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Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices — and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions.

Place this in your functions.php to adjust your default WordPress settings when activating your theme for the first time. This function also deletes the default post, page and comment that are created when you install WordPress.

By default, WordPress users can have three different contact details associated to their profile. These are AIM, Yahoo IM and Jabber / Google Talk.

Placing this snippet into your functions.php will replace them with a custom set. In this example Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIN.

Adding this snippet to the functions.php of your wordpress theme will add a column to your admin pages, showing which wordpress page template is currently in use.

Adding this snippet to the functions.php of your wordpress theme will allow you to customize the wordpress 3.0 admin quick nav menu. This includes the welcome message and any of the links within the quick nav menu.

Requires WordPress 3.0 – 3.2.1

Place this snippet in your functions.php file to change the footer in your WordPress admin area. In this example I am using the custom the_theme_version() function which I have also included for you.

Requires WordPress 3.0+

Eythor Bender of Berkeley Bionics brings onstage two amazing exoskeletons, HULC and eLEGS — robotic add-ons that could one day allow a human to carry 200 pounds without tiring, or allow a wheelchair user to stand and walk. It’s a powerful onstage demo, with implications for human potential of all kinds.

TED collaborates with animator Andrew Park to illustrate Denis Dutton’s provocative theory on beauty — that art, music and other beautiful things, far from being simply “in the eye of the beholder,” are a core part of human nature with deep evolutionary origins.

You’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world.”

A tremendous site & an owner with a contemporary minimalist vision & respect for the natural environment inspire the design of this home by Kendle Design Collaborative.

Photography by Rick Brazil.