The razor-thin line between contagion and connection | Dan Taberski
TED Talks Daily25 Jun 2025

The razor-thin line between contagion and connection | Dan Taberski

After a mysterious wave of tics and twitches swept through a small-town high school in New York, documentary podcaster Dan Taberski set out to investigate what was really happening. Drawing on extensive research and intimate interviews with the people involved, he explores the roots of mass hysteria — and what it reveals about the line between illness and belonging. What happens when the very thing that makes us sick ... is also what connects us?

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