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Security & Justice
Southern Lebanon Endures Massive Damage: 40,000 Homes Leveled Across 37 Towns
Israeli forces have systematically destroyed entire neighborhoods in southern Lebanon, leveling more than 37 towns and wiping out over 40,000 residential units, according to Lebanon's National News Agency.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Gaps in Coastal Radar Enabled Israeli Raid in Batroun, Army Commander Says
Lebanon’s army chief, General Joseph Aoun, detailed to Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati how Israeli forces likely exploited gaps in the country's coastal radar system during the recent raid carried out in Batroun. The briefing comes as Lebanese officials seek answers on how Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 unit carried out the landing undetected.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
My Hope for Lebanon
A company of Lebanese soldiers assigned to maintain order in this anxious wartime capital is gathered at its headquarters 100 yards from the Mediterranean. I make the blunder of asking their commander how many of his men are Shiites, Sunnis, Christians and Druze.
Monday, November 4, 2024
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
Sports
FC Barcelona Fears First Team Star Will Be Banned From Playing, Reports SPORT
FC Barcelona is concerned that one of its main first-team stars will be banned from playing at the turn of 2025 because of issues related to his registration and Financial Fair Play (FFP) limits according to SPORT, which cited anonymous sources.
Friday, November 1, 2024
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Monday 27 November 2023 16:48:12
Hitting Snooze May Help You Feel Less Sleepy and More Alert, Research Says
You snooze, you lose — right? According to new research, maybe not.
Conventional wisdom says that that snooze button isn’t good for you. You might have heard something about it messing with your deep sleep patterns. Perhaps you’ve been scolded at some point by a disapproving early riser for hitting that button too many times.
No matter the scenario, there’s a sense that the snooze button is bad. You should wake up.
Sure, humans are creatures of habit; keeping our wake and sleep times consistent seems like fair advice, especially if you’re tired or groggy in the morning.
But it turns out that hitting the snooze button may not disrupt your sleep cycle after all.
New research published on October 18 in the Journal of Sleep ResearchTrusted Source indicates that hitting the snooze button — even a few times — probably isn’t as bad for your sleep as you might think.
Does hitting the snooze button make you more tired?
For some people, such as late risers, hitting snooze could be beneficial to ward off so-called “sleep inertia,” that awful morning stupor that can linger well past your first cup of coffee.
In two studies — one a self-reported survey on the sleeping habits of “snoozers,” and the other a small laboratory-conducted sleep study — researchers found that hitting the snooze button didn’t seriously affect sleep quality, nor did it cause a significant loss in overall sleeping time.
“This study affirms that if a person has a ‘snooze’ as a part of their routine they are not causing harm in regard to their total sleep architecture as a whole or relating to functioning later in the day,” said Dr. Sara E. Benjamin, medical director of Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center and Instructor of Neurology. Benjamin wasn’t affiliated with the research.
In the first study, researchers interviewed more than 1,700 individuals about their sleep and waking habits. More than two-thirds of respondents (69%), reported using the snooze button or setting multiple alarms “sometimes.”
The most common reason for snoozing was feeling too tired or unable to wake up with the first alarm.
A significant portion (17.4%) said they did it just because it “feels good,” and a similar number (16.6%) noted that they wanted to “wake up more slowly.”
You snooze, you lose — right? According to new research, maybe not.
Conventional wisdom says that that snooze button isn’t good for you. You might have heard something about it messing with your deep sleep patterns. Perhaps you’ve been scolded at some point by a disapproving early riser for hitting that button too many times.
No matter the scenario, there’s a sense that the snooze button is bad. You should wake up.
Sure, humans are creatures of habit; keeping our wake and sleep times consistent seems like fair advice, especially if you’re tired or groggy in the morning.
But it turns out that hitting the snooze button may not disrupt your sleep cycle after all.
New research published on October 18 in the Journal of Sleep ResearchTrusted Source indicates that hitting the snooze button — even a few times — probably isn’t as bad for your sleep as you might think.
Does hitting the snooze button make you more tired?
For some people, such as late risers, hitting snooze could be beneficial to ward off so-called “sleep inertia,” that awful morning stupor that can linger well past your first cup of coffee.
In two studies — one a self-reported survey on the sleeping habits of “snoozers,” and the other a small laboratory-conducted sleep study — researchers found that hitting the snooze button didn’t seriously affect sleep quality, nor did it cause a significant loss in overall sleeping time.
“This study affirms that if a person has a ‘snooze’ as a part of their routine they are not causing harm in regard to their total sleep architecture as a whole or relating to functioning later in the day,” said Dr. Sara E. Benjamin, medical director of Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center and Instructor of Neurology. Benjamin wasn’t affiliated with the research.
In the first study, researchers interviewed more than 1,700 individuals about their sleep and waking habits. More than two-thirds of respondents (69%), reported using the snooze button or setting multiple alarms “sometimes.”
The most common reason for snoozing was feeling too tired or unable to wake up with the first alarm.
A significant portion (17.4%) said they did it just because it “feels good,” and a similar number (16.6%) noted that they wanted to “wake up more slowly.”
Two new studies investigated sleep habits of people who like to snooze in the morning.
The research suggests that snoozing in the morning is just fine, even beneficial for some sleepers. It wasn’t associated with a significant loss in sleep time or worsened sleep quality.
The study was limited to healthy sleepers, so people with sleep disorders or daily fatigue should still speak to their doctor.
