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What shapes our sense of place, our sense of time, and our memory? How is technology changing the way we make sense of the world and of ourselves? For the first time in human history, we're effectively living in two environments at once--the natural and the digital--and many of the traits that help us online don't help us offline, and vice versa. Howard Axelrod explores the human brain's impressive but indiscriminate ability to adapt to its surroundings. The Stars in Our Pockets is a portrait of, as well as a meditation on, what Axelrod comes to think of as inner climate change. Just as we're losing diversity of plant and animal species due to the environmental crisis, so too are we losing the diversity and range of our minds due to changes in our cognitive environment.

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Howard Axelrod is an author and instructor who has taught at Harvard and the University of Arizona and is currently the director of the Creative Writing Program at Loyola University in Chicago. His book The Point of Vanishing was named one of the best books of 2015 by Slate, the Chicago Tribune, and Entropy Magazine and one of the best memoirs of 2015 by Library Journal. His essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, O Magazine, and many other publications. Tom Taylorson earned his bachelor's in theater arts performance and went on to build a reputation as a Chicago-based actor. He has lent his voice to a multitude of television and radio commercials, video games, animation, and audiobooks. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

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