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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...volunteers were outfitted with electrode caps - akin to a white shower cap with a jungle of wires sticking out of it - that tracked their brain waves in order to determine their stage of slumber. Using an electroencephalogram (EEG), investigators monitored the sleepers' brain activity, and just when the squiggly lines on the screen showed that participants had entered deep sleep, researchers began playing a series of 25 of the sounds that the individual had heard earlier in the memory game. "[The volume] was a little over a whisper, probably much [quieter] than ... your iPod," says John Rudoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want to Boost Your Memory? Try Sleeping on It | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...keep your hair looking so great all the time? -Jennifer Cheng, Freehold, N.J. I've never told anyone this before. This is a hair scoop. Shower before you go to bed, and then sleep on your wet hair. Towel-dry it. In the morning, it's all messed up naturally. If you have that messed-up thing going when you wake up, it's more willing to stay that way. That's Zac's hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Zac Efron | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...being in a new culture, we mean really meeting people and having experiences with them day-to-day, without being able to go back and enjoy a hot shower,” said Paul A. Bohlmann, director of fellowships for the Office of Career Services...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Awarded Grants for Traveling | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

...shower occurs each year when Earth passes through the trail of dust that follows the Tempel-Tuttle comet. Dust from the comet, which orbits the Sun once every 33 years, passing close to the Earth, can burn through our atmosphere at speeds of 160,000 miles per hour...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Meteors Disappoint Watching Students | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...have 9 A.M. section, followed by 10 A.M. Arabic, followed by noon expos, and 2:30 psych,” added Meylakh M. Barshay ’13 who was trekking back up JFK St. after watching the meteor shower at the Stadium. “The stars weren’t worth...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Meteors Disappoint Watching Students | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

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