Matthew Cloutier
Matthew Cloutier is a producer for TED Radio Hour. While at the show, he has focused on stories about science and the natural world, ranging from operating Mars rovers to exploring Antarctica's hidden life. He has also pitched these kinds of episodes, including "Through The Looking Glass" and "Migration."
Cloutier began in January 2020 as the intern for TED Radio Hour, following which he expanded into social media and audience engagement. He created a series of activities and lessons to pair with show segments. He began producing at his current capacity in the fall of 2020.
Prior to NPR, Cloutier worked for the independent station WPKN in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
He graduated from Middlebury College in 2019 with a degree in Environmental Studies and never outgrew his childhood obsessions with dinosaurs, moths and sea life.
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While your body fights germs, you feel depressed, anti-social, even lethargic. Social neuroscientist Keely Muscatell offers an evolutionary explanation for why your mood and immune system are linked.
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Everything in the solar system is made of different rocks and materials, except the Earth and Moon. They're like twins. It's a mystery that planetary scientist Sarah T. Stewart set out to solve.
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Global warming, pollution, deforestation—it's easy to feel a sense of doom about our planet. But data scientist Hannah Ritchie says the numbers on sustainability are more hopeful than we might assume.
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Writer Pico Iyer has crisscrossed the globe looking for paradise and different cultures' notions of it. Amid conflict and difficulty, he asks if it can ever be found.
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No parent is perfect. We all make mistakes. That's why clinical psychologist Becky Kennedy says repairing a relationship with a child is the most important skill a parent can have.
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Anika Goss is a third generation Detroiter. She says her city's future depends on exchanging concrete for green space—and that transformation will lead to both economic gains and climate resilience.
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Professor Saad Bhamla believes all science puzzles are important, even silly ones. His research into the glass-winged sharpshooter's "butt flicker" led to a discovery about the physics of insect pee.
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Water bills in Detroit are twice the national average, and in 2014 thousands faced shutoffs because they couldn't afford to pay them. When programmer Tiffani Ashley Bell learned this, she took action.
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LIDAR technology is an innovation in archeology and ecology that has uncovered lost civilizations. But archeologist Chris Fisher realized it could help track and study the effects of climate change.
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Traveling lets us take in the awe of new places. But author and travel writer Pico Iyer realized he could bring an adventurous spirit to familiar spaces and see local beauty that he had overlooked.