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The War On Sleep

Posted by Kyle Sleeper · January 04, 2019

Regardless of how you get your screen time, our animal brains and bodies did not evolve to our radical shift of light input, sedentary lifestyles, or digital engagement prevalent in the 21st century.

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How To Get A Perfect Night’s Sleep In The Digital Age

Posted by C James · September 18, 2018

It’s 2am. You’ve just secured another Victory Royale. You love bears. It dawns on you that you have to be up in 6 hours in order to get to work on time. That doesn’t sound like hibernation. Life choices now suck. Bedtime sucks. Mortal needs suck. Bears rule. Not having a sleep ritual sucks. Hibernation is really cool. Resentment grows. You are having difficulty finding the things sweet dreams are made of. You don’t even own a stuffed animal anymore.

Here are 5 ways to help create a better sleep ritual so you can get the perfect nights sleep in the digital age and other ways to sleep like a grizzly bear.

Cortisol: The Science and Stress of Gaming

Posted by C James · September 06, 2018

You might’ve heard about Professor Ingo Froböse’s eSport athlete study before: through the German Sports University, Froböse conducted an experiment in the name of prevention and rehabilitation for gamer health, since no one had looked critically at the demands placed on eSports athletes, much less the kind of training one would have to go through in order to compete and what sort of subsequent strains that training would incur. What the team witnessed was nothing short of surprising, and showed that the stress placed on eSport athletes is a unique level of strain unseen in any other sport...

Life Thoughts: Sleep, Lord of Dreams

Posted by C James · August 30, 2018

The river Lethe is said to run the borders of Elysium, where it’s dark waters offer relief to the dead; relief from their memories of mortal living. It is the river of oblivion, Ameles Potamos, and its soft murmurings are a lullabye to those wandering shades who find themselves lost on her shores. Lethe flows around, through, or from the cave of Hypnos, Greek god of sleep, son of Nyx and Erebus, brother to Thanatos...

Muscles: Digital Eye Strain and Macular Degeneration

Posted by C James · August 29, 2018

There are two things about screens that really mess our eyes up: viewing distance and the blue light screens emit. Viewing distance is easy to understand, even if we don’t think about it much: there are muscles that control your eyes...