The mysteries that lie beneath

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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From our planet's underwater caves to its ancient soils, there are entire worlds right beneath our feet. This hour, we explore the subterranean forces that shape our lives above the ground. Guests include cave diver Jill Heinerth, death care advocate Katrina Spade, soil scientist Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim. Original broadcast date: March 11, 2022.

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0:00.0	This message comes from Organic Valley, a farmer-owned dairy cooperative of small organic family farms dedicated to protecting where food comes from.
0:08.5	Learn more at ov. co-op.
0:15.0	This is the TED Radio Hour.
0:19.3	Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks. Our job now is to dream big.
0:20.7	Delivered at TED conferences
0:22.4	to bring about the future we want to see around the world to understand who we are
0:27.0	From those talks we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you
0:32.3	You just don't know what you're gonna find challenge you and ideas that will surprise you.
0:32.5	You just don't know what you're going to find.
0:34.3	Challenge you.
0:35.2	We truly have to ask ourselves like why is it noteworthy?
0:37.6	And even change you.
0:38.8	I literally feel like I'm a different person.
0:41.0	Yes.
0:42.3	Do you feel that way? Ideas worth spreading. From Ted and
0:47.8	NPR, I'm Manouche Zamorodi and today on the show what lies beneath.
0:57.1	Starting with someone who spends a lot of her time beneath the earth's surface in
1:02.2	underwater caves.
1:04.4	You know, most people hear the word cave diver
1:06.2	and they picture me like jumping off of a cliff
1:08.8	into the ocean.
1:10.5	It's like, no, that's not it at all.
	...

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