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Articles, reflections, and teachings from our community.

Global Issues

How cyberattacks threaten real-world peace: Guy-Philippe Goldstein on TED.com

More and more, nations are waging attacks with cyber weapons — silent strikes on another country’s computer systems that leave b...

Oct 19, 2011
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Development

Video: Meet TEDx in a Box version 2.0

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/30656539 w=525&h=294] TEDx in a Box is a toolkit with all the gear needed to host a TEDx event in the developing...

Oct 18, 2011
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TEDTalks

Rethinking ‘normal’ in technology: Q&A with Justin Hall-Tipping

On stage at TED Global 2011 Justin Hall-Tipping set forth a bold agenda for funding innovation – one that makes room for radical chang...

Oct 18, 2011
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Business

Freeing energy from the grid: Justin Hall-Tipping on TED.com

What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials...

Oct 18, 2011
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TED introduces 10 new podcasts on iTunes
News

TED introduces 10 new podcasts on iTunes

If we could recommend one superb TEDTalk about music a week, what would it be? What about business? Technology? Here at TED.com we are alway...

Oct 18, 2011
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Culture

Learning from a barefoot movement: Bunker Roy on TED.com

In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men — many of them illiterate — to become solar engineers, ...

Oct 17, 2011
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Culture

Archive gem: Dave Meslin on redefining apathy

Today’s gem from the TEDTalks archives: Local politics — schools, zoning, council elections — hit us where we live. So why...

Oct 15, 2011
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TEDTalks

Speaker lineup for TEDYouth (and application deadline extended)

Just announced: TEDYouth’s speaker lineup (so far) includes a MythBuster, an oceanographer turned viral video star, the “Science...

Oct 14, 2011
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Health

TED Books: Now on the Nook

Reading TED Books just became even easier. All current titles are now available on Barnes and Noble’s e-reader, the Nook. Future title...

Oct 14, 2011
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