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Robin Chase at TED

Robin Chase's talk about the future of transportation, the environment, and the Internet was my favorite talk at TED last year. Yes, that's one talk!

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Toni Morrison Endorses Obama

Political Radar: Author Toni Morrison Endorses Obama:

"Nor do I care very much for your race[s]," Morrison continues to Obama, "I would not support you if that was all you had to offer or because it might make me 'proud.' "

"In thinking carefully about the strengths of the candidates, I stunned myself when I came to the following conclusion: that in addition to keen intelligence, integrity and a rare authenticity, you exhibit something that has nothing to do with age, experience, race or gender and something I don't see in other candidates. That something is a creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom.

"Our future is ripe, outrageously rich in its possibilities. Yet unleashing the glory of that future will require a difficult labor, and some may be so frightened of its birth they will refuse to abandon their nostalgia for the womb.

"There have been a few prescient leaders in our past, but you are the man for this time," she concludes.

If Arnold was running as a Republican, he'd be mopping the floor with the other candidates, right?