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- What It Takes to Reclaim Your Attention Span · 40 min · Seizoen 9 Aflevering 5Of all the potential effects of using smartphones, the one that seems to inspire the most anxiety is what scrolling could be doing to people’s attention. On social media…
- Why Learn Something That a Machine Can Do for You? · 33 min · Seizoen 9 Aflevering 4Children still learn long division even though calculators exist, and many people continue to study languages even as AI translation becomes faster and more accurate. Is there a…
- The Internet Is More Image-Focused Than Ever · 37 min · Seizoen 9 Aflevering 3It wasn’t that long ago that “body positivity” was all over the internet. Oppressive beauty standards hadn’t gone away by any stretch, but many people on social media were…
- How AI Could Make People More Anxious · 28 min · Seizoen 9 Aflevering 2Nothing sucks you in quite like the internet. It seems to have a way of figuring out what you’re currently obsessed with and serving you more and more of it, whether that’s cat…
- The Power of Pre-Internet Nostalgia · 37 min · Seizoen 9 Aflevering 1Back in the ’90s, before everyone had smartphones, were things just … better? Tech-focused nostalgia has become a potent cultural force in recent years, driving sales of…
- Introducing How To Touch Grass · 2 min · Seizoen 9A common piece of advice for those who are chronically online is to “go touch grass.” This upcoming season of How To, co-hosts Natalie Brennan and Julie Beck will look more…
- How to Age Up on a Warming Planet · 41 min · Seizoen 8 Aflevering 6How should we think about aging when the impacts of climate change can make the future feel so uncertain? That’s a question Sarah Ray, professor and chair of environmental…
- How to Define Old Age · 31 min · Seizoen 8 Aflevering 5In 2021 Dr. Kiran Rabheru, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Ottawa and a geriatric psychiatrist, found himself at the center of a medical debate. The World Health…
- How to Age Up Together · 37 min · Seizoen 8 Aflevering 4In the next 10 years, our society will become more old than young. How do we leverage this time to build stronger intergenerational connections? Eunice Nichols, the co-CEO of…
- How to Fuel Up · 37 min · Seizoen 8 Aflevering 3Food trends are constantly changing, so can people commit to a long-term nutrition practice? Kera Nyemb-Diop says yes. She is a nutrition scientist focused on breaking down the…
- How to Wish You Were 66 Instead of 35 · 39 min · Seizoen 8 Aflevering 2We don’t often talk about the benefits of aging. Dr.Karen Adams has a different perspective. From new beginnings to menopausal zest, the director of the Stanford Program in…
- How to Defy Death · 40 min · Seizoen 8 Aflevering 1Humans have always tried to prolong life and battle mortality, but what do the current influx of biohackers reveal about this era of individual responsibility? Timothy…
- Introducing: How to Age Up · 3 min · Seizoen 8Our scientific understanding of the aging process may be expanding, but is our cultural thinking about aging keeping up? In the new season of The Atlantic’s popular How To…
- Best of “How To”: Make Small Talk · 39 min · Seizoen 7 Aflevering 6This new season of How To is a collection of our favorite episodes from past seasons—a best-of series focused on slowing down, making space, and finding meaning in our hectic…
- Best of “How To”: Identify What You Enjoy · 43 min · Seizoen 7 Aflevering 5This new season of How To is a collection of our favorite episodes from past seasons—a best-of series focused on slowing down, making space, and finding meaning in our hectic…
- Best of “How To”: Waste Time · 35 min · Seizoen 7 Aflevering 4Our latest season of How To is a collection of our favorite episodes from past seasons—a best-of series focused on slowing down, making space, and finding meaning in our hectic…
- Best of “How To”: The Infrastructure of Community · 42 min · Seizoen 7 Aflevering 3This new season of How To is a collection of our favorite episodes from past seasons—a best-of series focused on slowing down, making space, and finding meaning in our hectic…
- Best of “How To”: Rest · 35 min · Seizoen 7 Aflevering 2This new season of How To is a collection of our favorite episodes from past seasons—a best-of series focused on slowing down, making space, and finding meaning in our hectic…
- Best of “How To”: Spend Time on What You Value · 35 min · Seizoen 7 Aflevering 1This new season of How To is a collection of our favorite episodes from past seasons—a best-of series focused on slowing down, making space, and finding meaning in our hectic…
- How to Know What's Real: How to Know What’s Really Propaganda · 24 min · Seizoen 6 Aflevering 7Peter Pomerantsev, a contributor at The Atlantic and author of This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, is an expert on the ways information can be…
- How to Know What's Real: How to be Immortal Online · 37 min · Seizoen 6 Aflevering 6With digital spaces regularly evolving and updating, and the infinite scroll beckoning to us at all times, this episode questions if we have, as a culture, fully embraced the end…
- How to Know What's Real: How to Win at Real Life · 32 min · Seizoen 6 Aflevering 5Games can serve as an escape from reality—but they can also shape our understanding of trust, collaboration, and what might be possible IRL. Megan Garber talks with C. Thi…
- How to Know What's Real: How to Keep Watch · 28 min · Seizoen 6 Aflevering 4With smartphones in our pockets and doorbell cameras cheaply available, our relationship with video as a form of proof is evolving. We often say “pics or it didn’t happen!”—but…
- How to Know What's Real: How to Trust Your Brain Online · 33 min · Seizoen 6 Aflevering 3This episode explores the web’s effects on our brains and how narrative, repetition, and even a focus on replaying memories can muddy our ability to separate fact from fiction…
- How to Know What's Real: How to Live in a Digital City · 28 min · Seizoen 6 Aflevering 2While the vibrance, innovation, and cacophony of online life can feel completely unlike anything humanity has ever created before, its newness isn’t wholly unprecedented. Humans…
- How to Know What's Real: How to Know Who’s Real · 29 min · Seizoen 6 Aflevering 1Social media has made it easier to build more parasocial relationships with celebrities and influencers. What impact are those connections having on our relationships IRL? And…
- Introducing: How to Know What's Real · 2 min · Seizoen 6 Aflevering 1What is “real life,” now that the internet and AI are integrated into so much that we do? In the new season of The Atlantic’s popular How To series, co-hosts Megan Garber and…
- How to Keep Time: Can We Keep Time? · 42 min · Seizoen 5 Aflevering 6It can be tough to face our own mortality. Keeping diaries, posting to social media, and taking photos are all tools that can help to minimize the discomfort that comes with…
- How to Keep Time: Time Tips From the Universe · 36 min · Seizoen 5 Aflevering 5Time can feel like a subjective experience—different at different points in our lives. It’s also a real, measurable thing. The universe may be too big to fully comprehend, but…
- How to Keep Time: How to Rest · 35 min · Seizoen 5 Aflevering 4Between making time for work, family, friends, exercise, chores, shopping—the list goes on and on—it can feel like a huge accomplishment to just take a few minutes to read a book…
- How to Keep Time: How to Leave Work Time at Work · 25 min · Seizoen 5 Aflevering 3Before laptops allowed us to take the office home and smartphones could light up with notifications at any hour, work time and “life” time had clearer boundaries. Today, work is…
- How to Keep Time: How to Look Busy · 38 min · Seizoen 5 Aflevering 2Many of us complain about being too busy—and about not having enough time to do the things we really want to do. But has busyness become an excuse for our inability to focus on…
- How to Keep Time: How to Waste Time · 35 min · Seizoen 5 Aflevering 1Co-hosts Becca Rashid and Ian Bogost explore our relationship with time and how to reclaim it. Why is it so important to be productive? Why can it feel like there’s never enough…
- Introducing: How to Keep Time · 2 min · Seizoen 5Why can it feel like there’s never enough time in a day, and why are so many of us conditioned to believe that being more productive makes us better people? On How to Keep Time…
- How to Talk to People: ‘Everyone Used to be Nicer,’ And Other Persistent Myths · 28 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 7A lot of people are plagued by the feeling that society used to be better, that neighbors were more helpful, that strangers once talked to you. Some people channel that belief…
- How to Talk to People: How to Not Go It Alone · 39 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 6The values of individualism that encourage us to go it alone are in constant tension with the desire for community that many people crave. But when attempting to do things on our…
- How to Talk to People: How to Know Your Neighbors · 30 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 5Are commitment issues impacting our ability to connect with the people who live around us? Relationship building may involve a commitment to the belief that neighbors are worthy…
- How to Talk to People: What Makes a House a Home · 40 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 4What motivated two families to engage in the organized chaos of shared living and how did they learn to talk through, and shape, new expectations for their family life at home?…
- How to Talk to People: What do we owe our friends? · 35 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 3The terms of friendship are both voluntary and vague—yet people often find themselves disappointed by unmet expectations. In this episode of How to Talk to People, we explore how…
- How to Talk to People: The Infrastructure of Community · 41 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 2Coffee shops, churches, libraries, and concert venues are all shared spaces where mingling can take place. Yet the hustle and bustle of modern social life can pose challenges to…
- How to Talk to People: How to Make Small Talk · 38 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 1Making small talk can be hard—especially when you’re not sure whether you’re doing it well. But conversations are a central part of relationship-building. In this first episode…
- Trailer: How to Talk to People · 3 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 1On How to Talk to People we explore the barriers to relationship building and why—in a world of endless potential for connection—so many people still feel alone. From the…
- Introducing Holy Week · 8 min · Seizoen 3 Aflevering 8Holy Week: The story of a revolution undone. The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, is often recounted as a conclusion to a powerful era of civil…
- How To Build a Happy Life: A New Formula for Happiness · 29 min · Seizoen 3 Aflevering 6We often follow a misguided formula for happiness—pushing us toward material wealth and other worldly successes. But when our expectations set us down the wrong path, it may be…
- How To Build a Happy Life: The Right Choices in Parenting · 37 min · Seizoen 3 Aflevering 5The mandates of modern parenting can be dizzying. But in the effort to optimize our parenting, we may lose sight of the values we hope to impart to our children—and the skills…
- How To Build a Happy Life: Subtraction as a Solution · 25 min · Seizoen 3 Aflevering 4From how we build our cities to how we shop, it can seem as though our natural human tendency is to add. But a culture of accumulation may be exactly what holds us back from the…
- How To Build a Happy Life: Spend Time on What You Value · 33 min · Seizoen 3 Aflevering 3We try to use our time wisely—both at work and in leisure—but we often waste it. We may blame work for stripping us of recreation, but when valuable free time comes around, we…
- How To Build a Happy Life: The Complexities of Human Love · 28 min · Seizoen 3 Aflevering 2Dating apps show us what we want—a relationship—without always accurately reflecting the experience of it. Our expectation that tech will create anything more than opportunities…
- How To Build a Happy Life: When Virtues Become Vices · 32 min · Seizoen 3 Aflevering 1When the behaviors we thought would make us happy don’t, we’re forced to bridge the gap between where we are and where we want to be. But our happiness goals are often stifled by…
- How To Build a Happy Life: When Expectations Don’t Meet Reality · 3 min · Seizoen 3 Aflevering 1In our pursuit of a happy life, we build, we structure, and we plan. Often, we follow conventional wisdom and strategize. But what happens when our plans fall through and…
