Math is fun.
Moore’s Law and the Origin of Life | MIT Technology Review
Sharov and Gordon say that the evidence by this measure is clear. “Linear regression of genetic complexity (on a log scale) extrapolated back to just one base pair suggests the time of the origin of life = 9.7 ± 2.5 billion years ago,” they say.
And since the Earth is only 4.5 billion years old, that raises a whole series of other questions. Not least of these is how and where did life begin.
This isn’t an excuse for why I haven’t posted in a month. It’s just the oldest item in the queue.
Sleep: Everything You Need To Know — The Healthy Life — Medium
We spend one third of our lives sleeping, it’s crucial for muscle recovery, fact retention and preparing the body to operate at full speed the next day, sleep is one of the most important things when it comes to day-to-day happiness. From students studying late into the night reducing the amount of information they retain to athletes sleeping in warm and loud environments missing out on crucial muscle and immune system recovery.
One of my goals this year is to improve my sleeping quality as a way of reducing stress and shedding some fat. This article popped up in Feedly–it’s a good reminder of an issue I read about from Mark Sisson a couple of years ago, what he called biphasic sleep. I have had this experience of waking up around midnight, especially when I’ve been giving myself more time to be in bed. When it happens, I will listen to a podcast in the dark for an hour. I have no reason to worry about it or label insomnia.
delanceyplace.com 12/18/12 – we used to sleep twice each night
For most of history people have had two periods of sleep each night, with the time in between being perhaps the most calm and relaxing part of their lives. Then came the lightbulb. This unexpected “two sleep” phenomenon was uncovered by historian Roger Ekirch when he began to do research for a history of the night:
Bookmark this in your head. If you must eat at a fast food joint, Panera Bread will sell you a salad or egg bowl that has no bread in it. How agnostic of them.
Access into Panera’s Hidden Menu :: Articles & Tips :: MyPanera
You may have heard of our Hidden Menu launch in New York City in November of last year. The biggest piece of feedback we received was around when the Hidden Menu would be available in all of our bakery-cafes. And since there’s no better way to celebrate the New Year than with you, our best customers, we’ll ring in the New Year together by expanding our Hidden Menu nation-wide – starting today.*
Aren’t these commonly known as bath salts?
Synthetic alcohol: booze without the hangover
What is non-alcoholic and non-toxic but gives you the buzz of abeer? Synthetic alcohol, according to David Nutt of the Brain Sciences Division at Imperial College London.
