This Nalanda Institute workshop explores the new science of the developing brain and the potential for mindful approaches to building attention and social emotional confidence. It provides mindful alternatives to the epidemic of labels and pills for our children and teens.

The line between different language families is often blurred. Languages from different families that have been brought together can create a hybrid that belongs to both, and every combination happens in different ways and to varying degrees. Look at several examples of this phenomenon (which even includes English).

What do writing systems tell us about language? Better understand why writing actually tells us more about human ingenuity in communication than it tells us about spoken language. Close with a consideration of the cultural importance of language, its preservation and loss, and the realities of a more linguistically homogeneous future.

The idiosyncrasies that show up in DNA allow us to trace back to common ancestors, much like language traits allow us to chart language-family relationships. Take a look at the concept of glottochronology and see what linguistic theories have been confirmed by genetics in places like Europe, India, and Polynesia.

Extraordinary athletes and their families sacrifice everything for their dreams of glory. Gold Medal Gymnast Aly Raisman, divers Steele Johnson and Jordan Windle, boxer Jajaira Gonzalez, and swimmer Sean Grieshop.

With the Olympic Trials looming, Jordan is still struggling to come to terms with the recent dissolution of his relationship with his synchro partner.

Relative equality between men and women extended to family life, as well. In this lecture, take a look at the Etruscan family structure and compare it to the Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews. Professor Tuck uses tombs, funerary markers, myths, and more to present a picture of the Etruscan family, gender roles, and the status of children..

As Diver Steele Johnson continues to mend from a recent triceps injury, his family turns to their faith for guidance. Boxer Jajaira Gonzalez focuses on losing 6 pounds before her Olympic Trials fight in just 2 weeks.

Shift from Indo-European to some of the most endangered languages in the world: the "click" languages, formally known as Khoisan. Spoken in southern Africa, these endangered languages share a distinctive profile, and yet likely did not all come from a single family. Explore where they may have begun and how they work.

Since 1992, Bill Moyers and Frontline have been following the story of two ordinary, hard-working families in Milwaukee - one black, one white - as they spent two decades in an extraordinary battle to keep from sliding into poverty. With poignant and revealing intimacy, Two American Families chronicles the struggles of the Neumanns and the Stanleys as they try to hold onto their homes, their jobs, their health insurance, and a future for their children....