Until we reconnect with nature, we can never really feel whole.
Juli Berwald gives an inspiring, informative & heartfelt talk about jellyfish, coral and what they can teach us about our world and ourselves.
About the speaker
Marine invertebrates stole Juli Berwald's heart on her first snorkel in the Red Sea during college. Hoping to study the ocean forever, she spent seven years building mathematical algorithms to interpret satellite imagery of the ocean, receiving her Ph.D. in ocean science. Her husband stole her heart next, and she drifted away from the ocean to Austin, Texas to be with him. Over the years, they added two children and a couple of dogs to their family.
Landlocked, Juli wrote textbooks and popular science articles for National Geographic, The New York Times, Nature, Time, Redbook, and Wired.com among others, before the story of jellyfish led her back to the sea. A mashup of memoir and science, Spineless: the Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone, was published in 2017 and she will publish a book on the future of corals in 2021.
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While jellyfish may not be our overlords, their numbers seem to be increasing.
If you get stung by a jellyfish it's horrible and I hope you never do, but, it's also, you know you've been touched by this amazingness.
...until we reconnect with nature, we really never feel whole.
...but right now it seems we've lost our sense of humility and we are sort of positioned - we have this position of power but it also feels really precarious, and i think that the lesson of biophilia is that until we reconnect with nature we can really never feel whole.
In terms of mental health, nature helps us control stress; it actually makes us better to able to focus.
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