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“We quite suddenly realized that we were looking at a general pattern”: Q&A with Richard Wilkinson

In 2009, epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett published the book The Spirit Level, making a bold case that economic inequality...

Oct 26, 2011
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Culture

How economic inequality harms societies: Richard Wilkinson on TED.com

We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequ...

Oct 24, 2011
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Global Issues

How cyberattacks threaten real-world peace: Guy-Philippe Goldstein on TED.com

More and more, nations are waging attacks with cyber weapons — silent strikes on another country’s computer systems that leave b...

Oct 19, 2011
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Development

Video: Meet TEDx in a Box version 2.0

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/30656539 w=525&h=294] TEDx in a Box is a toolkit with all the gear needed to host a TEDx event in the developing...

Oct 18, 2011
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Culture

Learning from a barefoot movement: Bunker Roy on TED.com

In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men — many of them illiterate — to become solar engineers, ...

Oct 17, 2011
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Culture

Archive gem: Dave Meslin on redefining apathy

Today’s gem from the TEDTalks archives: Local politics — schools, zoning, council elections — hit us where we live. So why...

Oct 15, 2011
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Design

Oil-spill cleanup tech wins million-dollar X Challenge

First announced at TEDxOilSpill last spring, during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X C...

Oct 12, 2011
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Global Issues

TEDTalks: Now on Dailymotion

We’re thrilled to announce that TEDTalks are now available on Dailymotion — one of Europe’s most popular video sites &#821...

Oct 10, 2011
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Culture

Finding life we can’t imagine: Christoph Adami on TED.com

How do we search for alien life if it’s nothing like the life that we know? At TEDxUIUC Christoph Adami shows how he uses his research...

Oct 4, 2011
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