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June 2012

Looking forward, looking back: TEDGlobal 2012 recap

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Looking forward, looking back: TEDGlobal 2012 recap

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When it comes to time, there is the past, the present and the future. But during day four of TEDGlobal, speakers seemed especially concerned with the former and the latter. Kicking off session 11, the first of day four, art diagnostician Maurizio Seracini shared his 30-year quest to find Leonardo da Vinci’s missing fresco “The []

Everything is a remix: Kirby Ferguson at TEDGlobal 2012

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Everything is a remix: Kirby Ferguson at TEDGlobal 2012

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In 1964 Bob Dylan was near the pinnacle of his career, pouring out now-classic songs at a near-miraculous pace. But a few critics claim that he is stealing other people’s songs. Could it be true? Ferguson plays “Nottamun Town,” a traditional folks song, then Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War,” and asks us to hear the []

Public Sphere: Opening animation from TEDGlobal 2012 Session 12

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Public Sphere: Opening animation from TEDGlobal 2012 Session 12

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Mission: Radical spreading from a uniform block to a more freeform organic experimental shape. Director’s statement: “I wanted to create an explosion of vector abstract pop and colored animation. Organic and geometric shapes, characters growing around the central information.” — Superdeux Direction and design: Superdeux http://www.superdeux.com Animation and sound design: Friends Of Mine http://www.friendsofmine.tv Agency: []

Public Sphere: Session 12 at TEDGlobal2012

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Public Sphere: Session 12 at TEDGlobal2012

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Click to watch the session-opening animation. We end TEDGlobal2012 with a session that steps back and asks, “How do we, as a society, communicate with each other?” The public sphere, the place where we engage with society at large, has undergone tremendous change — driven and empowered by the digital revolution, but also, perhaps, by a deeper []

Cancer in context: Mina Bissell at TEDGlobal 2012

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Cancer in context: Mina Bissell at TEDGlobal 2012

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“My task this morning is to summarize 35 years of work in less than 17 minutes,” says Mina Bissell. She is a cancer researcher with a background in chemistry, and as she tells us, the standard explanations for exactly what cancer was didn’t make sense to her. Her career has been driven by a tremendous question — what []