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...real time," says Russell Conduit, a lecturer in the school of psychology, psychiatry and psychological medicine at Melbourne's Monash University. Instead, dream researchers rely on what he calls the "faulty methodology" of waking subjects and asking them what was going on in their heads immediately before they were woken. But because certain parts of the brain are switched off during sleep, it shouldn't be assumed that subjects' answers will be accurate. They may have been having a dream but simply weren't paying attention, can't remember it, or both. "If you took a lot of the dream...
...often woken up a roommate with getting up to scream at the TV after a missed block in the back call or a strike three called ball four. Last weekend, it was a questionable unsportsmanlike conduct call at the end of the Harvard-Princeton matchup that had me up in arms...
...Escape the bells: What a waste to plan a schedule of 11 a.m. classes only to be woken up every morning at 8:40 a.m by the Memorial Church bells. Luckily, outside of the Yard, the early ringing won’t interrupt your pleasant slumber...
...Land Without Ghosts: Chinese Impressions of America from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present, historians R. David Arkush and Leo O. Lee write that during the first period of interaction, from 1841 to around 1900, China's view of the U.S. was a mixture of wonder and fear. Woken from torpid indifference to the outside world by humiliating defeats in the Opium Wars, the Qing mandarins decided China must strengthen itself by observing the ways of other countries. But for all their awe at America's technological prowess, of "fire-wheeled vehicles" that moved faster than a Daoist sage...
...late into the night and Baseball Tonight ran even later, I found myself engaged in one of Boston’s spring pastimes.And not once did I ever set foot in Fenway Park. The spring came alive for me on the Charles River, often before most people had even woken up to check the sports page. In 20 years, I’ve never managed to sit through an entire baseball game—but I’ll wake up at 5:30 a.m. to go watch crew races in the driving rain.Hear me out on this. Few teams...