A Threat to the Nation Obesity will remain a threat to the American economy and national security for decades to come. With 17% of our GDP spent on health care, we cannot afford treating a nation that will be one third diabetic by 2030. Data argues that every pound Americans add increases national energy costs […]
Sleeping with art – is the museum the new cool place to sleep? (10/31/11)
Should I Sleep at the Museum? Even without beautiful dreams, sleep can be a thoroughly aesthetic experience. Ever since two children got locked in the Metropolitan in the E. L. Konigburg’s “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basel E. Frankweiler” (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Nights-at-the-Museums.html#ixzz1c00VVRtc), people other than guards and thieves have been spending overnight in museums. Most have […]
Sleeping Beauty (10/26/11)
Is Sleep the Secret to Looking Good? Why sleep? people ask me. I give them a welter reasons starting with avoidance of death. Sleep deprive any animal and it dies – rather quickly. Yet fear of death does not seem to motivate people to take more time for rest, or to even pay attention to […]
Three questions about sleep and sex (10/19/11)
Coping in Tough Times Times are tough. People are out of work and can’t find any, 15% of the country often goes to bed hungry, and the euro may crash and upend the world economy. Folks need a break. In the old days, sex and sleep could help revive spirits and help regenerate body and […]
Was Conrad Murray Michael Jackson’s “rest” doctor?
The Longest Rest June 25, 2009. I was rapidly scanning BBC News when I shouted “No” at the monitor and gasped before recognizing why. Michael Jackson was so young. How could he die? I gasped again when my webmaster told me CNN Headline news was calling Dr. Conrad Murray, Jackson’s personal physician at the time […]