Alien invaders! Laser rifles! Screeching robots that slip away and hide! Automatic bacon cookers! People will invent almost anything to wake them up in the morning. But why are they so sleepy in the first place? Anne Marie Chaker wrote a funny, useful article on how to wake up for the Wall Street Journal yesterday […]
Use It or Lose it – Why You May Never Want to Retire (10/12/10)
Many people believe they’ll never retire – because they won’t have the chance. The Wall Street –Subprime meltdown decimated personal retirement accounts while leaving public pensions grotesquely underfunded. Social Security has not paid cost of living increases for two years, and a highly indebted government may become incapable of paying for Medicare. Add in […]
Some don’t need much sleep (10/7/10)
Sleep Styles of the Rich and Famous Pity Wyclef Jean. The entertainer had hoped to become president of Haiti, but his candidacy was thrown out by the national electoral commission supposedly because Jean had lived in New Jersey and not the disaster plagued island these past five years (New Jersey Tourism Commission, please note.) Overcome […]
Grunting in tennis – sports, noise and the brain (10/4/10)
They’re loud. The noises made by professional tennis players have increased through the years. Now a study from the University of Hawaii using tennis simulations demonstrates what should have been obvious – grunting distracts your opponent. Grunting on the court gives several advantages to the grunter – including distracting your opponent, and making them unconsciously […]
Calming the everyday crisis (9/30/10)
Crisis. Just the word makes people nervous. Yet imminent threat is what a lot of us feel these days. Add in an economic crisis cutting the heart out of the American middle class, and people feel crisis becomes an everyday thing. So what do you do if your kid is sick and has to get […]