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Get the TED2011 Program Guide for iPad and desktop

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The TED2011 program guide — containing short speaker bios and sharp portraits by Siegfried Woldhek, plus a magazine of info about TED projects — is available in a couple of electronic forms this year, for the first time at a Long Beach TED. First to drop: the TED2011 iPad app. Using some new software, Adobe []

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Curating humanity’s heritage: Elizabeth Lindsey on TED.com

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It’s been said that when an elder dies, it’s as if a library is burned. Anthropologist Elizabeth Lindsey, a National Geographic Fellow, collects the deep cultural knowledge passed down as stories and lore. (Recorded at TEDWomen, December 2010, in Washington, DC. Duration: 10:13) [ted id=1081] Watch Elizabeth Lindsey’s talk on TED.com where you can download []

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Playlist: TEDTalks from Fast Company’s influential women in tech

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Fast Company just released their 2011 list of the Most Influential Women in Technology, and four women with TEDTalks made the cut! Watch their talks below. At TEDWomen, director of MIT’s Personal Robots Group Cynthia Breazeal shares her designs for interactive, socially intelligent robots. [ted id=1070] Natalie Jeremijenko, director of the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic []

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Saving faces: Iain Hutchison on TED.com

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Facial surgeon Iain Hutchison works with people whose faces have been severely disfigured. By pushing to improve surgical techniques, he helps to improve their lives; and by commissioning their portraits, he celebrates their humanity. NOTE: This talk contains images of disfigured and badly injured faces that may be disturbing — and Hutchison provides thoughtful answers []

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The future of business is the “mesh”: Lisa Gansky on TED.com

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At TED@MotorCity, Lisa Gansky, author of “The Mesh,” talks about a future of business that’s about sharing all kinds of stuff, either via smart and tech-enabled rental or, more boldly, peer-to-peer. Examples across industries — from music to cars — show how close we are to this meshy future. (Recorded at TED@MotorCity, January 2011, in []

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Live on TED.com tomorrow: Ask IBM insiders about Watson, the Jeopardy computer

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP4Jc5rGT1A&w=640&h=390] IBM’s language-savvy computer Watson has been dominating against humans on the game show Jeopardy! for the past two nights, and makes his final appearance this evening. And tomorrow, live on TED.com, IBM is hosting an insider’s conversation about Watson with Watson’s principal investigator Dr. David Ferrucci, IBM Fellow Kerrie Holley, and Columbia professor of []

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Announcing TED Conversations!

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We’re thrilled to announce today the launch of TED Conversations, a new social platform on TED.com that connects people for conversation, collaboration and debate. TED Conversations was designed and built from the ground up to foster meaningful conversation among the global community who watch, share and discuss TEDTalks. Anyone who participates in online communities will []

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The linguistic genius of babies: Patricia Kuhl on TED.com

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At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another — by listening to the humans around them and “taking statistics” on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world. (Recorded at TEDxRainier, November 2010, []

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Reconnecting with compassion: Krista Tippett on TED.com

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The term “compassion” — typically reserved for the saintly or the sappy — has fallen out of touch with reality. At a special TEDPrize@UN, journalist Krista Tippett deconstructs the meaning of compassion through several moving stories, and proposes a new, more attainable definition for the word. (Recorded at TEDPrize@UN, November 2010, in New York, NY. []

New playlist: A Taste of TED2011

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In this new Theme on TED.com, catch up on TEDTalks from speakers who are coming to TED2011 with something fresh to share. Interestingly, only some of these speakers have appeared at a TED; others come from TEDx, from our content partners, or from the Best of the Web series. We’re pulling great ideas from all []