Why We Need to Take Tech Breaks, with Arianna Huffington

In conversation with How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes author Maria Konnikova, Arianna Huffington explains that no one -- not even the head of a 24/7 multimedia company -- needs to be plugged in all the time.
This is the ninth video in an exclusive video series of today’s brightest minds exploring the theory of genius. Exclusive videos will be posted daily on throughout 92nd Street Y’s second annual 7 Days of Genius Festival: Venture into the Extraordinary, running March 1 to March 8, 2015 ().
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Exclusive interviews with thought leaders, filmed at YouTube Space New York studios (), include:
- Arianna Huffington, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Huffington Post and Maria Konnikova, Writer and Journalist, discussing the science of mindfulness.
- Bill Nye, Science Educator, Comedian, Writer and Actor, and Jake Roper, Broadcast Journalist, exploring how to nurture future geniuses.
- Heather Berlin, Neuroscientist, and Carl Zimmer, Science Writer and Blogger, examining neuroscience and genius; and
- Joy Hirsch, professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology, Yale School of Medicine, and Carl Zimmer discussing creativity and the brain.
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Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler and Elizabeth Rodd