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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Forever Trial at Guantánamo</strong> - President Biden moved to end the war in Afghanistan, but the proceedings against the remaining war-on-terror detainees, including the 9/11 suspects, drag on. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/20/the-forever-trial-at-guantanamo">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Fall of the bin Ladens</strong> - The family might have thrived indefinitely after Osama’s death but for the ambitions of Mohammed bin Salman. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-fall-of-the-bin-ladens">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Link Between Texas’s New Abortion Law and Its New Voting Laws</strong> - For decades, Republican strategists have seen exploiting both issues as a way to hang on to power. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-link-between-texass-new-abortion-law-and-its-new-voting-laws">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Meaning of California’s Anti-Stealthing Bill</strong> - The civil-rights attorney Alexandra Brodsky discusses how legislation against nonconsensual condom removal could expand understandings of sexual assault. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-meaning-of-californias-anti-stealthing-bill">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How to Talk About Climate Change Across the Political Divide</strong> - Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist and evangelical Christian, has written a book that lays out strategies for discussing the climate crisis in a divided country. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/on-religion/how-to-talk-about-climate-change-across-the-political-divide">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>The housing crisis is the top concern for urban residents</strong> -
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Rowhouses in the Bloomingdale neighborhood in Washington, DC, on September 14, 2020. | Bonnie Jo Mount/Washington Post via Getty Images
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A new poll shows people are fed up with housing costs. And they want to build more housing.
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Housing costs and homelessness in America’s cities are so bad that people in growing metro areas now appear more concerned about those issues than Covid-19, public safety, taxes, education, and jobs, according to a new <a href="https://www.manhattan-institute.org/metropolitan-majority-poll-costs-crime-classrooms">poll by the Manhattan Institute and Echelon Insights</a>.
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The poll surveyed 4,000 adults from August 11-20, sampling 200 people each in the “20 metropolitan areas with the largest numerical population growth from 2010-2019.”
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<img alt="More urban voters in a poll expressed extreme concern over
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the cost of housing (64 percent) and homelessness (63 percent) than the spread of Covid-19 (60 percent)." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/B5AL-Pqva9H8hfQmsODCl_qWX3U=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-
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cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22853787/Screen_Shot_2021_09_15_at_5.35.34_PM.png"/> <cite>Manhattan Institute and Echelon Insights</cite>
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This poll takes place after more than a year of skyrocketing housing prices. The Case-Shiller Index, a leading measure of US home prices, <a href="https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/indexnews/announcements/20210831-1442970/1442970_cshomeprice-
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release-0831.pdf">showed in June</a> that prices had increased 18.6 percent since the previous year. According to <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS">data</a> from the US Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development aggregated by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the median sales price in the last quarter of 2019 was $327,100. By the second quarter of 2021, that number had hit $374,900.
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“It’s not surprising that housing affordability was the top issue in America,” said Michael Hendrix, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a free-market think tank. “What surprised me was the intensity, the priority that housing affordability and generally cost of living for people that ranks in these fast-growing metros. It wasn’t just a San Francisco or New York issue, it’s becoming more widespread.”
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In attractive metropolitan areas, the situation is even more dire. <a href="https://www.redfin.com/us-housing-market">According to Redfin data</a>, Phoenix saw a 24.1 percent median sales price increase over the last year. Housing supply declined by 44.9 percent in San Francisco in the same time frame. And residents are noticing. In the Manhattan Institute’s poll, 64 percent of people in fast-growing urban areas said they were extremely or very concerned about the cost of housing. The poll has a sampling margin of error of plus/minus 2.3 percentage points and includes some respondents in less dense communities within the metro areas.
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Unlike most national polls about housing affordability, this one asked respondents about which solutions they’d apply in their cities. Two-thirds strongly or somewhat support allowing “more housing to be built near transit stops,” an important solution since transit-oriented development is necessary to create affordable, walkable, and climate-friendly neighborhoods.
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But, most importantly, the survey found that people in growing metro areas are in favor of making it easier to build more homes. Sixty-eight percent agreed that they would support “expediting and streamlining the approvals process so it is easier to begin building more housing” in their city. Only 20 percent say that they strongly or somewhat oppose. This, finally, helps get to the root of the issue.
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American cities have seen such a steep rise in housing unaffordability largely due to a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/blog/2021/09/01/alleviating-supply-constraints-in-the-housing-market/">dangerously low supply of homes, in particular affordable homes</a>. One major reason is that state and local governments have artificially constrained the supply of housing through zoning ordinances and through a local government process that results in costly delays. By requiring things like minimum lot sizes or holding public meetings where developers are forced to defend building multi-family housing, these laws often make it illegal or unprofitable to build small starter homes or multi-family homes that would be more affordable relative to the large homes that get built in their stead.
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These laws are often propped up and enforced by a minority of vocal homeowners who are more likely to attend local government meetings to oppose new housing developments — and the local officials who prioritize those voices.<strong> </strong>Commonly known as NIMBYs (Not In My Backyard), vocal individuals like this often have outsized influence despite research showing that they are <a href="https://sites.bu.edu/kleinstein/research/">unrepresentative of the communities they purport to speak for</a>.
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cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22852409/metro_figure_5.png"/> <cite>Manhattan Institute and Echelon Insights</cite>
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To be sure, not everyone views the situation this way. Even though poll respondents were widely supportive of making it easier to build more housing, they don’t necessarily see it as the best answer to the affordability crisis.<strong> </strong>
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When asked to choose between two statements explaining the problem, 55 percent of respondents picked the explanation that “there are homes available, but they’re too expensive for working and middle-class people to rent or purchase. State and local governments need to subsidize building more affordable homes.” Just 30 percent agreed with the statement that home prices are high because there aren’t enough homes and that the solution would be making it easier to build more of them.
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And it’s possible that people would oppose specific new housing projects in their communities, even if they agree with the broad principle that building more housing in their city is good.
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But this poll is another piece of evidence that anger over the lack of new affordable housing has reached a crescendo. Residents want more affordable housing built in their cities. They favor transit-oriented development. They are eager for the government to subsidize the building of more affordable housing. And they are in favor of making it easier to build more homes.
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Americans were having trouble sleeping before the pandemic. It’s only gotten worse. | Basak Gurbuz Derman/Getty Images
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Why we still can’t sleep, and what to do about it.
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Remember sleeping?
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For too many Americans, it’s a distant memory: a time when we were able to get in bed, close our eyes, and drift off unencumbered without worries about contracting Covid-19, or the hours of work that piled up after supervising a day of remote school, or whether we need to buy <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/07/24/1020088162/experts-call-for-
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more-stringent-mask-requirements-as-delta-variant-spreads">a different kind of mask</a> (again).
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Sleep deprivation has become one of the many side effects of the pandemic. It’s one that’s often invisible — a lot of people have no choice but to muddle through their day no matter how tired they are — but one that’s slowly wearing us down.
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For some, lack of sleep is about<strong> </strong>lack of time. “I get up now hours before my kids to get a few hours of writing and work done,” Courtney Boen, a professor of sociology and demography at the University of Pennsylvania, told Vox. “I know I’m not alone.”
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Seen some version of <br/><br/>“I’ll get to that around 10pm after kids go to bed.”<br/><br/>“I’ll send to you by 7am, before kids wake up.”<br/><br/>in <em>countless</em> emails/texts w colleagues w young kids (mostly women) over last 18 mo.<br/><br/>This is unsustainable but we’ve been sustaining it for over a year.
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— Dr. Courtney Boen, PhD, MPH (<span class="citation" data-cites="CourtneyBoen">@CourtneyBoen</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/CourtneyBoen/status/1432314010846826497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2021</a>
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But for others,<strong> </strong>scheduling isn’t necessarily to blame. When the pandemic hit, rates of insomnia <a href="https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210121-the-coronasomnia-phenomenon-keeping-us-from-
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getting-sleep">spiked around the world</a>, driven by everything from the stress of living during an international public health crisis to the changes in daily life wrought by lockdowns. “People had additional responsibilities, new challenges, much more uncertainty,” Lauren Hale, a professor of family, population, and preventive medicine at Stony Brook University, told Vox.
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And as the delta variant continues to spread around the country, that uncertainty and its effects on sleep may not have abated. Some people have just gotten used to disrupted cycles and 3 am anxiety spirals; it’s how life is now.<strong> </strong>As Jennifer Martin, a clinical psychologist who serves on the board of directors for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, told Vox, “There are some people who are still experiencing a lot of disruption.”
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While there are steps people can take in their own lives to address insomnia, sleep deprivation isn’t just a personal problem; it’s also a social one. And as with so many other problems in the pandemic, real relief will require policy changes — like shorter work hours, better pay, and improved access to health care — to make American life more secure for everyone.
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“The stress and sleep disruptions and uncertainty that so many Americans experience now during the pandemic is something that is preventable,” Boen said. “It’s something that can be mitigated through policy decisions.”
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The pandemic is a major insomnia trigger
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Sleep is a basic human need, just like food or oxygen, and most adults need <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/about_sleep/how_much_sleep.html">about seven hours a night</a>. If we miss out on it for a night or two, we may notice problems like difficulty with decisions, not feeling mentally sharp, and becoming less tolerant of social conflict. Lack of sleep “kind of makes it harder for us to function around other people,” Martin said.
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Those short-term effects are reversible once we do get a good night’s sleep. But when people get less than seven hours of sleep on a regular basis, they face increased risk of metabolic problems like type 2 diabetes, as well as mental health issues like depression, Martin said. And when they go below six hours for a long period of time, they can experience cardiovascular problems and even an increased risk of mortality.
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All of this is bad news for a population that, even before the pandemic, wasn’t getting enough sleep. Americans’ sleep hours have been declining since the 1980s, <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-
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shots/2019/10/28/773622789/working-americans-are-getting-less-sleep-especially-those-who-save-our-lives">according to NPR</a>, with long work hours and stress the likely culprits. In one 2018 study, 35.6 percent of participants reported inadequate sleep, up from 30.9 percent in 2010. “We’re a very engaged 24/7 society, and one of the first activities that gets curtailed is our sleep,” clinical psychologist Todd Arnedt told NPR in 2018.
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The pandemic made matters worse. In <a href="https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.8800">one study</a> conducted across 49 countries in March and April 2020, 40 percent of people said their sleep was worse than before the pandemic. Participants’ use of sleeping pills increased by 20 percent. Google searches for “insomnia” also <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201118141724.htm">spiked in the US in April and May</a>, when many parts of the country were under stay-at-home orders. Meanwhile, Americans’ spending on the over-the-counter sleep supplement melatonin <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/melatonin-sales-spiked-coronavirus-
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pandemic-2021-1">increased by 42.6 percent</a> in 2020. “That consumer behavior is a sign that people are struggling,” Martin said.
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<q>Any stressful experience that disrupts sleep for a period of time risks triggering chronic insomnia</q>
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Then there are the hundreds of thousands of people who have contracted Covid-19. While insomnia isn’t technically considered a symptom of the disease, the respiratory symptoms can make it difficult to sleep. And clinicians are seeing a lot of chronic sleep problems in people experiencing <a href="https://www.vox.com/22369734/long-hauler-covid-vaccine">long Covid</a>. “We’re still trying to learn about that, and whether it might play a role in making the recovery more difficult,” Martin said.
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For another, any stressful experience that disrupts sleep for a period of time risks triggering chronic insomnia. When patients are asked how their sleep problems started, they’ll typically mention some “stressful event or a big change in their life as a thing that sort of got them off track,” Martin said. “Short-term insomnia is how long-term insomnia starts.” That’s one reason some Americans may still be having trouble sleeping now, more than 18 months into the pandemic, even if they’re vaccinated and their personal fears around Covid-19 have (somewhat) abated.
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And that’s just the insomnia piece of the puzzle. Add to that the countless Americans who might be able to get to sleep — if they ever had time to actually get in bed. That group includes a lot of working parents, who have been navigating school and day care closures for more than a year and a half. For some, that’s meant <a href="https://www.vox.com/21536100/economy-pandemic-lose-generation-working-mothers">dropping out of the workforce</a>. For others, it’s meant doing the equivalent of a full-time job on top of their job: In 2020, mothers of kids under 12 spent an average of eight hours every day on child care, <a href="https://19thnews.org/2021/08/moms-child-
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Those hours have to come from somewhere, and often, they come out of parents’ sleep. One <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17455065211010655">2020 study</a> found levels of sleep deprivation in moms that were twice as high as those seen before the pandemic. And in a <a href="https://www.kff.org/policy-
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watch/its-back-to-school-amid-covid-19-and-mothers-especially-are-feeling-the-strain/">July 2020 poll</a> by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 53 percent of moms and 29 percent of dads reported sleep problems from stress related to the pandemic.
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For a lot of people, it hasn’t necessarily gotten better since then. “I’m chronically tired,” said Boen, the sociologist, who has a 6-year-old and a 2-year-old and has been without regular child care since March 2020. “I think that’s a really common experience right now.”
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Being chronically tired could be putting our health at risk — especially as Covid-19 continues to spread. Habitual lack of sleep can harm our immune function, which is “particularly important when there’s a pandemic going on,” Hale said. “In an effort to prevent disease, we want to be sleeping well.”
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Sleep deprivation could also exacerbate social inequalities. In general, “it tends to be the most vulnerable, disadvantaged individuals in society who have the worst sleep patterns,” Hale said. Racial disparities in sleep, for example, existed before the pandemic began. “African Americans, in particular, are the most sleep-deprived population in the United States,” Bridget Goosby, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, told Vox.
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Since Black, Indigenous, and other people of color have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and financial crisis, they’re likely dealing with more stressors that could affect sleep. And that, in turn, could worsen the impacts of the pandemic by making these groups even more vulnerable to getting sick, either with Covid-19 or with conditions like diabetes that are affected by sleep.
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“Not only has the pandemic heightened levels of chronic stress in ways that have been highly unequal, it’s also disrupted sleep patterns in ways that prevent people’s bodies from being able to handle that level of physiological stress,” Boen said. “It’s this sort of double jeopardy that I think a lot of people and groups are facing.”
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Without policies to address them, the effects of these disruptions are likely to persist beyond the immediate stressors of the pandemic, affecting people across their lives. “We’re going to see higher rates of morbidity, illness, chronic disease risks,” Goosby said. “This is a really alarming situation for populations that were already vulnerable.”
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Even in a pandemic, however, widespread sleep deprivation isn’t inevitable. On an individual level, there are changes some people can make that could help them sleep better. First, to the extent possible, people can try to replicate the daily rituals that structured their lives before the pandemic started. “Our sleep loves routine,” Martin said. “When the days look the same, our sleep at night is more predictable.”
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For a lot of Americans, life looks very different than it did before the pandemic — and everything from shifting work schedules to child care and school disruptions can make it hard to establish a daily routine. But every little bit helps. “For me, one of the things that helped a lot early in the pandemic was to have a start and end time for my work day,” Martin said. “I just would pretend that I was going to go to work, and I would get up and get dressed, and have breakfast and do all the things that I normally would, and start my day, and then have a time that I would just shut down my computer.”
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Sometimes, however, the modifications people can make on their own aren’t enough. In that case, a form of <a href="https://www.sleepfoundation.org/insomnia/treatment/cognitive-behavioral-therapy-insomnia">cognitive behavioral therapy</a>, which helps people identify thoughts or feelings related to insomnia, has been shown to be highly effective, Martin said. People should also consider visiting a sleep medicine physician, because many people with insomnia also have other sleep disorders, like sleep apnea, that may need specialized treatment. The website <a href="http://sleepeducation.org">sleepeducation.org</a>, from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, also has resources to help people sleep better or find a sleep specialist if they need to.
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But unfortunately, these solutions aren’t accessible to everyone. Not everyone has health insurance to pay for therapy, and not everyone has enough control over their schedule to make sure it’s predictable from one day to the next. That’s why experts say ensuring healthy sleep for all will require systemic changes, not just individual fixes, to reduce the fear and uncertainty inherent in American life.
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Some of those are changes employers can make, like allowing flexible work hours or providing consistent scheduling so that people can plan ahead for work and child care. “Anything that enables employees to get the sleep they need, as long as they’re still doing their job, will improve morale and reduce stress, which can help with sleep as well,” Hale said.
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pandemic">Shorter work hours</a> could also help. In <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/9045819_A_6-hour_working_day--effects_on_health_and_well-being">one Swedish study</a>, reducing the workweek from 39 hours to 30 hours led to a reduction in sleep problems as well as a reduction in heart and respiratory issues. And while flexibility for working parents in the pandemic is important, it’s not much help if they still have so much work that they need all night to complete it.
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Then there are larger policy changes. “People tend to think of things like stress and sleep as these highly individualized behaviors or responses,” Boen said. “But they’re entirely shaped and determined by social and political conditions.”
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Federal, state, and local officials may not be able to end the pandemic, but they can address the stresses that have been exacerbated by it — and that contribute to racial and economic disparities in sleep, Hale said. That means reforms like raising the minimum wage, along with increasing access to affordable health care, both for sleep issues and for general well-being. “If you’re in pain or distress or sick, your sleep is often affected,” Hale said.
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It also means combating structural racism, from housing segregation to police violence to the school-to- prison pipeline. “One policy is not going to be the thing that fixes sleep,” Goosby said. “We have to have a really big- picture way of thinking about this all holistically.”
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On Wednesday night, SpaceX’s Inspiration4 mission launched the first-ever all-civilian crew into Earth’s orbit. With the help of companies including Sam Adams and<strong> </strong>Martin Guitars, the three-day trip to space aims to raise $200 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in what amounts to a charitable spin on the emerging market for <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22589197/space-travel-tourism-bezos-branson-rockets-blue-origin-virgin-galactic-
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Jared Isaacman, the billionaire founder and CEO of the e-commerce company Ship4Payments, is funding the much-publicized trip. The crew also includes the mission’s pilot, Sian Proctor, a geology professor; Hayley Arceneaux, <a href="https://www.stjude.org/inspire/series/storied-lives/st-jude-cancer-survivor-hayley-arceneaux-hope-
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inspiration4-worlds-first-all-civilian-space-flight.html">a St. Jude physician assistant</a>; and <a href="https://www.space.com/chris-sembroski-inspiration4-spacex-mission">Chris Sembroski</a>, an engineer who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/science/spacex-jared-isaacman.html">won his ticket in a raffle</a>. None of the passengers are professional astronauts, and they’ll be relying on SpaceX’s autonomous Crew Dragon capsule to ensure the mission goes smoothly.
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The Inspiration4 capsule took off a little after 8pm ET and was carried into space by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket before entering Earth’s orbit around 80 miles beyond the International Space Station (ISS). After about three days of zero gravity and magnificent views — not to mention activities such as a ukulele performance and <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2021/09/how-hayley-arceneaux-gets-it-done.html">a video call to a St. Jude patient</a> — the crew will return to Earth, and in late September, Netflix will release a feature-length finale of its five-part reality TV series about the mission. (The first four episodes of the show are already available to watch, and Netflix is livestreaming the launch on its YouTube page.)
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The mission also involves a motley payload of gear and collectibles, including merchandise that will be put up for sale in a charity auction after the crew returns to Earth. Those items range from space-themed watches made by IWC to stuffed rocket-ship toys based on characters from the animated Netflix series <em>Space Racers</em>. There’s a <a href="https://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-biz-martin-
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guitar-ukelele-in-space-20210909-jatpwxfhebdvxofzsvyzmjylqe-story.html">$2,000 Martin Guitar ukulele</a> that Sembroski will play on board. And the Inspiration4’s official beer maker, Sam Adams, also arranged for 66 pounds of hops to go to space and will brew beer with them once the mission lands (the beer will be available for purchase later in the fall). Perhaps the weirdest of the items is a slew of <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22313936/non-fungible-tokens-
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While selling stuff that’s been to space isn’t new, it’s about to become a lot more common. NASA, a government agency subject to congressional oversight, has traditionally restricted the commercialization of space missions. But as the number of <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22589197/space-travel-tourism-bezos-branson-rockets-blue-origin-virgin-galactic-
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Some of the most remarkable items that have made the trip to space and back before being sold to the public have come from astronauts from the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2014/05/14/tech/web/apollo-space-auction/index.html">Gemini, Apollo, and Mercury programs</a>, some of whom happened to save equipment from their missions. Regulations surrounding what astronauts could keep from these initial missions <a href="https://www.npr.org/2012/01/09/144923154/nasa-challenges-sale-of-
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exploration-n09759/lot.102.html">sold at Sotheby’s in 2017 for $1.8 million</a>.
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NASA also has strict rules against advertising or endorsing products, and it makes very little off of merchandise with branding or iconography. While the space agency’s various logos have appeared on everything from <a href="https://www.vans.com/shop/ProductDisplay?storeId=10165&urlLangId=-36&productId=3829618&urlRequestType=Base&categoryId=1346789&langId=-36&catalogId=11261">Vans shoes</a> to <a href="https://www.forever21.com/us/2000399934.html">Forever 21 tops</a>, the image is in the public domain, which means it’s free for anyone to use.
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“People have seen what the historic flown items have sold for and understand that there’s a market for that material, and that those things are valuable and collectible,” said Cassandra Hatton, Sotheby’s global head of science and pop culture, who works with astronauts on memento auctions. “The reason why they were flown originally — there was no commercial purpose behind it. Their value really is historic.”
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NASA has started to welcome some commercial deals in recent years. In 2019, the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/17/tech/estee-lauder-iss-nasa-advertisement-scn/index.html">space agency formally announced</a> that it would allow 90 hours of crew time annually for astronauts to pursue marketing activities commissioned by private companies. For instance, Estée Lauder last year <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-26/nasa-rocket-launch-to-iss-will-be-used-for-estee-lauder-el-
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All this means that product placement and promotional stunts in space have historically happened without the US space administration. They have, though, had help from Roscosmos, the Russian equivalent of NASA. Over the past several decades, Russia’s space agency has helped advertise <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/08/21/mir-boosts-israeli-
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space/587608/">Pepsi</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB6tVUiNTNk">even Pizza Hut personal pizzas</a>. And if Stanley Kubrick’s <em>2001: A Space Odyssey</em> is any indication of what’s to come — the movie <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20120712-where-is-hiltons-lunar-hotel">featured a Hilton hotel on the moon</a> — the trend of private companies using space as a marketing opportunity will only grow.
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“This exploration of space is not just about exploring the scientific or technical frontiers,” explains Scott Pace, director of George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute. “It’s also exploring about, you know, where can the economy go? Where do we expand economic activities beyond the Earth?”
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Three private space companies have already begun the process of launching very wealthy civilians into space: Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, and now Elon Musk’s SpaceX. All three companies have not only sold their own merchandise but have also cleared the way for space- themed branding and marketing opportunities.
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rover/">who have purchased tickets on a Virgin Galactic flight</a>. The SUV <a href="https://media.landrover.com/news/2019/05/range-rover-reaches-new-heights-astronaut-edition-built-celebrate-
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GL1954">includes</a> a space plane-shaped puddle light, as well as cup holders made out of a piece of the landing skid from one of Virgin Galactic’s first flights.
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tourism">the launch of its first crewed mission</a>, which included Bezos himself, to debut the first electric vehicle from <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22649283/rivian-ipo-tesla-suv-pickup-electric-vehicles-ev">Rivian</a> (one of the automaker’s biggest investors is Amazon, where Bezos used to work).
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A few of these kinds of marketing opportunities, however, happen more serendipitously. After Bezos threw Skittles across the space capsule on <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22583997/billionaires-blue-origin-elon-musk-jeff-bezos-rockets-planes-commercial-
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space-tourism">his Blue Origin flight</a> in July, for instance, Skittles quickly announced it would release a limited- time candy pack called “Zero-G Skittles.” The candymaker told Recode the move was not coordinated ahead of time.
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We are honored to have heard SKITTLES were aboard <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlueOrigin?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlueOrigin</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffBezos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><span class="citation" data-cites="JeffBezos">@JeffBezos</span></a> is it true <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SKITTLES?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SKITTLES</a> taste better in space?<a href="https://t.co/PPdYf6BVCZ">https://t.co/PPdYf6BVCZ</a>
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— SKITTLES (<span class="citation" data-cites="Skittles">@Skittles</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/Skittles/status/1417522967307816963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2021</a>
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Though the trend in space-based branding and marketing campaigns seems to showcase the worst qualities of American capitalism, some argue there’s a greater good in it all. Most people can’t afford a ticket to space, as prices for space tourism missions are still in <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22570789/richard-branson-
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elon-musk-jeff-bezos-spacex-blue-origin-virgin-galactic">the hundreds of thousands of dollars</a>. But merchandise and collectibles from these commercial missions mean private space firms can still sell consumers the feeling that they’re at least part of this moment in space history for a lot less money.
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“By flying our brands, we get to fly along with them,” Robert Pearlman, <a href="http://www.collectspace.com/about.html">a space historian</a> who runs the space collectibles website collectSpace, told Recode. “We get to see a little bit more of ourselves in how spaceflight unfolds and say, ‘Yeah, I may not be able to afford a flight to space, but I eat Skittles.’”
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galactic-2021-7">Plenty of celebrities</a> have already reserved tickets on Virgin Galactic, and Virgin Galactic already has plans to bring <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/20/kellie-gerardi-prepares-for-first-spaceflight-with-virgin-
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galactic.html">a TikTok science influencer</a> on one of its upcoming flights. Meanwhile, the private spaceflight company Axiom Space, which has <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/02/axiom-space-expands-spacex-deal-for-private-
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crew-launches-to-iss-.html">contracted several flights from SpaceX</a>, is offering a space-themed “content innovation platform” to help companies do product demonstrations and create ads in space. More <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/tech/who-wants-to-be-an-astronaut-space-hero-reality-television-
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scn/index.html">space-based reality TV</a> is in the works, too, including competition shows that aim to send civilians into space. The Discovery Channel is developing one called <em>Who Wants to Be an Astronaut</em>, and earlier this year, NASA signed off on a show called <em>Space Hero</em> that will send a lucky contestant to the ISS.
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While commercial space travel feels exciting right now, the novelty of billionaires and ordinary people traveling to space for fun might not last forever. But keenly aware of the historic nature of its flight, the Inspiration4 mission is trying to capitalize on the enthusiasm — for charity — that comes with such an event. We’ll see just how much people will be willing to pay for a piece of that history when the mission lands.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Shastri, Arun, Sridhar awaiting “fit to fly” certificate in order to return home, says BCCI official</strong> - None of the three Indian coaches currently have any symptoms and are completely fit.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Indian Premier League 2021 | KKR’s Morgan, McCullum excited about playing in front of fans</strong> - KKR will start their second leg of the campaign against Royal Challengers Bangalore in Abu Dhabi on September 20.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Indian Premier League 2021 | Doesn’t matter what we have done in first half, says Delhi Capitals coach Ponting</strong> - The IPL resumes in the UAE on Sunday. Delhi Capitals lead the points table with six wins from eight matches.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Davis Cup | Indian players need to give their all against Finland</strong> - Experienced Prajnesh Guneswaran and Ramkumar Ramanathan need to deliver that knockout punch that will take India to the next year’s Qualifiers.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>IPL 2021 | I can say that old Yuzi is back, asserts ‘pumped-up’ Chahal</strong> - Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal has not been included in the Indian squad selected for the 2021 T20 World Cup.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>NCC to be made more relevant in changed times</strong> - Panel formed to propose measures for gainful engagement of its alumni</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Kerala Real Estate Regulatory Authority says registration is mandatory for retirement home projects as well</strong> - K-RERA has issued show-cause notices to projects that have failed to make registrations. The authority is also planning to initiate action against developers who fail to register their retirement home projects</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Anaesthetist, who contracted COVID-19, undergoes double lung transplant</strong> - Doctors say this is the first ever post-COVID-19 double lung transplant on a COVID-19 warrior who is also a medical professional</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Shocking Pixel 6 rumor lists Google SoC with two ARM X1 CPU cores</strong> - Google blazes its own trail for its first SoC design. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1795420">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How the Le Mans hydrogen racer is shaping up</strong> - In preparation for a hydrogen-powered category, Le Mans saw laps from prototypes. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1795573">link</a></p></li>
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