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Let air traffic controllers nap (4/20/11)

April 20, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Sleeping and Flying It’s a national emergency: air traffic controllers have fallen asleep in Reno, Washington, and several other cities. Planes carrying severely ill patients arrive at airports where “nobody” is in charge. The government head of air traffic control has been asked to resign. What’s going on? It’s very much the same situation that […]

Can we evolve to sleep less? (4/11/11)

April 11, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Can You Really Evolve to Sleep Less? Perhaps – if you’re like a cavefish. Research done at NYU by Professor Richard Borowsky and company, reported last week in Current Biology, looks at a Mexican species of fish that has evolved to live in caves. The cavefish version of Astyanax Mexicanus are also blind. When brought […]

Florida does it again – voting to ban children from playing outside (4/06/11)

April 6, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Keep Them In Tim Dorsey and Carl Hiaasen, move over – Florida reality again trumps both fantasy and novelistic legerdemain. Perhaps it’s the effect of earthquakes and oil spills (our one year anniversary of the BP disaster) but strangeness pervades the state. Some weeks ago five teenagers in Silver Springs Shore snorted the remains of […]

Does sleep loss give me the munchies, or do I just get high? (4/1/11)

April 1, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

How to Gain Weight Without Even Trying Sleep less, weigh more.  Even if might feel temporarily  high from staying up all night, keep staying up and you’re going to put on weight. Quickly. Columbia University researchers rigidly controlled the life of 13 men and 13 women for six days.  One group slept 8 hours, the […]

Lady Gaga goes Gaga over her egg bed (3/24/11)

March 24, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Lady Gaga Sleeps! People can and do sleep anywhere. Botticelli’s Venus first arrived on earth popping from a half shell, and now a human desiring to be her avatar, the Lady Gaga, has  “birthed” from a resin egg during the Grammy Awards.  She enjoyed her egg-placed “meditation” so greatly she now wants to sleep in […]

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