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TED Talks Goodness: What Adults Can Learn From Kids With Adora Svitak

(via @TEDTalks)

One of the best talks in the archives of TED delivered by 12 years old Adora Svitak. A reader since age of three, writer since five and blogger since seven, Svitak is a strong advocate for literacy and the author of Flying Fingers: Master The Tools of Learning Through The Joy Of Writing, who spends her days speaking around the United States to adult as well as children audiences.

The Economist launches Ideas Economy: Innovation, Fresh Thinking for the Ideas Economy

In 2010 The Economist is launching a marketplace for ideas focused in innovation, human potential and intelligent infrastructure called Ideas Economy. This event series will run throughout 2010 and aims to bring together top thinkers from around the world to discuss and debate the most important ideas of our time.
The inaugural session will take place at the Haas School of Business at the University of California on March 23 & 24. The topic of the Berkeley chapter is Innovation: Fresh Thinking for the Ideas Economy and will be focused on the latest thinking on what makes innovation possible, how innovation is changing and why innovation matters today more than ever.

Among the outstanding panel there are incredible members of the business, government, non-profits and the academic sectors such as the Dean of the Rotman School of Management Roger Martin, Jaqueline Novogratz from Acumen Fund, praised author and Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, Ed Catmull from Pixar & Disney Animation, David Kelley head of the Stanford Design School and founder of IDEO and more.

This event will be followed by two more sessions held in New York, Human Potential on the 14 & 15 of September and Intelligent Infrastructure on the 3rd & 4th of November.

For the full program, list of speakers and details visit Ideas Economy.