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Articles, reflections, and teachings from our community.

Design

DesignWatch: Building a better wheelchair

An inspired piece of design news out of the UK: Mike Spindle, who’s spent most of his career designing Formula One race cars, spent th...

Jun 11, 2006
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Entertainment

NYC: TED musicians in concert

It’s a great month for TED music in New York. It seems all our favorites will be coming through… Starting this Saturday June 10 ...

Jun 9, 2006
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Science

Robert Wright's "Meaning of Life TV"

Did you know that Robert Wright (TED2006), author of The Moral Animal and Nonzero, hosts an interview program called Meaning of Life TV on S...

Jun 9, 2006
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Business

A wealth of responses to Yochai Benkler

The blogosphere itself is a fine example of what Yale Law Professor Yochai Benkler (TEDGlobal) writes about in The Wealth of Networks: The a...

Jun 7, 2006
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Design

BuzzWordWatch: Sparkline

Sparkline (n.) A small, data-rich, word-sized graphic that can be inserted into text, and understood at a glance. Named by Edward Tufte, and...

Jun 1, 2006
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Biology

Too extraordinary to ignore: Sleeping pills awaken comatose patients

In one of the most bizarre science breakthroughs in recent memory, British and South African doctors have reported three cases of semi-comat...

May 31, 2006
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Architecture

David Rockwell & Jerry Mitchell "choreograph" a JetBlue terminal

When architect and stage designer David Rockport (TED ‘97, ‘99, ‘02) was asked to design the interior of the new JetBlue t...

May 31, 2006
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Biology

Olivia Judson: DNA is the new fossil record

Are fossil records a thing of the past? Evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson (TED2005) thinks they may be. In Sunday’s New York Times,...

May 29, 2006
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Technology

A Working Hundred Dollar Laptop Unveiled

I received an email from my dad this afternoon saying somewhat incredulously, "Nicholas is really making this thing happen." ...

May 26, 2006
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