Published on Feb. 3, 2024, 1:54 p.m.

It’s a familiar scene. The clock pushes past 5 PM, you rise from your desk, and a low, persistent ache radiates from the base o…

Published on Feb. 2, 2024, 7:51 p.m.

Our bodies are masterpieces of motion. For millennia, the human form was honed for persistence hunting, for traversing vast lan…

Published on Feb. 2, 2024, 3:40 p.m.

We have entered into an unspoken contract with our chairs. We offer them the majority of our waking hours, and in return, they …

Published on Feb. 2, 2024, 3:30 p.m.

Our bodies were made to move. For millennia, the human spine—that elegant, S-curved pillar—adapted to a life of walking, runnin…

Published on Feb. 2, 2024, 2:49 p.m.

Every single day, you are at war. It’s a quiet, relentless conflict, fought not on a battlefield of mud and steel, but in the p…

Published on Feb. 2, 2024, 11:21 a.m.

It began, as many revolutions do, not with a bang, but with a quiet squeak. In the 19th century, inside his study at Down House…

Published on Feb. 2, 2024, 10:40 a.m.

Charles Darwin, in the quiet sanctum of his study, made a small but revolutionary modification to his armchair. Frustrated by t…

Published on Feb. 1, 2024, 7:04 p.m.

We are a species built for movement, yet we have engineered a world that demands stillness. We sit to work, to play, to sociali…

Published on Feb. 1, 2024, 6:34 p.m.

Our bodies, sculpted by millennia of movement, now spend much of their lives in a state of profound stillness. We hunt for dead…

Published on Feb. 3, 2024, 5:30 p.m.

In the 19th century, Charles Darwin, beset by illness and deep in thought, jury-rigged a set of castors to the bottom of his ar…

Published on Feb. 3, 2024, 12:32 p.m.

We live in a cage of our own making. It’s a comfortable cage, often climate-controlled, with a view of a glowing screen. Its th…

Published on Feb. 2, 2024, 12:15 p.m.

Our modern lives are built upon a paradox: in a world of constant motion, our bodies are increasingly still. We sit for work, f…

Published on Feb. 3, 2024, 12:22 p.m.

We are living through the great sedentary migration. For eight, ten, sometimes twelve hours a day, we command our posts from a …

Published on Feb. 2, 2024, 3:58 p.m.

Before the standing desk, before the ergonomic keyboard, there was a simple, profound invention. In the 1840s, naturalist Charl…

Published on Feb. 2, 2024, 7:29 p.m.

*We dissected a popular, affordable chair to reveal the hidden science, design trade-offs, and psychological tricks that define…

Published on Feb. 1, 2024, 11:47 a.m.

Our story begins several million years ago, on the vast plains of the African savanna. It was there that our ancestors took a m…

Published on Feb. 3, 2024, 3:48 p.m.

There’s a quiet paradox unfolding in millions of home offices and cubicles across the continent. We sit down to work, to create…

Published on Feb. 1, 2024, 9:24 a.m.

It’s one of the most curious artifacts of modern digital life. In millions of bedrooms, home offices, and streaming studios, yo…

Published on Feb. 1, 2024, 9:44 a.m.

There’s a silent, creeping force that defines the modern workday. It isn’t the pressure of a deadline or the glow of a screen. …

Published on Feb. 1, 2024, 2:06 p.m.

We are the sitting generation. Our lives unfold in the subtle confines of a chair, an object so ubiquitous we barely notice it.…