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• Visions of the future of flying at the TEDGlobal conference

  
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  The concept plane designed by Airbus. Although, it may not seem like the best way to fly, an aircraft with a lace-like structure is one of a range of radical ideas about how we may travel in the future.     A model of the aircraft, designed by Airbus, was shown off at the TEDGlobal [...]
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• Got social problems? Business can help: Michael Porter at TEDGlobal 2013

  
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  Photo: James Duncan Davidson Harvard Business School professor  Michael Porter  is here to make the case that business can help tackle social problems. Issues such as healthcare, access to water and climate change are bread-and-butter concerns for TEDsters in the room, who clearly agree with his early statement ...
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• Matters of the heart: RuthAnne at TEDGlobal 2013

  
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  Photo: James Duncan Davidson As this amazing week of TEDGlobal 2013 winds to a close with Session 8: Altogether Now, the audience is still reeling from a shocking talk on the mighty roots of corruption by Charmian Gooch , founder of Global Witness. What better to help soothe the soul than the rich and sultry voice ...
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• Want to be happy? Be grateful: Brother David Steindl-Rast at TEDGlobal 2013

  
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  Photo: James Duncan Davidson David Steindl-Rast is a monk, and a composed, serene figure to wrap up the last session of TEDGlobal 2013. His theme, gratefulness, is also appropriate for the end of a long and intense week. After all, he points out, we all share the same essential goal: to be happy. And gratitude ...
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• Why I open-sourced cures to my cancer: Salvatore Iaconesi at TEDGlobal 2013

  
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  Photo: James Duncan Davidson “This was my cancer,” TED Fellow Salvatore Iaconesi begins his TEDGlobal talk, showing a slide of brain scans taken last summer, when he was diagnosed with brain cancer at age 39. Since the moment Iaconesi heard the word “cancer” come out of his doctors’ mouth, he noticed ...
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• In the flow: Tim Exile remixes TEDGlobal 2013

  
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  Photo: James Duncan Davidson Tim Exile was a child violinist. But the first time he heard house music, his life changed. All he wanted to do was to make electronic music. “I learnt the key skills and sat behind a computer with a mouse,” he says on the TEDGlobal 2013 stage. “And I totally lost this intimacy of ...
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• The real price of market values: Michael Sandel at TEDGlobal 2013

  
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  Photo: James Duncan Davidson Political philosopher Michael Sandel — the second “Michael from Harvard” this session — returns to TED in the last session of TEDGlobal, “All Together Now,” to address the marketization of our culture. These days there’s very little money can’t buy. If you ever wind ...
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• Uncovering corruption: Charmian Gooch at TEDGlobal 2013

  
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  Photo: James Duncan Davidson When we talk about corruption, certain types of individuals come to mind, says Charmian Gooch, co-founder of watchdog NGO Global Witness . She gives some familiar examples of the type. There’s the (former) Soviet megalomaniac — such as Saparmurat Niyazov, the all-powerful leader of ...
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• All Together Now: The speakers in Session 12 at TEDGlobal 2013

  
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  What a week! The time has come to wind down four days of political, economical, technological intrigue. With what little space you have left in your brain, take in the final session of TEDGlobal 2013: “All together now.” Speakers will ask big questions about about how to cooperate and collaborate better. Michael ...
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• Quoted: Toby Eccles on the Peterborough prison pilot

  
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  Toby Eccles speaks at TEDGlobal 2013. Here, he shares breaking news. Photo: James Duncan Davidson Early yesterday afternoon,  early results were published of the Peterborough prison pilot, a UK program aimed at lowering reoffending rates in short-term prisoners. Though the program won’t finish until 2014, these ...
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• The battle between public and private: Alessandro Acquisti at TEDGlobal 2013

  
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  Photo: James Duncan Davidson Stories of NSA spying have been rippling through the press in the past week or so, and Carnegie Mellon professor  Alessandro Acquisti  is here to tell us just how blurry the boundary between private and public has become in recent years. He begins by reminding us of the story of Adam ...
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• The dangers of the digital now: Abha Dawesar at TEDGlobal 2013

  
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  Photo: James Duncan Davidson Indian novelist Abha Dawesar explores the self and technology’s — ahem — impact on the self in the penultimate session of TEDGlobal, “Tech Impact.” Dawesar reflects on how time-warping technology, like social media and mobile devices, has changed our perception of our own ...
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• Reinventing education for millennials: Anant Agarwal at TEDGlobal 2013

  
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  Photo: James Duncan Davidson Anant Agarwal  runs EdX.org , the Harvard-MIT open-education site, and he’s here to talk MOOCs, those “massive open online courses” that have generated both excitement and skepticism throughout the chattering world of the digital classes. Agarwal shows a picture of a lecture ...
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• Wherefore Raspberry Pi?: Eben Upton at TEDGlobal 2013

  
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  Photo: James Duncan Davidson Fifteen months ago, a small device called Raspberry Pi was put on the market. Despite the glut of gleaming, do-everything devices available today, this credit-card sized, £25, Linux-run computer with nothing but a microprocessor, 512MB RAM, some ports and an SD card slot has sold more ...
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• The meaning of memes: An Xiao Mina at TEDGlobal 2013

  
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  Photo: James Duncan Davidson “This is what happens when you take the addictive power of an LOLcat and apply it in a ceonsorship state,” says An Xiao Mina , a writer, technologist and researcher who studies Chinese memes. On the TEDGlobal 2013 stage, she shares the moment that led her to this unusual specialty. ...
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• Tech Impact: The speakers in session 11 at TEDGlobal 2013

  
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  Technology is such an integral part of everyday life, it can be hard to remember how far we’ve come — and how fast. This session at TEDGlobal 2013 introduces a cadre of technological innovators who are helping to change the world yet further–and thinking about the implications of technology on society at large. ...
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• How to spread ideas: Speakers and translators at the Open Translation session at TEDGlobal 2013

  
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  The TEDGlobal translator contingent — part of a group of more than 9,000 volunteer translators in 101 languages. Photo: Ryan Lash “I write sci-fi novels, because if I wrote a white paper nobody would read it,” Daniel Suarez told a panel of translators at TEDGlobal 2013. The science fiction author and drone ...
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• In case you missed it: Some highlights of day 3 of TEDGlobal 2013: Think Again

  
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  Reblogged from TED Blog: The final full day of TEDGlobal 2013 comprised three jampacked sessions. "State of the Nations" included insights from China, the Middle East, and thoughts for fixing the dysfunctional global system of governance. "Forces of Change," curated by TED Senior Fellows Erik Hersman and Adrian ...
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• Quoted: David Steindl-Rast on the gentle power of gratefulness

  
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  By Susan Zimmerman David Steindl-Rast has the honor of closing this year’s TEDGlobal. Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude. The Benedictine monk, whose words made an appearance in Louie Schwartzberg’s classic talk “ Nature. Beauty. Gratitude ,” is known for bridging Catholicism and Buddhism. In ...
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• In case you missed it: Some highlights of day 3 of TEDGlobal 2013: Think Again

  
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  The final full day of TEDGlobal 2013 comprised three jampacked sessions. “State of the Nations” included insights from China, the Middle East, and thoughts for fixing the dysfunctional global system of governance. “Forces of Change,” curated by TED Senior Fellows Erik Hersman and Adrian Hong , introduced us ...
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