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Virgin Galactic unveils the rocket-powered ship to launch space tourism

This morning, Virgin CEO Sir Richard Branson offered the first public look at the rocketship expected to make space tourism a reality. The m...

Sep 28, 2006
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Malcolm Gladwell on TEDTalks

Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and best-selling author of The Tipping Point and Blink. In this talk, filmed at TED20...

Sep 20, 2006
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Steven Levitt on TEDTalks

Steven Levitt is an economics professor at the University of Chicago and the best-selling author of Freakonomics. In this talk, filmed at TE...

Sep 20, 2006
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Jimmy Wales on TEDTalks

Jimmy Wales is founder of Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding, and thoroughly addictive encyclopedia of the futu...

Aug 29, 2006
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Nigeria orders first million $100 laptops

At TED2006, former MIT Media Lab Director Nicholas Negroponte outlined the challenges of producing the $100 laptop, which will be designed f...

Jul 28, 2006
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Quote of the week: Malcolm Gladwell

“I think I speak for all writers, when I say that I am delighted by marketing efforts of any sort.” — Tipping Point author...

Jul 17, 2006
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TED BookClub: The Long Tail

The Long Tail By Chris Anderson Published by Hyperion 256 pages | List price: $24.95 This month’s TED Book Club mailing included a pre...

Jul 13, 2006
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What does a search engine look like?

In the words of Swiss technophilosopher René Berger, "It’s becoming impossible not to visit with Google daily". But when you...

Jul 5, 2006
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A wealth of responses to Yochai Benkler

The blogosphere itself is a fine example of what Yale Law Professor Yochai Benkler (TEDGlobal) writes about in The Wealth of Networks: The a...

Jun 7, 2006
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