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Lewis Pugh’s next cold-water swim: Everest

Lewis Pugh, the epic cold-water swimmer and climate-change activist, has announced his next swim: a kilometer-long lap across a glacial lake...

Sep 30, 2009
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Let’s revive the Golden Rule: Karen Armstrong on TED.com

Weeks from the Charter for Compassion launch, Karen Armstrong looks at religion’s role in the 21st century: Will its dogmas divide us?...

Sep 30, 2009
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Film

Short film contest: Deadline extended to Oct. 12

Enter your short film (30 sec to 3 mins) in our first-ever short film contest — with winners to be shown at the TEDIndia conference th...

Sep 29, 2009
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TED Fellows on CNN: Darius Weems and Logan Smalley

TED Fellows Darius Weems and Logan Smalley recently appeared on CNN to talk about their inspiring documentary adventure Darius goes West: Em...

Sep 29, 2009
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Design thinking about climate change: IDEO's new LivingClimateChange.com

Launching today, the design firm IDEO presents LivingClimateChange.com, a clearinghouse for design thinking about the environment. Watch Tim...

Sep 29, 2009
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Design

A call for "design thinking": Tim Brown on TED.com

Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects — even as pressing questions like clean w...

Sep 29, 2009
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Film

Enter your short film to be shown at TEDIndia

Attention filmmakers: Enter your short film (30 sec to 3 mins) in our first-ever short film contest — with winners to be shown at the ...

Sep 28, 2009
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Global Issues

Q&A with Parag Khanna: Redrawing the map for a safe, secure world

Last week, Parag Khanna sat with the TED Blog to discuss no less than the political future of the world we live in. He works in the expansiv...

Sep 28, 2009
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Global Issues

Mapping the future of countries: Parag Khanna on TED.com

Many people think the lines on the map no longer matter, but Parag Khanna says they do. Using maps of the past and present, he explains the ...

Sep 28, 2009
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