The three TED Prize winners for 2008 are cosmologist Neil Turok, writer Dave Eggers, and religious historian Karen Armstrong. Each winner will receive $100,000, and better yet, "A wish to change the world" will be granted. They'll announce these wishes live at TED 2008 in Monterey, on February 28, 2008 with online presentations to follow shortly thereafter.

Watch the video announcement for effect; the music is just uplifting enough to make you forget it's Monday for, oh, about a minute or two.

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