How much sleep is enough?

Posted by Paul Raven @ 22-04-2007 in General

Never quite as much as you just had, in my experience. The BBC looks into the theory of there being an optimum length of time for people to sleep each day, and signs seem to indicate that there is no hard and fast rule:

“In a nutshell, if you sleep for eight hours a night go to work and find yourself lolling and drooling on the keyboard, you aren’t getting enough. If you’re sleeping five hours and running the country, you probably are getting enough.”

Six hours a night is about my average, though I tend to catch up at the weekends - but there’s little sign of me running the country yet. Which is something I think we can all be grateful for …

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Cafe Scientifique: Can we find a mind gene?

Posted by Paul Raven @ 21-09-2006 in Uncategorized

Café Scientifique has started up again here in Portsmouth, and yours truly was there to catch the action. This event featured a talk by Prof. Ajit Narayanan, Head of the School of Computing at Portsmouth University, entitled ‘Can we find a mind gene?’

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