A year ago this past May, one of my doctors suggested that my ( Read more... )

• Grocery conglomerate Kroger is testing a driverless robot cart for grocery delivery here in Scottsdale. The service uses robots made by Nuro. (Watch their videos to get a sense for the ( Read more... )

This is a series. Start here if you haven't already.

Yes, I'm back. I didn't pause the series because I was tired or busy. I was waiting because I wanted more data to analyze. So as of this morning I had four weeks in with the S10, and I decided to see what the trends were, and talk a little more about the experience itself.

In terms of what it ( Read more... )

This is a series. Start here if you haven't already.

I'm not a good sleeper, and never have been. When my publishing ( Read more... )

• ESR did an interesting long-form essay on that very peculiar nootropic drug, Modafinil, which he takes for cerebral palsy. It sounds ( Read more... )

For all the time I've been struggling with insomnia, I had never heard of "paradoxical insomnia" until Michael Covington recently called it to my attention.

Sleep is a weird business from top to bottom. I've encountered a lot of that weirdness, especially since 2001, when my company began to implode. I've never been a strong sleeper, but after that ( Read more... )

• Here is the entire sky projected on a plane, and zoomable. (LINK REMOVED--SEE COMMENTS) That doesn't do it anything like justice. Cruise the image a little and gasp. (Give the site time to refresh; it's newly slashdotted.) Read the rest of the page too--it's fascinating, and full of great photos. Chile looks a great deal like Mars in some places.
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• Sleep seems to be key in allowing the brain to infer big-picture relationships from scattered facts--and by implication, memories. I've never been a strong sleeper, and I wonder if some of the "fails" in my older memories stem from inadequate deep sleep.
• Also from Wired Science: People who don't get enough sleep are touchy and angry. (Not like that' ( Read more... )

• Here's a nice article from NPR on sleep. Worth noting is the author's comment that in 20 years, the stylishness of getting only five hours of sleep a night may be seen the same way that the "stylishness" of smoking is seen today: As something that kills you before your ( Read more... )

I just stopped an oncoming cold in its tracks, after not having had one for well over a year. (I used to get two or three a year minimum, some of them doozies.) My technique is the same one I used to avoid colds this past year, and although it's simple you're not going to like it: I stopped " ( Read more... )