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Today on the show, we bring you an episode of Short Wave that explains how your phone is designed specifically to hold your attention.<\/p>\n<p>Fact checking by Tyler Jones.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sign up for The Indicator\u2019s brand new newsletter<br \/>\u2014 Buy the Planet Money book<br \/>\u2014 Find our socials, YouTube and more!<br \/>\u2014 For sponsor-free episodes, subscribe to NPR+ <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/?p=3120\">These Wisconsin swing voters say Trump\u2019s war in Iran wasn\u2019t worth it<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You pick up your phone to do one quick task, and suddenly 20 minutes have flown by without you even noticing. How do apps do that to you? Today on the show, we bring you an episode of Short Wave that explains how your phone is designed specifically to hold your attention.<\/p>\n<p>Fact checking by Tyler Jones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connect with The Indicator <\/strong><br \/>\u2014 Sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/npr.org\/indicatornewsletter\"target=\"_blank\"   >The Indicator\u2019s brand new newsletter<\/a><br \/>\u2014 Buy the <a href=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/i3AukBdDWE\"target=\"_blank\"   >Planet Money book<\/a><br \/>\u2014 Find our <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/indicator_npr\"target=\"_blank\"   >socials, YouTube and more<\/a>!<br \/>\u2014 For sponsor-free episodes, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.npr.org\/\"target=\"_blank\"   >subscribe to NPR+<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[816],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-indicator-from-planet-money","tag-science-and-society"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How your phone keeps you scrolling ... even when you want to stop - Best USA Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/?p=3130\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How your phone keeps you scrolling ... even when you want to stop - Best USA Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You pick up your phone to do one quick task, and suddenly 20 minutes have flown by without you even noticing. 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