Curious stories of coexistence

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Can otters be city dwellers? Are aliens real? Do we have to experience misery to understand happiness? On this episode, we investigate how strange bedfellows can lead to radical realizations. Guests include evolutionary biologist Philip Johns, astrophysicist Avi Loeb and author Laurel Braitman.

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0:00.0	This is the TED Radio Hour.
0:04.3	Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks.
0:06.7	Our job now is to dream big.
0:08.1	Delivered at TED conferences.
0:09.9	To bring about the future we want to see.
0:11.9	Around the world.
0:12.9	To understand who we are.
0:14.8	From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you.
0:20.0	You just don't know what you're going to find.
0:21.8	Challenge you.
0:22.7	We truly have to ask ourselves, like, why is it noteworthy?
0:25.1	And even change you.
0:26.3	I literally feel like I'm a different person.
0:28.4	Yes.
0:29.3	Do you feel that way?
0:31.1	Ideas worth spreading.
0:33.4	From Ted and NPR.
0:37.8	I'm Minouhe Zamorodi.
0:41.2	These are the sounds of a family of otters.
0:46.0	Their inner river, some adults with their pups,
0:50.2	chattering and playing.
0:52.2	And then they start to form sort of a line, a chain of otters,
	...

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