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Take a moment to go on a journey with us to savor a flavor you probably have sitting in your kitchen cupboard! Who knew that that perfect opportunity to explore a food tradition that is thousands of years old started with a drizzle of our favorite oil.

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[ Food ]

Savoring the Flavor of the Moment with Lemon Caviar!

By Renee Laroche-Rheaume

Can the juicy insides of citrus fruit change the way we experience life? We’re pausing to savor the moments that delight, starting with a tiny fruit that has a tasty, sunshiney surprise inside! Take your taste buds on an adventure by discovering the wonder in the caviar of the Finger Lime!

25 minutes

[ Nature ]

Take a Journey to the Top of World with its Largest Land Predator!

How much do you REALLY know about polar bears? If we want to save animals at risk around the world, we have to celebrate how magnificent they are! Come along with us on a breathtaking journey to the top of the world to experience how the largest land predator on Earth lives their lives!

25 minutes

[ Nature ]

A Funny-Looking Clam That’s Saving Communities!

Can a clam help keep a culture alive? The impact the geoduck has had on the communities of the American Northwest goes even further, bringing together culinary experts, conservationists, and pallets around the globe! This intriguing mollusk is way more than just a delicacy on your plate!

Image: One of Josh Simpsons glass globes!

7 minutes

[ Creativity ]

Hidden Planets in an Everyday World!

By Renee Laroche-Rheaume

Have you ever received a gift from a stranger that changed your view of the world? Get ready to experience a mesmerizing ball of wonder that fits in the palm of your hand! Let us take you on a global scavenger hunt in search of Josh Simpson’s hidden glass Infinity Planets!

8 minutes

[ Culture ]

The Tiny Town That Became a Kingdom of Books

In the 70s, the UK gained a new, independent kingdom: a kingdom of books! Explore Hay-on-Wye, a tiny town in Wales that is every book lover’s dream!

Image: Sign for the 49 Mile Scenic Drive

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.

Image: Image taken from inside a plane of a plane wing with a sunset behind it

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[ Science ]

Need to Beat Jet Lag? Get Your Internal Clocks on Vacation, Too!

So you’ve just booked an amazing vacation, but how will you deal with the jet lag that will start to set in? Here are some tips to help you out!

Image: Person in a trekking wheelchair fist bumping a friend atop a mountain

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[ Thought Leaders ]

Meet The Company Making Travel Accessible for Everyone!

Trekking up Machu Pichu, exploring Easter Island, navigating through the wilds of Mexico; these were all trips once impossible for travelers who use wheelchairs. But this organization is changing all of that!

Image: Aerial photo of Gereja Ayam, AKA Chicken Church

8 minutes

[ Culture ]

How the Internet Made the Chicken Church Come to Life!

Venture with us to Indonesia’s Chicken Church—a building brought back to life through the power of the internet!

Image: Many people's faces from may ethnicities

20 minutes

[ Culture ]

How Saving Languages Can Save the World!

Have you ever thought about the relationship between language and knowledge? Each of the 7000 languages spoken around the world is a powerful encyclopedia of generational wisdom. Half of these records of human history may be going extinct in the next decade, but there are amazing people out there working to save this knowledge!

Image: Satellite photo of the Uffington White Horse

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[ 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: Four young ballerinas lined up and practicing next to a chain mail fence.

25 minutes

[ Thought Leaders ]

Building Futures One Plié at a Time

In a place where violence reigns, girls are finding refuge in a surprising way—and it’s all thanks to one amazing woman.

Image: Colorful houses along the Greenland coast

5 minutes

[ Nature ]

What You Learn When the Sun Doesn’t Rise

There’s a span of time every year in the arctic zone when the sun doesn’t rise above the horizon. What is it like to experience these polar nights? On this Saturday Around the World, we head to Greenland to explore.

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.

16 minutes

[ Conservation & Sustainability ]

The Wonder of the Salish Sea

There are places on the planet where millions of people still live with natural wonders that span thousands of years. We take you to one of them today, closer than you think!

19 minutes

[ Education Enrichment ]

Paragliding: Seeing a Place, Leaving No Trace

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!

Image: Man on a paddleboard out in the ocean at sunset

7 minutes

[ Culture ]

Why Paddleboard to Victoria, Canada?

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!

11 minutes

[ Animals ]

Hop on Over to Japan’s Rabbit Island

There are places in the world that shift our sense of “normal”, and the wonder never leaves us. Here’s a small wonder!

Image: Giraffe's poking their heads into the windows of Giraffe Manor during breakfast

8 minutes

[ Animals ]

Breakfast at Giraffe Manor

You get a wonderful appreciation of the size of a giraffe when their head is in your cereal bowl. Here’s the marvelous story of Kenya’s Giraffe Manor.

Image: Salmon colored sky over the the water on the inside passage

17 minutes

[ Culture ]

Paralyzed and Sailing the Inside Passage

Did you hear about the two men, paralyzed from their armpits down, who sailed the inside passage. They’ve got an inspiring lesson for us all. Let’s consider their secret!

Image: Giant snow sculpture of eagles at Sapporo Snow Festival

16 minutes

[ Culture ]

Experience the Remarkable Sapporo Snow Festival!

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!

8 minutes

[ Culture ]

A Pyramid Primer: How Much Do You Really Know?

Most of us think we know a fair amount about things like the pyramids. But do we? What if our information still dates from magazines in elementary school, and we only have the gist of things? Here’s something to consider.

15 minutes

[ Art ]

Keeping Tradition Alive in the Scottish Isles

How do we keep traditions alive in this era? On the isle of Harris, the production of Harris Tweed is breathes life into old ways. Take a journey with us and explore this beautiful culture and the landscape that inspires it!

35 minutes

[ Animals ]

Exploring Wild_Life and Celebrating Natural Wonder

Check out this incredible new web series from National Geographic! wild_life with Bertie Gregory heads to the Pacific Northwest for a new take on documenting our planet’s amazing natural wonders!

40 minutes

[ Saturdays Around the World ]

Life Lessons from Asia’s Forgotten Mountain

Trying to summit Hkakabo Razi, the tallest mountain in Southeast Asia, was a monumental adventure. Here’s the incredible story with a few life lessons for all of us along the way!

12 minutes

[ Art ]

The People Behind the World’s Weird and Wacky Places