Sunday, October 28, 2007

Sleep Deprivation

Emotions Run Amok in Sleep-Deprived Brains :

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071022/sc_livescience/emotionsrunamokinsleepdeprivedbrains

"When we're sleep deprived, it's really as if the brain is reverting to more primitive behavior, regressing in terms of the control humans normally have over their emotions," researcher Matthew Walker, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, told LiveScience.


I guess it really highlights the importance of getting sufficient rest and sleep, something that many of us seem to be experts at neglecting :)

Having said that, it's time for me to go catch some zzz's! :) G'd night!

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs

Came across this in Vicky's blog, and I couldn't resist posting it :

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Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs

Can you raed tihs? Olny srmat poelpe can. I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig h

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Goodness, I actually understood what was written! Heh.
And even more mind-boggling, I actually bothered to read it to the very end, haha. Talk about wasting time on silliness ... :)

The human mind is such a mysterious and amazing thing, isn't it?