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Bio-inspired body armor from a tough old fish

Via LiveScience.com: Researchers at MIT have found valuable insight into body armor by studying the African fish Polypterus senegalus. A liv...

Jul 27, 2008
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Browse an archive of science advice to Congress

Nonpartisan science advice in the US Congress? A newly opened online archive shows that it was possible — and stimulates a call to re-...

Jul 25, 2008
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Zulu wire art: Marisa Fick-Jordan on TED.com

In this short, image-packed talk, Marisa Fick-Jordan talks about how a village of traditional South African wire weavers built a worldwide m...

Jul 25, 2008
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Collecting stories: Jonathan Harris on TED.com

At the EG conference in December 2007, artist Jonathan Harris discusses his latest projects, which involve collecting stories: his own, stra...

Jul 24, 2008
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Ending malaria: We're not spending enough, or evenly enough

As Jacqueline Novogratz says in her 2005 TEDTalk: “You can’t talk about poverty today without talking about malaria bednets.&#82...

Jul 23, 2008
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Digging for humanity’s origins: Louise Leakey on TED.com

Louise Leakey asks, “Who are we?” The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutiona...

Jul 23, 2008
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Telling stories of our shared humanity: Chris Abani on TED.com

Chris Abani tells stories of people: People standing up to soldiers. People being compassionate. People being human and reclaiming their hum...

Jul 22, 2008
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What positive psychology can help you become: Martin Seligman on TED.com

Positive psychologist Martin Seligman talks about psychology — both as a developing field of study, and as it works one-on-one with ea...

Jul 21, 2008
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Four new books by TEDGLOBAL 2005 speakers

Four of the speakers that participated in the first TEDGLOBAL in Oxford (July 2005) have all published new books recently. Former Afghani mi...

Jul 21, 2008
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