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Celebrating the camel: Keith Bellows on TED.com

Keith Bellows gleefully (and profanely) outlines the engineering marvels of the camel, a vital creature he calls “the SUV of the deser...

Sep 15, 2008
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Amy Tan's opera "The Bonesetter's Daughter" premieres in San Francisco

When author Amy Tan spoke at TED2008 this spring, she was putting the final touches on a brand-new project: the libretto for an opera based ...

Sep 15, 2008
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Watch TEDTalks on the Rock the Vote Road Trip '08 bus

The Rock the Vote bus kicks off Road Trip ’08 today in Nashville, Tennessee — launching a month-long, nonpartisan road trip to r...

Sep 13, 2008
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"You’re Gonna Miss Me": Carmen Agra Deedy on TED.com

Storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy spins a funny, wise and loving tale of parents and kids, starring her Cuban mother. Settle in and enjoy the ri...

Sep 12, 2008
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A ribbon of life in the deep ocean: David Gallo on TED.com

With vibrant video clips captured by submarines, David Gallo takes us to some of Earth’s darkest, most violent, toxic and beautiful ha...

Sep 11, 2008
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Building a free digital library for the world: Brewster Kahle on TED.com

Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library — every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web ...

Sep 10, 2008
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Hawking makes $100 bet that the LHC won't find Higgs

Dr. Stephen Hawking has made a $100 bet that the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, which throws its first beam tomorrow, will not find the elus...

Sep 9, 2008
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How to survive a nuclear attack: Dr. Irwin Redlener on TED.com

The face of nuclear terror has changed since the Cold War, but disaster-medicine expert Dr. Irwin Redlener reminds us that the threat of nuc...

Sep 9, 2008
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Helping humans and animals coexist: Jane Goodall on TED.com

The legendary chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall talks about her community projects for humans (such as TACARE), which help the struggling p...

Sep 8, 2008
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