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The TED Prize Heroes
updated February 29, 2012 - 27 links - viewed 600 times - recommended by 1 personA series of short talks from provocateurs, storytellers and pioneers working in the fields of TED prize winners.
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Elizabeth Pisani
updated February 29, 2012 - 11 links - viewed 448 timesElizabeth Pisani (born 1964) is a journalist and epidemiologist best known for her work on HIV/AIDS, in particular for her controversial book The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of #AIDS. #TED #TED2010
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Nicholas A. Christakis
updated February 29, 2012 - 13 links - viewed 410 timesNicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is an internist and social scientist. His current research focuses on health and social networks, and specifically with how ill health, disability, health behavior, health care, and death in one person can influence the same phenomena...
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Sam Harris
updated February 29, 2012 - 12 links - viewed 333 timesSam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. Mr. Harris' writing has been published in over fifteen languages. He and his work have been discussed...
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Michael Specter
updated February 29, 2012 - 10 links - viewed 345 timesNew Yorker Staff Writer Covering Science, Technology, and Public Health Issues; Author. #TED #TED2010
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Christopher "moot" Poole
updated February 29, 2012 - 16 links - viewed 910 times - recommended by 1 personChristopher "moot" Poole is the founder of 4chan, an online imageboard whose anonymous denizens have spawned the web's most bewildering - and influential - subculture. #TED #TED2010
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Stewart Brand
updated February 29, 2012 - 16 links - viewed 625 timesStewart Brand is a futurist, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He founded a number of organizations including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation. He is the author of several books, most recently Whole Earth Discipline...
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Valerie Plame Wilson
updated February 29, 2012 - 10 links - viewed 479 timesValerie Plame Wilson is a former CIA operative whose covert identity was revealed in 2003. During her CIA career, she ran counter-proliferation task forces, ultimately focusing on Iraq and the hunt for WMDs. #TED #TED2010
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Kevin Bales
updated February 29, 2012 - 16 links - viewed 478 timesKevin Bales is a world expert on slavery and has freed many slaves. He is president of Free the Slaves, an organization whose mission is to end slavery and share slaves' stories. Bales was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his book Disposable People: New Slavery in the...
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Mark Z. Jacobson
updated February 29, 2012 - 15 links - viewed 454 timesMark Z. Jacobson is a professor of civil and environmental engineering in the Stanford University and director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program there. Jacobson develops computer models about the effects of different energy technologies and their emissions on air pollution...
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Michael Sandel
updated February 29, 2012 - 15 links - viewed 728 timesMichael Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard. His new book, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, explores some of the most hotly contested moral and political issues of our time. #TED #TED2010
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Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
updated January 30, 2012 - 13 links - viewed 219 times - recommended by 1 personRumelt writes with great verve and pulls no punches as he pinpoints such strategy "sins" as fluff, blue-sky objectives, and not facing the problem. #Business #Books
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OneRepublic
updated January 29, 2012 - 16 links - viewed 81 times - recommended by 1 person#OneRepublic is an American pop rock band from Colorado Springs, Colorado. Formed in 2002 by Ryan Tedder and Zach Filkins, the band achieved massive success on #MySpace, becoming the most prominent unsigned act on the website then. #Music
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Enchantment - The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions
updated January 26, 2012 - 39 links - viewed 123 timesEnchantment, as defined by bestselling business guru Guy Kawasaki, is not about manipulating people. It transforms situations and relationships. It coverts hostility into civility and civility into affinity, It changes skeptics and cynics into believers and the undecided...
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#Klout Score
updated January 04, 2012 - 9 links - viewed 90 times - recommended by 1 personThe #Klout Score measures influence based on your ability to drive action. Every time you create content or engage you #influence others.
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Social media books (2010)
updated December 19, 2011 - 33 links - viewed 947 times - recommended by 2 peopleNew social media books you can read in 2010.
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2011 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
updated November 27, 2011 - 17 links - viewed 569 timesThe Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is an annual fashion show sponsored by Victoria's Secret, a brand of lingerie and sleepwear. Victoria's Secret uses the show to promote and market its goods in high-profile settings. The show features some of the world's leading fashion...
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Ethan Zuckerman
updated November 22, 2011 - 32 links - viewed 532 times - recommended by 1 personEthan Zuckerman is the recently-announced director of the MIT Center for Civic Media, officially starting in September 2011. Ethan has been a senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he is also a long-time fellow. His work at the Berkman...
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Hot Air Balloons
updated November 11, 2011 - 9 links - viewed 174 timesThe hot air balloon, the first flying machine to successfully carry a human being, was invented in 1783 by two brothers, Joseph and Etienne de Montgolfier. After an initial 'test-run' in June 1783, with no passengers aboard, the two French brothers placed a rooster, a...
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Machu Picchu - Peru
updated November 09, 2011 - 14 links - viewed 126 timesThe word Peru inevitably and almost immediately brings to mind the images of Machu Picchu and the Empire founded by the Incas.
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