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September 2010

Announcing TED’s Ads Worth Spreading Challenge

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Today, TED announces its Ads Worth Spreading Challenge. An open invitation to the global advertising community to reinvent, inspire and engage audiences with a new definition of what video advertising can mean in the digital age, using TED.com as its platform. TED is supported in part by advertising. Support from our partners allows TED to []

New: TEDTalks BitTorrent app

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Here at TED HQ we’re having fun playing with the new BitTorrent app for TEDTalks — part of the new BitTorrent Mainline client (and the current µTorrent beta). It’s Windows-only for now. Using the TEDTalks BitTorrent app, you can browse the TEDTalks library by date and keyword, finding talks that are most emailed, most tweeted, []

TED Fellows

Happy 21st Birthday, Darius!

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Today, TED Fellow Darius Weems, of Darius Goes West fame, turns 21! At age 15, Darius and eleven of his best friends drove across the U.S. to attempt to convince MTV to customize Darius’ wheelchair on Pimp My Ride. Darius, born with a fatal disease called Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), was the star of the []

The quantified self: Gary Wolf on TED.com

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At TED@Cannes, Gary Wolf gives a 5-min intro to an intriguing new pastime: using mobile apps and always-on gadgets to track and analyze your body, mood, diet, spending — just about everything in daily life you can measure — in gloriously geeky detail. (Recorded at TED@Cannes, June 2010 in Cannes France. Duration: 5:11) [ted id=966] []

Playlist

Should Science Have a Soul? TEDTalks Playlist

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Today’s playlist is about the relationship between science and morality. These speakers question whether or not they can and should live in the same space. Their differing and provocative opinions are sure to incite thought, uncertainty, and passion. If Michael Specter could travel through time, he would travel into the future to witness the marvels []

TED Prize

Google awards $2 million to the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58mNnPeeTGs&feature=player_embedded] From the TED Prize blog: Congratulations to the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) and 2008 TED Prize winner Neil Turok on winning $2 million in funding from Google’s Project 10^100. Project 10^100 (10 to the 100th power) was a call for ideas to divide a $10 million fund into five pieces that would []

Technology

The shape-shifting future of the mobile phone: Fabian Hemmert on TED.com

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At TEDxBerlin, Fabian Hemmert demos one future of the mobile phone — a shape-shifting and weight-shifting handset that “displays” information nonvisually, offering a delightfully intuitive way to communicate. (Recorded at TEDxBerlin, February 2010 in Berlin, Germany. Duration: 4:15) [ted id=964] Watch Fabian Hemmert’s talk on TED.com where you can download it, rate it, comment on []

Live from TEDGlobal

Where good ideas come from: Steven Johnson on TED.com

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People often credit their ideas to individual “Eureka!” moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the “liquid networks” of London’s coffee houses to Charles Darwin’s long, slow hunch to today’s high-velocity web. (Recorded at TEDGlobal, July 2010 in Oxford, England. Duration: 17:46) [ted id=961] Watch []

TED Fellows

New TEDFellows YouTube page launches today!

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Today, we’re launching a new YouTube channel featuring riveting talks by the extraordinary TED Fellows. Every week, we’ll post new talks from these young innovators and trailblazers, fresh from the TED stage, and free to the world. To mark its launch, we’re posting eight never-before-seen Fellows talks from TEDGlobal 2010 — made possible with the generous []

Lyrics for “Change the World”: TEDxChange

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CHANGE THE WORLD By Bajah + The Dry Eye Crew CHORUS We’ve got a task right now to change the world If we all get on board we can make it work We’ve got the future in our hands So let’s build it with our mind Together we can make it So lets create it []