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Film

Pangea Day trailer: Now in 20 languages

On May 10, 2008 -– Pangea Day -– we’re throwing a worldwide film festival. Screens in Cairo, Dharamsala, Kigali, London, New York City...

Dec 21, 2007
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John Maeda named next president of RISD

John Maeda (watch his 2007 TEDTalk) has been named the next president of the Rhode Island School of Design. An artist and a coder, Maeda is ...

Dec 21, 2007
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DVD: "The Future We Will Create" now on sale

In 2006, filmmaker Daphne Zuniga came to TED and made an independent movie about it — the talks, the hallway conversations, the connec...

Dec 20, 2007
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Andrew Mwenda launches independent newspaper in Kampala

This week, journalist Andrew Mwenda (watch his TEDTalk) launched a weekly newspaper, The Independent, in Kampala, Uganda. His journalism has...

Dec 20, 2007
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The lost art of letter-writing: Lakshmi Pratury on TED.com

Lakshmi Pratury talks about letter-writing, and shares a series of notes her father wrote her before he died. This short talk may inspire yo...

Dec 20, 2007
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Why aren’t we all Good Samaritans? Daniel Goleman on TED.com

Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, asks why we aren’t more compassionate more of the time. Through psychological experiments ...

Dec 18, 2007
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Education

Why we should teach philosophy to kids

Via the BPS Research Digest: A recent study on the long-term benefits of the Socratic method. In a study of 105 children, all around 10 year...

Dec 13, 2007
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"Mathemagics": Arthur Benjamin on TED.com

In a lively performance, “mathemagician” Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares in his head, ...

Dec 13, 2007
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William Kamkwamba in the Wall Street Journal

William Kamkwamba, a young Malawi man who designed and built a windmill for his family when he was 14 — and who spoke so memorably at ...

Dec 12, 2007
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