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...more than two decades they'd been able to record brain activity in sleep, but the feeling was, why bother? Why waste reams of costly graph paper making electroencephalogram recordings of what was thought to be a neurological desert? With no strong expectation of finding otherwise, University of Chicago researchers Eugene Aserinski and Nathaniel Kleitman decided it was worth doing, monitoring 10 subjects in a laboratory. Their findings turned our understanding of the sleeping brain upside down...
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...Csikszentmihalyi, who earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Chicago, says findings about happiness often surprise people. Those at work generally report that they wish they were at home, he says, but when they're home they often feel passive, depressed or bored. "They have in mind that free time at home will make them feel better, but often it doesn't,"he says. Group activities and socializing tend to yield more joy. One thing Csikszentmihalyi won't test his new students on is the spelling or pronunciation of his name. "They can just call me Mike...
Five years later, an investigation led by Bok, then in his first go at leading the University, found in favor of Skocpol’s claim. She was offered tenure and returned to Harvard from the University of Chicago...