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Apr 2021
41m 47s

Is Zoom Giving Us Body Dysmorphia?

CBC
About this episode
We now have to spend hours looking at our faces in screens. The result? A noticeable uptick in plastic surgery, injectables, veneers... basically, all the ways we can change our faces. Is this reality here to stay? Plus: Netflix, baby, what is you doing? Why are these the top movies? Is the problem the algorithm? Or is it... us? 
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