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10 years of TED Talks keeping pace with history
Impact of Ideas

10 years of TED Talks keeping pace with history

In 2006, TED started putting talks online for free, a milestone in democratizing ideas worth spreading. Since then, the world has seen monum...

Jun 23, 2016
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A  redesign for death, a monument hidden in plain sight and the intelligence of a bird brain
In Brief

A redesign for death, a monument hidden in plain sight and the intelligence of a bird brain

A design competition to reimagine death. 100 percent of the human population will die, and yet, why don’t we design for this inevitable outc...

Jun 18, 2016
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Inside our rebuilt Android app, for TED’s next billion fans
News

Inside our rebuilt Android app, for TED’s next billion fans

Now we’ve completely rebuilt the TED Talks Android app to help our global audience search, find and watch talks in their local languag...

Jun 17, 2016
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What if the coolest thing about a 21st-century school wasn’t technology?
News

What if the coolest thing about a 21st-century school wasn’t technology?

Sometimes technology isn’t the answer to every problem. Even at the TED conference. At TED2016, TED partnered with the Robert Wood Johnson F...

Jun 16, 2016
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Applications are now open: Apply to be a TED2017 Fellow
TED Fellows

Applications are now open: Apply to be a TED2017 Fellow

  If you could pursue your most extraordinary passions, what would you do? Be an asteroid hunter out to save planet Earth? A theater di...

Jun 13, 2016
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Wider access to SAT prep, a letter on domestic violence, and making sense of genetic variance
In Brief

Wider access to SAT prep, a letter on domestic violence, and making sense of genetic variance

A new way to practice for the SAT. The SAT, a standardized college admissions exam, is a mammoth test, and every minute of practice is inval...

Jun 10, 2016
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Leading through adversity: New ideas from TEDWomen speakers
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Leading through adversity: New ideas from TEDWomen speakers

Pat Mitchell, curator of TEDWomen, shares this report with the TED Blog: In April, I had the privilege of moderating a discussion at the Sko...

Jun 9, 2016
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What learning at the edge of chaos looks like
Education

What learning at the edge of chaos looks like

“Let’s skip ahead and assume that children of the future are always connected,” said education innovator Sugata Mitra. Thinking out loud abo...

Jun 8, 2016
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The new-look TED.com homepage
News

The new-look TED.com homepage

Today, you can see TED.com’s fresh new homepage design, the visual manifestation of our ongoing work to make sure that TED remains as ...

Jun 7, 2016
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