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Got Sleep?

Posted by michael on from the no-paid-overtime dept.

Whispers_in_the_dark writes "ABC News is running a story about how the U.S. Military is striving to find methods to allow soldiers to skip sleep without the ill effects associated with that sort of activity. Probably would have useful applications for computer folk too..."

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  1. Without drugs better? by twilight30 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Methods already exist, without drugs.
    Note that it's not without sleep altogether -- anyone see Jacob's Ladder ? Of course, they don't mention what a cursory search would turn up:

    Polyphasic sleep
    The 'Uberman Sleep Schedule'

    Apparently Buckminster Fuller and Thomas Jefferson practiced variants of this, getting as little as three to four hours per 24-hour period.

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