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New-school motivational posters

Inspired by today’s archive talk from Milton Glaser, we share these fresh motivational posters from ReadyMade. Taking a cue from the p...

Feb 11, 2009
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Design

How great design makes ideas new: Milton Glaser on TED.com

While we are preparing more TED2009 talks for release online, here’s a gem from our archives. At TED1998, the legendary graphic design...

Feb 11, 2009
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How I caught the mosquito
Photography

How I caught the mosquito

We had two great editorial photographers at TED2009 in Long Beach — the brilliant Asa Mathat and James Duncan Davidson. As luck would ...

Feb 10, 2009
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Art

MoMA Atlantic Pacific: Art on rails

New York’s Museum of Modern Art takes over a subway station this month, papering Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street stop ...

Feb 10, 2009
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Oceans

A cure for post-TED blahs: Google Ocean demo

Your humble TED bloggers were deep into TED2009 prep when this demo dropped last week — so let’s catch up. Watch Sylvia Earle, a...

Feb 9, 2009
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Language

Unveiling: TED's plans for subtitles, transcripts, translations

Last week at TED2009, we unveiled the next phase of TED.com, which will bring TEDTalks beyond the English-speaking world. The new features &...

Feb 9, 2009
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His TEDTalk on the base system was better

(From xkcd)

Feb 9, 2009
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A different way to think about creative genius: Elizabeth Gilbert on TED.com

Fresh from TED2009, Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea...

Feb 9, 2009
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Thanks to our TED2009 live bloggers

Thanks to the amazing Ethan Zuckerman (right) and Erik Hersman (left) for their coverage this week, live from Blogger’s Alley at TED20...

Feb 7, 2009
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