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Browse hundreds of great pictures from TED2011 and TEDActive

This year at Long Beach, our two official photographers, Robert Leslie and James Duncan Davidson, shot something like 40,000 photos; photogr...

Mar 7, 2011
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What is TED wondering? A short film

At TED2011 in Long Beach, Grey asked people one simple question: “What are you wondering?” Here’s the result …

Mar 7, 2011
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Video: Epic rides in the first Google Self-Driving Car, at TED2011
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Video: Epic rides in the first Google Self-Driving Car, at TED2011

Above, Chris Fralic and friends take a tire-squealing ride in the Google self-driving car in spring 2011. Warning, profanity and lots of it....

Mar 5, 2011
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Watch the TEDActive 2011 music video

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/20660248 w=525&h=294] Aboard the Lennon Bus, a crew of TEDActive musicians created this lovely song — ...

Mar 5, 2011
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TED2011 Report – Session 12: Only If. If Only.

Kathryn Schulz, author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error: “We need to be able to look at the vastness and complexity o...

Mar 4, 2011
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TED2011 Report – Session 11: The Echo of Time

Jack Horner describes his work to recreate a living dinosaur from the genes of an unlikely ancestor: What we’re trying to do is take our chi...

Mar 4, 2011
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Report from TED University Session 3

At the final session of TED University, we learned how to draw mindmaps, predicted a future in which buildings are self-assembling, and hear...

Mar 4, 2011
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Inside the Egyptian revolution: Wael Ghonim on TED.com

Shown onstage at TED2011: Wael Ghonim is the Google executive who helped jumpstart Egypt’s democratic revolution — with a Facebo...

Mar 4, 2011
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How state budgets are breaking US schools: Bill Gates on TED.com

America’s school systems are funded by the 50 states. In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounti...

Mar 4, 2011
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