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An annual conference held in Monterey, California and semi-annually in other cities around the world. TED describes itself as a "group of remarkable people that gather to exchange ideas of incalculable value".

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Ted Talks: Dan Barber: A Surprising Parable of Foie Gras http://www.ted.com At the Taste3 conference, chef Dan Barber tells the story of a small farm in Spain that has found a humane way to produce foie gras. Raising his geese in a natural environment, farmer Eduardo Sousa embodies the kind of food production Barber believes in. Nov 26, 2008 8:25 AM

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Ted Talks: Bill Joy: What I'm Worried about, What I'm Excited about http://www.ted.com Technologist and futurist Bill Joy talks about several big worries for humanity -- and several big hopes in the fields of health, education and future tech. Nov 25, 2008 9:25 AM

Headline Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 991 Comments: 2

Ted Talks: George Smoot: The Design of the Universe At Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos -- with its giant webs of dark matter and mysterious gaping voids -- got built this way. Nov 21, 2008 11:24 AM

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Ted Talks: Isaac Mizrahi: Fashion, Passion, and about a Million Other http://www.ted.com Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi spins through a dizzying array of inspirations -- from '50s pinups to a fleeting glimpse of a hole in a shi... Nov 20, 2008 12:26 PM

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Ted Talks: Franco Sacchi: Welcome to Nollywood http://www.ted.com Zambia-born filmmaker Franco Sacchi tours us through Nollywood, Nigeria's booming film industry (the world's 3rd largest). Guerrilla filmmaking and brilliance under pressure from crews that can shoot a full-length feature in a week. Nov 20, 2008 12:26 PM

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Ted Talks: Stewart Brand: Building a Home for the Clock of the Long Now http://www.ted.com Stewart Brand works on the Clock of the Long Now, a timepiece that counts down the next 10,000 years. It's a beautiful project that asks us to think about the far, far future. Here, he discusses a tricky side problem with the Clock: Where can we put it? Nov 18, 2008 12:29 PM

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Ted Talks: Ursus Wehrli: Tidying up Art http://www.ted.com Ursus Wehrli shares his vision for a cleaner, more organized, tidier form of art -- by deconstructing the paintings of modern masters into their component pieces, sorted by color and size. Nov 14, 2008 10:27 AM

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Ted Talks: Charles Elachi: The Story of the Mars Rovers http://www.ted.com At Serious Play 2008, Charles Elachi shares stories from NASA's legendary Jet Propulsion Lab -- including tales and video from the Mars Rover project. Nov 13, 2008 11:25 AM

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Ted Talks: Samantha Power: Shaking Hands with the Devil http://www.ted.com Samantha Power tells a story of a complicated hero, Sergio Vieira de Mello. This UN diplomat walked a thin moral line, negotiating with the world's worst dictators to help their people survive crisis. It's a compelling story told with a fiery passion. Nov 12, 2008 11:24 AM

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Ted Talks: Lee Smolin: How Science is like Democracy http://www.ted.com Physicist Lee Smolin talks about how the scientific community works: as he puts it, "we fight and argue as hard as we can," but everyone accepts that the next generation of scientists will decide who's right. And, he says, that's how democracy works, too. Nov 11, 2008 11:25 AM

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Ted Talks: Luca Turin: The Science of Scent The explanation of the mechanism of smell seems somewhat implausible, but, yes, there are a variety of ways one could make a nanoscale IR spectrometer. Another option would be to look for resonant energy transfer, not between a tunnelling electron, but between a vibrational excitation in another molecule and the test molecule. Nov 10, 2008 12:47 PM

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Ted Talks: Tim Brown: The Powerful Link between Creativity and Play http://www.ted.com At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn't). Nov 10, 2008 11:23 AM

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Ted Talks: John Francis: I Walk the Earth For almost three decades, John Francis has been a planetwalker, traveling the globe by foot and sail with a message of environmental respect and responsibility (for 10 of those years without speaking). A funny, thoughtful talk with occasional banjo. Nov 6, 2008 11:23 AM

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Ted Talks: James Surowiecki: The Moment when Social Media Became the Ne http://www.ted.com James Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when YouTube video, blogs, IMs and txts carried the news -- and preserved moving personal stories from the tragedy. Nov 5, 2008 12:27 PM

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Ted Talks: Graham Hawkes: Fly the Seas on a Submarine with Wings http://www.ted.com Graham Hawkes takes us aboard his graceful, winged submarines to the depths of planet Ocean (a.k.a. "Earth"). It's a deep blue world we landlubbers rarely see in 3D. Nov 4, 2008 3:22 PM

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