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Reorienting the war formerly known as “on Terror”

Parag Khanna, Director of the Global Governance Initiative and Senior Research Fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America Fo...

Jul 21, 2009
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Live from TEDGlobal

Volunteer translators' notes on Session 2 — now in Hungarian, Albanian, Greek, Turkish, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and German!

Here’s Session 2’s batch of unedited running notes from our crack team of Open Translation Project translators, taken as they wa...

Jul 21, 2009
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Twitter Snapshot: Mark Johnson on one world and one song

Mark Johnson delivered a poignant conclusion to the first day of TEDGlobal, as he screened two videos from Playing for Change, his project t...

Jul 21, 2009
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Mark Johnson at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 2

Mark Johnson began the now iconic Playing for Change movement. Before his talk, the YouTube video that started it all jumps on to the screen...

Jul 21, 2009
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Twitter Snapshot: Steve Truglia wants to jump from space

Stuntman Steve Truglia plans to jump to earth from the edge of space. His talk at TEDGlobal 2009 included the facts that he’ll be fall...

Jul 21, 2009
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Steve Truglia at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 2

Before we even see Steve Truglia on stage, we’re treated to an action-packed video of his stunts for movie and television, as well as ...

Jul 21, 2009
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Twitter Snapshot: James Geary and his amazing aphorisms

Aphorist James Geary took to the TED Global stage in vibrant fashion, reciting a large portion of his talk while juggling. In his talk, he l...

Jul 21, 2009
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James Geary at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 2

James Geary is an aphorist. He loves the short, witty sayings we know as aphorisms. As he takes the TEDGlobal stage, he gives us a couple of...

Jul 21, 2009
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Twitter Snapshot: Willard Wigan tours the magical world of his microscopic sculpture

Twitters were entranced and inspired by the story of how TEDGlobal 2009 speaker Willard Wigan (follow him on Twitter) came to create sculptu...

Jul 21, 2009
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