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TED2011 Report – Session 10: Beauty, Imagination, Enchantment

Béatrice Coron is a paper cutter: “I visualize my story … and as my image is already inside the paper, I just have to remove wha...

Mar 4, 2011
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TED2011 Report – Session 9: Threads of Discovery

Janet Echelman reshapes urban airspace with monumental, fluidly moving sculpture that responds to environmental forces. Daniel Tammet i...

Mar 4, 2011
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TEDActive 2011: Day three

A video roundup of the third day of TEDActive 2011: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVGcr4DWhlg&w=525&h=325%5D

Mar 4, 2011
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TED2011 Report – Session 8: Invention and Consequence

Edward Tenner, historian of technology and culture, shares the intrigue of unintended consequences: “I didn’t always love uninte...

Mar 3, 2011
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TED2011 Report – Session 7: Radical Collaboration

JR made his inspired TED wish: I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating a global art project. And together we’ll ...

Mar 3, 2011
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TED Prize

Use art to turn the world inside out: Watch JR’s TED Prize wish on TED.com

Posted from TED2011, happening now in California: JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face...

Mar 3, 2011
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TED2011 Report – Session 6: Knowledge Revolution

In an experimental Session 6, Bill Gates hosted and guest-curated the speaker lineup. David Christian charts our course from the Big Bang to...

Mar 3, 2011
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TED2011 Report – Session 5: Worlds Imagined

Julie Taymor took us on a journey, from Indonesia, where she experienced a seminal moment in her life as a young artist, and through her lif...

Mar 3, 2011
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3 videos: Building the “Nucleotide” balloon sculpture at TED2011

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/20618607 w=525&h=294] From Romy Owens’ Vimeo channel: Jason Hackenwerth, Leah Blair and a few TED folk all...

Mar 3, 2011
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