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 […]
Do sleeping pills work by making us forget? (7/6/11)
How Do Sleeping Pills Work? Insomnia provokes many controversies. One of the more heated at the recent Sleep Research Meeting in Minneapolis was about why sleeping pills work – do they induce sleep? Or do they just make people forget they were awake during the night? Lots of people, including Mike Perlis, now at the […]
Rock yourself to sleep? (6/29/11)
You’ve Got Rhythm There are many effective strategies to help you sleep. That’s a simple conclusion from two preliminary studies in the last two weeks demonstrating that brain cooling caps and gently rocking beds can both improve “objective” sleep measures. Both involve changing internal body rhythms. The better news is that there are dozens of […]
Electronic insomnia Part II – the future (6/27/11)
The Future of Electronic Insomnia Electronic insomnia is indeed the wave that will extend far into the future. Kids and adults will do what humans have done throughout the millennia – go to extremes until they can’t go any further. Sleep will be cut back as far as people think they can manage it. Texts […]
The looming Chinese debt (6/10/11)
An Unacknowledged Debt China’s US trade and treasury security surplus remains legendary. At least two trillion dollars of Treasury debt is held by Chinese banks and government entities; each month many billions of dollars flows into Chinese coffers, as we buy far more than what we sell to them. The Chinese government then buys […]