The Coming Food Information Revolution Beef – and eggs – just got a lot more interesting. A group of researchers fed lean beef (nicely cooked) to a bunch of everyday meat eaters and vegans. They then investigated. Did ingesting lean beef change lipid levels in the blood – you know, the stuff supposed to cause […]
“Awake” – In dreams begin realities (3/2/12)
La Vida Es Sueno Is life a dream? Or do realities begin in dreams? “Awake,” NBC’s new drama, premiered on March 1st, 2012. One night police detective Michael Britten, played by Jason Isaacs, survives a horrific car wreck—but not his family. He becomes conscious and finds he’s living two distinct realities. In one his son […]
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, […]
Overloaded: 7 Things You Should Know About Your Internet-Interrupted Brain
“Am I a man dreaming I’m a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming I’m a man?” Chuang Tzu asked 2300 years ago. In Christopher Nolan’s stylish sleep thriller Inception he answers we’re both – butterfly and man.Yet the science behind Inception is more surreal than the film, whose lovingly layered plot still underplays the wonderfully weird […]