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[ 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
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
[ Art ]
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.
20 minutes
[ Animals ]
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.
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
[ Happiness & Hope ]
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 🙂
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?
[ Business ]
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
[ 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.
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!
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…
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?
11 minutes
[ Business ]
Why do Airlines Overbook? Why is Flying so Expensive?
By Dr. Lynda
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?
By Dr. Lynda
There’s a fascinating reason why dragons show up in cultures all around the world, and it’s something that unites us all!
30 minutes
[ Culture ]
#TryPod Let Us Introduce You!
#Trypod has us excited about some of our favorite Podcasts! Learn a few thing about Podcasts and let us recommend a few of our favorites along the way!
13 minutes
[ Happiness & Hope ]
Surfing the Great Lakes!
Few people would look at the icy waters of the Great Lakes in winter and see a surfing hot spot, but Great Lakes surfers see the world a little differently!
8 minutes
How Ripe Bananas Can Shift Perspectives: Wisdom from Oliver Sacks
Here’s some wisdom from Oliver Sacks on how green bananas and an old H.G. Wells story helped him learn about valuing perspectives outside of the “norm”.
28 minutes
[ Animals ]
Hunting with the Help of the Golden Eagle
The Golden Eagle Hunters of western Mongolia have been hunting with the help of eagles for generations. Here is an up close look at the tradition from a perspective only a GoPro can provide!
6 minutes
[ Art ]
Great Photographers on What Makes an Iconic Image
What makes an image iconic, even life changing? Hear some of the world’s best photographers talk about powerful photography and how it connects us!
6 minutes
[ Art ]
What Children’s Drawings Teach Us
By Dr. Lynda
There’s a reason why we all gravitate toward the magic in children’s drawings. Here’s an insight that I carried with me for weeks after running across it!
19 minutes
[ Art ]
Celebrate the Music of the World: Meet the Kamāncheh
Celebrate the music that makes this planet a rich and remarkable place! The Kamāncheh, a traditional Persian instrument, is one of the many musical ambassadors that brings us closer together.
10 minutes
Bolster Your Immunity to Fear!
Did you know fear is contagious? Here are some simple ways you can avoid contagious fear while building a more positive world around you!
16 minutes
[ Culture ]
Experience the Remarkable Sapporo Snow Festival!
By Dr. Lynda
Want to take a little trip without leaving your living room? Today on our Saturdays Around the World feature, we stroll the streets of Japan’s famous snow festival!
27 minutes
[ Culture ]
Skateboarding for Peace in Afghanistan
By Dr. Lynda
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!
