It’s believed that many of us spend seven hours or more in front of screens each day. In 2011, researcher Emmanuel Stamatakis, found that “…even those who exercise can’t overcome the detrimental ef…| Linda Stone
My 1995 main stage TEDTalk from 1995 was on a cassette tape. In those days, only audio was recorded. A friend digitized it and I thought it would be fun to post here. When David Letterman had a lat…| Linda Stone
In 1996, I was working at Microsoft in Seattle and teaching a graduate student seminar at NYU in the Interactive Telecommunications Program. I noticed that at Microsoft, some of my colleagues had t…| Linda Stone
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, an…| Linda Stone
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” …| Linda Stone
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 chal…| Linda Stone
Originally posted by Wade Roush at Xconomy.com in 2014. Linda Stone’s Antidote to “Quantified Self” Tech: The Essential Self The Quantified Self movement emerged in the late 2000s in response to an…| Linda Stone
In 2007, I made some observations and named what I was seeing in a 2008 Huffington Post article. I described a phenomenon I initially called email apnea, and later referred to, interchangeably as e…| Linda Stone
According to James Nestor, the author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, “We get most of our energy from our breath, not from food or drink. Our bodies process about 30 pounds of air every d…| Linda Stone
I don’t know the origin of this story. It was sent to me by Lee Stein. In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “W…| Linda Stone
My blog frequently discusses attention and also embodiment. And these themes play an important role in Sharon Salzberg’s newest book, Real Love. I found this to be a particularly lovely and comfo…| Linda Stone
