How to Touch Grass podcast

How to Touch Grass podcast — 40 epizód a Podiverzumon. Hallgasd online, böngészd a kereshető AI-összefoglalókat, az említett személyeket és témákat.

Epizódok

  • How AI Could Make People More Anxious

    Nothing 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 videos, cookie recipes, or information about your most pervasi…

  • The Power of Pre-Internet Nostalgia

    Back 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 “dumbphones,” iPods, CDs, and other retro technology. According to a…

  • Introducing How To Touch Grass

    A 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 closely at the often-fraught, always-changing relationship people…

  • How to Age Up on a Warming Planet

    How 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 studies at Cal Poly Humboldt, has been helping her students conside…

  • How to Define Old Age

    In 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 Organization wanted to officially designate “old age” as a dis…

  • How to Age Up Together

    In 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 CoGenerate, has spent more than two decades bringing older and y…

  • How to Fuel Up

    Food 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 “rules” of what people think they should eat and focusing inst…

  • How to Wish You Were 66 Instead of 35

    We 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 Menopause & Healthy Aging discusses what women can look forward to…

  • How to Defy Death

    Humans 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 Caulfield, a professor and the research director at the Health La…

  • Introducing: How to Age Up

    Our 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 series, co-hosts Yasmin Tayag and Natalie Brennan explore the cult…

  • Best of “How To”: Make Small Talk

    This 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 lives. This episode is the last in the collection and is from ou…

  • Best of “How To”: Identify What You Enjoy

    This 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 lives. This episode, from our first season, How to Build a Happy…

  • Best of “How To”: Waste Time

    Our 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 lives. This episode, from our fifth season, How to Keep Time ,…

  • Best of “How To”: The Infrastructure of Community

    This 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 lives. This episode, from our fourth season, called How to Talk…

  • Best of “How To”: Rest

    This 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 lives. This episode, from our fifth season, called How to Keep T…

  • Best of “How To”: Spend Time on What You Value

    This 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 lives. This first episode, from our third season called How to B…

  • How to Know What's Real: How to Know What’s Really Propaganda

    Peter 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 manipulated. For this special episode, Megan talks with Peter about…

  • How to Know What's Real: How to be Immortal Online

    With 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 of endings. Hanna Reichel, an associate professor of reforme…

  • How to Know What's Real: How to Win at Real Life

    Games 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 Nguyen, an associate philosophy professor at the University of Utah…

  • How to Know What's Real: How to Keep Watch

    With 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 meanwhile, there’s been a rise in problematic imaging includin…

  • How to Know What's Real: How to Trust Your Brain Online

    This 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 do we come to believe the things we do? Why do conspiracy…

  • How to Know What's Real: How to Live in a Digital City

    While 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 reckoned with many similar challenges to life as they knew it…

  • How to Know What's Real: How to Know Who’s Real

    Social 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 how do they shift our understanding and expectations of intimac…

  • Introducing: How to Know What's Real

    What 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 Andrea Valdez explore deepfakes, illusions, and misinformation,…

  • How to Keep Time: Can We Keep Time?

    It 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 realizing we have limited time on Earth. But how exactly does doc…

  • How to Keep Time: Time Tips From the Universe

    Time 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 what we do know could help inform the ways we approach our unde…

  • How to Keep Time: How to Rest

    Between 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 or watch TV before bed. All that busyness can lead to poor s…

  • How to Keep Time: How to Leave Work Time at Work

    Before 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 not done exclusively in the workplace, and that makes it hard…

  • How to Keep Time: How to Look Busy

    Many 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 what matters? According to Neeru Paharia, a marketing professo…

  • How to Keep Time: How to Waste Time

    Co-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 time in a day? Why are so many of us conditioned to believe t…

  • Introducing: How to Keep Time

    Why 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 , co-hosts Becca Rashid and contributing writer Ian Bogost tal…

  • How to Talk to People: ‘Everyone Used to be Nicer,’ And Other Persistent Myths

    A 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 into political action, as in the Make America Great Again movem…

  • How to Talk to People: How to Not Go It Alone

    The 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 own, we may miss out on the joys of coming together. This se…

  • How to Talk to People: How to Know Your Neighbors

    Are 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 of getting to know. In this episode of How to Talk to People,…

  • How to Talk to People: What Makes a House a Home

    What 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? In this episode of How to Talk to People, we hear from Deborah…

  • How to Talk to People: What do we owe our friends?

    The 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 to have the difficult conversations that can make our frien…

  • How to Talk to People: The Infrastructure of Community

    Coffee 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 relationship-building—even in spaces designed for exactly tha…

  • How to Talk to People: How to Make Small Talk

    Making 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 of How to Talk to People , we explore the psychological barrie…

  • Trailer: How to Talk to People

    On 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 struggle to prioritize non-romantic relationships, to just feeling u…

  • Introducing Holy Week

    Holy 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 rights in America, but how did this hero’s murder come to be the s…