Decoding nature’s hidden patterns

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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We can’t protect what we don’t understand. From decoding wolf howls to making sense of millions of citizen-science sightings, we explore the tools helping researchers understand the wild in new ways.

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0:00.0	This message comes from Bayer.
0:02.3	Science is a rigorous process that requires questions, testing, transparency, and results that can be proven.
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0:18.2	This is the TED Radio Hour. Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks. Our job now is to dream big.
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0:31.0	To understand who we are. From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you.
0:38.1	You just don't know what you're going to find.
0:40.0	Challenge you.
0:40.9	We truly have to ask ourselves, like, why is it noteworthy?
0:43.2	And even change you.
0:44.4	I literally feel like I'm a different person.
0:46.5	Yes.
0:47.5	Do you feel that way?
0:49.3	Ideas worth spreading.
0:51.6	From TED and NPR.
0:55.8	I'm Manushe Zamorodi.
0:58.0	On the show today, translating nature.
1:01.6	How researchers are using AI and other technology to better understand what the world around us is saying.
1:09.9	Yeah, I think it honestly, it always shocks me how little we know about the planet.
1:16.8	This is Sarah Beery.
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