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This week on TED.com
April 12, 2014
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07:24 minutes · Filmed Mar 2014 · Posted Apr 2014 · TED2014
We live in a world of unseeable beauty, so subtle and delicate that it is imperceptible to the human eye. To bring this invisible world to light, filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg bends the boundaries of time and space with high-speed cameras, time lapses and microscopes. At TED2014, he shares highlights from his latest 3D film, Mysteries of the Unseen World, which slows down, speeds up and magnifies the astonishing wonders of nature.
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Creativity and innovation are flowing in South America. Watch how cities and countries are facing down challenges in new ways. Watch »
Total run time 2:18:14
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What drove David Sengeh to create a more comfortable prosthetic limb? He grew up in Sierra Leone, where too many of the people he loves are missing limbs after the brutal civil war there. But he noticed that people who had prosthetics weren’t actually wearing them. So the TED Fellow set out to discover why — and to solve the problem with his team from the MIT Media Lab. Watch »
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What do rap shows, barbershop banter and Sunday services have in common? As Christopher Emdin says, they all hold the secret magic to enthrall and teach at the same time — and it’s a skill we often don't teach to educators. The science advocate (and cofounder of Science Genius with the GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan) offers a vision to make the classroom come alive. Watch »
More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part, it’s the city’s great public spaces — from tiny pocket parks to long waterfront promenades — where people can stroll and play. Amanda Burden helped plan some of the city’s newest public spaces, drawing on her experience as, surprisingly, an animal behaviorist. She shares the unexpected challenges of planning parks people love. Watch »
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On the TED Blog: Read Dan Gilbert's funny, honest look back at his first TED Talk, 10 years ago. And explore mapping software that shows collaborations in a brand-new way.
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Teachers become great actors and great actresses. … We come to work when we don't feel like it, and we're listening to policy that doesn't make sense — and we teach anyway."
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Christopher Emdin: Teach teachers how to create magic |
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Awesome talk, so accurate. Looking for role models for education outside education is a great idea. Now I am thinking how on earth do I localize it into the Polish environment! Which LOCAL role models can I find for educators and teachers in Poland, with no black churches, local 'variety' of hip-hop and no barbers. Any ideas from your countries?" |
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framing the story
Great storytellers -- novelists Chimamanda Adichie and Tracy Chevalier, Toy Story's Andrew Stanton and legendary book designer Chip Kidd -- frame up our world on the newest TED Radio Hour »
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