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Business

Iqbal Quadir on TEDTalks: The impact one cell phone can make on a village…

Iqbal Quadir is co-founder of GrameenPhone, an innovative wireless company offering services to poor rural villages in Bangladesh. In this t...

Oct 10, 2006
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Technology

SearchMash: Google's other search site

TED partner Google is newly operating a separate search site: SearchMash. It was unveiled a few days ago, has a very simple homepage (no ads...

Oct 9, 2006
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Live from TEDGlobal

For the Collection: Best American Non-Required Reading

When the Best American books make their annual appearance each fall, it’s normally Best American Science and Nature Writing that pulls...

Oct 5, 2006
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Live from TEDGlobal

Talking about comics with Matt Groening (NYC)

We took note last fall, when Masters of American Comics opened in Los Angeles. The exhibit’s traveled now to New York, and is accompan...

Oct 5, 2006
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Uncategorized

TEDTalks is Hiring: Media Production Assistant

The TEDTalks Team is expanding and we’re approaching the TED Community first. We’re looking for a FULLTIME MEDIA PRODUCTION ASSI...

Oct 4, 2006
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Biology

Aubrey de Grey on TEDTalks: Aging is "an engineering problem"

Aubrey de Grey, British biogerontologist and founder of SENS, controversially claims to have created a roadmap to defeat biological aging. I...

Oct 4, 2006
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Biology

Eva Vertes on TEDTalks: Is cancer caused by the body’s own repair system?

Eva Vertes is a Princeton student recognized as a teenager for her research on Alzheimer’s, and now embarking on a career focused on n...

Oct 4, 2006
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Music

Jill Sobule & Julia Sweeney: An evening of songs and stories

Last spring, I gushed about the magic that was made when Jill Sobule and Julia Sweeney shared a stage for the first time. The two met at TED...

Oct 3, 2006
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Business

Virgin Galactic unveils the rocket-powered ship to launch space tourism

This morning, Virgin CEO Sir Richard Branson offered the first public look at the rocketship expected to make space tourism a reality. The m...

Sep 28, 2006
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