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TED • 12:00 PM UTC • 1h

The Good Life

S1, EP1

There's more to life than being happy; why are we so attached to our things; helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it; why some of us don't have one true calling; how to live passionately-no matter your age.

TED • 1:00 PM UTC • 1h

Overlooked History

S1, EP6 "Overlooked History"

What really caused the Irish Potato Famine, Stephanie Honchell Smith; History vs. Egypt's most powerful pharaoh, Jessica Tomkins; A day in the life of a Celtic Druid, Philip Freeman; One of history's most dangerous myths, Anneliese Mehnert; Why the US tried to kill all the bison, Andrew C. Isenberg; How horses changed history, William T. Taylor; What few people know about the program that saved America, Meg Jacobs.

TED • 2:00 PM UTC • 1h

The Connection

S1, EP6

"A New Way to Think About the Transition to Motherhood" by Alexandra Sacks; "The Transformative Power of Video Games" by Herman Narula; "Can Other Animals Understand Death?" by Barbara J. King; "The Radical Act of Choosing Common Ground" by Nisha Anand; "A Sex Therapist's Secret to Rediscovering Your Spark" by Ian Kerner.

TED • 3:00 PM UTC • 1h

Afternoon Snack

S1, EP6

Lucy Cooke on the strange life of sloths, the world's slowest mammal; Emmanuel Acho discusses not setting goals; Antonio Machado-Allison on piranha-infested waters; David Biello explains how the compass unlocked the world.

TED • 4:00 PM UTC • 1h

Riddle Us This

S1, EP8 "Riddle Us This"

How the Königsberg bridge problem changed mathematics, Dan Van der Vieren; Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Red-Headed League, Alex Rosenthal; can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors, Elizabeth Cox.

TED • 5:00 PM UTC • 1h

Did You Know?

S1, EP4

"Ancient Rome's Most Notorious Doctor" by Ramon Glazov; "Turbulence: One of the Great Unsolved Mysteries of Physics" by Tomás Chor; "What Can Schrödinger's Cat Teach Us About Quantum Mechanics?" by Josh Samani.

TED • 6:00 PM UTC • 1h

The Latest in Ideas

S1, EP61 "The Latest in Ideas"

1) Could we replace data centers with … plant DNA?; 2) Capitalism broke the climate. Now it can fix it Akshat Rathi; 3) What long COVID taught me about life (and data) Giorgia Lupi; 4) The probe on a mission to touch the Sun Nour E. Rawafi.

TED • 7:00 PM UTC • 1h

Justice By (Re)design

S1, EP10 "Justice By (Re)design"

What obligation do social media platforms have to the greater good, Eli Pariser; a new approach to defending the human rights of migrants, Itamar Mann; Africa's great carbon valley and how to end energy poverty, James Irungu Mwangi.

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