Learning from what others leave behind

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

For millennia, humans have created artifacts of their lives — from art, to books, to music. This hour, we explore ideas about capturing the ephemeral human experience for future generations to find. Guests include paleoanthropologist Genevieve von Petzinger, museum curator Ariana Curtis, music curator Alexis Charpentier and artist Katie Paterson.

Original broadcast date: November 4, 2022.

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0:00.0	This is the TED Radio Hour.
0:04.4	Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks.
0:06.8	Our job now is to dream big.
0:08.2	Delivered at TED conferences.
0:09.9	To bring about the future we want to see.
0:12.0	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.
0:21.9	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.
0:29.4	Do you feel that way?
0:31.1	Ideas worth spreading.
0:33.5	From Ted and NPR.
0:37.8	I'm Anoush Zamoroti. And we are starting in a beautiful part of Spain, the mountainous region of Aragon.
0:47.0	Up near the Pyrenees, near where the border with France is, basically.
0:51.4	It's fertile and smells delicious, too.
0:54.6	Rosemary and like thyme and oregano.
0:57.2	Like, growing like naturally out here is phenomenal and all these like olive trees, all sorts of amazing stuff.
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