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Arctic explorer Ben Saunders on TEDTalks

Arctic explorer Ben Saunders recounts his harrowing solo journey to the North Pole, complete with gorgeous images, amusing anecdotes and pre...

Oct 26, 2006
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Design

Spaceship designer Burt Rutan on TEDTalks

In this passionate talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts the U.S government-funded space program for stagnating (“Ho...

Oct 26, 2006
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Invention

The Venice Project: 507 channels and somethin' on

After disrupting music distribution with file-sharing system Kazaa, and upsetting telecommunications with Voice-over-IP service Skype, TEDGL...

Oct 23, 2006
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Free-press champion Sasa Vucinic on TEDTalks

Sasa Vucinic, a former editor for Belgrade radio station B92, founded the Prague-based Media Development Loan Fund, which applies venture-ca...

Oct 18, 2006
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Business

U.N. Secretary-General candidate Ashraf Ghani on TEDTalks

Ashraf Ghani is the former Finance Minister of Afghanistan, and a candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as Secretary General of the United Nations...

Oct 18, 2006
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Business

Charles Leadbeater's "We Think" to comment on

British author and TEDGLOBAL speaker Charles Leadbeater has just released a first draft of his upcoming book for anyone to read and comment ...

Oct 17, 2006
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Grameen Bank founder wins Nobel Prize (watch related TEDTalk)

Our warmest congratulations go out to Grameen Bank and its founder Muhammed Yunus, honored today with the Nobel Peace Prize. “Lasting ...

Oct 13, 2006
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Rocket Racing League: Nascar in the sky

Fifteen months after disseminating hints at TEDGLOBAL in Oxford, XPrize‘s Peter Diamandis and his posse are getting ready to annouce t...

Oct 11, 2006
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Business

Jacqueline Novogratz on TEDTalks: "How can we help Africans do this for themselves?"

Jacqueline Novogratz is the charismatic founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a non-profit that takes a business-like approach to improving the li...

Oct 10, 2006
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