Note to Self

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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

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Episodes (666)

Is Braille Obsolete?

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Mar 25, 201521:01pending

A Parent's Guide to All That 'Ed Tech' In Your Kid's Classroom

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Mar 18, 201526:00pending

Tweens and Tech Guide: Getting Them to Open Up

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Mar 11, 201514:51pending

There is Actually One Thing You Can Do to Fight the Surveillance Machine

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Mar 4, 201520:56pending

Ethical Questions for Your Inner Couch Potato

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Feb 25, 201519:47pending

Bored and Brilliant: The Personal Stories

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Feb 18, 201522:18pending

Bored and Brilliant: We Got Bored

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Feb 11, 201519:55pending

Bored and Brilliant Challenge 6: Dream House

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Feb 7, 201511:26pending

Bored and Brilliant Challenge 5: One Small Observation

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Feb 6, 20157:50pending

Bored and Brilliant Challenge 4: Take a Fauxcation

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Feb 5, 20158:46pending

Bored and Brilliant Challenge 3: Delete That App

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Feb 4, 201517:45pending

Bored and Brilliant Challenge 2: Photo Free Day

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Feb 3, 20156:22pending

Bored and Brilliant Challenge 1: In Your Pocket

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Feb 2, 20158:11pending

What 95 Minutes of Phone Time a Day Does to Us

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Jan 28, 201519:38pending

9 Things We Learned About Phones From a Teenager

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Jan 21, 201521:20pending

The Case for Boredom

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Jan 12, 201515:46pending

Seriously, Listen to Your Voicemail

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Jan 7, 201513:05pending

Tales of Real Life Tech Addiction

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Dec 31, 201411:34pending

Screens Really are a Nightmare for Sleep

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Dec 24, 201413:11pending

Look How Cute this Military Cyber Warfare Training Ground Is

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Dec 17, 201423:03pending

Your Facebook Friend Said Something Racist. Now What?

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Dec 10, 201426:14pending

What to Do When Robots Replace People You Work With

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Dec 3, 201419:40pending

Type "Hello" To Amy, Your Plucky Digital Personal Assistant

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Nov 26, 201423:21pending

Varsity Video Gamers

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Nov 19, 201422:13pending

Video Games Meet Middle Age Emotions

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Nov 12, 201420:54pending

Pajama Volunteers: The Digital Front of Disaster Response

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Nov 5, 201417:44pending

The Other Ed Snowdens: Inside the Mind of Two Privacy Whistleblowers

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Oct 29, 201421:51pending

EXTRA: Bill Binney and Ladar Levison Talk Cryptography

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Oct 29, 201426:25pending

Containing Ebola Like They Did in This Video Game

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Oct 22, 201422:41pending

Space Tourism Gets Sweetly Personal for These Two Strong Lady Travelers

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Oct 15, 201435:17pending

BONUS TRACK: How Twitter Has Changed Nonfiction

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Oct 12, 20146:43pending

Screens and Kids: Do Techies Have Different Rules than the Rest of Us?

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Oct 8, 201421:47pending

Killer Robots + Ancient Rules of War = Trouble

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Oct 1, 201423:36pending

Backing Tracks: Why Live Music Won't Be Live For Long

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Sep 24, 201422:53pending

The 'Bi-literate' Brain: The Key to Reading in a Sea of Screens

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Sep 17, 201421:55pending

The View from Inside the Glass Cube

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Sep 10, 201417:01pending

Ana and Mia: How Eating Disorders Evolved Online

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Sep 3, 201423:55pending

How to Be Smarter than Facebook

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Aug 27, 201416:59pending

Learning To Code and Losing My Mind (Reprise)

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Aug 20, 201413:23pending

Me and My Girlfriend Texted Only in Emoji for a Month

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Aug 13, 201417:34pending

The Way Colleges Teach Computer Science Hurts Women

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Aug 6, 201414:31pending

Three Award-Winning Stories

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Jul 30, 201422:39pending

Mining Your Voice for Hidden Feelings and Company Profits

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Jul 23, 201414:35pending

Dissecting Voices to Find the Hidden Call For Help

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Jul 16, 201414:06pending

Digital Mail vs U.S. Postal Service

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Jul 9, 201424:23pending

Mindy Kaling, Girly Girls, and the Future of Tech

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Jul 2, 201418:34pending

The Flip Side of The Right to Be Forgotten

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Jun 25, 201422:39pending

The Bus of the Future Will Catch You

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Jun 18, 201429:01pending

Your Posture May Change Your Math Skills

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Jun 11, 201415:56pending

It's Time to Start Talking About Robot Morals

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Jun 4, 201419:51pending

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