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**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.
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This Is Your Brain on Online Shopping Aug 05, 2015

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Manoush visits Etsy's Usability Lab to figure out why she might buy six sweaters she never wears.

What Is Our Attention Actually Worth? Jul 29, 2015

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Tech entrepreneur Tristan Harris imagines technology without constant notifications - and a funding system that incentivizes techies to build it.

Bored and Brilliant: BOOT CAMP Jul 22, 2015

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A summer version of our Bored and Brilliant project, designed to get you rethinking your relationship with your smartphone. Works equally well on vacation, or when you just WISH you were on vacation.

What Do Txts Do To Actual Writing? Jul 15, 2015

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"Book of Numbers" author Joshua Cohen answers the question: If we know people are only going to skim, how does that change the way we write?

Would You Go? Jul 08, 2015

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There's a not-so-crazy chance that we'll have the opportunity to vacation to space in our lifetimes. That said, commercial space travel is a high-stakes proposition — one that has become even riskier and more expensive in recent months. Plus: It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and you pee in a bag.

I'm Introverted. How Do I Find Quiet Space in the Digital Age? Jul 01, 2015

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Author and introvert advocate extraordinaire Susan Cain answers a listener's question about finding quiet places in a buzzing world.

What Divorce by Algorithm Means for Marriage Jun 24, 2015

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Silicon Valley thinks Gwyneth Paltrow might be onto something, and they're creating the data sets to prove it.

When Your Conspiracy Theory Is True Jun 19, 2015

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Daniel Rigmaiden is a criminal. A very hard to capture criminal. It took the use of a secret police weapon that sent beams through the walls of his apartment to track him down. But, despite long odds, he figured out the secret. And his discovery has changed how we understand citizen surveillance. A collaboration with Radiolab.

There's Just Something About Paper Jun 10, 2015

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Reading on screens is changing your brain and making it harder to finish a thick book. Here's why it's happening and some ideas for what to do about it.

Judging Your Originality in a Cut and Paste World Jun 03, 2015

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Turnitin and programs like it are used to fight plagiarism in a third of high schools and half of colleges nationwide. The system is pretty much air tight... but it also reveals a pretty fundamental truth: It's tough to say anything new about Romeo and Juliet, especially when you're a teenager responding to the same old prompt.

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