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Art that looks back at you: Golan Levin on TED.com

Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools — robotics, new software, cognitive research — to make artworks that surp...

Jul 30, 2009
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TEDxBoston celebrates "Revolutionary Ideas," from folding cars to shining eyes

TED blogger Matthew Trost stopped by TEDxBoston on Tuesday. Here, he shares his notes on the proceedings. Today’s automobile weighs 20...

Jul 29, 2009
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A kinder, gentler philosophy of success: Alain de Botton on TED.com

Fresh from last week’s TEDGlobal 2009: Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions...

Jul 28, 2009
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TEDsters trek to WOMAD

Immediately after TEDGlobal 2009, a group of TEDsters took off for WOMAD at Charlton Park — the three-day world music festival founded...

Jul 27, 2009
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Post-TEDGlobal: Roundups and reminiscences UPDATED

However you experienced TEDGlobal 2009 — live, on the web feed, or via Twitter and the TED Blog updates — this week is about rev...

Jul 27, 2009
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Thomas Dolby's notes on TEDGlobal music

On his lively blog, TED’s music director, Thomas Dolby, collects his thoughts on the music of this past week. From the post: As TED’s ...

Jul 26, 2009
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How to watch TEDGlobal in California

Bruce Johnson sends us the waking and sleeping schedule he set up in order to watch the four days of the TEDGlobal 2009 Associates feed &#82...

Jul 25, 2009
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Scenes from the Associates feed

Some 300 people watched the TEDGlobal 2009 Associates feed — including 100 of our founding volunteer translators, past TED Fellows and...

Jul 25, 2009
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Brother Paulus Terwitte at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 12

Brother Paulus Terwitte takes the stage and immediately confronts the two questions he says everyone always asks. The first is, “Are y...

Jul 24, 2009
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