Archive for October 2024

“Everybody knows the idea of sleep quality. They assume that it is based on people’s sleep performance during the night, as something that you can measure,” says Nicole Tang, director for the Warwick Sleep and Pain Lab at the University of Warwick in the UK. “But what happened afterwards, and what happened just before, could also have an influence.”

I came of age in the 1990s and lived through the heavily gendered pop culture of Spice Girls and All Saints, Oasis and Blur, of lads and ladettes outdoing each other in heavy drinking and sexual exploits.

The 2020s have seen an explosion in rhetoric about mental health – about the importance of monitoring it, tending to it, talking about it. Public discourse had already been trending steadily in this direction for years, with celebrities increasingly sharing their own struggles with mental illness, and the number of Americans using psychological services rising steadily since at least 2010.

Indonesia’s Education, Culture, Research and Technology Ministry sent a team to investigate after receiving a report from an anonymous whistleblower that at least 11 of the university’s professors, mainly from the Law Faculty, published academic papers in what is popularly called “predatory journals” – journals that publish papers mainly in return for payments, with minimum peer review and almost guaranteed acceptance.

In the first couple years of the pandemic, Kingston had become the housing market with the most quickly increasing home prices in the country, according to the National Association of Realtors, as cited by multiple news sources. Rents were likewise rising stratospherically. This year, the median rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Kingston was $1,872—a 46.1 percent increase since Soto moved to the city. For many of Kingston’s residents, that’s enough to price them out of their homes. Though the area’s median income is about three-quarters that of New York City’s, it also has a poverty rate 40 percent higher, at 18.5 percent; 23 percent for families with children