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Why be optimistic? Larry Brilliant at Skoll World Forum, on TED.com

Recorded at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford, UK: 2006 TED Prize winner and Google.org director Larry Brilliant uses...

Nov 21, 2007
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TED Prize

Announcing 2008 TED Prize winners

The TED Prize was introduced in 2005, and it is unlike any other award. Although the winners receive a prize of $100,000 each, the real priz...

Nov 21, 2007
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Stem cell news is a step forward for regenerative medicine

This morning’s pair of announcements on human stem cell research marks a step forward for regenerative medicine — the study of r...

Nov 21, 2007
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AIDS overestimates

The New York Times reported yesterday that the UN’s agency on AIDS dramatically overestimated its count of current and new infections:...

Nov 21, 2007
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Global Issues

Talks from partner conferences on TED.com

Ever since we started putting TEDTalks online in July 2006, all of the talks and performances on TED.com — more than 160 so far &#8212...

Nov 18, 2007
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Why can’t we grow new energy? Juan Enriquez on TED.com

Biologist and futurist Juan Enriquez talks about the potential of bioenergy. Our current energy sources — coal, oil, gas — are u...

Nov 15, 2007
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Education

Time to get your XO laptop, and to give one

Since Nicholas Negroponte presented his idea for a “100-dollar-laptop” at TED2006, the project has been going through many ups a...

Nov 15, 2007
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Earth-rise and Earth-set

Consider it a bonus track to the great speech by Carolyn Porco last March at TED07, when she showed amazing images of Saturn and its moons. ...

Nov 14, 2007
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Geo-engineering to slow global warming: David Keith on TED.com

Environmental scientist David Keith talks about a cheap, effective, shocking solution to climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of...

Nov 13, 2007
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