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• Um jovem do Malawi, os moínhos de vento e o papel das redes sociais

  
  BioTerra — Authority: 137
  William Kamkwamba Agora também é a vez do BioTerra de contar a história de William Kamkwamba William Kamkwamba, do Malawi, é um inventor nato. Com 14 anos, construiu um moinho de vento a partir de sucata, com base em esquemas rudimentares que descobriu num livro da biblioteca local intitulado ...
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• Shashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue "soft" power | Video on TED.com

  
  Share and Smile — Authority: 104
  Indias Foreing Affairs Minister (State) at TED talk. He talks about Indias development over the year. Very useful talk. His english is superb. Listen and learn. Here i go. Over to Shashi. Shashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue "soft" power | Video on TED.com
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• The Best of TED: A Stroke of Insight?

  
  Open Culture — Authority: 590
  Last week, we waded into the best of TED debate . What’s the best TED Talk out there? It’s hard to say. Purely subjective. But we can say one thing. Jill Bolte Taylor’s “Stroke of Insight” talk reaches the top of many lists. What happens when a neuroanatomist experiences a massive stroke and feels all the ...
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• Bollywood and Indianness

  
  Just Jo — Authority: 121
  I have time and again pondered over the pitiful situation that we have as Bollywood as a brand name representing Indian cinema to the world outside ( just google with “bollywood+jocalling” to see my posts on this topic ). For a long time, it used to be the self-styled ambassadors of Hindi cinema who keeps ...
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• Excel Links – Learn Excel Online Edition

  
  Pointy Haired Dilbert: Charting & Excel Tips - Chandoo.org — Authority: 468
  Recently I have conducted a survey on my blog to find out your pulse on PHD. Quite a few survey respondents have told me that PHD needs a topic-wise archive so that you can learn excel easily. So over the weekend I have prepared a webpage where you can find topic-wise posts on excel and charting. Go check out the ...
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• Did Negroponte Predict This in 1984?

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 589
  This morning Mashable and other tech blogs reported that Amazon set a new sales record for the Kindle in November. Interestingly, this morning I also watched this TED Talk filmed in 1984 in which Nicholas Negroponte predicted that some day we would be reading books on small screens. It seems that Negroponte was ...
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• The Secret of Happiness is . . .

  
  ROTUS — Authority: 104
  “low expectations.” Barry Schwartz, psychologist and Swarthmore College professor’s compelling argument for limited choices. Did you ever notice that poor people seem to be happier than rich ones? Merry Christmas.
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• English For International use

  
  Share and Smile — Authority: 104
  Here is a useful TED India video. It is about English language and its different uses in the international sphere. As the world is but a comity of nations dependent on each other for various needs and requirements like financial, political, economic, social, bilateral or multi-lateral nature the language of English ...
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• AN IDEA ABOUT IDEAS…

  
  Have Coffee Will Write — Authority: 147
  With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -– mathematically and scientifically -- that only computers can.
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• Show Thanks For Your Teachers, Mentors & Role Models

  
  ThrillingHeroics.com — Authority: 113
  Feature photo by chanchan222 For readers from the States, I wish you a happy Thanksgiving! A few months ago, I was thinking about all the individuals who have helped shape the course of my life and the person I am today. I’ve been extremely fortunate to have the guidance of some brilliant minds and to surround ...
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• Storytelling with Data: Statistics Tell a Story

  
  The Unquiet Librarian — Authority: 418
  Presentation Zen: Hans Rosling & the art of storytelling with statistics via kwout Earlier this week, I urged librarians to think about ways to tell your library’s story.  Here is a cool post from Garr Reynolds’ Presentation Zen blog, “ Hans Rosling and The Art of Storytelling with Statistics .”   ...
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• A FUTURE FOR SPACE EXPLORATION…

  
  Have Coffee Will Write — Authority: 147
  In this passionate talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts the US government-funded space program for stagnating and asks entrepreneurs to pick up where NASA has left off.
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• Great Guy Gift : Manspaces

  
  dakini notes — Authority: 112
  Sam Martin : Manspaces A Primal Guide to Marking Your Territory   Fab site! Manspaces.com From the book:    You know you need your space, but what’s the answer? Manspace! It’s the shot in the arm, the rallying cry, the inspiration for guys like you to take back a little piece of territory, to have ...
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• Tim Brown Talking about Design on TED Talks

  
  ChicTip.com — Authority: 141
  Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects — even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory “design thinking.”
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• Your Favorite TED Talk Ever?

  
  Open Culture — Authority: 590
  What’s the best TED Talk ever? That’s the little debate taking place on Reddit.com , and the answer is not obvious, seeing that TED now has over 500 talks available in its archive. (You can find a constantly updated list of every TED Talk in a  Google spreadsheet here .) Now, what are some of the Reddit ...
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• RECALLING SPUTNIK…

  
  Have Coffee Will Write — Authority: 147
  About this talkFilmmaker David Hoffman shares footage from his feature-length documentary Sputnik Mania, which shows how the Soviet Unions launch of Sputnik in 1957 led to both the space race and the arms race -- and jump-started science and math education around the world.
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• SO HOW DO YOU USE AN ASTROLABE ANYWAY…?

  
  Have Coffee Will Write — Authority: 147
  Rather than demo another new technology, Tom Wujec reaches back to one of our earliest but most ingenious devices -- the astrolabe. With thousands of uses, from telling time to mapping the night sky, this old tech reminds us that the ancient can be as brilliant as the brand-new.
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• MOBILES FIGHT POVERTY…

  
  Have Coffee Will Write — Authority: 147
  Iqbal Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi -- and to become a champion of bottom-up development.
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• Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data

  
  Learn Free Internet Marketing Learn Free Internet Marketing Strategies using Video, Articles, Social Networking, Social Media, Web 2.0, Blogs, Affiliate Marketing — Authority: 168
  www.ted.com 20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best [...]
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• CREATING NEW CREATURES…

  
  Have Coffee Will Write — Authority: 147
  Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move -- and even survive -- on their own.
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