Who Is Your Rock?
The Science of Happiness
PRX and Greater Good Science Center
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
He survived the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, two years ago and has been a student mental health advocate ever since. Now Kai Koerber finds a way to thank the person who helped him find his voice.
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| 0:00.0 | We all know that sitting for hours of screen time is bad, but can we fix it? |
| 0:05.0 | I think a lot of us don't realize how much pain we live in because of our interactions with computing. |
| 0:11.0 | Ultimately, it's a culture change. |
| 0:13.4 | NPR's Body Electric, a special interactive series investigating the relationship between our |
| 0:19.4 | tech and our bodies. |
| 0:21.2 | Listen in the Ted Radio Hour feed wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:25.0 | It was Valentine's Day of 2018 when a shooter opened fire inside Marjorie |
| 0:29.8 | Stonman Douglas High School killing 17 students and staff members. |
| 0:33.2 | Over and over again this year, we have seen, heard, and reported on sad and harrowing scenes |
| 0:38.9 | like this one. |
| 0:39.9 | School districts across the state have asked for more money to deal with mental health. |
| 0:44.8 | A second student who survived the Parkland shooting in Florida has died in an apparent suicide. |
| 0:50.4 | This comes about a week after a 19 year old survivor took her own life. |
| 0:54.0 | Experiening the Parkland shooting. |
| 0:57.0 | It was a really horrible day, horrible couple of weeks actually, |
| 1:01.0 | you know, and I had been sitting around in the house and I didn't know what to do |
| 1:06.0 | I had no idea how to |
| 1:08.0 | Respond how to live my life because everything I knew had at that point been shattered. |
| 1:13.5 | So I didn't know how to bounce back from that. |
| 1:16.6 | My mother really, she gave me direction |
| 1:19.3 | at that time of my life. |
| 1:21.3 | I couldn't have asked for a better compass, to be honest. There was this one point where I'm sitting down and I'm watching students from my school get out and be active and petitioned lawmakers and let the public know what they wanted to see going forward. |
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