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		<title>The Wunderkinder of TED</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/03/01/the-wunderkinder-of-ted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Davis Konigsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The theme of this year&#8217;s TED is &#8220;Young, Wise, and Undiscovered,&#8221; and they weren&#8217;t exaggerating about the young part. Some of the biggest showstoppers at the annual event in Long Beach, Calif. &#8212; which included presentations by Sergey Brin and Bono &#8212; weren&#8217;t even old enough to have a driver&#8217;s license. There was 13-year-old Richard Turere, a young Maasai who lives in the wilderness area of Kenya, who has been responsible for tending his family&#8217;s cattle since he was nine. He loved to take apart the few appliances in his house and teach himself how to fix them. Soon he began building electrical gadgets from components harvested from junkyards. His family had long been plagued by lions attacking their cattle, so Richard invented and installed an electrified fence that harmlessly scared them away. &#8220;I used to hate lions,&#8221; he said on stage in front of 1,500 attendees. &#8220;Now I don&#8217;t hate them anymore.&#8221; (MORE: The TED Prize-winning Idea: A School in the Cloud) At 14, American Taylor Wilson became the youngest person to achieve fusion &#8212; with a reactor born in his garage. Now 18 years old, Taylor presented what he sees as one solution to our energy problem &#8212; small underground reactors that are self-contained and use decomissioned nuclear weapons to fuel power. &#8220;Some of you might be surprised because I had been working with fusion my whole life,&#8221; he said, to much laughter. &#8220;But today what I&#8217;m showing you is about the power of fission, not fusion.&#8221; From Canada, two teenagers named Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao discovered a strain of bacteria from a nearby local river that naturally degrades phthalates, those compounds found in plastics that can harm human reproductive development. Wang and Yao envision a world where biologically engineered organisms can be used to erode our landfills and clean our environment. (MORE: Can Tough Competition Hinder Academic Performance?) And then there was Jack Andraka, the Maryland kid whose emotional reaction after winning the Intel Science Fair prize last year as a high school freshman went viral. After a family friend died of pancreatic cancer,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=28772&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The TED Prize-Winning Idea: A School in the Cloud</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/02/27/the-ted-prize-winning-idea-a-school-in-the-cloud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Davis Konigsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When TED first started awarding an annual cash prize back in 2005, the  winner was the world-famous singer turned activist Bono. His award was $300,000 which went to benefit his nascent ONE organization in its fight to eradicate poverty. (TED was also instrumental in helping him get the url ONE.org, which had already been taken by someone else.) $300,000 was probably a drop in Bono&#8217;s bucket. But this year, the winner of the TED prize will be getting $1 million. And he will likely be able to do quite a lot with it. He is a professor and educator named Sugata Mitra, famous for having put a computer in a hole in a wall in a slum in India and discovering that, left alone, children can teach themselves an amazing amount, starting with technical literacy. &#8220;In nine months a child left alone with a computer would reach the same standard as an office professional in the West,&#8221; he said in his TED talk last night after accepting the prize. (MORE: The Resource Miracle by Bono) Mitra, now a professor at Newcastle University, became a proponent of what he coined Self-Organized Learning Environments (SOLEs) which capitalize on children&#8217;s innate curiosity and ability to learn a variety of subjects in a group setting from a computer. He doesn&#8217;t dispense with adults altogether though. He has experimented with many types of SOLEs and plans to use the TED prize to build a so-called School in the Cloud overseen by a global network of retired teachers who Skype into &#8220;classrooms&#8221; all over the world but especially in the most remote and underserved areas. &#8220;The role of the mediator is to ask the right questions and listen to the children bragging about what they did,&#8221; Mitra says. (He calls this the &#8220;Granny&#8221; method of teaching, as opposed to the more authoritarian model of direct instruction and testing. His approach is similar in philosophy to other &#8220;child-driven&#8221; methods such as the one espoused by Maria Montessori.) Mitra has also created a toolkit for bringing self-organized learning environments<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=28702&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have We Evolved to Be Religious?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Haidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We humans have many varieties of religious experience. One of the most common is self-transcendence — a feeling becoming part of something larger, grander and nobler. Most people experience this at least a few times in their lives. When the self thins out and melts away, it not only feels good but can be thrilling. It’s as though our minds contain a secret staircase taking us from an ordinary life up to something sacred and deeply interconnected, and the door to that staircase opens only on rare occasions. The world’s many religions have found a variety of ways to help people find and climb the staircase. Some religions employ meditation. Others use spinning, dancing and repetitive movements in combination with music. Some use natural drugs. Many secular people have used these methods too — think of the popularity of rave parties, which combine most of these techniques to produce feelings of “peace, love, unity and respect.&#8221; As the great French sociologist Emile Durkheim put it, we are &#8220;homo duplex,&#8221; or a two-level man. (MORE: Jon Meacham: Why We Question God) The big question is, Why do our minds contain such a staircase? I believe it&#8217;s because there was a long period in human evolution during which it was adaptive to lose the self and merge with others. It wasn&#8217;t adaptive for individuals to do so, but it was adaptive for groups. As evolutionary biologists David Sloan Wilson and Edward O. Wilson have proposed, religiosity is a biological adaptation for binding groups together and helping them enter a mind-set of “one for all, all for one.” Groups that developed emotionally intense, binding religions were able, in the long run, to outcompete and outlast groups that were not so tightly bound. If the human capacity for self-transcendence is an evolutionary adaptation, then the implications are profound. It suggests that religiosity may be a deep part of human nature. I don&#8217;t mean that we evolved to join gigantic organized religions — that kind of religion came along too recently. I mean that we<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=12148&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TED Talks For Kids</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/03/12/ted-talks-for-tots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, Michelle Obama, Bill Gates, Dave Eggers and other big names have given TED talks on the subject of education. Now, in addition to spreading big ideas about how to improve education and learning, TED is going to be doing a little teaching of its own. On March 12, the latest iteration of the popular and seemingly ever-expanding conference series will launch TED Ed, a series on online, educational videos. Perhaps taking their cue from the offerings from Khan Academy, TED Ed videos will also be free. &#8220;TED content is often used in classrooms and loved by students and teachers, but the main feedback we&#8217;ve gotten over the years is that the talks can be a little long (for students),&#8221; said Logan Smalley, who helped start TED Ed. (MORE: Salman Khan: The New Andrew Carnegie?) To that end, TED Ed will provide hand-picked lessons on a variety of topics—in 10 minutes or less. The videos will be animated and geared for younger ears, as opposed to the traditional TED style, where speakers don headset microphones and stand on stage, usually wearing all black. At its launch, the YouTube channel will feature a set of videos TED Ed has already produced in this style, but the real hope behind the initiative, Smalley said, is to get teachers to submit lesson plans, which the TED Ed team will then sort through for the best ideas and turn them into videos. The teacher will then be sent a kit to capture high-quality audio. The audio will be used by either an in-house animator at TED or another animator somewhere in the world who will illustrate the video in a way that is not purely superficial, but designed to add clarity and deepen understanding to the subject matter. The idea is to eventually build out the lessons into series, such as &#8220;playing with language,&#8221; &#8220;math in real life,&#8221; &#8220;what they don&#8217;t teach you in school&#8221; and &#8220;how things work.&#8221; But that&#8217;s not to say TED Ed will be teaching kids how to do math.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=11032&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Surprising Big Idea at TED: Turn Off Technology</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/03/06/the-surprising-big-idea-at-ted-turn-off-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney E. Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a TED tradition: when the stage lights go up at the beginning of a talk, the little gadgets go away—iPhones, iPads, and Blackberries all have to be powered down, even by the tech big wigs who were in attendance, including Amazon&#8217;s Jeff Bezos, Linked In&#8217;s Reed Hoffman, and Google&#8217;s Marissa Mayer. Fully listen without technological distraction. Though it sounds simple, it was the most radical message being spread at TED 2012. A surprising number of this year’s wide variety of speakers seemed to be joining one another in a resounding chorus, a call really, for a renaissance in technological discernment. Technology is powerful, the thinking went, but it actually disempowers us when we use it addictively and indiscriminately. And further, what really matters is the ways in which our technological advancements allow us to connect more deeply and widely with real human beings. (MORE: Segways, String Theory, and Snacks: A Report from TED) The leader of the pack was definitely MIT professor and author of Alone Together, Sherry Turkle. She described the bleak reality many of us live in, by which we stare into our screens—big and small—while our sensual, visceral lives pass us by. Our very emotional cores, she explains, are being altered by our inability to disconnect from the digital world. But it’s not too late, according to Turkle: “We grew up with digital technology so we see it as all grown up. It&#8217;s not.” In other words, we still have time to develop our capacity to be discerning when it comes to those glowing screens. While one would expect thought leaders like Turkle to focus on technology, it was interesting to see the theme pop up in unexpected moments as well. Joshua Foer, who wrote Moonwalking with Einstein, spoke about the ways in which our memories have been eroded by sheer neglect in the age of Google searches and instantaneous results. As he trained for the U.S. Memory Championship, he learned about the ancient idea of building a “memory castle” by which the average human mind<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=10918&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Segways, String Theory and Snacks: A Report From TED</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Davis Konigsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know you&#8217;re at a TED conference when one of the first people you see, aside from the concierge at the Marriott, is making his way down Linden Avenue in Long Beach, Calif., astride a Segway. (You resist telling him that Segway founder Jimi Heselden met his death on one of his own company&#8217;s two-wheeled vehicles — that, certainly, would not be considered an &#8220;Idea Worth Spreading,&#8221; to use the motto of the annual conference that began in 1984 and got its name from its original focus on Technology, Entertainment and Design.) Once inside the TED pavilion at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center, there are no such reminders of mortality and failure; instead, there are people doing yoga, cappuccino bars and hydration stations, and everywhere you look, free high-end snacks: Matt&#8217;s Munchies, Kind bars, Sahale Snacks, Vosges chocolate. None of which, of course, is why people flock here and pay the hefty price of entry. They&#8217;ve come to hear speakers give 18-minute talks, to &#8220;network,&#8221; and to rub shoulders with Al Gore, Peter Gabriel and Jeff Bezos. And TED&#8217;s opening day did not disappoint. The morning dawned clear and bright, after a bizarre hailstorm the previous evening forced the kick-off block party indoors. Brian Greene, the author of The Elegant Universe and a professor at Columbia University was the first speaker. Greene is a scientist of superlatives. He is a proponent not just of string theory but superstring theory, and in his lecture he advanced his notion that instead of a universe we have a multiverse. Next was activist Paul Gilding, who argued that our global resource shortage will lead to the destruction of civilization in three decades, followed by Peter Diamandis, who argued that the next three decades will create a world of abundance. All three were wearing black pants, black shirts and identical microphone earpieces. So it was something of a pleasant change when Susan Cain, the author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can&#8217;t Stop Talking who wrote a very popular article for TIME<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=10606&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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