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Phantom limb pain at Walter Reed: Mirror therapy works

A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine offers new details on how mirror therapy addresses phantom limb pain —...

Mar 21, 2008
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Education

Finding the next Einstein in Africa: Neil Turok’s TED Prize wish on TED.com

Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, physicist Neil Turok speaks out for talented young Africans starved of opportunity: by unlocking and nurturing...

Mar 20, 2008
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TED Prize

Help bring compassion back to religion: Karen Armstrong’s TED Prize wish on TED.com

As she accepts her 2008 TED Prize, author and scholar Karen Armstrong talks about how the Abrahamic religions — Islam, Judaism, Christ...

Mar 19, 2008
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Education

Once Upon a School: Dave Eggers’ TED Prize wish on TED.com

Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to engage with their local school. With spellbinding eagerness, he t...

Mar 18, 2008
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A non-trivial holiday

The TED office is running in circles trying to get the word out about Pi Day, that special day for number nerds that only comes around once ...

Mar 14, 2008
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Visualizing TED2008 with BigViz

At TED2008 in Monterey, two sketch artists captured the Big Questions live as they happened — watching each speaker, sketching their i...

Mar 14, 2008
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Architecture

Defending a vision of architecture: Frank Gehry in 1990, on TED.com

From the TED archives: Speaking at TED2 in 1990, the not-yet-legendary architect Frank Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his work to date, f...

Mar 13, 2008
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Transcript

Stroke of insight: Jill Bolte Taylor on TED.com

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive ...

Mar 12, 2008
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Cassini buzzes Enceladus today, closer than ever

The Cassini mission to Saturn (see Carolyn Porco’s stunning TEDTalk on this mission) today makes its closest flyby yet of Enceladus, a...

Mar 12, 2008
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