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March 2013

X Marks the Spot: This week’s TEDx Talks

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X Marks the Spot: This week’s TEDx Talks

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Each week, TEDx chooses four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the enlightening speakers from the TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of ideas worth spreading. Below, give this week’s talks a listen. Mapping conservation projects across Africa: Alta De Vos at TEDxStellenbosch Millions of dollars and thousands of volunteers are employed in conservation []

TEDWeekends thinks you should rethink your sanity

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TEDWeekends thinks you should rethink your sanity

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At TED2012, Jon Ronson wove a mind-bending tale that asks: How can we truly tell who is a psychopath? What’s the line between crazy and sane? And is it something we can truly delineate, or are we trying to discern black and white in a color-soaked world? Today’s TEDWeekends on the Huffington Post picks up []

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In short: An upworthy birthday, death in the 20th century

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Here, some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs this week: Happy Birthday, Upworthy! Here are 11 lessons our friends at Upworthy learned in their first year on the Internet. [Upworthy] Jay Horwitz, media relations director for the Mets, is the Barry Bonds of butt dialing. He frequently booty calls []

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Tearjerker Ads Worth Spreading winner earns adoption rights for same-sex couple

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThzdsnXeE28 Expedia’s remarkably moving short film, “Find Your Understanding,” tells the true story of man named Artie Goldstein and his journey to accept his daughter Jill Goldstein’s marriage to another woman, Nikki Weiss. As the world waits for the Supreme Court decision on the Defense Against Marriage Act, millions have viewed this socially-conscious ad online. []

Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones

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Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones

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There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword. Among them: “hlizifikh,” a wild but powerful strike; “hrakkarikh,”a quick and accurate strike; and “gezrikh,” a fake-out or decoy strike. But you won’t find these words in George R. R. Martin’s epic series A Song of Ice and Fire, which is where Dothraki originated as the language []

Grey’s Anatomy has a TED moment

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Grey’s Anatomy has a TED moment

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Has a TED Talk ever happened live from a hospital? Well, not in real life — but yes on television. Last night on Grey’s Anatomy, TED became a part of the surgical action when Dr. Callie Torres was prepping to give a talk on the wonders of cartilage. But when a leaking tanker led to []

A critical eye on Keystone XL Pipeline in this TED Book

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A critical eye on Keystone XL Pipeline in this TED Book

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The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would stretch 1,700 miles from Western Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas. And it has become a touchstone for the bitter fight over America’s energy future. Opponents say the pipeline — designed to bring oil from Canadian tar sands down through the United States — would further bind future []

TED2013 speakers win Peabody Awards

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TED2013 speakers win Peabody Awards

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Congratulations to the winners of the 72nd annual Peabody Awards! All of you have created incredible work that adds so much to the landscape of radio, television and electronic media. But TED would like to raise our glasses to toast two winners in particular. At TED2013, multimedia producer Jacky Myint shared the storytelling process that []

My Year of TED: How 54 talks changed a life

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My Year of TED: How 54 talks changed a life

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By Kylie Dunn What do you get when you cross a 39-year-old perfectionist with 54 TED Talks and far more honesty than any person probably needs to experience? You get my Year of TED. I’ve been inspired by TED Talks for years, and felt the urge to do something noteworthy and challenging to ring in []