CBC reports that Daylight Savings Time just celebrated its 100 birthday. Despite various rationals for moving the clocks ahead, the biggest advocates of Daylight Savings Time are big business: because people spend more when it is bright outside. In honor… Read More ›
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And the State With the Least Amount of Sleep is…
According to a recent study, people in Hawaii get the least sleep, while people in South Dakota, Colorado, and Minnesota get the most. We have four explanations: Hard to stay awake when most exciting thing to do in your state… Read More ›
Yahoo Finance Useless Headline Of The Year
Here is a headline from Yahoo Finance today: “Yahoo Finance Exclusive: What keeps Warren Buffett up at night.” Ooooh what could it be? He’s one of the smartest, most successful people in the world. Whatever it is, we bet it’s… Read More ›
If You’re A Mouse Reading This Due To Insomnia, You May Have Brain Damage!
CNN reports that a study indicates that mice forced to simulate sleeping the same hours as human shift-workers suffered brain damage. So we’re posting this at 4:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time to at least entertain our mice readers (before brain… Read More ›
Man Sleeps Through Plane-Skidding-Off-Runway Incident
Yahoo reports that a man slept through a plane skidding a bit off the runway at JFK Airport yesterday, on a flight bound from Toronto to New York. From the article: “I was sleeping. I woke up and… A police… Read More ›
Maybe It’s Time To Hire The Insomniacs To Be Pilots!
According to the Daily Mail, between 43 and 54 percent of pilots in Sweden, the U.K., and Norway admitted in a survey to “involuntarily” falling asleep while in the cockpit. Also from the article: “A third of these said they… Read More ›
Swedes Ain’t Afraid Of No Ghosts, Which May Be Why They Punch Them In The Stomachs!
The Local reports that working as a ghost in a Stockholm theme-park fun-house is ironically not so fun. Apparently, when workers dressed as ghosts scare patrons, they have been known to punch the ghosts in their stomachs. And that’s just what… Read More ›
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