What We're Missing, By Missing Strangers Now

Short Wave

English - May 07, 2020 08:00 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 5.7K ratings
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With a lot of us stuck at home, trying to physically distance from each other, one part of daily life has largely disappeared: bumping into strangers. On today's show, Maddie talks with Yowei Shaw, a reporter from NPR's Invisibilia, about the surprising benefits of stranger interactions. And Short Wave tries out QuarantineChat, a workaround to our current strangerless existence.

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