TED Radio Hour

The state of fashion

Queer space is about sharing. Yes, we're making space for ourself, but we're also sharing ourselves and we're inviting people into our circle. We're being generous. Maximalism is generous.

TED Radio Hour

The state of fashion

Queer space is about sharing. Yes, we're making space for ourselves, but we're also sharing ourselves and we're inviting people into our circle. We're being generous. Maximalism is generous.

It's Been a Minute

The safety and power of knowing your neighbors

Neighborliness today means giving people their space. And that's a big change in America.

TED

Reimagining Traditional Architecture for Modern Needs | Riyad Joucka | TED

What disappears isn't just people and buildings, it's memory, belonging, culture. I'm not here with a simple fix. What I'm saying is we must rebuild, but we need to rebuild with identity in mind.

It's Been a Minute

Why Queer Third Spaces Matter | It's Been a Minute

During the AIDS crisis, uh restaurants were uh makeshift chapels and had memorial services for people who died. Um at the same time restaurants are places where you can be uh teenager and you're too young to get into a bar or a nightclub, but you can hang out at a gay diner with your friends. On the flip side, you can be an elder and the music at the clubs is too loud and it's too expensive and you feel invisible at a gay bar or a gay club, but at a gay restaurant you can feel seen.

Book of the Day

Ann Patchett’s 'Whistler' and 'Tom Lake' are novels written with love in mind

Yes, there there are bad people in the world, but they are so outnumbered by the good people. The people who will want to help you are are so hugely present out there once you leave this car.

It's Been a Minute

Why don't your neighbors pick up their dog’s poop?

If you see your neighborhood as an amenity rather than like as a place in which like many people live and have to live coexisting lives, including people who are very different from you, make different amounts of money, people who look differently than you, then like that is a political perspective that is, you know, projected onto the world, and the dog is just a lens at looking at it.

The New York Times

Why Ukrainian Postal Workers Risk Their Lives to Deliver Mail on The Front Lines

Larysa delivers more than just mail. She brings income and also groceries, medicines, the news and a familiar face to chat with for those living in isolation.

It's Been a Minute

The ugly truth of America's expensive homes | It's Been A Minute

The homes that most Americans live in are not designed to make people really have any kind of community or connection or broader place in the world. And so when we watch these homes on TV, I think we get to we get a taste of that.

Daily Stoic

If you want to accomplish something big, watch this Stoic advice

Wisdom is not a solitary pursuit. You have to find your circle. You have to find people that make you better.

Book of the Day

In 'Bad Asians,' a friend group threatens its reputation with a viral video

I was trying to capture that initial innocence that we all had. The sense that you were almost in a private room with your friends rather than having it be this public forum that everyone across the world could attend.