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Stanford and @NatGeo Society researchers attached cameras to free-swimming Humboldt squid: stanford.io/1t3LuZH
.@StanfordMed's Colin Bucks: In "enormously austere" #Ebola treatment centers, levity and hope still surface. stanford.io/1wR3ZkT
.@henretig: What if happiness were as simple as slowing down, gathering with loved ones, sharing your gifts in the best way you know how?
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Ben @henretig: What's the point of our limited time here on Earth if not to celebrate the health and well-being of our communities?
.@henretig: Bhutan showed me the power of coming together, face to face, with the shared intent to create social connection and intimacy.
Research back this up: Social connection is one of most important predictors of happiness. #TEDxstanford
Making the @happiestfilm in Bhutan helped Ben @henretig reflect on his own chaotic life, led to an eventual reorienting around connection.
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.@allysonvhobbs on the beauty of history: "No matter how far we look back, we can find ... an image of ourselves." #TEDxStanford
.@allysonvhobbs: It was my own experience of loss that enabled me to feel so keenly what the subjects in my book must have felt.
.@allysonvhobbs: "I never expected to see myself in my research. Writing this book has been a profoundly painful and emotional journey."
Prof. @allysonvhobbs: Writing a history of racial passing is writing a history of loss. #TEDxStanford
Prof. @allysonvhobbs was inspired by a member of her own family, who lived life as a white woman, to write a history of racial passing.
David Kennedy: The 435 elected officials in the House of Representatives have a combined ten children in military service.
.@StanfordHistory professor David Kennedy: The Defense Department budget is large, but it's only about 3 percent of GDP.