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TED News in Brief: Wired profiles Sugata Mitra, while Andrew Bird plays a concert for the National Parks

on Oct 15, 2013

Over the past week, we’ve noticed a lot of TED-related news items in the ether. Here, some highlights: A fascinating new article in Wired takes a look at 12-year-old Paloma Noyola Bueno, a schoolgirl in Mexico whose classroom got an intense shake-up from teacher Sergio Juárez Correa, with incredible results. So what inspired Correa to […]

A one-man orchestra of the imagination: Andrew Bird on TED.com

By Shanna Carpenter

on Nov 5, 2010

Musical innovator Andrew Bird winds together his trademark violin technique with xylophone, vocals and sophisticated electronic looping. Add in his uncanny ability to whistle anything, and he becomes a riveting one-man orchestra. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, California. Duration: 19:20) [ted id=1001] Watch Andrew Bird’s performance on TED.com where you can download […]