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Ideas about our world, our communities and ourselves. Hosted by @ManoushZ. A co-production of @NPR & @TEDTalks.
Joined April 2012
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🧵(2/2).Follow our host: @ManoushZ .Our Facebook: NPR's Instagram: and look out for TED Radio Hour's video series.TRH Plus: Our YouTube: Our webpage:
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TRH listeners are the bee’s knees!. What’s your favorite animal phrase?.
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Each of your nostrils is actually doing a different job 👃
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Marlene Zuk studies insects and some of their more… creative reproduction styles
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Peacocks have large, beautiful feathers. 🦚. But, turns out, they may not be the best dads. Generally speaking, @carinbondar says, the more beautiful a male bird is, the less he's going to help with the peachicks.
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FUN FACT: There are 20,000 species of bees worldwide. But most people can only name a handful of bee species. How many can you name?.
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Can insects feel happy or sad, like us?. Biologist Marlene Zuk thinks personifying questions like this miss just how different we are from other animals.
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City bees are actually thriving. Researchers think it’s because urban areas have more plant diversity these days. That’s good for bees — and humans. Host: @manoushz • Producer: Keren Carrión
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Spring is here 🐦🌷🐝. So this week, we’re talking about the birds, the bees, and the bugs: what they do for our earth and how they “do it”.
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Learn more about the history of the Iranian people's struggle for gender equality with @throughlineNPR .
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Shirin Neshat’s first feature film, "Women Without Men," is filled with metaphors describing feminine resilience. One image that persists in many of Shirin’s works: the garden.
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“The Fury (2023)” Copyright Shirin Neshat, Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
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Shirin Neshat’s latest multimedia exhibit, “The Fury,” focuses on the female body, showcasing beauty and strength alongside vulnerability and trauma.
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“Offered Eyes (1993)” and “Rebellious Silence (1994)” Copyright Shirin Neshat, Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
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“What I wanted to do. is to show that while the women are always against the wall in Iran, they're always protesting, resilient, powerful and ultimately rebellious." - Shirin Neshat
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Iranian-born visual artist Shirin Neshat explores the paradox of being an artist in exile.
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“By studying a woman, you can read the structure and the ideology of the country” —Shirin Neshat
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This week we have something special — a video of @manoushz’s conversation with artist Shirin Neshat. Check it out on NPR’s YouTube Channel.
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