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TED 2011: Hatching Dinosaurs, One Egg at a Time
LONG BEACH, California — You know the scene in Jurassic Park. Sam Neill’s character Dr. Alan Grant and a group of naïve visitors enter the dinosaur island’s birthing lab just at the moment a large egg...
View ArticleTED 2011: Google Street View Ride-a-Long in a Self-Driving Car (Video)
LONG BEACH, California – Google took backseat driving to a new level this week when it let participants at the Technology Entertainment and Design conference take a ride in its self-driving cars. The...
View ArticleTED 2011: Wael Ghonim — Voice of Egypt’s Revolution
LONG BEACH, California – The recent uprising in Egypt that toppled the country’s long-sitting president, had no leader and no single hero, according to Wael Ghonim, a Google marketing manager in Egypt...
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TED 2011: How ‘Gaga’ Becomes ‘Water’
LONG BEACH, Calif. – What does it take to get a one-year-old child from the infant utterances of “gaga” to the articulate pronunciation of “water?” In the case of Deb Roy’s infant son, it took three...
View ArticleTED 2011: Trash Tracker Follows Refuse Around Country
LONG BEACH, California — How far does your cell phone, printer cartridge or battery travel after you throw it out? In 2009 MIT’s Senseable City Lab invited 500 people in Seattle, Washington, to tag...
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TED 2011: Print-on-Demand Organs the Future of Medicine
LONG BEACH, California — Wouldn’t it be great if transplant patients could simply order up an organ, like a tailor-made suit of clothes? Better yet, what if they could have the organ created from their...
View ArticleTED 2011: Swedish Company Creates Flyovers in 3D
LONG BEACH, Calif. — What’s better than two-dimensional satellite images of Google Maps? How about photorealistic 3-D modeling of a flyover? C3 Technologies, a Swedish spinoff of the aerospace and...
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TED 2012: The Future of Medicine Is in the Paperwork
LONG BEACH, California — Aside from the high salary, the prestige and an overall aura of benevolence, for decades much of the allure of becoming a physician has been the sense of autonomy it affords....
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Social | Pseudoscience Saps the Power of TEDx Brand
The big brains at TED schooled their rabid audience Friday on the perils of pseudo-science. The ultimate warning: presenting bad science on the TEDx stage is grounds for revoking your license.
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Education | The Fastest, Fullest TED Conference Ever Starts Today
The annual Technology, Entertainment, and Design conference starts today in Long Beach, California, kicking off a week of talks from people like Elon Musk, Bono, and Amanda Palmer. We'll be covering...
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Watch the Best of PopTech, the TED for Real Thinkers
TED may be the reigning superstar of ideas conferences, but every October, in the tiny town of Camden, Maine, you can experience an equally formidable, if slightly lower-key, thought festival known as...
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