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Sleepy Sick
Sick? Get more sleep…
People who sleep less than seven hours a night appear to be almost three times as likely to catch a cold as those who sleep eight hours or more, a new study has found.
Quality of sleep may count even more than quantity. Those who spend as little as 25 minutes a night tossing and turning face more than five times the risk of sniffing and sneezing.
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Homeownership Skills
I’m not sure if its only 47 skills.. but it sure seems like you need a lot of them… 🙂
Too bad a house doesn’t come with an owner’s manual. And a week-long seminar where you learn what every button, switch, and wire is for. Alas, the keys to the castle come with no troubleshooting guide to dog-ear—and, we’re betting, no wise master to unlock the mysteries of the place you call home.
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2009 CES Supercut
Rocketboom made this great video-montage of CES 2009:
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About LED Lighting
This is a pretty good article explaining LED lighting and the science behind it…
It seems like they’re already everywhere – if you look down at your keyboard, one is providing the little green indicator for your Num Lock key, while another may be frantically blinking to inform you of your waiting voice mail. On your next drive, chances are you will stop at a stoplight lit purely by LED’s and perhaps may notice a blinker made up of small, bright lights instead of one bulb. LED’s certainly are everywhere, faithfully providing indications of all kinds. But, with a few exceptions, the primary purpose of an LED is to indicate rather than illuminate, despite the fact that LED’s do nothing useful besides produce light. A few new developments, however, may bring solid-state lighting into our homes very soon.
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Sleeping late?
I’ve always been a night-owl…
1 // You may need more sleep than you think.
Research by Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders Center found that people who slept eight hours and then claimed they were “well rested” actually performed better and were more alert if they slept another two hours. That figures. Until the invention of the lightbulb (damn you, Edison!), the average person slumbered 10 hours a night.2 // Night owls are more creative.
Artists, writers, and coders typically fire on all cylinders by crashing near dawn and awakening at the crack of noon. In one study, “evening people” almost universally slam-dunked a standardized creativity test. Their early-bird brethren struggled for passing scores.3 // Rising early is stressful.
The stress hormone cortisol peaks in your blood around 7 am. So if you get up then, you may experience tension. Grab some extra Zs! You’ll wake up feeling less like Bert, more like Ernie.
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In the Houston Chronicle Today
Hey, I made the Houston Chronicle today… cool!
Houston entrepreneur Richard Yoo says now is the time for rational and calculated thinking.
Entrepreneur’s advice: avoid ‘sky is falling’ mentality
Cellphones and Cancer
The latest news doesn’t look good…
The most definitive study yet could finally determine whether cellphone use causes cancer
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