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TED Radio Hour

What Is Beauty?

TED Radio Hour

NPR

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.421.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Beauty surrounds us, draws us in, gives joy and creates conflict. In this hour, TED speakers conjure up beauty both ancient and modern, and suggest reasons why humans are hardwired to crave and respond to beauty. Guests include the late philosopher Denis Dutton, psychologist Nancy Etcoff, fashion model Cameron Russell, community activist Bill Strickland, and designer Richard Seymour. (Original broadcast date: April 19, 2013)

Transcript

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Hey, it's Guy here, and I have a question for you.

0:02.8

Have you ever seen something so beautiful that you don't even have any words for it?

0:08.4

All you can do is let out a deep sigh.

0:12.4

And that beauty, it fulfills some kind of innate biological need.

0:17.5

Coming up on the show, we ask our humans' hardwired to crave beauty and how does it affect

0:22.6

our lives for better or for worse?

0:25.5

This episode is called What Is Beauty and It Originally Eared in April 2013.

0:32.5

This is the Ted Radio Hour.

0:38.4

Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talk.

0:40.5

Ted Talks.

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Ted.

0:42.5

Ted, technology.

0:43.5

Entertainment.

0:44.5

Design.

0:45.5

Is that really what's 10 for you?

0:46.5

I've never known the Ted Conferences around the world.

0:49.5

It's the gift of the human imagination.

0:51.0

We've had to believe in impossible things.

0:53.7

This true nature of reality beckons from just beyond.

0:58.2

Those talks, those ideas adapted for radio.

1:04.0

From NPR.

1:09.7

I'm Guy Ross, and on the show today, beauty.

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