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For February’s Featured Blogger we’re thrilled to present not just one but four bloggers. Diego, Liam, Taus, and Amanda are high school students who decided to try out polyphasic sleep for two weeks to see if they could reap the benefits of all that extra time without sacrificing on “good” sleep. In addition to their [...]
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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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This article comes from the team at REM Sleep Labs, an accredited sleep testing center with Sleep Centers in Orange County, Los Angeles, and San Diego Their goal is to develop and maintain high quality healthcare service and provide education to the public and healthcare professionals. Being tired isn’t exactly out of the ordinary for [...]
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Politicians aren’t the only ones talking about deficit spending. Sleep researchers and health experts have long argued that large segments of the population are sleep bankrupt–and don’t know it. Sure, we make the minimum payments by “sleeping in” on the weekend, but just like our credit card balance, we never manage to fully pay it [...]
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Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Zeo Expert Answers, a library of articles written by sleep experts answering your questions. Our users have asked all sorts of great questions and we want to share some of them with the community at large. If you’ve got questions about your sleep, and want to hear what the [...]
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Check this out: We do a lot of talking around here about how important sleep is. We also jabber on about how we don’t get enough sleep. We may even mention that if we all just slept a little more, we’d be better people. We’d be superstars. We’d be awesome. Well, we recently got together [...]
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The recent revelation that the cause behind the fatal Air India crash this May was pilot error due to sleep inertia has numerous agencies and the Indian government in a tizzy. According to a report analyzing the plane’s black box, the pilot, Zlatko Glusica, was asleep for most of the three hour flight from Dubai, [...]
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I’m a Zeo engineer who loves to travel, and I recently got a chance to mix the two. Last month, I took Zeo with me on a trip to Taiwan to document my sleeping patterns and prove that I could avoid jetlag [editorial: i.e. Kuji shares some interesting things he tried in order to combat [...]
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