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Education

What's the best thing about being Sir Ken Robinson?

This week, Sir Ken Robinson was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal by the UK’s RSA (the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, ...

Jun 20, 2008
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Discussing Aging At UCLA

The Methuselah Foundation and TED speaker Aubrey de Grey (watch his TEDGLOBAL 2005 speech) will host next week in Los Angeles “Aging: ...

Jun 20, 2008
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Design

How engineers learn from evolution: Robert Full on TED.com

Link fixed: Insects and animals have evolved some amazing skills — but, as Robert Full notes, many animals are actually badly engineer...

Jun 19, 2008
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Wordle, an addictive new web toy

Jonathan Feinberg, a sometime collaborator of artist Golan Levin (watch Levin’s TEDTalk), has given the world an addictive new web toy...

Jun 18, 2008
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"My DNA is my data"

WIRED‘s Thomas Goetz fumes about a development in the world of genetic testing: California health regulators have demanded that severa...

Jun 18, 2008
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Design

Celebrating the Eames stamps

Photo: Eames Demetrios via flickr We’re excited about the US Postal Service’s brand-new Charles and Ray Eames stamps, issued for...

Jun 18, 2008
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Picturing excess: Chris Jordan on TED.com

Artist Chris Jordan shows us a surprising view of Western culture, in this energizing look at numbers so big, we simply don’t (or can&...

Jun 18, 2008
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The birth of the computer: George Dyson on TED.com

Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the digital computer — from its 16th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks...

Jun 17, 2008
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AfriGadget is one of Time's 50 best websites of 2008

AfriGadget, the fascinating blog that rounds up inventions and hacks from around the African continent, was just named one of Time magazine&...

Jun 16, 2008
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