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March 2012

Video: A Taste of TED2012

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Video: A Taste of TED2012

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At TED2012 and TEDActive 2012, we celebrated the reinvention of the art of spoken word, and nudged it a further step forward — through the rich use of multiple technologies, formats and approaches for the most powerful possible impact on an audience, both live and online. Watch the 4-minute highlight video to get a taste []

Tonight on Science Channel: TEDTalks on TV

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Tonight on Science Channel: TEDTalks on TV

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Starting tonight, you can watch five hour-long blocks of TEDTalks on the Science Channel. Each hour in this five-part series shares some of the best science, tech, economic ideas and inventions from creative minds featured at TED. Within each hour, TED Curator Chris Anderson gives a brief intro, and then the talks play, uncut, in []

Classes to the masses: Fellows Friday with Nina Tandon

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Classes to the masses: Fellows Friday with Nina Tandon

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When TED2012 Senior Fellow Nina Tandon (watch her TED Talk) isn’t researching how electrical stimulation encourages tissue growth at Columbia University, she’s teaching bioelectricity across town at Cooper Union. Now, with TEDinClass, she’s been connecting students to the TED community using TED’s Live Conversation platform – starting an exchange of ideas with the world at []

New on Japanese TV: “Super Presentation,” featuring TED

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New on Japanese TV: “Super Presentation,” featuring TED

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A collaboration between TED and Japanese public broadcaster NHK is bringing TEDTalks to TV for the first time in Japan — for Super Presentation! It’s a series that harnesses TED speakers’ persuasive ideas to teach English, empower a new generation of independent thinkers, and build hope one year after the Japanese tsunami. Friday night at []

4 reasons to attend a TEDxChange event near you

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4 reasons to attend a TEDxChange event near you

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TEDxChange Brisbane: September 21, 2010, Brisbane Powerhouse. Photo: TEDxBrisbane / Mark Lobo TEDxChange, convened by Melinda Gates and hosted by Chris Anderson, will focus on “Big Picture” thinking around our most complex problems — and their solutions. Around the world, nearly 200 events from 66 countries will watch the livestream together. We asked some of []

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The creatives behind TED Ads Worth Spreading on YouTube

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpt7mL4Rdko Today, YouTube’s homepage spotlight features interviews with the creatives behind the campaigns that won TED’s Ads Worth Spreading —  an initiative to recognize and reward innovation, ingenuity and intelligence in advertising. The 10 winning ads were unveiled at TED2012 and representatives of each campaign attended the conference from Tunisia, Germany, Japan, Canada and the US. []

Building connections — between toys …

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Building connections — between toys …

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Here’s something else fun to do with a 3D printer: Designers at Free Art and Technology have created an open-source template to connect all the different building blocks you used as a kid: Legos, Tinkertoys, Lincoln Logs and more (and maybe in the future: littleBits, from today’s TEDTalk…). It’s a fascinating project, both for the exciting new creatures []

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Assignment Compassion: Join Adrian Grenier to tell your story on video

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EQ3oqoD8Nw] Has an act of compassion changed your life? Share your story — and join the Charter for Compassion in a brand-new video initiative: Assignment Compassion. In the video above, actor Adrian Grenier gives the first assignment: Share a moment of compassion that changed your life. Record your video response to Adrian’s assignment and share []

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Video: TED & TEDx explained in 70 seconds

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NHOpeczUU] This short, sweet explainer from BlinkTower tells you just what you need to know about TED and TEDx — and might inspire you to start your own event! Via TEDxSeaPoint, in Cape Town, South Africa.

Meet the 2012 TEDGlobal Fellows!

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Meet the 2012 TEDGlobal Fellows!

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A Nigerian healthcare entrepreneur providing urgent air services across West Africa. A Lebanese-Egyptian Islamic art historian who uses ancient Arabic visual data to solve modern-day design issues. A British applied mathematician looking for ways to diagnose Parkinson’s disease by listening to patients’ voices. The TED Fellows program — which honors world-changing innovators from around the []

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TEDxChange: The Big Picture

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[youtube http://youtu.be/MYzO8CS3IAw%5D What is your role in solving the world’s biggest problems? Climate change, global poverty, the AIDS/HIV crisis — solving these problems will demand big thinking and unprecedented international cooperation. That’s where TEDxChange comes in. TEDxChange 2012 is a platform for sharing game-changing ideas — and the world is invited to join the conversation. []