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Architecture

TED's got the look

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I could lose my blogging privileges for this, but I felt like someone had to point out TED’s Headquarters brightening up the pages of this week’s New York Magazine. Being that the one-year mark has long since past, it seems our “global new-media migrant” has finally found a home in NYC…

TED Guest Bloggers: David Hornik, Diego Rodriguez

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As many of you have noticed, there are some new voices on the TEDBlog. Over the months to come, Chris and I will share this space with guest bloggers from the TED community, whose perspective and style we think you’ll enjoy. Starting us off is David Hornik, a contributor since December, who brought you such […]

TED2007: Icons. Geniuses. Mavericks.

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This evening we unveiled the theme for next year’s TED, and we’re viewing it internally as our most ambitious so far. The past few TEDs have each had a broad content theme:"The Pursuit of Happiness", "Inspired by Nature", "The Future We Will Create." TED2007 will be different. Instead of a subject-matter theme, we are simply […]

Music

Last night's TED Salon at Joe's Pub

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Boy, what a magical night. Here’s Thomas Dolby’s review…—————–Joe’s Pub was the perfect venue to meet TED friends and enjoy three excellent bands. It’s been a while since I enjoyed an evening of music so much. Joe’s booker Bill Bragin is known as one of New York’s greatest champions of new talent, and it was […]

Science

Lisa Randall to bring extra dimensions to TED2006

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The work of the theoretical physicist dangles just beyond easy comprehension: A world of multiple dimensions, vibrating strings and conceptual leaps, through which only an expert guide can lead you. Enter Lisa Randall, Harvard professor and pioneering string theorist, who’ll take us on a tour of the world’s extra dimensions at TED2006. Randall’s work centers […]

Honorary TEDster: August Wilson, 1945 – 2005

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When Radio Golf opened this year at the Yale Repertory Theater, we knew it was the right moment to invite August Wilson to TED. Who better to talk about creating the future than the charismatic Wilson, who set out in 1985 to write a series of ground-breaking plays, chronicling the lives of African Americans in […]

Technology

Time for time-shifted cellular?

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Big discovery for me this year is that the key enabling digital technology in the developing world is probably NOT the computer, but the cell-phone.– TEDster Tom Standage wrote a brilliant cover story  in The Economist to this effect.– Iqbal Quadir‘s talk at TEDGLOBAL offered further powerful evidence via the astonishing story of Grameen Phone– […]

Architecture

TED Prize Winner: Cameron Sinclair

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Cameron Sinclair‘s mantra: Design like you give a damn. He’s the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, a non-profit that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crises and brings design services to communities in need. This past year has been a busy one for Cameron, with the tsunami, Katrina and the earthquake in Pakistan. He’s become the […]

Biology

TED Prize Winner: Larry Brilliant

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It’s difficult to resist making a pun around the name Larry Brilliant. Board-certified in preventive medicine and public health, Larry lived in India for 10 years — first at a Himalayan monastery, and later as a diplomat working for the UN. He helped lead the successful WHO smallpox-eradication program and later founded the Seva Foundation, […]

Film

TED Prize Winner: Jehane Noujaim

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Jehane Noujaim is the gutsy filmmaker behind Control Room, the controversial documentary following events at Al Jazeera — the largest Arab news network — from the onset of the Iraq war. Jehane left for Qatar two weeks before the US invasion and gained access to both Al Jazeera and the US Military’s Central Command. She […]

Welcome, TEDsters

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Bowing to extraordinary public pressure, we are pleased to unveil the new TEDBLOG … a little taste of ongoing TEDness for those who feel that once a year just isn’t enough. The plan is to add a few items every week…  to titillate, intrigue and delight.  Matters scientific, techie, creative, entertaining and… well, anything that […]