Shifting Time

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Original broadcast date: 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. Guests include director Cesar Kuriyama, poet Rives, psychologists Dan Gilbert and Laura Carstensen, and cosmologist Sean Carroll.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Guy here.
0:01.4	So most of us see everything in our lives through the lens of time.
0:06.2	Our daily schedules or memories or plans for the future.
0:10.1	But if we stop to ask what time actually is, it becomes kind of complicated.
0:15.9	So today on the show, we're exploring our perception of time.
0:20.2	And how our sense of time changes depending on who and where we are.
0:25.6	This episode is called Shifting Time.
0:27.9	And it originally aired in June of 2015.
0:31.9	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
0:37.9	Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
0:39.9	Ted Talks.
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0:41.9	Ted.
0:42.9	Technology.
0:43.9	Entertainment.
0:44.9	Design.
0:45.9	Design.
0:46.9	Is that really what's 10 for us?
0:47.9	I've never known the...
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0:49.9	It's the gift of the human imagination.
0:50.9	We've had to believe in impossible things.
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