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Inside the design of the colorful, campy TED Fellows Retreat
Design

Inside the design of the colorful, campy TED Fellows Retreat

Camp: a home under the stars and sun. A space to dream, commune with friends, create — and play. That’s the atmosphere TED Fellows dir...

Sep 9, 2015
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Teens in New York City: Come to TEDYouth 2015!
News

Teens in New York City: Come to TEDYouth 2015!

What will life be like in the year 2035? Will the typical classroom still be full of desks, or some kind of virtual wonderland? What are the...

Sep 8, 2015
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Life and logistics: The speakers at TED@UPS move things, in space and in theory
Business

Life and logistics: The speakers at TED@UPS move things, in space and in theory

How exactly do you ship fragile dinosaur bones? Or move a 12.5-ton locomotive through the air? And what are all the little things that have ...

Sep 4, 2015
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A “living fossil” spotted in the South Pacific, a machine that vomits + poetry that rethinks assumptions about inmates
In Brief

A “living fossil” spotted in the South Pacific, a machine that vomits + poetry that rethinks assumptions about inmates

The TED community has news to share. Read on for highlights. The rarest animal on Earth, spotted once again. Peter Ward hadn’t seen his “old...

Sep 3, 2015
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Look closer at this collage of flags. You may just find a familiar face
Global Issues

Look closer at this collage of flags. You may just find a familiar face

You might know artist Liu Bolin by his outline. He paints himself to disappear into backgrounds, becoming a ghost-like presence in his image...

Sep 2, 2015
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Remembering Oliver Sacks
News

Remembering Oliver Sacks

Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks died on Sunday, August 30, at age 82. He’d announced in February that he was in the final stages o...

Aug 30, 2015
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Advice from a young TED speaker: Start a TED-Ed Club at your school
Education

Advice from a young TED speaker: Start a TED-Ed Club at your school

If you watch my TED Talk from 2010, you might see a confident 12-year-old, cracking jokes and striding around the stage in glasses that keep...

Aug 28, 2015
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The music of sign language, a computer of water drops: 21 TED Fellows share ideas that swim against the tide
Live from TED

The music of sign language, a computer of water drops: 21 TED Fellows share ideas that swim against the tide

Tides are strong. They move swiftly, sweeping all toward the shore. But TED Fellows refuse to simply drift with the water. They are innovato...

Aug 28, 2015
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Black Lives Matter: A playlist of powerful StoryCorps interviews
TED Prize

Black Lives Matter: A playlist of powerful StoryCorps interviews

Ghetto Life 101 changed my life. I started working on this radio documentary 25 years ago — I gave tape recorders to two kids growing up in ...

Aug 26, 2015
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