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If you can't explain it simply, you don't know it well enough.
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Two heroes reunite to take on the VelociPastor! 😎❤️🦖🍿🎥 #velocipastor #velocipastor2 #bmovies #dwaba #nerdspresso @dinosaurpodcast @jimmywaldron by @jimmywaldron

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This Saturday, TEDxOrlando started to feel very real.

Our speakers came together for our full-day rehearsal, stepping onto a slightly smaller red dot to deliver the talks they’ve spent months developing, questioning, rewriting, and rehearsing.

And what a day it was.

We heard powerful ideas. We laughed. We learned. We had moments that stopped the room in its tracks.

But more than anything, we got a glimpse of what October 17 is going to feel like when these talks are delivered on the TEDxOrlando stage.

Here are a few moments from an incredible day with our 2026 speakers.

The next time they step onto a red dot, it’ll be at the Linda W. Chapin Theater.

🎟️ Join us in the room: tedxorlando.live

📅 October 17, 2026
📍 Orange County Convention Center

#TEDxOrlando #TheSpaceBetween #TEDx #Orlando #CentralFlorida taken in Hi Hello Labs by @jimmywaldron

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25 days ago

What can a dinosaur bone teach us about becoming scientists? 🦖

Quite a lot, according to TEDxOrlando speaker Jimmy Waldron.

We asked Jimmy why dinosaurs are such a powerful vehicle for creating citizen scientists — and he brought along something special to demonstrate his answer: the hip bone of an Apatosaurus.

For Jimmy, dinosaurs can be a gateway to curiosity — encouraging people to ask questions, investigate the world around them, and discover that science isn’t something reserved for scientists.

Watch Jimmy explain what we can learn from a piece of a dinosaur that walked the Earth millions of years ago.

Then hear more from Jimmy live at TEDxOrlando: The Space Between on October 17.

📍 Linda W. Chapin Theater, Orange County Convention Center
🎟️ tedxorlando.live

#TEDxOrlando #TheSpaceBetween #CitizenScience #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Orlando taken in Orlando, Florida by @jimmywaldron

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Welcome to Oak Street, where the lawns are tidy, the families are complicated, and the dinosaurs are hungry. 🦖

For his latest Nerdspresso column, Jeff Stanford took paleontologist and longtime podcast partner Jimmy Waldron to a preview of The End of Oak Street at the Orlando Science Center.

Jeff found a popcorn adventure somewhere between Spielberg, Bradbury, Poltergeist, and Jurassic Park. Jimmy found scientifically questionable dinosaurs, awkward prehistoric romance, and further evidence that everything has feathers now.

Read Jeff’s full review at Southpoint Access: https://soduwelikelocal.news/nerdspresso-oak-street-finds-adventure-at-the-corner-of-spielberg-and-bradbury/ #movies #reviews taken in Durham, North Carolina by @jimmywaldron

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2 months ago

Jimmy tells us why you need to be in the room on October 17, and we couldn't have put it better ourselves.

Get your tickets via the link in bio. taken in Orlando, Florida by @jimmywaldron

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3 months ago

🚨 Speaker announcement 🚨

Meet Jimmy Waldron, MA.Ed. — paleontologist, science educator, and founder of Dinosaurs Will Always Be Awesome (DWABA, Inc.), Central Florida’s first and only NAICS-accredited Mobile Dinosaur Museum.

Jimmy is a co-author on the discovery of Ichthyotitan severnensis (yes… a giant swimming reptile), and he’s bringing hands-on paleontology to schools and communities that are often too far for traditional field trips.

His core idea:
Science isn’t about what we know — it’s about how we come to know it.
In his TEDxOrlando talk, Jimmy invites all of us into the scientific process so learning becomes active discovery, not passive belief.

🦴 Learn to ask better questions
🔍 Test ideas with evidence
🌍 See yourself as part of a hopeful, evidence-driven future

Drop a 🦖 in the comments to welcome Jimmy to the TEDxOrlando stage!

#TEDxOrlando #TEDxSpeaker #ScienceEducation #Paleontology #Dinosaurs taken in Orlando, Florida by @jimmywaldron

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8 months ago

They called me mad—MAD I tell you—for keeping a dinosaur-themed ice scraper in my Jeep in Florida. Well, who’s laughing now you recommended breakfast serving of Frosted Fools?! MWAH-HA-HA-Haaaactually this is all really bad.

#SpinningPlate #ClimateGoals #PolarVortex #Wobble by @jimmywaldron

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8 months ago

It’s snowing in my own personal Isla Nublar! Happy Holidays to everyone, and Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! 🎄🦖☃️🦕 by @jimmywaldron

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10 months ago

December 2nd Dino Jimmy will be hosting a live show with Dr. Dean Lomax author of The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs and the Adventures of a Paleontologist. Head over to Instagram to enter to win free tickets! Instagram 🦕 @dinosaurpodcast

#orlandosstrongeststream #funnypodcast #orlandodoesntsuck #funnyorlando #orlandoevents #comedyorlando #orlandopodcasts #centralfloridaevents #centralfloridapodcasts by @jimmywaldron

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a year ago

Catch our friend Dino Jimmy’s movie Why Dinosaurs? at The Enzian this Sunday July 27th at 11am! 🦖 enzian.org/film/why-dinosaurs

#orlandosstrongeststream #funnypodcast #orlandodoesntsuck #funnyorlando #orlandoevents #comedyorlando #orlandopodcasts #centralfloridaevents #centralfloridapodcasts taken in Enzian Theater by @jimmywaldron

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a year ago

We come to this place… for popcorn buckets. by @jimmywaldron

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a year ago

Why is reporter Clark Kent wearing a Superman costume? by @jimmywaldron

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