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“Color Cloud: Let's Pay Attention” by Jessica Poundstone

Cymatics: Exploring the shape of sound

Empathy in media helps everyone feel seen.

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Boost your mood with the right scent

Boost your mood with the power of scent

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A man with intense expression, dark eyes, and a tear on his cheek, wearing a hooded cloak in space with planets and a spaceship firing a laser in the background.

Mourning in a multiplayer spaceship game

A place where the ritual of remembrance transcends pixels and code

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Game labs for good

From pixels to prescriptions, there’s a place for tech in healing

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Doomscrolling? Set your phone to grayscale

Ditch the distractions - grayscale your screen for focus and calm

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Psychadelic research: Neuroscape

The science on psychedelic therapy invites a closer look

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How AI is helping museum exhibits to teach

A little interaction can go a long way

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How tinnitus apps helped me find my own

Coping with tinnitus through digital apps

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The new wave of wellness: functional mushrooms take over TikTok

Functional mushrooms have gone viral and knowledge of their benefits is spreading like spores

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Yoga styles and the science that supports the benefits they offer

A yoga overview with a scientific twist.

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Media makers: Nature Journey

Inspiring connection to and compassion for nature through technology

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Speak to the rhythm: melodic intonation therapy for stroke survivors

Melodic intonation therapy (MIT) is helping stroke survivors to regain speech and can be done remotely.

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Rediscovering imagination with journal role-playing games

Rediscovering imagination with journal role-playing games

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Emerging horizons in TBI management: science, technology, and hope

Personalized apps and DBS: the new frontier in tailored, accessible TBI rehabilitation

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Reconnecting with nature in a post-pandemic world

When technology helps brings us closer to nature

Children in a planetarium watching an animated display of space exploration, including planets, astronauts, and a child reaching towards a star.

How AI is helping museum exhibits to teach

A little interaction can go a long way

KCRW’s Anti-Dread Climate Podcast: eco-friendly holdiday edition

Want to make your holidays a little more eco-friendly this year? The folks at KCRW have some ideas!

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Our brains aren’t computers and that’s a good thing

Our human mind does compute, but not like a computer

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Facing climate change with good news

Good climate news exists. We just have to look.

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From 8-bit to robots: a gamer’s evolution

One woman’s healing digital journey, from childhood arcades to a therapeutic robot.

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Wonder and awe: a mindful approach to XR stroytelling

Profiling XR storytelling visionary Caitlin Krause.

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Media makers: Labyrinth

Can a video game improve your memory?

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Unmaking truth and healing through art

Using art to heal, and expand our Perception Box

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The healing power of independent media: Kharkiv

From pixels to prescriptions, there’s a place for tech in healing

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DTx: digital mental health for kids

From pixels to prescriptions, there’s a place for tech in healing

The healing power of music evokes memories for every age

Science meets sound: musical healing for mental health and brain function

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Digital Therapeutics West 2024

From pixels to prescriptions: where technology meets healing

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The reality of freelancing overwhelm - and how technology helps

Being self-employed is a marathon, and these digital tools can help you sustain your pace, balance diverse tasks, and effectively manage the stress and overwhelm that comes with this career path.

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Staging medicine as a neurologist and playwright

What happens when a neurologist is also a playwright?

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Speak to the rhythm: melodic intonation therapy for stroke survivors

Melodic intonation therapy (MIT) is helping stroke survivors to regain speech and can be done remotely.

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Audiovisual article: Rooted

What trees can teach us about finding peace.

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Climate optimism from the perspective of a teenager

Facing eco-anxiety as a teenager.