Lessons From The Summer

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Technology

4.3 • 21.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The summer of 2020 has been overwhelming for most of us. This hour, we hear from four guests—each from recent episodes—who sum up where we've been and offer the wisdom we need for the months ahead. Guests include political strategist Tom Rivett-Carnac, political philosopher Danielle Allen, anthropologist Heidi Larson, and writer and scholar Clint Smith.

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0:00.0	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
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0:14.8	From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you.
0:20.0	You just don't know what you're gonna find.
0:21.8	Challenge you.
0:22.7	We truly have to ask ourselves, like, why is it noteworthy?
0:25.1	And even change you.
0:26.2	I literally feel like I'm a different person.
0:28.4	Yes.
0:29.8	Do you feel that way?
0:31.2	Ideas worth spreading.
0:33.5	From Ted and NPR.
0:37.9	I'm Manouch Zomerodi.
0:39.8	For most of us, the summer of 2020 has been overwhelming.
0:43.9	Between a pandemic, protests over systemic racism,
0:47.4	the economic recession, there's a barrage of information coming at us.
0:52.8	And it can be hard to know what's worth tuning into.
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