Screen apnea: What happens to our breath when we type, tap, scroll
In 2007, former Microsoft executive Linda Stone noticed something strange happening every time she'd sit down to answer emails. She was holding her breath. "I would inhale in anticipation, but I wouldn't exhale because so many emails would be streaming in," Stone told Manoush Zomorodi in an interview for NPR's Body Electric. "And this would go on for hours." Stone wondered how common this was and set out to investigate using "kitchen table science," as she called it. She recruited dozens of ...
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