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Odes to vice and consequences: Felix Dennis on TED.com

Media big shot Felix Dennis roars his fiery, funny, sometimes racy original poetry, revisiting haunting memories and hard-won battle scars f...

Jun 5, 2009
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TED Prize

James Nachtwey honored at the US Capitol tonight

TEDsters in the Washington, DC, area may wish to attend a congressional reception tonight honoring photographer James Nachtwey, on Thursday,...

Jun 4, 2009
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TED@State: Hans Rosling asks if your mindset corresponds with his dataset

Hans Rosling is a data rock star. Pulling health and social data from worldwide collections, he uses his brilliant bubble-making software, G...

Jun 3, 2009
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TED@State: Jacqueline Novogratz on patient capital in Pakistan

Jacqueline Novogratz founded and leads Acumen Fund, a nonprofit that takes a businesslike approach to improving the lives of the poor, by in...

Jun 3, 2009
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TED@State: Paul Collier on the steps to rescuing a failed state

Economist Paul Collier studies the political and economic problems of the very poorest countries: 50 societies, many in sub-Saharan Africa, ...

Jun 3, 2009
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Music

TED@State: Loving Zap Mama!

Zap Mama — a musical entity centered around the gorgeous voice of Marie Daulne — walked regally onstage, just three women and th...

Jun 3, 2009
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TED@State: Stewart Brand says, Squatters are building the urban world

We depend on Stewart Brand to take the long view — his most recent TEDTalk, in fact, is about the Clock of the Long Now, a timepiece t...

Jun 3, 2009
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TED@State: Clay Shirky on what the government needs to know about social media

Clay Shirky studies social networks, connections and subcultures that are using emerging technologies to connect. In Shirky’s prescien...

Jun 3, 2009
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TED goes to Washington: Today is TED@State

TED is in Washington, DC, today, helping to throw a first-of-its-kind conference: TED@State, bringing great ideas from TEDTalks to Washingto...

Jun 3, 2009
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