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Twitter Snapshot: Brother Paulus Terwitte asks, "Where are you?"

A Capuchin friar and a household name in Germany, Brother Paulus Terwitte looks at the possibility of a simple, contemplative spiritual life...

Jul 24, 2009
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Daniel Birnbaum at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 12

Daniel Birnbaum is a curator and is especially known for curating the Venice Biennale. He begins by answering the question, “What does...

Jul 24, 2009
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Itay Talgam at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 12

Itay Talgam begins by inviting us to imagine that we are sharing his magical moments of conducting. You get on the stage, the orchestra is w...

Jul 24, 2009
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Music

Twitter Snapshot: Itay Talgam conducts better leadership

Conductor-turned-business motivator Itay Talgam showed a collection of enlightening and amusing clips of famous conductors doing what it rea...

Jul 24, 2009
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Dan Pink at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 12

Dan Pink, once a speechwriter for Al Gore, is now a career analyst beginning a revolution in the workplaces of the world. This morning at TE...

Jul 24, 2009
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Business

Twitter Snapshot: Dan Pink contests carrots and sticks

Dan Pink, former speechwriter for Al Gore, is now hoping to spark a right-brain revolution in business and management. The spark clearly cau...

Jul 24, 2009
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Twitter Snapshot: Magnus Larsson has a wall to build

Magnus Larsson is an architect with a blueprint to build a wall across Africa. A wall made with bacillus pasteurii (microorganisms that crea...

Jul 24, 2009
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Twitter Snapshot: Bjarke Ingels thinks big

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, principal of BIG charmed the crowd at TED Global 2009 with his talk on his optimistic and innovative project...

Jul 24, 2009
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Twitter Snapshot: Carolyn Steel asks how to feed a city

Carolyn Steel is a food urbanist, meaning she can explain what we all take for granted- our food and how it gets to us. In her talk today at...

Jul 24, 2009
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