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TED and Star India greenlight “TED Talks India: Nayi Soch” TV series, hosted by Shah Rukh Khan
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TED and Star India greenlight “TED Talks India: Nayi Soch” TV series, hosted by Shah Rukh Khan

Today we confirmed some exciting news about TED’s most ambitious television project yet: a major network series in India hosted by megawatt ...

Feb 15, 2017
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Watch: Yuval Harari in conversation with TED’s Chris Anderson
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Watch: Yuval Harari in conversation with TED’s Chris Anderson

Watch: Chris Anderson speaks with the historian Yuval Noah Harari on what’s happening now, and what’s to come during this extraordinary mome...

Feb 15, 2017
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‘Armchair archaeologists’ search 5 million tiles of Peru
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‘Armchair archaeologists’ search 5 million tiles of Peru

GlobalXplorer, the citizen science platform for archaeology, launched two weeks ago. It’s the culmination of Sarah Parcak’s TED Prize wish a...

Feb 15, 2017
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A personal memory of Hans Rosling, from TED’s founding director of video
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A personal memory of Hans Rosling, from TED’s founding director of video

I was there when Hans Rosling first shook the room at TED, and transformed tiresome medical statistics into an action-packed, live performan...

Feb 10, 2017
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“I cried as you told your story”: Comment of the week, Feb. 8, 2017
TED Conversations

“I cried as you told your story”: Comment of the week, Feb. 8, 2017

This week’s comment was posted on Sue Klebold’s talk, “My son was a Columbine shooter. This is my story.” Many times...

Feb 8, 2017
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Remembering Hans Rosling
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Remembering Hans Rosling

Bounding up on stage with the energy of 1,000 suns and his special extra-long pointer, Swedish professor Hans Rosling became a data rock sta...

Feb 7, 2017
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A Q&A with Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger
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A Q&A with Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger

In October 2016, a group gathered in San Francisco for the TEDWomen 2016 conference, this year themed around the idea of time. One talk was ...

Feb 7, 2017
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TED Dialogues: An urgent response to a dangerously divisive time
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TED Dialogues: An urgent response to a dangerously divisive time

These are astonishing days. Amid rapid-fire policy changes, America has grown even more divided; similar divisions are spreading across the ...

Feb 2, 2017
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“Could threat data be anonymized?”: Comment of the week, Feb. 1, 2017
TED Conversations

“Could threat data be anonymized?”: Comment of the week, Feb. 1, 2017

This week’s comment comes from Joe, who has enough understanding of the topic of Caleb Barlow’s talk, “Where is cybercrime...

Feb 1, 2017
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