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Articles, reflections, and teachings from our community.

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Make: Magazine's First Ever Maker Faire Explodes

Where can you find a man riding a giant giraffe robot, a fire-spewing electric cart equipped with sheep’s wool seats, a plug-in Prius ...

Apr 24, 2006
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Your TED curator … on a Starbucks cup

A big thanks to TEDster Jim Young, who spotted this cup in a Dallas Starbucks. We’re curious how far Chris’s idea might spread&#...

Apr 24, 2006
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Herbie Hancock: Possibilities on screen

At TED, we’ve had the great privilege to watch Herbie Hancock improvise: Both solo and with others, like pianist Makoto Ozone. Now a n...

Apr 24, 2006
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Environment

TerraPass CEO Tom Arnold hosts reception following An Inconvenient Truth Screening

After the screening TerraPass CEO Tom Arnold (not to be confused with Roseanne Barr’s former husband) hosted a reception down the stre...

Apr 22, 2006
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Photos from An Inconvenient Truth Screening

TEDsters spotted at the An Inconvenient Truth Screening: (from left to right Truth Producer Lawrence Bender, V.C. Vinod Kholsa, now investin...

Apr 22, 2006
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Al Gore channels Inner Lesbian Rock Star at Special TED "An Inconvenient Truth" Film Screening

Documentary star Al Gore made a surprise appearance along with his wife Tipper at the special Thursday afternoon TEDScreening of An Inconven...

Apr 21, 2006
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Richard Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene"

We’ve just sent out the new 30-year-anniversary edition to the TED bookclub (made up of those people signed up for TED2007).  Her...

Apr 20, 2006
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Portraits from San Francisco TEDSalon

100 years and two days after the Great Quake of 1906, and 12 hours of sunshine following a month and a half of rain, about 100 TEDsters from...

Apr 20, 2006
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TEDPrize Winner Jehane Noujaim's Breakout Star

Josh Rushing, the American star of 2006 TEDPrize winner Jehane Noujaim‘s documentary Control Room has gone and done something very une...

Apr 18, 2006
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