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Building a new kind of meme: Susan Blackmore on TED.com

Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves, passing from brain to brain like a physical virus. At TED2008, Blackmore mak...

Jun 3, 2008
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WSF report: 90 Is the New 50

TED’s Matthew Trost reports from the World Science Festival‘s Sunday-evening session “90 Is the New 50: The Science of Lon...

Jun 2, 2008
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Biology

WSF report: Looking for the Laws of Life

TED’s Matthew Trost reports from the World Science Festival‘s Sunday-afternoon session “Looking for the Laws of Life&#8220...

Jun 1, 2008
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Music

WSF report: Oliver Sacks, Abyssinian choir on music

Photo of Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, acknowledging Jim Gates and Stephon Alexander at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, as part of the World Scien...

Jun 1, 2008
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Design

WSF report: Greengenuity

TED’s June Cohen reports via Twitter on the World Science Festival session “Greengenuity“, where she’s hearing from ...

May 31, 2008
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WSF report: Your Biological Biography

TED’s Matthew Trost reports from this Saturday session of the World Science Festival: Nobel Prize winner and cell biologist Paul Nurse...

May 31, 2008
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fMRI can tell what noun you're thinking of (sometimes)

From Not Exactly Rocket Science, here’s a thoughtful report on a new fMRI technique that — 70 percent of the time, anyway &#8212...

May 30, 2008
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4 ways to improve the lives of the "bottom billion": Paul Collier on TED.com

Around the world right now, one billion people are trapped in poverty by a simple piece of bad luck: being born in a poor country. What make...

May 30, 2008
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UPDATED: Photo of one of the world's last "uncontacted" tribes

If you’ve seen Wade Davis’s unforgettable 2004 TED Talk — where he evokes the magic of the world’s cultural diversit...

May 30, 2008
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