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"People who sit in a busy airport terminal pounding away on their laptops while oblivious to the noise are in light hypnosis. If you've ever had the experience of spacing out while driving, maybe intending to go to a friend's house and winding up at the grocery store instead, you've experienced medium hypnosis. Everyone enters a state of deep hypnosis just before falling asleep and just before waking up. We all go into hypnosis naturally and often. What I'll help you do is control how and when you go into hypnosis and teach you how to use it to achieve your goals for health and wellbeing." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"The first thing you notice is the doctors and nurses striding down the halls pushing chrome carts that carry wireless laptops. Every nurse and every doctor has instant access to patient records here. Up in the intensive care unit, chief nurse Shirley Paulson sits down in front of a desktop computer to show me a medical record used for patients in the unit. Paulson pushes a key and a brightly colored record appears on the computer screen. The patient has just undergone surgery, and he is on a ventilator. " - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Fruits are everywhere, perspiring on street corners, chilling in hotel lobbies and on teachers' desks, coagulating in yogurts and drinks, adorning laptops and museum walls. 5 Although a select few species dominate international trade, our whole planet is brimming with fruits that are inaccessible, ignored and even forbidden. There are mangoes that taste like pina coladas. Orange cloudberries. White blueberries. Blue apricots. Red lemons. Golden raspberries. Pink cherimoyas. Willy Wonka's got nothing on Mother Nature." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"They always sat at the same table with their laptops open, discussing their work earnestly, always in French. They were the first ones up in the morning, they did interviews together, and ended up at the same table at night, where they consolidated their findings in a giant spreadsheet. They had both made sacrifices to join us in Costa Rica (it took months for Gianni to apply for permission from his university to get the time off) and they had both taken a chance that their efforts would bear fruit." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Use wired Internet connections, not WiFi—especially for laptops. ??Keep a low-EMR sleep, home, and personal zone. •I* Move your alarm clock radio at least three feet from your head or use battery-powered ones; six feet is the recommended distance from all electronic devices during sleep. • ?Avoid water beds, electric blankets, and metal frames, which attract electromagnetic frequencies. • ;?Futons and wood-framed beds are better than metal-coiled mattresses and box springs. •I- When using electric stoves, cook on back burners instead of front as much as possible." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"The first thing you notice is the doctors and nurses striding down the halls pushing chrome carts that carry wireless laptops. Every nurse and every doctor has instant access to patient records here. Up in the intensive care unit, chief nurse Shirley Paulson sits down in front of a desktop computer to show me a medical record used for patients in the unit. Paulson pushes a key and a brightly colored record appears on the computer screen. The patient has just undergone surgery, and he is on a ventilator. " - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"No laptops, no TV: Ideally, the bed is used for two things and two things only. If you have any other type of stimulus, like work or a TV, you're not sending your body the right message that it's time for sleep. Need more incentive to kick Leno to the living room? People who don't have a TV in the bedroom have 50 percent more sex than those who do. þ Add white noise. Use a fan for background noise, or one of those machines that lets you pick sounds, from the rain forest to the ocean." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"We may not be able to identify the tree growing in our own backyards, but we can instantly conjure up a satellite photo of our neighborhood on our laptops. We might not be able to point south without the aid of a compass, but our cell phones can tell us our near-exact latitude and longitude. We may not be able to name the birds singing outside our windows, but we can empathize with the sorrows and joys of Antarctic penguins at our local movie theater." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "We can power our toxin-free laptops by teasing energy out of the sun. In trying to create this change, designers can spend a lot of time fussing about technical details that are often outside their purview, thereby failing to play to their greatest strengths. The liberation of sustainable design will mean changing the way we compose and conceive of our material world, piece by piece. Designers may be able to come up with great solutions for the complex challenges that humans create, yet they alone can't solve the ecological design problem. Businesspeople decide what gets made." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "When our laptops die and we toss them, they either rot in landfills or children in the developing world end up wrestling their components apart by hand, melting toxic bits to recover traces of heavy metals. Did someone forget to design for these kids? With so many products coming out in green versions, why do our computers still only come in the standard, havoc-wreaking model? Paradoxically, computer designers, engineers, and inventors have more tools than ever to make long-lasting machines that can be continually upgraded or safely discarded and easily recycled." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"In less than two decades, technology has transformed our homes: PCs, laptops, email, the worldwide web; cable, satellite and digital TV, camcorders, DVD; computer games, PlayStations, iPods; mobile phones, text messaging, camphones ... And everything happens much, much faster than it did in the past. Social changes have been no less startling." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"Since to varying degrees we all use appliances from washers and refrigerators to microwave ovens, as well as high-tech electronics gear like laptops, cell phones, and digital music players, it pays to know more about the companies manufacturing these products and from whom we are purchasing them if we want to extend our good acts into the world at large. Most of these companies manufacture throughout the world so our shopping dollars have a lot of power to prevent or foster destruction. Let me tell you what I've learned about many of our most popular brands of kitchen and high-tech appliances." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "To the charger we connect our wired world and convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) to power cell phones, laptops, answering machines, and tons of other appliances. But many people leave charger and converter black boxes plugged into the wall all of the time. Then there are the many chargers hidden within computers and other appliances. One estimate is that 3.1 billion charging boxes are in the United States, and 400 to 500 million more are sold every year. These black-box vampires use only one-quarter of the energy they draw." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"These accommodations include special office furniture, equipment such as tape recorders and laptops, and "organizational schemes (color coding, buddy systems, alarm clocks, and other 'reminders') designed to keep such employees on track" (Eberstadt, 1999). ADULT ADHD AND EXPANSION OF A MEDICALIZED CATEGORY Adult ADHD offers a clear example of how a medicalized category can expand to include a wider range of troubles within its definition. ADHD's expansion was primarily accomplished by refocusing the diagnosis on inattention rather than hyperactivity and stretching the age criteria." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"Innovations like cheap laptops for children and vans outfitted with on-demand book printers are bridging the last mile of the digital divide in villages across the Global South. Online communities are making the off-line work of teachers and literacy practitioners easier, allowing them to share course materials and lesson plans. And the open-source movement [see Open Source, p. 127] is providing distance-learning tools that are enabling autodidacts anywhere on earth to take the same classes—from Latin to Laser Holography—as students at elite Western universities." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Some upright computers, in particular, tend to cause symptoms such as chest pain, headaches or fatigue. laptops tend to be better-tolerated. Protective chest shields or medallions worn over the chest are thought to help protect against EM emissions. (See Appendix C.3.) • Keep your children at least three feet from television sets at all times.48 The use of electric blankets or heating pads (especially if pregnant) is strongly discouraged. • Buy a set of earphone adapters so there is no need to hold a cellular phone directly over your ears or on your head." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

"Every morning, we would dutifully send our laptops through the metal detectors, then walk through ourselves. We needed to bring our own laptops because there was no office support for the health reform working groups. Instead, we typed our memos wherever we could find a place to sit, and scurried around from the National Security Office to the Office of the Special Assistant to the President, looking for an unused printer. If only we could find a printer, we thought, we could transform the health care system." - John D. Lantos, M.D., Do We Still Need Doctors?: A Physician's Personal Account of Practicing Medicine Today (Get the book.)

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