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Google donates $1 million to AIMS: A TED Prize wish

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Amy Novogratz just announced from stage that Google has donated $1 million to AIMS, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. This follows Daphney Singo’s moving talk about how AIMS is helping her gain her PhD in nuclear physics — a standing-ovation story of one South African woman’s determination to become educated. As her mother told []

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Announcing Mission Blue: A TED Prize wish

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From the TED Prize session: Mission Blue is the name for an ambitious, overarching project to create marine protected areas. It’s powered by Sylvia Earle’s 2009 TEDPrize wish: “I wish you would use all means at your disposal — films! expeditions! the web! more! — to ignite public support for a global network of marine []

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Announcing SETI Quest: A TED Prize wish project

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From the TED Prize Session: From stage just now, SETI legend Frank Drake announced the new project SETI Quest — a place to build a network of committed Earthlings who want to help in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. It’s the result of Jill Tarter’s 2009 TED Prize wish. How can you help? From the []

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The TED Prize, 6 years on

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In the lifetime of the TED Prize, we’ve launched more than 20 wishes, generating ongoing projects to save the oceans…to teach and to connect… to prepare for health crises…to catalog all life on Earth. The TED Prize provides seed money and organizational help for each wish. The TED Prize is unique among global honors. Winners []

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TED Prize winner announced!

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We’re delighted to announce the TED Prize winner for 2010: the chef who’s transforming the way we feed our children … JAMIE OLIVER The prize grants him $100,000 — and something much bigger: “a wish to change the world.” He’ll unveil the wish on February 10 at TED2010 and we, the TED community, will make []

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Jose Antonio Abreu's TED Prize Wish — transcribed

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We’ve transcribed Jose Antonio Abreu’s TED Prize wish to use music to transform kids’ lives and posted the full text below the fold. Here’s a snippet: The idea is that the families join with pride and joy in the activities of the orchestras and the choirs their children belong to. The huge spiritual world that []

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TED@PalmSprings reacts to the TED Prize wishes

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The response to the TED Prize here at the TED@PalmSprings simulcast was enthusiastic and inspiring. After two days mesmerized, locked into “absorb” mode, TEDsters seem to be feeling the beginnings of a change in momentum toward collaborating … and contributing. Fresh off of the emotional high of the wishes, ideas are flying. Here are just []