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What one founder's past says about AI's future

New year, new habits: Fixing time management mistakes in 2025

We resist change and surprises—but shock can shift our lives for the better

The great food rescue

Living Longer ... And Better

Life can be so awkward. Here's how to embrace the embarrassing

Making sense of the sun

What we—and AI—can learn from nature's intelligence

A guide to being brave in relationships

The mysteries that lie beneath

Approaches to life: Improvise, pivot or plan

Monday — Friday: Making the most of the workweek

Augmenting Humans

The double-edged nature of parenting, mental health and artificial intelligence

Secrets to successful teamwork

The hidden role of friction in our lives

The state of fashion

Unapologetically loud women who push boundaries — but not without pushback

How we repair and strengthen our most important relationships

The day the dinosaurs died

Short Wave: Big Bang Revisited

Going incognito, where nothing is as it seems

How our relationships are changing in the age of "artificial intimacy"

Investigating true crime in the animal kingdom

Sports psychology for everyday life

DIY: There's a problem and only you can fix it

Body Electric: If a bot relationship FEELS real, should we care that it's not?

What we'll eat on a warmer planet

Bringing abandoned places back to life

What's driving generations apart—and ideas to bring them together

Our oceans are in danger ... but it's not too late.

Body Electric: Type, tap, scroll, BREATHE! How our tech use impacts our breath

Pain Relief: New approaches to how we live with pain

A Love Letter to the Ocean: Life, death and mating in the sea

Body Electric: Your earbuds and you—what all that listening is doing to us

They/Them, LatinX, Rigged: The history behind three words

The Future of Sustainability: Repair, repurpose, reimagine

Our Tech has a Climate Problem: Here's how we solve it

Changing Our Minds: Why we should admit when we're wrong

The Public Commons: Building public spaces that actually serve the public

So Awkward: How to embrace the embarrassing

What's In A Face: How technology uses our faces

Addiction, Motherhood, and Jesus with writer Anne Lamott

Animal Enigmas: Uncovering the mysteries of the animal kingdom

A More Walkable World: Ideas to get us moving

Audacious Solutions

Natural Intelligence: What we and AI can learn from nature

Memory And The Brain

Retracing Their Steps

Heartache

Doppelgangers

What Leadership Looks Like

Brain Hacks

Take Care

Flip the Script

Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris: How to Start A Meditation Practice

Stay Resolved

Future You

Daily habits of a longevity expert

Living Longer ... And Better

What it takes to be an Antarctic explorer today

Found In Translation

Shock Value

For All Eternity

What Topples Democracies

The Food Connection

Paradise Lost And Found

Body Electric Part 6: Walk Into The Future

Small But Mighty

Body Electric Part 5: The Mind-Body-Tech Connection

Leaving A Mark

Body Electric Part 4: Below the Belt

Loudmouths

Body Electric Part 3: Why Our Eyes Are Elongating

Life Stages of the Brain

Body Electric Part 2: When Human Met Desk

Relationship Repair

Body Electric Part 1: The Body Through The Ages

Introducing Body Electric

Crimes in the Wild

Monday — Friday

Sound And Silence

Abandoned Places

Late Bloomers

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

We Contain Multitudes

Cuts Both Ways

What Lies Beneath

The Age of Fraud

Through the Looking Glass

Animal Enigmas

Migration

Audacious Solutions

The Rhythm and Rhyme of Memory

Future You

Breathe

When Stories Collide

Incognito

Found in Translation

Writing For A Better Future

DIY

Friction

The Birds and The Bees

Artist in Exile

Reshaping Evolution

Mind, Body, Spirit - Part 3

Mind, Body, Spirit - Part 2

Mind, Body, Spirit - Part 1

Why We're Living Longer

Humor Us

Small But Mighty

Bucking the System (2021)

New Family Values

The Forgotten Mothers of Civil Rights History (2022)

For All Eternity

Take Care

Stay Resolved

Repair, Repurpose, Reimagine (2022)

The Language Of Harmony (2022)

Bonus: ReThinking with Adam Grant

Memory And The Brain

The Gratitude Chain (2021)

What's In A Face

An SOS From The Ocean

A Love Letter To The Ocean (2021)

Late Bloomers

Life Stages Of The Brain (2021)

Leaving A Mark

How To Be A Citizen

Crimes in the Wild

Finding Another Way (2020)

Friction

Special Delivery (2021)

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Changing Our Minds (2021)

We Contain Multitudes

Listen Again: The Public Commons

Incognito

Listen Again: Work, Play, Rest - Part 3

Listen Again: Work, Play, Rest - Part 2

Listen Again: Work, Play, Rest - Part 1

Rosanne Cash: The Rhythm and Rhyme of Memory

Listen Again: A Century Of Money (2020)

The Birds And The Bees

Searching For Alien Life

Listen Again: Revitalize (2021)

Listen Again: Saleem Reshamwala: Far Flung Places

Jacob Collier: The Language Of Harmony

Listen Again: Heartache

Humor Us

Listen Again: It Takes Time

Repair, Repurpose, Reimagine

Listen Again: Sound And Silence

Anna Malaika Tubbs: The Three Mothers

What Leadership Looks Like

Listen Again: The Power Of Spaces

Listen Again: The Biology Of Sex

Take Care

Listen Again: The Food Connection

Steven Johnson: Why We're Living Longer

Listen Again: Warped Reality (2020)

What Lies Beneath

Listen Again: Migration

Listen Again: Jason Reynolds - The Antidote To Hopelessness

Work, Play, Rest - Part 3

Work, Play, Rest - Part 2

Work, Play, Rest - Part 1

Listen Again: The Life Cycles Of Cities (2020)

Dave Eggers: Writing For A Better Future

Listen Again: Through The Looking Glass

Reshaping Evolution

Listen Again: An SOS From The Ocean

Bonus Episode: Kelp Farming, for the Climate

Listen Again: A Love Letter To The Ocean

Amy Webb: A Glimpse Into The Future

Listen Again: The Artist's Voice

Changing Our Minds

Listen Again: Making Amends

Listen Again: Jen Gunter: Body Talk

Bonus Episode: Robin Steinberg

Bucking The System

Listen Again: Nora McInerny: Life's Rough Edges

Special Delivery

Shoham Arad: Ideas Into Action

Listen Again: Revitalize

Listen Again: Life Stages Of The Brain (10.8.2021)

Heartache

Listen Again: School Of Life (2020)

Jason Reynolds: The Antidote To Hopelessness

Listen Again: The Gratitude Chain: A.J. Jacobs

The Food Connection

Listen Again — Esther Perel: Building Resilient Relationships (2020)

Elise Hu: The Beauty Ideal

Listen Again: It Takes Time

Listen Again: Finding Another Way

Saleem Reshamwala: Far Flung Places

The Public Commons

Listen Again: The Biology Of Sex

Listen Again: The Power Of Spaces

Listen Again: Uncharted (2020)

An SOS From The Ocean

Listen Again: Our Relationship With Water

A Love Letter To The Ocean

Bonus Episode: Jon M. Chu

Listen Again: Clint Smith

Jen Gunter: Body Talk

Listen Again: Breathe

The Artist's Voice

Listen Again: Warped Reality

Migration

Nora McInerny: Life's Rough Edges

Listen Again: A Century Of Money

Bonus Episode: ZigZag - The Pulse

Revitalize

Listen Again: The Life Cycles Of Cities

Listen Again - Baratunde Thurston: How To Citizen

Through The Looking Glass

Listen Again: Sound And Silence

Life Stages Of The Brain

Black History ... And The Future

The Gratitude Chain: A.J. Jacobs

Listen Again — Esther Perel: Building Resilient Relationships

It Takes Time

Listen Again: Our Relationship With Water

TED's Idea Search: Cloe Shasha Brooks

Breathe

Listen Again: School Of Life

Bonus Episode: Stacey Abrams

Listen Again: Finding Another Way

Listen Again — Debbie Millman: Designing Our Lives

Making Sense Of 2020

A Century Of Money

How To Citizen

Listen Again: Making Amends

Listen Again: TED Radio Wow-er

The Life Cycles Of Cities

Building Our Zero-Emissions Future

Warped Reality

Listen Again: The Power Of Spaces

Sound And Silence

Listen Again: Climate Mindset

School Of Life

Debbie Millman: Designing Our Lives

Listen Again: IRL Online

Esther Perel: Building Resilient Relationships

Finding Another Way

Listen Again: Pure Joy

Lessons From The Summer

Listen Again: The Biology Of Sex

Our Relationship With Water

Processing The Pandemic

The Power Of Spaces

Listen Again: What We Value

Making Amends

Listen Again: Meditations on Loneliness

TED Radio Wow-er

The Greater Good?

Ingrained Injustice

Clint Smith

Listen Again: Reinvention

Climate Mindset

Listen Again: Uncharted

The Biology Of Sex

What We Value

Meditations On Loneliness

Pure Joy

Inoculation

Teaching For Better Humans 2.0

Uncharted

IRL Online

From Manoush: The Opportunity Of Boredom

Reinvention

Coming Soon: Manoush!

Manoush's Favorites: Circular

Manoush's Favorites: Jumpstarting Creativity

Manoush's Favorites: Gender, Power, And Fairness

Manoush's Favorites: Moving Forward

Manoush's Favorites: Painfully Funny

Manoush's Favorites: Slowing Down

Guy's Favorites: What Is Original?

Guy's Favorites: Shifting Time

Guy's Favorites: Solve For X

Guy's Favorites: Peering Into Space

Guy's Favorites: The Source Of Creativity

Wisdom In Hindsight

Accessing Better Health

How It All Began

Inspire To Action

In & Out Of Love

Open Source World

Risk

Overcoming

What Is Original?

Rethinking Anger

Erasing The Stigma

Maslow's Human Needs

Teaching For Better Humans

How Art Changes Us

Peering Deeper Into Space

The Unknown Brain