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November 2011

How John Bohannon created “A Modest Proposal”

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How John Bohannon created “A Modest Proposal”

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Once you’ve watched John Bohannon’s talk and dance performance from TEDxBrussels (watch it on TED.com), you may have the same question the TED Blog had: How in the world did you do that? So we asked, and here’s what he sent us in reply: A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Artists of the United States []

Global Issues

Dance vs. powerpoint, a modest proposal: John Bohannon on TED.com

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Use dancers instead of powerpoint. That’s science writer John Bohannon’s “modest proposal.” In this spellbinding choreographed talk from TEDxBrussels he makes his case by example, aided by dancers from Black Label Movement. (Recorded at TEDxBrussels 2011, November 2011, in Brussels, Belgium. Duration: 11:08.) [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlDWRZ7IYqw&feature=player_embedded%5D Watch John Bohannon’s talk on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, []

Inspiring youth with science: Q&A with Adam Savage

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Inspiring youth with science: Q&A with Adam Savage

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Photo by Ryan Lash At the recent TEDYouth event, Adam Savage, of Mythbusters fame, told three stories of groundbreaking discovery made with incredibly simple tools. TED’s Ben Lillie caught up with him just after his rehearsal to talk about what lead him to this type of inspiration. This is an amazingly inspiring thing you’ve put together []

TEDTalks

TED App comes to the iPhone

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We’re thrilled to announce that TED’s official app is now available for iPhone, optimized for a small screen and introducing several much-requested features! Adapted from our award-winning iPad app, the new TED iPhone app allows users to browse and watch TEDTalks, videos ranging from 3 minutes to 18 minutes in length. TEDTalks feature great ideas []

Education

Damon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison

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Damon Horowitz teaches philosophy through the Prison University Project, bringing college-level classes to inmates of San Quentin State Prison. In this powerful short talk, he tells the story of an encounter with right and wrong that quickly gets personal. (Recorded at TED2011, March 2011, in Long Beach, California. Duration: 3:51.) [ted id=1286] Watch Damon Horowitz’s []

Health

Living beyond limits: Amy Purdy on TED.com

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When she was 19, Amy Purdy lost both her legs below the knee. And now … she’s a pro snowboarder. In this powerful talk, she shows us how to draw inspiration from life’s obstacles. (Recorded at TEDxOrangeCoast 2011, September 2011, in Boulder, Colorado. Duration: 9:37.) [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2QZM7azGoA&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3%5D Watch Amy Purdy’s talk on TED.com, where you can []

Live from TEDWomen

TEDxWomen: A truly global conversation

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On December 1st, TEDxWomen will take place at the Paley Centers in both New York and LA. Simultaneously, over 110 TEDxWomen events will be hosted by TEDx event Organizers in communities all around the world, including China, The Netherlands, Israel, Pakistan, Romania, South Africa, Lebanon and the United States. Besides watching the webcast of TEDxWomen, []

Science

The technology of storytelling: Joe Sabia on TED.com

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iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, from the walls of caves to his own onstage iPad. (Recorded at the TED Full Spectrum Auditions, May 2011, in New York, New York. []

Live from TEDWomen

TEDxWomen speakers keep the conversation going

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On December 1st, TEDxWomen will happen simultaneously at the Paley Centers in both New York and LA. Around the world, over 100 TEDx communities will share the livestream, and some will host local speakers. Find a local TEDxWomen event near you! With session themes of resilience, relationships and rebirth — and ending with “reimagine” — []

Business

Have you seen an Ad Worth Spreading?

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Have you seen an Ad Worth Spreading? Our nomination teams want to know. As part of the Ads Worth Spreading initiative for 2012, TED picked six teams of two — a TED speaker or Fellow teamed with one of the brightest thinkers in advertising — to find and nominate ads that showed intelligence and ingenuity. []

Global Issues

How to defend Earth from asteroids: Phil Plait TED.com

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What’s six miles wide and can end civilization in an instant? An asteroid – and there are lots of them out there. With humor and great visuals, Phil Plait enthralls the TEDxBoulder audience with all the ways asteroids can kill, and what we must do to avoid them. (Recorded at TEDxBoulder 2011, September 2011, in Boulder, []

Youth

At TEDYouth: Photo slideshow

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Dive into this giant photoset from yesterday’s TEDYouth — from setup to sessions to the crazy action on the breaks. Most images come from TEDYouth photographer Ryan Lash; a few from TED’s photo editor, Mike Femia.

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TEDYouth Session 2: “Out to the edge of knowledge”

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All photos: Ryan Lash After an amazing break (filled with beatboxing and Interesting Things) we reconvene for Session 2 of TEDYouth. “I’m not going to blow anything up,” says Adam Savage. :( He’s best known for his role as co-host of the TV show MythBusters on the Discovery Channel. (Watch his talk on TED.com) His []