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TED Salon in London: Leadership, design and the criminal underworld

Fields Wicker-Miurin, co-founder of Leaders’ Quest in London, trains business leaders by connecting them to other leaders. Yes, it sou...

Sep 24, 2009
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Music

Watch Gustavo Dudamel live on the Web Oct. 3

From the TED Prize blog: On Oct. 3, Gustavo Dudamel, protege of TED Prize winner Maestro José Abreu and new Music Director of the Los Angele...

Sep 24, 2009
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Invention

How my windmill changed my life: Exclusive interview with William Kamkwamba

The TED Blog met with William Kamkwamba shortly after the publication of his autobiography, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. Here, he answers...

Sep 23, 2009
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TED Fellows deadline approaches

There are only a few days left to apply to be one of 25 TED Fellows who will attend TED2010 in Long Beach, California, February 9-13. All ap...

Sep 23, 2009
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Invention

How I harnessed the wind: William Kamkwamba on TED.com

At age 14, in poverty and famine, a Malawian boy built a windmill to power his family’s home. Now at 22, William Kamkwamba, who speaks...

Sep 23, 2009
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Does the Net aid dictatorships?: Evgeny Morozov on TED.com

TED Fellow and journalist Evgeny Morozov punctures what he calls “iPod liberalism” — the assumption that tech innovation a...

Sep 22, 2009
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TEDGlobal in 100 pages

Our partners at frogdesign have published today the latest edition of their magazine design mind, and it’s devoted to TEDGlobal 2009, ...

Sep 21, 2009
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The Web as random acts of kindness: Jonathan Zittrain on TED.com

Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to difffer. The Internet, he suggests, is made up o...

Sep 21, 2009
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Renegade lunch lady Ann Cooper's new school-lunch website

School-lunch chef Ann Cooper (watch her talk from EG’07) has been touring the US this summer, asking locals to change their approach t...

Sep 20, 2009
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