That was Samuel Johnson writing in The Idler two centuries ago (and quoted in a more recent essay by Steven Poole). Some things seem constant. There is no
Brigid Schulte recently had a piece about Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine's "groundbreaking new “time banking” program aimed to ease work-life conflicts for the emergency medicine faculty." It's
One thing I recently got interested in is coffee consumption around the world. In most of the world, growing coffee consumption can serve as a way of measuring
One of the cleverer features on The Guardian right now is a series called “the autocomplete questions,” in which authors take on questions that are popular on Google.
I’ve been thinking some about how to work some of the argument and insights of Rest into infographics; fortunately it won’t be difficult, though since I’m not artist
The Guardian's Anonymous Academic pleads with the universe (or at least deans) to "give us back our summers:" time is not the same as pounds and pence. If I
When I was in London last month, I took a morning and went down to Goldsmiths University. I went down there to interview Will Davies, a sociology professor
Amid its constant, nonstop (and pretty good) coverage of the Greek crisis, the Guardian ran a piece today about the effects of sleep deprivation on decision-making. "The Greek
Alison Beard reviews new books on happiness and stress for Harvard Business Review: Are we finally seeing a backlash against happiness? Sort of. Most of these recent releases
Author Leo Benedictus has an article in the Guardian about inemuri and the contested state of naps in the modern Western workplace. [I]nemuri means “being present while sleeping”, and indeed