Current Scientific American is devoted to sleep.

The current Scientific American is devoted to sleep. I haven't read the article but Scientific American is a very highly esteemed publication.

sleepy1235 wrote:The current Scientific American is devoted to sleep. I haven't read the article but Scientific American is a very highly esteemed publication.

Many magazine articles put me to sleep but usually I have to read them first. It must be a good article since you didn't have to read it but still had time to review it. I put on my list of things to do in a few years. Jim

Wonder if there's anything new or different in their take-away info. Every several months there are big reports of periodicals or TV specials offering new research and dramatic conclusions - however it's usually stuff members of this board have been talking about for quite awhile, so typically no big whoop to us. If somebody reads the magazine it'd be interesting to hear their report.

Sir NoddinOff wrote:Wonder if there's anything new or different in their take-away info. Every several months there are big reports of periodicals or TV specials offering new research and dramatic conclusions - however it's usually stuff members of this board have been talking about for quite awhile, so typically no big whoop to us. If somebody reads the magazine it'd be interesting to hear their report.

There has been a lot of research on the brain and just what sleep does for it in the last few years. Just for that alone it would be interesting reading.

Blackspinner, I was interested too. This particular article is subscription based, so I'm out of luck but there's been lots of discussion lately about sleep's relationship to our health. For anyone who has watched their health decline in various ways while dealing with sleep disorders it is no surprise, and it's always feels good to have our suspicions evidenced. Reminds me of Snoredog's (RIP) signature line... Someday science will catch up with what I'm saying.

I doubt if anything in the article is anymore useful than can be gleaned from this forum, or likely to be more correct. Being able to Read, Think & Learn, beats most articles that are published, due to the spin, and downright misinformation of the writer. Publish or parish, makes far bad results. Jim

So far out of five posts, no-one has read the article, they aren't making much money from it.

Goofproof wrote:...So far out of five posts, no-one has read the article...

My failure to read the article is financial and no indicator of the value of the material in the article. Even though a lot of news sources are moving to the subscription model, I'm not willing to pay for information that will soon be regurgitated by all the free sources, available through a quick Google search. A local news station I follow on Facebook and Twitter has started this and it irks me to no end to follow a headline to get only a blurb saying the rest of the story is available to subscribers. I'm not against the subscription model - expenses must be paid. I just haven't seen anything urgent enough for me to pay to get it quick.

Goofproof wrote:I doubt if anything in the article is anymore useful than can be gleaned from this forum, or likely to be more correct. Being able to Read, Think & Learn, beats most articles that are published, due to the spin, and downright misinformation of the writer. Publish or parish, makes far bad results. Jim

So far out of five posts, no-one has read the article, they aren't making much money from it.

Nor everything about sleep issues is immediately useful - some of the Ted Talks I listened to were on how the brain actually does its garbage collection during sleep stages and how that MIGHT relate to dementia later in life. Nothing of actual use to us NOW but maybe of use in the future when they can create and test drugs for dementia.

kteague wrote:

Goofproof wrote:...So far out of five posts, no-one has read the article...

My failure to read the article is financial and no indicator of the value of the material in the article. Even though a lot of news sources are moving to the subscription model, I'm not willing to pay for information that will soon be regurgitated by all the free sources, available through a quick Google search. A local news station I follow on Facebook and Twitter has started this and it irks me to no end to follow a headline to get only a blurb saying the rest of the story is available to subscribers. I'm not against the subscription model - expenses must be paid. I just haven't seen anything urgent enough for me to pay to get it quick.

Ditto, or pay at all! We are willing to sit by and let our country be taken over. It doesn't matter near as much to me what is happening with things, I can't change or have any control over. Publishing Papers, whether they are correct in their guesses of how thing are or what they are, are of little consequence, if our country doesn't survive it's own government. If anything important happens I'll find our about it long before I can do anything about it. Jim

BlackSpinner wrote:

Goofproof wrote:I doubt if anything in the article is anymore useful than can be gleaned from this forum, or likely to be more correct. Being able to Read, Think & Learn, beats most articles that are published, due to the spin, and downright misinformation of the writer. Publish or parish, makes far bad results. Jim

So far out of five posts, no-one has read the article, they aren't making much money from it.

Nor everything about sleep issues is immediately useful - some of the Ted Talks I listened to were on how the brain actually does its garbage collection during sleep stages and how that MIGHT relate to dementia later in life. Nothing of actual use to us NOW but maybe of use in the future when they can create and test drugs for dementia.

Yes, Ted Talks, has many insightful topics that are cutting edge. Haven't visited in a while, I'll put it on my to do list. Jim

I am wondering if some of the frequently "withheld" articles might be accessible at a public library.