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Do the green thing
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: November 26, 2008
Andy Hobsbawm shares a fresh ad campaign about going green — and some of the fringe benefits.
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A surprising parable of foie gras
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: November 25, 2008
At the Taste3 conference, chef Dan Barber tells the story of a small farm in Spain that has found a humane way to produce foie gras. Raising his g...
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The design of the universe
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: November 20, 2008
At Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos ...
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This is Nollywood
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: November 19, 2008
Zambia-born filmmaker Franco Sacchi tours us through Nollywood, Nigeria’s booming film industry (the world's 3rd largest). Guerrilla film...
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Building a home for the Clock of the Long Now
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: November 17, 2008
Stewart Brand works on the Clock of the Long Now, a timepiece that counts down the next 10,000 years. It’s a beautiful project that asks us to thi...
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Ursus Wehrli tidies up art
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: November 13, 2008
Ursus Wehrli shares his vision for a cleaner, more organized, tidier form of art — by deconstructing the paintings of modern masters int...
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The story of the Mars Rovers
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: November 12, 2008
At Serious Play 2008, Charles Elachi shares stories from NASA’s legendary Jet Propulsion Lab — including tales and video from the Mars R...
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Shaking hands with the devil
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: November 11, 2008
Samantha Power tells a story of a complicated hero, Sergio Vieira de Mello. This UN diplomat walked a thin moral line, negotiating with the world’...
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How science is like democracy
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: November 10, 2008
Physicist Lee Smolin talks about how the scientific community works: as he puts it, "we fight and argue as hard as we can," but everyone accepts t...
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The science of scent
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: November 07, 2008
What’s the science behind a sublime perfume? With charm and precision, biophysicist Luca Turin explains the molecular makeup — and the a...
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I walk the Earth
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: November 05, 2008
For almost three decades, John Francis has been a planetwalker, traveling the globe by foot and sail with a message of environmental respect and r...
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Fly the seas on a submarine with wings
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: November 03, 2008
Graham Hawkes takes us aboard his graceful, winged submarines to the depths of planet Ocean (a.k.a. "Earth"). It’s a deep blue world we landlubber...
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The story of Ezra, a child soldier
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: October 31, 2008
Filmmaker Newton Aduaka shows clips from his powerful, lyrical feature film "Ezra," about a child soldier in Sierra Leone.
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Products (and toys) from the future
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: October 30, 2008
The Inventables guys, Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht, demo some amazing new materials and how we might use them. Look for squishy magnets, odor-det...
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A 3-minute story of mixed emoticons
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: October 28, 2008
Rives — star of the Bravo special "Ironic Iconic America" -- tells a typographical fairy tale that’s short and bittersweet.
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Why societies collapse
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: October 27, 2008
Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks ab...
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Heartrending pictures of AIDS
Channel: TED
Length: 0
Date: October 24, 2008
In this moving talk, documentary photographer Kristen Ashburn shares unforgettable images of the human impact of AIDS in Africa.
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