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Episode: Are our phones melting our brains? Or is it just me?
Description: Finding it hard to concentrate? Are you glued to social media for longer than youâd like? Well, maybe itâs not you⌠maybe itâs the phones.
Brittany is joined by Magdalene Taylor, writer, cultural critic and senior editor at Playboy, and Fio Geiran, producer at TED Radio Hour and a writer of their Body Electric newsletter, to discuss this phrase: âitâs the phones.â They get into the effects that smartphones have on our brains and our culture, why some people are returning to âdumbphones,â and why it might take more than willpower to manage our relationships with our phones....