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Globalization and Globaloney: Pankaj Ghemawat at TEDGlobal 2012
Global Issues

Globalization and Globaloney: Pankaj Ghemawat at TEDGlobal 2012

Pankaj Ghemawat is the author of Global 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It, and he takes the stage to ask an important question: J...

Jun 27, 2012
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Sharp-dressing piano-playing man: Jonathan Batiste at TEDGlobal 2012
Art

Sharp-dressing piano-playing man: Jonathan Batiste at TEDGlobal 2012

Jonathan Batiste is back onstage to open the second day of TEDGlobal with a doctored burst of Chopin’s “Funeral March” on ...

Jun 27, 2012
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Globality: Watch the session title animation for TEDGlobal 2012 Session 4
Art

Globality: Watch the session title animation for TEDGlobal 2012 Session 4

Brief: Extreme sharing by being visually extremely explosive. Director’s statement: “I set out to illustrate the growing ideas b...

Jun 27, 2012
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Globality: Session 4 at TEDGlobal2012
News

Globality: Session 4 at TEDGlobal2012

Click to watch the session-opening animation The world is becoming global — that’s an idea that has been around for many years n...

Jun 27, 2012
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The magic of a group think: TEDGlobal 2012 Day 1 recap
Culture

The magic of a group think: TEDGlobal 2012 Day 1 recap

When you hear the word “innovation,” an image may pop to mind of an intrepid inventor toiling in isolation — Benjamin Fran...

Jun 26, 2012
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I just want to celebrate: Macy Gray at TEDGlobal 2012
Entertainment

I just want to celebrate: Macy Gray at TEDGlobal 2012

Those of us of a certain age remember when Macy Gray first rasped her way onto the scene. The 1999 release of her debut album, On How Life I...

Jun 26, 2012
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How to read our fears: Karen Thompson Walker at TEDGlobal 2012
Culture

How to read our fears: Karen Thompson Walker at TEDGlobal 2012

A story of fear In 1819, off the coast of Chile, 20 American sailors watch their whaleship, the Essex, fill with seawater. It had been struc...

Jun 26, 2012
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Thinking rationally? Think again: Eddie Obeng at TEDGlobal 2012
Culture

Thinking rationally? Think again: Eddie Obeng at TEDGlobal 2012

Eddie Obeng runs Pentacle, an online business school where he teaches “new world management.” He also has more energy than seems...

Jun 26, 2012
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Science is play: Beau Lotto and Amy O’Toole at TEDGlobal 2012
Science

Science is play: Beau Lotto and Amy O’Toole at TEDGlobal 2012

Science and perception Beau Lotto starts with a game. He asks the audience, “Read what you see,” and he shows what looks like wo...

Jun 26, 2012
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