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From robot twins to buggy brains: TEDYou Session 2
News

From robot twins to buggy brains: TEDYou Session 2

Laurence Kemball-Cook on his Pavegen at TEDYou during TEDActive 2012, March 1, 2012. Photo: Michael Brands / TED TEDActive’s TEDYou Se...

Mar 1, 2012
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Technology

Robots that fly … and cooperate: Vijay Kumar on TED.com

Here’s the third talk from TED2012 (still going on). Yestrday, Vijay Kumar wowed the TED audience with his (and his team’s) flyi...

Mar 1, 2012
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How can TED Fellows help build The City 2.0? A roundtable
News

How can TED Fellows help build The City 2.0? A roundtable

Photo: James Duncan Davidson The TED Prize Wish, revealed today at TED2012, asks global citizens to help the world’s cities to become ...

Feb 29, 2012
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The City 2.0: Read (and watch) the TED Prize wish
Global Issues

The City 2.0: Read (and watch) the TED Prize wish

This powerful wish asks us all to build the city that the future needs. Visit theCity2.Org to join in. Here’s the full text of this in...

Feb 29, 2012
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Living for the city: Gospel for Teens and Mama Foundation for the Arts at TED2012
Entertainment

Living for the city: Gospel for Teens and Mama Foundation for the Arts at TED2012

Photos: James Duncan Davidson [tweet https://twitter.com/TEDNews/status/175057722868371456%5D Vy Higginsen introduces the Gospel for Teens s...

Feb 29, 2012
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Cities and the art of listening: Suja Lowenthal at TED2012
Global Issues

Cities and the art of listening: Suja Lowenthal at TED2012

Suja Lowenthal is the Vice Mayor of Long Beach, but she’s also involved in a major project on the other side of the world. She tells u...

Feb 29, 2012
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Four commandments for cities of the future: Eduardo Paes at TED2012
Global Issues

Four commandments for cities of the future: Eduardo Paes at TED2012

Eduardo Paes became the mayor of Rio de Janeiro in 2008. He shares his four commandments for ensuring that cities are a great place to live....

Feb 29, 2012
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How cities make us smarter: Ed Glaeser at TED2012
Global Issues

How cities make us smarter: Ed Glaeser at TED2012

Ed Glaeser is a economist at Harvard, and the author of Triumph of the City, and as his business casual look he wears a bow-tie with ice-cre...

Feb 29, 2012
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SETILive: 2012 Update on Jill Tarter’s TEDPrize wish
Science

SETILive: 2012 Update on Jill Tarter’s TEDPrize wish

Three years ago Jill Tarter wished that everyone would become citizen scientists, and help take part in the quest to find intelligent life e...

Feb 29, 2012
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