My 3 best pieces of parenting advice
A reader recently asked me for parenting advice. She is pregnant, reads my blog regularly and would like to know what are some of my best parenting tips. I was…
A pill that reduces the amount of sleep that a person needs? Blasphemy!
Slate’s Matthew Yglesias reports on the economics of a new drug called Modafinil, which appears to let people get by with much less sleep than they do today. When I…
Snooze button sucks
I have always been anti-snooze button. There is no better way to waste time than to remain in bed after you have awoken. People waste hundreds, if not thousands of…
My most useless super power
In addition to my fairly useful super powers is one that is no less extraordinary but useless. Whenever I wake up in the middle of the night, for whatever reason,…
Reverse napping: Science says yes.
In addition to gaining coverts, it turns out that there is actual science behind the Reverse Nap. From a Wikipedia entry on segmented sleep: Historian A. Roger Ekirch argues that…
I can teach you how to sleep
TIME magazine reports that “the business of helping people get a good night’s rest is likely to remain what it is: A fast-growing sector in an otherwise slow-moving economy.” In…
How to sleep train your child
This post is being written by request. I say this because every time I write a post that implies that I know something about parenting, I receive a mixed bag…
Least favorite animal
My least favorite animal is the koala bear. It sleeps 17 hours a day. I have a hard time respecting anyone who is still in bed at 8:00 AM. How…
