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Jules: A robot that mimics faces

Via 37signals: Video of Jules, the robot who can make faces. Read more about Jules in the Daily Mail — or just watch:

Nov 13, 2008
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Art

Tidying up art: Ursus Wehrli on TED.com

Artist and comedian Ursus Wehrli shares his vision for a cleaner, more organized, tidier form of art — by deconstructing the paintings...

Nov 13, 2008
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Google Flu Trends uses web search to track real flu

From Google.org (headed by 2006 TED Prize winner Larry Brilliant) comes this neat data display: Google Flu Trends. The project came about af...

Nov 12, 2008
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The story of the Mars Rovers: Charles Elachi on TED.com

At Serious Play 2008, Charles Elachi shares stories from NASA’s legendary Jet Propulsion Lab — including tales and video from th...

Nov 12, 2008
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Language

Help translate the Charter for Compassion video

Whatever else we believe in, most of us believe in the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. When Karen Armstrong ...

Nov 12, 2008
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Shaking hands with the devil: Samantha Power on TED.com

Political scientist Samantha Power tells the story of a complicated hero, Sergio Vieira de Mello. This UN diplomat walked a thin moral line,...

Nov 11, 2008
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Science

How science is like democracy: Lee Smolin on TED.com

Physicist Lee Smolin talks about how the scientific community works: as he puts it, “we fight and argue as hard as we can,” but ...

Nov 10, 2008
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Oceans

New underwater amazements from the Census of Marine Life

Via LiveScience, this report: An astounding batch of new deep-sea discoveries, from strange shark behavior to gigantic bacteria, was announc...

Nov 10, 2008
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Ushahidi launches in the Congo

Ushahidi is a crowdsourcing tool that lets ordinary people report the news via txt, email and the web — a crucial thing in fast-develo...

Nov 7, 2008
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