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Twitter Snapshot: Josh Silver’s global vision for vision

Josh Silver shared his ambition to supply the billion people worldwide in need of glasses with his innovative, low-cost adjustable lenses by...

Jul 21, 2009
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Josh Silver at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 2

Josh Silver makes affordable, adjustable eyeglasses with a dream to solve the vision problems of the world. He begins by asking the audience...

Jul 21, 2009
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Twitter Snapshot: Andrea Ghez: Spying on supermassive black holes

Astronomer and astrophysicist Andrea Ghez captivated the TEDGlobal 2009 crowd with an up-close look at the style and substance of the peculi...

Jul 21, 2009
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Willard Wigan at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 2

Willard Wigan is a microsculptor, creating iconic sculptures small enough to fit on the head of a pin or in the eye of a needle. This mornin...

Jul 21, 2009
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TED volunteer translators’ notes on Session 1 — Now in Greek, Turkish, Albanian, Hebrew, German, Hungarian, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish!

A team of volunteer translators who are participating in TED’s Open Translation Project have stepped up to help bring TEDGlobal 2009 T...

Jul 21, 2009
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Twitter Snapshot: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown takes the TED stage by surprise

The much-buzzed-about surprise speaker at the first session of TEDGlobal 2009 was finally revealed to be British Prime Minister Gordon Brown...

Jul 21, 2009
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Andrea Ghez at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 2

Andrea Ghez is an astronomer and a specialist in black holes. She begins her talk today by asking: How do you observe something you can’t se...

Jul 21, 2009
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Stephen Fry at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 1

From TEDGlobal (a group Twitter feed for TED staffers): Stephen Fry is wearing a tie because he heard it was a tradition at #TED not to. Tha...

Jul 21, 2009
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Alain de Botton and Stefan Sagmeister at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 1

It’s time for TED! Alain de Botton begins with a meditation on snobbery. What is a snob? He defines it: “Someone who uses a smal...

Jul 21, 2009
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