Excerpt: While New York City is the city that never sleeps, Silicon Valley is — unfortunately — famous for cities that always sit.
From the comatose software programmers sporting computer screen facial tans, to the countless engineers who can't remember the last time they used their gut-obscured feet to walk away from their mice and keyboards, the creators of the world's most innovative technology may be paying a deadly price for digital success.
Researchers and engineers from across the world convened at Stanford University on Friday for a two-day conference on the serious health risks of prolonged sitting or what they term — inactive physiology.
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Can't Stand to Sit Too Long? There's a Desk for That. (New York Times, 4/21/2010)
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