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Watch Rives' ad for European TV

Rives writes in to tells us: “A few months ago a researcher at a French ad company was scouring the web, looking for ‘real peopl...

Nov 4, 2008
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The crowd that knew too much?

Blogging for the Demos think tank, Samuel Jones comments on a new piece by James Surowiecki in this week’s New Yorker. In the article,...

Nov 4, 2008
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The day that social media became the news: James Surowiecki on TED.com

On this pivotal day, as Americans tweet, blog, IM, and update our Facebook status about the election, we take a look at the event that first...

Nov 4, 2008
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Oceans

Fly the seas in a submarine with wings: Graham Hawkes on TED.com

Inventor Graham Hawkes takes us aboard his graceful, winged submarines to the depths of Planet Ocean (a.k.a. “Earth”). It’...

Nov 3, 2008
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TED.com type is larger, darker, more readable

Over the weekend, we tweaked the typeface used on TED.com to make our Talk and Speaker pages more readable. It’s a small change, but w...

Nov 3, 2008
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Delightful, unused promo for Brian Cox's next BBC2 series

This one-minute promo video for Brian Cox’s upcoming BBC2 show about time made us smile: The show, “Horizon: What Time Is It?&#8...

Nov 2, 2008
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Business

The business of business is business

That was the proposition under scrutiny at today’s Economist-sponsored debate at Gotham Hall. One of several events this weekend repre...

Nov 2, 2008
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Art

Another look at the face of Leonardo da Vinci

Earlier this year at TED2008 in Monterey, California, the artist Siegfried Woldhek unveiled what he believes is the true face of Leonardo da...

Nov 2, 2008
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Where's the gorilla?

Several people wrote to TED this week asking about a clip that’s been making the rounds recently — starring a gorilla and a bunc...

Nov 1, 2008
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