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Underwear that counts steps, tracks calories, monitors sleep? Count me in!

It’s what you’ve been waiting for (though you may not have realised it) –  in the ho-ho-ho opening lede of IdeaConnection’s story: “the comfortably smart underwear from Skiin takes a bottoms-up approach to health monitoring.” All sounds fantastic, but I don’t quite find much information on how effective it is in the more traditional role … Continue reading “Underwear that counts steps, tracks calories, monitors sleep? Count me in!”

The mother’s arm is moving upwards: how are we able to see in her gesture the tender sweetness leading her to caress the cheek of her sleeping child or the inner violence preparing to hit the soldier’s cheek? How can we foresee in the heavy murderer’s hand movement a slight faltering revealing his fragile uncertainty in finishing his task, how can we measure the hesitation of the woman’s arms closing to protect her crying, in resonant dialogue with the bodies moving around her?”

As my ItsMe2 experience surely proves, I like a grandiose megaproject as much as the next man. I am glad therefore to discoverEn-TIme-Ment, which is a Horizon 2020 funded project in Italy whose investigators are not at all humble: EnTimeMent aims at a radical change in scientific research and enabling technologies for human movement qualitative … Continue reading “The mother’s arm is moving upwards: how are we able to see in her gesture the tender sweetness leading her to caress the cheek of her sleeping child or the inner violence preparing to hit the soldier’s cheek? How can we foresee in the heavy murderer’s hand movement a slight faltering revealing his fragile uncertainty in finishing his task, how can we measure the hesitation of the woman’s arms closing to protect her crying, in resonant dialogue with the bodies moving around her?””

Are we winning the War on Sleeplessness?

Or, as the authors of this paper put it, are we seeing the “first signs of success in the fight against sleep deficiency?” Abstract: STUDY OBJECTIVES: The high prevalence of chronic insufficient sleep in the population has been a concern due to the associated health and safety risks. We evaluated secular trends in sleep duration … Continue reading “Are we winning the War on Sleeplessness?”

Sleep disturbances in girls associated with more difficulties staying awake in and out of school

From Pedro de Bruyckere’s blog: Sleep disturbances in girls associated with more difficulties staying awake in and out of school We’ve known for some time now that we all sleep less than a decade ago and that our children often nowadays don’t sleep enough. This new study describes that there are maybedifferences related to gender. … Continue reading “Sleep disturbances in girls associated with more difficulties staying awake in and out of school”

Circadian Rhythms video from Oxford Nuffield Sleep & Circadian Neuroscience Institute

From here

“#Sleeping, as we all know, is the most secret of our acts.”- #Borges and #sleep in #literature

Originally posted on Séamus Sweeney:
Sleeping, as we all know, is the most secret of our acts. We devote a third of our lives to it, and yet do not understand it. For some, it is no more than an eclipse of wakefulness, for others, a more complex state spanning at one and the…

Extract from a paper in progress on sleep in J G Ballard’s fiction

Originally posted on Séamus Sweeney:
“Manhole 69 follows three volunteers, Avery, Lang and Gorrell, who have undertook a procedure which has removed the ability to sleep. The primary investigator, Dr Neill, reflects with scorn on sleep: “this is as big an advance as the step the first ichthyoid took out of the protozoic sea 300…

Heraclitus on sleep: from “The Poetry of Thought”, George Steiner

Originally posted on Séamus Sweeney:
Grammatical construction can make of an apparent riddle or paradox a font of expanding intuition: “Death is all things we see awake; all we see asleep is sleep.” Ring-structures spiral into esoteric depths which we might, mistakenly, sense as psychoanalytic: “Living, he touches the dead in his sleep; waking,…