It turns out humming offers many health benefits. The benefits include: relief from stress and anxiety, decrease in heart rate, increase in lymphatic circulation, increase in nasal nitric oxide, and vagus nerve stimulation. A few months ago, I was on a call with one of my favorite neuroscientists. I had been reviewing a set ofContinue reading “Is it Time to Keep a Kazoo Next to Your Computer?”
Yearly Archives: 2024
Screen Apnea: Our Bodies on Personal Technologies
Linda Stone spoke with NPR’s Manoush Zomorodi on a recent episode of Zomorodi’s podcast, Body Electric. Stone coined the terms, “Screen Apnea” and “Email Apnea” in 2008, after noticing she was holding her breath or shallow breathing while working on personal technologies. She looked around, and noticed most people were doing what she was doing:Continue reading “Screen Apnea: Our Bodies on Personal Technologies”
NPR’s The Body Electric Investigates How Personal Technologies Impact Our Bodies
In one of the best series yet on technology and how our bodies and minds are taxed by our current habits, Manoush Zomorodi, interviews a variety of experts. Manoush kicks off the series with a challenge to NPR listeners to join a Columbia University/NPR study. Participants are tasked with getting up and moving for fiveContinue reading “NPR’s The Body Electric Investigates How Personal Technologies Impact Our Bodies”
Linda Stone 