If anyone hasn't already read it, I highly recommend Dr. Matthew Walker's book Why We Sleep. The book basically says that there is no human physiological process that is not improved by sufficient sleep. The book has more potential to be life changing that any self-help book out there, provided the sound advice is actually adhered to. The pithy takeaway being: Sacrificing sleep does not make you hardworking or successful, it makes you fat and stupid.
"This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health", meaning that we paid for it with our tax dollars, but they still want to charge us $35 to read it. Fuck everything about that to flaming hell.
If the thirty-five bucks went to the researchers instead of some horrendous academic publishing parasite, maybe they would be able to afford to do a prospective study that might mean something, rather than using self-reporting retrospective questionnaires to ask people with memory impairment what they recall about their sleep patterns decades ago.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 22.0 ms ] threadIf the thirty-five bucks went to the researchers instead of some horrendous academic publishing parasite, maybe they would be able to afford to do a prospective study that might mean something, rather than using self-reporting retrospective questionnaires to ask people with memory impairment what they recall about their sleep patterns decades ago.