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Imagined Beauty: The speakers in Session 10 at TEDGlobal 2013
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Imagined Beauty: The speakers in Session 10 at TEDGlobal 2013

Beauty is always a key theme at TED, and in this session, Imagined Beauty, there’s something for everyone, with speakers including a c...

Jun 13, 2013
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From hunger to hope: Joseph Kim at TEDGlobal 2013
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From hunger to hope: Joseph Kim at TEDGlobal 2013

“North Korea is often in the news, conjuring images of missiles, weapons, dictatorships and sometimes eccentric habits,” says Ad...

Jun 13, 2013
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After the Arab Spring: Mustafa Abushagur at TEDGlobal 2013
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After the Arab Spring: Mustafa Abushagur at TEDGlobal 2013

Former Deputy Prime Minister of Libya and engineering professor Mustafa Abushagur takes the stage at TEDGlobal 2013 to look at where the Ara...

Jun 13, 2013
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The makers of Africa’s first viral video: Just a Band at TEDGlobal 2013
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The makers of Africa’s first viral video: Just a Band at TEDGlobal 2013

Just a Band are … not at all just a band. During a key moment in their music video “Ha-He,” called by many Africa’s ...

Jun 13, 2013
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Want to see real innovation? Check out Africa: Toby Shapshak at TEDGlobal 2013
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Want to see real innovation? Check out Africa: Toby Shapshak at TEDGlobal 2013

The publisher and editor of the South African edition of Stuff magazine, Toby Shapshak is here to challenge our perceptions of his home cont...

Jun 13, 2013
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Africa and the fastest billion: Charles Robertson at TEDGlobal 2013
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Africa and the fastest billion: Charles Robertson at TEDGlobal 2013

Charles Robertson, co-author of The Fastest Billion, is the second speaker in the “Forces of Change” session this afternoon at T...

Jun 13, 2013
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A widening schism: Dambisa Moyo at TEDGlobal 2013
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A widening schism: Dambisa Moyo at TEDGlobal 2013

“Give me liberty or give me death,” says global economist Dambisa Moyo, quoting Patrick Henry from 1775. In Western ideology, fr...

Jun 13, 2013
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Video: Opening titles for Forces of Change, session 9 of TEDGlobal 2013

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCu96Ju58Lk&w=560&h=315] In this video, an ever-growing ream of paper tells the story of cha...

Jun 13, 2013
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Forces of Change: The speakers in session 9 of TEDGlobal 2013
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Forces of Change: The speakers in session 9 of TEDGlobal 2013

In George Ayittey’s classic TED Talk from 2007, he describes two factions in Africa toggling for control — the “hippo gene...

Jun 13, 2013
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