How to Touch Grass

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About How to Touch Grass

It may be time to rethink our relationships with our devices.

Season 9, Episode 5

What It Takes to Reclaim Your Attention Span

On a cream background in the middle of the image are green swirls hand-drawn like loops of grass. In the center of the frame is a black-and-white photo of a woman with her knee propped up. The woman is reading a book on the train. Her mobile phone sits on a table in front of her, next to a bookmark.

Season 9, Episode 4

Why Learn Something That a Machine Can Do for You?

On a cream background a line of green curls hand drawn move across the page, like an illustration of grass. In the middle is a black and white photo of a brain with some strange stretches and glitches in the image.

Season 9, Episode 3

The Internet Is More Image-Focused Than Ever

On a cream colored background there are green loops hand drawn across the middle resembling grass. In the center is a black and white photo of a woman holding a small round hand mirror. We are looking over her shoulder. In the mirror is her face looking back at us. She has a slight smile and dark lipstick. Her fingernails are also painted a dark color.

Season 9, Episode 2

How AI Could Make People More Anxious

On a cream-colored background, green hand drawn loops look like grass, in the middle is a black and white photo of a woman holding her phone above her head on a pillow.

Season 9, Episode 1

The Power of Pre-Internet Nostalgia

On a cream-colored background with green loops that look like hand-drawn grass is a black-and-white photo of three girls in the backseat of a car. One is drinking out of a juice box, one is holding up a paper map, and the other is listening to music on an iPod with headphones.

Season 9, Trailer

Introducing How To Touch Grass

A cream colored background has hand drawn green looping grass illustrations and over the top are two black and white photographs of the co-hosts of the show. One white woman with straight blond hair wears a v-neck blouse and a blazer and the other white woman, slightly younger, has long brown straight hair and wears a scarf and stares into the camera.

Season 8, Episode 6

How to Age Up on a Warming Planet

A black-and-white photo shows three hikers sitting on a mountain with backpacks on. They are looking out to the horizon.

Season 8, Episode 5

How to Define Old Age

A black and white photo shows a white couple siting in folding chairs on the beach, facing one another and sharing the shade of a single umbrella.

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