Work and sleep deprivation in the film industry
An interesting piece in Psychology Today about how Hollywood filming schedules mess with sleep patterns, and the dangers that causes: Within the entertainment business there has been much
Linus Pauling: “We need to study the general problem of the genesis of ideas”
So said Linus Pauling in a 1961 talk on “The Genesis of Ideas,” which I just discovered via Robert Scott Root-Bernstein. “As the world becomes more and more
Is the epidemic of sleep deprivation a myth?
At Quartz, Akshat Rathi challenges the claim that modern times has caused a sleep epidemic. According to a survey conducted by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Salvador Dali: “at the moment of waking… the principal part— that is to say the sleep— of the work is already done”
I'm reading Salvador Dali's Fifty Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, his 1948 book about creativity. A lot of it is as crazy as you would expect. Beethoven with his
Another virtue of naps: lower blood pressure
A new study finds that daytime napping has a positive effect on blood pressure and lowers the need for anti-high blood pressure meds. As the New Zealand Herald reports:
Sleep deprivation and Eurozone creditor negotiations
Amid its constant, nonstop (and pretty good) coverage of the Greek crisis, the Guardian ran a piece today about the effects of sleep deprivation on decision-making. "The Greek
Sleeping on the job
Author Leo Benedictus has an article in the Guardian about inemuri and the contested state of naps in the modern Western workplace. [I]nemuri means “being present while sleeping”, and indeed
More commuting and working: What Americans do instead of sleep
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has an article in the December issue of Sleep looking at how people who sleep less spend their extra waking time. Roughly "30
“the short-term productivity gains from skipping sleep to work are quickly washed away by the detrimental effects”
Travis Bradberry, writing on LinkedIn, has a nice summary of current thinking about sleep deprivation and productivity: the short-term productivity gains from skipping sleep to work are quickly
“electrical illumination revolutionised the night and, in turn, sleep”
A nice piece in Aeon by Scottish writer Karen Emslie about segmented sleep, featuring the (pioneering and incredibly innovative) work of Virginia Tech historian A. Roger Ekirch, and why it