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An NPR Life Kit episode on the science of finding lost objects, featuring a cognitive psychologist, a metal-detecting enthusiast, and a private investigator — techniques include relaxing to widen your attentional "spotlight," identifying an object's distinctive features, recreating how it was likely lost, scanning unexpected places and angles the way search-and-rescue teams do, and running a systematic grid search as a last resort.
Hadley Wickham shares his non-work uses of Claude, from game and gift recommendations to kitchen improvisation, pronunciation guides, file renaming, and a hobby project turning scans of old books into browsable web apps.
NPR's Life Kit talks with Manoush Zomorodi (TED Radio Hour host, author of Body Electric) about infomania: how to spot information overload (eye twitching, poor concentration, self-interruption), set information goals instead of aimless browsing, time-box to minimize task-switching, and use short walks to restore glucose-depleted focus.