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TED2012: What's next for planet earth?
Day two of TED2012 in Long Beach, California featuring Regina Dugan, Paul Gilding and Peter Diamandis• All times PT8.30am: And we're back!Day 2 of TED2012 is just about to kick off and the first...
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Ted Talks: the buzz from Long Beach
Are we headed for doomsday or utopia? Weigh in on the experts' chatter from the most anticipated geekfests of the yearA war of ideals has broken out at TED 2012. Peter Diamandis and Paul Gilding have...
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Flying robot quadrotors have better rhythm than you
Robotics scientists at TED unleash co-ordinated drones that mimic bird behavior to play the James Bond theme songAt TED2012, the University of Pennsylvania's deputy dean for education Vijay Kuma showed...
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TED2012 live - day three from Long Beach
Latest updates from the California brain buffet, which today features our own Jon Ronson. All times are Pacific Time8.42am: Good morning11.00am:And we're back!It's day 3 of TED2012, and the next...
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TED2012: the final countdown
Liveblogging the last day of TED Long Beach, Davos for optimists'9.13am:And we're back. It's the fourth and final day of TED2012 and it's been quite a ride.We've had multiverses, miracle new fuels,...
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TED 2012: 10 innovations that could help shape a better world
A week before our own TEDxObserver event, the annual TED festival in California unleashed another collection of ideas, from how to transform medicine to why we should learn to be aloneLIQUID METAL...
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Apps Rush: Monty Python, TED, Mass Effect Infiltrator, The World in Figures,...
What's new on the app stores on Tuesday 6 March 2012A selection of 10 new apps for you today:Monty Python: The Holy Book of DaysThe Monty Python team have gone "back to their vaults" to find outtakes,...
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TEDxObserver 2012 - live updates
Follow the latest updates from Sadler's Wells in London as TEDxObserver kicks off for a second year9.03am: A very good morning to you from Sadler's Wells in London, where excitement is mounting ahead...
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TEDxObserver: Day of inspiration shows power of youth
The Observer's festival of ideas showed how music, technology, food and science can change everyone's lives for the better"I started to write an album that would try to reach out to these kids and, in...
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TEDx stages Mogadishu conference to celebrate city's 'rebirth'
US brand of inspirational speakers takes its 'ideas worth spreading' to the final frontier: Somalia"I love Mogadishu, I love Mogadishu, I love Mogadishu!" chanted Amir Issa, a Somali businessman and...
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TEDGlobal 2012: 'The more you give away the more you get back'
Bruno Giussani explains the theory of 'radical openness' that underpins his strategy for a changing worldFirst there was "open" – open source, open tech, open journalism. And now? Prepare yourself for...
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Satellites in the shed? TEDGlobal announces the new DIY revolution
The latest edition of the ideas festival at Edinburgh was abuzz with the 'maker movement': a phenomenon that aims to take manufacturing out of factories and put it into people's homesOnce upon a time,...
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The 'chemputer' that could print out any drug
When Lee Cronin learned about the concept of 3D printers, he had a brilliant idea: why not turn such a device into a universal chemistry set that could make its own drugs?Professor Lee Cronin is a...
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Is your idea to change the world worth $1m?
TED is offering $1m to a 'brilliant visionary' – and the Observer has been asked to nominate somebodyFancy a million dollars? Have an idea to change the world? Then step this way. The Observer has been...
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TEDx video: Data journalism and punk
Is data journalism the new punk? Datablog editor Simon Rogers gave this talk at the recent TEDx Pantheon-Sorbonne in ParisRelated readingData journalism is the new punkMore dataMore data journalism and...
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'Factivism' for every field: why Bono is right to want more data and evidence...
The U2 singer declared his support for evidence-based action at a recent TED talk – a surprisingly rare idea these daysI admire Bono's passion for righting wrong and the commitment he's made to making...
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Google's Sergey Brin: smartphones are 'emasculating'
Search giant's co-founder confuses TED audience as he promotes Google Glass headset – and may irk Android usersSmartphones are "emasculating" – at least according to Sergey Brin, the co-founder of...
View ArticleScience Weekly podcast: The dawn of an era of de-extinction
On this week's edition of Science Weekly presented by Camila Ruz, we hear from the UK's leading conservationist Prof Kate Jones, joint chair of ecology and biodiversity at University College London and...
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TED comes to the Vatican with Gloria Estefan as speaker
Italian cardinal and Muslim graffiti artist from Birmingham will also speak at TEDx event with theme of religious freedomThe raison d'être of the glamorous and globally renowned TED conferences is the...
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(Don't) Respect my Authority | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics
A venue, a role, an award, can lend authority. But it's only a loan.Next month there will be a TEDxCERN event. We'll also be linking to it with an event at UCL, and one of my colleagues is speaking...
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