In Search Of

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

How far would you go to find something that's just out of reach, or maybe not even real? In this hour, TED speakers tell stories about searching for elusive sea creatures and distant aliens. Guests include astronomer Seth Shostak, oceanographer Edith Widder, chef Dan Barber, and humorist John Hodgman. (Original broadcast date: January 9, 2015)

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Guy here.
0:01.2	So here's a question.
0:02.4	How do you go about searching for and then taking a picture
0:06.0	of an elusive giant deep sea creature underwater
0:11.2	and in the dark?
0:13.1	Well, this is what scientists were trying to do
0:15.3	with the giant squid for decades.
0:18.1	That is until Edith Witter found a way to do it.
0:22.2	On this episode, we're going to hear ideas
0:24.2	about searching for something out of reach
0:27.0	and how sometimes that search is more important than what
0:30.8	you find.
0:31.6	It's called In Search Of, and it originally aired
0:34.6	in January of 2015.
0:37.4	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
0:43.5	Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
0:45.6	Ted Talks.
0:46.7	Ted.
0:47.7	Ted, technology, entertainment, design.
0:49.5	Design.
0:50.3	Is that really what's 10 for?
0:51.5	I've never known the Ted conferences around the world.
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