Bucking The System

TED Radio Hour

NPR

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We hear calls for systemic change, but what does that look like? This hour, TED speakers share stories of taking on institutions — from schools, to medicine, to policing — so they work for everyone. Guests include economist Emily Oster, lawyer Priti Krishtel, and social psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff.

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0:00.0	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
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0:25.1	And even change you.
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0:28.4	Yes.
0:29.7	Do you feel that way?
0:31.1	Ideas worth spreading.
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0:38.5	I'm Manouch Zamorodi and I am also a parent.
0:43.1	And like most people with kids, my husband and I had to make some tough decisions
0:47.4	because of the pandemic.
0:49.4	Probably the hardest one was, should we send our kids to school and risk exposing them to COVID?
0:56.4	Or should we keep them at home, away from their friends, isolated and going to school virtually?
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