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TED.com is nominated for 3 Webby Awards

This morning, TED.com received three nominations for the 2008 Webby Awards — for Best Navigation/Structure, Best Visual Design –...

Apr 8, 2008
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New thinking on climate change: Al Gore’s new slideshow premieres on TED.com

In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even...

Apr 8, 2008
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TED Prize

Open Architecture Network panel in San Francisco, April 9

How can we use the Web to drive social change? Learn from the story of Architecture for Humanity, which leveraged a 2006 TED Prize to build ...

Apr 8, 2008
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Pangea Day: film as passport, translator, olive branch

Can film erase borders? The people of Japan, Australia, Kenya and France sing the national anthems of Turkey, Lebanon, India and the United ...

Apr 7, 2008
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The answer was there all along

In his TEDTalk released today, physicist Stephen Hawking asks Big Questions about life, the universe and everything. His talk was recorded a...

Apr 4, 2008
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Questioning the universe: Stephen Hawking on TED.com

In keeping with the theme of TED2008, professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe — How did the universe begi...

Apr 4, 2008
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Music

Paul Simon and Vusi Mahlasela play BAM's gala, April 9

At next week’s gala for the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Paul Simon will be joined by TEDTalks favorite Vusi Mahlasela for an even...

Apr 3, 2008
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Design

Rethinking the music video with "Moonlight in Glory": Jakob Trollback on TED.com

What would a music video look like if it were purely directed by the music? If it were not a brand-building tool but simply a visual express...

Apr 3, 2008
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Watch Robin Williams' improv at TED2008's BBC debate

During the BBC World Debate hosted at TED2008 last month, a brief technical delay threatened to become an awkward, show-stopping break. Then...

Apr 2, 2008
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