Monthly Archives: June 2007

Sleeping

Howto sleep in Boston for under $50
as I recently discovered on NPR radio, humans have difficulty sleeping first nights in rooms
I was just talking yesterday about how I don’t trust my brain to react to stimuli in the expected fashion. More evidence for that–I always sleep better in strange places (on the road, when […]

Yard environmentalism

Kathy Schrenk notes a story on the problem of gas-powered lawn mowers and other similar devices.
The problem with the non-mowing solutions outlined is that a lot of them are also bad for the groundwater supply. Every square foot of pavement is gallons of rainwater diverted from soaking into the ground and instead sent into […]