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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, profe...

In 2021 Dr. Kiran Rabheru, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Ottawa and a geriatric psychiatrist, found himself at the center o...

In the next 10 years, our society will become more old than young. How do we leverage this time to build stronger intergenerational connecti...

Food trends are constantly changing, so can people commit to a long-term nutrition practice? Kera Nyemb-Diop says yes. She is a nutrition sc...

We don’t often talk about the benefits of aging. Dr.Karen Adams has a different perspective. From new beginnings to menopausal zest, the dir...

Humans have always tried to prolong life and battle mortality, but what do the current influx of biohackers reveal about this era of individ...

Our scientific understanding of the aging process may be expanding, but is our cultural thinking about aging keeping up? In the new season o...

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,...

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,...

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 spac...

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,...

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,...

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,...

Peter Pomerantsev, a contributor at The Atlantic and author of This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, is an expert o...

With digital spaces regularly evolving and updating, and the infinite scroll beckoning to us at all times, this episode questions if we have...

Games can serve as an escape from reality—but they can also shape our understanding of trust, collaboration, and what might be possible IRL....

With smartphones in our pockets and doorbell cameras cheaply available, our relationship with video as a form of proof is evolving. We often...

This episode explores the web’s effects on our brains and how narrative, repetition, and even a focus on replaying memories can muddy our ab...

While the vibrance, innovation, and cacophony of online life can feel completely unlike anything humanity has ever created before, its newne...

Social media has made it easier to build more parasocial relationships with celebrities and influencers. What impact are those connections h...

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...

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 minimi...

Time can feel like a subjective experience—different at different points in our lives. It’s also a real, measurable thing. The universe may...

Between making time for work, family, friends, exercise, chores, shopping—the list goes on and on—it can feel like a huge accomplishment to...

Before laptops allowed us to take the office home and smartphones could light up with notifications at any hour, work time and “life” time h...

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...

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...

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 u...

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 y...

The values of individualism that encourage us to go it alone are in constant tension with the desire for community that many people crave. B...

Are commitment issues impacting our ability to connect with the people who live around us? Relationship building may involve a commitment to...

What motivated two families to engage in the organized chaos of shared living and how did they learn to talk through, and shape, new expecta...

The terms of friendship are both voluntary and vague—yet people often find themselves disappointed by unmet expectations. In this episode of...

Coffee shops, churches, libraries, and concert venues are all shared spaces where mingling can take place. Yet the hustle and bustle of mode...

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 relation...

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 peo...

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 concl...

We often follow a misguided formula for happiness—pushing us toward material wealth and other worldly successes. But when our expectations s...

The mandates of modern parenting can be dizzying. But in the effort to optimize our parenting, we may lose sight of the values we hope to im...

From how we build our cities to how we shop, it can seem as though our natural human tendency is to add. But a culture of accumulation may b...

We try to use our time wisely—both at work and in leisure—but we often waste it. We may blame work for stripping us of recreation, but when...

Dating apps show us what we want—a relationship—without always accurately reflecting the experience of it. Our expectation that tech will cr...

When the behaviors we thought would make us happy don’t, we’re forced to bridge the gap between where we are and where we want to be. But ou...

In our pursuit of a happy life, we build, we structure, and we plan. Often, we follow conventional wisdom and strategize. But what happens w...

When we regret our past, it can feel like we’re incapable of changing our future. But it may be our past “mistakes” that help us realize the...

In the post-social-distancing era, some of us can’t remember how to make a new friend. But for many, making friends has always been a challe...

Romantic relationships often show us the deep divide between expectations and reality. For any relationship struggling to overcome conflict,...

In a society dominated by romantic couples, it can be hard to accept your unpartnered state for what it is. But for the “single at heart,” t...

Some families have the frictionless ease of unconditional love and understanding, but for many the stalemate of family tensions can be insur...

A professional change in midlife can provide a much-needed reset—at least when you’re looking for a career that more closely aligns with you...
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