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The North Face Dolomite Sleeping Bag

The North Face Dolomite Sleeping Bag

Part of a Spring 2011 Capsule Collection, the North Face Dolomite Sleeping Bag should be something to consider if you are planning to go outdoors and are worried of proper sleeping arrangements. The sleeping bag features Heatshield Optimal Technology gauged to maintain warmth down to 20-degree Fahrenheit or -2 Celsius.

A large print of “Supreme” runs across the polyester taffeta shell while another Supreme signature, black-&-white checker print, lines the interior. The Dol

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The Heinz Golden Sleep Ads

The Heinz Golden Sleep Ads

Seeing ad campaigns to promote a particular product can truly spur up exposure and seeing how sleep problems for the young and old are becoming an issue, the Heinz Golden Sleep ads are sure to catch anyone’s attention. For one, the ad makes use of cute tykes in different positions which should become interesting for parents seeking better ways to help their kids sleep.

The baby milk product hails from China and was conceived by Invisible advertising. Each of these ads stars a different ba

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Another Air Controller Falls Asleep in Reno

Air Controller Falls Asleep in Reno

It seems to be becoming a habit but for the third time in the span of three weeks, another air controller has reportedly slept on the job over at Reno. And the timing couldn’t have come at a worse time considering there was an emergency of sorts when a medical plane was bringing in a sick passenger early Wednesday.

Thankfully, the plane was able to land safely and no additional casualties ensued. You can just imagine the dangers of landing a plane without tower assistance, a catastrophe that co

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Cavefish Sleep Patters May Help Understand Sleep Patterns

Cavefish

There have been a lot of guinea pigs used by specialists to provide a better understanding on sleep patterns and today we learn that Cavefish have been used to probably bring back clues on human sleep disorders. A study published at the Current Biology,

Apparently they first had to find out how and when fish sleep. After that, they found that once a fish had been in this position for 60 seconds, it was definitely in a different state: Like rousing a sleepy teenager, it took three times as many taps o

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The Tardis Blanket

The Tardis Blanket

Taking its cue from a time-machine inspired show, the Tardis Blankets are plainly meant for adding some warmth for people to sleep better assuming cold weather is upon them. Easily associated with the popular TV show Dr. Who, this is perhaps the closes thing you can get on being able to travel through time.

Then again, it could fictionally become possible to have someone you wish to be by your side when you want to sleep better although this may be limited as “all in the mind”. Chicks are bo

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Air Traffic Controller Sleeps on Purpose

Air Traffic Controller Sleeps on Purpose

Being assigned to the midnight shift of any organization may be something an employee may not necessarily like but still, there are duties to be done. One occupation that has had its share of problems would be that of being an Air Traffic Controller. We had heard of one instance where people of this nature fell asleep on accident but it seems the latest is that this one fell asleep on purpose.

This is about an air controller at Knoxville’s McGhee Tyson airport who fell asleep for 5 hours last Fe

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Flat Head Babies linked to Sleeping on their Backs

Flat Head Babies linked to Sleeping on their Backs

Here is an issue that should be a bit controversial. While parents are being advised to have their kids lie on their back to avoid cot death, it seems that the same has become the prime reason why some toddlers are getting flat heads.

As per US researchers, the number of babies with flat heads have increased between 1999 to 2007 which is something similar that UK people have reported. And while the flat head issue does seem harmless, experts do say that it could lead to parents anxiety an

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Internet Program Helps People Sleep Better

We all know that one of the problems of losing sleep has been blamed on the Internet. However, it seems that thanks to this new Internet-based program, the Internet may yet be an exemption.

This has something to do with an Internet program that can reportedly help people sleep better. The program was said to be effective in reducing infant and toddler sleep disturbances as well as help out in the maternal sleep of elders.

Mothers in the intervention groups used their home computer to acce

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Babies Advised Not to Sleep in Smoker’s Room

We all know how passive smoking or third hand smoke can affect non-smokers but apparently it doesn’t stop there. Babies who find themselves sleeping in smoker’s rooms are at risk of collecting level of nicotine which may eventually stick to their hair.

This was proven through a Spanish study where hair samples from 252 babies younger than 18 months who slept at their smoking parents room were collected. Based on the collected hair samples, nicotine levels were found on 83% of the folks who bared tha

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Sleepwalkers Replay a Day’s Learning Experience

The state of mind or at least the things that are taught can be existent in our subconscious selves. That is what we all believed in and until now, there was no real scientific evidence to back it up. But thanks to some sleep researchers over at France’s Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris, a breakthrough may yet back it up, all on video at that.

They came up with a straightforward test to do the trick. They would teach a motor task to sleepwalkers and people with sleep behavior disorders, who typically move their bodies in tandem with dreams. If test subjects repeated the mot

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