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A heavy education for New York City commuters

Many of us don’t know how to eat. (And it’s making us fat, sick and disconnected.) This poster and three more like it are turnin...

Oct 8, 2008
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The Web, the city and other self-healing systems: Steven Johnson on TED.com

Outside.in’s Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconne...

Oct 8, 2008
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What we can learn from past presidents: Doris Kearns Goodwin on TED.com

Looking at vast political trends through the lens of a single story, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from Ameri...

Oct 7, 2008
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Did antidepressants cause the mortgage crisis?

In today’s beta issue of Tina Brown’s new web newspaper, the Daily Beast, is this surprising and well-reported essay by Adam Han...

Oct 6, 2008
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Will videogames become better than life? David Perry on TED.com

Game designer David Perry says tomorrow’s videogames will be more than mere fun to the next generation of gamers. They’ll be lus...

Oct 6, 2008
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To stop XDR-TB, cure TB. To stop TB, cure poverty.

A powerful idea from the unveiling of James Nachtwey’s photos of the XDR-TB epidemic on Friday night in New York City: During the Q&#0...

Oct 6, 2008
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Trouble hitting SIGN on XDRTB.org?

We’ve heard from some users (and thank you, those who wrote in!) that the SIGN button on the XDRTB.org home page is not working. If yo...

Oct 5, 2008
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See the XDRTB.org photographs in LA today and this week

All around Los Angeles this week, Phantom Galleries LA has arranged screenings of James Nachtwey’s photographs of the XDR-TB epidemic....

Oct 5, 2008
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James Nachtwey's wish and video in Portuguese

Marconi Pereira, who blogs in Portuguese at BLOG OM — Orientação Mediúnica, has captioned James Nachtwey’s TEDTalk in Portuguese...

Oct 4, 2008
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