How engaging with the natural world benefits you-- and science (with Mary Ellen Hannibal)

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  Ted audio collective, you're listening to how to be a better human.

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  I'm your host, Chris Duffy.

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  So a few years ago, I moved from New York, where I grew up, to Los Angeles.

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  And among the many new things that I had to get used to here in LA was a completely new environment and natural surroundings.

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  One night, I was lying in bed when I thought I heard an intruder on our roof.

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  I heard someone walking around up there.

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  But then when I went outside to investigate, when I shined my flashlight up on the roof, I did not find a burglar.

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  Instead, there was a coyote up there.

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  I didn't even know coyotes were a real thing outside of cartoons.

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  I'd never seen one growing up in New York, but here was one staring right back at me before it jumped back onto the hillside and kind of slinked away into the bushes.

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  That experience got me thinking about how I want to and probably need to engage more with my natural environment.

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  What are these plants around me?

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  What are these bugs?

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  Who are these birds?

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  I'm trying to ask more questions.

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  I'm trying to learn more about what is happening in the natural world that I live in.

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  And today's guest, Mary Ellen Hannibal, she is all about that curiosity.

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  In fact, she wrote a book about how engaging your own curiosity about the natural world can serve not just you, but also something much larger and contribute to science.

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  She gave a fantastic talk at TEDx Stanford about how getting regular people involved in citizen science can help everyone to understand more about and prevent species loss and extinction.

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  Here's a clip.

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