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Want to taste true freedom? Turns out our phones are designed to make us slaves to their allure. Here are the keys to understanding what’s going on and breaking free!

Image: art projected on trees and house at Alys Beach. Viewers are taking photos

7 minutes

Alys Beach, the Town Transformed by Color After Dark

For one weekend every year, the entire town of Alys Beach transforms. As the sun dips below the horizon, the walls of their houses are doused in art from around the world. Check out how this unique town is embracing what they have, and giving the world a new way to experience art.

13 minutes

There’s a Common Language We All Speak!

You are fluent in a language that you don’t even realize you know! And it might be a place we can find some real fun and eventually share the struggle for connection.

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!

Image: American Grizzly in the middle of a paved road

27 minutes

[ Innovation ]

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: Group of school children wearing the shoe that grows

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!

4 minutes

[ Culture ]

Sisal! The Plant that Points to Possibilities

By Dakota Phenix

This Kenyan farmer has invented machines that help this cactus-like plant give farmers across the world stability in a changing climate.

12 minutes

[ Art ]

Synesthesia: Wiring the Senses Together

By Louisa Ulrich-Verderber

Synesthesia could be called a superpower, so what is life like for people who can see music or taste color? This is the fascinating science behind it all!

Image: People looking at the MICRO Smallest Mollusk Museum

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!

15 minutes

A More Creative Future with Smog Vacuums and Glowing Sidewalks

What if every construction project needed to have both a practical outcome and a component past that; something that expands possibility? Here’s a guided tour of what that world might look like!

Image: Man playing piano in the middle of a park

10 minutes

[ Art ]

Unleashing Creativity… A Simple Guide for All

If you’ve ever tried to create something, you know the whole process can be quite frustrating. From finding that great idea to showing the final piece to someone, here are 3 short videos (from a few creative minds you may recognize) that can help us rethink how well we’re doing.

Image: Screen Capture from Box by Bot and Dolly of Person walking into geometric shapes

12 minutes

[ Art ]

Mind Bending Technology and Magic

Technology and magic are combining to transform possibility. Bot & Dolly’s “Box” is a performance that pushes us past the boundaries of reality!

7 minutes

Need to Solve a Problem? Turn to Nature!

The natural world is a remarkable problem solver. So, why aren’t we turning to nature to find more answers to our complex problems? Here’s how biomimicry is helping us build a better future!

Image: Jacob Tennet, Leah O'Connor and Martin Teall use Crane Head Cereal Serving Devices created by inventor Dominic Wilcox

10 minutes

Problem-Solving Through Reinventing “Normal”

Dominic Wilcox is an inventor and creative genius whose work is an inspiring reminder of why creativity will almost always save the day! Here is his incredible story, and some of the amazingly fun work he has inspired!

Image: Young drummer with prosthetic hand holding drumsticks

8 minutes

When Robotics Lend a Hand

Here’s a moment where technology becomes a bit more…human

17 minutes

[ Art ]

The Future of Designing Our Environments

Today we meet a team who are working to bridge the gap between nature, technology, and art with hopes for a more beautiful future! Daan Roosegaard’s TED Talk creates a spark that can enlighten us all.

Image: Abstract Water Color painting of mountain range done by artist and activist Sarah Uhl

5 minutes

Finding Flow: Art & Mountain Biking

Artist, activist and adventurer, Sarah Uhl, aids us in discovering our environments in the name of finding our flow in life!

Image: Acrobats stacked in a triangle formation

6 minutes

[ Art ]

Endless Possibility in Embracing Your Constraints

Have you ever thought of the obstacles you face as a good thing? Reframing and embracing the obstacles in our lives may actually lead us to better and more creative answers!

Image: Man standing next to a termite mound in the desert that is taller than he is

7 minutes

[ Animals ]

Meet the Planet’s Most Remarkable Engineers

Imagine a world of natural air conditioning, vertical farming, and sky scrapers that rival our tallest buildings. You don’t have to travel to the future to see any of this, all you have to do is turn to the insect world!

Image: A mountain biker on a cliff overlooking a canyon

8 minutes

[ Culture ]

Here’s How Failure Can Be Great!

In a world so full of advances of course there have been a few set backs. The Museum of Failure in Sweden has curated some of the best for us to view and to see that yes, failure is always an option and it has so much to teach us.

7 minutes

[ Design ]

Good News! Confusing Doors Aren’t Your Fault!

Confusing doors are everywhere, but we have good news: It turns out that fixing those doors is just the first step in a new way innovators are reshaping a better future for us all!

17 minutes

OK Go: How to FIND Your Next Great Idea!

OK Go – arguably the most wildly creative force in music videos – can teach us all a lot about getting to our next great idea. Turns out most of us have been going about things backward!

12 minutes

[ Art ]

Way Beyond the Swan: Here’s Origami in Space!

Here’s what happens when we apply the Mathematics of Origami, complex folding, to engineering and space!

5 minutes

[ Art ]

This Tree Can Grow 40 Different Fruits!

Today on EWC we take a look at a pretty funky topic: Sam Van Aken’s Tree of 40 Fruits! This tree grows not one, but (you guessed it) 40 different varieties of stone fruit! How amazing! But how could this be? Read more to find out!

13 minutes

[ Animals ]

Pollen as a Micro-Wonder of the World!

Let’s go beyond the misery of hay-fever and understand the extraordinary beauty, complexity and wonder of one of Mother Nature’s most ingenious designs: Pollen!

8 minutes

[ Art ]

Could We Live in Houses That Breathe?

Sounds a little crazy, doesn’t it? Let’s rethink what a building can do by following one architect on a journey to create eco-conscious additions that’ll breathe with the world.

Image: Fibonacci Sequence explains nature's spiral nautilus shells

9 minutes

[ Design ]

The Fibonacci Sequence Explains Nature’s Spirals

The wonder of spirals can be found throughout the natural world. It turns out that Mother Nature uses some fascinating mathematics in these designs!

11 minutes

[ Culture ]

The Ties That Bind Us: Do Shoes Reveal What We Value?