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13 minutes
[ Culture ]
Celebrating the Quirky Signs of Change
For the residents of San Francisco, one bird and an iconic sign sparked a new love for a little piece of their quirky history! Take a close look around you and you might start to notice the details that make your hometown special.
5 minutes
[ Art ]
A Charming Tradition that is Equally as Sweet!
It only takes one person to breathe new life into a dying tradition. Meet Shinri Tezuka, the craftsman who is sculpting the sweet, ancient Japanese art form of Amezaiku back into the hands (and mouths!) of modern society.
6 minutes
[ Nature ]
The Unexpectedly Arctic Origins of Our Favorite Desert Companion!
What do camels have to do with globalization, and the arctic? Probably not what you think! The adaptations that made camels our ideal desert companions didn’t start in the sand.
25 minutes
[ Culture ]
Empathy is the Renewable Resource We Can Tap Into Now
What if empathy was at the heart of the solution to changing the divisiveness that feels so dominant now? It turns out empathy isn’t a set trait, it’s something we can learn to develop, and it’s super easy to start! Here’s how you can easily start making a positive change!
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.
15 minutes
[ Culture ]
How Spain’s Human Towers Define Community
How do you build a tower of people 50 feet tall and weighing as much as three elephants? Maybe more importantly, why? The castell builders of Catalonia, Spain are, quite literally, the definition of an uplifting and supportive community.
15 minutes
[ Happiness & Hope ]
#ConspiracyofGoodness: A Movement That’s Changing our Future
By Dr. Lynda
Why don’t we know about the awe-inspiring people who are making the world a better place? There is already a movement underway of people working towards a better collective future and you’re already a part of it. This is the Conspiracy of Goodness, the movement all around us just waiting to be celebrated!
7 minutes
[ Culture ]
How A Game of Chess is Changing Lives
By Sam Burns
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.
10 minutes
[ Science ]
The Bread as Unique as the Place You Make It
By Sam Burns
There is a revival happening. And it’s coming in the form of something we all love: bread! Sourdough has been a connection to the bread ovens of our ancestors for more than 5000 years, and now you can travel the kitchens of the world from a unique library in Belgium!
20 minutes
[ Thought Leaders ]
The Haitian Project: A Blueprint for Solving Big Problems
By Dr. Lynda
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!
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.
5 minutes
[ Creativity ]
The White Horse: An Effort that Links 90 Generations!
By Sam Burns
This piece of art has been draped across an entire English hilltop for three thousand years. And we have an unbroken thread of ordinary people to thank for it being here today; they showed up unfailingly and sat patiently smashing it with hammers. Take a look!
15 minutes
[ Culture ]
Chickpeas: Doing the Hum-Most!
By Sam Burns
Chickpeas have been a staple in dishes around the world for centuries, so we’re going to give these little protein-packed cuties some attention. We’ll point you to one of our favorite YouTube channels to get some insights into why we should care about the rich history of chickpeas!
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!
11 minutes
[ Nature ]
Meeting the Salween River
By Sam Burns
On this Saturday Around the World, we’re traveling through the beautiful Salween River in China and seeing the efforts put into place to protect it.
5 minutes
[ Culture ]
Meet the Hindu Bagpipers Bringing Cultures Together
It’s easy to look back and see that some of the best innovators in history brought together two things that no one had ever thought to combine. For the best kind of ingenious fun with that concept, take a look at The Shree Muktajeevan Swamibapa Pipe Band: a worldwide organization of Hindu bagpipers who blend Indian and Scottish music in a brilliant cultural mashup!
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.
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.
11 minutes
[ Conservation & Sustainability ]
Farming the Place of Stone
By Sam Burns
Let’s take a journey to a lunar landscape nestled into the hills of Ireland! A place where the history, the land, and the people have become deeply intertwined over many millennia.
24 minutes
Grab Your Hat! You’re About to Become a Space Archaeologist.
Ever wished that you could be the one to discover an amazing ancient site? Well, what if we told you that you can be, by connecting to a satellite, yourself!?
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?
12 minutes
[ Culture ]
Embracing a Language that Brings Us Closer 🙂
By Sam Burns
You’ve probably shared a few of these in your messages if you’ve communicated through technology in the past decade, but could emotion depicting icons have an even longer history than we assume? And where could these emojis bring the human race in the future? Jenna Schilstra discusses this on the TED stage.
8 minutes
[ Art ]
Bringing Color Back to our Past
What stories do images from the past tell us? How might they speak to us differently if we could easily see ourselves reflected in them?
Stories Behind the Faces of Power
By Dr. Lynda
What if we removed the veil of power and could see people at “the top” for who they really are? Here’s a photographer whose stories do just that!
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.
14 minutes
[ Art ]
Exploring the Wonders of Cardistry
Have you heard of cardistry? This incredible art combines dexterity with endless possibility to turn an ordinary deck of cards into a medium for remarkable feats of artistic expression!
17 minutes
[ Art ]
The Future of Designing Our Environments
By Sam Burns
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.
11 minutes
[ Conservation & Sustainability ]
The Magic of the Washing Machine
After seeing this TED Talk you will never look at your washing machine in the same way again! It’s time we celebrated this amazing technology!
9 minutes
[ Culture ]
When Do We Feel the Most Beautiful?
What if beauty is far more complex than the eye of the beholder? What if it comes from our core and our mindset in a given moment? Here’s something to ponder…
