From the monthly archives:
Sometimes, old traditions just don’t line-up with what science suggests is best; the 9-minute snooze button on alarm clocks falls in that category. When designing Zeo, instead of banishing the snooze button all together (which some sleep scientists might encourage), we built a smarter snooze button – one that might just yield some interesting insights… [...]
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Having a child is an awesome, life changing experience but brings with it some challenges. For me, one of the challenges has been sleep – our precious 15 month old son won’t sleep through the night, and since I am an incredibly light sleeper, we have the recipe for plenty of long, disrupted nights of [...]
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If you had to choose, would you say that you are more of a morning or an evening type? Partially driven by genetics, your tendency will have a big impact on when you are most alert, productive and creative, and on how you (and your significant other) sleep. Me – I’m a night owl, even [...]
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It’s pretty well known now that sleep is important for memory and learning, but if I told you that when you were about to fall asleep – you might not remember. In fact, remembering those times when you were awake or asleep over the course of the night is not as straightforward as it might [...]
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You grind during the week then recover during the weekend – right? It seems like the typical routine, but a look at almost 10,000 individual nights of sleep data from the Zeo Sleep Research Center’s database reveals that ‘catching-up’ on the weekends isn’t really happening. Only Averaging 6½ Hours of Sleep The amount of sleep [...]
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