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- Each winner is given $100,000
- 2008 winners include Neil Turok, Dave Eggers and Karen Armstrong
- Winners also receive a sculpture from Tom Shannon
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The TED Prize Live Coverage page is minute by minute coverage of TED Prize award ceremony from the TED 2008 conference.
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TED Prize Live-Blogging
- 7:43 PM: Mahlasela concludes his last song. Chris Anderson returns and makes closing remarks, inviting watchers to email [mailto:jane@tedprize.org jane@ted.org] and share their impressions. He thanked all the participants and prize recipients, concluding the event.
- 7:39 PM: Mahlasela concludes his second song. He was going to leave, but was called back for an encore. After a few remarks, he begins his third song.
- 7:34 PM: Mahlasela begins his second song.
- 7:31 PM: Vusi Mahlasela concludes his first song. He says it is the beauty of his land, but also of the hardships, like police brutality. He discusses the liberating power of forgiveness, and how it's more about the forgiver than the forgiver.
- 7:21 PM: Vusi Mahlasela begins his musical performance.
- 7:19 PM: Vusi Mahlasela takes the stage and makes a few remarks. He discusses a woman who's hardships, experience, and positive attitude inspired him. He says his song is about her story.
- 7:14 PM: Karen Armstrong concludes, and Chris Anderson returns to the stage. He invites users to go to TEDPrize.org, and to participate in the wishes that have been presented. He says they don't want one large-scale discussion, but several samll ones.
- 7:13 PM: Armstrong explains that she wants people to reclaim their religion in the spirit of the golden rule.
- 7:11 PM: Archbishop Desmond Tutu is in favor of Armstrong's efforts
- 7:09 PM: Armstrong's wish: That you would help with the creation, launch, and propagation of a charter based on the three Abrahamic traditions.
- 7:08 PM: Begins a parable about The Iliad to illustrate a good religious ethos.
- 7:07 PM: "It's time we moved from toleration to appreciation."
- 7:05 PM: Armstrong believes that the golden rule should be applies accross the world.
- 7:02 PM: "There is a great deal of religious illiteracy going around." She says this is pushing the golden rule and human compassion out of the way.
- 7:01 PM: Armstrong says that world problems are due to politics, not religion, but "religion is faultline."
- 6:59 PM: "We are living in a world where religion has been hijacked."
- 6:58 PM: Armstrong mentions that the Golden Rule is at the crux of all religions, with a focus on Buddhism, Confucianism, and Judaism. She tells an ancdote about Rabbi Hillel.
- 6:57 PM: Armstrong asserts that compassion is the essence of religion.
- 6:56 PM: "Religion is about behaving differently."
- 6:54 PM: Armstrong discusses her study of Islam and other religions.
- 6:53 PM: Karen Armstrong explains how she found herself in the television industry. Bill Moyers told her "We'll take anybody."
- 6:51 PM: Karen Armstrong takes the stage.
- 6:43 PM: Neil Turok concludes his presentation, and Turk Pipkin's video is played.
- 6:38 PM: Neil Turok plans to expand AIMS locations throughout Africa.
- 6:38 PM: Neil Turok's TED 2008 wish is:
- "The next Albert Einstein will be African"'
- 6:30 PM: Neil Turok highlights some of his students from AIMS who have go on to further their education at universities like Cambridge.
- 6:25 PM: Neil Turok founded AIMS, The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. The goals include:
- -To promote mathematics and science in Africa.
- -To recruit and train talented students and teachers.
- -To build capacity for African initiatives in education, research, and technology.
- 6:23 PM: Neil Turok later started to turn his attention back to Africa and highlights the decrees of gross national product, high death rate, AIDS in Africa and lack of scientific papers coming out of the region.
- 6:17 PM: Neil Turok starts to explain the Big Bang Theory, String Theory and his work with Steven Hawking.
- 6:14 PM: Neil Turok provides background on his life and growing up in South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania.
- 6:10 PM: The second winner Neil Turok takes the stage.
- 6:05 PM: Video follow up with Bill Clinton's wish last year for a world class health care system in Rwanda.
- 6:04 PM: Chris Anderson takes the stage again to echo Dave Eggers's wish and encourges the crowd to visit Once Upon a School
- 6:03 PM: Dave Eggers finishes up and encourages the public to help students and teachers.
- 6:00 PM: Dave Eggers gives his TED 2008 wish:
- "My wish is that everyone at the TED conference finds a way to DIRECTLY ENGAGE WITH THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THEIR AREA...there's something different and incredibility powerful about engaging directly with real teachers and real kids."
- 5:55 PM: A Chicago store was opened called The Boring Store. In Los Angeles a branch called Echo Park Time Travel Mart was also opened.
- 5:53 PM: A Seattle tutoring center called Greenwood Space Travel Supply was later opened. Like the other locations they also worked to help students with homework and to publish their own books.
- 5:50 PM: Dave Eggers's work in San Francisco helped to create an east coast version called the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Store.
- 5:45 PM: Dave Eggers tells the story of how Isabel Allende sponsored the book I Might Get Somewhere: Oral Histories of Immigration and Migration which was created by students of Balboa High School in San Francisco. This help to inspire additional books and the 826 Quarterly.
- 5:35 PM: Dave Eggers is talking about his work which helps to bring students and writers together. His store (826 Valencia Store) started to include pirate supplies in addition to education resources. Emphasis is put towards one on one tutoring and lead by a dedicated team of volunteers. Sharing a space and resources with McSweenys gives students additional access to writers and publishers.
- 5:30 PM: The first winner Dave Eggers takes the stage to accept his award.
- 5:25 PM: Video of Edward O. Wilson talking about new Multi-Touch technology from Adobe.
- YouTube Video: Multi-touch interface (from Adobe TED)
- 5:20 PM: Amy Novogratz takes the stage to follow up on previous years winners.
- 5:16 PM: Chris Anderson (TED Curator) takes the stage.
- 5:15 PM: Mahalo's TED Prize Live Coverage will begin.
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TED Prize Live Coverage Questions
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Who is going to be twittering live coverage of Macworld and CES? 3 AnswersThis is probably your best bet for CES don't really know about macworld. Twitter Bot - Use the tag #ces09 to be re-tweeted here. http://twitter.com/ces09 read more
Who is the youngest person to present a TED talk? 1 AnswerThis was a few years ago, but she might be the youngest TED speaker ever: Jennifer Lin: Magical improv from 14-year-old pianist http://www.ted.com/index.php/tal... read more
How will you best remember Ted Kennedy? 14 AnswersUnfortunately I never met the man, (Not that I can recall anyway) . (Although I would have liked to) Some in the North eastern climate coalition have evilly w... read more
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TED Prize Information
- Official Site: TED
- Official Stream: 2008 TED Prize Live Webcast
- 2008 Winner 1 Neil Turok
- "Neil Turok holds the Chair of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University. In 1992 he was awarded the James Clerk Maxwell medal of the Institute of Physics for his contributions to theoretical physics."
- 2008 Winner 2 Dave Eggers
- "Dave Eggers' first book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genuis, was a memoir about becoming the official guardian of his 8-year-old brother at the age of 22. The book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; the New York Times called him a staggeringly talented new writer."
- 2008 Winner 3 Karen Armstrong
- "Karen Armstrong is one of the most provocative, original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world. Armstrong is a former Roman Catholic nun who left a British convent to pursue a degree in modern literature at Oxford. "
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