Mis-clock-ceptions:
Believe me, I love the word "circadian". It is a really cool word, invented by Franz Halberg in the late 1950s, out of 'circa' (Latin - "about") and diem ("a day"), to denote daily rhythms in biochemistry, physiology and behavior...
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Posted on May 3, 2008 4:50 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Not that it's a good thing.......
Posted on October 28, 2007 12:50 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
An oldie but goodie (June 12, 2005) debunking one of the rare Creationist claims that encroaches onto my territory....
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Posted on August 4, 2007 4:57 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Back in the late 1990s, when people first started using various differential screens, etc. looking for elusive "genes for sleep", I wrote in my written prelims (and reprinted it on my blog several years later): Now the sleep researchers are...
Posted on May 26, 2007 7:11 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
How does one fisk a medical quackery when there is no attempt whatsoever to explain what it is all about - not even a string of New-Age mumbo-jumbo, nonsensical, vaguely English-sounding words. All it says is: Buy The Book. Yeah,...
Posted on May 2, 2007 2:35 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is a story about two mindsets - one scientific, one not - both concerned with the same idea but doing something very different with it. Interestingly, both arrived in my e-mail inbox on the same day, but this post...
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Posted on February 28, 2007 9:50 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
OK, it is a premise of a new SF novel. The book description does not look too promising, though I guess I should read it for professional reasons (I put it on my amazon wish-list for now): Last call from...
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Posted on February 22, 2007 12:55 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Nicole Eugene recently defended her Masters Thesis called Potent Sleep: The Cultural Politics of Sleep (PDF) on a topic that I find fascinating: Why is sleep, a moment that is physiologically full and mentally boundless, thought to be a moment...
Posted on January 27, 2007 10:49 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
For science bloggers, a study older than a week is often too old to blog about. For scientists, last five years of literature are the most relevant (and many grad students, unfortunately, never read the older stuff). I thought that...
Posted on December 20, 2006 5:25 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Now behind the Wall, but plenty of excerpts available in this March 26, 2005 post......
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Posted on December 13, 2006 10:53 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Does eating turkey meat make you sleepy? Some people say Yes, some people say No, and the debate can escalate into a big fight.
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Posted on November 22, 2006 10:53 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
An oldie but goodie (June 12, 2005) debunking one of the rare Creationist claims that encroaches onto my territory....
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Posted on November 15, 2006 11:02 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This post is a relatively recent (May 24, 2006) critique of a PLoS paper....
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Posted on November 13, 2006 10:58 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Study says no video games on school nights: According to Dr. Iman Sharif, the results were clear-cut. "On weekdays, the more they watched, the worse they did," said Dr. Sharif. Weekends were another matter, with gaming and TV watching habits...
Posted on October 5, 2006 11:59 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over 1.6 Million Americans Use Alternative Medicine For Insomnia Or Trouble Sleeping: A recent analysis of national survey data reveals that over 1.6 million American adults use some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to treat insomnia or trouble...
Posted on September 20, 2006 3:42 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The fourth part of a four-part series on the topic.
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Posted on September 11, 2006 11:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is the third part of the series on the topic.
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Posted on September 11, 2006 10:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The second post on the topic. A couple of links are broken due to medieval understanding of permalinks by newspapers, but you will not miss too much, I hope....
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Posted on September 11, 2006 9:58 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The first in a series of posts about the changes in sleep schedules in adolescents.
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Posted on September 11, 2006 8:54 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This kind of ignorant bleating makes me froth at the mouth every time - I guess it is because this is my own blogging "turf". One of the recurring themes of my blog is the disdain I have for people...
Posted on September 10, 2006 5:42 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sometimes a metaphor used in science is useful for research but not so useful when it comes to popular perceptions. And sometimes even scientists come under the spell of the metaphor. One of those unfortunate two-faced metaphors is the metaphor...
Posted on July 19, 2006 11:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Debunking two misuses of the term and concept of "circadian clocks" in medical quack field.
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Posted on July 3, 2006 9:59 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This week, it took me quite a while to figure out how to answer the Ask a ScienceBlogger question: "What are some unsung successes that have occurred as a result of using science to guide policy?" As a relative newcomer...
Posted on June 29, 2006 4:51 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Interesting: Melatonin may be found in grapes MILAN, Italy, June 16 (UPI) -- Scientists in Italy say they have discovered that the grapes used in popular red wines may contain high levels of the sleep hormone melatonin. Melatonin is naturally...
Posted on June 16, 2006 7:30 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
When a news release states that a brain region is crucial for something, one is led to believe that this is the MAIN center controlling that function. If it is crucial for thermoregulation than it is the center for thermoregulation...
Posted on June 13, 2006 6:44 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
So, Wellbutrin is now officially a drug for treating Seasonal Affective Disorder. And chocolate is so unofficially. But, those may only take the edge off of the symptoms - they cannot affect the underlying causes....
Posted on June 12, 2006 11:52 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This post is perhaps not my best post, but is, by far, my most popular ever. Sick and tired of politics after the 2004 election I decided to start a science-only blog - Circadiana. After a couple of days...
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Posted on June 12, 2006 10:44 AM • 28 Comments • 4 TrackBacks
