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Hey Shortwaveers, Regina Barber here with a very special guest, Manouche Zamorote, the

host of NPR's Ted Radio Hour podcast.

Hey Manouche.

Hey Regina, so Manouche you've got an exciting new series coming out Body Electric.

We do.

It is a special six part interactive series investigating the relationship between our

technology and our bodies and how we can improve it.

That's good because my relationship with technology I think is bad because most days I'm sitting

in my desk, hunched over, staring at my computer screen.

I think you are actually speaking for many of us, which is why historian Vibar Kriegen

read.

One of the researchers I interviewed says that people today have anthropocene bodies.

Yeah, and the idea of an anthropocene body is simply one which is being remade and reshaped

by the anthropocene environment.

So being inside, not getting vitamin D, putting ourselves into position so that we can see

a screen for hours at a time, it's taking a toll.

And our bodies are always trying to be the best bodies that they can be for us.

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