TED (Ideas Worth Spreading) Night - Mon, Jan 14 2013

TED (Ideas Worth Spreading) Night (1/14/2013)

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The Basics:
Event Type:Social
Event Location: Belmead Elementary School
Date(s) & Time:Mon, Jan 14 2013  6:30 PM
Registration Cut Off: Mon, Jan 14 2013 5:00:00 PM
Event Duration:Evening
Difficulty Rating:D1: Easy
Event Coordinator(s): Rhonda S
Carmen M
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Member Cost:Voluntary Donation Only (See Below)

Participant Info:
Who's Invited: Members Only, 18 And Older Only
Maximum Group Size:25
Minimum Group Size:6
Number Registered So Far: 15 (To see who's signed up, log in to the Member Area)
Are Dogs Permitted: No

Itinerary:
TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.

Join us for an evening of TED. We will watch two videos from their web site and discuss the videos. The videos are approximately 20 minutes long. We'll start the first one at 7:00 and the second one at 8:00, leaving up to 40 minutes for discussion after each one.

Our videos for tonight will be:
  1. Dan Ariely: Our buggy moral code: Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden reasons we think it's OK to cheat or steal (sometimes). Clever studies help make his point that we're predictably irrational -- and can be influenced in ways we can't grasp.
  2. Paul Zak: Trust, morality -- and oxytocin: What drives our desire to behave morally? Neuroeconomist Paul Zak shows why he believes oxytocin (he calls it "the moral molecule") is responsible for trust, empathy and other feelings that help build a stable society.


Please arrive by 6:45 as we will be locking the school doors at that time. Use the buzzer to get in between 6:45 and 7:00. After 7:00, we won't be able to let you in so as to not disrupt the videos and discussion.

Recommended Items to Bring:
Use our Event Checklists to make sure you have everything you need.
- Your own beverage (NO ALCOHOL allowed in the school)
- A snack to share (take your leftovers with you when you leave)
- Slippers or house shoes to put on. We take our shoes off at the door of the school.
- A pillow or cushion for comfortable seating - most of the chairs are the usual institutional school chairs. You may decide you want to sit on the floor with a cushion instead.

How to Get There:
Event Directions:9011-182 St.
Parking in the lot just North of the building. Come through the front doors on 182 st. Go down the hallway and take the first right and follow to all the way to the end to the library. We'll be either in the library or in Rm 7 next to the library. If the front door is locked there is a buzzer on the wall on the right hand side.

Notes:

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Voluntary Donation: ( What is this?)
Suggested donation amount for this event is: $2.00/Person.

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