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Hardware solutions to everyday problems
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Date: June 24, 2008
Inventor and MacArthur fellow Saul Griffith shares some innovative ideas from his lab — from "smart rope" to a hous...
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Hardware solutions to everyday problems
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Inventor and MacArthur fellow Saul Griffith shares some innovative ideas from his lab — from "smart rope" to a house-sized kite for towin...
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Inside the Google machine
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Date: June 24, 2008
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin offer a peek inside the Google machine, sharing tidbits about international search patterns, the phi...
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Why can’t we grow new energy?
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Date: June 24, 2008
Juan Enriquez challenges our definition of bioenergy. Oil, coal, gas and other hydrocarbons are not chemical but biological products, based on pla...
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A brief history of violence
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Date: June 24, 2008
Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, g...
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How a ragtag band created Wikipedia
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Date: June 24, 2008
Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, ...
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Way-new collaboration
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Date: June 24, 2008
Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action — and how Wikipedia is really ...
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Open-source economics
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization.
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Sing a song of sustainable cities
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Date: June 24, 2008
Jaime Lerner reinvented urban space in his native Curitiba, Brazil. Along the way, he changed the way city planners worldwide see what’s possible ...
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The tragedy of suburbia
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Date: June 24, 2008
In James Howard Kunstler’s view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead...
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Why we know less than ever about the world
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why — though we want to know more about the world than ever -- the US medi...
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Do all languages have a common ancestor?
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
After speaking at TED2007 on elegance in physics, the amazing Murray Gell-Mann gives a quick overview of another passionate interest: finding the ...
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A journey to the center of your mind
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Date: June 24, 2008
Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delu...
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How I got my new hip
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Date: June 24, 2008
When Allison Hunt found out that she needed a new hip — and that Canada’s national health care system would require her to spend nearly 2...
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Rich hospital, poor hospital
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Date: June 24, 2008
Dr. Seyi Oyesola takes a searing look at health care in underdeveloped countries. His photo tour of a Nigerian teaching hospital — all lo...
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Building a commodities market in Ethiopia
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Date: June 24, 2008
Economist Eleni Gabre-Madhin outlines her ambitious vision to found the first commodities market in Ethiopia. Her plan would create wealth, minimi...
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Let’s have a deeper discussion on aid
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Date: June 24, 2008
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former finance minister of Nigeria, sums up four days of intense discussion on aid versus trade on the closing day of TED...
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Africa as an investment
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Date: June 24, 2008
South African investment banker Euvin Naidoo explains why investing in Africa can make great business sense.
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Stories from the birth of the computer
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Date: June 24, 2008
Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer — from its 17th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of ...
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