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Let’s use video to reinvent education

Salman Khan Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls

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Why should you read “One Hundred Years of Solitude”?

Francisco Díez-Buzo Gabriel García Márquez’s novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” brought Latin American literature to the forefront of the global imagination and earned García Márquez the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature. What makes the novel so remarkable? Francisco Díez-Buzo

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Why should you read “Waiting for Godot”?

Iseult Gillespie Two men, Estragon and Vladimir, meet by a tree at dusk to wait for someone named “Godot.” So begins a vexing cycle where the two debate when Godot will come, why they’re waiting and whether they’re even at

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Why should you read “The Master and Margarita”?

Alex Gendler The Devil has come to town. But don’t worry– all he wants to do is stage a magic show. This absurd premise forms the central plot of Mikhail Bulgakov’s masterpiece, “The Master and Margarita.” Its blend of political

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INTERVIEW WITH VIKTOR NIKOLAEVICH KOROTKOV, SENIOR TEACHER OF THE ADYGEY STATE UNIVERSITY

Interview with Viktor Nikolayevich Korotkov, Senior Lecturer, Adygey State University. The interview (in Russian) was made by the Internet portal and the electronic journal Foreign Languages in Uzbekistan – FLEDU.UZ.

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5 ways to kill your dreams

Speaker: Bel Pesce All of us want to invent that game-changing product, launch that successful company, write that best-selling book. And yet so few of us actually do it. TED Fellow and Brazilian entrepreneur Bel Pesce breaks down five easy-to-believe

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3 things I learned while my plane crashed

Speaker: Ric Elias Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went through his mind as the doomed plane went down? At TED, he

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How AI can enhance our memory, work and social lives

Speaker: Tom Gruber How smart can our machines make us? Tom Gruber, co-creator of Siri, wants to make “humanistic AI” that augments and collaborates with us instead of competing with (or replacing) us. He shares his vision for a future

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