Nap Time for Everyone! (Ep. 468) - Freakonomics Freakonomics - "S. JAMES: Greg Belenky, who’s one of our mentors, when he was at Walter Reed Army Institute, he did one of the most important studies I use to convince people about the need. He took a group and he put them through different cohorts of sleep restriction. Some got nine hours. Some got seven. Some got five hours. Some got three. The nines maintain their performance; the sevens dipped a little and then leveled out at about 90, 95 percent of their performance. But the fives dropped down to around about 80, 85 percent of their baseline performance. And then the three-hour cohort continually declined. And when I speak to law enforcement, I use the diagrams from that study to say, “Hey, 80 percent may be okay in some professions, but I don’t believe you’re in an 80 percent profession...
SCHILBACH: [In Chennai,] Our first main finding is that people sleep only 5.5 hours per night. That’s way below what sleep experts would tell you, which is you’re supposed to sleep seven to nine hours a night... People tend to think that they sleep a lot more than they actually do. This is often because people confuse how much time you actually spend in bed versus time asleep. Now, in our setting, there’s a huge, stark contrast between those two things. People actually spend about eight hours in bed, which is what people in the U.S. would do as well.
The percentage of time in bed that’s actually spent sleeping is called sleep efficiency. The average sleep efficiency in high-income countries is 85 to 95 percent. But in Chennai—.
'SCHILBACH: They only sleep 5.5 hours, which tells you there’s a sleep efficiency of about 70 percent. And sleep experts or doctors will tell you if your sleep efficiency is below 85 percent, you’re having sleep problems...
When you [encourage nighttime sleep], people in fact sleep about 30 minutes per night more over the course of three, four weeks... 30 minutes’ increase in sleep is actually quite a bit compared to other experiments. Now, interestingly, the increase in sleep is not coming from increased sleep efficiency. Instead, people just spent more time in bed. So, instead of spending like eight hours in bed, they spend about eight hours and 40 minutes in bed. And out of those 40 minutes, they actually sleep 30 minutes more... night sleep, you eventually find no effect whatsoever on these productivity measures... At the same time, you find relatively clear reductions in labor supply. People just spend less time at the office, and therefore, also less time typing. Putting these things together, people’s earnings go down a bit. Again, that’s not statistically significant. So, it’s not like we can say people increasing sleep reduce their earnings. But surely, we can reject the notion that, in contrast to our own predictions, people are not increasing their earnings by sleeping more at night...
We measure their physical health, psychological well-being, decision-making, cognition, attention, memory, and so on... We find no significant positive impact on any of these outcomes.
So in this experimental setting, at least, with this population getting these sleep interventions, Frank Schilbach and his team essentially failed to move the needle. Through a lot of effort and expense, they were able to get their subjects to sleep a bit more, but that extra sleep didn’t seem to materially improve anything. Except for one last intervention. You remember the lucky group that was randomized into nap duty?
SCHILBACH: When you compare people in our study who were randomized to receive naps, versus the control group, we find significant impacts on a range of outcomes, including pretty much all of the things that I just told you we didn’t find effective night sleep on. People produce more per hour worked. People are happier. People say they’re healthier. People have better attention and improved cognition.
And how did a nap affect these workers’ earnings? After all, they’re taking a half-hour snooze during the workday.
SCHILBACH: Here, it depends a lot on whom you are comparing the nappers to. If you compare nappers to people who just take a break, naps look great. People are earning more money. People are working slightly more.
But: there’s less of a difference when you compare nappers to people who didn’t get a break at all.
SCHILBACH: And that’s because people lose 30 minutes of their workday in the middle of the day. If you think your afternoon is about five hours of work and you lose 30 minutes, that’s about 10 percent. And the effects of naps are by no means as large as that...
But why would a short daytime nap succeed where more sleep at night failed?
SCHILBACH: One explanation is that naps are just different. Naps are in the afternoon. A night sleep is at night. Obviously that’s different times of the day, which might affect people differently. The competing explanation, which, if you ask me personally, I think is probably going on, is that the naps that we offer in our study are at our study office, at the workplace. And they get a pretty comfortable nap environment, where there’s very little sound, it’s quiet...
I think it’s telling that tech companies, for example, are embracing napping quite a bit. You know, there’s all these nap cabins at a bunch of different companies."
Steve Hanke on Twitter - "“Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.” -- Walter E. Williams"
VIDEO: Cops Drag Paraplegic Drug Suspect Out Of Car After He Refuses To Let Them Help Him Out - "The officer told the driver that officers would help him out of the car but Owensby said he didn’t want to be touched and requested that a police supervisor be called to the scene""
Clifford Owensby found guilty of traffic violation; attorney threatens federal lawsuit - "Clifford Owensby, 39, was found guilty of window tint and child restraint violations in Dayton Municipal Court by visiting judge Patricia Cosgrove. He was ordered to pay $150 fines for each violation."
Dayton Police Department finds officers did not violate use of force policy in Clifford Owensby arrest - "Owensby was stopped by officers after leaving a suspected drug house"
Attacker who started brawl at Beach Road was upset over penile dysfunction claim - "Upset that he may likely have penile dysfunction, a man began a heated confrontation with another man, which resulted in a brawl that was caught by the shop's security camera. The altercation between the two men occurred at about 1am on Tuesday (Feb 22), at a braised snack shop in City Gate, a mall located on Beach Road... In trying to compensate for his penile dysfunction, the man claimed he is from a secret society and that he can "take over the shop anytime"."
British, Indian traditions blend in Mulligatawny Soup - "Whether British influence on Indian food was greater than the other way around is debatable.... Mulligatawny and other soups introduced a whole new course to Indian meals. Years ago, soup was not a part of traditional Indian cuisine. British in concept and made with Indian ingredients, Mulligatawny was invented at a time when a separate soup course was completely unthinkable as part of an Indian meal, but intrinsic for the British."
The French Influence On Vietnamese Cuisine - "The Vietnamese ideal for cuisine is in balancing five taste elements — spice, sour, bitter, salt and sweet. According to Vietnamese culinary tradition, each of the tastes corresponds with an organ of the body, in order, gall bladder, small intestine, large intestine, stomach and bladder. The importance of the number five doesn’t stop there. Cooks also try to include five types of nutrients — powder, water, minerals, protein and fat, as well as five colors — white, green, yellow, red and black — in each dish. The resulting dishes are balanced and colorful, attractive to both the eye and the tongue. This sense of culinary balance extends to a balance between “heating” and “cooling” properties of ingredients, properties that might not be immediately obvious to western diners. Duck meat, for example, is considered cool, and is thus served in summer with ginger, perceived as warm. Chicken, on the other hand, is a warm food, so it’s usually eaten in the winter, and served with a sour sauce, which is considered cool. While these characteristics of Vietnamese cuisine predate French influence, they’re integral to understanding Vietnamese as a whole... When French colonists arrived in Vietnam, they brought several ingredients that did not yet exist in the East, such as asparagus and potatoes. The words for these ingredients evoke their origins: asparagus are known as Măng tây, or Western bamboo shoots. They are seen as a special occasion sort of vegetable; asparagus soup is a very common first course for weddings... Onions are one of the backbones of French cuisine. Known as hành tay or Western shallots in Vietnamese, they’re often quick-pickled and used as a garnish for other dishes. Coffee is yet another ingredient you’ll find more commonly in Vietnam than in surrounding areas... Cooked cream desserts like bánh flan, whose name and appearance belies its origins as crème caramel, are present in Vietnamese cooking. Often made with coconut milk instead of the milk and cream mixture used in France, the Vietnamese version of the dessert is flavored not with caramel but with coffee, an innovation that makes it extremely popular... The same goes for bread. Bread is not common in East Asia, but when the French colonists arrived in Vietnam, you can bet they came armed with baguettes. The Vietnamese adapted this bread and began using it in their local cuisine; you can find Vietnamese baguettes even today on pretty much every corner. The other main difference between the two baguettes is in the style of the bread itself; while the Vietnamese style of baguette is similar to the French baguette, it is made with rice flour instead of wheat flour, giving it a wholly distinct flavor and texture. These baguettes are used as the base of one of the most famous Vietnamese dishes worldwide, banh mi. The sandwiches contain a combination of grilled meat, coriander, pickled vegetables and pâté, a true amalgam of the Vietnamese penchant for fresh herbs and crisp, raw vegetables and the French influences of pâté and meat. A similar story is that of banh patê so, a clear carryover from Brittany’s meat pies. As though the influence wasn’t clear enough through the use of puff pastry to make these pies, the name is absolutely reminiscent of paté chaud, the Breton name of the dish. Other phonetically similar names like this exist in Vietnamese culinary culture, including dăm bông (jambon or ham), and xúc xích (saucisse or sausage). But perhaps the most surprising French influence in Vietnamese cuisine is the soup that seems emblematic of the cuisine itself: pho. Pho is a combination of Vietnamese rice noodles and French meat broths; some even say that the name pho, pronounced fuh, may be a Vietnamese appropriation of the French pot au feu or stew. The presence of beef — tripe, thinly cut raw steak and meatballs — further belies the European influence in this case, as beef is uncommon in other Eastern cuisines."
The ingenious way Elvis Presley even made money off his haters - "His most ingenious product, though, was "I Hate Elvis" buttons. The Colonel even made money from people who despised his hip-swivelling star"
Armed school bus hijacker let children go after they pestered him by ‘asking lots of questions’ - "Jovan Collazo, 23, a trainee at Fort Jackson in South Carolina, got on the bus at an interstate highway on Thursday before demanding the driver divert to a nearby town... “The kids were asking questions. ‘Are you gonna hurt us?’ ‘Are you a soldier?’ ‘Are you a bus driver? So they were being kids, they were being kids”"
My son tried to lock his brother outside, but he was defeated by ninja moves - YouTube
This bird's imitation is insane : nextfuckinglevel - "I love how the bird turns into R2D2 in the middle"
"Not to sharpshoot the bird buuuut.... He definitely needs to work out the melody to Mozart’s queen of the night aria a little better. Get back in the shed and practice!"
Meme - David Szymanski: "One of the most frightening things I've ever heard is when someone pointed out that the existence of the uncanny valley implies that at some point there was an evolutionary reason to be afraid of something that looked human but wasn't."
Meme - "They could've rethought this. *Hot dog stand looking like person shitting*"
The Effects of Childhood Trauma - "Ongoing stress, such as living in a dangerous neighborhood or being the target of bullying, can also be traumatic for a child—even if it just feels like daily life to an adult. Childhood trauma doesn’t even have to involve experiences that occur directly to the child. Watching a loved one endure a major health issue, for instance, can be extremely traumatic for children. Violent media can have this effect too"
Everything is "trauma", even "violent" media
Implant allows patients with paralysis to walk and swim - "The system was developed in Switzerland by EPFL’s Prof. Grégoire Courtine, and Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) neuroscientist Prof. Jocelyne Bloch. The Engineer reported on the innovation in 2018, when it first enabled a patient with paralysis caused by a partial spinal cord injury to get up from his wheelchair and walk. Now, the team has revealed enhancements to the system through more sophisticated implants controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) software... Because the technology is miniaturised, patients can perform their training exercises outdoors and not only inside a lab."
Jayana Tanae Webb charged with murder in crash that killed 2 Pennsylvania troopers, one pedestrian - "A woman has been charged with murder and driving under the influence for allegedly running over and killing two state troopers and a pedestrian in Pennsylvania. Jayana Tanae Webb, 21, was hit with felony charges on Tuesday for allegedly ramming the troopers on I-95 just moments after they had pulled her over on suspicion of drunk driving. In January, Webb had boasted on Twitter: 'If you ask me, I'm the best drunk driver ever.'... During the transfer to Philadelphia Police headquarters, the accused killer's hands were shackled in front of her with handcuffs that belonged to the two fallen troopers: Martin F. Mack III, 33, and Branden T. Sisca, 29. The shocking and tragic case unfolded around 1am on Monday, when Troopers Mack and Sisca pulled Webb over on suspicion of DUI - but then let her go free when they were called away to assist a man endangering himself by walking on the interstate. About two miles down the interstate from where they pulled over Webb, the two troopers were helping the distressed pedestrian, 28-year-old Reyes Rivera Oliveras, get into their patrol car when Webb allegedly rammed into their police SUV at high speed, killing all three men... Police sources said that Webb's blood alcohol level was measured at twice the legal limit following the fatal crash... Webb's Twitter account contains numerous references to alcohol in recent weeks. On February 18, she referred to 'getting in at 8am drunk' and on January 21 she posted: 'I get drunk & start saying anything'"
Meme - TJ @TANAEEJ_: "Why the cop pull me & he say im doing 110 ina 50"
"Moments after tweeting the below tweet, she ended up driving into the same officer, his colleague, and the pedestrian - killing them all."
Meme - Kar @karlogan: "Here comes "Oh so y'all never accidentally killed multiple people before I forgot everyone is perfect on this app" Twitter"
. @bxlynnae: "y'all drive home drunk every weekend after a night out, cut it out and stop acting like that couldn't of been you"
Meme - . @bxlynnae: "i don't know how i drove home drunk like this but thank you God"
Meme - "True/False
Student:
Teacher:"
Meme - "Can't believe someone was gonna throw out this awesome fishing lure
found it in a dumpster behind planned parenthood"
Meme - "My god, Jim, is that what I think it is?"
"I think so Bones..."
"Fascinating"
"I think they used to call them "fuses""
"The Klingons just hit us with a Photon torpedo, Captain"
"Blew out two fuses Captain, already replaced them"
"None of the consoles have exploded and there are no burns from the sparks"
"To think such a simple technology was lost for so long"
Meme - "How the animal's skeleton looks like"
"How scientists would recreate the animal *monster*"
"The animal *rabbit*"
Canon Sued for Disabling Scanner Function on All-in-One Printers Due to No Ink - "Canon says it disables scan and fax functionality as a precaution to prevent damage."
Ben White on Twitter - "Your password must be between 732 and 942 characters. It cannot be the same as any word in any known language. It must include 3 hieroglyphs, ancient Babylonian text and the solution to Fermat's last theorem."
"Don’t forget, you can not use a word you have used in the last 450 passwords."
FBI dodged Ilhan Omar-‘bro’ wed probe: Devine - "Only hours after Minnesota GOP operative Anton Lazarro posted online DNA evidence that allegedly shows Rep. Ilhan Omar was once married to her brother, the FBI busted him. The test results stated there is a 99.999998 percent chance that Omar and her second husband, Ahmed Elmi, now her ex-husband, are siblings, according to an analysis by British company Endeavor DNA Laboratories. But before Lazarro could share the results with the media, he was arrested Thursday on underage sex-trafficking charges and jailed pending a court hearing Monday... Omar previously has denied Elmi is her brother, calling the claim “absolutely false,” “absurd” and “offensive.” Special Agent Joy Hess, from the FBI’s Twin Cities field office, which investigated allegations that Omar married her brother Elmi to get around US immigration laws, says the “statute of limitations” had run out on the case... There is no statute of limitations for immigration fraud, but there also appears to be no appetite in Democrat-run Minneapolis to investigate the claim that has dogged Democratic “Squad” member Omar for years."
Meme - "Ugh I'm so sick of Western dominance. I dream eagerly of the day where the US jackboot treading on the world's neck IS REPLACED by a RUSSIAN or Chinese jackboot"
Watch | Facebook - "Watch the blockbuster movie-style montage shown on North Korean state TV as it announced the launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile "
Meme - Daniel Winkler: "I love how people don't understand basic math when it comes to taxation lol. If you steal more from a company than you give them in "subsidies" (whatever nonsense that means in this case), they're still being harmed by the government.
The poor, on the other hand, are parasites. They live off the work and productivity of others, and offer nothing of value. We need to stop giving them anything, not give them more."
A lot of Americans just hate and want to mock poor people. No surprise that this comes from the "taxation is theft" crowd too
Keywords: hate poor people
Why Do Poor People Stay Poor? - "researchers at the London School of Economics released a paper titled, “Why Do People Stay Poor?” that illustrated how the lack of initial wealth (and not motivation or talent) is what keeps people in poverty"
To Americans who hate poor people, if you are poor it is definitely your fault, since poor people are temporarily-embarrassed millionaires
Modern Americans Work More Than Medieval Peasants Did - "the average annual hours worked by Americans in 2017 reached 1,780, whereas an adult male peasant in the United Kingdom worked an average of 1,620. Let’s take a closer look at why we work 160 hours more than the average serf. Because the need for agricultural labor in the Middle Ages was season-dependent, the average peasant had about eight weeks to half the year off. Plus, the Church knew the opportunity to rest would keep workers happy and orderly, so they ordered frequent mandatory holidays. The 70 to 80-hour work week for the average 19th-century laborer in the industrial revolution was actually a deviation from the ways of their medieval predecessors. Arguing for an eight-hour workday was not so much a push for the progressive, but a return to the ways of yore. Indeed, medieval peasants enjoyed a less rigid workday. Meals weren’t rushed and the afternoon might call for a nap. “The tempo of life was slow, even leisurely; the pace of work relaxed,” said Schor. “Our ancestors may not have been rich, but they had an abundance of leisure.”... “Consider a typical working day in the medieval period,” said Schor. “It stretched from dawn to dusk (sixteen hours in summer and eight in winter), but, as Bishop Pilkington has noted, work was intermittent — called to halt for breakfast, lunch, the customary afternoon nap, and dinner. Depending on time and place, there were also mid-morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks.”... Germany is second to last in the EU when it comes to annual hours worked and has a generous work model in place. It is, nonetheless, an economic behemoth. An average German works 1,363 hours per year which goes to show that vacation days might actually improve a nation’s GDP. Indeed, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, which conducted a nine-year experiment, the frequency of annual vacations is directly “associated with a reduced risk of all-cause mortality” and concluded that “vacationing may be good for your health.” Unfortunately, it seems as though the United States Congress is getting more vacation days than the average American citizen. According to Thought Co., its members make a base salary of $174,000 and work fewer than half of the days in a year — and this is perhaps not even to mention this years shut down."
Of course, many Americans who love to work got very upset over this, and said their life expectancy was higher etc. Sure, but that wasn't the point of this factoid. They just want to mock "lazy" and/or poor people
Science Confirms It: Talking About How Busy You Are Is a Humble Brag - "Ask basically any professional American how they're doing these days and chances are good you'll hear a single, standard answer: "busy." But ask any expert in time use, or one of the many researchers who have painstakingly documented how we use our time, why Americans are so slammed all the time and you'll get an unexpected answer: they're not. Despite endless complaints about packed schedules, study after study shows that Americans on average actually have just as much free time now as in previous years. It's a huge paradox, but a new study out of Columbia Business School might just explain it. Telling people you're insanely busy, the researchers found, is actually a super effective humblebrag. Americans (but, interestingly, not more leisurely Italians) associate a packed schedule with achievement and status. So when someone tells you, "I'm busy," what they're really saying is, "I'm important."... Historically, lounging about doing as a little as possible was the ultimate way to signal your status. Recall, for instance, that not that long ago "bankers' hours" actually referred to short working weeks. And long before that, among aristocrats, doing absolutely no work at all for your entire life was the ultimate statement of power and status. What's changed? "We think that the shift from leisure-as-status to busyness-as-status may be linked to the development of knowledge-intensive economies. In such economies, individuals who possess the human capital characteristics that employers or clients value (e.g., competence and ambition) are expected to be in high demand and short supply on the job market. Thus, by telling others that we are busy and working all the time, we are implicitly suggesting that we are sought after, which enhances our perceived status"... Perhaps it's unsurprising then that the researchers also found that the more someone agreed with statements like "Hard work brings success in the long run" -- which indicate a belief in the ability to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" -- the more likely they were to link busyness and importance."
Vacationing Couple Unintentionally Signals They're Swingers: VIDEO - "it was due their matching pineapple bathing suits and what the people on-site thought the couple were trying to tell them. Apparently, the pineapple is used as a symbol of swinging. A pineapple placed upon the mailbox or front porch of any house is supposed to signify that a Swinging Party is happening. And also pineapple clothing is meant to signify that the couple is into swinging... an upside-down pineapple can mean the person is in search of a swinger party. A pineapple left on your front door in the middle of the night signifies an invitation to join an ongoing party... pineapple lovers should also be cautious of the following items if they do not want to lead people into thinking they lead a swinger lifestyle: "A man or woman wearing a red ball cap; White landscaping rocks in someone's front yard; Wearing a thumb ring; Wearing a toe ring; Switching the wedding ring to the right hand; Yin-Yang tattoo; Garden Gnomes; Pink Flamingo; Metal Star on the front of the house.""
Teen gets USB cable stuck in penis in attempt to measure length - "a randy Michigan man was left struggling to pee after he got six kidney beans lodged in his urethra during a bizarre attempt at sexual gratification."
Denmark launches children's TV show about man with giant penis - "John Dillermand has an extraordinary penis. So extraordinary, in fact, that it can perform rescue operations, etch murals, hoist a flag and even steal ice-cream from children. The Danish equivalent of the BBC, DR, has a new animated series aimed at four- to eight-year-olds about John Dillermand, the man with the world’s longest penis who overcomes hardships and challenges with his record-breaking genitals... opponents have condemned the idea of a man who cannot control his penis. “Is this really the message we want to send to children while we are in the middle of a huge #MeToo wave?” wrote the Danish author Anne Lise Marstrand-Jørgensen... Christian Groes, an associate professor and gender researcher at Roskilde University, said he believed the programme’s celebration of the power of male genitalia could only set equality back... Erla Heinesen Højsted, a clinical psychologist who works with families and children, said she believed the show’s opponents may be overthinking things. “John Dillermand talks to children and shares their way of thinking – and kids do find genitals funny”... DR responded to the latest criticism by saying it could just as easily have made a programme “about a woman with no control over her vagina” and that the most important thing was that children enjoyed John Dillermand"
Trust the feminists to take that angle - gynocentrism reigns supreme as always
Australian man fighting for life after cutting off PENIS and putting it in a DRAWER in Wollongong - "Police officers rushed to an address in Wollongong, south of Sydney, on Wednesday afternoon where they found the 25-year-old man bleeding heavily... The self-amputation comes just weeks after it emerged a Thai man cut off his own penis with a pair of scissors during a frightening cannabis-induced psychotic episode. The life-changing injury occurred after the unidentified 23-year-old smoked 2g of marijuana – the equivalent of six joints – in two bong rips. Two hours after smoking the drug for the first time in months, he began to have a painful erection unrelated to any sexual stimulation, which can be a side-effect of smoking cannabis. During his hallucination, the man grew paranoid that the head of his penis looked 'distorted' while examining himself to identify the source of the pain. In an attempt to eradicate the problem, the man decided to use a pair of scissors to 'trim' the skin of his penis before amputating it completely, leaving a 2cm stump and a 5cm laceration in his scrotum. Doctors briefly considered reattaching the man's penis, but it was found to be too fragile and contaminated with ants. He was left with a 'penile stump' and needed surgery to allow him to urinate"
Elephants have evolved to be tuskless because of ivory poaching, a study finds - "Most people think of evolution as something that proceeds slowly, but humans can hit the accelerator."
S'pore could be more developed if led by Umno: BN leader - "Johor Barisan Nasional chief Hasni Mohammad countered PAS vice president Mohd Amar Abdullah by saying that Singapore could be more developed if it was ruled by Umno, the report said."
No wonder Malaysia is so developed
Who’s Really Right? Picking the Ideal Home Temperature - "Room temperature is described as the reading within a room using a thermometer, and is the temperature that an individual can remain comfortable at when fully clothed, usually between 20 C and 22 C. The WHO (World Health Organization) also recommends this range as a measure in maintaining overall good health and wellbeing... It could be argued the temperature you set your thermostat to at night is the most important one. Why? Two primary reasons are Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep and infant health (for families with little ones). Studies have found REM sleep is directly affected by the temperature of the room you’re sleeping in. Our bodies expend a great deal of energy to maintain our core temperature, but the part of the brain that controls thermoregulation shuts down during REM sleep. When your nighttime temperature is ideal, falling into REM sleep becomes easier. You might wonder why REM sleep is so important—this is the stage of sleep when your brain “recharges.” It’s when it processes and assimilates your experiences and memories and also prepares your mind for the next day’s challenges. Infant health can also be impacted by temperatures that are too low or too high, since babies cannot regulate their body temperature yet. For these reasons, the Sleep Foundation recommends setting your thermostat to a range of 16 C to 19 C at night to promote a healthy sleep for adults and children over two, and setting the thermostat one-to-two degrees warmer for infants, but no greater than 20.5 C. Our body temperature tends to increase with the exertions of household chores and workouts, which would make you think keeping as cool as possible is the way to go. Surprisingly, fitness experts suggest a range of 20 C to 21 C is ideal for a workout, as it’s cool enough for you to feel comfortable during physical exertion. This is good advice to follow for chores as well, given that similar levels of effort are required. Now that many folks are working from home, the ideal temperature in your home office can have an impact on your performance and productivity. A Cornell University study discovered the cooler the office temperature, the less happy employees were and the more errors they made during the workday. The study suggested raising the room temperature from 20 C to 25 C reduced errors by 44% and increased keyboard output (productivity) by 150%, while also boosting a worker’s sense of happiness. So, don’t be afraid to raise your home office temperature to 25 C to elevate your productivity, accuracy, and mood!... HVAC experts recommend adjusting your thermostat down by 2 C to 5 C when you’re not home during the winter, and bumping it up similarly in the summer. This gives your HVAC system a breather, and you can save on energy and maintenance costs in the short and long terms."