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What will change everything? Edge.org's annual question

Edge.org’s annual question for 2009 is: “What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?&#822...

Jan 6, 2009
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Design

My life in design (from the tofu factory to RISD): John Maeda on TED.com

At Serious Play 2008, John Maeda talks about his path from a Seattle tofu factory to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he became pres...

Jan 6, 2009
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Science

The science of funding science

Today’s TEDTalk, from Kary Mullis, touches on a powerful topic — how modern science is funded, and how the availability of money...

Jan 5, 2009
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Science

Celebrating the scientific experiment: Kary Mullis on TED.com

Nobel-winning biochemist Kary Mullis talks about the basis of modern science: the experiment. Sharing tales from the 17th century and from h...

Jan 5, 2009
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TEDTalks' great embed swap

If you’ve embedded a TEDTalk in the past on your own site or blog, today you may have noticed a new message in the embed player window...

Jan 2, 2009
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TEDTalks holiday comment roundup

During this holiday break, the conversation on TED.com has been as lively as ever. We talked about our resolutions: Cynthia Ryan writes: my ...

Jan 2, 2009
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Education

28 hours in Colombia with One Laptop per Child

28 hours in Colombia with One Laptop per Child

Dec 24, 2008
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Who is General Tso and why are we eating his chicken? Jennifer 8. Lee on TED.com

At the 2008 Taste3 conference, New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee talks about her hunt for the origins of familiar Chinese-American dis...

Dec 24, 2008
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TED goes to Colombia with Nicholas Negroponte

Earlier this month, Nicholas Negroponte flew to Colombia, along with a team from One Laptop per Child, to deliver bright-green XO laptops to...

Dec 22, 2008
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