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TED.com now available in HTML5, serving many mobile platforms, including iPhone, iPad

Since TED.com launched in 2006, we’ve always aimed to make TEDTalks work across a wide variety of platforms. Anywhere people watch vid...

Mar 31, 2010
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And now, the real news: Kirk Citron on TED.com

How many of today’s headlines will matter in 100 years? 1000? Kirk Citron‘s “Long News” project collects stories tha...

Mar 31, 2010
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Q&A

Behind the scenes of McMafia: Exclusive video Q&A with Misha Glenny

  In an incisive talk at TEDGlobal 2009 in Oxford, investigative journalist Misha Glenny (author of McMafia) described the global shado...

Mar 31, 2010
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Development

Teaching one child at a time: Shukla Bose on TED.com

Educating the poor is more than just a numbers game, says Shukla Bose. She tells the story of her groundbreaking Parikrma Humanity Foundatio...

Mar 30, 2010
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Live from TED

How to combat modern slavery: Kevin Bales on TED.com

In this moving yet pragmatic talk, Kevin Bales explains the business of modern slavery, a multibillion-dollar economy that underpins some of...

Mar 29, 2010
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New Best of the Web talk: Patsy Rodenburg

Patsy Rodenburg: Why I do theater Patsy Rodenburg says the world needs actors more than ever. In this intimate talk at Michael Howard Studio...

Mar 27, 2010
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Browse the complete Best of the Web collection

Now there’s an easy way to browse all of the videos in our Best of the Web collection — a “Best of the Web” theme on...

Mar 25, 2010
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Design

Alan Siegel's credit card agreement redesign

In his 2010 TEDTalk, Alan Siegel called for a simple, sensible redesign of legal paperwork — to make it intelligible to the rest of us...

Mar 25, 2010
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Design

Let’s simplify legal jargon: Alan Siegel on TED.com

Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They’re crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long. ...

Mar 24, 2010
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