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How engineers learn from evolution: Robert Full on TED.com

Link fixed: Insects and animals have evolved some amazing skills — but, as Robert Full notes, many animals are actually badly engineer...

Jun 19, 2008
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Celebrating the Eames stamps

Photo: Eames Demetrios via flickr We’re excited about the US Postal Service’s brand-new Charles and Ray Eames stamps, issued for...

Jun 18, 2008
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WSF report: Greengenuity

TED’s June Cohen reports via Twitter on the World Science Festival session “Greengenuity“, where she’s hearing from ...

May 31, 2008
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$100 laptop designer Yves Behar on TED.com

Designer Yves Behar digs up his creative roots and discusses some of the iconic objects he’s created (the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone heads...

May 21, 2008
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Rethinking the music video with "Moonlight in Glory": Jakob Trollback on TED.com

What would a music video look like if it were purely directed by the music? If it were not a brand-building tool but simply a visual express...

Apr 3, 2008
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Nicholas Negroponte’s 1984 TED Talk: 5 predictions for the future (4 of them correct)

Speaking at the first TED Conference, in 1984, Nicholas Negroponte talks about the converging fields of technology, entertainment and design...

Mar 11, 2008
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What's your Behar factor?

Last year on the TEDBlog we asked “what’s your Starck factor?” Prior to hearing him blow the roof off of TED2007 with his ...

Feb 29, 2008
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Rome antics: David Macaulay on TED.com

His love and fascination for Rome dates to his days as an architecture student, but David Macaulay found the path to his book Rome Antics to...

Feb 6, 2008
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Porco awarded, Antonelli promoted

TED speaker Paola Antonelli (watch her TED 2007 talk) has been promoted to senior curator of the New York Museum of Modern Art’s depar...

Jan 17, 2008
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