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A library of human imagination: Jay Walker on TED.com

Jay Walker, curator of the Library of Human Imagination, conducts a surprising show-and-tell session highlighting a few of the intriguing ar...

Dec 15, 2008
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Can science help solve the economic crisis?

The latest edition of Edge.org is a fascinating discussion on the role scientists might play in difficult financial times. The issue feature...

Dec 14, 2008
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Frugal living through holes

Perforations, firstly, make stamps easy to tear off. Architects and engineers employ them to create lighter and more breathable structures. ...

Dec 12, 2008
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Friday's hidden gem: Peter Gabriel talks about WITNESS

Each Friday recently, we’ve been featuring a TEDTalk that was posted early on in the TED.com experiment. Today’s hidden gem is f...

Dec 12, 2008
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Get a taste of TED@PalmSprings in this video preview

TED@PalmSprings is a new way to experience TED. Wondering what it will be like? Watch this preview of the lively, loungey, interactive gathe...

Dec 10, 2008
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Explain Science Commons in 2 minutes? Yes we can.

Via boingboing: Director Jesse Dylan made the beautiful video for Karen Armstrong’s Charter for Compassion (as well as a little someth...

Dec 8, 2008
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Canada's opinion on the 10 ways the world could end

This week, the great CBC radio show Quirks & Quarks convened nine Canadian scientists and one science fiction writer to speculate on 10...

Dec 8, 2008
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Playing mountain music: David Holt on TED.com

Folk musician and storyteller David Holt plays the banjo and shares photographs and old wisdom from the Appalachian Mountains. He also demon...

Dec 8, 2008
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Introducing the Orb: Nick Sears on TED.com

Inventor Nick Sears demos the first generation of the Orb, a rotating persistence-of-vision display that creates glowing 3D images. A short,...

Dec 5, 2008
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