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10 ways the world could end: Stephen Petranek on TED.com

Stephen Petranek reveals the question that occupies scientists at the end of the day (and the beginning of happy hour): How might the world ...

Sep 25, 2007
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Invention

MacArthur "genius" grant to TEDster Saul Griffith

Saul Griffith (watch his TEDTalk) has been awarded a 2007 MacArthur “genius” grant. Griffith is one of the brains behind Instruc...

Sep 25, 2007
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Uncategorized

StAR: Helping poor countries get their money back

This week, the UN and the World Bank launched the Stolen Asset Recovery initiative, or StAR — a plan to help poor countries recover fu...

Sep 21, 2007
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Music

Jill Sobule and Ethel: Together in Central Park

Wednesday night, Jill Sobule (watch her TEDTalk performance) and the modern string ensemble Ethel (watch their TEDTalk performance) paired u...

Sep 20, 2007
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Art

Simply John Maeda, on TED.com

The MIT Media Lab’s John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art — a place that can get very complicated. Here, he...

Sep 20, 2007
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Searching for humanity’s roots: Zeresenay Alemseged on TED.com

Zeresenay “Zeray” Alemseged has been digging the badlands of Ethiopia, looking for clues to humanity’s origins. Here he ta...

Sep 18, 2007
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Film

10 May 2008: Pangea Day

When she was awarded the 2006 TED Prize, filmmaker Jehane Noujaim expressed a wish: a global acceptance of diversity, mediated through the p...

Sep 14, 2007
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Culture

Scenes from "The War Tapes": Deborah Scranton on TED.com

The director of the award-winning documentary The War Tapes, Deborah Scranton makes films that help people tell their own stories. She talks...

Sep 13, 2007
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Biology

Reading the books of Craig and Jim

A few days ago TED2005 speaker Craig Venter (watch his talk) announced that his lab has finished sequencing a single human’s genome &#...

Sep 12, 2007
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