Guy's Favorites: Shifting Time

TED Radio Hour

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Technology, Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science

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🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

As we transition to our new host Manoush Zomorodi, Guy Raz looks back on some of his favorite episodes from his seven years hosting the TED Radio Hour. This episode originally aired on June 19, 2015. We live our lives by the calendar and the clock, but time is also an abstraction, even an illusion. In this hour, TED speakers explore how our sense of time changes depending on who and where we are.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Guy here, so as you may have heard, there is a new host of the Ted Radio Hour,
0:05.1	her name is Manouche Sumerodi, and Manouche and the team are busy producing a bunch of
0:09.2	new episodes that you'll be hearing beginning in March.
0:12.2	But in the meantime, I want to share some of my most favorite episodes of Ted Radio Hour
0:15.8	from the seven years I host of the show, and this one is called Shifting Time.
0:20.5	So we see pretty much everything in our lives through the lens of time.
0:24.5	Our daily schedules, our memories, our plans for the future, but if we stop to ask what
0:29.8	time actually is, it becomes really complicated.
0:34.3	So on this episode, we explore our perception of time and how our sense of time changes
0:40.3	depending on who and where we are.
0:43.3	Enjoy.
0:45.7	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
0:51.7	Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
0:53.7	Ted Talks.
0:54.7	Ted.
0:55.7	Ted, technology.
0:56.7	Entertainment, design.
0:57.7	Design.
0:58.7	Is that really what's 10 for us?
0:59.7	Delivered and delivered at Ted Conferences around the world.
1:02.7	It's a gift of the human imagination.
1:04.2	We've had to believe in impossible things.
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