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...clock to reset. Though Lockley did say that neither napping nor hitting the snooze button is useless, he stressed the importance of long, undisturbed blocks of sleep at night. “The first four hours of sleep are characterized by slow eye movement, and the second half by rapid eye movement,” he said. “It’s important to fully get both.” “Set your alarm for the final hour, and get up right away,” Lockley suggested, causing the students to laugh...
...through exploits and errors alike, introducing the audience to a cast of likeable but one-dimensional characters who (like the whole of the movie) are initially amusing but fail to develop depth. Stanford’s Rugged is a weasel of a man, so insecure and pathetic that his rapid-fire con-man act sounds more pitiable than convincing. Schneider’s Lagrand is a one-trick pony of affected mannerisms—a special-ed voice and a twitching hair flip—that becomes seriously annoying by film’s end, since he has copious camera...
...sensationalist media coverage painting an inevitable and apocalyptic picture of climate change paralyzes rather than galvanizes the public. But the unwritten word behind the IPCC's dire predictions, and its source of hope, is if. If we can limit and later eliminate carbon emissions, if we can make a rapid transition to cleaner energy, if we help poorer nations adapt to the changes underway, then the worst consequences will be averted. But that can only happen if we act globally...
...which the brain is, in many ways, every bit as active as when it's awake; a state in which, compared with other stages of sleep, the heart beats faster, breathing quickens, blood pressure and blood flow to the brain (and sexual organs) rise, while the eyes move rapidly beneath their lids. Brain waves are low-voltage and high-frequency-the opposite to the brain waves of deep sleep, more like what goes on when a person is awake, thinking and talking. Awoken from this paradoxical state that Aserinski and Kleitman called Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, subjects could usually...
...Yamanashi, and as I discovered, that's a very, very quick ride. The train begins moving on wheels; the levitation doesn't kick in until the cars reach 81 mph. After a bump and release, as you would feel aboard a plane leaving the runway, it's pure, even, rapid acceleration to 310 mph. The only clue to the sheer speed is the tunnel lights outside: Standing 40 feet apart, they seem to stretch and blend until they appear as a single white stripe; very Buck Rogers. Outside the train makes a searing boom sound as it rips the surrounding...