👁How sleep affects what (and how much) you eat
🧠Matt Walker
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Did you know that not getting enough sleep can actually make you hungrier? According to sleep scientist Matt Walker, the relationship between what you eat and your sleep is a two-way street. Here's why understanding it can help improve your overall health.
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👁What is melatonin -- and should you take it to fall asleep?
🧠Matt Walker
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Melatonin is the hormone that tells our brains and bodies it's time to sleep. But if you think melatonin supplements will significantly improve your ability to fall asleep and stay asleep, you may have been misled. Sleep scientist Matt Walker shares how this "hormone of darkness" really works.
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👁Are naps actually good for us?
🧠Matt Walker
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Afternoon naps are refreshing -- but could they be messing up our sleep cycles? Sleep scientist Matt Walker reveals the pros and cons of napping, plus tips on how to get the most out of your next short snooze.
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👁Why better sleep means a better sex life
🧠Matt Walker
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Want a healthier love life? Get better sleep, says sleep scientist Matt Walker. In this episode, he explains how getting more quality shut-eye can boost fertility and vitality -- plus how sex can even improve your sleep.
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👁The rise and fall of history's first empire
🧠Soraya Field Fiorio
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣History's first empire rose out of a hot, dry landscape, without rainfall to nourish crops, without trees or stones for building. In spite of all this, its inhabitants built the world's first cities, with monumental architecture and large populations— and they built them entirely out of mud. Soraya Field Fiorio details the rise and fall of the Sumerian empire. [Directed by Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat, narrated by Susan Zimmerman, music by Cem Misirlioglu and Mikey Coltun].
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👁10 years to transform the future of humanity -- or destabilize the planet
🧠Johan Rockström
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣"For the first time, we are forced to consider the real risk of destabilizing the entire planet," says climate impact scholar Johan Rockström. In a talk backed by vivid animations of the climate crisis, he shows how nine out of the 15 big biophysical systems that regulate the climate -- from the permafrost of Siberia to the great forests of the North to the Amazon rainforest -- are at risk of reaching tipping points, which could make Earth uninhabitable for humanity. Hear his plan for putting the planet back on the path of sustainability over the next 10 years -- and protecting the future of our children.
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👁How to turn moments into momentum
🧠Renee Montgomery
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Inspired by the rising movement against racism in the US, WNBA champion Renee Montgomery made an unexpected decision: she opted out of her dream job. As she says in this stirring talk, she wanted to "make it felt," and that meant turning her attention from the court to the community. But you don't have to be a basketball star to make it felt; anyone can turn important moments into meaningful momentum. How will you?
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👁Europe's plan to become the first carbon-neutral continent
🧠Ursula von der Leyen
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣With the ambitious goal of becoming the first carbon-neutral continent by 2050, the European Union has committed to creating a greener world for future generations. In this bold talk, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, details the challenges and opportunities that come with transitioning an entire continent to clean energy -- and shows why fixing climate change calls for everyone to take action.
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👁Can you solve the riddle and escape Hades?
🧠Dan Finkel
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣The underworld is overcrowded, and Zeus has ordered Hades to let some spirits out. Hades arranges all the souls of the dead in a line before Cerberus. When one of his three heads bites down on the soul in front of it, they'll get returned to the land of the living. Anyone to the left must stay in Hades forever. Can you pick the right spot and escape the underworld? Dan Finkel shows how. [Directed by Artrake Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson].
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👁How cities are detoxing transportation
🧠Monica Araya
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣People around the world are demanding clean air -- and cities are starting to respond, says electrification advocate Monica Araya. She takes us on a world tour of urban areas that are working to fully electrify their transportation systems over the next decade, shifting to emission-free motorcycles, cars, buses, ferries and beyond. See what a future without the internal combustion engine could look like -- and what it will take to get there.
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👁This decade calls for Earthshots to repair our planet
🧠Prens William
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣"We start this new decade knowing that it is the most consequential period in history," says Prince William, The Duke of Cambridge. Inspired by President John F. Kennedy's "Moonshot," he calls on us all to rise to our greatest challenge ever: the "Earthshot." A set of ambitious objectives for the planet, the Earthshot goals seek to protect and restore nature, clean the air, revive oceans, build a waste-free world and fix the climate -- all in the next decade. To do it, we'll need people in all corners of the globe working together with urgency, creativity and the belief that it is possible to repair the Earth.
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👁3 steps to stop remote work burnout
🧠Morra Aarons-Mele
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Too much screen time, too many video calls and too few boundaries make working from home hard for all of us. Podcast host and writer Morra Aarons-Mele shares honest advice on what you can learn from the introverts in your life about protecting your energy and your limits.
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👁Can we create the "perfect" farm?
🧠Brent Loken
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣About 10,000 years ago, humans began to farm. This agricultural revolution was a turning point in our history and enabled the existence of civilization. Today, nearly 40 percent of our planet is farmland. Spread all over the world, these lands are the pieces to a global puzzle we're all facing: in the future, how can we feed every member of a growing population a healthy diet? Brent Loken investigates. [Directed by Hype CG, narrated by Jack Cutmore-Scott, music by Gabriel Maia].
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👁A "forest generation" living in harmony with nature
🧠Ernestine Leikeki Sevidzem
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣We need to care for and live in harmony with the environment, says climate and gender activist Ernestine Leikeki Sevidzem. The best way to do that? Nurture a forest generation: one that learns to protect nature. Sevidzem shares how she's educating both children and adults in her native Cameroon on what it means to love and preserve the Earth -- and calls for all of us to foster generations that will inherit a mindset that works with nature, not against it.
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👁You can only save one— who do you choose?
🧠Doug Mackay
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣You are the captain of an interstellar cargo transport headed to port when you receive two distress calls. The first is from a labor ship, whose passengers are running out of oxygen. The other from a luxury space cruiser which has lost a thruster, sending them careening into danger. With only enough time to save one ship, which should you choose? Doug MacKay explores this classic ethical dilemma. [Directed by Avi Ofer, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Stephen LaRosa].
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👁3 rules for better work-life balance
🧠Ashley Whillans
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Have you answered a work email during an important family event? Or taken a call from your boss while on vacation? According to behavioral scientist and Harvard Business School professor Ashley Whillans, "always-on" work culture is not only ruining our personal well-being -- but our work, as well. She shares which bad habits are stopping us from getting what we need out of our free time and three practical steps for setting boundaries that stick.
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👁The joy of taking out the trash
🧠Aparna Nancherla
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Comedian Aparna Nancherla loves to take out the trash. In this funny and sharp meditation on garbage -- "the stuff that our modern, consumerist, carbon-powered culture makes us buy endlessly, and often for no reason" -- she shares thoughts on how to use less in a world that's choking on ever-larger piles of waste.
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👁If trees could speak
🧠Elif Shafak
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣How do we tell stories of humanity and nature at a time when our planet is burning? Novelist Elif Shafak invites us to listen to the trees, whose experience of time, stillness and impermanence is utterly different from our own. "Hidden inside [their] story is the past and the future of humanity," she says.
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👁Kids are speaking up for the environment. Let's listen
🧠Olafur Eliasson
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Known for big, attention-grabbing installations -- like his four towering waterfalls in New York's East River -- Olafur Eliasson has scaled down his latest project, Earth Speakr: an art platform for kids designed to spur budding climate activists to lead discussions on nature, conservation, pollution and more.
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👁How Ikea is growing its business while shrinking emissions
🧠Jesper Brodin ve Pia Heidenmark Cook
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣IKEA currently makes up 0.1 percent of all global carbon emissions -- but by 2030, they're planning to be carbon negative across their business. Discussing new thinking about the lifespan of their products, from the forest to the landfill, Jesper Brodin and Pia Heidenmark Cook of Ingka Group (IKEA) share their company's steps towards sustainably sourcing materials like cotton and wood and redesigning products to extend their use without compromising on quality or affordability. (Narrated by Rosa Howard)
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