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Forget grades. Let’s have fun with math: Shimon Schocken at TEDGlobal 2012
Education

Forget grades. Let’s have fun with math: Shimon Schocken at TEDGlobal 2012

Shimon Schocken is a professor and founding dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at IDC Herzliya in Tel Aviv. He starts out with...

Jun 26, 2012
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Massive online education: Daphne Koller at TEDGlobal 2012
Education

Massive online education: Daphne Koller at TEDGlobal 2012

Schools out of reach Daphne Koller is a third-generation PhD, and in her own words, she is certainly one of the lucky people. Most people, o...

Jun 26, 2012
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Building Blocks: Session title animation for TEDGlobal 2012 Session 3
Art

Building Blocks: Session title animation for TEDGlobal 2012 Session 3

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai5eSpiQHU4&w=560&h=315%5D Mission statement: Ideas are born in different shapes, colors a...

Jun 26, 2012
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Building Blocks: Session 3 at TEDGlobal2012
News

Building Blocks: Session 3 at TEDGlobal2012

Click to watch the session-opening animation It’s a truism that everything we know or think is the result of our past and our previous...

Jun 26, 2012
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Crowdsourcing the New Millennium Development Goals: Jamie Drummond at TEDGlobal2012
Global Issues

Crowdsourcing the New Millennium Development Goals: Jamie Drummond at TEDGlobal2012

Photo: Ryan Lash Remember Y2K? Jamie Drummond starts by taking us back to the most anticipated year in human history: 2000. “Remember ...

Jun 26, 2012
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Video birds playing the piano: Kathy Hinde at TEDGlobal 2012
Entertainment

Video birds playing the piano: Kathy Hinde at TEDGlobal 2012

It’s really difficult to describe Kathy Hinde‘s work in any kind of elegant or simple way. Saying that she mixes live video and ...

Jun 26, 2012
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Making space within and without: Antony Gormley at TEDGlobal2012
Art

Making space within and without: Antony Gormley at TEDGlobal2012

Born in London in 1950, Antony Gormley is one of Britain’s most treasured artists. Winner of the Turner Prize, the South Bank Prize, t...

Jun 26, 2012
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‘To be equipped for the future, you need to know smart materials’: Catarina Mota at TEDGlobal 2012
Design

‘To be equipped for the future, you need to know smart materials’: Catarina Mota at TEDGlobal 2012

Catarina Mota has many friends. One of her friend’s fathers, when her friend was a kid, built a vehicle out of a bicycle and washing m...

Jun 26, 2012
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Augmented reality with Auras: Matt Mills and Tamara Roukaerts at TEDGlobal 2012
Technology

Augmented reality with Auras: Matt Mills and Tamara Roukaerts at TEDGlobal 2012

Photo: James Duncan Davidson “Wouldn’t it be amazing if our phones could see the world the way we do?” That’s the ba...

Jun 26, 2012
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