TED Radio Hour
Saturdays at 2 p.m. on 88.5 NEPM
TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions and new ways to think and create. Each episode includes excerpts from the renowned TED stage where some of the world’s deepest thinkers and innovators are invited to give the 18-minute “talk of their lives.” The TED Radio Hour team takes the most compelling talks and organizes them around a common theme. Host Manoush Zomorodi interviews the guests, delving deeper, dissecting the speaker’s ideas and posing probing questions you’d like to hear answered.
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Supermodel Cameron Russell has experienced the privilege of the fashion industry, and has witnessed its failings firsthand. She describes her journey to hold the industry—and herself—accountable.
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Returns from online retail shopping have created logistical and environmental nightmares. Former UPS executive Aparna Mehta and reporter Amanda Mull explain what really happens to our returns.
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Minimalist style evokes efficiency and order... which designer Machine Dazzle finds boring and futile. He challenges us to embrace the colorful joy and abundance of a maximalist wardrobe.
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Paleontologist Ken Lacovara is founder of a new museum and fossil park in New Jersey where visitors can see how dinosaurs lived 66 million years ago before an asteroid wiped out 75% of life on earth.
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MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle shares her new research into "artificial intimacy"—the emotional connections humans form with chatbots... and the impact of these relationships on our health.
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Failure is painful, but it's not always a bad thing. Writer Sarah Lewis explains how embracing the "near-win" is an important step in the journey toward mastery and success.
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Why do some sports have legions of fans, while others—particularly women's sports—get ignored? Writer Kate Fagan says it comes down to storytelling and mythology, and whose stories get told.
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We all know the feeling of choking under pressure—but why does this happen? Cognitive scientist Sian Beilock shares the science behind why we mess up in high-stakes situations... and how to avoid it.
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Abby Wambach is a soccer legend—but at the 2011 World Cup, she had a lot to prove. She shares a play-by-play of her iconic goal against Brazil, and how it rallied a new fandom around women's soccer. -
Peaches, apricots, nectarines and cherries—one hybrid tree bears all these fruits. Artist Sam Van Aken cultivated the "Tree of 40 Fruits" to symbolize the biodiversity needed to feed our planet.
