
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Sam Kass explains why school meal programs are so important to all of us in this important Ted Talk. Because our kids are going to shape the world and they need to be well fed in order to be everything that they can be.
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"Student questions are the seeds of all learning." Great teachers make all the difference. The three rules in this short video apply to everyone because in our lives we are teachers and we are all students. All of our experiences teaching tell us this is true. An inspiring Ted talk from Ramsay Musallam.
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As we start the new school year, the idea of learning how to be a better listener holds a great deal of appeal. How often do we tune out from our conversations, getting lost in our own thoughts, and then tuning back in in time to make an appropriate response. Wouldn't it be better if we actually focused on conversations and heard what people were trying to tell us? In this Ted talk, Julian Treasure has a few tips on how to make us all better listeners.
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A TED talk by Lidia Yuknavitch to remind us that life is constant evolution, who you are today is not who you will be forever. Every story deserves to be told.
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Amaya picked this TED video for the website because it taught her that she can do anything if she uses the materials at hand and her imagination. We should all do a little more tinkering.
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July 17, 2009
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"Try not to compare your insides to other people's outsides."
Anne Lamott via TED.
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