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TEDxNavesink Speaker Kaihan Krippendorff Believes Anyone Can Change The World

Kaihan Krippendorff believed his life's calling was to be an engineer, mathematician and a financial "quant guy," but soon discovered that his passion was writing. After publishing his first book,...

Robyn Stratton-Berkessel: Don’t Just Sit There, Say Something!

Ever just have one of those days? Chances are we all have. Maybe today is one of those days—when the car won’t start; the train is late; the coffee spilled. Typical reactions to days like these...

Dr. Gary Lewandowski Uses Science to Understand, Analyze Relationships

For Dr. Gary Lewandowski, life is all about relationships—successful ones, failed ones, deep ones, superficial ones— and how those relationships are created, broken, and maintained. He researches...

Three Ways to Accelerate Your Creativity

Possibly the worst way to get your writing project off to a rolling start is to wait for the Muse to strike.Many people conjure a certain image of what a writer is supposed to look like: the...

Stan Green: Applying Baseball to Academics

To many, a baseball cap is a symbol of America’s pastime. For most, baseball is just that—a pastime. But for some, it’s much more. For Stan Green, it’s a passion that he has been lucky enough to use...

View From The Top: Perspectives from the TEDxNavesink Core Organizers – Brian Smiga

Spend some time around the TEDxNavesink organizational team, and you’ll quickly learn the name Brian Smiga. Smiga is not only the Executive & Artistic Director of TEDxNavesink, but was also a...

Don Lincoln Has Devoted His Life to Sharing His Passion for Science

Don Lincoln is doing for young people what famous scientists like Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov and James Burke did for him—passing on his love of science to the masses.“I believe it to be the duty of...

The Crown Jewel on Campus

Less than a mile from the beach, a train ride away from New York City and Philadelphia, and the center of the rich diversity that is the Jersey Shore, is the remarkable town of Long Branch....

Teaching Beyond the Classroom

Surrounded by brilliant speakers at TEDxNavesink, Mike O’Keeffe recalls feeling out of place as the “corporate buffoon.” He had no idea at the time how colossal an impact this conference would have...

My Year of Acceleration Points by Jamie Sussel Turner

“Are you driving?” my dermatologist asked.This isn't going to be good, I thought in a flash. Not good at all. I veered to the side of the road and braced myself for what I was about to hear. “The...

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