Body Electric: What digital jobs are doing to our bodies

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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TED Radio Hour's Manoush Zamorodi joins us today to talk about her new series Body Electric. It's looking at how the information age is affecting our bodies in negative ways.

Manoush spoke to researchers who say they've found simple solutions that offset the harms of sitting all day. But do those fixes work in the real world – outside of a lab?

For this six-part limited series, NPR is partnering with researchers from Columbia University and maybe... you... to answer that question.

Read more on how to join the study: NPR.org/bodyelectric

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:03.0	Okay, Whalen, talk to me.
0:13.9	Describe how your body feels after a long day at your computer making this show.
0:19.2	Yeah, well, I have pretty bad posture.
0:21.4	So at the end of the day, it's like my back hurts.
0:23.4	I'm also very near-sighted.
0:24.4	I wear corrective lenses, but it's like, you know, my eyes are blurry.
0:28.3	I'm tired.
0:29.3	You know.
0:30.3	Yeah, right.
0:31.3	I mean, me too.
0:32.3	We all feel this way.
0:33.3	Like our screen-filled lives are kind of draining us because I think the cycle of type-tap
0:39.3	collapse is actually a slow moving health crisis and a productivity problem for employers.
0:46.5	Oh, well, you know we love talking productivity and labor and workforce issues on the show
0:51.7	all day long.
0:52.7	Yes, yes, I do know that.
0:54.7	This is the indicator from Planet Money.
0:56.3	I'm Whalen Wong.
0:57.3	To de-on-the-show, our special guest is Manouche, Summer Rody.
1:00.8	Woo-hoo.
1:01.8	Manouche, you host MPR's Ted Radio Hour and you have a new series coming out.
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