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8 minutes
[ Culture ]
The Restaurant that Brought Love to Phoenix
By Sam Burns
If you’re looking for proof that love can bring about real change, you need look no further than 16th street in Phoenix, Arizona! This is one story that will help you see the hidden potential in your own life.
14 minutes
Leon Logothetis is Proving the Kindness of Strangers is Alive and Well!
By Dr. Lynda
Is it possible to travel the country only relying on the kindness of strangers? The person we’re highlighting in this piece proves it is! Take a look at the impact this has on peoples lives and how we can all tap into the kindness all around us.
16 minutes
[ Culture ]
Lessons on Being Prepared from One of the World’s Best Extreme Athletes
Starting a new job, a new chapter in life, or maybe just doing something you’ve always wanted to do? Extreme athletes may seem like unlikely sources of inspiration, but their skill at how to avoid panic can be a great example of what we can do in our own lives!
15 minutes
[ Innovation ]
Walk Through the City You Didn’t Know You Were Smelling Everyday!
By Sam Burns
Perfume has influenced our lives for more than 4000 years! But did you know many of the perfumes we know best today have their origins in the fields and flowers of one city in France? Let’s travel to this city behind some of the most iconic smells in history to learn how perfume has shaped our cultures.
18 minutes
[ Pebbles ]
Supporting Education in the Mountains of Nepal
By Sam Burns
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.
28 minutes
[ Innovation ]
The Surprising Life Behind Your Chocolate
By Sam Burns
If you’ve ever eaten chocolate, then you’re definitely going to want to check this out. Most of us don’t know of the lengthy, fascinating process it goes through before it makes it to us!
15 minutes
[ Nature ]
Fireflies Put on Quite the Show in Mexico
By Sam Burns
On this edition of Saturday’s Around the World, we’re traveling to Mexico to experience the light show few have seen happening in their forests!
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!
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.
20 minutes
Orangutan Culture Feels Very… Familiar
By Sam Burns
We share 97% of our DNA with orangutans, but what we’ve known about their cultural customs and habits have been limited… until now.
15 minutes
[ Culture ]
A History Carved in Canyon Walls
By Sam Burns
It’s hard to find a place in the United States that holds as much human history as Canyonlands and the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. The ingenuity of the people who lived on this land centuries ago is literally carved into the stone!
17 minutes
Snowboarding’s Alternative Origin Story?
By Sam Burns
We think of the modern snowboard is a fairly recent innovation, but people in Turkey have been sliding down snow-covered hills on the petranboard for centuries!
11 minutes
[ Animals ]
Surprise! Those Are Worms, Not Stars
By Sam Burns
Welcome to the luminescent ceiling of New Zealand’s Waitomo Caves. It may look like the lights of another solar system, but in reality, it’s home to thousands of wriggling carnivorous glow worms.
4 minutes
[ Nature ]
Don’t Miss the Rainbow River
By Sam Burns
For a short amount of time every year, the conditions in Colombia are perfect for a rainbow to bloom in the river, Caño Cristales.
13 minutes
[ Art ]
Take a Little Trip to Reset Your Sense of Wonder
How can we overcome the monotony of the day to day and be reinspired by the world around us? Why not take a trip to some of the world’s most wonderful places?
36 minutes
Rewriting Stories on Mountainsides
By Sam Burns
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.
15 minutes
[ Culture ]
Cheers to Years of Tradition
Let EWC help you celebrate the holiday season by spotlighting some of the oldest and quirkiest brews in the world! From enjoying beers the Pharaohs would have sipped to wine fermented at the bottom of the sea, these brewmasters are certainly proving it’s still an amazing world!
23 minutes
[ Nature ]
The Greatness of Testing Our Limits (ft. Greenland)
By Sam Burns
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.
6 minutes
[ Animals ]
Jellyfish Lake: An Otherworldly Place
On this Saturday Around the World, we take you to one of the most incredible underwater places in the world: Jellyfish Lake! Home to millions of beautiful, virtually stingless Golden Jellyfish, this is quite the aquatic marvel.
15 minutes
[ Animals ]
The Last Hallucinogenic Honey Hunters of Nepal
By Sam Burns
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 hallucinogenic honey harvest. You won’t want to miss this!
19 minutes
Through the Eyes of a Creative Outsider
By Sam Burns
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.
5 minutes
[ Culture ]
The Deeper Opportunity in Travel
By Sam Burns
Could we be getting more from the excursions we take into new environments? It turns out that we can find a bit of wisdom in mear travel to the next town or halfway across the world. Here’s a completely new way of looking at travel!
14 minutes
[ Culture ]
How Can We All Find the Runner’s Fuel
By Sam Burns
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!
13 minutes
[ Art ]
What Could the Creation of Art in Space Mean for our Future?
By Sam Burns
Did you know there’s a sculpture floating in the wild unknown outside of our planet? What could this mean for us?
22 minutes
So, What’s a Food Forest?
By Sam Burns
There’s something growing on the South Coast of New Zealand that could change our lives. Check it out!
8 minutes
[ Art ]
The Traditions of This Tribe Have Left Quite a Mark
By Sam Burns
What you can find in the mountains of the Philippines may stay with you forever, especially if you happen to visit Apo Whang-Od in her village. She’s single handedly working and teaching to keep her culture’s tradition alive!
19 minutes
Paragliding: Seeing a Place, Leaving No Trace
By Dr. Lynda
Want to walk a little taller today? Keep in mind that things are often only as bleak as our singular perspective is narrow! Here’s wonder exposed by a new point of view!
7 minutes
[ Culture ]
Why Paddleboard to Victoria, Canada?
By Dr. Lynda
Have you noticed that in our haste to make our lives easier, we actually experience far less wonder and adventure? Here’s a perspective that may feel like a gift!
22 minutes
Creating Something Out of Nothing: The Forest Man of India
By Dr. Lynda
Magicians aren’t the only people who specialize in making something out of nothing. There are a few ordinary folks whose single-mindedness is their magic. See what you think of the work of the Forest Man of India.
