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Jun 2024
59m 11s

Phones Are Good, Actually with Taylor Lo...

Sarah Marshall
About this episode

This week, Taylor Lorenz fights our latest moral panic. Are phones really making kids anxious, or are kids just good at noticing what's going on? 

Listen to Taylor's podcast, Power User 

Read Taylor in the Washington Post 

...and her book, Extremely Online

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https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/power-user-with-taylor-lorenz
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https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Extremely-Online/Taylor-Lorenz/9781982146863

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