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[ Innovation ]
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!
27 minutes
[ Innovation ]
Why Wild Animals May End Up On Your Street
By Sam Burns
These communities in Canada are helping us all reimagine what we can do to have healthy relationships with the wildlife that lives around us!
17 minutes
[ Innovation ]
Every Brain is Beautiful: The Autism Advantage
By Dr. Lynda
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
[ Innovation ]
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.
14 minutes
[ Culture ]
Forest Kindergarten: Challenging All Our Instincts!
By Dr. Lynda
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!
By Sam Burns
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!
13 minutes
[ Science ]
What’s Up With All This Noise?
By Sam Burns
We’re living in a loud world, and most of us are contributing to the noise pollution in some way. Although it’s rather grim to mourn our hearing, there’s still hope! Let’s learn more.
20 minutes
[ Science ]
Community Laboratories are Changing What’s Possible
By Sam Burns
Genspace is the world’s first DIY biolab; letting members of the community from all walks of life get a closer look at the building blocks of our world. Science isn’t just for scientists, and the amazing projects and discoveries coming from Genspace and community laboratories like it, are proving this to be true.
6 minutes
[ Innovation ]
Your Spare Hair Could Clean the Ocean!
By Sam Burns
Did you know you are growing a way to combat oil spills? Every day, hairdressers are throwing out pounds of hair that can be used to help clean up the environment! Clean Wave is putting that hair to good use, keeping the oceans safe and protecting wildlife.
16 minutes
[ Creativity ]
When Art and Science Intersect
By Sam Burns
This isn’t a photograph of the Getz Ice Shelf, its a drawing! Zaria Forman creates large-scale depictions of glaciers, and NASA’s Operation IceBridge invited her on a trip to get even closer to them. Here’s that story and the gorgeous creations that came from it!
30 minutes
[ Nature ]
Iceland’s Comeback Story
Iceland may be well known for its barren and sweeping landscapes, but the island didn’t always look like that. Here’s how scientists are using the latest science to regrow Iceland’s long-lost forests.
7 minutes
[ Creativity ]
When Dance Creates Opportunities
By Sam Burns
Hussein Smko grew up in war-torn Iraq, and he’s turned his experience into an opportunity. Through his performance, this dancer is not only telling his story, but making it possible for others to share theirs.
5 minutes
[ Innovation ]
The Shoe that Grows Keeps Growing!
What if more businesses were built to have a positive impact on the world? Kenton Lee, the founder of The Shoe that Grows, is working to make an even greater positive impact on the globe with the launch of GroFive, and Expandles!
20 minutes
[ Culture ]
Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is well known for its Moai. While many go to see these incredible stone statues that tower over the landscape, few are introduced to the rich culture they represent. This is the story of that culture and the people working to preserve it!
10 minutes
A Sanctuary for Costa Rica’s Strays
By Sam Burns
Territorio de Zaguates is providing care to nearly a thousand dogs that have been taken off the streets of Costa Rica. Their story is a testament to the impact the love and determination of one person can have on others.
9 minutes
How Cecilia Chiang Changed Food in America
If you’ve ever enjoyed Chinese food in the United States, like potstickers and Peking duck, then we’d like to introduce you to Cecilia Chiang. She’s the “Julia Child” of Chinese cuisine, and the story of how she changed the way Americans eat is as remarkable as her influence!
What Happens When Athletes and Scientists Team Up?
By Sam Burns
To put it simply: breakthroughs. This nonprofit is making it possible for scientists to get the data they need from every corner of the planet by teaming them up with the adventurers who are already there.
25 minutes
Are Sea-Greens the New Superfood?
By Sam Burns
The benefits of kelp farming are too extensive to list in full here (but one of the most important may just be that it’s cleaning the ocean—naturally.)
13 minutes
The Case For Making Useless Things
How can we bring joy and humility back into the work we do? Why not have more fun! Simone Giertz is the queen of terrible robots, and she makes a great case for why we should embrace making “useless things”.
15 minutes
Bringing Bangladesh to the Top of the World
By Erin Murphy
Climbing to the highest peak of every continent is no small feat. So what does it take for a person to conquer the Seven Summits? For Wasfia Nazreen, it began with a mission to put her country on the map and fight for the empowerment of women.
8 minutes
Creative Growth: Where Artists with Disabilities Thrive
By Sam Burns
Creative Growth is a space where artists can hone their crafts, express themselves, and share their work with the public. This is one nonprofit making us rethink where our community focus actually is.
16 minutes
When (Artistic) Worlds Collide
What happens when you take a graffiti artist and a painter and give them one day to create a mural together? (Spoiler: it’s definitely some sort of magic!)
8 minutes
Is Tradition the Secret Ingredient to Great Food?
By Sam Burns
If you want to have a really, really good tortilla, you’re going to need the best corn. Masienda is a company not only supporting Mexico’s small heirloom corn farmers but bringing the practices that enhance the nutritional powers of the grain back into the market.
5 minutes
This Museum is Sparking Curiosity Anywhere!
Meet MICRO, an amazing organization bringing the wonders and knowledge of museums to everybody, with tiny museums built to inspire curiosity!
8 minutes
Did You Know We Can Garden in Space?
By Sam Burns
Lettuce, zinnias, peas, and radishes are just some of the plants that have found their roots in space. But what does this mean for our future?
8 minutes
Visit the Water Park of an Inspired Future!
Morgan’s Inspiration Island is the world’s first ultra-accessible water park, and this remarkable place not only connects kids with the power of fun but is spurring on meaningful innovation!
15 minutes
Should We All Be Eating Insects?
By Sam Burns
We know it’s a reach, but the best innovations always are! Insect protein takes fewer resources to produce, has all of the amino acids we need, and can be pretty tasty. Are bugs the food of the future? Let’s risk knowing more…
