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The Toilet is Saving Our Lives!

Did you know that this innovation stops deadly diseases from finding you with every flush? Billions of people still don’t have access to one. So we’d like to take a moment to celebrate the humble toilet and see how some truly amazing thought leaders are bringing them to everyone around the globe!

Image: A red tailed hawk flies with the moon in the background

20 minutes

[ Nature ]

A River of Raptors

If we are looking for inspiration and hope these days, we may only have to look up to find it! There is a river of wonder going unnoticed above us, showing us how the health of our planet is holding up. And thankfully, there’s an amazing group of people bringing us these insights.

9 minutes

[ Science ]

Entering the Empire of Cephalopods!

Most of our personal ah-ha moments come from occasions when we actually understand ourselves a little better. Turns out, some of the world’s most unique animals—cephalopods—can help us with that, all while expanding our sense of wonder about Mother Nature’s wild design book!

Image: Person kayaking through some rocks

11 minutes

[ Nature ]

Meeting the Salween River

On this Saturday Around the World, we’re traveling through the beautiful Salween River in China and seeing the efforts put into place to protect it.

18 minutes

[ Science ]

Saving the World One Turtle at a Time

The Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre is changing the world in its own way; saving injured turtles to keep important wetland ecosystems alive and well!

Image: Person walking through library shelves

12 minutes

[ Thought Leaders ]

Libraries on the Front Lines of Homelessness

Public libraries are finding novel and wonderful new roles in our communities despite the evolving digital world. Here is one that has it all: it makes the best of elements that were in plain sight and the model can apply to all kinds of problem-solving.

Image: Women Rangers are training to guard elephants from poachers

7 minutes

[ Animals ]

Single Mothers are Saving Africa’s Endangered Wildlife

The best thought leaders among us are quick to accept the risk of abandoning assumptions. Their courage often brings out the best in others, and here’s an amazing example of that alchemy!

11 minutes

[ Happiness & Hope ]

Lost Wallets Proving It’s Still an Amazing World

When YouTuber Mark Rober lost his wallet, he turned it into an opportunity see if a lost wallet could prove people are good (or not) and the results… well, they’re pretty surprising.

7 minutes

Getting Energy from our Food Scraps!

This innovation is giving our table scraps value! Impact Bioenergy has created a zero waste system to turn our food scraps into energy and nutrient-rich biofuels, all with the help of microbes.

Image: A diver close in front of a sperm whale

25 minutes

[ Nature ]

Sperm Whales’ Clicks are Expanding Possibility!

What if sperm whales are communicating with language far more complex than we are? Could our view of ourselves change if we learn that they may be as capable of future planning, reasoning, and emotions like love and empathy? These mysteries are beginning to be unraveled!

Image: A huge sculpture of a troll, 50 feet long, made of scrap wood.

11 minutes

[ Art ]

Trolls We Can All Come to Love!

What if we slowed our impulse to create new “stuff”, and instead, focused on using what we already have in excess? Take trash for example. Is there endless potential in the things we are discarding? Here’s is someone who is pointing to possibility in a wondrous way!

Image: Children working on a problem at a makers faire

10 minutes

[ Design ]

Sadie McCallum Shows Us Why Invention is for Everybody

Meet Sadie McCallum, a young inventor who is taking the unique problems she faces with Cerebral Palsy and building innovative solutions to help others!

5 minutes

[ Culture ]

Meet the Hindu Bagpipers Bringing Cultures Together

It’s easy to look back and see that some of the best innovators in history brought together two things that no one had ever thought to combine. For the best kind of ingenious fun with that concept, take a look at The Shree Muktajeevan Swamibapa Pipe Band: a worldwide organization of Hindu bagpipers who blend Indian and Scottish music in a brilliant cultural mashup!

5 minutes

[ Thought Leaders ]

Happy Birthday Mae Jemison!

The story of Mae Jemison’s life is one about pursuing your dreams and striving for better. And tomorrow’s her birthday! So let’s celebrate.

Image: Tilly Lockey at the SingularityU The Netherlands Summit in 2016 with her bionic arm

7 minutes

This Prosthetic Arm Doesn’t Look Human — And That’s Awesome

This prosthesis is not only the cheapest bionic arm you can find on the market, it’s also one of the coolest. The Hero Arm is 3D printed for anyone age 9 and above, customizable, and inspiring a new wave of research!

8 minutes

[ Food ]

The DNA of CHEESE!

Cheese isn’t just delicious, it’s also a remarkable feat of science! And scientists are using DNA sequencing to learn more about it. Let’s see what they’re finding…

18 minutes

[ Pebbles ]

Supporting Education in the Mountains of Nepal

The vast majority of people who have summited Mount Everest have porters to thank for it—but being a porter is far from a safe profession. Yet, for many Sherpa, this is their only way to support their families. After becoming a porter at the age of 12 and summiting Everest 21 times, Apa Sherpa has created a foundation to ensure that children have another path to travel in life through their education.

Image: Plastic waste mixed with sea rubbish

18 minutes

[ Conservation & Sustainability ]

Our Plastic Waste Problem: It’s Not About Perfection

We all know that plastic waste is a huge problem, but what are we supposed to do about it? Turns out there’s a lot we can do with just a few little changes!

10 minutes

[ Science ]

What We’re Learning from The First Swim Across the Pacific

Ben Lecomte is currently (right now!) in the middle of swimming 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean. While this is awesome on its own, what’s truly amazing is the amount of scientific data they’re picking up along the way.

Image: Woman getting screened for malaria

7 minutes

Detecting Malaria with Magnets

Detecting malaria can sometimes be difficult in the most rural places, but engineers have come up with a clever way to detect it with magnets! Here’s how this life-saving innovation works!

Image: American Grizzly in the middle of a paved road

27 minutes

Why Wild Animals May End Up On Your Street

These communities in Canada are helping us all reimagine what we can do to have healthy relationships with the wildlife that lives around us!

Image: A colorful collage in a silhouette of a human head

17 minutes

Every Brain is Beautiful: The Autism Advantage

What if we let disabilities take a back seat and we focused on the abilities that might look like superpowers in the right setting? Let’s take a look at some examples.

6 minutes

[ Nature ]

When Conservationists Become Matchmakers

The Maned Wolf faces the threat of becoming endangered. So, scientists in the US are becoming matchmakers to these creatures to help keep the species alive!

22 minutes

What Life is Like with Cochlear Implants

Cochlear implants were the first technology to restore a human sense, and since their invention, they have changed the lives of hundreds of thousands. These are some of their stories.

Image: 5 small children smiling, covered in mud, sitting on a bench

14 minutes

[ Culture ]

Forest Kindergarten: Challenging All Our Instincts!

When was the last time you saw pre-schoolers gleefully playing in a muddy ditch or climbing in a tall tree? Turns out that encouraging that sort of thing might be a giant leap forward in education! Take a look…

6 minutes

[ Food ]

Here’s Where Your Mushrooms Come From!

You can find fungi pretty much everywhere—including your plate. But how does it get there? The amazing series, How Does it Grow, brings us to one of the largest mushroom growers in the United States to find out how!

8 minutes

[ Education ]

Bringing The World Into the Classroom

Ever Widening Circles has moved into the classroom! Learn more about how EWCed is helping inspire students’ curiosity and connect them to the wider world!

Image: man wearing headphones on a busy city street

13 minutes

[ Science ]

What’s Up With All This Noise?