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Sleeping through momentous events

7/28/2015

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A piece by Andy Wright in Atlas Obscura on media coverage of people who have slept through momentous or dangerous events -- from earthquakes and carjackings to abductions and naval battles.
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A note on idleness studies

7/15/2015

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The field of idleness studies has been quietly busy in recent years. Notable post-2000 works on the cultural history of inactivity include Sarah Jordan's The Anxieties of Idleness (Bucknell University Press, 2003), which focuses on tensions between idleness and industriousness in eighteenth-century British literature and culture; Pierre Sant-Amand's The Pursuit of Laziness (Princeton University Press, 2011), which examines idleness and non-productivity in Enlightenment thought; Andrew Lyndon Knighton's Idle Threats (NYU Press, 2012), which explores the "productivity of the unproductive" in nineteenth-century America; Richard Adelman's Idleness, Contemplation and the Aesthetic 1750-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2014), which argues for the centrality of idle repose to the British Romantic imagination; and Monika Fludernik and Miriam Nandi's edited collection, Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature (Palgrave, 2014), which ranges from the late medieval period to the twenty-first century, and includes chapters on the relations between idleness and class, gender and national identity. None of these books have a tremendous amount to say about sleep, but that's all the more reason for students of sleep to get thinking about how their subject intersects with, and differs from, idleness.
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Sleep on it?

7/13/2015

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It took a gruelling session of all-night talks for the Greek government to reach a bailout deal with its eurozone creditors. Given the harmful effects of sleep-deprivation on decision-making, The Guardian wonders whether all parties involved would have been better-advised to sleep on it.
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Why can't we fall asleep?

7/11/2015

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The first in Maria Konnikova's three-part series on recent developments in scientific sleep research for The New Yorker.  Parts two—"The work we do while we sleep"— and three—"The walking dead"—are also available.
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Can orange glasses help you sleep better?

7/6/2015

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A New York Times article from April of this year about a cheap way to ameliorate (or not) the negative effects on sleep of cellphone or e-reader light.
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Sleep in your car

7/6/2015

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Vehicle designers at London's Royal College of Art have unveiled prototypes of futuristic "autonomous cars" that will permit their drivers (if that's still the right word) to work, relax -- and even sleep.

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