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A sweet deal for old computers

Image source: Laptop.org (OLPC) An article in MIT’s Technology Review reports on a surprising new use for One Laptop Per Child’s...

Jun 24, 2009
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New rules for rebuilding a broken nation: Paul Collier on TED.com

Long conflict can wreck a country, leaving behind poverty and chaos. But what’s the right way to help war-torn countries rebuild? At T...

Jun 24, 2009
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Live from TED

A note on today's talk posting [Updated 6/24]

Update, June 24: After digging further into the issues surrounding this talk, we’ve decided to withdraw it altogether. It wowed, but a...

Jun 23, 2009
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Facebook asked Philip Zimbardo absolutely anything — and he answered

Today, eminent psychologist and TEDTalks star Philip Zimbardo (see his talks on evil and the paradox of time) agreed to answer TED’s F...

Jun 22, 2009
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Philip Zimbardo prescribes a healthy take on time

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, prese...

Jun 22, 2009
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Music

Electrifying organ performance: Qi Zhang on TED.com

Organ virtuoso Qi Zhang plays her electric rendering of “Ridiculous Fellows” from Prokofiev’s “The Love for Three Or...

Jun 19, 2009
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TED Prize

Designing the classroom of the future on the Open Architecture Network

Via TEDPrize.org: 2006 TED Prize winner Cameron Sinclair recently wrote to update us on the amazing success of this year’s Open Archit...

Jun 18, 2009
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Catherine Mohr: Surgery’s past, present and robotic future

Surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newes...

Jun 18, 2009
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Q&A

Q&A with Diane Benscoter: Joining, leaving and ultimately defeating the cult

Today, we posted Diane Benscoter’s revealing talk on being a Moonie and how cult thought can lead people to do the unthinkable. It&#82...

Jun 17, 2009
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