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Speaker 1: Welcome to How Stuff Works Now. I'm your host, Lauren

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Speaker 1: voc Obaum, a researcher and writer. Here at How Stuff Works.

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Speaker 1: Every week, I'm bringing you three stories from our team

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Speaker 1: about the weird and wondrous developments we've seen in science,

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Speaker 1: technology and culture. This week, we've got a couple stories

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Speaker 1: about what our tech can do for us. A free

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Speaker 1: chat bought service has reportedly gotten a hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: thousand people out of unfair parking tagures and unrelated A

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Speaker 1: man has married his smartphone. But first senior writer and

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Speaker 1: Stuff to Blow your Mind, co host Robert Lamb brings

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Speaker 1: us the story of exactly how hard moving is on children.

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Speaker 1: A comprehensive Danish studies drawn correlations between moving during adolescence

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Speaker 1: and increased risk of psychiatric illness, suicide, and unnatural death.

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Speaker 1: Later on, We're not talking about a self reporting Internet

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Speaker 1: survey here or a forty person college campus study. Since

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Speaker 1: Denmark keeps careful track of all residential changes, researchers from

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Speaker 1: our hust University and the UK's University of Manchester were

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Speaker 1: able to crunch data on everyone born in Denmark from

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy one to nine. We're talking one point four

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Speaker 1: million people each track from birth to their fifteenth birthday.

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Speaker 1: Thirty seven percent of the individuals studied here moved across

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Speaker 1: a municipal boundary at least once before the age of fifteen.

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Speaker 1: In two thousand thirteen, the researchers followed up with the

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Speaker 1: people involved here to see how these moves wound up

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Speaker 1: influencing their susceptibility to attempted suicide, criminal violence, psychiatric illness,

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Speaker 1: substance misuse, and natural and unnatural death. The study found

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Speaker 1: that individuals who moved frequently during early adolescence were at

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Speaker 1: the highest risk for all of these adverse outcomes. The

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Speaker 1: more moves, the greater the risk, with multiple moves within

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Speaker 1: a single year linked to sharp increases in violence, attempted suicide,

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Speaker 1: substance misuse, and unnatural death. The authors point out that

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Speaker 1: parental age, urbanization, hereditary mental illness, and socio economic status

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Speaker 1: partially explains some of the elevated risks, and yet socio

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Speaker 1: economic standing alone did not prove as prevalent and indicators

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Speaker 1: initially expected the overall increase in risk applied to all

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Speaker 1: levels of the socio economic spectrum. Perhaps you can relate

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Speaker 1: to this so I mean when you're a child, moving

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Speaker 1: as kind of a many apocalypse in which the seemingly

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Speaker 1: fixed pillars of your environment fall away and that peer

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Speaker 1: group that you're hardwired to infiltrate just vanishes into the midst.

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Speaker 1: Adjusting to new places and new faces can be an

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Speaker 1: uphill battle. But our moves intrinsically harmful to a child.

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Speaker 1: That's the big lingering question in the wake of this study,

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Speaker 1: which was published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine.

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Speaker 1: As always, more research is required, but regardless of the answer,

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Speaker 1: the researchers drive home one important lesson here. Parents and

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Speaker 1: educational or health professionals who underestimate the psychological needs are

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Speaker 1: relocated adolescent do so at great risk to the child's

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Speaker 1: well being. Next up, senior writer and forward thinking how

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Speaker 1: host Jonathan Strickland explains how a nineteen year old programmer

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Speaker 1: has created chatbot software that can do real, practical good.

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Speaker 1: It's currently bent to helping people resolve parking tickets, but

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Speaker 1: he's got big plans. Chat Bots are usually annoying. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's trying to fool you into visiting a site that

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Speaker 1: will dump malware on your computer, or some company is

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Speaker 1: relying upon a chatbot to take the place of a

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Speaker 1: human customer service representative. But what if a chatbot could

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Speaker 1: help you overturn an unfair parking ticket. That's what Joshua

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Speaker 1: Browder's chatbot can do. Browder attends Stanford University and has

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Speaker 1: a history with parking tickets, having racked up about thirty

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Speaker 1: of them when he was eighteen and living in London.

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Speaker 1: Browder's services called do Not Pay, and it's surprisingly effective.

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Speaker 1: The service only comes London and New York City, but

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Speaker 1: people have already used it in two hundred fifty thousand

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Speaker 1: parking ticket cases. In one hundred sixty thousand of those cases,

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Speaker 1: courts overturned the ticket. According to Browder, that's the success

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Speaker 1: rate of sixty Browder says the savings to users amounts

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Speaker 1: to four million dollars. The chatbot isn't a get out

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Speaker 1: of jail free card. Though Browder wanted to prevent local

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Speaker 1: governments from treating parking tickets as a revenue source, he

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Speaker 1: didn't intend it to be a tool to help the

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Speaker 1: guilty go free. If you want to use it to

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Speaker 1: contest a ticket, you first must answer a series of

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Speaker 1: questions to see if you're eligible. With the new York version.

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Speaker 1: The first question is which of these best describes why

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Speaker 1: you shouldn't receive a parking ticket. Answers range from I

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Speaker 1: entered the incorrect date on a permit to the vehicle

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Speaker 1: questions to narrow down the approach. Do not Pay will

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Speaker 1: generate the appropriate paperwork on your behalf. The service also

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Speaker 1: provides suggestions to contest certain types of tickets. For example,

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Speaker 1: if you claim the signage was absent, obstructed, or confusing,

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Speaker 1: do not Pay suggests you include pictures to support your case.

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Speaker 1: What Browder's work illustrates is that contesting a parking ticket,

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Speaker 1: while frustrating and time consuming, is relatively straightforward if you

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Speaker 1: know what you're doing, and unlike a lawyer, do not

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Speaker 1: Pay helps people for free. Browder plans to expand do

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Speaker 1: not Pay to other cities. The service can also help

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Speaker 1: to create other automated systems to help more people, including

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Speaker 1: one that would allow Syrian refugees to apply for asylum

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Speaker 1: in other nations. Finally, today, senior writer and stuff mom

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Speaker 1: never told you co host Christine Conger explores the perhaps

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Speaker 1: odd sounding world of people who make artistic gestures and

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Speaker 1: romantic gestures toy to the objects in our lives. Aaron

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Speaker 1: Sarvinik is truly living the dream of Walking Phoenix's character

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Speaker 1: in the futuristic romantic drama t Her. On May twenty,

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Speaker 1: Shervinick married his smartphone at the Little Las Vegas Chapel.

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Speaker 1: While Shervinick didn't disclose his phone's brand or operating system,

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Speaker 1: he assigned it a female gender, taking her as his

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Speaker 1: battery operated bride. Speaking to Caspersky Lab, which produced a

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Speaker 1: video profiling the happy couple, Shervinick explained, quote, if we're

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Speaker 1: going to be honest with ourselves, we connect with our

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Speaker 1: phones on so many emotional levels. We looked to it

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Speaker 1: for solace, to calm us down, to put us to sleep,

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Speaker 1: to ease our minds, and to me, that's also what

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Speaker 1: a relationship is about. I mean, why risk inevitable rejection

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Speaker 1: on tender when your smartphone can keep you company unconditionally.

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Speaker 1: The state of Nevada won't legally recognize the union, but

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Speaker 1: Shervinicks says it's a quote symbolic gesture to show us

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Speaker 1: how precious our phones are becoming in our daily lives.

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Speaker 1: For some folks, though, publicly committing to an inanimate object

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Speaker 1: is a genuine expression of love and even attraction. In

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Speaker 1: the early nineteen seventies, a Swedish woman named aa Ritta

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Speaker 1: eklof Berlin or Mauer coined the term objective sexuality to

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Speaker 1: describe her attraction to non living things. Then in nine

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Speaker 1: she married the Berlin Wall. Thanks to the Internet, Miss

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Speaker 1: Berlin or Mauer found others who shared her peculiar passion.

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Speaker 1: One of those folks was Erica LaBrie, who legally renamed

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Speaker 1: herself Erika Eiffel after marrying the Eiffel Tower in two

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Speaker 1: thousand seven, also the founder of the online support group

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Speaker 1: Objective Sexuality Internacionale. Mrs Eiffel became the most publicly visible

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Speaker 1: member of the objectifile community after being the subject of

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Speaker 1: the twelve documentary Married to Theffel Tower. But the Eiffel

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Speaker 1: Tower hasn't been the only structure to catch objective phili

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Speaker 1: eric as I prior to or two thousand seven commitment ceremony,

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Speaker 1: her archery bow. As of miss Eiffel had reluctantly moved

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Speaker 1: She then tentatively began dating a crane as in the machine,

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Speaker 1: not the bird. Clinical sexologists have documented objective sexuality among

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Speaker 1: both women and men, although scant data exists to quantify

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Speaker 1: just how many objective files exists around the world. That's

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