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His topic: (back by popular demand) Save the Urchin Fishery With This One Weird Trick! The failing Sea Urchin fishery has left Maine struggling to recover its sea urchin population. Over the years, this precious resource has been exhausted, but it's not simply a matter of overfishing. Graham Morehead here talks of a possible solution to this concern. He was invited to TEDxYouth@Biddeford to give a talk about sea urchins to high school students raising awareness among them about this resource and sustainability in general.

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The unitaryness of consciousness is an illusion. That my consciousness feels singular is merely a manageable fiction. The prefrontal cortex demands it thus. The neocortex lives by the assumption that “me” is one thing. Planning cannot exist without identity. Identity cannot exist without disambiguation — the ability to discern that which is me, from that which is not me.

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As a human, I share more with octopus consciousness than I’d prefer to believe. The neurons of a highly evolved cephalopod are not concentrated in the brain like ours. They do have brains, but two thirds of their neurons are in the arms. Complex motor skills are not organized in their brain using an internal somatotopic map of the body. Instead, octopus arms show a variety of complex behaviors even in the absence of input from the brain.

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This talk was given by Graham Morehead, Curator of The Pangeon at the 2014 TEDxUMaine. A man rots unjustly in jail, the sea urchins are dying, and Google Translate doesn't work. Morehead ties together these three disjoint narratives using starlings. His talk tackles the concept of a complex system. Being complex is not the same as being complicated. Even though no entity within a system can see the whole picture, undeniable large-scale patterns emerge from the system. As we learn to describe this emergence mathematically, in terms of entropy, stability, and far-from-equilibrium dynamics, we will better understand systems like markets, ecologies, and life itself.

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Graham Morehead, the curator of "The Pangeon" talks at TEDxYouth@JBMHS in Bangor, ME at the Gracie Theatre. Graham talked about his academic challenges and career pit stops mentioning 3 significant mentors who taught him important life lessons. His talk also tackled about how man's exploration made the world a better place. He ended his talk by challenging the listeners to do more of what they are required to do, quoting from him: "Humanity is waking up, be a part of it."

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The Slings and Arrows of School and Career

Graham Morehead, the curator of "The Pangeon" talks at TEDxYouth@JBMHS in Bangor, ME at the Gracie Theatre.

Graham talked about his academic challenges and career pit stops mentioning 3 significant mentors who taught him important life lessons. His talk also tackled about how man's exploration made the world a better place. He ended his talk by challenging the listeners to do more of what they are required to do, quoting from him: "Humanity is waking up, be a part of it."

 Here's a full video of his recent Tedx Talk:

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The Slings and Arrows of School and Career

Graham Morehead, the curator of "The Pangeon" talks at TEDxYouth@JBMHS in Bangor, ME at the Gracie Theatre.

Graham talked about his academic challenges and career pit stops mentioning 3 significant mentors who taught him important life lessons. His talk also tackled about how man's exploration made the world a better place. He ended his talk by challenging the listeners to do more of what they are required to do, quoting from him: "Humanity is waking up, be a part of it."

 Here's a full video of his recent Tedx Talk:

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In Maine, Sea Urchins are struggling to survive and maintain their survival but Graham Morehead proposes this simple but amazing solution. The picture gives us the clue! More here: http://pangeon.com/blog/2013/11/28/graham-morehead-at-tedxdirigo-in-lewiston-maine

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Save the urchin fishery with this one weird trick! by: Graham Morehead at TEDxDirigo Generate

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Graham Morehead is interested in language and thought. An improbable series of events led him to study computer science and the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis. Studying under James Wilson, an economist at the University of Maine, Graham was introduced to the field of complex adaptive systems, a new tool for understanding the ecology of sea urchins, human-natural coupled systems, economies, and perhaps even language and thought. Graham studied physics in Boston and Madrid, worked for a number of tech startups in Boston, and then came to the University of Maine. Graham holds a patent for a desktop supercomputer. He loves to travel, loves the outdoors, and is an optimist who believes we have it in ourselves to solve all our problems. He is currently the head of IT at RH Foster and curator of The Pangeon. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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TEDxDirigo Speaker Tryouts at the Lewiston Public Library 6/27/12. Filmed by Patrick Russell of rambleproductions.com

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The Pangeon is a nexus between Language Culture and Design.We are a small community of deep thinkers and creators. Our skills encompass linguistics, computer science, visual art, graphic design, human-computer interaction, and cultural knowledge.If you have project interesting enough for us, feel free to reach out to the curator, or one of us directly.