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Blood Pressure, One of the Keys to Preventive Healthcare
Blood pressure is the pressure of circulating blood against the walls of blood vessels. It is one of our main vital signs and one of the most commonly monitored variables in all types of medical...
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Technology and the Change of Habits
An interesting comment thread in Slashdot, “Slashdot asks: do you (ever) shut down your computer?” provides some insight into how the way we use our devices has changed over time. When, many years ago,...
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3 Reasons Your Kids Need to Listen to Inspirational Content in the Morning
— What is the very first thing you reach for in the morning? Be honest. It’s your smartphone. We all do it. It takes a very disciplined person to not reach for your phone. This is a very dangerous...
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Is Your Smartphone Hurting Your Relationship?
According to a recent Baylor University study, phubbing – or phone snubbing – was found to harm relationships, leaving people less happy and less satisfied overall. Phubbing occurs when someone focuses...
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Tracking Your Every Move
— What are the challenges of connectivity in your culture, your life? Following what you thought was an amicable divorce, you discover that your ex had hidden a GPS device in your automobile and has...
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Your Smartphone Could Be Poisoning Children
— By Elizabeth O’Connell Jardim Kim Gunoo is a 15-year-old South Korean boy who has lived with perpetual diarrhea since birth. His first seven months were spent in and out of the hospital, where four...
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Cough Into My Smartphone
— Author: Nigel Bowen Associate Professor Udantha Abeyratne has led one of those lives that defy simple summary. He describes himself as a Sri Lankan-Australian but shies away from labelling himself a...
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Turn Your Smartphone Into Your Own Personal University
Higher education has never been cheap, but it was an investment that paid for itself handsomely over time. That is why parents spend thousands and thousands of dollars on their kids’ education. The...
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How Is Chess Thriving in the Era of Videogames?
By Gregorio Chess is among the oldest games in the world. It is believed that it originated in its earliest form in India as early as the 6th century and from there on evolved until it reached its...
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Ten Ways To Be More Prolific With Your Smart Phone
You’ve got a brand-new smart phone in your hands. The power and speed of the device now greatly exceeds the computing capabilities that the military was concerned about related to national security...
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How To Deal With Sad Feelings
What is sadness? Sadness is defined as having grief, sorrow, or unhappiness. Sad feelings are also a part of depression and related to other parts of depression including poor self-worth, poor sleep,...
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There’s a Safer, Cleaner Way To Recover Rare-Earth Metals From Old Phones and...
By The Conversation Rare-earth metals are critical to the high-tech society we live in as an essential component of mobile phones, computers and many other everyday devices. But increasing demand and...
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Ways You Can Keep Your Cell Phone Safe
— Robbery and theft are common practices these days. For example, you would be out just minding your business when a snatcher might attack you and steal your phone. Or a thief might slide your phone...
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How To Run a Business From a Mobile Phone
— More than 90% of executives use a smartphone for business. And 10% say that their smartphone is the exclusive device they use day-to-day for decision making, according to a survey from Forbes...
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Your Smartphone Is Hijacking Your Mental Health
We know that cellphones are bad for us. No one feels good about time hunched over a six-inch screen, bathed in blue light. But just because we know our doom-scrolling isn’t doing us any favors,...
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Reinterpreting the Machine
More and more consumer electronics devices, computers, smartphones, etc. now come with additional microprocessors or specific areas within their microprocessor that use machine learning, or, as many...
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6 Simple Hacks to Control Cell Phone Distraction
“Leave the distracted masses to join a focused few” Cal Newport, Deep Work. What’s the best way to control smartphone distractions? We intend to work, but instead proceed to scroll through Instagram...
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Is it a Good Idea to Read Your Kids’ Text Messages?
Do you worry about who your child is texting? Are you worried that they have bad friends, or will be bullied or negatively influenced through texts or online? Do you worry about online predators?...
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How Technology Changed the Lives of Outdoor Adventurers
— Whether you’re a mountaineer, biker, paraglider, rafter, surfer, skier, hiker, trekker, or whatever you love doing outside, you must be perfectly prepared when going in nature. Humans have been...
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There’s No ‘Golden Rule’ for When Kids Should Get Their First Phone
By Erin Digitale-Stanford The study is unusual because it followed a group of more than 250 children for five years during which most of them acquired their first cell phones. Instead of comparing...
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