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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.
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How to Create Good Digital Citizens
Right from wrong. We teach our kids what this means in the classroom and at home. But whatabout online? The next generation of tech users could be a part of much more civilized digitaluniverse, but only if they learn how now. Manoush talks
Why Everyone is Talking About Digital Minimalism
Computer scientist and cult-blogger, Cal Newport, wants you to take 30 dates off from all your personal tech. A month off, he claims, is the only way to truly adopt Digital Minimalism, his method for finding tech-life balance and the name o
How The Best Teacher Teaches Creativity
In 2018, Andria Zafirakou was named Global Teacher of the Year and given $1m in prize money. Why?
Note to Self is Back and We Start with The Big One: Kids and Screens
The tech show about being human returns with an all new season. Host Manoush Zomorodi kicks things off with the latest on the battle between kids and parents over their screens: do we know how kids are impacted by tech? Does it make them le
Note to Self is Back!
Note to Self helps you navigate the digital age by making sense of its most undervalued component: humans! With all new episodes coming every Tuesday, host Manoush Zomorodi investigates the very personal role technology plays in our lives a
Rice Bunny: The Me Too Movement Comes to China
This week we’re discussing government censorship in China, #metoo and cryptocurrency. Endless Thread is hosted by Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson, and is made by WBUR.
Dear (Data) Diary
Long-distance friends Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec spent a year tracking the little things in life. Thanks yous, coffees, complaints, street sounds. And each week, they turned their small-scale data collections into whimsical hand-draw
A Different Kind of Streaking
With former Google designer Tristan Harris, who explains how far Silicon Valley will go to capture and control your eyeballs. And Snapchat artist CyreneQ, who makes her living drawing on her phone all day. For real. ------- For the next sev
Your Metadata is Showing
We asked you guys to send us photos. Then we gave them to Andreas Weigend, veteran of Xerox Parc, former chief scientist at Amazon, to see what he could deduce. A lot, it turns out. A little Google image search, a little metadata, and we ca
Whose Bot Army Is Following Manoush?
Generic usernames, no photos, no tweets. This week, we investigate the dozens of mysterious accounts following Manoush on Twitter. Plus, what makes a good bot – and a bad one. ------- For the next several weeks you'll hear the “Best of” Not
The Fourth Amendment Needs Your Attention
This week, the Supreme Court cases that defined privacy for the digital age. Because the founding fathers didn’t write the Bill of Rights with the internet in mind. ------- For the next several weeks you'll hear the “Best of” Note to Self i
Is the Opioid Epidemic a Tech Problem?
We visit the Dark Web, where you can get heroin, fentanyl and oxycontin shipped right to your door. This week, the link between online drug markets and America’s opioid crisis. ------- For the next several weeks you'll hear the “Best of” No
How To Have No Filter
Today, listener stories and tips: we wrap up our No Filter series of conversations about how women live online. From YouTube megastarLele Pons (https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/lele-pons) to iconic artistBarbara Kruger (https://www.wnycstu
No Filter: Jasmyn Lawson
The woman behind some of your favorite gifs takes us to the future. See what being a woman on the web may look like. We couldn’t close out No Filter (https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/notetoself/projects/no-filter), our series on women owni
No Filter: Barbara Kruger
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 Bugbee (https://www.thecut.com/author/Stella%20Bugbee/). If you missed the other episodes of No F
No Filter: Christiane Amanpour
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 contributor Ann Friedman, who almost fell out of her ergonomic chair when she found out she’d
No Filter: Amy Sherald
Her portrait of Michelle Obama went viral. Painter Amy Sherald dismisses the haters. “Some people want their poetry to rhyme.” Plus, Allison P. Davis (http://nymag.com/author/Allison%20P.%20Davis/), Senior Culture Writer at The Cut, on how
No Filter: Trace Lysette
The Transparent star talks to Manoush about the political nude selfie, her #metoo moment, and constructing her self online and IRL. Plus, how her life as a young trans woman prepared her to confront Jeffrey Tambor and live her truth. With N
No Filter: Lele Pons
Every day this week, a new episode of our series, No Filter: Women Owning It Online (https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/notetoself/projects/no-filter), with New York Magazine’s The Cut (https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/introducing-no-filter-a-
Why We Need No Filter
We kick off our new series, No Filter: Women Owning It Online (https://www.wnycstudios.org/series/no-filter), with New York Magazine’s The Cut (https://www.thecut.com/). Because since the #metoo movement, we’re all rethinking what it means
My Digital Revolution
Stories of life online, told live. We teamed up with Generation Women (https://www.generationwomen.us/), a monthly event where women from their 20s to their 80s share stories on a theme. For this episode, the theme is My Digital Revolution.
Am I Normal?
Mona Chalabi, data editor at the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/profile/mona-chalabi), takes the numb out of numbers. She joins Manoush to talk about stats versus stories, how data defines normal, and average testicle size. That one’
What to Think About Before Posting Family Photos
We asked how you share personal photos. Here’s what we learned from your 1,200 (!) answers. Psychologist Guy Winch joins Manoush to untangle our mixed posting emotions. Because our grams are complex. A trans listener is thankful his parents
Have Dating Apps Killed Romance?
Real OKCupid message: “Hi, good evening, nice photos. You are not fat.” It’s rough on dating apps. Can romance survive? Eric Klinenberg (http://www.ericklinenberg.com/) wrote Modern Romance with Aziz Ansari. This week, he joins Manoush to m
Help Us Collect Political Ads on Facebook
Let’s build a database of political Facebook ads. Just in case someone needs to check on them later. Like, say, if the Russians bought thousands of ads to sway an election. Manoush’s privacy girlfriend, ProPublica’s Julia Angwin, is back wi
Meet an Online Emotional Escort
We all need someone to tell (or text) our stories to. Even if they’re paid to text back. This week, Manoush meets an Invisible Girlfriend, (https://invisiblegirlfriend.com/) earning pennies a message to create fake love. And an utterly wond
How to Find the Right Amount of Screen Time
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 better way. Manoush gets the answers from Anya Kamenetz, NPR education correspondent and author
Dear Manoush: The Advice Episode
Is there a secret solution to information overload? Can random accounts ever truly be erased? How do I stay connected if I break up with social media? It’s Manoush’s brain, distilled into actionable pearls of wisdom. Plus, meet the woman be
Dan Harris Knows All Your Excuses for Not Meditating
People have a lot of excuses for not meditating. Eight, in fact. Dan Harris (http://www.10percenthappier.com/dan-harris-books) knows them all. And he can help. ------- Subscribe to our Wednesday morning newsletter (http://wnyc.us5.list-mana
Search Inside Yourself For Peace and Joy
Let’s create some calm as this year ends. It all starts with one deep breath, led by Google employee 107. This week, we revisit Manoush’s lovely interview with Chade-Meng Tan, who retired at 44 to meditate and search for world peace. Becaus
