Our lives are so rushed, so busy. Always on the clock. Counting the hours, minutes, seconds. Have you ever stopped to wonder: what are you counting? What is this thing, that’s all around us, invisible, inescapable, always running out? What is t

Deep Time: How Earth Keeps Time

Aug 19th, 2023 52m 5s

Are you ready to think in centuries instead of seconds? Eons instead of hours? It’s time to make thousand-year plans and appreciate how Earth keeps time.For more from this series, visit ttbook.org/deeptime.Original Air Date: August 19, 2023

Deep Time: The Tyranny of Time

Jun 3rd, 2023 52m 1s

When you’re on the clock, you’re always running out of time – because in our culture, time is money. The relentless countdown is making us and the planet sick. But clock time isn’t the only kind. There are older, deeper rhythms of time that sus

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Deep Time: What would you do if you had all the time in the world?

May 26th, 2023 1m 58s

Time rules our lives. We wake, eat, work, and sleep on the clock. Our days unfold in a standardized symphony of alarm clocks, school buzzers, and meeting timers. Meanwhile, global positioning satellites measure time in millionths of seconds, an

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Kinship: Ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan on embracing the 'wisdom of the desert'

Apr 15th, 2022 36m 14s

Ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan has been called the “father of the local food movement.” For decades he’s campaigned for seed diversity and sustainable food production. Some of his insights come from the farming practices of Indigenous people li

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Kinship: Biologist Merlin Sheldrake on the mind-bending world of mushrooms

Apr 8th, 2022 39m 52s

The fungal world is mind-bending. Mushrooms may look like plants, but taxonomically, fungi are more closely related to animals. They go inside their food to eat it and “play games with individuality,” says biologist Merlin Sheldrake, author of

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Kinship: Ecologist Suzanne Simard on the internet of trees

Apr 1st, 2022 42m 30s

Thirty years ago, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard was a lone voice in the wilderness, arguing that commercial logging practices were destroying the symbiotic relationships between different tree species. She showed how mycorrhizal networks fuse

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Kinship: Anthropologist Enrique Salmon on 'kincentricity'

Mar 26th, 2022 38m 43s

Anthropologist Enrique Salmon formulated the concept of “kincentricity,” a worldview that sees everything around us — plants, animals, rocks, wind — as our direct relative. As Salmon says, “the rain is us, and we are the rain.” In his native Ra

Kinship: Shapeshifting

Mar 18th, 2022 51m 58s

There are old folktales and legends of people who can become animals. Animals who can become people. And there’s a lesson for our own time in those shapeshifting stories — a recognition that the membrane between what's human and more-than-human

Kinship: When Mountains Are Gods

Mar 18th, 2022 51m 56s

If you look at a mountain, you might see a skiing destination, a climbing challenge, or even a source of timber to be logged or ore to be mined. But there was a time when mountains were sacred. In some places, they still are. What changes when

Kinship: Plants As Persons

Mar 18th, 2022 51m 48s

Over the past decade, plant scientists have quietly transformed the way we think of trees, forests and plants. They discovered that trees communicate through vast underground networks, that plants learn and remember. If plants are intelligent b

Kinship: Eye-To-Eye Animal Encounters

Mar 18th, 2022 51m 51s

There's a certain a kind of visual encounter that can be life changing: A cross-species gaze. The experience of looking directly into the eyes of an animal in the wild, and seeing it look back. It happens more often than you’d think and it can

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Kinship With The More Than Human World

Mar 11th, 2022 2m 38s

When you think about your neighbors, your friends and family, do you consider the nonhuman relationships in your life? With the birds and trees, the rivers and hills around you?This idea of "kinship" with our plant and animal neighbors — and

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