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Jeff Smith: The rest of his political incarceration story
Jeff Smith was blown away by some of the brilliant business ideas he heard while spending 366 days in prison between 2009 and 2010. “[Prison] was teeming with smart, ambitious men whose business...
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6 talks about problems with patents
The Wright Brothers’ flying machine took off from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903. Credited as the first to successfully fly an airplane, the Wright Brothers were one of several in...
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11 fascinating “peers incorporated” businesses
Robin Chase, the founder of Zipcar, is proud of her company’s emphasis on sharing. But now, a decade later, “it’s really time to push the envelope,” she says in today’s talk filmed at TEDGlobal 2012....
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Adam Davidson on the fiscal cliff, cable TV, $4000 suits, the giant pool of...
The term “fiscal cliff” is controversial. So Adam Davidson, the New York Times Magazine columnist and co-host of NPR’s Planet Money, prefers to call it “the self-imposed, self-destructive arbitrary...
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Favorites of 2012: On being wrong about business talks
Business talks are boring. Among all the things I was certain of when I started writing for TED, that one was near the top of the list, just under ‘ice is cold’ and ‘brains are gooey.’ I worked as a...
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On our reading list: The Icarus Deception by Seth Godin
Icarus is a mythological character with incredible staying power. Everyone knows his story — his dad made him wings to help him escape the minotaur’s labyrinth, and warned him not to fly too close to...
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Why you need to fail to have a great career
At TEDxUW 2011, economics professor Larry Smith gave a memorable talk titled, “Why you will fail to have a great career.” Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great careerThe hilarious talk takes...
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7 talks with big ideas for hiring
Some employees can work 9am to 5pm, five days a week. Others are available on evenings and weekends. But in today’s talk, filmed at the TEDSalon in London, entrepreneur Wingham Rowan describes another...
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Caine Monroy of Caine’s Arcade takes the TEDx stage
It’s just a beautiful story: a 9-year-old creates a homemade arcade out of cardboard and invites the world to come play with him. Filmmaker Nirvan Mullick was thoroughly transfixed when he stumbled...
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Who controls the world? Resources for understanding this visualization of the...
Occupy Wall Street’s slogan “We are the 99%” had been echoing through the United States and the world for just over a month when James B. Glattfelder and his co-authors released the study “The Network...
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How to pick the charity that’s right for you
In 1994, Dan Pallotta created the AIDS Rides — a series of long-distance fundraising cycling journeys that netted $108 million for HIV/AIDS research and services within the space of eight years....
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12 talks about the future of cars, planes and rockets
On March 1 — just two days after Elon Musk appeared on the TED2013 stage — a SpaceX CRS-2 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on a resupply mission for the International Space Station. Two days...
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Unlikely collaborations: 5 TED Talks that reach across fields
Architecture and microbiology may seem like an odd couple, but TED Senior Fellow Jessica Green would beg to differ. In today’s talk, she reveals what’s teeming all over the surfaces around us, and how...
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New TED Book turns critical eye on Keystone XL Pipeline
The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would stretch 1,700 miles from Western Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas. And it has become a touchstone for the bitter fight over America’s energy future. Opponents...
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Five big ideas from TED@Intel
TED@Intel brought together 18 speakers from within the tech company. Photo: Shawn D. Morgan Last week, Intel hosted a unique event — an afternoon of TED Talks delivered by their very own resident...
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What motivates us at work? 7 fascinating studies that give insights
“When we think about how people work, the naïve intuition we have is that people are like rats in a maze,” says behavioral economist Dan Ariely in today’s talk, given at TEDxRiodelaPlata. “We really...
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The future of work and innovation: Robert Gordon and Erik Brynjolfsson debate...
Robert Gordon: The death of innovation, the end of growthEconomists Robert Gordon and Erik Brynjolffson see very different things when they look at the stagnation of the U.S. economy in recent years....
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Walking meetings? 5 surprising thinkers who swore by them
Nilofer Merchant’s boots at TED2013 were certainly made for walking. Photo: James Duncan Davidson In today’s talk, Nilofer Merchant gives a startling statistic: we’re sitting, on average, for 9.3 hours...
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The future of the U.S. economy: TED fans join in the Robert Gordon/Erik...
Robert Gordon and Erik Brynolfsson debated their opposing views of where the economy is headed at TED2013. Last week, they brought the debate to a TED Conversation. Photos: James Duncan Davidson Last...
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What happens after the droids take our jobs? Andrew McAfee at TED2013
Photos: James Duncan Davidson Rodney Brooks says robots will invade our lives The rise of droids Andrew McAfee starts his TED2013 talk by making a forecast: “In the world that we’re creating very...
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