ORU Memo
Created a memo template to write up a memo on for Kyle, who'll be tackling Second Contact for me, and thought you might like to have a copy. You can find it as a word doc in the stash. Also put a copy of the Feb 19 version of the evolving style sheet in the virtual root of our stash. I've been updating it in the throne price directory and that doesn't make sense now we are applying it both to Second Contact and Far Arena.
Sleep deprivation and longevity
"Ah, sleep, it is a gentle thing...." Actually the notion that we may not need as much sleep as we think if we can psych out our sleep/wake cycle featured in my Biopsych text, by Pinel, but my prof who worked with Pinel for a while suspects he was just trying to out macho another guy who was making a big deal of burning the candles at both ends. :-)

Yes, I remember reading a book called "The Sleep Thieves" where the author conducted his own experiment in on running less than four hours a night, and described a striking deterioration in performance of which he was quite unaware; he was months afterwards rewriting material he'd written in a semi-demented state. The macho-types always seem to aim for 4 hours or less - not realising, I suspect, that the 'captains of industry' who are always quoted as doing this are catnappers. Or stimulant users! According to the research mentioned, at 5 hours you've lost the advantage. Nancy Kress has written at least three novels about a world in which genetic engineering created a class of people who did not need to sleep, and the reprocussions thereof - A.
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