Manoush Zomorodi

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Today on the show, how our senses can reveal things about ourselves and the world around us that might otherwise remain invisible, starting with what we can hear.

Roughly 13.8 billion years ago, the universe began.

In a minute, more about using sound to help us understand how the universe began and turning the mysteries of space into music.

On the show today, making sense of the invisible world around us.

I'm Manoush Zomorodi, and you're listening to the TED Radio Hour from NPR.

We'll be right back.

Do you feel that way? Ideas worth spreading.

From TED and NPR, I'm Manoush Zomorodi.

Were you one of those lucky people who knew exactly what you wanted to be when you grew up? Cellist Joshua Roman was.

You know, I went through a phase when I was 10 or so, a few of these kinds of things where it was like, "Oh, I could be a fighter pilot or a firefighter," or it was always something heroic.

In a minute, what Joshua Roman went on to produce, his debut solo album, and a piece improvised just for you, dear listener.

It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR.

I'm Manoush Zomorodi.

Stay with us.

I'm Brian Walsh, filling in for Sean Ailing.

My guest today is Manoush Zomorodi, host of NPR's TED Radio Hour.

We're all familiar with what our screen addiction is doing to our brains and our attention span.

But Manoush's new book, Body Electric, is about what a life of sitting and staring at screens is doing to us below the neck, to our blood, our breath, even our posture.

She reported it with the scientists studying the problems on her own screen-addicted body and on more than twenty thousand NPR listeners, which became a peer-reviewed study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine with Manoush's name on it.

I asked Manoush on the show because as much as we think we know how our devices affect us, we're really only scratching the surface.

What is a day in a chair actually doing to a person? And is taking a five-minute walk a serious answer to a problem this big? Manoush Zomorodi, welcome to The Gray Area.

It's great to be here, Brian.

Do you feel that way? Ideas worth spreading from TED and NPR.

I'm Manoush Zomorodi.

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Okay.

He explains the geological conditions needed to preserve extraordinary fossils like the one he found in Patagonia that led to the discovery of one of the biggest species of dinosaur to ever exist.

On the show today, the day the dinosaurs died.

I'm Manoush Zomorodi, and you're listening to the TED Radio Hour from NPR.

We'll be right back.

So we are unpacking a webpage for a July twenty-fourth, twenty twenty-six NPR broadcast.

It's actually part of a TED Radio Hour segment hosted by Manoush Zomorodi, Avery Keatley, and Sanaz Meshkinpour.

Right.

And the specific segment that caught our eye features a journalist named Naima Raza.