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What It Takes to Reclaim Your Attention Span (opens the original)
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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts Of 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 (ironically), many people express a desire to “heal” their attention spans from the damage they feel technology has done. They’re picking up on something real. In one 2025 study, researchers found that blocking the internet on people’s phones for two weeks led to
Why Learn Something That a Machine Can Do for You? (opens the original)
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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts Children 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 deeper purpose for learning that technology will never touch? In this episode of How to Touch Grass, the co-hosts Natalie Brennan and Julie Beck hear from Michelle Miller, a cognitive psychologist at Northern Arizona University who studies technology and l
Algorithmic Dysmorphia (opens the original)
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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts It wasn’t that long ago that “body positivity” was all over the internet. Oppressive beauty standards hadn’t gone away by any means, but many people on social media were pushing against limits on what an “ideal” body could look like. Now things have swung in the opposite direction, with the rapid uptake of GLP-1s and the resurgence of a skinny ideal, combined with a new frankness about plastic surgery. The calls for “self-love” an
How AI Could Make People More Anxious (opens the original)
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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts 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 pervasive and seemingly unshakable anxiety. (At this point, anyone who’s never spent a late night Googling their worries should be studied by science for their willpower.) But with the rise of artificia
Would You Go Back to a Time Before Smartphones If You Could? (opens the original)
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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts Back in the ’90s, before everyone had a smartphone, 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 2023 survey, 67 percent of Americans wish they could go back to a time “before everyone was ‘plugged in.’” The psychologist behind that survey, Clay Routledge, has found that this sort of nostal
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