Wisdom Blog

Articles, reflections, and teachings from our community.

Design

A sign of satisfaction from Stefan Sagmeister

While the world economy twists itself into a tangle, one of our favorite designers and TED speakers, Stefan Sagmeister, is spending more hum...

Oct 29, 2008
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TEDTalk from the vaults: Blog godmother Mena Trott on TED.com

A founding mother of the blog revolution, Movable Type’s Mena Trott talks about the early days of blogging, when she realized that giv...

Oct 29, 2008
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Climate geo-engineering tactics, ranked by cost, risk, awfulness

Last fall, scientist and provocateur David Keith offered one of the most conversation-provoking TEDTalks ever — calmly discussing idea...

Oct 28, 2008
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A 3-minute fairy tale of mixed emoticons: Rives on TED.com

Slam poet Rives (star of the Bravo special Ironic Iconic America) tells a typographical fairy tale that’s short and bittersweet. (Reco...

Oct 28, 2008
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Education

Dave Eggers in 4 minutes

Looking for a little inspiration — a shot of energy to get involved in making the world a better place? Check out this 4-minute versio...

Oct 27, 2008
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Culture

Why do societies collapse? Jared Diamond on TED.com

Why do societies fail? Taking lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond ...

Oct 27, 2008
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School lunches and how they got that way, on Newsday.com

Today’s Newsday offers an image-packed collection of stories on the school lunch as it is served and paid for in Long Island, New York...

Oct 26, 2008
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Johnny Lee on the power of video demos

In today’s New York Times, Johnny Lee talks about his clever Wii hacks — and how he shared them with the world via viral video. ...

Oct 26, 2008
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The moral outrage of line-jumping for U2 tickets

From the BPS Research Digest: Researchers Marie Helweg-Larsen and Barbara L. LoMonaco have been studying the moral code of people who line u...

Oct 24, 2008
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