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Education

One Laptop per Child, two years on: Nicholas Negroponte on TED.com

Nicholas Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops ro...

Jun 26, 2008
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Music

Classical music with shining eyes: Benjamin Zander on TED.com

Conductor Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us realize our untapped love for it — and by exten...

Jun 25, 2008
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Branson and the climate crisis: What would Winston do?

British multi-entrepreneur and TEDster Richard Branson (watch his TEDtalk) may be in a pretty bad business when it comes to pollution &#8212...

Jun 25, 2008
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Your genes are not your fate: Dean Ornish on TED.com

Back online: Dr. Dean Ornish shares new research that shows how adopting healthy lifestyle habits can affect a person at a genetic level. Fo...

Jun 24, 2008
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Brian Cox on the world's biggest experiment

Sometime towards the end of August or possibly early September, the world’s biggest and most ambitious scientific experiment will go l...

Jun 24, 2008
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Are children’s carseats necessary? Steven Levitt on TED.com

Economist Steven Levitt shares provocative data that shows carseats are no more effective than seatbelts in protecting kids from dying in ca...

Jun 24, 2008
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News from Isabel Allende's 3 powerful women

Isabel Allende writes novels about self-reliant women who thrive in the midst of political turmoil. In her passionate TEDTalk, Allende prais...

Jun 23, 2008
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Refrigeration without electricity: Adam Grosser on TED.com

Adam Grosser talks about a project to build a refrigerator that works without electricity — to bring the vital tool to villages and cl...

Jun 23, 2008
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TED.com will be offline for maintenance tonight

TED.com will be offline for a few hours for maintenance tonight, starting at about 2 a.m. Eastern time. To find TEDTalks while we’re o...

Jun 21, 2008
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