Mythology and Folklore 2020

Article: "How Sleep Deprivation Decays the Mind and Body," Seth Maxon - The Atlantic I think something most college students can agree on is that sleep is great. Especially in times like these, which are stressful in a way pretty much none of us have had to deal with before, getting enough sleep is important for our health in a variety of ways. What this article showed me, though, is how much sleep can impact our health in tangible ways.  The author, who imposed sleep deprivation on himself as an experience, ended up experiencing psychological hallucinations after staying awake for several days on end. That is obviously an extreme case, but the truth is that sleep deprivation, even minor, can still take a toll on our bodies and our minds. What's crazy is that science still doesn't fully understand why we need to sleep. Biological processes like eating and breathing have obvious explanations, but scientists still haven't arrived at a consensus on the issue of wh...

Article title:  New neuroscience reveals 4 rituals that will make you happy Author: Erik Baker Source: Ladders My notes: This article discusses four findings from neuroscience that can help us all to be happier. As a stressed, burnt-out graduate student, finding a bit of happiness is always welcome. I actually suffer from clinical depression, and one of the awful things about that is sometimes I can't even muster the energy to  look  for happiness in my everyday life. I'm generally of the attitude that you can't trust self-help books that tell you they have the key to happiness, because I think that a) actively looking for it makes it harder to find, and b) each person's version of happy is different, and might require a different journey to get to it. That being said, these findings do come from neuroscience, which literally studies the human brain and how it functions. If anyone has the most accurate tips on how to feel happier in our lives, it's a neur...