Sleeping Sweet Spot
Sleep deprivation is not only about bad mood and caffeine abuse. According to the results of a 14-year study published in 2004, long-term mortality risks in women were lowest among those sleeping 6 to 7 hours. The risk of death in women sleeping 5 hours or less was 15% higher than for those sleeping 7 hours. […]
Avoid Open-Office Plans or Promote Silence Hours
The recent article in The New York Times raised an issue of the noise at work in the office. The author noticed an obvious thing: the noise make people less productive and more distracted. He even bought up my favorite, evolutionary, standpoint: Mammalian hearing developed primarily as an animal-detector system — and it was crucial […]
Users Manual: Stay Green and Neat
Bought a new kettle, washer, TV set, or camera? Congratulations! Got a stack of paper user manuals with it? User manuals are usually stored forever, sometimes even when the appliance is gone, but why storing papers? Most likely, you will never need it, or if you need, you may have a hard time finding it. […]