January 23, 2004

All in a Day's Work

Too much work to keep up with this much, but of note:

  • Sleeping on problems improves your likelihood of solving them. University of Lubock experimenters designed a study to show whether sleep aids in thinking through solutions. Sixty-six students were given a short task with two simple rules to perform a calculation. A simpler third approach was kept secret, but of those who slept on the problem Sixty per cent of those who slept discovered the secret rule, compared to 22 per cent among those who stayed awake.
  • Old news, but illustrating once again people are a security system's ultimate vulnerability: On-line voting company hacked.
  • Finally, the critique of the Pentagon's proposed online system for voting when people are overseas. And the source article, Internet voting system for overseas Americans is vulnerable, security experts say
Posted at January 23, 2004 07:47 AM
Comments

There's more and more stuff coming out for the benefits of a good night's sleep. Seems to help with memory in general too: there tends to be a slow forgetting of learned tasks during the day, but then a potential surge the next morning, after sleep.

Sleep and exercise seem the two things we understand the health benefits of. Unlike diet, which I think we really don't understand at all.

Posted by: Janni on January 23, 2004 11:03 AM

I still prefer a good ol' cup of joe to 8 hours of unconsciousness:

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/wickedcoolstuff/cofmug.html

Heh.

Posted by: Sean Stickle on January 25, 2004 04:24 PM

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