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New Excessive Alcohol Consumption Genes Identified

A newly published research study funded the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has identified new genes that may pla...

Apr 18, 2006
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Hubble Telescope reveals size of "Xena," Warrior Planet

NASA announced that the Hubble Space Telescope has successfully measured the “10th Planet” and found it to be 1,490 miles, only ...

Apr 18, 2006
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Environment

Green Issue Redux: 50 Ways to Help Save the Planet

You’ve seen Al Gore‘s talk at TED2006, or you’ve bought your tickets on Fandango to see An Inconvenient Truth. He’s ...

Apr 18, 2006
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Science

Dan Gilbert on the Myth of Objectivity

At TED2004, Harvard Psychology Professor Dan Gilbert demonstrated how poor we humans are at predicting what will make us happy. Then, at TED...

Apr 17, 2006
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Design

Coming soon: Behind the TED2006 Wrap-up

Finally the story can be told…How a dedicated team of intrepid writers, designers, and Candy Building Architects stayed up all night t...

Apr 13, 2006
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Environment

Your Green "Daily Candy:" Ideal Bite

From co-founders Heather Stephenson and Jennifer Boulden comes a daily weekday email newsletter chock-a-block with useful tips for green liv...

Apr 13, 2006
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Entertainment

Thomas Dolby hits the road

Our own Thomas Dolby kicks off his Sole Inhabitant tour this week, with shows in Anaheim and L.A. He’ll hit just about every major TED...

Apr 13, 2006
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This will raise your heartbeat…

Lots of buzz building around the upcoming Al Gore movie "An Inconvenient Truth". The documentary-as-disaster-movie trailer has jus...

Apr 12, 2006
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Biology

Newts do it, deer do it …

At TED2006, Alan Russell posed a provocative question; “If newts can regenerate a lost limb, why can’t we?” For Russell, d...

Apr 12, 2006
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