# Exploring other dimensions - Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ted-ed-7859430/exploring-other-dimensions-alex-rosenthal-and-george-zaidan Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ted-ed-7859430/exploring-other-dimensions-alex-rosenthal-and-george-zaidan.md Podcast: [TED-Ed](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ted-ed-7859430) Published: 2026-07-19T18:30:00+00:00 Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG2113256684.mp3 Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG2113256684.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ted-ed-7859430/episodes/exploring-other-dimensions-alex-rosenthal-and-george-zaidan Duration seconds: 453 ## Resource View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/exploring-other-dimensions-alex-rosenthal-and-george-zaidanImagine a two-dimensional world -- you, your friends, everything is 2D. In his 1884 novella, Edwin Abbott invented this world and called it Flatland. Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan take the premise of Flatland one dimension further, imploring us to consider how we would see dimensions different from our own and why the exploration just may be worth it. Lesson by Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan, animation by Cale Oglesby. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ted-ed-7859430/episodes/exploring-other-dimensions-alex-rosenthal-and-george-zaidan/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/ted-ed-7859430/exploring-other-dimensions-alex-rosenthal-and-george-zaidan.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.