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Exclusive photos: The LXD in rehearsal

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This morning, we shared the LXD’s tremendous TED2010 performance with the world. But on the night before TED started, some of us on staff got a private preview, when we snuck away from our pre-TED prep to watch them practice for the first time on the TED stage. Photographer Duncan Davidson caught these intimate shots []

New Best of the Web talks: Bobby McFerrin, Sean Carroll

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Sean Carroll on the arrow of time At the University of Sydney, cosmologist Sean Carroll gives an entertaining and thought-provoking talk about the nature of time, the origin of entropy, and how what happened before the Big Bang might be responsible for the arrow of time we observe today. Watch Part 1 of Sean Carroll’s []

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Sergey Brin on Google’s China decision

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TED BLOG EXCLUSIVE: Onstage at TED2010, TED curator Chris Anderson interviews Google’s Sergey Brin about the company’s recent statement on China. (Recorded at TED2010, in Long Beach, California, February 2010. Duration: 8:24.) CA: What happened? SB: Our story somewhat parallels what Shyam just told you all about. We initially began investigating a security incident at []

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Photoblog: Nexus One love

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Above and below: Unboxing and powerup in Palm Springs. Photos: TED / Michael Brands Below: Google specialists in the Dome help TEDsters get set up; and at bottom, a Nexus One in the wild. Photos: TED / Marla Aufmuth

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Photoblog: The Summit social space

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The Summit social space, supported by Workspring, is a calm and private place to hold small meetings and conversations during TED breaks. With projection screens, conference tables and thoughtful attendants, it’s a place to incubate ideas inspired by TED and have meaningful conversations — like this one, below, held in the front conference room of []

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Maybe a new street sign is what the world needs now

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What’s the best way to keep automobile traffic moving calmly and rationally through an intersection? It’s not a stoplight, it’s not a stop sign, and it’s not a yield sign (who knows what to do at a yield?). In Session 6, Gary Lauder suggests we “Take Turns.” Roundabouts are the best way to build intersections, []

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Demo: Where to get Pivot

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In Session 7, Breakthrough, Gary Flake demo’ed Pivot, amazing new data visualization tech from Microsoft Live Labs. Learn more here and, if you have a PC, download Pivot and play. Learn more about Pivot here at PressPass (you may need to install Silverlight) and on YouTube.

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Photoblog: The Global Village social space

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Above, TED Senior Fellow Juliana Machado Ferreira watches TED in simulcast at the Global Village, a social space dedicated to the TED Fellows program. Supported by the Kauffman Foundation, the Global Village sports comfy cushion seating (below) and a touchscreen (bottom) for pinpointing the home countries of the TED Fellows and Senior Fellows at Long []

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Photoblog: Block Party with Ozomatli

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TED’s photo editor Mike Femia digs this picture above: “It looks like an impressionist painting, but in neon lights.” From the Wednesday-night Block Party on Pine Street in Long Beach, with the amazing Ozomatli (below). More pics from the Block Party >> Photos: TED / James Duncan Davidson

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Photoblog: The Imaginarium

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In the Imaginarium, GE created an environment for listening to TEDTalks and then sharing reactions and inspirations, using a glowing, multipart multimedia sculpture that recorded thoughts and ideas from TEDsters. (You can see some of the feedback on Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ demo in the postroll at the end of his TEDTalk.) Below, a detail []