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Reinventing education for millennials: Anant Agarwal at TEDGlobal 2013
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Reinventing education for millennials: Anant Agarwal at TEDGlobal 2013

Anant Agarwal runs EdX.org, the Harvard-MIT open-education site, and he’s here to talk MOOCs, those “massively open online cours...

Jun 14, 2013
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Wherefore Raspberry Pi?: Eben Upton at TEDGlobal 2013
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Wherefore Raspberry Pi?: Eben Upton at TEDGlobal 2013

Fifteen months ago, a small device called Raspberry Pi was put on the market. Despite the glut of gleaming, do-everything devices available ...

Jun 14, 2013
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The meaning of memes: An Xiao Mina at TEDGlobal 2013
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The meaning of memes: An Xiao Mina at TEDGlobal 2013

“This is what happens when you take the addictive power of an LOLcat and apply it in a ceonsorship state,” says An Xiao Mina, a ...

Jun 14, 2013
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Video: Opening titles for Tech Impact, Session 11 of TEDGlobal 2013

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahr5TVtWt2A&w=560&h=315] Eero Johannes Pitkänen introduces session 11 of TEDGlobal 2013 with...

Jun 14, 2013
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Tech Impact: The speakers in session 11 at TEDGlobal 2013
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Tech Impact: The speakers in session 11 at TEDGlobal 2013

Technology is such an integral part of everyday life, it can be hard to remember how far we’ve come — and how fast. This session...

Jun 14, 2013
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How to spread ideas: Speakers and translators at the Open Translation session at TEDGlobal 2013
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How to spread ideas: Speakers and translators at the Open Translation session at TEDGlobal 2013

“I write sci-fi novels, because if I wrote a white paper nobody would read it,” Daniel Suarez told a panel of translators at TED...

Jun 14, 2013
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Quoted: David Steindl-Rast on the gentle power of gratefulness
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Quoted: David Steindl-Rast on the gentle power of gratefulness

By Susan Zimmerman David Steindl-Rast has the honor of closing this year’s TEDGlobal. The Benedictine monk, whose words made an appearance i...

Jun 14, 2013
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In case you missed it: Some highlights of day 3 of TEDGlobal 2013: Think Again
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In case you missed it: Some highlights of day 3 of TEDGlobal 2013: Think Again

The final full day of TEDGlobal 2013 comprised three jampacked sessions. “State of the Nations” included insights from China, th...

Jun 13, 2013
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Gallery: Behind-the-scenes at Tuesday and Wednesday of TEDGlobal
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Gallery: Behind-the-scenes at Tuesday and Wednesday of TEDGlobal

TEDGlobal 2013 is steaming along, and our brains are bursting with new ideas as well as rebooted approaches to old ones. Here, some incredib...

Jun 13, 2013
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