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Listen to creative people: Q&A with Rory Sutherland
Health

Listen to creative people: Q&A with Rory Sutherland

. Advertising impressario Rory Sutherland has given TEDTalks on the general life lessons to take from advertising, and the incredible import...

Dec 8, 2011
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Get happy: New TED Book on the mystery and magic of smiling
Q&A

Get happy: New TED Book on the mystery and magic of smiling

How can something as simple as a smile be so deceptively complex? That’s the mystery and magic explored in Smile: The Astonishing Powe...

Dec 8, 2011
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TED Prize 2012 goes to … The City 2.0
TEDTalks

TED Prize 2012 goes to … The City 2.0

For the first time in the history of the TED Prize, it is being awarded not to an individual, but to an idea. It is an idea upon which our p...

Dec 6, 2011
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Technology

Massive-scale online collaboration: Luis von Ahn on TED.com

After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by m...

Dec 6, 2011
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Science

Don’t regret regret: Kathryn Schulz on TED.com

We’re taught to try to live life without regret. But why? Using her own tattoo as an example, Kathryn Schulz makes a powerful and movi...

Dec 2, 2011
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TED Book maps a new age of creativity and invention: “Launching the Innovation Renaissance”
Q&A

TED Book maps a new age of creativity and invention: “Launching the Innovation Renaissance”

Build a better mousetrap, the adage goes, and the world will beat a path to your door. That may sound good if you’re into killing small rode...

Dec 1, 2011
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TEDTalks

18 ideas that will shape 2012: Counting down TEDTalks on Huffington Post

Today, TED and The Huffington Post are launching a year-end collaboration around 18 groundbreaking ideas that premiered on TED.com in 2011 a...

Dec 1, 2011
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Health

Building the musical muscle: Charles Limb on TED.com

Charles Limb performs cochlear implantation, a surgery that treats hearing loss and can restore the ability to hear speech. But as a musicia...

Dec 1, 2011
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Today: Watch TEDxWomen with your community
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Today: Watch TEDxWomen with your community

At Thursday’s TEDxWomen, a wide range of amazing women, and a few good men, will speak onstage in New York and Los Angeles. And you can take...

Nov 30, 2011
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