Why 1.5 billion people eat with chopsticks | Small Thing Big Idea, a TED series

Published: 21 January 2020
on channel: TED
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Author Jennifer 8. Lee explains how the chopstick spread from the East to the West -- and was designed to give you the perfect bite.

Small Thing Big Idea, a TED original series, celebrates the lasting genius of everyday objects so perfectly designed that they changed the world around them.

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