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Science experiment: biphasic sleep
August 26, 2016
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| Science & hacking

Intro: This comes very much in the category of something to “do” rather than make.  But it may well help with the “making” in due course. If you haven’t read my posts about biphasic sleep, you can see them here and here.  In short, biphasic sleep means sleeping in two blocks, with a period of low activity wakefulness in between.  It is suggested by researcher Jessa Gamble that this is the sleep pattern that humans evolved with and that our brains and bodies…

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The Midnight Clock – 2
August 25, 2016
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| Design, Electronics, Microcontrollers

I have had some further thoughts about the design for the Midnight Clock and wanted to jot them down. Functionality: Doesn’t turn on at a set time Turns on four hours after its “biphasic” button is pushed Could use two short strips of warm white LED stuck back to back which would allow it to be inserted into an existing lamp like the (decorative) salt lamp that I have Should have a second button that just turns it on and…

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The Midnight Clock – 1
August 24, 2016
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| Design, Science & hacking

I love sleep. I really love a good long sleep and waking feeling well rested. It’s not the easiest thing to do though these days. Our lives are so busy, there are so many demands and temptations to stay up late and get up early. As the Bon Jovi song goes: “Until I’m six feet under / Baby I don’t need a bed / Gonna live while I’m alive / I’ll sleep when I’m dead…” I love staying up…

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