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What if you could learn life’s most important skills and have fun while doing so? This program is making that possible for hundreds of kids every week. Let’s hear from the kids themselves why this program is so important!

Image: entrance to the Berkeley, California Adventure Playground!

8 minutes

[ Culture ]

The Playgrounds Encouraging Safer Play by Using Hammers and Nails!

Could a playground with hammers, nails, shovels, and building materials actually make play safer? Adventure playgrounds are helping kids develop valuable life skills, letting them experiment with controlled risk, and encouraging creativity, exploration, and self-confidence!

Image: An older and and a younger hand reach out to touch a red rose

6 minutes

[ Culture ]

How a High School in a Nursing Home is Changing Lives

What if we saw this new wave of people reaching retirement as a new generation of mentors? Connecting youth and older adults has remarkable benefits for everyone! Heres how one program is helping lead the way for whats possible.

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17 minutes

[ Culture ]

Stamford Peace Project: Classroom, Community and the Potential of Youth Sports

What would our schools look like if we made the most of the amazing untapped potential involving 45 million kids? There is a model for an entirely fresh approach to all youth athletics that would ensure students would leave the system at any level, with a remarkable toolbox of coping skills, character assets, and academic strength to access for the rest of their lives. Now here’s what innovation looks like at its best!

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15 minutes

[ Thought Leaders ]

How Teaching Improv Skills to Scientists Will Change the Future

What would the world look like for us all if we could understand each other better? Alan Alda may be best known for his skills as an actor in the hit series M*A*S*H* but for the past two decades, he has been educating scientists on how they can communicate their important work to all of us. His methods aren’t just for Ph.D.’s though, they are skills every one of us can use to become better communicators!

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20 minutes

[ Culture ]

How Saving Languages Can Save the World!

Have you ever thought about the relationship between language and knowledge? Each of the 7000 languages spoken around the world is a powerful encyclopedia of generational wisdom. Half of these records of human history may be going extinct in the next decade, but there are amazing people out there working to save this knowledge!

Image: Girls shaking hands over a chess game

7 minutes

[ Culture ]

How A Game of Chess is Changing Lives

The most impactful innovations in the world often combine two things no one ever thought to bring together. Here’s what we get when we let young girls loose on the game of chess! It challenges many notions all at once.

Image: Dozens of students in school uniforms celebrate graduation

20 minutes

[ Thought Leaders ]

The Haitian Project: A Blueprint for Solving Big Problems

What if the concept that could change the way we all look at solving the world’s most vexing problems is coming out of a nation facing the large brunt of them? It looks like the solution is thinking differently about how we decide to start attacking a problem. And this school in Haiti gives us just a glimpse of all of the possibility and hope that can come!

Image: Workers at MA'O Farms smile and pick weeds

8 minutes

[ Culture ]

Celebrating Culture and Empowering Youth in Hawaii

How can farming blend scholarship, tradition, empowerment, and service to the community? MA’O farms in Hawaii is empowering the young people of Oahu’s Waianae coast with a program that is changing countless lives and building a stronger future!

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.

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: 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!

26 minutes

[ Creativity ]

Can Super Mario Teach Us To Be More Successful?

By Dakota Phenix

There’s a tendency to look at what stands in our way to success and feel overwhelmed. But Mark Rober has a novel method to get around this, and he calls it the Super Mario Effect. Now, THIS is a game-changer!

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…

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: two blonde female barbies, one adult and one child, sitting down next to an old desktop computer. The older barbie appears to be explaining the machine to her.

15 minutes

The Code for a Better World

Girls Who Code was started by Reshma Saujani in 2012 with a goal to close the gender gap we find in the tech world, but why is this gap there in the first place?

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13 minutes

[ Education ]

Lightning: Are We Really Safe in Airplanes and Cars?

Ever wonder if you are actually safe in an airplane or a car during a lightning storm? Turns out the answer is as fascinating as the science, and it can be made quite fun!

19 minutes

[ Education ]

Are You Happily Using Math Every Day Without Realizing It?

By Abigayle Fugere

By studying mathematics and science, humans have the ability to answer questions that would have otherwise been deemed “unanswerable”. So, let’s discover how math sneaks its way into our lives inside of our lives every day.

10 minutes

[ Animals ]

What Do Bears, Frogs, and Gardening Have in Common?

You may not expect urine to be the topic in an article about insight and innovation, but here we are. Today we discover how a few animals recycle their own to keep themselves healthy and the steps that we humans are taking to join the party!

10 minutes

[ Education ]

The Bug That Gets Stuck in Your Brain

By Bethany Leduc

Most bugs are nasty little creatures, but this one doesn’t have to be. Dare to find out just what an earworm is? Read our article to expand your knowledge of yourself!

7 minutes

[ Education ]

How Much Do We Know About Sleep?

We all know what it looks like when we are without sleep, but why is sleep so important to us? It turns out, our brains are doing some extraordinary things while we sleep! See what you think. (And learn what you “think” while you are sleeping!)

Image: Ammonium Chloride crystalization in a red pigment underneath a microscope!

9 minutes

Where Could the Beauty of Science Take Us?

Could this combination of art and science inspire a fascination for the sciences in more people? This education brand brings another level to science class!

7 minutes

Strides Towards Combating the Deadliest Organism on the Planet

Dare we propose that it could be possible that humans and mosquitos can actually become… friends? Here’s a little insight that could point the way to beating one of the most deadly and pervasive diseases in the world!

21 minutes

[ Curators' Best ]

Tim Minchin on the Wonder of Micro-Ambitions

Want to hear a refreshing, completely counter-intuitive take on realizing your path in life. Here’s an unlikely and brilliant source!

Image: Killer whales mother and baby breaching in the wild

19 minutes

[ Animals ]

GoPro and the Orca Rescue

Can you imagine the exhilaration of setting an enormous, wild animal like an Orca (Killer Whale) free after it has been entangled by fishing gear? Today we explore their beauty and intelligence with the magic a Go Pro can bring to research.

Image: Young skateboarding girl jumping in front of an ancient monument

27 minutes

Skateboarding for Peace in Afghanistan

The most remarkable innovations often happen with sweeping speed, when someone puts things together in a novel way. See how amazing hope and education have lurched forward through skateboarding in Afghanistan!

Image: Bridge over a river with the water looking like it has a hole in it

16 minutes

[ Culture ]

Are We Looking At The Past or History? Are They Different?

They say if we don’t learn from history we are doomed to repeat it, but what is history? Who writes history? Are the events we read about in history books really the whole story?

18 minutes

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