Damascus To Detroit

Important TED talks

marias-studyblr:

Summer is time to relax but we should take the time to think. Here are my favorites ted talk videos that I think everyone should watch:

• The virginity fraud - Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl
• This is what it’s like to go undercover in North Korea - Suki Kim
  
• My escape from North Korea -  Hyeonseo Lee
• The Muslim on the airplane - Amal Kassir
  
• The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong - Amy Morin
  
• The skill of self confidence - Dr. Ivan Joseph
  
• How to stop screwing yourself over - Mel Robbins
  
• The Magic of Not Giving a F*** - Sarah Knight
  
• Why the universe seems so strange - Richard Dawkins
  
• The pattern behind self-deception - Michael Shermer
  
• Militant atheism - Richard Dawkins
  
• Why domestic violence victims don’t leave - Leslie Morgan Steiner
  
• Lessons from death row inmates - David R. Dow
  
• Lessons from the Mental Hospital - Glennon Doyle Melton
  
• Why we choose suicide - Mark Henick
• What’s Wrong with Dying? - Lesley Hazleton
  
• I’m Taking My Body Back - Rupi Kaur
  
• My philosophy for a happy life - Sam Berns
• The surprising habits of original thinkers - Adam Grant
  
• The surprising secret to speaking with confidence - Caroline Goyder
  
• Want to sound like a leader? Start by saying your name right - Laura Sicola
  
• Programming your mind for success - Carrie Green
  
• All it takes is 10 mindful minutes - Andy Puddicombe

(via a-story-of-atoms)

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

fromacomrade:

My disdain for cops is institutional, not individual. Just because you may have a positive personal relationship with someone who is a cop doesn’t change the fact that the law enforcement system in this country is rooted in white supremacy and is used to repress and control the working class while protecting the elite.

All cops have signed up to enforce a system which is oppressing marginalized people in this country on a daily basis. Your personal relationship with an agent of oppression does not change this fact.

(via badtameezdill)

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

fondestsuggestion:

you look like home to me, you’re the only place i wanna be

(via a-story-of-atoms)