Looking Good for the Holidays The holidays are here – can you get real beauty sleep? According to the Karolinska Institute, yes. They now have the first “scientific” proof beauty sleep exists. Men and women were photographed at the same angle in the same pose on awakening, then after staying up 31 hours. Shown to […]
Fixing your internet addled brain (12/17/10)
Keeping the Mind Sharp Are you going to quit using the Internet? Come on! So what if unrestricted Net action will physically change your brain and body, dimming your analytic ability (see Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows”), negate the long-term memory stores you’ll need to succeed in life (see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-edlund-md/add-symptoms_b_656590.html#s119840,) and potentially make you fat, thick, […]
Facebook for Sleep? (12/07/10)
Another Facebook Effect The Facebook effect may bring communities together on a host of different issues, but more people are using Facebook as a bedtime fix. Internet forecasters often like to say this time is different – this time they may be right. Travelodge Tells It You don’t expect hotel companies to put out surveys […]
How the Internet will change your body – Part IV – Making the Net improve your health (12/2/10)
Plan 1 – Make Mobile Computing Truly Mobile Internet providers happily point out that the Net now goes everywhere – with the possible exception of extra-planetary outer space. You can watch narwhals piercing the Arctic ice sheet while you argue with your health insurance provider about your massively increased medical bills. So why not walk […]
How the internet will change your body – Part III- Virtual Me and Real Me (12/1/10)
Virtual Me Versus Real Me When I was growing up kids spent a lot of time looking in the mirror and grooming. Getting a girlfriend or boyfriend depended (and still does) on how you looked. So did self-esteem. Today, much of that attention is paid not to the personal appearance but to virtual appearance – […]