October 2011
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TEDx: TEDx Teams Up With IDEO to Relaunch "TEDx in... →
tedx: TEDx has teamed up with IDEO.org to launch the second phase of the TEDx in a Box initiative, first launched in December of last year. The IDEO.org team – Emily, Marika and Robin — were excited to work on their first project as IDEO.org fellows: Emily: “I’m thrilled to be on…
Oct 18th
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Oct 14th
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Oct 13th
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Oct 13th
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Oct 13th
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Oct 12th
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Oct 12th
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Oct 11th
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Oct 11th
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Oct 11th
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Oct 11th
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September 2011
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TEDx: Weekly TEDxTalks Playlist →
tedx: Hundreds of talks from independently organized TEDx events around the world are published on the TEDxTalks website daily. Each Tuesday, we’ll choose four of our favorites, highlighting just a few of the enlightening talks from TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of ideas worth…
Sep 28th
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Sep 27th
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“The miracle of your mind isn’t that you can see the world as it is. It’s that...”
– Kathryn Schulz (via tedquotes)
Sep 26th
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Sep 26th
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Sep 15th
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Sep 15th
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Sep 13th
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Sep 11th
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Sep 11th
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Sep 11th
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Sep 8th
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TEDx: Thursday TEDx Talks Playlist →
tedx: Hundreds of talks from independently organized TEDx events around the world are published on the TEDxTalks website daily. Each Tuesday and Thursday, we’ll choose four of our favorites, highlighting just a few of the enlightening talks from TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of ideas…
Sep 2nd
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August 2011
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Aug 30th
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Aug 30th
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Playlist: To infinity and beyond
(TED is on its annual two-week vacation. During the break, we’re posting playlists from the TEDTalks archive. We’ll be back with new talks on August 29th.) The wonderful thing about the universe is not just how big it is, but how every time we look into it we find something new and extraordinary. Here are four talks about the vastness of space, and the things that may or may not be found in it. ...
Aug 26th
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TEDx: Thursday TEDx Talks Playlist →
tedx: Hundreds of talks from independently organized TEDx events around the world are published on the TEDxTalks website daily. Each Tuesday and Thursday, we’ll choose four of our favorites, highlighting just a few of the enlightening talks from TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of ideas…
Aug 25th
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Playlist: All kinds of minds
(TED is on its annual two-week vacation. During the break, we’re posting playlists from the TEDTalks archive. We’ll be back with new talks on August 29th.) “If you could only see the world the way I see it …” Four TEDTalks from non-neurotypical thinkers, people whose minds work in extraordinary and unusual ways. 1) Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks...
Aug 25th
“It is a story about people, us, being persuaded to spend money we don’t have, on...”
– Tim Jackson (via tedquotes)
Aug 24th
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Playlist: Male call
(TED is on its annual two-week vacation. During the break, we’re posting playlists from the TEDTalks archive. We’ll be back with new talks on August 29th.) It ain’t easy being a guy. The stoic and monosyllabic John Wayne/Clint Eastwood/Gary Cooper cliché that was once regarded as the apex of male emotional development can hobble our understanding of how men can develop more richly, researchers...
Aug 24th
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Playlist: Artfully unconventional
(TED is on its annual two-week vacation. During the break, we’re posting playlists from the TEDTalks archive. We’ll be back with new talks on August 29th.) Art can be beautiful, inspirational, thought-provoking, and… funny? Here are four talks by artists across the spectrum. How do you stage an international art show with work from 100 different artists? If you’re Shea Hembrey,...
Aug 24th
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Playlist: You did what?
(TED is on its annual two-week vacation. During the break, we’re posting playlists from the TEDTalks archive. We’ll be back with new talks on August 29th.) From the day-to-day to the once-in-a-lifetime, sometimes people are driven to do extraordinary things. Here are five talks about jobs and adventures that will make your jaw drop, and maybe inspire you undertake your own spectacular feats. ...
Aug 23rd
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Playlist: High energy! Four speakers who bounce...
(TED is on its annual two-week vacation. During the break, we’re posting playlists from the TEDTalks archive. We’ll be back with new talks on August 29th.) To propel us into the week: four speakers whose infectious high energy animates what they have to say. 1) Clifford Stoll captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides — and even a...
Aug 22nd
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Playlist: 5 Mindshifting talks on happiness
(TED is on its annual two-week vacation. During the break, we’re posting playlists from the TEDTalks archive. We’ll be back with new talks on August 29th.) Happiness seems simple, yet the more we look into it, the more layers and complexities we find. Here are five TEDTalks that will transform how you view happiness, and how to achieve it. 1) Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness,...
Aug 19th
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Playlist: TEDActive’s Finest
(TED is on its annual two-week vacation. During the break, we’re posting playlists from the TEDTalks archive. We’ll be back with new talks on August 29th.) Today’s playlist are some of our favorite TEDTalks to come out from TEDActive in sunny Palm Springs, California. Sebastian Wernicke shares a hilarious statistical analysis of TEDTalks to come up with a metric for creating “the optimum...
Aug 18th
Playlist: The truth about stories
(TED is on its annual two-week vacation. During the break, we’re posting playlists from the TEDTalks archive. We’ll be back with new talks on August 29th.) Elif and Chimamanda’s perspectives bring us to look at stories through the eyes of those who weave them and Jonathan offers his own story up as one who covets the tales of others. This collection reminds us to examine the bigger picture...
Aug 17th
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Playlist: Be here now
(TED is on its annual two-week vacation. During the break, we’re posting playlists from the TEDTalks archive. We’ll be back with new talks on August 29th.) Some moments sparkle, and in their brevity lies their beauty. We look at the sheer joy of a glorious (and sometimes transcendent) moment, captured. Derek Sivers: How to start a movement: Naturally 7 beatboxes a whole band: LXD: In...
Aug 16th
“It’s the starlight that sets the stage for the formation of life in the universe”
– Lucianne Walkowicz (via tedquotes)
Aug 15th
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Playlist: Nature, Nature, Nature
(TED is on its annual two-week vacation. During the break, we’re posting playlists from the TEDTalks archive. We’ll be back with new talks on August 29th.) We live amongst it. We live away from it. We live with it. We live in spite of it. We love it. We hate it. Regardless of how we feel about it, we can all learn a great deal from it. Nature! From an inspiring career that spans four decades to...
Aug 15th
“I am the life-force power of the universe.”
– Jill Bolte Taylor (via tedquotes)
Aug 9th
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TEDTalks from the Time 100
What do 13% of the people on the 2011 Time 100 list have in common? You can watch their TEDTalk online. Explore the full Time 100 list — billed as your chance to “Meet the most influential people in the world” — and meet the folks who overlap on the TEDTalks-Time 100 Venn diagram: Wael Ghonim in Time; watch his TEDTalk » Julian Assange in Time; watch his...
Aug 9th