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January 2007

In-depth CBS report on TED

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Well, it took a few months longer than we’d hoped, but finally CBS have posted their filmed report of TED2006. Check it out. It was worth the wait. They took the time to get under the surface of the conference and explain some of its allure.  The film includes appearances by  Al Gore, Tony Robbins, []

TEDsters' Films Nominated for 4 Academy Awards

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Today’s early morning announcement of the nominations for the 79th Academy Awards bore fruit for TEDsters, including Producer Lawrence Bender and "Talent" Al Gore, whose film, An Inconvenient Truth was nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song (by Melissa Etheridge.) Jeff Skoll, whose Participant Productions financed the global warming movie, []

Charles Leadbeater on TED.com

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In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn’t just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can’t. Get TED delivered:Subscribe to the TEDTalks video podcast via RSS >>Subscribe to the iTunes video podcastSubscribe to the iTunes audio podcastGet updates via Twitter []

Steven Johnson on TED.com

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Author Steven Johnson takes us on a 10-minute tour of The Ghost Map, his book about a cholera outbreak in 1854 London and the impact it had on science, cities and modern society. Get TED delivered:Subscribe to the TEDTalks video podcast via RSS >>Subscribe to the iTunes video podcastSubscribe to the iTunes audio podcastGet updates []

Bjorn Lomborg on TED.com

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Given $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answers. Get TED delivered:Subscribe to the TEDTalks video podcast via RSS >>Subscribe to the iTunes video podcastSubscribe to the iTunes audio podcastGet updates via Twitter >>Join our Facebook fan page >> Subscribe []

Sir Martin Rees on TED.com

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Speaking as both an astronomer and “a concerned member of the human race,” Sir Martin Rees examines our planet and its future from a cosmic perspective. He urges action to prevent dark consequences from our scientific and technological development. Get TED delivered:Subscribe to the TEDTalks video podcast via RSS >>Subscribe to the iTunes video podcastSubscribe []

Business

The new Apple iphone and Jeff Han

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The hoopla around the launch of the iphone is further proof of the power of multi-touch interfaces to transform the way we use computers.  Jeff Han blew away the TED audience in Monterey in February with his pioneering demo. There were rumors that Apple had tried (unsuccessfully) to hire Jeff at one point to work []

Robert Neuwirth on TED.com

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Robert Neuwirth, author of Shadow Cities, finds the world’s squatter sites — where a billion people now make their homes — to be thriving centers of ingenuity and innovation. He takes us on a tour. Get TED delivered:Subscribe to the TEDTalks video podcast via RSS >>Subscribe to the iTunes video podcastSubscribe to the iTunes audio []

Development

National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis on TEDTalks

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In this stunning talk, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world’s indigenous cultures, many of which are disappearing, as ancestral land is lost and languages die. (50 percent of the world’s 6000 languages are no longer taught to children.) Against a backdrop of extraordinary photos and stories that ignite the []

Art

Photographer Phil Borges on TEDTalks

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Photographer Phil Borges displays his remarkable portraits documenting the world’s disappearing cultures, from persecuted monks in Tibet to embattled tribes in the Ecuadorian Amazon. He also shares inspiring results from his digital-storytelling workshops, which give indigenous teenagers tools for cultural preservation and self-expression. A former dentist, Phil Borges rediscovered his passion for photography, and spent []

Environment

Al Gore's Climate Project in full swing

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At the end of his first speech at TED2006, Al Gore announced that he was going to train a thousand people to give the climate change presentation he gave there – and which is at the core of his movie An Inconvenient Truth. That has turned into the Climate Project, and three training sessions have []

Business

A Bezos Blast

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Longtime TEDster Jeff Bezos, head of Amazon, has revealed video footage of an early test flight from his secret space project Blue Origin.  The vertical take-off vehicle shown here  blasted off gently on November 13th and reached a height of 285 feet before descending safely back to earth. The project’s goal is to lower the []

Environment

The cheeseburger footprint

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TED2006 speaker Jamais Cascio has a very interesting way of considering cheeseburgers. He tries (in this post) to calculate their carbon footprint: how much carbon is produced in the process of cooking the burger, plus growing the feed for the cattle, growing and milling the wheat to make bread, growing the other ingredients, slaughtering and []

What are you optimistic about?

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It’s a new year and up at the Edge John Brockman is asking the now-traditional annual "big question", a wide-open query put to many smart people, mostly scientists from all disciplines. Last year John asked "What is your dangerous idea?". This year, he has somehow reversed the lens: "What are you optimistic about? Why?". 160 []