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Playing with identity and authenticity: Hetain Patel at TEDGlobal 2013
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Playing with identity and authenticity: Hetain Patel at TEDGlobal 2013

“I don’t know how to introduce this, so I’ll just say, ‘Hetain Patel,’” says TED curator Chris Anderson....

Jun 11, 2013
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“I like you”: A new song from Natasha Bedingfield at TEDGlobal 2013
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“I like you”: A new song from Natasha Bedingfield at TEDGlobal 2013

The end of “Exquisite Enigmatic Us,” the last session for today at TEDGlobal 2013, is appropriately rounded out by a former stud...

Jun 11, 2013
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The fiction of memory: Elizabeth Loftus at TEDGlobal 2013
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The fiction of memory: Elizabeth Loftus at TEDGlobal 2013

Elizabeth Loftus begins her talk at TEDGlobal 2013 with the tragic story of Steve Titus, who was arrested in 1980 because he sort of matched...

Jun 11, 2013
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The neuroscience of sleep: Russell Foster at TEDGlobal 2013
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The neuroscience of sleep: Russell Foster at TEDGlobal 2013

Neuroscientist Russell Foster opens a session of TEDGlobal all about … us, asking the question: Why do we sleep? Thirty-six percent of...

Jun 11, 2013
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Filmmaker to make documentary about TED Prize winner Sugata Mitra
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Filmmaker to make documentary about TED Prize winner Sugata Mitra

Sugata Mitra’s TED Prize story may soon be coming to a theater near you. Today during the TEDGlobal 2013 session “Exquisite, Enigmatic Us,” ...

Jun 11, 2013
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Video: Opening titles for Exquisite Enigmatic Us, Session 3 of TEDGlobal 2013

A lovely meditation on we exquisite, enigmantic people serves to open Session 3 of TEDGlobal. Olivia Bolles, better known as Olivia Bee, is ...

Jun 11, 2013
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Exquisite, Enigmatic Us: The speakers in session 3 at TEDGlobal 2013
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Exquisite, Enigmatic Us: The speakers in session 3 at TEDGlobal 2013

In the wilds of planet Earth, there exists a species so creative that it not only uses tools but is constantly rewriting the rules of what a...

Jun 11, 2013
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Nature revealed: Biodiversity in 3D: Greg Asner at TEDGlobal 2013
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Nature revealed: Biodiversity in 3D: Greg Asner at TEDGlobal 2013

Greg Asner closes Session 2 of TEDGlobal 2013, “Those Flying Things,” with a very different vision of the Earth. We spend a lot ...

Jun 11, 2013
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The space between photo and video: Blaise Agüera y Arcas at TEDGlobal 2013
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The space between photo and video: Blaise Agüera y Arcas at TEDGlobal 2013

On a tablet, Blaise Agüera y Arcas takes us on a walk through Edinburgh Castle, less than a mile from the TEDGlobal 2013 theater. With a swi...

Jun 11, 2013
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