Hidden

TED Radio Hour

NPR

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What lies beyond the reach of the naked eye, and how do these hidden forces shape our lives? This hour, TED speakers reveal forgotten cities, underwater canyons, tiny parasites, and a boiling river. In a special updated interview, space archaeologist Sarah Parcak explains how a global team of citizen scientists has helped her discover thousands of ancient hidden sites. Other guests from the original 2016 episode include computer scientist Abe Davis, ocean explorer Robert Ballard, science writer Ed Yong, and geoscientist Andrés Ruzo.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Guy here. So today's show is all about the hidden things in our world and the people who go looking for them.
0:07.6	And at first aired in March of 2016, but this time around we're trying something different.
0:13.2	We've gone back to one of our speakers and we got an update on where her amazing project has gone since we last spoke.
0:20.8	She's an archaeologist who uses satellite technology to search for hidden traces of past civilizations,
0:27.5	and she does it with the help of thousands of citizen scientists.
0:31.7	This episode is called What Else Hidden.
0:36.6	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
0:42.6	Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks.
0:44.7	TED Talks.
0:45.4	Uh, TED.
0:46.4	TED Technology Entertainment Design.
0:48.7	Design.
0:49.4	Is that really what's 10 for us?
0:50.6	I've never known the delivered at TED conferences around the world.
0:53.8	It's the gift of the human imagination.
0:55.2	We've had to believe in impossible things.
0:58.0	The true nature of reality beckons from just beyond those talks, those ideas adapted for radio, from NPR.
1:13.0	I'm Guy Ross.
1:14.1	And on the show today, ideas about the things that are hidden all around us and how technology and sometimes just old-fashioned
1:22.0	sleuthing are helping to uncover more and more of our invisible world.
1:27.2	Later in the show, we'll hear an update from space archaeologist Sarah Parkack on what she's uncovered
1:33.3	since we last spoke and who she's been working with.
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