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15 minutes
When You (Really) Can’t Smell the Roses
Your sense of smell is one of the most powerful and elusive of all the senses. But how does it even work? And what is it like when it doesn’t?
8 minutes
[ Culture ]
Life at the Base of a Volcano
A vast majority of us don’t live anywhere close to a volcano — especially not an active one. Indonesia has the largest number of active volcanos in the world, so how do the residents handle the constant threat? What’s the appeal? Here’s a gorgeous film that may give us a hint.
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!
12 minutes
[ Culture ]
How Cooking Made Us Human
By Dr. Lynda
Why do we cook? Is it just to satisfy our senses or stave off disease? Today we find out how cooking made us into modern humans with larger brains with time on our hands! Fascinating!
10 minutes
[ Animals ]
Dressed for Survival
To avoid being eaten, decorator crabs have developed quite the unique ability to disguise themselves! Discover how they do this, and then stay tuned for a final, very flashy, guest crab.
36 minutes
[ Happiness & Hope ]
Rewriting Stories on Mountainsides
We typically don’t want to go back to a place we had a terrible experience. But what if we did? Here’s the story of three U.S. Army Captains returning to Iraq for the first time since combat to experience something completely different.
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!)
15 minutes
[ Conservation & Sustainability ]
Humanizing What’s Under the Surface
It can be difficult to feel a connection to something when it isn’t a part of your day to day life. But what if it could be? There are people throughout the world creating ways for us to have a closer look at what’s happening under the water, so here’s two of them. Artist, Katrina Fuller, will bring the ocean to us, while innovator, David Lang, brings us into those waters!
9 minutes
[ Happiness & Hope ]
Retrain Your Brain: Mindfulness
Sometimes our own thoughts can lead us into a deep, dark, and endless pit. Thankfully, there just so happens to be an easily learned way to lighten it up a bit! Today we learn about Mindfulness and all it can do to help us dig our way out.
5 minutes
[ Art ]
Giving New Meaning to “The Little Things”
By Dr. Lynda
It’s so easy these days to get bogged down by the scale of the world’s problems, but what if we turned that focus upside down? Turns out there is remarkable connection, beauty, and possibility just waiting for us in our routines and ordinary moments! Here’s what one nurse was able to create by doing just that…
17 minutes
[ Art ]
Plus 1: Making a Difference with What You Have
Seeing the need and opportunity for the music industry to be a more positive force in the world, Marika Shaw and her bandmates came up with Plus 1, an organization that has changed the way the music industry and non-profits can work together.
15 minutes
[ Happiness & Hope ]
Flipping Perceptions
How do you react when someone tells you you’re incapable of doing something? For a lot of us, there are usually two routes we take: agree and shrink, or prove those words wrong. WCMX athlete, Aaron “Wheelz” Fotheringham, chose the latter and has spent years creating history and crushing stereotypes. Here’s his story…
23 minutes
[ Nature ]
The Greatness of Testing Our Limits (ft. Greenland)
What can a climb into an unexplored environment teach us about ourselves? Today we sit back, relax, and watch as a team of athletes spend weeks journeying through Greenland on the hunt for a mountain captured in a blurry photo.
7 minutes
[ Happiness & Hope ]
Are We Missing Our Connections?
Do we have the power to improve our day through our small interactions with others? Today we meet one man who is doing his part by helping people feel welcome in a place most of us don’t really want to be!
6 minutes
[ Culture ]
Amazing–Even If You’re Not a Fan
By AJ Ulrich
Take a quick peek at an amazing athlete’s work, using his talents to have some fun and best of all, you can trust this source! Here’s a guest writer who actually played with this great talent!
9 minutes
[ Art ]
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
[ Animals ]
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!
25 minutes
[ Art ]
Can Clowns Teach Us to be More Human?
When an art form meant to highlight our own humanity has begun eliciting fear… it may just be time to look back at its roots. Today, we learn a bit more about the amazing, mystical world of clowning!
10 minutes
[ Conservation & Sustainability ]
A Village Made of Plastic
What might happen if we placed more focus on the idea of inventing ever more creative and practical uses for what’s already been made? Why keep making more “stuff”? There’s something popping up in Panama that can inspire us all!
15 minutes
[ Animals ]
The Last Hallucinogenic Honey Hunters of Nepal
What could come from documenting some of the most remarkable human traditions? Today we head to breathtaking heights on the steep cliffs of Nepal and have the privilege of looking behind the scenes of what’s said to be the last traditional honey harvest. You won’t want to miss this!
14 minutes
[ Health ]
Helping the Blind See With Their Tongues
Have you heard of the device that uses the tongue to transmit visual information to the brain? Today, we’ll take a look at the lives of Andy and Erik to see the potential in this amazing innovation!
5 minutes
A Collection to Inspire Endless Curiosity!
Are natural history museums the best place to inspire curiosity? Maybe we shouldn’t archive them just yet. Here’s Sir David Attenborough to tell us why!
19 minutes
[ Art ]
Through the Eyes of a Creative Outsider
Art has a powerful way of shifting our perceptions. Today, we get to see that creative magic unfold along the Canadian shores when visited by the artist, Hula.
8 minutes
[ Design ]
When Robotics Lend a Hand
Here’s a moment where technology becomes a bit more…human
13 minutes
[ Environment ]
Swooping Into New Perspectives: Speedflying
The inspiration to fly quietly, light as air, as been the stuff of dreams for many since childhood. Now many forms of flight make that possible, but have you heard of Speedflying?
6 minutes
[ Animals ]
How a Tiny Creature Makes Us Ask Better Questions…
The jerboa may look like the tiny rodent cousin of the t-rex, but the skeletons of these strange creatures are helping us answer questions with major implications in medicine.
5 minutes
[ Art ]
How Did We Get Music?
We now have access to any song we’d like right in the palm of our hand…but how did we get here?
7 minutes
[ Art ]
The Surprising World of Color
How much do we know about these various wavelengths of light that are constantly bouncing off the surfaces around us?
14 minutes
[ Culture ]
How Can We All Find the Runner’s Fuel
What ignites someones desire to run 100 miles? Turns out they are running on a kind of fuel we all have access to and it’s a really great recipe!
