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Live from TEDGlobal

The politics of fiction: Elif Shafak on TED.com

Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others ...

Jul 16, 2010
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Scenes from the first global TEDxLive event

The TEDx blog has a charming report on the TEDxLive events happening around the world during TEDGlobal: For this year’s TEDGlobal, TEDx orga...

Jul 16, 2010
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Report from TEDGlobal Session 12: Waging Peace

Founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange talks to Chris Anderson about the controversial nature of his website’s practice of finding and r...

Jul 16, 2010
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Report from TEDGlobal Session 11: The Tiny Blue Dot

Johan Rockstroem calls for transformative change in the way we treat the environment. He says we’re putting a quadruple squeeze on the...

Jul 16, 2010
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TEDGlobal mashup: "Sweet Hurdy Gurdy Dreams"

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyoJ-JItpVY&hl=en_US&fs=1%5D From Sylvain Zimmer’s liveblog of TEDGlobal … a ...

Jul 16, 2010
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Download: Hurdy-gurdy from Caroline Phillips and Bidaia

Earlier this week, Californian-born, French-resident entrepreneur and musician Caroline Phillips told the TED University participants at TED...

Jul 16, 2010
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TEDGlobal snapshot: Taping "The Forum" for BBC World Service

After Session 10 wrapped, TEDGlobal hosted a taping of the BBC World Service program “The Forum,” a weekly radio show about that...

Jul 16, 2010
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Report from TEDGlobal Session 10: Who's the Teacher?

Sugata Mitra shares his amazing experiences with self-organized, self-directed learning by kids. He drops off a computer and a task, to come...

Jul 15, 2010
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Group photo: TED Translators, TEDx hosts

More than 3,000 people have volunteered to translate TEDTalks into (at last count) 77 languages. Above are some of those dedicated volunteer...

Jul 15, 2010
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