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Entertainment

A US lecture tour for Thomas Dolby and the Floating City

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEqJeua-_1M] TED’s musical director, Thomas Dolby, will be touring the United States in Octobe...

Oct 1, 2011
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Entertainment

A flirtatious aria: Danielle de Niese on TED.com

Can opera be ever-so-slightly sexy? The glorious soprano Danielle de Niese shows how, singing the flirty “Meine Lippen, sie küssen so ...

Sep 30, 2011
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Culture

A taste of performance at TEDGlobal 2011

Next week, TEDGlobal 2011 starts in Edinburgh. Among the many talks will be several spectacular performances, from music to dance to sand pa...

Jul 5, 2011
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Entertainment

TED@Cannes: Counter-programming the Festival of Creativity

This week, the world’s advertising and communication agencies have sent their top executives and creativites to Cannes, on the French ...

Jun 22, 2011
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Design

Architecture that senses and responds: Carlo Ratti on TED.com

With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT’s Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data set...

May 3, 2011
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Entertainment

“More hope and humanity than I could ever have imagined”: Read Morgan Spurlock’s Q&A with TEDsters

Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock answered questions from the TED community this morning — about his work, about what inspires him...

Apr 9, 2011
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Entertainment

Watch “Sleep,” Eric Whitacre’s new work with 2,000 voices

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WhWDCw3Mng&w=527&h=325&rel=0] Watch the full-length version of “Sleep,” Eri...

Apr 8, 2011
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Art

The genius puppetry behind War Horse: Handspring Puppet Company

“Puppets always have to try to be alive,” says Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company, a gloriously ambitious troupe of ...

Mar 30, 2011
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Art

If I should have a daughter … : Sarah Kay on TED.com

“If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she’s gonna call me Point B … ” began spoken word poet Sarah Kay, in a...

Mar 18, 2011
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