TED Radio Hour
SAT • 8PM-9PM
An idea is the one gift that you can hang onto even after you've given it away. Welcome to TED Radio Hour – a journey through fascinating ideas: astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, new ways to think and create.
Based on Talks given by riveting speakers on the world-renowned TED stage, each show is centered on a common theme – such as the source of happiness, crowd-sourcing innovation, power shifts, or inexplicable connections – and injects soundscapes and conversations that bring these ideas to life.
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Journalist Catherine Price advocates for kids connecting, growing, and playing offline. She shares tips for how kids — and adults — can ditch their phones and embrace the power of fun. -
Jonathan Haidt created a movement around protecting the "anxious generation" from the harms of social media. Now, his work has fueled a global push to ban kids from these platforms. Will it work? -
Geneticist Dr. Robert Green is sequencing the DNA of healthy newborns to find hidden disease risks. This knowledge can save lives — but gene sequencing is not a crystal ball. -
AI has sparked big questions around safety and ethics. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shares his vision for AI's future and why he thinks the rewards outweigh the risks, live onstage with TED's Chris Anderson. -
While big tech pours billions into the AGI race, China leans into open source models. NPR's John Ruwitch explains why this approach works in China's favor and what it means for the rest of the world. -
Tech strategist Alvin Graylin says AI will either cause our demise or usher in an era of abundance. To avert disaster, he says the U.S. and China need to stop the AI arms race and start collaborating. -
Kids immediately find joy and bliss in a playground. Photographer Stefen Chow wants adults to reconnect to that same feeling. -
As host of the On Being radio show, Krista Tippett asked guests countless metaphysical questions. But this new year, she recommends tossing the resolutions and turning the big questions on yourself. -
A new AI tool called Inquire is trained on millions of wildlife photos from citizen scientists worldwide. Researcher Sara Beery hopes it will supercharge ecosystem conservation. -
Computational linguist Jeff Reed figured out how to eavesdrop on wolves in the wild. But he needed help from AI to separate the signal from the noise, and start to decode what each howl means.
