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Should Science Have a Soul? TEDTalks Playlist

Today’s playlist is about the relationship between science and morality. These speakers question whether or not they can and should live in ...

Sep 25, 2010
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TED Prize

Google awards $2 million to the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58mNnPeeTGs&feature=player_embedded] From the TED Prize blog: Congratulations to the African Ins...

Sep 24, 2010
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Live from TEDGlobal

Sound health in 8 steps: Julian Treasure on TED.com

Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health — even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step pla...

Sep 24, 2010
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Oceans

TIME magazine on Sylvia Earle, Mission Blue and the quest to save the ocean

TIME magazine’s Bryan Walsh has posted a beautiful, in-depth story about Sylvia Earle and Mission Blue. Traveling from the Galapagos t...

Sep 23, 2010
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Technology

The shape-shifting future of the mobile phone: Fabian Hemmert on TED.com

At TEDxBerlin, Fabian Hemmert demos one future of the mobile phone — a shape-shifting and weight-shifting handset that “displays...

Sep 23, 2010
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Live from TEDGlobal

Why I am an HIV/AIDS activist: Annie Lennox on TED.com

For the last eight years, pop singer Annie Lennox has devoted the majority of her time to her SING campaign, raising awareness and money to ...

Sep 22, 2010
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Live from TEDGlobal

Mothers helping mothers fight HIV: Mitchell Besser on TED.com

In sub-Saharan Africa, HIV infections are more prevalent and doctors scarcer than anywhere else in the world. With a lack of medical profess...

Sep 22, 2010
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Live from TEDGlobal

Where good ideas come from: Steven Johnson on TED.com

People often credit their ideas to individual “Eureka!” moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. H...

Sep 21, 2010
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Q&A

Jacqueline Novogratz on the Pakistan floods and our shared humanity

Founder of Acumen Fund Jacqueline Novogratz recently visited Pakistan (along with TED Curator Chris Anderson) to offer what help she could a...

Sep 20, 2010
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