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Creating demand for accountability

TEDGlobal2007 speaker Ory Okolloh is one of those young Africans that graduated from Western universities and then went back home armed with...

Dec 8, 2006
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Music

Peter Gabriel on TEDTalks

Musician and activist Peter Gabriel explains the personal motivation behind his work with human-rights organization Witness, which gives vid...

Dec 7, 2006
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Mindshifting images, stories

The photographer Kristen Ashburn, whose unforgettable images of the human impact of AIDS in Africa made a powerful impact at TED a couple ye...

Dec 3, 2006
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Announcing TEDGlobal 2007: "Africa: The Next Chapter"

TEDizens: Tonight in New York, we officially unveiled plans for our first TEDGlobal conference in Africa, to be held in Arusha, Tanzania fro...

Nov 29, 2006
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Entertainment

Thomas Dolby: The tour, the blog, the podcast … the CD-release party (SF)

For Thomas Dolby fans like us, there’s a lot to look forward to right now. Along with the highly entertaining blog he’s had for ...

Nov 19, 2006
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Education

Something Important to Encounter

Encounter Point, an incredible documentary that follows a former Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother and a...

Nov 16, 2006
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Biology

Inventor Ray Kurzweil on TEDTalks

Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil illustrates the increasingly exponential evolution of technology, predicting a sharp rise in computing ca...

Nov 14, 2006
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Biology

Wired Editor-at-Large Kevin Kelly on TEDTalks

Wired Editor-at-large Kevin Kelly traces the remarkable similarities between the evolution of biology and technology, ultimately declaring t...

Nov 14, 2006
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Entertainment

Skeptic founder Michael Shermer on TEDTalks

Skeptic Magazine founder Michael Shermer takes us on a hilarious romp through the strange claims we humans put forth as truth — from a...

Nov 9, 2006
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