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Sunday Pick: All the lonely people | from Corner Piece
- Relationships & psychology
From group chats to video calls, technology should make social connection easier than ever. So, why is everyone so lonely? In this special featured episode from the new TED podcast, Corner Piece, host Sabrina sets out to investigate the "loneliness epidemic" that is sweeping the globe and impacting her friends and cohosts. She interviews Professor Fay Bound-Alberti, author of "A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion" to understand what loneliness is, where it comes from, and whether there is a "cure". In the process, co-hosts Taha and Melissa challenge Sabrina to tackle her own...
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Happy Sunday, Elise Hugh here. Today we're bringing you a Sunday pick where we share an episode of another podcast from Ted handpicked by us for you. I'm excited to tell you about Ted's newest podcast, Corner Piece, a show that starts
small on life's biggest questions. Co-hosts Taha, Melissa, and Sabrina are lifelong friends and full-time nerds. You might know from their YouTube channel, Answer in Progress. On each episode, they take an everyday worry like, is romance dead?
And launch a full investigation to figure out how much of the problem is modern life and how much is just part of being human. The first episode takes on a question a lot of us know too well. From group chats to video calls, technology should make connections easier than ever.
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