Sleeping

Holidays are over and money is tight. But you still need a vacation, a break from the everyday routine and the everyday mind. Consider a head trip, the ultimate in bargain getaways. Most of us think of awareness as a kind of binary proposition: we're awake and then we're asleep....

When Dr. Laura Berman, a noted authority on sex health, offered her "5 ways to keep kids from ruining your sex life," she hit some fine points that are difficult for many to swallow. You can read them here; she puts it bluntly and calls our world "child-centric."...

I once went almost five days without sleep in 1996 just to see 1) if I could make a week (I couldn't), and 2) what the side-effects would be.

I was a new neuroscience major at Princeton at the time and hoped to do research with famed serotonin pioneer,...

Did you catch that? It's not news to me, but Reuters is reporting (and reminding many of us already in the know) that new moms should pay more attention to their sleep habits if they are to watch those extra pounds slip away. Harvard Medical School has presented...

It's quite literally (at least digitally) a whole new ball game out there. When I was in high school, we had just started playing with Internet, cell phones had just reduced in size from a full brick to about a 1⁄2 of a brick, and cable TV was the hottest...

If I could go back in time and be a high school student again (let me re-phrase that: if I had to go back and do it all over again), I'd like to attend one of the schools in Toronto where kids can start classes as late as 11:30...

Day 13

Quarantine is a frustrating experience for anyone. And, obviously, much more so for people who have some awful disease that will probably kill off most of humanity. I don't have one of those diseases, so it's probably not fair to complain. Still, it would have been nice...

An article I read online relating a study about nicotine in breast milk and how it can affect sleep patterns in a baby really got me thinking: how much do our parents' habits after we are born affect our internal programming for life?

As a non-smoker, I...