In the wee hours of Sunday morning, ancient black magic dictates that most of our clocks will magically spring forward an hour, which means we lose an hour of precious, precious sleep. Which means that for the first few days of next week, right as this intolerably long, cold winter is starting to crack, we're all going …
Ladies, you can officially tell everyone to BACK OFF about how grumpy you are in the morning!
Tabloid trendpieces should be taken with an entire shaker of salt. But the headline "Over Half of Women Admit They Have Woken Up In A Bad Mood With Their Partner Because He Annoyed Them... In A DREAM" does not require any additional sodium. It is 100% correct, based on totally unscientific anecdata.
In the persisting mystery of why we sleep, scientists at the University of Rochester have a new theory — we sleep to give our brains time to clean out our literal brain garbage.
No one wants to raise an asshole and according to a new study the key to that could be making your kid go to bed at the same time every night.
GREAT NEWS VIA SCIENCE, BRAIN-HAVERS. Researchers from U Mass Amherst studied the sleep and learning patterns of 40 3- to 5-year-olds (who, if you think about it, are basically adult lady-bloggers in terms of both species and desire for goldfish crackers) and discovered that kids who take afternoon naps are better at…
Would you let NASA watch you sleep on a slight, six-degree decline for free? What about for $18,000 and a little certificate saying you were once an assistant astronaut, but also with the catch that researchers could draw funny, ineffable doodles on your face with a laundry marker? If you’re in reasonably good shape…
So not only are British men wallowing in grimy, fluid-dappled bedsheets, the British people — as in, the nation of proud, austere, emotionally cloistered monarch sycophants — are quite fond of sleeping naked, because all that stiff-upper-lip stuff needs some kind of an outlet, and going to bed without first corralling…
I am pretty much a gold-medal-level sleeper—I've slept through earthquakes, smoke alarms, wolf fights (PROBABLY, HOW WOULD I KNOW?)—so I don't have any prescription supplements to usher me off to snoozeville. But once in a while, when one crosses my path, oh my god is that velvety blackness ever awesome. So it doesn't…
Any woman who has ever made the grave mistake of washing her face before going to bed/inadvertently (drunkenly) smearing it off while sleeping next to a lover knows what will inevitably happen the next morning, when the sun hits her bare, freakish face: Tears. Screams. Tragedy. Disaster.
Okay, so this research into the phenomenon of twitching baby mammals (in the words of University of Iowa psychology professor Mark Blumberg, “literally every mammal that has ever been looked at” twitches) is really interesting, but I’m not going to dress this post up in futuristic scientific regalia (I was thinking a…
Are you under the impression that you're beating the sleeping odds on your four hours of shut eye? Wrong, you sleep-deprived ninny! According to the New York Times, you're actually just getting dumber, slower, fatter, and more evil with every hour you don't sleep. (Sign me up!)
Have you been acting dishonest around the office lately by taking credit for other people's work or misreporting numbers? There's a chance that your recent acts of workplace scum-baggery are not entirely your fault. New research shows that the impulse to cheat might come from (or is at least encouraged by) a lack of…
We all know our health is important, but we often neglect some of the little stuff that comes back to bite us later. Here are four of the simplest and cheapest things you can do now to make your future self happier and healthier.
Yo, teens! Let me take a sec of your day to rap at you about your crappy sleep habits. Smart phones and Giga Pets away, guys. I'm gonna need your full attention up front. Listen to me, I sound like some lame teacher, which, ha, I definitely am not. Would a lame teacher sit backwards in a chair and know who 2 Chainz is? …
Ever since I was a teeny-tiny kid, falling asleep has been a problem for me. Back then, I'd lie awake for hours, panicking as I watched the sun creep up, and now, decades later, it's a similar story. I still can't manage to catch a damn wink and neither can anyone else I know. It begs the question — are any of us…
Yes, I'm aware that obscure film and television actress Lindsay Dee Lohan (pictured) is not actually sleeping in any non-substance-induced way, but just let me have this.
When you're working and taking care of your family, there just aren't enough hours in the day for everything that needs to get done. Something has to give—usually it's sleep. But experts say that sacrificing the amount of rest you get is detrimental to your health and possibly dangerous for others as well.
Yet another thing is working against you in your quest for an itty bitty waist (but probably helping you succeed at having a round thing in other people's faces): your sleeping habits. Everyone has different sleep needs, but the average is between 7 and 9 hours a night, and even getting an hour less than you need can…
Obviously "waking up on the wrong side of the bed" is a very real menace—I've been storming around all morning because last night I had a dream that I got fat-shamed by Guy Fieri. (He was passing around "Guy's Bitchin' Pork Gelatin Garlic Fries" and he goes, "Here, Lindy, you look like you want the BIGGEST HONKER IN THERE,"…
