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Articles, reflections, and teachings from our community.

Film

Four days left to submit your film for Pangea Day!

In the past few weeks, Pangea Day has received more than 1,200 film submissions from filmmakers in 40 countries, and the films keep on comin...

Feb 11, 2008
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Way-new collaboration: Howard Rheingold on TED.com

Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action — and how Wikipedia is reall...

Feb 11, 2008
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Theo Jansen's car commercial

Via YouTube, here’s a neat commercial from BMW South Africa starring TEDTalks star Theo Jansen. Lots of footage of Theo and his beauti...

Feb 7, 2008
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The omnivore’s next dilemma: Michael Pollan on TED.com

What if human consciousness isn’t the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn’s clever strategy g...

Feb 7, 2008
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Design

Rome antics: David Macaulay on TED.com

His love and fascination for Rome dates to his days as an architecture student, but David Macaulay found the path to his book Rome Antics to...

Feb 6, 2008
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Music

Jill Sobule and Rives sing on Super Tuesday

Check out Jill Sobule and Rives on NPR’s Bryant Park Project, singing about Super Tuesday, when “30 zillion voters in 20-somethi...

Feb 5, 2008
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Sing a song of cities: Jaime Lerner on TED.com

With maverick flair and a strategist’s disdain for accepted wisdom, Jaime Lerner re-invented urban space in his native Curitiba, Brazi...

Feb 4, 2008
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TED’s Miro player launches today

TED and Miro announce the TED Miro player — a free, downloadable, open-source media player that comes pre-loaded with TED’s chan...

Jan 31, 2008
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Film

This Is Nollywood screens in the US

TEDGlobal star Franco Sacchi’s documentary This Is Nollywood will play at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston February 1 and 10. Februar...

Jan 31, 2008
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