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Society & Sleep

It’s another month; time for a new Featured Blogger! This January, our Featured Blogger is Doug S. from Build Better Sleep, a blog devoted to unraveling the mysteries of insomnia and how one can treat it. Doug himself was a normal sleeper until he suffered a minor stroke, which left him with chronic insomnia. He [...]

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Back in November 2010, we wrote about pilot error due to fatigue and sleep deprivation.  We also noted that the FAA and pilots’ unions were campaigning for schedule reform to mitigate this issue but were facing opposition from airline companies. Some pilots even said that the FAA’s original proposal was not sufficient.  They wanted 10 [...]

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Making sure that teenagers get enough sleep is a daunting task. Today, teenagers have a myriad of demands to stay awake and cheat sleep, such as job commitments, school work, family obligations and the powerful distracting force of the Internet. While excessive daytime sleepiness and a hindered ability to focus and excel in school are [...]

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Aw, shucks. Every time.  You do it every time. Just when I think I’m turning into a cold, soulless robot, full of data points and little else, you go and melt my heart. You’ve taken this little device that we made – that originally started as souped up Altoids tin – and held it close. [...]

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Ah, Fall.  Another chance to start things anew. As with any fresh start, this sense of new beginnings also applies to heath, wellness and – you guessed it-sleep. During those long days of summer you might have done some or all of the following: Let your sleep schedule “relax” a bit and got up when [...]

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I had a plan. I really did. Convinced that my girlfriend got sub-par sleep, I was going to have her use Zeo for a month, show her just how bad her sleep was, then write about it for you all to read. Although it may not seem like I’m Boyfriend of the Year, I am [...]

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Biological sex, that is.  The kind that operates within your body, affecting everything from blood pressure, to hormone production, to sleep. We like to say that it doesn’t matter, that we’re all equal – until it does. A recent Wall Street Journal article was just another reminder that sex, indeed, does matter. Men are From [...]

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Editor’s note: When I came across Laurie Frick’s sleep inspired works of art, I thought “Yes!  This is a whole new way of using and looking at Zeo data that we never imagined–but here it is!”  I was even more excited to learn that Laurie has been at this for years, using bio-feedback and bio-rhythms [...]

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We all know that many of us don’t get enough sleep every night, and that it’s related to serious health risks and problems. Old news; got it. But instead of seeing sleep as a problem that needs to be fixed, maybe it’s time to think of it as the secret ingredient to give us the [...]

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What started in a classroom at Brown made the The Martha Stewart Show today as a Top 5 Health & Beauty Gadget… You already know how we feel about sleep, but I can’t tell you how excited I am to see more people talking about how crucial sleep is to our whole self. Weight and [...]

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