TED talks to be screened at Port Angeles Library this Thursday

PORT ANGELES — What is brain research telling us about storytelling?

How far off is holographic technology, really?

How can building design affect how we interact with the dying and how we experience the process of death?

These and other big questions will be broached at 1 p.m. Thursday at TEDxPortAngeles­LibraryLive.

TEDxPortAngelesLibraryLive will bring one day of the TED2016 Conference to the Raymond Carver Room at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.

Admission will be free. People can stop in for one video, an hour or all day. Space is limited.

Wide range of topics

Talks on a wide range of topics, from social issues to science breakthroughs, will be interspersed with a live simulcast feed from the TED2016 Conference in Vancouver, B.C.

The theme for TED2016 is “Dreams.”

Visitors can adjourn to the library living room between sessions and begin the discussion.

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to “ideas worth spreading,” usually in the form of short talks of 18 minutes or less delivered by today’s leading thinkers and doers.

TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.

New TED Talk videos are posted daily on www.TED.com.

For more information about the program, phone 360-417-8500, email SMorrison@nols.org or visit www.nols.org.

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