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Meditation apps: Do they work? || Test Dummy Ep. 2 || Popular Science (#stayhome and #learn #withme)

This week on Test Dummy, Jess attempts to lower her stress and chill out using the meditation app Headspace. Eleanor Cummins, a freelance science and technology writer (and meditation app expert), joins in to answer Jess’ questions and try sleep meditation for the first time using Calm. Meditating every day—on Headspace or Calm, for instance—is…

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This week on Test Dummy, Jess attempts to lower her stress and chill out using the meditation app Headspace. Eleanor Cummins, a freelance science and technology writer (and meditation app expert), joins in to answer Jess’ questions and try sleep meditation for the first time using Calm. Meditating every day—on Headspace or Calm, for instance—is supposed to help Jess and Eleanor become more mindful, improve their sleep, lower their blood pressure, and ultimately de-stress them. Together, the duo dive into peer-reviewed research and interview experts to find the truth: Will they be able to reach a new level of calm by meditating with the same iPhones that stress them out?

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Editor-in-Chief : Corinne Iozzio

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15 Comments

15 Comments

  1. Ben Wil

    June 24, 2020 at 12:02 am

    I would have preferred if they got to the point faster and organized the informtion

  2. Ben Wilson

    June 24, 2020 at 12:02 am

    I would have preferred if they got to the point faster and organized the informtion

  3. @Reddragonking12

    June 23, 2020 at 8:02 pm

    I would have preferred if they got to the point faster and organized the informtion

  4. Ruth Ironstorm

    July 21, 2020 at 8:13 pm

    I think they should’ve got to the main idea faster. It seemed as if you had a lot of not needed information before you got to the point we came for.

  5. @ruthironstorm759

    July 21, 2020 at 4:13 pm

    I think they should’ve got to the main idea faster. It seemed as if you had a lot of not needed information before you got to the point we came for.

  6. Jack Dolah

    September 6, 2020 at 9:49 pm

    Alright alright good night.. 😂😂 mcconaughey is LEGENDARY

  7. @jackdolah2031

    September 6, 2020 at 5:49 pm

    Alright alright good night.. 😂😂 mcconaughey is LEGENDARY

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    September 22, 2020 at 2:19 am

    Very condescending

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    September 21, 2020 at 10:19 pm

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  15. @laurielautzenheiser

    July 25, 2023 at 1:57 pm

    This finally helped convince me to check out Headspace. I enjoyed the banter and found it very informative. Thank you for being the “Test Dummies”.

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What you need to know is that story’s beginning – and if you don’t know it already, that’s because they never told you.

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The $15,000 A.I. from 1983:

Scraping, grinding, or drilling a hole through the thick, hard skull that evolution developed to protect our most sensitive contents might be one of humanity’s worst ideas — and also one of our best.

We have no idea how it started, or why the first trepanner thought it would fix anything. We just know that nearly every civilization worldwide has been drilling holes in heads for at least 7,000 years. Sometimes it actually worked. Sometimes it… didn’t.

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** SOURCES / FURTHER INVESTIGATION **

“Bore Hole” by Joe Mellen:

“A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience” by Charles Gross:

“Holes in the Head: The Art and Archaeology of Trepanation in Ancient Peru” by John Verano:

“Hippocrates, Vol. III” translated by Dr. E. T. Withington:

“The Popular Science Monthly,” September 1875:

“The Popular Science Monthly,” February 1893:

“A History of Medicine: Primitive and Ancient Medicine” by Plinio Prioreschi:

“A History of Human Responses to Death: Mythologies, Rituals, and Ethics” by Plinio Prioreschi:

The Wellcome Collection:

** SPECIAL THANKS **

Advisor, History of Medicine: Dr. John Dickey, UMass Chan Medical School

The Wellcome Collection, The British Museum, and others who generously license their material with Creative Commons

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