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...biologist Francis Crick, a co-discoverer in the 1950s of the structure of the DNA molecule, drained a little more romance from dreaming. His and theoretical biologist Graeme Mitchison's "reverse learning" theory held that dreams rid the brain of superfluous notions, and that without this regular flushing brain overload would manifest as hallucinations and obsessions. There are echoes of this idea in the perspective of Drew Dawson, director of the University of South Australia's Centre for Sleep Research: "I tend to think of dreaming as a bit like backwashing the swimming pool filter...
...overworked, overwhelmed, overteched workplace. Allen hasn't just sold 500,000 copies of his book. He has preached his message of focus, discipline and creativity everywhere from Sony and Novartis to the World Bank and the U.S. Air Force. He counsels swamped chief executives on coping with information overload. He ministers to some clients with an intensive, two-day, $6,000 private session in which he and his team organize their lives from top to bottom. And he has won the devotion of acolytes who document on their blogs how his Getting Things Done (GTD) program has changed their lives...
...Necker Island, Branson gathered some of the Founders to meet Rutan and chat about spaceship design, safety issues and preparation possibilities for the G-forces and sensory overload of a first-time astronaut--like how to puke in space. They debated who would be the first paying customers. The hedge-fund honcho from California? The Internet couple from England? The hot German babe in the bikini? Or the guy from New Zealand who changed his family name to Rocket? Physicist Stephen Hawking, who believes that mankind must colonize space, sent word that he wants in--which would allow...
...films deal effectively with the Cold War, Hoberman says “the place where you have to go to see movies about Vietnam is Westerns.” He ascribes a similar ability to construct strong metaphors to the Western, but he cautions that some cultural anxieties overload the films that try to deal with them...
...light.” But surely even this illumination casts some shadows? Even in the nineteenth century, when sheet music was the closest thing to “Shuffle Play,” some recognized the dangers of information overload: Ralph W. Emerson, Class of 1821, noted of the overly-busy man: “His notebooks impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit… A Greenwich nautical almanac he has… but does not know a star in the sky.” Perhaps the advent of the iPhone is a moment...