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“The Unquiet Mind”: TED Radio Hour season 2 premieres today
News

“The Unquiet Mind”: TED Radio Hour season 2 premieres today

Turn up the radio! TED Radio Hour’s second season begins today. Hosted by NPR’s Guy Raz, the first episode is “The Unquiet...

Mar 1, 2013
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Who Are We?: The speakers in Session 11 of TED2013
News

Who Are We?: The speakers in Session 11 of TED2013

The name says it all: this session took a look at everything that human beings do, think and know. From thoughts on what makes a civilizatio...

Mar 1, 2013
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Welcome to 4D printing: A Q&A with Skylar Tibbits at TED2013
Design

Welcome to 4D printing: A Q&A with Skylar Tibbits at TED2013

We’ve all heard of 3D printing. But what the heck is 4D printing? During TED Senior Fellow’s Skylar Tibbits’ talk at TED U...

Mar 1, 2013
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Three important life skills, according to Kate Stone
Culture

Three important life skills, according to Kate Stone

Yesterday, Kate Stone charmed the assembled TED audience with her tales of failing exams, living on a sheep farm in Australia, and developin...

Mar 1, 2013
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Live a life to do with beauty: Shane Koyczan at TED2013
Art

Live a life to do with beauty: Shane Koyczan at TED2013

Spoken-word poet and artist Shane Koyczan is onstage at TED, sharing his own experiences and charming us silly. This is an intimate, heartfe...

Feb 28, 2013
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Escape from North Korea: Hyeonseo Lee at TED2013
Global Issues

Escape from North Korea: Hyeonseo Lee at TED2013

Hyeonseo Lee saw her first public execution at age 7. A child growing up in North Korea, the moment affected her, but she didn’t have ...

Feb 28, 2013
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The invisible man: Liu Bolin at TED2013
Art

The invisible man: Liu Bolin at TED2013

Can a person disappear in plain sight? That’s the question Liu Bolin‘s remarkable works all seem to ask. The Beijing-based artis...

Feb 28, 2013
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Remembering and responding online: Lakshmi Pratury at TED2013
Global Issues

Remembering and responding online: Lakshmi Pratury at TED2013

Once, Lakshmi Pratury says, she was deeply troubled by the public lives of young people on the Internet, but now she has hope — becaus...

Feb 28, 2013
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The interspecies internet: Diana Reiss, Peter Gabriel, Neil Gershenfeld and Vint Cerf at TED2013
Culture

The interspecies internet: Diana Reiss, Peter Gabriel, Neil Gershenfeld and Vint Cerf at TED2013

The internet connects people all over the world. But could the internet also connect us with dolphins, apes, elephants and other highly inte...

Feb 28, 2013
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