Can We Keep Time?

How to Know What’s Real

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Education, Self-improvement, Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

It can be tough to face our own mortality. Keeping diaries, posting to social media, and taking photos are all tools that can help to minimize the discomfort that comes with realizing we have limited time on Earth. But how exactly does documenting our lives impact how we live and remember them? In this episode, diarist and author Sarah Manguso reflects on the benefits and limitations of keeping track of time, and Charan Ranganath, a professor of psychology and researcher at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience, discusses what research reveals about how memories work and how we can better keep time. Write to us at [email protected]. Music by Rob Smierciak (“Slow Money, Guitar Time, Ambient Time”), Corinne Sperens (“Dichotomy”), Felix Johansson Carne (“Headless”), Martin Gauffin (“The Time”), and Dylan Sittss (“On the Fritz”). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What happens now? How will I cope? How will I cope?
0:06.0	Sometimes you don't want to talk about cancer, the people you know.
0:10.0	You just want to talk to someone who knows how you feel.
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0:17.8	We know what it's like because we're living with cancer too.
0:22.2	And whatever's on your mind, we're here to help.
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0:30.0	Spark your creativity with the Sims. Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative
0:37.0	and you have to go in search of your creative spark again.
0:40.0	Maybe this is catching up with creative friends, experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe.
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0:51.0	Ready to spark something. Download The Sims 4 and play for free. You know, Ian, whenever someone asks me to get in there be real, I'm always like, what, what is that?
1:07.5	What's happening? What are we doing? Why are we doing this? Do we need to do this? I am not very social media savvy so they have to give me a break.
1:15.4	You're talking about the app right that this this app that asks people to like post a
1:19.8	photo from both the front and rear cameras on their phone and like you get a
1:23.9	coordinated message in your friend group to take your be real photos.
1:26.7	Yes and I've heard that everyone on the app like takes a photo at the same moment in time
1:31.6	at the same time. time.
1:33.0	Yeah, that's how I understand.
1:34.0	I'm curious if that's like across time zones.
1:35.6	I don't know.
1:36.6	Very interesting.
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