Mave higgins is a dian and an author who moved from ireland to the us. She uses jokes to complicate narratives that we sometimes hear about emigration. There are lots of ways you can take care of your brain, everything from learning a new language to eating a healthy diet. Check out the interview with gary kasparov on this week's ted interview podcast.
On a list of the least funny topics imaginable, the global refugee crisis, border disputes, and questions of citizenships are probably close to the top. And yet comedian Maeve Higgins has spent her career finding ways to make jokes about (and make sense of) the ways we draw lines across the globe. She’s a standup and a writer who speaks from the point of view of an Irish immigrant in the United States. In this episode, she talks about ways we can find funny and eye-opening vantage points to look at the realities and borders of the world, our place in it, and how imagination and laughter can help us through tough times.