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8 minutes
[ Culture ]
How the Internet Made the Chicken Church Come to Life!
By Sam Burns
Venture with us to Indonesia’s Chicken Church—a building brought back to life through the power of the internet!
20 minutes
[ Culture ]
How Saving Languages Can Save the World!
By Sam Burns
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!
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!
25 minutes
[ Thought Leaders ]
Building Futures One Plié at a Time
By Sam Burns
In a place where violence reigns, girls are finding refuge in a surprising way—and it’s all thanks to one amazing woman.
5 minutes
[ Nature ]
What You Learn When the Sun Doesn’t Rise
By Sam Burns
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
By Dr. Lynda
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
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!
11 minutes
[ Animals ]
Hop on Over to Japan’s Rabbit Island
By Dr. Lynda
There are places in the world that shift our sense of “normal”, and the wonder never leaves us. Here’s a small wonder!
8 minutes
[ Animals ]
Breakfast at Giraffe Manor
By Dr. Lynda
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.
17 minutes
[ Culture ]
Paralyzed and Sailing the Inside Passage
By Dr. Lynda
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!
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!
8 minutes
[ Culture ]
A Pyramid Primer: How Much Do You Really Know?
By Dr. Lynda
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
Ever looked at something strange on the roadside and said, “I wonder who made that?” Here are the people and stories behind some of our planet’s most weird and wonderful places!
17 minutes
[ Culture ]
Haenyeo: Korea’s Aging Mermaids
Meet the Haenyeo, Korea’s sea women. These women, many of whom are grandmothers, take to the sea everyday freediving for their livelihood.
14 minutes
[ Animals ]
Celebrating Our Similarities
What if we spent more time celebrating our similarities? Here’s a National Geographic Photographer’s tale of how connected we really are to even the world’s most remote populations!
30 minutes
Exploring the Underground Rain Forest
Did you know there is an underground rainforest in the world’s largest cave? Join us as we explore Hang Son Doong cave in central Vietnam!
10 minutes
[ Pebbles ]
A Photographer’s Life Changing Stories
Photographers bring the world to our living rooms and have witnessed much of life on this planet. Here are two stories that changed one photographer’s life, and the lessons they taught him…
12 minutes
[ Culture ]
To Chase a Cheese
The Cooper’s Hill Cheese Rolling Festival might be one of the strangest annual events in the world. This is what happens when thousands of people cram onto a hillside to watch brave souls chase a wheel of cheese down an almost vertical incline…
28 minutes
[ Nature ]
Climbing China’s Remarkable Rocks
What would it be like to head out on an expedition with National Geographic? These are the remarkable stories and images from an incredible adventure to climb some of China’s most amazing rock formations…
12 minutes
[ Animals ]
Life in Snowy Wonder: Another Kind of Paradise
By Dr. Lynda
Would your version of “paradise” include ice and snow? Maybe it will after you spend 10 minutes with the magnificent photographer Vincent Munier on his journey to capture the lives of some of the Arctic’s most stunning creatures…
18 minutes
[ Art ]
At Our Best, We Can Create Soaring Spaces!
The Sistine Chapel is one of the world’s more revered artistic sites. Art historian Elizabeth Lev takes us on a journey through this magnificent space that transcends religion and culture, and gets at the essence of wonder!
15 minutes
[ Art ]
Keeping Tradition Alive in the Modern World
The weaving traditions of Peru are not only breathtaking in their beauty, but they preserve and celebrate a long cultural heritage of the handcrafted. On this edition of Saturdays Around the World, we take a journey to the Andes for a spectacular glimpse of tradition.
19 minutes
Death Valley Super Bloom: A Fleeting Natural Wonder
How does the driest and hottest place in the United States become a carpet of wildflowers? Once in a lifetime, when the perfect conditions together, this barren world is transformed into a natural wonder!
30 minutes
[ Animals ]
Wytham Woods, a Laboratory with Leaves
Oxford University’s Wytham Woods is a place of science, art, and conservation. This incredible Laboratory with Leaves is a wonderful reminder that the beauty of nature is waiting for us in our own backyard!
