For sure if you’re a fly… quite possibly if you’re a human.
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Excerpted from Fast Company …
You probably already know that staring at the blue light beaming from a smartphone or computer screen might damage your eyesight.
Here’s some worse news…
A new study suggests that long exposure to blue light could be doing some more fundamental damage: making you age faster.
Nielsen study upends conventional wisdom.
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Many parents and grandparents fret that today’s youth (i.e. their kids) are screen-obsessed.
But, according to a Nielsen study channeled by The Economist, when all screens are accounted for, it’s older folk who seem most addicted.
Let’s break down the numbers…
New studies raise concerns re: “distracted parenting”.
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Lots written lately re: kids spending too much “screen time” on iPads, computers and cellphones … and too little time reading, exploring and conversing.
All true … and much concerning.
A recent analysis in The Atlantic stipulates to the cognitive development dangers of kids spending too much time glued to screens … but concludes that “When it comes to children’s development, parents should worry less about kids’ screen time—and more about their own.”
Here’s the essence of the argument…
New studies raise concerns re: “distracted parenting”.
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Lots written lately re: kids spending too much “screen time” on iPads, computers and cellphones … and too little time reading, exploring and conversing.
All true … and much concerning.
A recent analysis in The Atlantic stipulates to the cognitive development dangers of kids spending too much time glued to screens … but concludes that “When it comes to children’s development, parents should worry less about kids’ screen time—and more about their own.”
Here’s the essence of the argument…
