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Boldness: Roundup of TED2010, Session 8

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John Underkoffler: “Technology is capable of expressing generosity. And we need to demand that.” Sergey Brin: Our focus has really been what’s best for the Chinese people. George Church: “We’re not making life from scratch; we’re using all the tricks an engineer can use to leverage natural processes.” Dave Levin and Mike Feinberg of KIPP: []

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Breakthrough: Roundup of TED2010 Session 7

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Andrew Bird says what the world needs now is more reckless curiosity. Stephen Wolfram: Could it be that somewhere out there in the computational universe that we could find our physical universe? Gary Flake demos Pivot — a way to navigate the web as if it’s actually a web. Seth Berkley: “As variable as flu []

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TEDActive gets a buzz from "slow" coffee

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We visited the Intelligentsia Slow Coffee Bar in Bing’s Innovation Lounge to learn what slow coffee is, and hear about the simple approach that brews a perfect cup. “‘Slow coffee’ is an attempt to tackle the notion of quantity and convenience as what defines good coffee. We think the quality of the cup is the []

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Invention: Roundup of TED2010 Session 6

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OMG, the LXD. Many more photos here >> Jane McGonigal: “An entire generation of young people are virtuoso gamers. We need to figure out exactly what skills they’re honing.” David Byrne: “Like the birds, our joy is always there. We just change it to fit the context.” Jake Shimabukuro jamming with Ethel. Blaise Aguera y []

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Provocation: Roundup of TED2010, Session 5

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Starting the session, former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson calls for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons. “It’s a wake-up call we need.” Michael Sandel: “We need to rediscover the lost art of democratic argument.” Christopher “m00t” Poole: “I asked 4chan what I should say at TED. And I got 12,000 responses in about 24 []

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Reason: Roundup of TED2010, Session 4

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(Photo credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson) Michael Specter: “You’re entitled to your own opinion — but you’re not entitled to your own facts.” (Photo credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson) Sam Harris: “Does the Taliban have a point of view on physics that is worth considering? … No.” (Photo credit: TED / James Duncan []

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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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Discovery: Roundup of TED2010, Session 2

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(Photo credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson) Cheryl Hayashi: “We call that the ‘business end’ of the spider. Hey, don’t laugh. That’s my life!” (Photo credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson) William Li: “What we eat is really our chemotherapy.” (Photo credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson) Carter Emmart guides us to the horizon of []

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Mindshift: Roundup of TED2010, Session 1

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(Photo credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson) On understanding happiness, Daniel Kahneman says we must distinguish between “the experiencing self” and “the remembering self.” (Photo credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson) Esther Duflo: “We cannot helicopter people out of poverty.” (Photo credit: TED / Richard Lewis) David Cameron says a post-bureaucratic world is emerging. Its []