In a highly unusual yet utterly inspirational move, TED has awarded the 2011 TED Prize of $100,000 to one of our favorite street artists, the shadowy Parisian JR. Known for his large-scale graffiti murals touching on subjects like freedom, identity and limit, the anonymous 27-year-old artist has recently entered filmmaking — his powerful documentary debut, Women Are Heroes, based on the 2009 exhibition of the same name, premiered to astounding acclaim at Cannes this year.

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United Nations, 24 October 2010 – When disaster strikes, the lives of millions of people can change in a heartbeat.
In our globalized world, every day we see images of earthquakes and floods…o
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United Nations, New York, 24 October 2010 – UN Day is devoted to highlighting the aims and achievements of the United Nations. This year’s UN Day focuses on the eight UN Millennium Development Goals and follows on the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on 20-22 September 2010, which adopted a global action plan to achieve the eight goals by their 2015 target date.
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Wanderlust is a beautiful short film inspired by one of our favorite TED talks, designer Stefan Sagmeister on finding happiness and design inspiration in those moments that take your breath away. With its breathtaking cinematography and quiet humanity, the film, which documents a journey across South America, Europe, and New Zealand, is a four-minute exercise in pure aliveness.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/10/22/wanderlust/
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*Contains content owned by Music Publishing Collecting Rights Society – ..Great 70s song by Gerry Rafferty,i just love the saxophone on this track,it is sublime.
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*Video shown courtesy WMG,owners of the sound recording*..Brilliant song & video by Bjork.Human Behavior was released on the ‘One Little Indian’ record label in 1993,the video was directed by Michel Gondry and Bjork and Nellee Hoooper wrote the song,while Hooper also produced it..Human Behavior appears on Bjorks first album,simply called “Debut”.
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Ravi Shankar & Ustad Alla Rakha performing eighteen minutes of “Dhun (Dadra And Fast Teental)”, an excerpt from the four-hour performance at Monterey County Fairgrounds in California, June 18th, 1967.
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Ravi Shankar & Ustad Alla Rakha performing eighteen minutes of “Dhun (Dadra And Fast Teental)”, an excerpt from the four-hour performance at Monterey County Fairgrounds in California, June 18th, 1967.
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Kate Bush with her 1978 No. 1 hit ‘Wuthering Heights’
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Kate Bush with her 1985 hit single ‘Cloudbusting’.
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Music by Vangelis and Kitaro ~ Lady Of Dreams
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