What Is Beauty?

How To Do Everything

• Episode: What Is Beauty?
• Website: How To Do Everything
• Feed URL: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510303
• Duration: 00:53:11
• Published: 2017-12-29 06:01

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)