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Twitter presents: great taglines for Eli Pariser’s talk

[ted id=1091] Eli Pariser’s TEDTalk “Beware online ‘filter bubbles’” is surprising, funny and a little bit sca...

May 4, 2011
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TED Fellows

Grow your own clothes: Suzanne Lee on TED.com

Designer Suzanne Lee shares her experiments in growing a kombucha-based material that can be used like fabric or vegetable leather to make c...

May 4, 2011
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Global Issues

A powerful new ad for “It Gets Better”

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7skPnJOZYdA&w=528&h=325&rel=0] The latest commercial for Google Chrome premiered tonight...

May 3, 2011
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Design

Architecture that senses and responds: Carlo Ratti on TED.com

With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT’s Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data set...

May 3, 2011
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Live from TEDWomen

9/11 healing: The mothers who found forgiveness, friendship. Now on TED.com

Phyllis Rodriguez and Aicha el-Wafi have a powerful friendship born of unthinkable loss. Rodriguez’ son was killed in the World Trade ...

May 2, 2011
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Culture

Beware online “filter bubbles”: Eli Pariser on TED.com

As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there’s a dangerous unint...

May 2, 2011
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TEDTalks

Watch TEDTalks from some of Time’s 100 most influential people of 2011

[ted id=1086] What do 13% of the people on the 2011 Time 100 list have in common? You can watch their TEDTalk online. Explore the full Time ...

May 1, 2011
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TED Fellows

Fellows Friday with Gerry Douglas

Through his organization, Baobab Health, Gerry Douglas has implemented a top-of-the-line electronic medical records system in Malawi. Many h...

Apr 29, 2011
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TEDx

TEDTaxi: A new idea-spreading device from TEDxBuenosAires

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzmlUNTblvo&w=528&h=325&rel=0] Brilliant video from TEDxBuenosAires: How can we connect ...

Apr 28, 2011
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