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Lewis Pugh at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 4

Seven years ago, Lewis Pugh went to the Arctic for the first time, and since then he says he has seen it change “without description.&...

Jul 22, 2009
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Mathieu Lehanneur at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 4

Mathieu Lehanneur is a designer who is fascinated with science, and it shows. He explains that his fascination is quite unique in his field,...

Jul 22, 2009
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Volunteer translators ring in on Session 3 — Now in Turkish and Hungarian, with more to come!

Here’s Session 3’s batch so far of unedited running notes from our crack team of Open Translation Project translators, taken as ...

Jul 22, 2009
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Janine Benyus at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 4

This is Janine Benyus’ second appearance on a TED stage and for those who have seen her first talk, expectations are high. She is a sc...

Jul 22, 2009
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Cary Fowler at TEDGlobal 2009: Running Notes from Session 3

Cary Fowler is archiving biodiversity, and more specifically crop diversity. As this unassuming man begins his time on the TED stage it&#821...

Jul 22, 2009
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Twitter Snapshot: Lewis Pugh's Polar Plunge

Lewis Pugh, long-distance and cold-water swimmer, recounted his extraordinary feat of swimming across the North Pole in an effort to raise a...

Jul 22, 2009
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Rory Sutherland at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 3

Rory Sutherland describes himself as an ad man. It’s not a job most people associate with an elevated morality. He begins by joking wi...

Jul 22, 2009
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Carlos Ulloa at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 3

Carlos Ulloa, founder of Papervision3D, is also here to present a stunning demo. He brings to the stage interactive, three-dimensional world...

Jul 22, 2009
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Aza Raskin at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 3

Aza Raskin is the head of user experience for Mozilla Labs (the people who created Firefox), and today he’s giving us a demo of a whol...

Jul 22, 2009
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