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Longing for a Time Before Smartphones

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Gen Z has romanticized the technology of the ’90s—or the era’s lack of it. Young people long for a time when they were looking at one another instead of at their phones. But could that nostalgia for a smartphone-free society actually help guide the future? That’s one of the driving questions in the latest season of How to Touch Grass, co-hosted by Julie Beck and Natalie Brennan. This week on Radio Atlantic, we’re sharing the first episode, with an introduction by Hanna Rosin. The following is a transcript of the episode: Hanna Rosin: I’m Hanna Rosin. This is Radio Atlantic. Do I remember a time before I had a smartphone? Of course I do. [Music] Long dinners with friends, nothing buzzing or pinging. Standing in line with nothing to do but think, and stare. Reading an entire book in two days. And then back to when I was a teenager: telling my friends that I liked or maybe didn’t like their new …

Longing For A 'Nestcation'? The Travel Trend 1 In 4 Parents Regret Not Trying

Published by Sam Flores

<img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6a4428501800001c264548da.jpg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Would you head on a nestcation before the kids leave home?" data-caption="Would you head on a nestcation before the kids leave home?" data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="Photo by Kevin Delvecchio on Unsplash” />Would you head on a nestcation before the kids leave home? Almost two-thirds (62%) of parents say the ‘nestcation’ – or the family holiday taken together before children fly the nest – deserves to be recognised as a milestone in the same way as honeymoons or retirement trips. In fact, one quarter of parents (25%) who have children aged 18-24 said they wished they’d taken a nestcation with their adult kids before they left home, according to a survey of 2,000 people by travel firm Kuoni. In the past five years, more than a quarter (27%) of family holiday bookings through the company have qualified as nestcations – so it’s clearly something parents are thinking a lot about. Data from the firm shows bookings for families travelling with 16- to 25-year-olds peaked in 2022-23, up 55% on the prior year, as families made the most of post-pandemic …

Babies – the new drama exploring the invisible grief and multiplying longing of pregnancy loss

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter As is customary for actors auditioning to play people in love, Paapa Essiedu and Siobhán Cullen underwent a chemistry test. But the scene was not a flirty meet-cute or a moment of intimate tenderness. Instead, says Essiedu, “It was this big and long, quite horrible argument – and that’s how they wanted to see how well we got on.” Seeing the two of them fight would serve as an apt litmus test for Babies, the new BBC drama in which Essiedu, 35, and Cullen, 36, play a couple whose relationship is rocked by a series of crushing miscarriages. “It’s a good scene because not only are they arguing but they’re doing a whole lot of work to try not to hurt each other,” says Cullen. “That’s how couples argue, right? You land the punches, but there’s also a way of couching …

Nostalgic Longing for Childhood | Blog of the APA

Published by Jenni Sidey

Within popular culture, literature, television, and film, nostalgia is often (if not invariably) associated with childhood. From Proust to Tarkovsky up to modern outputs such as the Duffer Brothers’ Stranger Things and J. J. Abrams’s Super 8, childhood is presented as the site of boundless adventure and infinite pleasure. But what does it mean to be nostalgic for one’s childhood? Generally, we tend to respond to this question with recourse to memory and remembering. Yet while nostalgia is often thought of as a variant of remembering, identifying exactly what role memory plays in nostalgia is far from obvious for a number of reasons. In the first case, the past that presents itself in nostalgia is seldom—if indeed ever—the past as it was actually experienced. When I remember something from the past, then, generally speaking, this past is presented as a discrete event that has its basis in a veridical reality. Nostalgia, by contrast, is not motivated by the cognitive recollection of a past that is grounded in a supposedly actual reality. Rather, nostalgia tends to …

Longing for My Tehran | Orly Noy

Published by José Betancourt

Since the outbreak of the current war between Israel and Iran—much like during the previous one last summer—I have been sought after for interviews by foreign media. An Iranian-born pro-Palestinian Israeli political activist is, it seems, a highly desirable commodity. Some want me to explain the Israeli position, others the Iranian one, still others to hear about the attitudes of the Jewish Iranian community in Israel. I find myself repeating the same answers over and over. I cannot explain these positions, I say, since I find them difficult to understand myself. Nothing about this war makes much sense to me. During one interview I was asked whether I thought my parents had made a mistake when they left Iran following the 1979 revolution. The question astonished me, not because I found it offensive but because I have been asking it myself for so many years. Now, as I watch my homeland go up in flames, it echoes in my mind more loudly than ever. My family and I left Iran in January 1979, on the …

January blues? Longing for an escape to the sun? Perfect timing for criminals to cash in | Money

Published by Sam Flores

You are battling the January blues and see a cheap deal on one of your socials for a two-week break in Spain during August. Better still, the price is £200 cheaper than elsewhere, possibly because the holiday is almost sold out. When you text to confirm the details after making the payment, you are talked through the booking by a convincing contact. Unfortunately, that will be the last you hear from the travel agent as they are criminals, and the advertisement was a fake set up to lure you in. January is one of three months during the year – June and July being the others – when scammers ramp up their efforts to defraud people planning summer and winter breaks. This time of year is traditionally when holiday companies see a rush of bookings as people crave something to look forward to after Christmas. Jim Winters, head of economic crime at Nationwide, says the building society sees a pick up in holiday scams at this time of year. Typically, people are drawn in by …

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