Boston Book Festival 2018

In this engaging session, three nonfiction authors will present their work,TED-style, in a fast-paced presentation. Like TED, we will be videotaping them for inclusion on the Ideas in Action website, so the authors will be in top form. Salk Institute biologist Dr. Satchin Panda will present his electrifying scientific work from The Circadian Code. He explains how your body’s circadian clock works and how you can use this knowledge to treat many conditions. Rachel Slade will tell the tragic tale of the sinking of the El Faro from her book, Into the Raging Sea, a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Owing to the existence of 26 hours of recorded conversation among the crew before the ship sank off the coast of the Bahamas, Slade was able to construct a harrowing account of dreadful decision-making. John Kaag, author of Hiking with Nietzsche, tells a deeply personal story of how his search for wisdom led him on two journeys to the mountains above Sils Maria where Nietzsche wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra. These three fascinating and vastly different presentations will be hosted by John Werner, founder of Ideas in Action and curator of TEDxBeaconStreet.