Note to Self - Podcast

Publication Date: 2018-04-04

Today, listener stories and tips: we wrap up our No Filter series of conversations about how women live online. From YouTube megastar Lele Pons to ic...

No Filter: Jasmyn Lawson

Publication Date: 2018-04-03

We couldn’t close out No Filter, our series on women owning it online, without profiling Jasmyn Lawson, former culture editor at Giphy. That's the se...

No Filter: Barbara Kruger

Publication Date: 2018-03-30

The iconic artist talks to Manoush about our curated selfies, owning a font, and why we all need likes. Plus, The Cut’s editor in chief Stella Bugb...

No Filter: Christiane Amanpour

Publication Date: 2018-03-29

The CNN anchor talks to Manoush about sex, wearing a “uniform,” and staying profesh on air and online. Plus, Call Your Girlfriend co-host and Cut con...

No Filter: Amy Sherald

Publication Date: 2018-03-28

Her portrait of Michelle Obama went viral. Painter Amy Sherald dismisses the haters. “Some people want their poetry to rhyme.” Plus, Allison P. Davis...

No Filter: Trace Lysette

Publication Date: 2018-03-27

Every day this week, a new episode of our series, No Filter: Women Owning It Online, with New York Magazine’s The Cut. Five conversations with badass...

No Filter: Lele Pons

Publication Date: 2018-03-26

Every day this week, a new episode of our series, No Filter: Women Owning It Online, with New York Magazine’s The Cut. Five conversations with badass...

Why We Need No Filter

Publication Date: 2018-03-21

It’s here! The first episode in our new series, No Filter: Women Owning It Online, with New York Magazine’s The Cut. Today, our launch episode. Every...

My Digital Revolution

Publication Date: 2018-03-20

Stories of life online, told live. We teamed up with Generation Women, a monthly event where women from their 20s to their 80s share stories on a the...

Am I Normal?

Publication Date: 2018-03-14

Everyone wants to know if we’re normal. Is my body normal, is my brain normal, are my feelings normal? Data artist Mona Chalabi will tell you. And sh...

What to Think About Before Posting Family Photos

Publication Date: 2018-02-27

Last summer, we asked you some questions about posting photos. Do you post pictures of your kids? Do your parents post photos of you? Why, why not? W...

Have Dating Apps Killed Romance?

Publication Date: 2018-02-13

Here’s a real message from OKCupid: “Hi, good evening, nice photos. You are not fat.” And that’s one of the few messages polite enough to share. It’s...

Help Us Collect Political Ads on Facebook

Publication Date: 2018-02-06

ProPublica reporter Julia Angwin is collecting political ads on Facebook, all across the country. Just in case someone needs to check on them later. ...

Meet an Online Emotional Escort

Publication Date: 2018-02-05

When we get big news these days, we reach for our phones. We text our loved ones. Husband, wife, mom, best friend. Or, in some cases, our Invisible G...

How to Find the Right Amount of Screen Time

Publication Date: 2018-01-30

Screen time is a daily battle. Between kids and parents, between ourselves and our better judgment. But maybe it doesn’t have to be. There is a bette...

Dear Manoush: The Advice Episode

Publication Date: 2018-01-16

You send us a lot of questions about managing tech-life. This week, Manoush has the answers. Is there a secret to managing the overload of informat...

Dan Harris Knows All Your Excuses for Not Meditating

Publication Date: 2018-01-02

We can’t stop the world from turning. Or the vitriol getting posted online. But we can control how (or whether) we react. Dan Harris anchors ABC News...

Search Inside Yourself For Peace and Joy

Publication Date: 2017-12-26

Chade-Meng Tan was employee number 107 at Google. And before he retired at the ripe old age of 44, he created a class there, Search Inside Yourself. ...

Look Into the Future with Black Mirror

Publication Date: 2017-12-19

Preserving dead loved ones through AI. Social scoring and ranking. Hacking personal details for extortion. When Black Mirror’s Charlie Brooker and An...

Alexa, Is Amazon Taking Over The World?

Publication Date: 2017-12-12

This week, the tradeoffs we don’t see when we shop on Amazon. How the company’s dominance from retail to web hosting could create a dystopia of socia...

"You Deserve to Die" and Other Fun Conversation Starters

Publication Date: 2017-12-05

Dylan Marron is internet famous. He makes clever and (actually) funny little Facebook-friendly videos about light topics like Islamophobia, masculini...

Let’s Check The Tape

Publication Date: 2017-11-28

An incomplete list of objects that are listening to us: Siri. Alexa. Google Home. The Nest. Our cars. Our smart TVs. Cayla dolls. All these listenin...

The Lawsuit that Could Shine a Light on Cambridge Analytica

Publication Date: 2017-11-21

Pictured above is Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, speaking in November 2017. David Carroll is hunting for information. About himself. He ...

Revisiting Cambridge Analytica’s Role in the Presidential Election

Publication Date: 2017-11-21

The first chapter in our look at Cambridge Analytica. Back in March, we asked the controversial digital marketing firm what services they provided fo...

It’s Not Over Nyet

Publication Date: 2017-11-14

When governments start pulling the strings of power with algorithms and bots... we ALL become political puppets. Listeners, it’s time to consider how...

Spy Terms of the Internyet

Publication Date: 2017-11-07

Russian spy tactics have gotten an upgrade since the Cold War. This week how they work now: bad actors, active measures, advanced persistent threats....

Nyet Just a Conspiracy Theory?

Publication Date: 2017-10-31

During the presidential campaign, Daily Beast executive editor Noah Shachtman opened up Twitter, saw all the vitriol and fake news and conspiracy the...

Where Do I Go Now?

Publication Date: 2017-10-24

Manoush is a nice human being. Polite, punctual, present. But man, is she a rude robot. Recently, Manoush attended a conference as a telepresence rob...

Play Video Games for Your Mental Health

Publication Date: 2017-10-17

If you’ve ever played video games, or swapped tiles around on Candy Crush, you know the feeling of winning. Like a light in your brain, a mental fist...

Talking to Myself

Publication Date: 2017-10-10

Eugenia Kuyda and her best friend Roman had a habit of texting back and forth all day. When he was killed in a car crash, the void was enormous. So s...

I Didn’t See Your Text

Publication Date: 2017-10-03

We used to RSVP to events. Now, invitations live in our Facebook notifications and group texts. And we just ignore them. It’s so easy to forget there...

Ghosting, Simmering and Icing with Esther Perel

Publication Date: 2017-09-26

So you’ve finally matched with someone you like on Tinder. Your chats are funny, smooth, comfortable. When you meet in person, you sit at a bar for f...

Forty Years of Coding In a Man's World

Publication Date: 2017-09-19

Silicon Valley has a gender issue. That's hardly breaking news. But things have escalated recently. Some examples from the last few weeks: The Ellen ...

Eavesdropping On Epiphany

Publication Date: 2017-09-12

José Cruz is a college student, research scientist, and phone power-user. He spent 6 hours in one day on his screen. So he wanted to cut back, make m...

Attention Please

Publication Date: 2017-09-04

Today, the first book to be born out of a crowdsourced podcasting movement - our movement, dear listeners - is here. In 2015, tens of thousands of yo...

Refresh Your Mind

Publication Date: 2017-09-03

This week, Manoush’s book - the book that started with you, listeners - hits the shelves. To encourage you to #GetBored and find brilliance, we made ...

Bonus: Behind the Scenes at TED

Publication Date: 2017-08-14

TED! TED!! TED!!! A few months ago, Manoush traveled to Vancouver to tell the story of Bored and Brilliant on the TED main stage. And yes, it was big...

Save the Planet! Part 1: I'm Gonna Take My Clothes Off

Publication Date: 2017-08-01

This is part of our five-episode pack on how science and technology can fight climate change. With better air conditioning, more whale poop, souped-u...

Save the Planet! Part 2: Whale Poop

Publication Date: 2017-08-01

This is part of our five-episode pack on how science and technology can fight climate change. With better air conditioning, more whale poop, souped-u...

Save the Planet! Part 3: Super Powered Sweet Corn

Publication Date: 2017-08-01

This is part of our five-episode pack on how science and technology can fight climate change. With better air conditioning, more whale poop, souped-u...

Save the Planet! Part 4: Suck It

Publication Date: 2017-08-01

This is part of our five-episode pack on how science and technology can fight climate change. With better air conditioning, more whale poop, souped-u...

Save the Planet! Part 5: Do Over?

Publication Date: 2017-08-01

This is part of our five-episode pack on how science and technology can fight climate change. With better air conditioning, more whale poop, souped-u...

Escape From Yahoo!

Publication Date: 2017-07-25

Manoush has a secret tech shame: a Yahoo email address. Even with the (three) hacks, the company's sale to Verizon, and its plummeting cool factor, s...

Your Mailman Is a Drug Dealer. He Just Doesn’t Know It.

Publication Date: 2017-07-18

The Dark Web conjures images of gothic fonts and black backgrounds, like a metal fan’s MySpace page circa 2001. But this section of the internet look...

To Post or Not To Post: Take Our (Quick) Surveys

Publication Date: 2017-07-11

Do your parents post pictures of you? Or did they when you were younger? Do you post pictures of your kid? We want to better understa...

Should We Post Photos of Our Kids Online?

Publication Date: 2017-07-11

There’s David after the dentist. The BBC interview crashers. The Charlie bit my finger kid. That hero girl blanking Snow White. To say nothing of the...

When Was the Last Time You Peed Without Your Phone?

Publication Date: 2017-07-04

Yeah, it’s been a while for us too. So after a long weekend of photo sharing, music streaming, and group texts, let’s reset. It’s the Bored and Brill...

We’ve Gained So Much With the iPhone. What Have We Lost?

Publication Date: 2017-06-27

Think back to June 2007. Taylor Swift had released her first single, Barack Obama was running a long-shot campaign for the presidency, and the iPhone...

We See Ourselves in Black Mirror

Publication Date: 2017-06-20

Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones are the surprisingly funny minds behind Black Mirror, the binge-watch of choice for dystopian techies. (Besides CSP...

Father's Day Bonus: Dad As the Lead Parent

Publication Date: 2017-06-17

This Father's Day, a surprise. You may remember our award winning series Taking the Lead, which we dropped into your feeds last month in celebration...

What Sen. Wyden Does When He’s Not Questioning Comey or Sessions

Publication Date: 2017-06-13

When Ron Wyden got to Congress, Oregon was known for its wood products and the Internet was a series of tubes. Now, things are a little more complica...

Preview: Sen. Ron Wyden of the Senate Intelligence Committee

Publication Date: 2017-06-08

Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which today is hearing testimony from former FBI Director James Comey. And just a...

Meet the Humans Who Protect Your Eyes

Publication Date: 2017-06-06

Rochelle LaPlante works on contract as a content moderator. She’s seen basically every kind of image you can imagine. All the boring, normal stuff - ...

What We Learned from Grandpa’s FBI File

Publication Date: 2017-05-30

Daniel Aaron was the grandfather of our senior producer, Kat Aaron. He was a historian, a writer… and apparently a suspected communist. At least acco...

Ed Snowden Says a 'Very Very Dark Future' Is Not Inevitable

Publication Date: 2017-05-16

With all the news of leaks, national security, and hacking destabilizing the world, who better to talk to than Ed Snowden? Manoush sat down with him—...

Wait, What IS Reality? We Investigate.

Publication Date: 2017-05-15

You know that feeling, maybe in college - you’re suuuper chilled out, maybe chemically-assisted, and you’re like, how do we know we’re even in the sa...

Taking the Lead Episode 1: The Pain Point

Publication Date: 2017-05-13

This Mother's Day, a surprise. For all you working mothers balancing deadlines and diapers, ambition and your (lovely) children, we're re-releasing a...

Taking the Lead Episode 2: The Paradox

Publication Date: 2017-05-13

This Mother's Day, a surprise. For all you working mothers balancing deadlines and diapers, ambition and your (lovely) children, we're re-releasing a...

Taking the Lead Episode 3: The Pressure

Publication Date: 2017-05-13

This Mother's Day, a surprise. For all you working mothers balancing deadlines and diapers, ambition and your (lovely) children, we're re-releasing a...

Taking the Lead Episode 4: The Partnership

Publication Date: 2017-05-13

This Mother's Day, a surprise. For all you working mothers balancing deadlines and bake sales, ambition and your (lovely) children, we're re-releasin...

Why Are So Many Bots Following Manoush?

Publication Date: 2017-05-09

Every day, Manoush is getting dozens of new followers on Twitter. Sometimes hundreds a day. And every new follower is the same. Generic user name, no...

Parents Just Don’t Understand, Tech Edition

Publication Date: 2017-05-02

Mom sends a group text… to all four of her boyfriends. Another listener's mom sends the crying-laughing emoji - after their neighbor died. Stories of...

AI Learns from Us. So It Learns Bias.

Publication Date: 2017-04-25

Got a mole on your arm? Soon, an app will soon be able to screen it for cancer. That salad you ate yesterday may have been screened by a LettuceBot, ...

Revealing Selfies. Not Like That.

Publication Date: 2017-04-18

We asked you guys to send us photos. We got a photo of a woman on the beach. A giant fish statue. Teeth. Yes, really. We gave them to Andreas Weigen...

Spring Cleaning for the Mind

Publication Date: 2017-04-11

There is a lot to take in in our world right now. And there are a lot of ways to do it. You can read articles posted by your Facebook friends, or by ...

Cucked: Defining Manhood the Alt-Right Way

Publication Date: 2017-04-04

This week, the very ancient roots of a very modern word. Racist, sexist roots. And how this revolting word bubbled up from the dark corners of 4chan ...

Deep-Dark-Data-Driven Politics

Publication Date: 2017-03-28

Data mining is nothing new in presidential campaigns. But in 2016, the Trump team took voter research to a new level. They hired consultants called C...

The Man Who Invented Facebook Ad Tracking Is Not Sorry

Publication Date: 2017-03-21

It’s one thing to get fired. It’s another thing to be escorted out by security. And another thing altogether to have your boss call while you’re sitt...

Government Secrets Worth Leaking... or Keeping?

Publication Date: 2017-03-14

So, the C.I.A. has a back door to your phone. At least, according to the Vault 7 data dump from WikiLeaks. The documents—as yet unproven—say that if ...

What We Know About "Vault 7"

Publication Date: 2017-03-08

Maybe you’ve heard, some big news hit the privacy world on Tuesday. WikiLeaks, the organization behind the DNC leak last year, released a tr...

Will You Do a Snapchat Streak With Me?

Publication Date: 2017-03-07

If you are between the ages of 18 and 34, there’s a good chance you’ve already checked Snapchat today. This week, Manoush joins you—despite her reser...

Zapping Your Brain To Bliss

Publication Date: 2017-02-28

At Manoush’s house, there’s an object the size of a big potato chip. Which she stuck to her forehead, and used to zap her brain. This brain stimulati...

Can Your Phone Make You Better In Bed?

Publication Date: 2017-02-21

When Graceann Bennett got married, she and her husband were terrible at communicating about sex. They were both virgins. They didn’t know how to expl...

Privacy, Data Survivalism and a New Tech Ethics

Publication Date: 2017-02-20

There are different approaches to digital privacy. Technologist and entrepreneur Anil Dash tries to flood the Internet with information about himself...

Privacy Paradox: Results Show

Publication Date: 2017-02-14

This week, the results are in. Tens of thousands of people joined the Privacy Paradox challenge. And it changed you. Before the project, we asked if ...

The Privacy Paradox Tip Sheet

Publication Date: 2017-02-09

Many of you told us that the Privacy Paradox challenges freaked you out. But you were happy to take b...

Day 5: Your Personal Terms of Service

Publication Date: 2017-02-09

You've made it. It's final chapter of the 5-day Privacy Paradox challenges. We hear from the one and only Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Wo...

Day 4: Fifteen Minutes of Anonymity

Publication Date: 2017-02-08

In this episode, we hear from Elan Gale, executive producer of the Bachelor. Yes, that Bachelor, THE reality show, with a single guy, in a mansion, s...

Day 3: Something To Hide

Publication Date: 2017-02-07

In this episode, we hear from Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford professor of philosophy and ethics of information. In 2014, he was appointed as G...

Day 2: The Search For Your Identity

Publication Date: 2017-02-06

In this episode, we hear from Joseph Turow, professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He’s studied the marketing and advertising ...

Day 1: What Your Phone Knows

Publication Date: 2017-02-05

What does your phone know about you? And what can you do about it? Welcome to the first day of our week-long series of podcasts and action-steps desi...

The Privacy Paradox: FAQ

Publication Date: 2017-01-29

Hello! If you don't see an answer to your question here, you can get in touch at notetoself@wnyc.org. We'll read all your emails and respond a...

Introducing: The Privacy Paradox

Publication Date: 2017-01-29

We've heard so many stories from you, listeners. You love the convenience of living online. But you want more control over where your personal inform...

Saving Big Data From Itself

Publication Date: 2017-01-24

In a room at The MIT Media Lab, you can find the dreamscape of small children everywhere. Giant cities, in perfect detail, constructed entirely from ...

The Bookie, The Phone Booth, and The FBI

Publication Date: 2017-01-17

This week, Note to Self gets in our time machine, back to the court cases that brought privacy from the founding fathers to Google Docs. Stories of b...

The Four Tendencies: How to Feed Good Habits

Publication Date: 2017-01-10

See more friends. Take more walks. Read more books. Get more sleep. Why don’t those intentions stick? You want to change. But it doesn’t seem to take...

New Year. Same Old You.

Publication Date: 2017-01-03

New year, new you. That’s the idea, right? And 2016 in particular left a lot of people extra-eager to start fresh. One problem. Our fitbits and apps ...

Go Ahead. Miss Out.

Publication Date: 2016-12-27

It's cold. Bed is so tempting. As is your sofa. But the siren song of your phone is calling you. According to Instagram and Facebook, every single pe...

Messages From the Beyond

Publication Date: 2016-12-20

Ginger Johnson is battling cancer. She’s also preparing her digital legacy. Ginger has three amazing children, and she wants to stay in their lives, ...

Meet the Textalyzer... and Our Next Big Project

Publication Date: 2016-12-13

We've been measuring drunk driving for years. Since the Drunk-o-Meter was invented back in the '30s. But now, it's distracted driving that's killing ...

Distracted Is the New Drunk

Publication Date: 2016-12-06

When Mothers Against Drunk Driving was founded in 1980, an estimated 25,000 people were killed in drunk driving crashes each year in the U.S. Then Fr...

Tech Under Trump

Publication Date: 2016-11-29

For Hillary Clinton, that private email server was an Achilles heel. For Donald Trump, late night tweet-storms and the echo chamber of the so-called ...

Shaking Up Your Echo Chamber. For Democracy.

Publication Date: 2016-11-28

What does it really take to put more diversity - however you define it - into your news feeds? We tend to click on things we agree with already. It m...

Your Facebook Friend Said Something Racist: Thanksgiving Edition

Publication Date: 2016-11-22

Thanksgiving is here. The holidays are right around the corner. And with politics on everyone’s minds, dinner table conversations can feel like a min...

Drop Your Phone, Make Your Bed, Says Gretchen Rubin

Publication Date: 2016-11-15

It’s time to figure out how to be online in this post-election world. Note to Self listeners are wondering how we can stay well-informed without simu...

A Post-Election Note to You

Publication Date: 2016-11-08

We're all processing this election together. We want to create a nurturing, constructive space to do that. Please take a minute and listen to Manoush...

Do You Really Want to Live Forever?

Publication Date: 2016-11-07

You probably didn't vote for him, but Zoltan Istvan has been on a two-year quest to merge politics with the scientific and technological movement cal...

Mindfulness on Demand

Publication Date: 2016-11-01

Mindfulness is quite the buzzword these days. Especially within Silicon Valley, where many tech workers have been known to seek out guidance and spir...

Come and Sit with Marina Abramović

Publication Date: 2016-10-25

Legendary performance artist, Marina Abramović, got more than 750,000 people to slow down and wait in line at MoMA just to sit at a table across from...

Bonus: Marina Abramović’s Method Blew Our Minds

Publication Date: 2016-10-24

Artist Marina Abramović – the woman famous for staring into a record-breaking number of people's eyes at MoMA, letting an audience point a gun at her...

"The Problem of Caring" by Kim Brooks

Publication Date: 2016-10-19

The following essay was written for our episode, "If My Body is a Text," which explores how to absorb and address the flood of images, vide...

"Letter Beginning, 'If My Body is a Text'" by Kiki Petrosino

Publication Date: 2016-10-19

The following poem was written for our episode, "If My Body is a Text," which explores how to absorb and address the flood of images,...

If My Body is a Text

Publication Date: 2016-10-18

This episode features new writing from both Kim Brooks and Kiki Petrosino. Find Kim's essay, "The Problem of Caring" here, and find the poem Kiki w...

When Silicon Valley Takes on Elementary School

Publication Date: 2016-10-11

"We have an opportunity to do what we want - choose our path instead of the teachers making a choice for us." Meet Piper, a blond, freckled 9-year...

Facing Our Weirdest Selves

Publication Date: 2016-10-04

Life is made up of gestures, sayings, emotions, and sounds. Note them one by one and you see them as individual elements, granular aspects of our day...

Digging Into Facebook's File on You

Publication Date: 2016-09-27

Algorithms operate everywhere in our daily lives. Using the information we give them, they're constantly learning about who we are and what we're mor...

Bonus: Chelsea Clinton Talks Global Equality and Breastfeeding

Publication Date: 2016-09-25

Who is probably the only person in the world who can talk about technology and global equality, breastfeeding, and how her kids’ Grandpa used to be p...

The Secret to Making Video Games Good for You

Publication Date: 2016-09-20

Video games are the new self-help, and Jane McGonigal is here to tell us why. She's an all around gaming boss (see here and here) and she's the direc...

There Is No 'Off the Record'

Publication Date: 2016-09-13

Come along with us... into the future. A place where there is a written record of everything you've said-- ever. We're calling it the transcribed li...

Sext Education: Teens, Photos, and the Law

Publication Date: 2016-09-06

It's tough being a teenager these days. This week, we head to Fayetteville, North Carolina where high school star quarterback, Cormega Copening, face...

Blind Kids, Touchscreen Phones, and the End of Braille?

Publication Date: 2016-08-30

The Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired is stocked with all kinds of gadgets: singing calculators, talking typewriters, even video games...

The Thing About Texts From Your Ex

Publication Date: 2016-08-23

"You go, 'Damn, just it’s not my crazy person... it’s everyone’s crazy person!'" – Elan Gale, creator of Texts From Your Ex, Tinder Nightmares, Uns...

Should We Post Pictures of Our Children Online?

Publication Date: 2016-08-16

According to the internet security company AVG, 92% of children in the U.S. have a digital presence by the time they turn two. But a University of Mi...

The One Thing You Can Actually Do to Fight Surveillance

Publication Date: 2016-08-09

Reading this right now? Congratulations. You're winning. Yes, all of the usual corporate and government entities know you're here. Google remembers ...

Is My Phone Listening in On Me?

Publication Date: 2016-08-02

Do we need to be worried about our phones tracking our every move? Because it sure seems like they are. Walter Kirn wants you to know that you're NOT...

Taking the Lead Bonus: Andrew Moravcsik

Publication Date: 2016-07-26

We just wrapped up our four-part series "Taking the Lead." It’s about two Brooklyn moms turned entrepreneurs with a big idea to revolutionize caret...

Taking the Lead Episode 4: The Partnership

Publication Date: 2016-07-25

It all comes down to this — we’ve arrived at the fourth and final episode of our month-long series about women and work: "Taking the Lead." And the...

Taking the Lead Episode 3: The Pressure

Publication Date: 2016-07-19

Rachael Ellison and Leslie Ali Walker are two Brooklyn moms and the co-founders of Need/Done, a digital platform with a feminist mission to help more...

Taking the Lead Episode 2: The Paradox

Publication Date: 2016-07-12

Rachael Ellison and Leslie Ali Walker are two working moms who hatched the idea for Need/...

10 Stellar Work/Life Balance Pick-Me-Ups (And Counting)

Publication Date: 2016-07-05

All this month, we're covering motherhood, entrepreneurship and work/life balance with our series

Taking the Lead Episode 1: The Pain Point

Publication Date: 2016-07-05

Welcome to a very special month of Note to Self. For the next four weeks, we're telling the story of two Brooklyn women,

Introducing: Taking the Lead

Publication Date: 2016-06-29

Get ready to meet Rachael and Leslie, two working mothers in Brooklyn, who have a big idea (a tech idea) to help women "have it all."

Bored and Brilliant: BOOT CAMP 2016

Publication Date: 2016-06-28

Bored and Brilliant is back. This time, with a special announcement: The

A Beginner's Guide to International Tech Etiquette

Publication Date: 2016-06-21

You might personally aspire to leave work at the workplace, but in some parts of Europe there is actual

What Happens When We Skimm the News

Publication Date: 2016-06-14

Think about where you go to find news. Podcasts? WNYC? The New York Times? Facebook? Twitter? Newsletters? Do you want us to stop asking questions? W...

Infomagical: BOOTCAMP

Publication Date: 2016-06-07

You haven't watched Lemonade all the way through yet, have you? Oh, you didn't notice the extra twist of the knife in Sunday's Game of Thrones? Yes,...

When To Stop Looking for a Better Date or Restaurant

Publication Date: 2016-05-31

Last week Brian Christian, co-author of the book "Algorithms to Live By," taught us how algorithms can optimize how we live. They can help explain ...

6 Algorithms That Can Improve Your Life

Publication Date: 2016-05-24

There's been a lot of negative press lately about algorithms (Facebook, Snapchat, the prison system). But this week we're exploring ways that mathema...

Sexiness, Social Media and Teenage Girls

Publication Date: 2016-05-17

Girls who grow up with the Internet hear a lot of messed up cultural messages. They're led to believe that if they post sexy pictures, and get a lot ...

The Realities of Virtual Reality

Publication Date: 2016-05-10

We have a confession to make... Virtual Reality? Oculus Rift? HTC Vive? Haven’t really given any of them much thought. We’re fascinated enough by, yo...

What Happens to the Videos No One Watches

Publication Date: 2016-05-03

Here's the thing about social media; it's supposed to be social. Right there in the name. And yet, across the Internet there are millions of public v...

A Grand Introduction to the Lonely Web

Publication Date: 2016-05-02

10 Great Podcast Episodes Hosted by Women

Publication Date: 2016-04-27

We're obsessed with getting more female voices in our podcast feeds. Thanks to your many recommendations over the past few weeks, we've c...

Eye in the Sky

Publication Date: 2016-04-26

There are two sides to every surveillance story. On one side, security; on the other, privacy. Ross McNutt is an innovator in the field. During the I...

A Magnificent List of 111 Female-Hosted Podcasts (And Counting)

Publication Date: 2016-04-19

Listen up: On last week's show we made the case that...

The Puppet Masters Behind Online Shopping

Publication Date: 2016-04-19

Here are some things that we've had to come to terms with about the Internet: People watch us when we shop online; They collect data about our like...

40 Female Podcast Hosts Who Deserve Your Ears

Publication Date: 2016-04-14

Note: We weren't lying about updating this list. Check out

Two Dope Queens on Feminism

Publication Date: 2016-04-12

We have a theory: Listening to female-hosted podcasts is a feminist act. You, right now, if you listen to this show, you are making a feminist stat...

Creating a Super-Human You with Dave Asprey

Publication Date: 2016-04-05

Welcome to Note to Self Cafe. Would you like cream and sugar with your coffee? How about... butter? We're on a mission to try and change our...

Forget Edibles: Getting High on Wearables

Publication Date: 2016-03-29

If you could, would you boost that mushy thing inside your head? Seems like a no-brainer. (Get it?) Two weeks ago, Note to Self lau...

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

Publication Date: 2016-03-22

The debate over whether the government can access your phone is here. Hello! You've probably been following along, but in case you need the ...

Your Quantified Body, Your Quantified Self

Publication Date: 2016-03-15

One of the fastest-growing sectors of the tech industry involves turning all of the little details about our health into quantifiable data points. ...

Why You Feel More Productive But the Economy Isn’t

Publication Date: 2016-03-08

You, friend, are productive. You work at all hours of the day and well into the night. Thank goodness for the email app on your phone that allows y...

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

Publication Date: 2016-03-01

We know, you use your phones everywhere. At work. When you're with your kids. Underneath the table. In the bathroom (admit it – and special thanks ...

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

Publication Date: 2016-02-23

How much would it take for someone to hack your life? And really, how worried do you actually need to be? For most of us, this question stay...

We Tried to 'Hack' Our Diets. We Totally Failed.

Publication Date: 2016-02-16

On this week's episode of Note to Self, host Manoush Zomorodi and executive producer Jen Poyant team up with The Sporkful's Dan Pashman to try to c...

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

Publication Date: 2016-02-09

Let's start with a quick recap: More than 25,000 people signed up for Infomagical, our project designed to make information overload di...

Infomagical Challenge 5: Magical Life

Publication Date: 2016-02-04

Infomagical Challenge 4: Magical Connection

Publication Date: 2016-02-03

This is Challenge Four of Note to Self's Infomagical project. To learn more and sign up, visit

Infomagical Challenge 3: Magical Brain

Publication Date: 2016-02-02

This is Challenge Three of Note to Self's Infomagical project. To learn more and sign up, visit

Infomagical Challenge 2: Magical Phone

Publication Date: 2016-02-01

This is Challenge Two of Note to Self's Infomagical project. To learn more, sign up, or catch up on

Infomagical Challenge 1: Magical Day

Publication Date: 2016-01-31

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Infomagical Emoji

Publication Date: 2016-01-27

So you've listened to "The Case for Infomagical,"

The Case for Infomagical

Publication Date: 2016-01-24

Here at Note to Self, we endorse using technology mindfully, thoughtfully, and not necessarily all the time. That said, we’re more concerned with a...

Infomagical: An FAQ

Publication Date: 2016-01-19

Hello! If you don't see an answer to your question here, you can get in touch at notetoself@wnyc.org. We'll read all of them and respond as be...

When FOMO Meets JOMO

Publication Date: 2016-01-19

If you haven't heard of FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) by now... well, no fear. There are

An Apology to Our Listeners. Because Two Dots.

Publication Date: 2016-01-12

Looking for our information overload survey? Take it here – ...

A Neuroscientist’s Guide to Getting Organized

Publication Date: 2016-01-05

If you had to guess, how many facts have you taken in today? How many factoids, dates, times, sale alerts, tweet-sized factoids, and other factual-...

Listen to Your Voicemail

Publication Date: 2015-12-29

To close out 2015, we want to leave you the way we started it: with one of

Why You Should Care About LEGO and Creativity

Publication Date: 2015-12-22

This week, we're re-airing an episode that might make you think twice before buying that LEGO kit gift for the kid in your life. As we learned, sti...

More Than 50 Newsletters You'll Actually Be Glad to See in Your Inbox

Publication Date: 2015-12-22

We're newsletter superfans. Like, can't-get-enough-should-probably-stop-subscribing-but-is-there-such-thing-as-too-many-newsletters(?) superf...

5 Links We Would GChat You If We Were Friends

Publication Date: 2015-12-15

Note: Want to see the list of newsletters we like that Manoush mentions in this week's podcast? Find it in the

Marina Abramović’s Method Blew Our Minds

Publication Date: 2015-12-08

Artist Marina Abramović – the woman famous for staring into a record-breaking number of people's eyes at the MOMA, letting an audience

On Wexting and Other Woes

Publication Date: 2015-12-01

In a world where it is considered appropriate to leave your phone

Video: The Ultimate Texting Challenge

Publication Date: 2015-12-01

Walking and texting: You've seen it. You've done it. You've probably also eaten and texted. You've talked and texted. You've pulled...

So Your Facebook Friend Said Something Racist. Again.

Publication Date: 2015-11-24

A few weeks ago, we did an episode on how to get a b...

Why We Take So Many Pictures

Publication Date: 2015-11-17

A few weeks ago, we challenged you all to tackle that dreaded item on your to-do ...

The Line Between Hoarding and Clutter

Publication Date: 2015-11-17

Quick Explainer: Encryption Apps and the Paris Attacks

Publication Date: 2015-11-16

European officials believe encryption software was instrumental in allowing the Paris attackers to coordinate their actions in secret. Manoush

When a School Has a Sexting Scandal

Publication Date: 2015-11-10

Last week, Cañon City, Colorado discovered that dozens of students at the local high school had been taking and trading nude photographs "li...

Is My Phone Eavesdropping On Me?

Publication Date: 2015-11-03

This is the latest installment of "Question of Note," in which we take a listener's question — your question! — and find just the right the p...

It's Time to Deal With Your Photo Clutter

Publication Date: 2015-10-27

A few months ago, we sent out a survey on a topic that appears to be the bane of many listeners'...

How to Shake Up Your Echo Chamber

Publication Date: 2015-10-20

This is the latest installment of "Question of Note," in which we take a listener's question — your question! — and find just the right the p...

Can You Have a Whole Relationship Through Texts?

Publication Date: 2015-10-13

We know text messages can be crazy. We know they can be

BONUS: 'Even a Silent Phone Disconnects Us' - Sherry Turkle

Publication Date: 2015-10-12

Sherry Turkle has spent the past 30 years studying the psychology of the relationship between people and technology — how giant techno...

WiFi, Cancer, and Paranoia

Publication Date: 2015-10-06

...before you go there, are you wearing sunscreen? Excerising?

Why Google 'Thought' This Black Woman Was a Gorilla

Publication Date: 2015-09-29

This is a story about an incident that happened to 22-year-old freelance web developer Jacky Alciné, the racist slur that caught him off-guar...

Using Ad Blockers: Your Opinions

Publication Date: 2015-09-29

Should we use ad blockers to protect our privacy and peace of mind online, even if it means taking money away from publishers that depend on ad rev...

The Ad Blocker's Dilemma: Sell Your Soul or Destroy the Internet

Publication Date: 2015-09-22

The Internet runs on advertising. Everyone from huge tech companies to scrappy start-up websites rely on ads. There's just one problem: Peop...

Why Texts From Your Ex Is a Thing

Publication Date: 2015-09-15

"You go, 'Damn, just it’s not my crazy person... it’s everyone’s crazy person!'" – Elan Gale, creator of

Why Online Shoppers See Different Prices for the Same Item

Publication Date: 2015-09-08

This is the latest installment of "Question of Note," in which we take a listener's question — your question! — and find just the right the p...

9 Things We Learned About Phones From a Teenager (Reprise)

Publication Date: 2015-09-01

Classrooms in 2015 are full of gadgets, apps and devices that their teachers (let alone parents), did not grow up using themselves. Kids learning o...

Stop Going on Bad Dates

Publication Date: 2015-08-25

This is the latest installment of "Question of Note," in which we take a listener's question — your question! — and find just the right the p...

LEGO Kits and Your Creative Soul

Publication Date: 2015-08-18

Should you take web development classes? Or poetry writing? Is it more important to think like an engineer, or an artist? Turns out the answ...

Posting Baby Pictures Online: Your Opinions

Publication Date: 2015-08-18

Last week, Manoush sat down with The Longest Shortest Time's Hillary Frank and Note to Self's Jen Poyant to talk about the even-bigger-than-we'd-an...

Should You Post Pictures of Your Kids Online?

Publication Date: 2015-08-11

This is the latest installment of "Question of Note," in which we take a listener's question — your question! — and find just the right the p...

This is Your Brain On Online Shopping

Publication Date: 2015-08-04

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

QoN: What is Our Attention Actually Worth?

Publication Date: 2015-07-28

Welcome to week three of our new segment "Question of Note," in which we take a listener's question — your question!

Bored and Brilliant: BOOT CAMP

Publication Date: 2015-07-21

We know, we're starting to sound like the Jane Fonda of tech. Go with it.

QoN: How to Write Now?

Publication Date: 2015-07-14

Welcome to week two of our new segment "Question of Note," in which we take a listener's question — your question! —

11 Great Books About (More Than) Technology

Publication Date: 2015-07-14

We've spent a lot of time over the past few weeks talking about reading and writing. Is focusing more difficult when you have to cull through dozen...

Would You Go?

Publication Date: 2015-07-07

Space tourism costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and you pee in a bag.

QofN: How Do I Find Quiet Space Online?

Publication Date: 2015-06-30

This week, we're debuting a new segment called Question of Note. Every other week, we'll take a listener's question -- your question! -- and fi...

Wevorce: What Divorce by Algorithm Means for Marriage

Publication Date: 2015-06-23

When two people get married, the story can usually write itself: vows, a commitment, the promise of forever.

Stingrays: The Conspiracy Theorist Who Was Right All Along

Publication Date: 2015-06-18

Meet the Stingray, the secret police tool that can invade your cell phone.

There's Just Something About Paper

Publication Date: 2015-06-09

Reading on a screen is different from reading a book, and your brain can tell. This week, we've got an update on one of our

Judging Your Originality in a Cut and Paste World

Publication Date: 2015-06-02

Welcome to the only site on the whole World Wide Web with the words: “They were friends forever and lived happily ever after." At least, the...

Meet Crystal: The Internet Algorithm that Sees Your Into Your Soul

Publication Date: 2015-05-26

To introduce our new name — Note to Self — we've decide...

Welcome to Note to Self: Our New Name

Publication Date: 2015-05-25

Hello friends, Consider this a big cyber squeeze and thank you! After reading through all of your thoughtful suggestions and feedback, we’re...

Update: How Eating Disorders Evolved Online

Publication Date: 2015-05-19

Last fall, we ve...

Yes, You’re Distracted. Is it ADHD?

Publication Date: 2015-05-12

Diagnosed with Adult ADHD: A Tech Executive’s Dilemma

'Am I Trans?': One Teen’s Quest and How Gaming Helped

Publication Date: 2015-05-05

This week, we bring you a story of video games and gender. Turns out, despite all of the angst, they can be be an inviting place for a very v...

Google's Head of HR on Growth-Hacking Gender Equality at Work

Publication Date: 2015-04-28

Note from the New Tech City team: Hello! As you'll hear above,

Apple Knows You're Sick of Your Phone

Publication Date: 2015-04-21

So They Made a Watch Instead.

Here’s What Watson Actually Does (And: Cooked Avocado?)

Publication Date: 2015-04-14

Special thanks this week to The Sporkful's Dan Pashman and Anne Noyes Saini. Check out

Kids and Tech Finale: 3 Core Principles

Publication Date: 2015-04-07

Core principles for parenting, teaching, and talking to kids in a digital world

Half the Teachers in America Use One App to Track Kids

Publication Date: 2015-03-31

This story is part of New Tech City's series on education and technology...

Blind Kids, Touchscreen Phones, and the End of Braille?

Publication Date: 2015-03-24

This story is part of New Tech City's series on education and technology...

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

Publication Date: 2015-03-17

What to ask when your school says "the iPads are coming!"

Tweens and Tech: Our Guide to Getting Them to Open Up

Publication Date: 2015-03-10

This story is part of New Tech City's series on education and technology...

Bruce Schneier says There's One Way To Actually Fight the Surveillance Machine

Publication Date: 2015-03-03

Stop feeling guilty about skimming the Terms of Service. Get mad instead.

Ethical Questions for Your Inner Couch Potato

Publication Date: 2015-02-24

Watching TV — especially when it isn’t, strictly speaking, on TV — has gotten complicated. It’s not just “sho...

Bored and Brilliant, The Personal Stories

Publication Date: 2015-02-17

Last week, we gave you some numbers. But numbers don't tell the whole story — or, in fact, any

Bored and Brilliant, We Got Bored

Publication Date: 2015-02-10

We changed our phone habits, opened our minds to day-dreaming, and it felt good. Here's what the experts had to say about our data.

Bored and Brilliant Challenge 6: Dream House

Publication Date: 2015-02-06

It's time to get really bored and make something creative. You might just learn something about yourself with this challenge designed by artist Nin...

Bored and Brilliant Challenge 5: One Small Observation

Publication Date: 2015-02-05

For today's challenge, we want you to take note of one person, object, or interesting, uninventable detail you would have missed if your nose were ...

Bored and Brilliant Challenge 4: Take a Fauxcation

Publication Date: 2015-02-04

Your instructions: Craft an away-message like “I’m out, taking an intensive sushi making class! Wasabi fingers so no phone for me today!" Put it u...

Bored and Brilliant Challenge 3: Delete That App

Publication Date: 2015-02-03

Your instructions for today: Delete that app. And listen in as our favorite casual cell phone video gamer confronts the designer of her worst addic...

Bored and Brilliant Challenge 2: Photo-Free Day

Publication Date: 2015-02-02

We take 10 billion (yes, that's a "b") photos per year, mostly on our phones. Today, we want you to start seeing the world through your eyes, not...

Bored and Brilliant Challenge 1: In Your Pocket

Publication Date: 2015-02-01

Your instructions: As you move from place to place, keep your phone in your pocket, out of your direct line of sight. Better yet, keep it in your b...

Bored and Brilliant, Early Findings

Publication Date: 2015-01-27

Prepare for our week of Bored and Brilliant challenges with a peek at the data we're gathering on how much you use your phone and what you want to ...

A Smartphone and Its Teenager

Publication Date: 2015-01-20

"Hello, this is Grace from Westchester. I am 16-year-old girl. I have an iPhone 4 and I am going to record my activities for the next few days."

Bored and Brilliant, The Beginning

Publication Date: 2015-01-11

Minds need to wander to reach full potential, and all that time on your phone might be getting in the way. We're here to help with a big project ca...

Seriously, Listen to Your Voicemail

Publication Date: 2015-01-06

Find a 20-something, a 30-something and a 40-something. If you’re feeling especially experimental, add in a 70-something and a teenage...

Tales of Real Life Tech Addiction

Publication Date: 2014-12-30

This week, an encore of one of our favorite New Tech City episodes ever: The tale of David Joerg, self-professed tech addict.

Screens Really are a Nightmare for Sleep

Publication Date: 2014-12-23

May we suggest a holiday activity for the family? Sleep. Without screens. Get a lot of it. New research

Look How Cute this Military Cyber Warfare Training Ground Is

Publication Date: 2014-12-16

Somewhere hidden in the sleepy suburbs of New Jersey, there is a very small town. This all-American village boasts good public transit, its own res...

Your Facebook Friend Said Something Racist. Now What?

Publication Date: 2014-12-09

In this week's show, we offer a humble helping hand through a messy digital dilemma. Your Facebook feed has become the new town square. The...

What to Do When Robots Replace People You Work With

Publication Date: 2014-12-02

What are you willing to automate in your life? How much robot will you accept? This week, Manoush goes on a journey to find out what she's ...

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

Publication Date: 2014-11-25

Imagine a world where everyone could have a personal assistant to schedule meetings for them. Checking in with your team? Ask for it by next Friday...

Varsity Video Gamers

Publication Date: 2014-11-18

Yes, you can get a college scholarship for playing video games. So what's it like? E-athletes practice five hours a day in a specially outfitted ro...

Video Games Meet Middle Age Emotions

Publication Date: 2014-11-11

The first crop of video gamers are facing middle age with no plans to put down the controller. So the games have to grow up too. Expect less blood ...

Pajama Volunteers: The Digital Front of Disaster Response

Publication Date: 2014-11-04

Cries for help are hidden by the chatter of chaos. Vital updates are lost in the noise. In the crucial days after a natural disaster, information i...

EXTRA: Bill Binney and Ladar Levison Talk Cryptography

Publication Date: 2014-10-28

This is the raw interview used in our episode "

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

Publication Date: 2014-10-28

Ed Snowden is not alone. And we're not talking about how his girlfriend has

Containing Ebola Like They Did in This Video Game

Publication Date: 2014-10-21

Public health officials need to be able to predict how outbreaks like Ebola spread and grow. But that's not so easy. Mainly because it requires kno...

Space Tourism Gets Sweetly Personal for These Two Strong Lady Travelers

Publication Date: 2014-10-14

One woman mortgaged her home to buy a ticket to space. Another decided never to have children so she could accept an opportunity for space travel a...

BONUS TRACK: How Twitter Has Changed Nonfiction

Publication Date: 2014-10-11

Fluffly and indulgent as they might be the tiny dispatches and status updates of social media are a narrative gold mine for writers. Nonfiction wri...

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

Publication Date: 2014-10-07

In a world of screens, parents face some tough questions: To limit or not to limit? By how much and when? How different is Candy Crush from Codeaca...

Killer Robots + Ancient Rules of War = Trouble

Publication Date: 2014-09-30

Can replacing human soldiers with robot warriors save lives and make war more humane? We try to find out in this episode. But as we learn, the laws...

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

Publication Date: 2014-09-23

Is your favorite band really playing live when you go see them? Not so much. This isn't about Milli Vanilli. It's about something artists love call...

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

Publication Date: 2014-09-16

Paper or screen? There's a battle in your brain. The more you read on screens, the more your brain adapts to the "non-linear" kind of reading we ...

The View from Inside the Glass Cube

Publication Date: 2014-09-09

Intimate, exhausting, stressful, and satisfying... working in the Apple Store is far from an ordinary retail job. Especially this week. With Apple-man...

Ana and Mia: How Eating Disorders Evolved Online

Publication Date: 2014-09-02

Pro Ana. My friend Mia. Thinspiration. If you know these terms, you are familiar with one of the dark corners of the internet where vulnerable peop...

How to Be Smarter than Facebook

Publication Date: 2014-08-26

Habits are powerful. Tech companies know that. It's no accident we reach for our phones

Learning To Code and Losing My Mind (Reprise)

Publication Date: 2014-08-19

Coding is not for everybody. We admit it. But we should all take at least a peek under the hood of the computers and devices that power our lives. ...

Me and My Girlfriend Texted Only in Emoji for a Month

Publication Date: 2014-08-12

Face it, Emoji is here to stay. Texting is visual, and images can enhance how we talk. But, will it also change the content of what we say to each ...

The Way Colleges Teach Computer Science Hurts Women

Publication Date: 2014-08-05

Only 12 percent of computer science majors are women. That's appalling. It's a shame, a waste and many other nasty words. But it is not hopeless.

Three Award-Winning Stories

Publication Date: 2014-07-29

Three award-winning stories packed into one episode. This week New Tech City is bringing you updates on three short shows we did in the past year that...

Mining Your Voice for Hidden Feelings and Company Profits

Publication Date: 2014-07-22

There is a perfect tone of voice according to Dan Emodi. And he believes his technology can pinpoint it for you. This is the second of two episodes a...

Dissecting Voices to Find the Hidden Call For Help

Publication Date: 2014-07-15

Amber Smith's voice is a symptom of illness and an alarm for looming danger, even if she doesn't always hear it herself. Amber has bipolar disorder an...

Digital Mail vs U.S. Postal Service

Publication Date: 2014-07-08

This plan went way beyond email. The small startup Outbox had done its homework on the role mail plays in ...

Mindy Kaling, Girly Girls, and the Future of Tech

Publication Date: 2014-07-01

The 'get girls interested in coding' push is growing from techie pet project to mainstream movement. Now it has a celebrity spokesperson. A very girly...

The Flip Side of The Right to Be Forgotten

Publication Date: 2014-06-24

Our brains are wired to forget. The internet, not so much. That mismatch is a risk to our humanity. Now that the the European Court has ruled that th...

The Bus of the Future Will Catch You

Publication Date: 2014-06-17

Matt George runs a new bus company that doesn't own buses. And he's making some big promises. He says his company

Your Posture May Change Your Math Skills

Publication Date: 2014-06-10

Can kids beat back fear of math by striking a power pose? We explore the process of actually putting a TED talk into practice, in this case, through a...

It's Time to Start Talking About Robot Morals

Publication Date: 2014-06-03

Computer programmers are injecting machines with consciousness and the power of thought. It's time we stop and ask, 'which thoughts?' In this episode ...

Hi, I’m David, and I’m a Digital Addict

Publication Date: 2014-05-27

David Joerg has a problem and he knows it. Until a few months ago his nights would go something like this: He'd put his daughters to bed. He'd wait fo...

The 'Home of the Future' Will Save the Planet... and Drive You Crazy

Publication Date: 2014-05-20

There's a neighborhood in Austin, Texas where the refrigerators tell stories. The roofs are paved in solar panels. There are more electric cars per ca...

How to Record a Voice Memo

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Technology can be the absolute best thing. There was the wheel, the ceiling fan, the

Passive Aggressive Emails. Thanks in Advance.

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Is there such a thing as a perfect email? Last week, we

What the Internet Thinks it Knows About Your Favorite Public Radio Hosts

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Imagine if everyone who wrote you an email could see into the deepest core of your personality.Yeah, it's not that far a...

Help us Rename New Tech City

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Hello friends, I've got some exciting (and kind of nerve-...

Listeners: So Many Ways to Cook an Avocado

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Last week on our podcast, IBM's super computer Watson played the role of chef-whisperer for us. It got a little weird. He/she/it

A Glossary of Useful Ed Tech Terms

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There are a lot of buzzwords in education technology — including the phrase "educa...

A Classroom Activity for Tweens and Teens Everywhere

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This story is part of New Tech City's series on education and technology...

'Whoa!': Hear the 'High Maintenance' Star's Moving Reaction to His Own Show

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When we stripped away the visuals and just listened to this scene from the webseries "High Maintenance," wherein two characters discuss a s...

Bored and Brilliant: The Winning Dream Houses

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Artist Nina Katchadourian's picks her favorite entries in our creative challenge.

Counting Your Phone Time Isn't Easy

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A Q&A with the makers of our partner apps Moment and BreakFree

Bored and Brilliant Apple Users, Don’t Be Smug

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A note about our data.