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Leon Logothetis is Proving the Kindness of Strangers is Alive and Well!

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.

Image: a crowd of people watch as people build a human tower called a Castell

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.

Image: Circles in water rippling outward

15 minutes

[ Happiness & Hope ]

#ConspiracyofGoodness: A Movement That’s Changing our Future

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!

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: loaves of artisan sourdough bread

10 minutes

[ Science ]

The Bread as Unique as the Place You Make It

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!

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: A girl smelling a rose with deep satisfaction

15 minutes

[ Innovation ]

Walk Through the City You Didn’t Know You Were Smelling Everyday!

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.

Image: Satellite photo of the Uffington White Horse

5 minutes

[ Creativity ]

The White Horse: An Effort that Links 90 Generations!

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!

Image: Hard working hands scooping up bright green chickpeas

15 minutes

[ Culture ]

Chickpeas: Doing the Hum-Most!

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!

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!

Image: Person kayaking through some rocks

11 minutes

[ Nature ]

Meeting the Salween River

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

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.

Image: A close-up portrait of a female orangutan (Pongo pymaeus) and her young together, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia

20 minutes

Orangutan Culture Feels Very… Familiar

We share 97% of our DNA with orangutans, but what we’ve known about their cultural customs and habits have been limited… until now.

Image: a sheep sitting on a rock in the Burren

11 minutes

[ Conservation & Sustainability ]

Farming the Place of Stone

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!?

Image: Giant Flowering Wisteria tree reflected in water

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 🙂

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.

Image: Colorized Image of peasant women from Russia

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?

Image: Graffiti of a cubist style painting of a face

Stories Behind the Faces of Power

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!

Image: Artist standing on their paddleboard in the forefront of their creation: a massive, stunning painting of a woman reaching out of the waters.

19 minutes

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.

Image: A person's hand performing cardistry

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

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!

Image: A sketch of an eye, but curiously the corner is in the middle

9 minutes

[ Culture ]

When Do We Feel the Most Beautiful?

By Bethany Leduc

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…

11 minutes

[ Culture ]

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

Shoes may seem like a utilitarian necessity or a fashion statement, but what if they connect us all in pointing to what we value?

Image: A view of a river partly viewed through a filtered lens

11 minutes

[ Business ]

Why do Airlines Overbook? Why is Flying so Expensive?

Want to get past the hype of the news or past the surface of our most perplexing problems. Here’s a place to start when we want to know how things work!

16 minutes

[ Animals ]

Are Dragons in our DNA?