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Check out a sneak preview of the animation and other features in new, abbreviated TED videos that aim to bring subjects such as neuroscience and evolution to young students. TED, the conference dedicated to "Ideas Worth Spreading," took a step forward in its educational mission today by launching a TEDEd video channel on YouTube. Shorter than the 18-minute TED talks that have racked up 500 million views, these videos feature a combination of talking heads from TED stages and animation (artwork by Fast Company Most Creative Person Sunni Brown , among others) tackling topics like neuroscience and evolution for a high-school-aged audience

Do you really need--or want--"contextual information about people you're interacting with" via email? As part of Google 's new social spree that just gave field testers Google+ , Google's also added a new social feature to Gmail--the People Tab . It's a panel to the right of your Gmail inbox that displays "contextual information about people you're interacting with in Gmail" because "the people you communicate with" are as important as "what you're communicating about." To some, it will amount to another doodad on the already cluttered dashboard.

Email is an unavoidable burden for most, and an undeniable time-suck for all. But now, social startup 410 Labs is trying to fix our email woes with Shortmail.com, a service the Baltimore-based company considers the Twitter of email