Body Electric

    Our bodies are adapting and changing to meet the demands of the Information Age. What is happening? And what can we do about it? This six-part series is an interactive investigation into the relationship between our technology and our bodies...and how we can fix it.

  • Life Kit: Don't always depend on GPS. Your sense of direction will thank you

  • 5 minute walk & talk: The low-tech gadget to make your breaks better

  • 5 minute move & talk: Taking breaks when walking isn't an option

  • If a bot relationship FEELS real, should we care that it's not?

  • 5 minute MOVE & GROOVE! DJ JP Labrosse will get you off your screen

  • 5 minute walk & talk: Manoush's journey to spend less time on her laptop

  • Type, tap, scroll, BREATHE! How our tech use impacts our breath

  • 5 minute walk & talk: The professor who makes her students jog during sociology class

  • 5 minute walk & talk: Uché Blackstock on how your neighborhood impacts your health

  • Your earbuds and you: What all that listening is doing to us

  • 5 minute walk & talk: Why this listener failed at taking breaks—and her new approach

  • 5 minute walk & talk: Physiologist Keith Diaz hates timers and doesn't count steps

  • 5 minute walk & talk: Writer Kelly Corrigan on making movement breaks productive

  • TED Radio Hour: A More Walkable World

  • Thinking Long-Term: Making Movement a Lifelong Habit

  • What Zoom Does To Our Brains

  • Top 10 Listener Tips To Keep Moving

  • Part 6: Walk Into The Future

  • Part 5: The Mind-Body-Tech Connection

  • Part 4: Below the Belt

  • Part 3: Why Our Eyes Are Elongating

  • Part 2: When Human Met Desk

  • Part 1: The Body Through The Ages

  • What is Body Electric?

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