Miscellaneous
Podcast Transcript October 30th, 2026— Kenya’s wildlife deal, Halloween tips across the ages, and EV energy security
Episode Description: A teenager built a supply distribution network where families request what they need without filling out any forms or declaring themselves as someone in need. She also added a program that researches each family’s cultural background and sends handmade crafts alongside the Read More...
Podcast Transcript October 23rd, 2026— Hungary repeals anti-LGBTQ law, world’s tallest wind turbine, and why fall makes you reach for reruns
Episode Description: Germany just finished building the world’s tallest wind turbine: 1,197 feet tall, and built without a crane. They had to invent an entirely new construction method, because cranes don’t go that high. Also this week: the Hungarian law that fell in the most unexpected Read More...
Podcast Transcript October 16th, 2026— Flu is already spreading: why October is the window to get vaccinated, plus nine more solutions
Episode Description: Arielle and Karissa cover ten solutions this week, including 20,000 octopuses hiding in well-studied waters off the California coast, what Indonesian mosque loudspeakers have to do with earthquake survival, and a garden chore you now have a very good reason to skip. If you Read More...
Podcast Transcript October 9th, 2026— (Guest Interview) A place to breathe: inside #CreateConnectCare, the youth mental health program giving young people a voice | World Mental Health Day 2026
Episode Description: If you have a teenager in your life and you’ve felt them pull away from conversations you used to have easily, this episode is for you. Kathy Saulitis has spent three years going through what young people write and create when nobody is grading it: the poems, drawings, Read More...
Podcast Transcript October 2nd, 2026— A wildlife overpass, a solar train, and Japan’s massive centenarian population
Episode Description: This week Arielle and Karissa cover the Colorado wildlife overpass that came in $15 million under budget and brought pronghorn back to habitat they hadn’t reached in decades, what Japan’s 107,000-plus centenarians reveal about diet and aging, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Read More...
Podcast Transcript September 25th, 2026— The tilcayo, cancer-sniffing dogs, and 8 more things going right
Episode Description: There’s a startup training dogs to detect cancer across seven types… and there’s over 90 percent accuracy across six hospitals. This week Arielle and Karissa also cover a wildcat species science just got around to naming (local communities already had a name for Read More...
Podcast Transcript September 18th, 2026— A 450-year map mistake gets corrected by 164 countries, plus nine more solutions
Episode Description: Most world maps show Greenland and Africa as roughly the same size… which is kind of unbelievable considering Africa is 14 times larger! This error has been built into classrooms, boardrooms, and institutions since 1569. Last week, 164 countries finally voted to fix Read More...
Podcast Transcript September 11th, 2026— NYC bans AI for 500,000 students, and seven other solutions
Episode Description: An approach to treating degenerative blindness has been in development for more than ten years across research institutions in Spain. The result is not a surgery, a gene therapy, or an implant. It is eye drops. Light-activated compounds that restored vision in blind animal Read More...
Podcast Transcript September 4th, 2026— AI music banned from Australia's charts, Roman telescope launches, a biodegradable balloon and much more!
Episode Description: Arielle and Karissa are reunited after a few weeks apart, covering a wide range of solutions this episode: a new telescope that survived two White House cancellation attempts, the decade-long trial that settles the statin-and-dementia debate once and for all, and a Read More...
Podcast Transcript August 28th, 2026— Niger restored 5 million hectares without planting a single tree plus nine other things going right
Episode Description: Karissa hosts solo this week while Arielle recovers, covering ten solutions including the world’s first wild bird flu vaccination program for Phillip Island’s little penguins, France making unsolicited telemarketing calls flat-out illegal, and what Baltimore is doing Read More...