Humans need sleep like food. Much as with recipes, there are many elements that make for good, joyous sleep. Just as a checklist won’t make you a great chef, this checklist may not give make you a great sleeper. But every little bit helps. 1. My sleep place is as cool, comfy, dark, safe as […]
It’s Too Hot
Too Hot to Handle Some like it hot. Nearly sixty years ago, film director Billy Wilder presciently premised that two men fleeing the hotly pursuing Chicago mob could succeed by dressing as women, and then unexpectedly find true love. But what happens to hot men and women when the mercury keeps rising? The strange transports of […]
Seeking warmth and safety (6/4/12)
Temperature and Life How do you help a baby get through a vaccination? You warm her up. Because temperature matters a lot. And that fact also has implications – for adults who are trying to sleep and rest. Decreasing Pain Babies, like most human beings, don’t like getting shots – what the British call “jabs.” […]
How to sleep in the heat (8/15/11)
It’s Hot Out There There are riots, financial meltdowns, fiscal crises. It’s hot out there. Global climate change may be a myth to some non-scientists, but most models of global weather predict greater volatility – more extreme hot weather and cold, more floods and hurricanes – for a long time to come. And then there’s […]