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Unhack Your Smartphone
Keep your relationship with your device healthy and mindful by turning it into an ally rather than an adversary. Here are three easy smartphone-addiction hacks.
Just Say No to Children’s Screen Time
Why Silicon Valley tech execs limit their own children’s screen time.
Does Too Much Screen Time Cause Tunnel Vision?
As our habitual focus has narrowed to small screens, our brains have acclimated to that limited view, resulting in a dulled capacity for seeing beyond a limited perceptual field.
15 Ways to Outsmart Your Smartphone
Here are tips to avoid being sucked into digital life — and to embrace real life.
How Can I Excuse Myself from Group Text Messages?
There are a variety of polite ways to deal with excessive group messaging, says an expert.
The Living Experiment: Astroturfing
When powerful industries and political interests push fake “grassroots” movements, real people suffer. Here’s how to resist internet trolls.
The Health Risks of Tech Addiction
Here are four ways digital devices undermine your health and wellbeing.
How to Break Free of Tech Addiction
Learn how to regain control of your devices so they don’t control you.
Creative Inspiration: Manoush Zomorodi
Journalist Manoush Zomorodi shows how exchanging your smartphone for moments of discomfort can boost creativity.
Do Smartphones Undermine Short-Term Memory?
The research around smartphones and memory is complicated, but many studies have shown that writing things down improves comprehension.
How Can I Get My Partner To Put Their Cellphone Down?
Expert tips on how to create a phone-free zone in your relationship.
How Screen Time Messes With Your Sleep: Q&A With Tiffany Lester, MD
The medical director of Parsley Health shares her tips on developing a healthy relationship with digital devices — and reclaiming your sleep.
Virtual Shift
Editor in chief Jamie Martin on turning off her email — and reconnecting with her family.
8 Tips to Deal With Cyberbullying
Here are a few simple ways to handle the stress of online drama.
Are Smartphones Causing Thumb Tendonitis?
As smartphone usage grows, more and more people are finding it to be a pain.
The Anxiety of After-Hours Email
In an always-on-call culture, researchers argue for pulling the plug on business-related connectivity outside of office hours to improve employee productivity and well-being — and France passes the first right-to-disconnect law.
Paging Dr. Google: How to Alleviate Online Medical Information Overwhelm
Medical information on the Internet can easily create confusion and anxiety. Richard Senelick, MD, neurologist and author, offers strategies to calm consumers of online health advice.
5 Ways to Ease Digital Eyestrain
The time you spend staring at your screen is taxing for your eyes. Here’s how you can take the edge off.
Like This: A Facebook Break
Taking a vacation from Facebook may reduce your stress and boost your happiness.
5 Ways You’re Smarter Than Your Smartphone
These handheld wonders can make life easier — but is easier always better? Learn why it’s worth the time and effort to take back a few basic tasks.
Why Face-to-Face Connections Matter to Your Health
When our social lives unfold largely in the digital realm, it can damage our relationships and health in surprising ways. Discover why face-to-face connections count.