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A Bear’s Den and a Spaceship May Have More in Common Than You Think

19 Dec 2025

Having recently moved to Prague, I have spent many of my weekends in the Czech countryside. Life there is slow, with a usual day involving a long walk in the forest as the main event. I am often...

The 'Nappuccino': Myth or Midday Miracle?

28 Nov 2025

If there’s one thing to know about me, it’s that I never quite outgrew the afternoon nap phase we all went through as kids. Among my friends, napping was (and still is) considered to be my “thing."...

Sleep Can Often Be Elusive

9 Jul 2025

Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast.

Mitochondrial Dysfunction Is a Bit of a Fad

14 Feb 2025

There is a shell game at the heart of Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again campaign, and it has to do with the mitochondrion.

To Cram or To Sleep; Are Students Focusing on The Wrong Sleep Habits?

5 Jul 2024

I was no stranger to late nights and early awakenings during my early undergraduate years. I stretched myself thin on sleep but told myself that all would be well if I got a good night’s sleep the...

Feeling tired? Mind your sleep hygiene

13 Mar 2024

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette.

Will Taking Benadryl as a Sleep Aid Give Me Dementia?

16 Feb 2024

It took me by surprise. The claim was made on TikTok by a very popular dermatologist, Dr. Charles Puza, and was picked up by BuzzFeed. Puza grew concerned when many of his patients confessed to...

Let Us Talk About Lettuce Water

6 Dec 2023

Macbeth knew about sleep deprivation, as we can infer from his thoughts in the second scene of Act 2.  ...

Beneath the CBD Hype Lies a Lot of Uncertainty

1 Dec 2023

Searching for CBD on the website of the SQDC returns nearly 1,000 search results. The SQDC is the Quebec-government-owned corporation responsible for selling recreational cannabis to the people....

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