Is This Why We Sleep? Why do we sleep? Evolution works is a fussy, erratic, back and forth way, taking information systems from one type of project and then applying it to another – and another. As animals moved from sea to land, fins become hands; when they returned to the sea, the hands began […]
Safe to drink? With the FDA moving on Lazy Cakes, what’s up with relaxation drinks? (8/3/11)
Generally Recognized as Safe When drugs as marketed to foods, people get hurt. That’s what the FDA concluded about Lazy Cakes, a melatonin laced brownie sold as “adults only” but marketed to kids and teens. Michael Roosevelt of the FDA send a warning letter last week to HBB, maker of Lazy Cakes, declaring the “relaxation […]
Please don’t wake up – interrupted sleep harms memory (8/01/11)
Arousals You Can Live Without Some technologies are astonishing. Imagine this – you want to wake up an animal so quickly and efficiently that you do not change overall sleep – just cause brief arousals that don’t shift the amount of REM, deep sleep, or how long you get to rest. And you do it […]
Snore no more! (7/27/11)
Are You Snoring? Guess Who’s Watching! Snoring is not normal. It’s associated with increased heart attack and stroke risk. Prolonged snoring eventually leads to sleep apnea, stopped breathing episodes that increasingly risk survival. And snoring is often loud. It wakes up other people – particularly spouses, where it sometimes becomes grounds for divorce. It […]
Even zombies need to sleep (7/22/11)
The Eternal Need to Rest Rob Zombie doesn’t want to sleep again. Ever. The creator of “The Haunted World of El Superbeasto,” front man of the noise rock band “White Zombie,” and director of “House of a 1000 Corpses”, its sequels “the Devil’s Rejects”, no less than two Halloween movie sequels and the classic Grindhouse […]