Note to Self

Is your phone watching you? Can texting make you smarter? Are your kids real? Note to Self explores these and other essential quandaries facing anyone trying to preserve their humanity in the digital age. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts, including Radiolab, Death, Sex & Money, Snap Judgment, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, Nancy and many others. © WNYC Studios

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/notetoself

Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 20m. Bisher sind 302 Folge(n) erschienen. Jede Woche gibt es eine neue Folge dieses Podcasts.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 4 days 4 hours 25 minutes

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episode 203: Forget Edibles: Getting High on Wearables


There are a lot of tools out there that claim to train—even change—your brain. So do they work? We put them to the test and things get... interesting.


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 March 30, 2016  20m
 
 

episode 202: Apple's Security Debate is Everyone's Problem (Including Yours)


If your phone was stolen, you'd most likely be concerned that the thief would now have access to your bank account...and your vacation photos. But what if the thief was the government?


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 March 23, 2016  13m
 
 

episode 201: Your Quantified Body, Your Quantified Self


What happens when we start thinking of ourselves as walking, breathing, calorie-consuming piles of data? We asked hundreds of people to weigh in (figuratively speaking).


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 March 16, 2016  27m
 
 

episode 200: Why You Feel More Productive But the Economy Isn’t


Douglas Rushkoff, author of "Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus," argues that our fixation on "growth" has made us less financially secure, with big consequences for our communities.


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 March 9, 2016  17m
 
 

episode 199: Wait, You're Into [Insert Kink] Too?!


As promised! The time has come to talk about sex. Or, rather, to swipe about sex. 


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 March 2, 2016  22m
 
 

episode 198: Why You Should Put a Post-It Over Your Laptop Camera


How much would it take for someone to hack YOUR life? And really, how worried do you actually need to be? This is what happened when Fusion's Kevin Roose asked some of the best hackers in the world to have at him. 


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 February 24, 2016  16m
 
 

episode 197: Have You Tried to Hack Your Health? Tell Us What Happened.


We tried using apps to stop sugar cravings. It... didn't work. Now, we want to hear your stories.


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 February 17, 2016  10m
 
 

episode 196: What We Learned When 25,000 People Tried to Fight Information Overload


What we learned through a week of experimenting with information overload interventions.


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 February 10, 2016  28m
 
 
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 February 5, 2016  14m
 
 

episode 194: Infomagical Challenge 4: Magical Connection


Discuss something you’ve heard, read, or watched with someone for at least seven minutes, by phone or in person. Social psychologist Sherry Turkle explains why and how. More details here: http://wny.cc/XUksG


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 February 4, 2016  7m