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X marks the spot: TEDx on Mount Everest, for the second time
News

X marks the spot: TEDx on Mount Everest, for the second time

Call it TEDx from the mountaintop: This photo is brought to you by TEDxEverest, which was organized by Nate Mook and Eiso Vaandrager on the ...

May 24, 2013
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Playing memory games on this week’s TED Radio Hour
Science

Playing memory games on this week’s TED Radio Hour

How do you keep memories? And how much can you trust those preservations? This week’s TED Radio Hour, “Memory Games,” looks at recollections...

May 24, 2013
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Bones of remembrance: Fellows Friday with Naomi Natale
Global Issues

Bones of remembrance: Fellows Friday with Naomi Natale

For four years, artist Naomi Natale’s social art practice, the One Million Bones project, has used education, hands-on artmaking and public ...

May 24, 2013
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8 lyrical talks about the violin
Playlist

8 lyrical talks about the violin

At age 14, violin virtuoso Ji-Hae Park was accepted to a prestigious music conservatory in Mainz, Germany – even though the school only acce...

May 24, 2013
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Live from TEDGlobal 2013

TED Global newsmakers: A closer look at Laptop U, plus the first all-female race in Beirut, and more

With TEDGlobal 2013 just 17 days in the distance, we in the TED office are getting very excited to “Think Again.” Here, a look at the confer...

May 23, 2013
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A look at 11 TED Prize wishes past, to help inspire new ones
News

A look at 11 TED Prize wishes past, to help inspire new ones

A TED Prize wish must be ambitious and bold, with the ability to impact lives all across the globe. And yet, a TED Prize wish must also be p...

May 23, 2013
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How to print out your own house
Gallery

How to print out your own house

Architect Alastair Parvin came to TED2013 with questions that challenge our preconceptions about building. How about we involve everyone in ...

May 23, 2013
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Further reading on what makes a good end of life
Culture

Further reading on what makes a good end of life

“What would be a good end of life?” Judy MacDonald Johnston asks in today’s talk, given at TED2013. Her answer — based on her own expe...

May 22, 2013
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News

TED news in brief: Esther Perel on female libido, an update on Henry Markram’s supercomputer brain, and more

Below, take a look at some of the TED speakers and Fellows who are cropping up in the news this week. Lybrido, a drug to treat women with lo...

May 22, 2013
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