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TEDGlobal Day 4: What You Missed

TEDGlobal Day 4: What You Missed

  Text by Maria Popova; artwork by Len Kendall; photography by James Duncan Davidson / TED We've covered the first three days of TEDGlobal 2010,...

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TEDGlobal Day 3: What You Missed

TEDGlobal Day 3: What You Missed

  Text by Maria Popova; artwork by Len Kendall; photography by James Duncan Davidson / TED If you've been following the first two days of...

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TEDGlobal Day 2: What You Missed

TEDGlobal Day 2: What You Missed

  Text by Maria Popova; artwork by Len Kendall After a riveting first day, day two of TEDGlobal opened with a talk by Global...

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TEDGlobal Highlights: Day One

TEDGlobal Highlights: Day One

  Text by Maria Popova; artwork by Len Kendall "The world craves good news. It is not in good shape, and we all know it. Even those who don't...

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TED Global 2010: And Now The Good News

TED Global 2010: And Now The Good News

Text by Maria Popova; artwork by Len Kendall The TED Conference has long been a beacon of positive change. Since 1984, the annual gathering in...

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How Big is the Oil Spill in Relation to Your Home?

How Big is the Oil Spill in Relation to Your Home?

By now, the Gulf oil spill is without a doubt the most monumental environmental disaster of the past year, if not the past decade. But while we...

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Turning Good Intentions into Action

Turning Good Intentions into Action

How businesses and ordinary people can use small actions to ignite major change.The world is teaming with good ideas that go unrealized. One...

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Lomography: Analog Art in a Digital World

An interview with Lomographic Society North America CEO Ulli Barta. Last month, the iconic Lomography movement opened an ambitious retail space...

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Help Support Invisible Children: Bring The Polyphonic Spree to Uganda

In 2003, a small team of Southern California filmmakers made a gritty documentary exposing the chilling reality of the child soldier epidemic...

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Best of TED 2010: A Response!

Maria "Brainpicker" Popova saw our post The 10 Best Talks from TED 2010 and wondered aloud on Twitter if we maybe missed a few highlights (and...

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The Decade in Culture

Ten years of trucker hats, bad TV, and social media. It's been a colorful decade in culture. Green became the new black, black became the new...

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The Season's Hottest Item: Nothing

How to tame reckless consumerism while still scratching the shopping itch. This Friday marks the yearly pinnacle of conspicuous consumption-Black...

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New School: How the Web Liberalized Liberal Arts Education

A look at what the internet is doing for learning, curiosity, and creativity outside the traditional classroom. The average...

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The Greatest Guerrilla Art Mystery You've Never Heard Of (But May Have Walked Over)

The Greatest Guerrilla Art Mystery You've Never Heard Of (But May Have Walked Over)

The curious case of the Toynebee Tiles and their continuing legacy The most culturally revered street art is often wrapped in an element of...

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The New Hoax King: Penguins?

What is it about penguins that seems to invite all sorts of spoofs and hoaxes, and still remaining utterly endearing? As if the spotlight time...

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