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How a lack of sleep affects your brain – and personality
Feeling tired? Not yourself? Here's what's happening inside your head.
Anthill 4: Fuel
The fourth episode of our podcast takes on fuel – from Olympic diets to conflict over oil in the Niger Delta.
Even presidential candidates need sleep
Sleep is essential for good executive functioning and for good general health. So how do candidates keep up the grueling demands of their schedules?
Health Check: three reasons why sleep is important for your health
Not getting enough quality sleep can have significant implications for health.
Is your child taking a test? When is the right time?
Our memory and attention are at their peak only at certain times during the day. Why would the timing of test not affect students' performance?
Feeling sleepy? You might be at risk of falsely confessing to a crime you did not commit
Innocent people do confess to terrible crimes they had nothing to do with. Psychologists are investigating factors that contribute to false confession – including how well-rested a suspect feels.
Are we sleep-deprived or just darkness-deprived?
Is electricity making us sleep less? A new study on sleep in preindustrial societies suggests the answer is no. But it misses a big point: people in preindustrial societies spend more time in darkness than we do.
Can wearing orange-tinted glasses before bed help you sleep? Only one way to find out…
I recently wrote about the terrible sleep habits of the characters in House of Cards. I disapproved of Frank Underwood’s late-night computer work in the Oval Office, his new midnight iPad gaming habit…
Booting up or powering down: how e-readers affect your sleep
While many of these devices, especially e-readers, seem harmless enough, the light they emit may affect our sleep patterns and leave us feeling tired the next day.
Feeling a little jet-lagged? It must be daylight savings time
Shifting the clocks ahead by an hour can't have that much of an effect on us, right? According to the experts, losing those 60 precious minutes of sleep can really hurt.
The House of Cards characters have terrible sleep habits
If Frank Underwood has trouble sleeping at night, it's not because of his conscience
Explainer: what is insomnia and what can you do about it?
We all have a poor night’s sleep from time to time: those nights when you lie awake for hours trying desperately to go to sleep but can’t stop worrying about tomorrow. Or when you repeatedly wake up throughout…
Morning haze: why it’s time to stop hitting the snooze button
It’s 6.30am and after a long holiday break, your alarm clock is insistently telling you it’s time to get out of bed. For many people – me included – the automatic reaction is to hit the snooze button…
Controlled crying is helpful, not harmful
Every evening, parents across Australia hope their babies will sleep through the night. Many won’t. That’s where controlled comforting, or controlled crying might help. Contrary to some claims, this is…
Sleep deprivation is dangerous, but especially behind the wheel
The National Sleep Foundation has done a great job terrifying citizens since the 1990s with its annual Sleep in America poll results. In 2005, 60% of adult drivers in the US reported that they’d driven…
Some reasons why you should avoid sleeping pills
We’ve known for a long time that hypnotic drugs are not good to take for more than one to three weeks because they are habit-forming and increase the risk of accidents. And there’s now a growing body of…
Teens lose sleep over excessive electronic media use
Many teenagers are not getting optimal sleep on school nights, largely due to overuse of mobile phones, video games and the…
Does a bad night’s sleep make you likely to overeat?
Few people would argue with the idea that sleep is good for us, but not many of us know that a lack of sleep can cause weight gain. The health benefits of sleep are extremely well-documented. It provides…
Lack of sleep may increase diabetes risk
What happens if you get less than six hours sleep each night? Research from the University of Newcastle suggests that your…
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