SadAndUseless.com Lack of morning light keeping teenagers up at night Public release date: 16-Feb-2010 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Mary Cimocimom@rpi.edu 518-687-7174Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, N.Y - The first field study on the impact of light on teenagers' sleeping habits finds that insufficient daily morning light exposure contributes to teenagers not getting enough sleep. "As teenagers spend more time indoors, they miss out on essential morning light needed to stimulate the body's 24-hour biological system, which regulates the sleep/wake cycle," reports Mariana Figueiro, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Program Director at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lighting Research Center (LRC) and lead researcher on the new study. "These morning-light-deprived teenagers are going to bed later, getting less sleep and possibly under-performing on standardized tests. In the study just published in Neuroendocrinology Letters, Dr. Disrupting Biological Rhythms First Field Study Dr. According to Dr. Implications for School Design
George Lucas Turns Daily Show Star Into Storm Trooper While it is my understanding that playing with the actual Jon Stewart is not safe for children over four years of age, it appears that playing with his Star Wars action figure is just fine. This amazing action figure, made specifically for Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando, was created for presenter Jon Stewart by George Lucas. Needless to say this is not part of canon and is not for sale. The figure comes with two heads, one with a goatee and one without, and Stewart looks surprisingly virile in his while battle dress. Wouldn’t it be amazing if Lucasfilm had a custom Stormtrooper system? You send in a picture of your head, they scan it onto a 3D model, and then print it out?
SleepChart: Formula for Healthy Sleep The cycle of sleep and waking is regulated by the body clock. Body clock is located in the brain (suprachiasmatic nucleus). The clock has a period of about 24 hours. Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS) is a sleep disorder in which an individual finds it difficult to fall asleep late in the night, and sleeps well into the afternoon if not awakened. The main factors contributing to DSPS: increased period of the body clock (well above 25 hours) reduced or increased sensitivity to factors that reset or advance body clock (e.g. light, activity, stress, etc.) electric lighting, 24-hour economy and the resulting "want to do more" lifestyle A normal individual has a body clock running with a period slightly longer than 24 hours. If this description fits your problem, you may diagnose the degree of your DSPS with SleepChart freeware at the bottom of this article. Advanced Sleep Phase Syndrome Advanced Sleep Phase Syndrome (ASPS) is the opposite of DSPS. 24 hour cycle.
[Burger King US] Lancement du NY Pizza Burger au Whopper Bar : Les Burgers Burger King proposera en septembre à la carte de son Whopper Bar à New York, le NY Pizza Burger. Le burgerest composé de 4 patties Whopper, du pepperoni, de la mozzarella, "marinara" sauce et "Tuscan Herb" mayo. Il fait 24cm de diamètre.Le tout pour $12.99.2 530 kCal au total. En tout cas j'aimerais bien y aller à ce Whopper Bar qui sert aussi le Bourbon Whopper (avec onion rings et sauce bourbon), le California Whopper (swiss cheese et guacamole) et le BK Black & Bleu Steakhouse. (BK Black & Bleu Steakhouse) Sources :
What does your sleep position reveal about your personality? - Healthy Living on Shine These days, the way that I sleep simply says, "I am happy to be single and spending five to seven hours sprawled out in the center of my bed alone." At other points, my tightly squeezed eyes and curled-up body would have screamed, "I know the baby will wake up/someone will start snoring/the alarm will begin blaring as soon as I finally, finally, finally get to sleep." Years and years ago, the corpse-looking college student still in her clothes would have mumbled something like, "Finals. Boys. Beer." Our lives, the amount of sleep we get, and how well we actually rest during those nighttime hours may change drastically over time. Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service, says that a study of 1,000 Brits revealed that the six most common sleeping positions are indicative of personality types. The research also links certain sleeping positions with health risks. [graphic via BBC.com] Let's see how the Shine readers are resting these days.
Want To Recreate Sterling Cooper Or Just Be On Mad Men? Get Bidding. Um, awesome. I’m a huge fan of the AMC show Mad Men. I’d argue it is the best show on television right now, but that will just lead to a flamewar with the Breaking Bad people. And, if you’re willing to act a little bit — and spend a whole lot of money — you can get very close. Currently for sale on eBay are dozens of pieces of furniture and outfits from previous seasons of the show. As the show is still very much alive, doesn’t AMC need the set furniture anymore? Anyway, this is all being auctioned off for charity. 10 percent of the final sale price will go towards the City of Hope nonprofit. Smartly, the eBay page for each item includes details about how it was used in the show. Mad Men Sterling Cooper Cabinet – Break Room The Sterling Cooper break room was always buzzing with the juicy gossip. They also include a video clip from the show showing it in action. But the biggest item is a walk-on role on the show itself. The auction for all the items ends on August 22. [thanks Chris]
Become a morning person. How to end insomnia for $520.99 6-7% of adults report delayed sleep phase syndrome and 17% of university students have symptoms that qualify (from a recent study). My sense is that entrepreneurs, through both cause and correlation, have significantly higher rates of insomnia than the general population. I'll talk a lot more about this relationship in a future post, but the anecdotal evidence of morning-hating entrepreneurs is not difficult to find. If you're like me, you've tried lots of different methods. You already know about exercising, skipping caffeine, eating well, developing sleep habits, using white noise or a fan, etc. If you actually have delayed sleep phase syndrome, none of these actually work. I've bought virtually every gadget out there and seen lots and lots of doctors. Here's how I did it: 1. 2. It's actually that simple. It took me years, but I've now found the right mix of gadgets and systems to duplicate this success: 1. This is super important. For the computer, I use a program called f.lux. 2.
Playboy Magazine releases every issue from 1953 to 2010 on a hard drive | Technology | Los Angeles Times Playboy Magazine is on magazine racks, on the Web, on iPad, and now it's also on a hard drive. The iconic publication, which has struggled a bit as the world goes increasingly digital, is offering every issue of Playboy, from 1953 to 2010, on a 250-GB drive described as small enough to fit "inside a briefcase or jacket pocket." "Why would you let more than 650 of your favorite Playmates celebrate the holidays in a damp garage, stashed under your bed or crowded together in the basement, when you can bring them all together beneath the mistletoe this year?" Playboy said in a statement. The USB hard drive sells for about $300 and has more than 650 issues loaded on the device. The hard drive also has 200 GB worth of free space for those looking to save other files alongside the digital archive. The drive is being released by Playboy and Bondi Digital Publishing, a company that makes the archives of print magazines available in digital formats. Richard Branson to launch iPad magazine
Sleep on It: How Snoozing Makes You Smarter In 1865 Friedrich August Kekulé woke up from a strange dream: he imagined a snake forming a circle and biting its own tail. Like many organic chemists of the time, Kekulé had been working feverishly to describe the true chemical structure of benzene, a problem that continually eluded understanding. But Kekulé’s dream of a snake swallowing its tail, so the story goes, helped him to accurately realize that benzene’s structure formed a ring. This insight paved the way for a new understanding of organic chemistry and earned Kekulé a title of nobility in Germany. Although most of us have not been ennobled, there is something undeniably familiar about Kekulé’s problem-solving method. Select an option below: Customer Sign In *You must have purchased this issue or have a qualifying subscription to access this content
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One Night Of Sleep Not Enough To Make Up Deficit One Night Of Sleep Not Enough To Make Up Deficit 10 hours of sleep isn't enough to recharge your brain after 5 days of sleep deficit. DARIEN, Ill. – A study in the Aug. 1 issue of the journal Sleep suggests that a dose of extra sleep on the weekend may be good medicine for adults who repeatedly stay up too late or wake up too early during the workweek. As the researchers point out, the body's circadian rhythm will probably prevent a lot of people from even getting 10 hours. Brain performance decayed each day over 5 days of insufficient sleep. Mean total sleep time dropped from 8.47 hours at baseline to 3.72 hours on the first night of sleep restriction. If you are pushing yourself to get a lot done at work and with home responsibilities your productivity could be falling enough to cancel out the additional hours worked. If you sleep less than 6 hours per night for 2 weeks your performance will be like you didn't sleep for 2 days. Boy, would I love to sleep from 10-6 or 11-7.
15 Killer Offices by Tech Companies The Architecture. The construction. The systems. The layout & design inside. 15. Somehow they managed to make their office as 'cute' as their website. Images by Dustin Diaz via Officesnapshots.com 14. The most killer office in Cal ? via Blizzard.com 13. In 2008 the Freshview team, makers of Campaign Monitor, set out to create the ultimate office for startup developers. via Campaign Monitor 12. Yada yada yada, Groupon is hugely successful - ok now checkout Micheal's room! Images via Businessinsider.com 11. Dropbox has grown to become one of the top companies to come out of YCombinator. via Dropbox and TechCrunch 10. 37Signals Chicago, Illinois The 37Signals team went with an 'inwardly focused' office layout for their new office; freshly built in summer 2010. via 37Signals 9. A company that makes architectural software should have a pretty damn good office. Taken by Jeff Goldberg at Esto Photography 8. Unlimited vacation time. via HackingNetflix 7. via Officesnapshots.com 6. via officesnapshots.com