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Who will be the next U.N. secretary general?

Even if there weren’t two TEDsters in the running, we’d be keeping a close watch on the race to succeed Kofi Annan as U.N. Secre...

Sep 28, 2006
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Happiness Expert Dan Gilbert on TEDTalks

Dan Gilbert is a psychology professor at Harvard, and author of Stumbling on Happiness. In this memorable talk, filmed at TED2004, he demons...

Sep 26, 2006
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"Paradox of Choice" author Barry Schwartz on TEDTalks

Barry Schwartz is a sociology professor at Swarthmore and author of The Paradox of Choice. In this talk, he persuasively explains how and wh...

Sep 26, 2006
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Two TEDsters in the race to succeed Kofi Annan

Last week, the list of potential successors to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan – he will step down at the end of his second five-yea...

Sep 20, 2006
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Design

BIGGER BOLDER TEDDER Than Ever Before!

Last week, Apple announced that its complete line of video iPods can finally handle Standard Definition (SD) television resolution of 640&#2...

Sep 20, 2006
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Business

Malcolm Gladwell on TEDTalks

Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and best-selling author of The Tipping Point and Blink. In this talk, filmed at TED20...

Sep 20, 2006
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Business

Steven Levitt on TEDTalks

Steven Levitt is an economics professor at the University of Chicago and the best-selling author of Freakonomics. In this talk, filmed at TE...

Sep 20, 2006
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Biology

Investing in the long term

San Francisco investor Peter A. Thiel (co-founder of PayPal) is putting $3.5 million into the antiaging research pioneered by TED speaker Au...

Sep 19, 2006
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Design

…like you give a damn

For a long time, TEDPrize winner Cameron Sinclair has encapsulated his philosophy in a slogan that recently turned into the title of his ins...

Sep 18, 2006
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