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TED Radio Hour

Migration

TED Radio Hour

NPR

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science, Technology

4.321.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Original broadcast date: April 30, 2021. Migration is a part of everyone's history. This hour, TED speakers explore ideas about places we call home — and how these experiences continue to reshape our culture, countries and species. Guests include bioarchaeologist Carolyn Freiwald, journalist Isabel Wilkerson, comedian Maeve Higgins and ecologist Sonia Altizer.

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0:00.0

This is the TED Radio Hour.

0:04.4

Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks.

0:06.8

Our job now is to dream big.

0:08.2

Delivered at TED conferences.

0:09.9

To bring about the future we want to see.

0:12.0

Around the world.

0:12.9

To understand who we are.

0:14.9

From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you.

0:20.0

You just don't know what you're going to find.

0:21.9

Challenge you.

0:22.8

We truly have to ask ourselves, like, why is it noteworthy?

0:25.1

And even change you.

0:26.3

I literally feel like I'm a different person.

0:28.4

Yes.

0:29.4

Do you feel that way?

0:31.1

Ideas worth spreading.

0:33.5

From TED and NPR.

0:40.3

I'm Anoush Zamoroti.

0:43.9

So, a few years ago...

0:46.4

I was in my office here in Mississippi.

0:48.9

It's in Oxford, Northern Mississippi,

0:50.8

and an archaeologist I work with came in and asked me

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