Episodes 59
Avg. Duration 35m
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Since Sep 2021
Latest Episode May 2025

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The science around aging is expanding but are our cultural narratives keeping up?

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S8E6 How to Age Up on a Warming Planet

May 12, 2025 41m

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, professor and chair of environmental studies at Cal Poly…

S8E5 How to Define Old Age

May 05, 2025 31m

In 2021 Dr. Kiran Rabheru, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Ottawa and a geriatric psychiatrist, found himself at the center of a medical debate. The World Health Organization wanted to…

S8E4 How to Age Up Together

Apr 28, 2025 36m

In the next 10 years, our society will become more old than young. How do we leverage this time to build stronger intergenerational connections? Eunice Nichols, the co-CEO of CoGenerate, has spent…

S8E3 How to Fuel Up

Apr 21, 2025 36m

Food trends are constantly changing, so can people commit to a long-term nutrition practice? Kera Nyemb-Diop says yes. She is a nutrition scientist focused on breaking down the “rules” of what people…

S8E2 How to Wish You Were 66 Instead of 35

Apr 14, 2025 39m

We don’t often talk about the benefits of aging. Dr.Karen Adams has a different perspective. From new beginnings to menopausal zest, the director of the Stanford Program in Menopause & Healthy…

S8E1 How to Defy Death

Apr 07, 2025 39m

Humans have always tried to prolong life and battle mortality, but what do the current influx of biohackers reveal about this era of individual responsibility? Timothy Caulfield, a professor and the…

S8 Introducing: How to Age Up

Mar 10, 2025 2m Trailer

Our scientific understanding of the aging process may be expanding, but is our cultural thinking about aging keeping up? In the new season of The Atlantic’s popular How To series, co-hosts Yasmin…

S7E6 Best of “How To”: Make Small Talk

Dec 30, 2024 38m

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, and finding meaning in our hectic lives. This episode is…

S7E5 Best of “How To”: Identify What You Enjoy

Dec 23, 2024 43m

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, and finding meaning in our hectic lives. This episode,…

S7E4 Best of “How To”: Waste Time

Dec 16, 2024 35m

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 space, and finding meaning in our hectic lives. This episode,…

S7E3 Best of “How To”: The Infrastructure of Community

Dec 09, 2024 41m

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, and finding meaning in our hectic lives. This episode,…

S7E2 Best of “How To”: Rest

Dec 02, 2024 35m

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, and finding meaning in our hectic lives. This episode,…

S7E1 Best of “How To”: Spend Time on What You Value

Nov 25, 2024 34m

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, and finding meaning in our hectic lives. This first…

S6E7 How to Know What's Real: How to Know What’s Really Propaganda

Sep 04, 2024 23m Bonus

Peter Pomerantsev, a contributor at The Atlantic and author of This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, is an expert on the ways information can be manipulated. For this special…

S6E6 How to Know What's Real: How to be Immortal Online

Jun 17, 2024 37m

With digital spaces regularly evolving and updating, and the infinite scroll beckoning to us at all times, this episode questions if we have, as a culture, fully embraced the end of endings. Hanna…

S6E5 How to Know What's Real: How to Win at Real Life

Jun 10, 2024 32m

Games can serve as an escape from reality—but they can also shape our understanding of trust, collaboration, and what might be possible IRL. Megan Garber talks with C. Thi Nguyen, an associate…

S6E4 How to Know What's Real: How to Keep Watch

Jun 03, 2024 28m

With smartphones in our pockets and doorbell cameras cheaply available, our relationship with video as a form of proof is evolving. We often say “pics or it didn’t happen!”—but meanwhile, there’s…

S6E3 How to Know What's Real: How to Trust Your Brain Online

May 27, 2024 33m

This episode explores the web’s effects on our brains and how narrative, repetition, and even a focus on replaying memories can muddy our ability to separate fact from fiction. How do we come to…

S6E2 How to Know What's Real: How to Live in a Digital City

May 20, 2024 28m

While the vibrance, innovation, and cacophony of online life can feel completely unlike anything humanity has ever created before, its newness isn’t wholly unprecedented. Humans reckoned with many…

S6E1 How to Know What's Real: How to Know Who’s Real

May 13, 2024 28m

Social media has made it easier to build more parasocial relationships with celebrities and influencers. What impact are those connections having on our relationships IRL? And how do they shift our…

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