Name: What in the World? EP01
Released: 2026-01-10
Duration: 4388

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What in the World? EP01

1) Zen kōans: unsolvable enigmas designed to break your brain - Puqun Li 2) What if there were 1 trillion more trees? | Jean-François Bastin 3) Mary's Room: A philosophical thought experiment - Eleanor Nelsen 4) What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared? - Dan Kwartler 5) Are we living in a simulation? | Zohreh Davoudi 6) This one weird trick will help you spot clickbait | Jeff Leek and Lucy McGowan 7) Which type of milk is best for you? | Jonathan J. O'Sullivan and Grace E. Cunningham 8) The psychology behind irrational decisions - Sara Garofalo 9) Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions | Nina Medvinskaya 10) How big is the ocean? - Scott Gass 11) How do you know you exist? - James Zucker

2026-01-10 23:59:03 +0000 UTC→2026-01-11 01:12:11 +0000 UTC(1h13m)

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Secrets of the Wild EP07

1) The fascinating secret lives of giant clams | Mei Lin Neo 2) Licking bees and pulping trees: The reign of a wasp queen - Kenny Coogan 3) What rivers can tell us about the earth's history | Liz Hajek 4) How a dragonfly's brain is designed to kill | Greg Gage 5) How do dogs "see" with their noses? - Alexandra Horowitz 6) Can alligators survive this apex predator? | Kenny Coogan 7) The real reason why mosquitoes buzz | Greg Gage 8) How octopuses battle each other | Greg Gage 9) The link between fishing cats and mangrove forest conservation | Ashwin Naidu

2026-01-11 03:07:21 +0000 UTC→2026-01-11 04:11:15 +0000 UTC(1h3m)

Your Body, Explained EP16

1) Should you be able to patent a human gene? | Tania Simoncelli 2) Why it's so hard to cure HIV/AIDS - Janet Iwasa 3) We can start winning the war against cancer | Adam de la Zerda 4) This scientist makes ears out of apples | Andrew Pelling 5) How you could see inside your body — with a micro-robot | Alex Luebke, Vivek Kumbhari

2026-01-11 02:08:37 +0000 UTC→2026-01-11 03:07:21 +0000 UTC(58m)

Your Body, Explained EP15

1) What if all US health care costs were transparent? | Jeanne Pinder 2) Why does hitting your funny bone feel so horrible? | Cella Wright 3) My quest to cure prion disease — before it's too late | Sonia Vallabh 4) What happens in your body during a miscarriage? | Nassim Assefi and Emily M. Godfrey 5) Can we cure genetic diseases by rewriting DNA? | David R. Liu

2026-01-11 01:12:11 +0000 UTC→2026-01-11 02:08:37 +0000 UTC(56m)

What in the World? EP01

2026-01-10 23:59:03 +0000 UTC→2026-01-11 01:12:11 +0000 UTC(1h13m)

What in the World? EP06

1) Can you freeze your body and come back to life? | Shannon N. Tessier 2) How exactly does binary code work? - José Américo N L F Freitas 3) What is Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox? - Colm Kelleher 4) How big is a mole? (Not the animal, the other one.) - Daniel Dulek 5) What on Earth is spin? - Brian Jones 6) If superpowers were real: Invisibility - Joy Lin 7) Is light a particle or a wave? - Colm Kelleher 8) How folding paper can get you to the moon - Adrian Paenza 9) Is there a center of the universe? - Marjee Chmiel and Trevor Owens 10) One is one ... or is it? - Christopher Danielson 11) How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries - Adam Savage 12) Free falling in outer space - Matt J. Carlson

2026-01-10 22:53:21 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 23:59:03 +0000 UTC(1h5m)

Larger-Than-Life Art EP03

1) How symbols and brands shape our humanity | Debbie Millman 2) The strange history of the world's most stolen painting | Noah Charney 3) A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings | eL Seed 4) Why books are here to stay | Chip Kidd 5) Why should you read Toni Morrison's "Beloved"? | Yen Pham 6) Portraits that transform people into whatever they want to be | Uldus Bakhtiozina 7) Gyotaku: The ancient Japanese art of printing fish - K. Erica Dodge

2026-01-10 21:54:28 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 22:53:21 +0000 UTC(58m)

Larger-Than-Life Art EP02

1) Street art with a message of hope and peace | eL Seed 2) Mind-blowing stage sculptures that fuse music and technology | Es Devlin 3) The pride and power of representation in film | Jon M. Chu 4) A free world needs satire | Patrick Chappatte

2026-01-10 20:57:41 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 21:54:28 +0000 UTC(56m)

How to Be a Better You EP08

1) A 3-step guide to believing in yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph 2) Is it normal to talk to yourself? | TED-Ed 3) The little risks you can take to increase your luck | Tina Seelig 4) 3 ways to measure your adaptability -- and how to improve it | Natalie Fratto 5) What ping-pong taught me about life | Pico Iyer

2026-01-10 15:56:58 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 16:56:12 +0000 UTC(59m)

How to Be a Better You EP07

1) Why specializing early doesn't always mean career success | David Epstein 2) Why people fall for misinformation | Joseph Isaac 3) 6 tips for better sleep | Matt Walker 4) How to tame your wandering mind | Amishi Jha 5) What kids can teach adults about asking for help | YeYoon Kim

2026-01-10 14:58:01 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 15:56:58 +0000 UTC(58m)

Food for Thought EP09

1) How a team of chefs fed Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria | José Andrés 2) The wheat field that could change the world | Guntur V. Subbarao 3) How we can help hungry kids, one text at a time | Su Kahumbu 4) How biochar removes CO2 from the air -- and helps farmers thrive | Axel Reinaud

2026-01-10 14:00:25 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 14:58:01 +0000 UTC(57m)

Food for Thought EP08

1) One of the world's oldest condiments | Dan Kwartler 2) The unsung heroes fighting malnutrition | Shruthi Baskaran-Makanju 3) A transparent, easy way for smallholder farmers to save | Anushka Ratnayake 4) How humanity got hooked on coffee | Jonathan Morris 5) The "greenhouse-in-a-box" empowering farmers in India | Sathya Raghu Mokkapati 6) The next big thing is coming from the Bronx, again | Jon Gray 7) How you can make a fruit fly eat veggies | Greg Gage

2026-01-10 12:54:54 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 14:00:25 +0000 UTC(1h5m)

The Future Ahead EP62

1) Quantum computers aren't what you think — they're cooler | Hartmut Neven 2) How (and why) Russia hacked the US election | Laura Galante 3) What is an AI anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman 4) How community-led research drives social change | Monica Malta

2026-01-10 11:58:24 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 12:54:54 +0000 UTC(56m)

The Future Ahead EP61

1) How to end malaria once and for all | Abdoulaye Diabaté 2) 12 predictions for the future of technology | Vinod Khosla 3) A cleaner world could start in a rice field | Jim Whitaker and Jessica Whitaker Allen 4) How to spot authoritarianism — and choose democracy | Ian Bassin

2026-01-10 11:01:40 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 11:58:24 +0000 UTC(56m)

Tales from the Edge EP03

1) What I learned about freedom after escaping North Korea | Yeonmi Park 2) My descent into America's neo-Nazi movement -- and how I got out | Christian Picciolini 3) Escaping the Khmer Rouge | Sophal Ear 4) What happened to the lost Kingdom of Kush? | Geoff Emberling 5) Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it's home. | Holly Morris 6) The biggest mistakes in mapmaking history | Kayla Wolf

2026-01-10 09:57:06 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 11:01:40 +0000 UTC(1h4m)

Psych Out EP05

1) How do personality tests work? | Merve Emre 2) Why you feel anxious socializing (and what to do about it) | Fallon Goodman 3) The psychology of narcissism - W. Keith Campbell 4) How to turn climate anxiety into action | Renée Lertzman 5) Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy | Ryan Martin

2026-01-10 03:46:27 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 04:45:57 +0000 UTC(59m)

Psych Out EP04

1) Why some people are more altruistic than others | Abigail Marsh 2) Do you really know why you do what you do? | Petter Johansson 3) The counterintuitive psychology of insurance | Orit Tykocinski 4) Can you outsmart a troll (by thinking like one)? | Claire Wardle 5) Can you spot the problem with these headlines? (Level 1) | Jeff Leek and Lucy McGowan

2026-01-10 02:44:26 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 03:46:27 +0000 UTC(1h2m)

Afternoon Snack EP10

1) The history of poker: Bluffing, betting, and busting | James McManus 2) How gaming can be a force for good | Noah Raford 3) How poetry unlocked my superpowers | Keenan Scott II 4) Why should you read "The Master and Margarita"? | Alex Gendler 5) What we don't teach kids about sex | Sue Jaye Johnson 6) Why is it so hard to get effective birth control in the US? | Mark Edwards

2026-01-10 01:43:23 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 02:44:26 +0000 UTC(1h1m)

Afternoon Snack EP09

1) How deepfakes undermine truth and threaten democracy | Danielle Citron 2) The myth of Sisyphus - Alex Gendler 3) What happens to people's donated eggs and sperm after they die? | Ellen Trachman 4) 5 things you should know about back pain | Jen Gunter 5) Could one vaccine protect against everything? | TED-Ed 6) Why gender-based marketing is bad for business | Gaby Barrios

2026-01-10 00:42:13 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 01:43:23 +0000 UTC(1h1m)

Your Purpose, Unlocked EP04

1) How motivation can fix public systems | Abhishek Gopalka 2) We have to stop destroying our future | Al Gore 3) A roadmap for young changemakers | Melati Wijsen 4) Can we regenerate heart muscle with stem cells? | Chuck Murry 5) How AI art could enhance humanity's collective memory | Refik Anadol

2026-01-09 23:42:24 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 00:42:13 +0000 UTC(59m)

Your Purpose, Unlocked EP03

1) How to enter flow state | TED-Ed 2) What are you willing to give up to change the way we work? | Martin Danoesastro 3) 2 questions to uncover your passion -- and turn it into a career | Noeline Kirabo 4) How to lead in a crisis | Amy C. Edmondson 5) Your invitation to disrupt philanthropy | Sara Lomelin 6) How reverse mentorship can help create better leaders | Patrice Gordon

2026-01-09 22:41:01 +0000 UTC→2026-01-09 23:42:24 +0000 UTC(1h1m)

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