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Ethos Water Walk

Ethos Water – a TED sponsor and water favorite – has been working to bring awareness to World Water Day – a UN designated ...

Mar 20, 2006
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"Ashes and Snow": In L.A. and online

At TED2006, photographer Gregory Colbert gave a rare public appearance, showing 10 minutes of his astounding film and also announcing a cont...

Mar 20, 2006
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Burt Rutan: "Space Needs You"

At TED2006, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan came out swinging. “Houston, we have a problem,” he declared, and went on t...

Mar 17, 2006
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Testing your Web 2.0 Literacy

Oyogi, Yedda, Yoda, Renkoo, Squidoo, Lando, Lulu … Web 2.0 companies? Or Star Wars characters? Only a certain kind of person would kno...

Mar 17, 2006
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Music

Jill Sobule + Julia Sweeney = Magic

I wish you all could have been there… A little bit of TED magic lit up the stage at LA’s Largo last night, where fast friends Ji...

Mar 16, 2006
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Gladwell v. Levitt, Round 2

At a landmark TED salon last spring, economist Steven Levitt and author Malcolm Gladwell crossed swords over the real reason New York City c...

Mar 16, 2006
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Still More TED Moments

Several weeks later, we find we’re still intrigued by what was said and done and felt during those four days in Monterey. And it seems...

Mar 14, 2006
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Music

Thomas Dolby farked

Whether or not you saw Thomas’s barnstorming performance of "his song" at TED last month, this is pretty funny.

Mar 12, 2006
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Music

STEW: Passing Strange

I had the great fortune of seeing Stew’s new show Passing Strange this evening at Stanford.  The show, co-written by Stew and his...

Mar 11, 2006
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