Sleep Is Now Officially In Fashion

Beauty sleep isn't just for models anymore, it's also a must for geniuses. Einstein needed 10 hours of sleep to function at his best. In his new book, "Internal Time," German chronobiologist Till Roenneberg demonstrates through a wealth of research that our sleep patterns have little to do with laziness and other such scorned character flaws, and everything to do with biology. 

This is the face of my grand-nephew Soren after somebody woke him up way too soon.  He's basically giving somebody "the side-eye of death". Roenneberg also chastises the predjudicial view that the early bird gets the worm: "This myth that early risers are good people and that late risers are lazy has its reasons and merits in rural societies but becomes questionable in a modern 24/7 society. The old moral is so prevalent, however, that it still dominates our beliefs, even in modern times. The postman doesn’t think for a second that the young man might have worked until the early morning hours because he is a night-shift worker or for other reasons. He labels healthy young people who sleep into the day as lazy ."  


Now if you live on a farm, good for you.  

Yale Law School Offers Therapy Dogs to Help With Stress. We May Have to Take A Road Trip To New Haven or Just Watch the Video Below

Yale Law School, renowned for competitiveness and its Supreme Court justices, is embarking on a pilot program next week in which students can check out a “therapy dog” named Monty along with the library’s collection of more than one million books.

While the law school is saying little so far about its dog-lending program, it has distributed a memo to students with the basics: that Monty will be available at the circulation desk to stressed-out students for 30 minutes at a time beginning Monday, for a three-day trial run.

“It is well documented that visits from therapy dogs have resulted in increased happiness, calmness and overall emotional well-being,” Blair Kauffman, the law librarian, wrote in an e-mail to students.

BUT WHAT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO GO ALL THE WAY TO NEW HAVEN TO SIGN UP FOR A THERAPY DOG AT THE YALE LAW SCHOOL? WE'RE HERE TO HELP!

DESTRESS IN THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN OFFICE OR HOME. JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO FEATURING RESCUE DOGS BY THE GROUP, "OK GO". REPEAT AS NECESSARY.


And isn't it interesting that the background in the video is "almost" Yale Blue?

Going To The Dogs: Sounds Like A Plan

 It would be really, really fashionable if all music videos had dogs in them.  The humans look good working paw in hand with our furry friends.  Bark! the Herald Angels Sing!  Happy Holidays!