Prepare For the End Mark Zuckerberg has declared that privacy is dead. Though he’s done his bit to achieve that state, he’s right. And he’s about to become ever more correct. Americans should view the recent hacking information scandals in Britain with alarm, because the same problems are now here – or will be. If […]
New ways to improve sports performance – without drugs (7/8/11)
Can Active Rest Improve Sports Performance? What’s the difference between the best athletes in the world and the next best? Fame, glory, fortune – and inches, millimeters, and milliseconds. With so many superb athletes so closely matched anything that gives you an edge can help – and when it comes to some championships, that […]
Fantastic future sleep (6/22/11)
Can You Can Afford This Hotel Room? George W. Bush famously said, “The future will be better tomorrow.” The hospitality industry can’t wait. They’ve seen the future of sleep – and it’s great. We owe this bountiful projection of the future to the British corporation Travelodge. Known for innovative surveys of all manner of rest, […]
Use the news – don’t be used by it (4/22/11)
Fascination or Entertainment? You can’t stop watching. Night and day your head and eyes turn to the screen. The images flow like waking dreams. Walls of water lift up Japanese houses and schools like paper toys. Hundreds of thousands in Tahrir Square shout the end of dictatorship, chanting, singing, then cleaning the street refuse of […]
Lady Gaga goes Gaga over her egg bed (3/24/11)
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 […]