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Creating objects that tell stories
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Date: June 24, 2008
Designer Yves Behar digs up his creative roots to discuss some of the iconic objects he’s created (the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset). Then he tu...
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Nice building. Then what?
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Date: June 24, 2008
In a wildly entertaining discussion with Richard Saul Wurman, architect Frank Gehry gives TEDsters his take on the power of failure, his recent bu...
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How to fix broken states
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Date: June 24, 2008
Ashraf Ghani’s passionate and powerful 10-minute talk, emphasizing the necessity of both economic investment and design ingenuity to rebuild broke...
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Investing in Africa’s own solutions
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Date: June 24, 2008
Jacqueline Novogratz applauds the world’s heightened interest in Africa and poverty, but argues persuasively for a new approach.
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The vision behind One Laptop Per Child
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Date: June 24, 2008
Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, describes how the One Laptop Per Child project will build and distribute the "$100 laptop."
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Our priorities for saving the world
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Date: June 24, 2008
Given $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising...
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Fly me to the moons of Saturn
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Date: June 24, 2008
Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco shows images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, focusing on its largest moon, Titan, and on frozen Enceladus, wh...
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Greening the ghetto
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Date: June 24, 2008
In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx —...
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Tourist snapshots from North Korea
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Date: June 24, 2008
While on vacation in Asia in 2007, Paul Koontz got the rare chance to spend a few days in North Korea as a tourist. He brought along his kids and ...
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The "shadow cities" of the future
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Date: June 24, 2008
Robert Neuwirth, author of Shadow Cities, finds the world’s squatter sites — where a billion people now make their homes -- to be thrivi...
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Swim with giant sunfish in the open ocean
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Date: June 24, 2008
Marine biologist Tierney Thys asks us to step into the water to visit the world of the Mola mola, or giant ocean sunfish. Basking, eating jellyfis...
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Why squatter cities are a good thing
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Date: June 24, 2008
Rural villages worldwide are being deserted, as billions of people flock to cities to live in teeming squatter camps and slums. Stewart Brand says...
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How to help Africa? Do business there
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Date: June 24, 2008
We know the negative images of Africa — famine and disease, conflict and corruption. But, says Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, there’s another,...
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Tackling poverty with "patient capital"
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Date: June 24, 2008
Jacqueline Novogratz shares stories of how "patient capital" can bring sustainable jobs, goods, services — and dignity -- to the world’s...
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Let’s take a new look at African aid
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Date: June 24, 2008
In this provocative talk, journalist Andrew Mwenda asks us to reframe the "African question" — to look beyond the media’s stories of pov...
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