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The best TEDx cupcakes
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The best TEDx cupcakes

Warning: this post will make you hungry. Very, very hungry. Over the past three years — since TEDx independently organized conferences...

Aug 8, 2012
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Chip Kidd designs a laugh-out-loud MetroCard
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Chip Kidd designs a laugh-out-loud MetroCard

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York is strained for cash. And so they announced last week that they would be offering adve...

Jul 24, 2012
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5 fascinating cars of the future
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5 fascinating cars of the future

It’s 2012. And many of us no doubt imagined that flying cars would be all the rage by now. While that hasn’t happened yet, some major drivin...

Jul 11, 2012
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6 very promising oil spill cleanup innovations
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6 very promising oil spill cleanup innovations

  Two years ago, a chance discussion with a group of Gulf of Mexico fishermen changed the course of Cesar Harada’s life. The TED Senior...

Jul 5, 2012
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Remix the Session 10 titles: Download CC-licensed footage for “Reframing”
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Remix the Session 10 titles: Download CC-licensed footage for “Reframing”

Download the rushes used for the session titles created by Circus Family for Session 10: Reframing. These images were created by projecting ...

Jun 29, 2012
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She has music in her hands: Imogen Heap at TEDGlobal 2012
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She has music in her hands: Imogen Heap at TEDGlobal 2012

Imogen Heap bounds onto the stage wearing black, a glittering, cosmically ruffled jacket and some musical gloves. You know, as you do. The g...

Jun 29, 2012
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Restoring humanity after the tsunami: Becci Manson at TEDGlobal 2012
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Restoring humanity after the tsunami: Becci Manson at TEDGlobal 2012

Becci Manson is a high-end photographic retoucher who works with client like fashion magazines to tart up glamorous images. She and her frie...

Jun 29, 2012
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Restoring art to give a future to the past: Maurizio Seracini at TEDGlobal 2012
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Restoring art to give a future to the past: Maurizio Seracini at TEDGlobal 2012

In 1975, Maurizio Seracini met an art professor who asked him if he could help find a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci — the mura...

Jun 29, 2012
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Process, a new role for the architect: Michael Hansmeyer at TEDGlobal 2012
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Process, a new role for the architect: Michael Hansmeyer at TEDGlobal 2012

Photo: James Duncan Davidson As an architect, Michael Hansmeyer asks, “What is the origin of the forms we design?” And he asks: ...

Jun 28, 2012
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