Did you see the episode of Homeland, where Brody helps Abu Nazir kill Vice President Walden? He provides the serial number of the pacemaker in Walden’s chest, which Nazir uses to send commands that terminate Walden…
Continue reading Whose data IS it?
Time management. I must have taken more than 50 courses. Given that background, one would think I’m an expert. Yeah, right.
Continue reading Time, Time, Time, is (not) on my side…
This post is an experiment. You’ve heard and probably watched a TV/Radio Simulcast. Well, Elise Boysaw (KESA Collections) had this great idea to have a blog post written about the subject of her newest painting, 65 degrees. (Yes, Elise uses Fahrenheit; I use Centigrade.) So, I am writing this post about sleep.
Continue reading Simulcast? 2 Blogs in a Pod? You tell us!
Many of you know that I still have a child in college. (Go Wolverines!) And, given his course load, his extracurricular activities, and the fact that he is just out of teenager, study habits are still a topic of discussion. What is the best way to study? (I will leave my own habits on the back burner; I am the anomaly.) Continue reading A test? Did you say a test?
It also turns out that changes in sleep patterns can have a profound effect on our lives. A new study, published in Sleep, states that changes in our sleep patterns that we make- or just happen as we age- in our late middle ages can lead to cognitive decline. This decline is equivalent in scope to adding some 4 to 7 years to our actual mental age. Notice, I said “changes” in sleep patterns.
Continue reading More on Sleep (too much or too little!)
So, many of you know that I sleep 3 hours a night. No, I don’t sleep during the day. (OK, put me in a boring lecture and I am out faster than you can say “boo”.) And, there was a recent Wall Street Journal article that made me feel better. Dr. Chris Jones of the University of Utah (and Dr. Fu of UC San Francisco) have been running a study (actually checking folks genetic code) about folks who thrive on 3 hours of sleep. The problem is that while many people think they need little sleep- but only 5% of those who do so think, really meet this criterion. It turns out only a select few (elite?) can survive healthily on such a regimen, about 1-3% of the total population. The short-sleepers are night owls and early birds. (Yes, they, like I, burn the candle at both ends.) We short-sleepers are also energetic, outgoing, optimistic and ambitious. (I clearly include myself in this “elite” group.) Moreover, this practice (habit?) starts when we are kids and runs in families. (Until my dad was dying, he was like that. My grandmother as well.)
Continue reading Are you asleep? Or are you awake? Or- are you both?
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