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Entertainment

Jennifer Lin on TEDTalks

Jennifer Lin is an extraordinary young concert pianist, 14 years old when she appeared at TED. In this performance, she plays Joseph Hoffman...

Aug 9, 2006
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Environment

Martin Rees: An Apollo project for green energy

Sir Martin Rees is dismayed by the "worrisome lack of determination" shown last month in St Petersburg by the leaders of the G8 co...

Aug 7, 2006
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Bono buys a stake in Forbes

Elevation Partners, a private-equity group of which U2 singer, make-poverty-history activist and TEDprize winner Bono is one of the 6 partne...

Aug 7, 2006
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Design

Jeff Han on TEDTalks

Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences . Here, he demonstrates, for the...

Aug 1, 2006
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Development

Nicholas Negroponte on TEDTalks

Nicholas Negroponte is former Director of the MIT Media Lab, and founder of the non-profit, One Laptop Per Child, dedicated to making the fa...

Aug 1, 2006
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Stradivari's Genius

When my wife was pregnant with our first son and we began considering what to name him, I proposed Strad.  To violinists (a group of wh...

Jul 31, 2006
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Business

Nigeria orders first million $100 laptops

At TED2006, former MIT Media Lab Director Nicholas Negroponte outlined the challenges of producing the $100 laptop, which will be designed f...

Jul 28, 2006
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Biology

TEDPrize winner Larry Brilliant on TEDTalks

TEDPrize winner Larry Brilliant is an epidemiologist who presided over the last case of Smallpox on the planet. He also founded the Seva Fou...

Jul 25, 2006
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Architecture

TEDPrize winner Cameron Sinclair on TEDTalks

TEDPrize winner Cameron Sinclair is founder of Architecture for Humanity, and author of Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses...

Jul 25, 2006
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