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| 160169. Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:20 pm |
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What do eugeroic drugs do to you?
F: Make you huge, make you heroic
A: Keep you awake. The idea is that they will eventually allow you to dispense with sleep altogether.
s: So Far, So Near by ... Mat Coward.
What, Mat, you weren't going to tell us? You thought maybe we just wouldn't notice? |
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| 160260. Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:35 am |
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| No-one ever reads any of my books - just my luck that Flash is the kind of weirdo who has to read entire public libraries from C-B ... now all the good E stuff I was planning to keep from you is at risk, curse it! |
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| 160268. Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:55 am |
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And click here for a good, more general article
| Quote: | | Scientists understand how the drugs work only broadly |
Oooh, that is so comforting! Drugs based on not-very-well-understood science are going to be effectively compulsory within a few years; whoopee! |
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| Flash
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| 160303. Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:57 am |
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That's great. For the notes; that article lists Napoleon, Edison and Churchill amongst people who supposedly needed very little sleep. Thatcher is often mentioned in this connection also, and I think I've seen somewhere that Mussolini left the lights on in his office to give the impression to passers-by that he was working late at night (which might be true for all I know, though it sounds to me like black propaganda).
Who else? |
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| 160305. Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:02 am |
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| Are all these little-sleep people genuine? I must admit that my mythometer is aroused when a large number of similar people throughout history are ascribed with the same unusual condition. |
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| 160310. Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:12 am |
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I agree, though I suppose it is possible that having this condition would tend to make one more productive and therefore more likely to be remembered by posterity. A friend of mine used to be Thatcher's secretary; I'll check with her.
I forgot to list Peter the Great. I don't know anyone who worked with him, though. |
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| 160312. Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:14 am |
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| I agree with egg - though I suppose Flash's cause and effect argument makes sense, too. But it does sound like good propaganda: "Fear not, your leader never sleeps: he guards over you always." |
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| 160313. Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:17 am |
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I reckon that Thatcher probably didn't sleep very much just before elections etc, when under pressure with a lot of work to do. We all do that.
Then I didn't work for her, so I'd probably trust your friend over my skepticism. |
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| 160316. Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:21 am |
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| Flash wrote: | That's great. For the notes; that article lists Napoleon, Edison and Churchill amongst people who supposedly needed very little sleep. Thatcher is often mentioned in this connection also, and I think I've seen somewhere that Mussolini left the lights on in his office to give the impression to passers-by that he was working late at night (which might be true for all I know, though it sounds to me like black propaganda).
Who else? |
Link to Elephants at post 159615 |
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| 160321. Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:29 am |
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| Very good - just to put it up in lights (because we're looking for ways to get elephants in everywhere), Mat's referring to the fact that elephants also have a 3-hour-a-night sleep thing going on. |
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| 160323. Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:30 am |
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Not that I'm obsessed or anything. |
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| 172529. Mon May 07, 2007 9:35 am |
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| Quote: | Scientists have discovered how to promote deep sleep in way that may mean that a siesta replaces a full eight hours' sleep a night.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found [a way] to stimulate the slow waves typical of deep sleep at the flick of a switch which sends the harmless magnetic pulse through the skulls of sleeping volunteers, they report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |
- DailyTelegraph
O brave new world ... |
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| 172619. Tue May 08, 2007 3:34 am |
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Judge Dredd has been using sleep machines for years to get eight hours' sleep in a few minutes.
s: my collection of 2000ADs
(I can't believe the Telegraph didn't mention that in their article!) |
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| 172630. Tue May 08, 2007 4:29 am |
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| I'll bet that's where the University of FortyWincs got the idea, though. |
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