2021-10-26
23 分钟Time with friends just isn’t the same with a screen in between you. That’s a struggle many have faced recently, with half of Americans saying they’ve lost touch with at least one friend during the pandemic. It can be sad, but is falling out of touch with friends normal? How many relationships should we maintain, and what are the different kinds of friendships we need anyways? Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar has been studying social relationships for 50 years, and he has answers. Data journalist Mona Chalabi maps out her own relationships against the averages, and invites us to do the same. This is an episode of Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective. You can find and follow it wherever you're listening to this. To learn more about "How to Be a Better Human," host Chris Duffy, or find footnotes and additional resources, please visit: go.ted.com/betterhuman
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Hey there.
Chris Duppy here.
So today, instead of our podcast, instead of how to be a better human, we have something a little bit different.
We have an episode of a new podcast from the Ted audio Collective.
It's a brand new show called am I normal?
It's hosted by data journalist Mona Chalebi, and Mona is one of my favorite writers and thinkers and people.
She does these incredible illustrations, and she also is able to pull apart numbers and statistics and find the real stories behind them.
These fascinating ways of looking at things, where she sees, what do the numbers and statistics reveal?
What do they obscure?
What are the narratives behind them?
And listen, Mona is kind of one of those people where she finds these stories, and then she's like the ideal dinner party guest, because you turn to her and you're like, hey, there's this weird thing going on.
Am I normal?
And she goes, let's dive into that.
Let's talk about that.
And let me tell you all the research.
It's amazing.
After you like it, be sure to.
Follow am I normal?
With Mona Chalabi.