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Sleep Hygiene and Curing Insomnia

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Unless my stress is at Alert Level Red, I don’t really have a problem with insomnia. Jen, on the other hand, has “rarely been successful at sleeping through the night” since she was a teenager. She’s written a lengthy and informative post on her rigorous sleep hygiene (a term I hadn’t heard before) routine. Here’s just one of the […]

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Russia is Shrinking by 700,000 People a Year

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

Did you know that? I knew certain European and Asian countries’ populations were in decline, but I had no idea Russia’s decline was so steep. I read about it in a column by Gwynne Dyer in the latest issue of the Georgia Straight:
This has been causing something close to panic in the Kremlin, where they […]

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Great Idea: Wind Turbines in Highway Barriers

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

This is the coolest, most original idea I’ve read in months:
How many speeding cars does it take to power a lightbulb? For Mark Oberholzer, a runner-up in the 2006 Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition, this might not be such an absurd question. His project proposed integrating ­turbines into the barriers between highway lanes that would […]

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