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Something in the Water: Where Do Great Athletes Come From? | Good Sport from 2023-02-08T05:00
This week on Far Flung we’re excited to introduce TED’s newest podcast, Good Sport, hosted by veteran sports producer Jody Avirgan. What can sports teach us about life – and each other? Good Spo...
ListenHow free solo climber Alex Honnold faces fear | ReThinking w/Adam Grant from 2022-10-20T10:00
In 2017, Alex Honnold did what even the world’s best rock climbers thought was impossible. He climbed to the top of El Capitan– a granite rock mountain more than 3,000 feet high– without a rope,...
ListenThe Uyghur boxers of Istanbul from 2022-08-18T04:00
Where do you go to feel a sense of community? On the outskirts of Istanbul, one refugee community gathers to recreate a sense of home and empower themselves at a boxing gym. Listen to how the Uy...
ListenThe artists re-framing Chicago from 2022-08-11T04:00
The Bean needs to move over—there’s a new art movement in Chicago, and it’s led by artists who are completely reimagining how residents think about the spaces around them. From an artist who tur...
ListenJourney into the Dreamworld from 2022-08-04T04:00
Where do you go when you sleep? An enchanted forest…or haunted woods? Flying over a breathtaking mountain top… or in a crowd, wearing just your underwear?! According to the Bön Tibetan Buddhist ...
ListenBarcelona: streetwear with a political twist from 2022-07-28T07:54:11
Barcelona is a city that can’t be separated from its art–you might picture Gaudí architecture, Picasso paintings, or flamenco and jazz spilling onto the streets and into the night. But there’s a...
ListenHow will Icelandic survive the digital age? from 2022-07-14T04:00
Icelandic is an ancient and iconic language. So iconic, in fact, it was a major inspiration to J.R.R. Tolkien when he was writing Lord of the Rings. Iceland even has institutes that promote its ...
ListenPuerto Rico is decolonizing - with food from 2022-07-07T04:00
Sandy beaches, amazing wildlife, Caribbean blue seas—Puerto Rico is known as the Island of Enchantment for a reason. But it’s also one of the oldest colonies in the world. And as a U.S. territor...
ListenThe poetry of Nepal's bridges from 2022-06-30T04:00
To get to school, work, or another town in Nepal, it helps if you don’t have a fear of heights. That’s because this mountainous terrain (it’s home to Mount Everest after all) is connected via TH...
ListenThe secret Somali mixtapes from 2022-06-23T04:00
It’s 1988, and Somalis are fleeing the city of Hargeisa. People are trying to get out, trying to save their families and sometimes their things. But in the city’s radio station, staff are packin...
ListenCaracas’s magic bus from 2022-06-16T04:00
We all know that information is power; but what if you live in a country without a free press or regular access to the internet? You have to be creative, and find nimble ways to help your commun...
ListenFar Flung is back! from 2022-06-01T17:14:40
You don’t need to travel to feel thrilled about a new place; if the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that the ideas, cultures, and charm of our world can reach us wherever we are. Th...
ListenJon Batiste on the art of pushing your limits from 2022-05-19T17:53:34
Jon Batiste has had a record year—he was the most nominated artist at the Grammys, winning five of his ELEVEN nominations across multiple categories, including Album of the Year. When he’s not m...
ListenJon Batiste on the art of pushing your limits from 2022-05-19T17:53:34
Jon Batiste has had a record year—he was the most nominated artist at the Grammys, winning five of his ELEVEN nominations across multiple categories, including Album of the Year. When he’s not m...
ListenShould I move home? | Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi from 2021-11-11T11:00
Did you consider moving over the last two years? If you did, you’re not alone. People all over the world for so many different reasons considered moving: to be closer to family, to live somewher...
ListenIntroducing Pindrop from TED from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Launching on May 27: Pindrop, a new podcast from TED. Escape with host Saleem Reshamwala as he journeys across the globe in search of the world's most surprising and imaginative ideas. It'...
ListenPindrop is back soon! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Pindrop is back with new episodes starting Oct 14! We'll hear how the pandemic has affected one of the most remote islands on earth in Rapa Nui, better known as Easter Island, hear an indi...
ListenA Black Utopia In North Carolina from 2020-12-09T05:00
“I thought I'd come to paradise,” said Jane Ball Groom upon arriving in Soul City, North Carolina. It wasn’t amenities or location that made Soul City paradise, but the promise of what it could ...
ListenVirtual Worlds from 2020-11-11T05:01
Traveling is tricky right now and, for most, the boundaries of our worlds have shrunk dramatically. So a lot of people are spending a lot more time in virtual places, like Sea of Thiev...
Sky Science in the Painted Desert from 2020-10-28T04:00
Imagine a view with almost perfect visibility, a near edgeless, perfectly black night sky. That’s the Painted Desert. Join us on a field trip with architect Wanda Dalla Costa, who will...
Post-Pandemic Paradise in Rapa Nui from 2020-10-14T04:00
What happens to a tourist paradise when no one shows up to visit? Rapa Nui, known to many as Easter Island, typically welcomes more than 120,000 visitors each year—which is a lot for a place wit...
ListenPost-Pandemic Paradise in Rapa Nui from 2020-10-14T04:00
What happens to a tourist paradise when no one shows up to visit? Rapa Nui, known to many as Easter Island, typically welcomes more than 120,000 visitors each year—which is a lot for a...
Oberammergau from 2020-07-01T04:01
Nearly 400 years ago, a tiny town in Germany made a bargain with God: spare its people from the Black Plague and we'll put on a play in your honor... forever. And it worked! Now every decade, th...
ListenMantua Township from 2020-06-17T04:00
With each step, you slide 400,000 years back in time. Where are you? Behind a hardware store in New Jersey — which also happens to be a massive prehistoric graveyard. The only thing th...