commuting

Feeling tired? You’re not alone. A new study finds that many U.S. workers aren’t getting enough sleep, which is essential to optimal health, and that people who work multiple jobs are at heightened risk of getting less than the recommended hours of nightly rest. To conduct the study, which was published in the December issue of the Sleep journal, researchers examined the responses of nearly 125,000 Americans ages 15 years old and older and who participated in the American Time Use Survey between 2003 and 2011. They found that work was the dominant reason for reporting less sleep across nearly…

A few of the recent pieces I've liked: Jamie Holmes in The New Republic: Why Can't More Poor People Escape Poverty? Maryn McKenna at Superbug: 30 Years of AIDS, and How it Began (also Part II and Part III) Jesse Green in New York: "A Textbook of Trauma" ("The crash of the Chinatown charter was the worst bus accident in the city's history. Fifteen of its victims ended up at one hospital. Fourteen lived.") Emily Dugan in The Independent: The unstoppable march of the tobacco giants Annie Lowrey in Slate: Your Commute is Killing You ("Long commutes cause obesity, neck pain, loneliness, divorce,…