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 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 – […]
Three questions that can save your life
Living Longer and Better Woody Allen (seriously) wants to live forever, but most of us will settle for living healthier and longer. It’s more than possible. Asian American women in Suffolk County, New York have an expected lifespan of 95.6 years. A much larger population of the same folk in Bergen County, New Jersey can […]
The perils of sleep shopping (11/19/10)
Asleep – and Buying Most small town bred nineteen year olds don’t become instant international superstars, so perhaps it’s unsurprising that Chris Colfer is acting silly. The star of Glee is now buying – in his sleep. Admitting the soporific truth before Ellen DeGeneres, his purchases remain instructive: a giant framed portrait of Marie Antoinette, […]
Are you restless? Sleep Loss, Irritability, the Internet and Violence
Another Reason to be Uneasy Many people today facing economic, political and economic uncertainty are restless – uneasy, unquiet of mind, internally agitated. Sadly much of the population is literally not resting – experiencing insufficient restoration and recovery to rebuild their bodies and minds in healthy ways. And that makes us more irritable, and potentially […]