If you have to choose one sport to associate yourself with, you could do a lot worse than tennis. The game is fun, challenging, can be played with a team mate or just one on one, and has some sophisticated equipment – racquets mostly, along with a few neat accessories and doodads that can legitimately […]
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The evolution of sleep
My friend Miriam recently sent me this Inquiring Minds episode on sleep. Did you know that, just 100 years ago, adults regularly got 9.25 hours of sleep per night on average? “Lack of sleep” and “being tired” are more serious than they sound. 8 hours a night seems to be the sweet spot (most people […]
victoria wine festival notes
A couple weekends ago, I went to Victoria Wine Festival to check out some new-to-me wines. I went with a friend and we limited ourselves to reds to get more of a sense of what we liked and didn’t like as much. So I have a few notes from that. I am not a wine […]
a life without sleep
“Life must be lived forwards, however, it can only be understood backwards.” – Søren Kierkegaard Sleep is one of those basic things that seems simple at first, but as we progress through life, it seems to take on complexity without any additional effort from an individual. If one were to say, simply go to bed, the […]