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HenryTo
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 Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:50 pm Post subject: Eliminating Sleep |
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This will be the last support for productivity increases going forward - short of getting an unlimited supply of energy from the sun and automating everything you can imagine - including the driving and the cooking experience:
http://health.howstuffworks.com/sleep-is-so-last-year.htm |
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rffrydr
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| Quote: | | Of course, wakefulness has its downsides. Before we can be happily, eternally awake, science will have to address the fact that prolonged sleep deprivation causes sickness, delirium and death |
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HenryTo
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The need for sleep is still a mystery to us at this point. But many scientists are diligently working on the "problem."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120059164111398073-email.html
| Quote: | Even a 90-minute nap can significantly improve our ability to master new motor skills and strengthen our memories of what we learn, researchers at the University of Haifa in Israel reported last month in Nature Neuroscience. "Napping is as effective as a night's sleep," said psychologist Sara Mednick at the University of California in San Diego.
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Sleep is controlled partly by our genes. The difference between those of us who naturally wake at dawn and night owls who are wide-eyed at midnight may be partly due to variations in a gene named Period3, which affects our biological clock. Variations in that gene also make some people especially sensitive to sleep deprivation, scientists at the U.K.'s University of Surrey recently reported. |
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