Daytime is bright. The night is supposed to be dark. We work during the day, and we should sleep at night. These are fairly simple concepts around which the human body was designed. Our hormones and our health depend on these principles. Let there be sunshine We need the sun and its light, all 32,000 …
Everybody knows that exercise helps the body and builds up muscles. But it does more than that. It also helps the brain. Focus and attention A study published in 2013 in The Journal of Pediatrics looked at 8-10 year old boys and girls before and after 20 minutes of exercise. Here are the details: Half …
What’s a human being to do? We evolved a while ago. Before email pings, before smartphones, before PTA meetings competed with business conference calls. Back in the day, we just needed to focus on how to kill the deer in front of our eyes. Then we had to remember where our cave was, so we …
We live in a cocoon. But this cocoon is regularly invaded by a cacophony of sound. Which is hurting us silently. At work, and at play. What is sound? Sound is a wave. It requires a source which produces the wave, and a medium, which carries the wave from one place to the other. It …
“Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care, the death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, chief nourisher in life’s feast.” -Macbeth, Act II, Sc. ii As usual, Shakespeare had it right. Ernest Hemingway also was on the right track when he said, “I love …