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Why TED Books? A Q&A with TED’s curator, Chris Anderson

On today’s launch of the TED Books imprint, TED’s Chris Anderson talks with the TED Blog about the big idea behind it — pu...

Jan 26, 2011
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Introducing TED Books

Today, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of TED Books, an imprint of short nonfiction works designed for digital distribution. Sho...

Jan 26, 2011
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Live from TEDWomen

Drawing upon humor for change: Liza Donnelly on TED.com

New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly shares a portfolio of her wise and funny cartoons about modern life — and talks about how humor ca...

Jan 26, 2011
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Live from TEDWomen

“I couldn’t turn away”: Part 2 of our Q&A with Deborah Rhodes

In the second part of our conversation with Dr. Deborah Rhodes (read Part One), we talk about the situation in the Democratic Republic of Co...

Jan 22, 2011
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Live from TED

Games that launch companies, games that heal: Q&A with Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal is a game designer with an apparently simple idea: some of the billions of hours we spend playing games can be used to solve ...

Jan 21, 2011
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Live from TEDWomen

Silicon-based comedy: Heather Knight on TED.com

In this first-of-its-kind demo, Heather Knight introduces Data, a robotic stand-up comedian that does much more than rattle off one-liners &...

Jan 21, 2011
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Q&A

Fellows Friday with Ben Gulak

At age 17, Ben Gulak invented an electric motorcycle that was named “Invention of the Year” by Popular Science. He’s now working on a snowmo...

Jan 21, 2011
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TEDx

Visualizing the medical data explosion: Anders Ynnerman on TED.com

Today medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, but how do doctors parse this in...

Jan 20, 2011
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TEDx

An idea worth doing: TEDxChange @ TEDxKibera

Melinda Gates blogs about a new and interesting collaboration: After TEDxChange last fall in New York, we were interested in finding ways th...

Jan 19, 2011
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