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Articles, reflections, and teachings from our community.

Design

Amy Smith on TEDTalks

MIT engineer Amy Smith designs ingenious low-cost devices to tackle tough problems in developing countries. She received a MacArthur “...

Aug 15, 2006
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Development

Nicholas Negroponte on TEDTalks

Nicholas Negroponte is former Director of the MIT Media Lab, and founder of the non-profit, One Laptop Per Child, dedicated to making the fa...

Aug 1, 2006
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Architecture

TEDPrize winner Cameron Sinclair on TEDTalks

TEDPrize winner Cameron Sinclair is founder of Architecture for Humanity, and author of Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses...

Jul 25, 2006
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Architecture

TED BookClub: Design Like You Give a Damn

Design Like You Give A Damn By Cameron Sinclair Published by Metropolis Books 336 pages | List price: $35.00 I’m delighted to share wi...

Jul 13, 2006
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Development

Majora Carter on TEDTalks

Majora Carter is the Macarthur-winning founder of Sustainable South Bronx, an organization dedicated to holistic community development, spon...

Jun 27, 2006
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Design

Hans Rosling on TEDTalks

Hans Rosling is a public health expert, director of Sweden’s world-renowned Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a nonprofi...

Jun 27, 2006
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Development

Making global mentoring a reality

Last October, Chris put a challenge to the TED community, pledging $1000 to the person who created the most eye-popping proposition on Pledg...

Mar 27, 2006
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Development

Meanwhile in Africa…

A moving slideshow set to Peter Gabriel’s “Don’t Give Up,” covered by Bono and Alicia Keys

Dec 22, 2005
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Design

Visualizing global trends

Humans have a hard time picturing certain things: long-term consequences, very large numbers, global trends … For better or worse, our...

Dec 8, 2005
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