How many of today's headlines will matter in 100 years? 1000? Kirk Citron's Long News project collects stories that not only matter today, but will resonate for decades even centuries to come. At TED2010, he highlights recent headlines with the potential to shape our future.

He moved with the headlines.

Peacebuilding does not get headlines.

And it works look at these headlines.

And you can just look at the headlines.

NEW DELHI The headlines out of India in recent weeks have often made sickening reading. Startlingly, the central protagonist in most of these stories is that most peaceable and innocent of animals, the cow.

Recently the headlines looked like this when the Intergovernmental

How many bullet points or headlines does Steve Jobs use?

Such statements make headlines, but they are nonsense. For example

But, while Japan s tense relationship with China dominates headlines worldwide, the strategic rivalry between China and India is more likely to shape Asian power dynamics in the coming decades. And recent events suggest that China knows it.

Headlines that look like this when they have to do with climate change, and headlines that look like this when they have to do with air quality or smog.

Headlines that look like this when they have to do with climate change, and headlines that look like this when they have to do with air quality or smog.

Worms have a little bit of a problem grabbing the headlines.

It's not making headlines, it's not making news, it's not flashy.

Now, you may have noticed more and more headlines like these.

Nevertheless, my prediction gained bold front page headlines in many major newspapers throughout the world. It gained headlines, evidently, because it was still far from a consensus view, although concerns were mounting.

This is not the first time the Elvie pump has made the headlines.

Fortunately, there is little reason to believe such dire predictions, or that the market gyrations that have been driving recent headlines represent anything more than short term volatility. After all, equity price movements are a poor predictor of the real economy s performance.

BRUSSELS Judging from the headlines, one might get the impression that the 400 million citizens eligible to participate in the recent European Parliament elections voted massively against the European Union. True, anti establishment, mostly Euroskeptic, parties won about one fifth of the vote.

BEIJING The slowdown of China s economy has captured the headlines in recent weeks. Whether it is a permanent or temporary adjustment, the Chinese authorities have much work to do in laying the groundwork for strong economic performance in the medium and long term.

In our accelerated media culture, desertification is simply too slow to reach the headlines.

And it's best understood through example as the science of those crazy, wacky newspaper headlines.

These are headlines about what's been going on with women in the next few years.

This second set of headlines you can see that families and marriages are starting to shift.

These are startling figures. Yet, they have not made headlines like, say, a plane crash would.

Unfortunately, more often than not, we read headlines of plane crashes that kill hundreds of people.

And we hand that summary to journalists and policy makers, in order to make headlines like these.

And we hand that summary to journalists and policy makers, in order to make headlines like these.

Behind the headlines that lay behind these buildings is the fate of the often indentured construction worker.

It appears that the world only responds to headlines, but every day poor countries suffer from misfortunes and constraints that do not produce headlines for the tragic reason that the international community seems indifferent in some cases or has quite simply resigned itself to them.

Our media have to scream at us with these kinds of headlines in order to get our attention.

And indeed, the popular press loves headlines like, Anorexic brains are wired differently, or Autistic brains are wired differently.

Other headlines that have recently reached South Africa were Bain Capital and KKR, the big boys of private equity.

But many observers are skeptical about China s official GDP data and dubious of its ability to sustain 6.5 growth. That skepticism reflects a variety of recent news indicating weak output in parts of the Chinese economy for example, headlines about reduced industrial production, declines in manufacturing exports, and shutdowns in particular industries.

SHANGHAI The International Monetary Fund s recent decision to add the Chinese renminbi to the basket of currencies that determine the value of its reserve asset, the Special Drawing Right, has captured headlines around the world. But the SDR itself has not exactly dominated discussions much less transactions since its creation in 1969.

The recent 13 billion settlement between the US Department of Justice and JPMorgan Chase (JPM), one of the world s largest international banks, should be viewed the same way. To the uninitiated, the fine appears significant (which explains all the attention grabbing headlines), and it certainly has made America s financial regulators look busy and serious.

It has been my experience in working in developing countries that while the headlines may all be the pessimistic headlines may say, well, we can't do this, that or the other thing because of corruption I think incapacity is a far bigger problem in poor countries than corruption, and feeds corruption.

The headlines tell us that genes can give us scary diseases, maybe even shape our personality, or give us mental disorders.

I mean you probably saw these headlines. This is Catherine Casey who is the first boomer to actually get Social Security.

Well in the face of all these bad headlines, researchers have taken a step back and thought about how we can do elections differently.

I'd like to talk to you today about the scale of the scientific effort that goes into making the headlines you see in the paper.

I'd like to talk to you today about the scale of the scientific effort that goes into making the headlines you see in the paper.

And I have a collection, probably 10 or 15 headlines, from highbrow magazines deploring the fact that the arts are in decline in our time.

These are not isolated cases. For every disaster and high profile case that hits the headlines, there are many more that we never hear about.

Civil wars have made news headlines for many decades now, and ethnic conflicts in particular have been a near constant presence as a major international security threat.