The hidden forces shaping your choices

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Every day, we make countless choices—but are these decisions guided by desire or design? This hour, TED speakers on what shapes the food we eat, how we power our homes, and how we communicate. Guests include food systems expert Sarah Lake, infrastructure engineer Deb Chachra, cross-cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand, urban planner Jeff Speck, and Tempe resident Ignacio Delgadillo.

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0:00.0	This is the TED Radio Hour.
0:04.8	Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks.
0:07.2	Our job now is to dream big.
0:08.6	Delivered at TED conferences.
0:10.3	To bring about the future we want to see.
0:12.4	Around the world.
0:13.4	To understand who we are.
0:15.3	From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you.
0:20.4	You just don't know what you're going to find.
0:22.3	Challenge you.
0:23.2	We truly have to ask ourselves, like, why is it noteworthy?
0:25.6	And even change you.
0:26.7	I literally feel like I'm a different person.
0:28.9	Yes.
0:29.8	Do you feel that way?
0:31.6	Ideas worth spreading.
0:33.9	From Ted and NPR.
0:39.6	I'm Manushe Zamorodi.
0:43.7	Today on the show, Hidden Forces.
0:47.6	My grandma toots was a big meat eater.
0:53.1	She was a classic 1950-style housewife in the U.S.
0:57.0	And grew up in a time when meat was everywhere.
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