Tag: Sleep
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A Run and an EV Charge
Reading Time: 3 minutesHave you noticed how if an event is organised in the evening, long into the night, people see it as normal to participate. Have you also noticed how waking at the crack of dawn, to run, four towns away, is seen as lunatic, and crazy behaviour. We live in a society and…
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On Cancelled Sports Due to Heat but encouraged Noisy Entertainment
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the news they tell people over and over, “Don’t run in the heat” and don’t go out during the hottest part of the time” and yet they organise fan zones in Nyon, or other events in Asse and more. They tell us that we shouldn’t run, that we shouldn’t cycle but…
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On The Curious Incident of the Festival That Prevented Sleep
Reading Time: 3 minutesEurope is in the middle of a heatwave where the afternoon temperatures reach 33°c or higher, but where night time temperatures are just 20°c or even less. Local governments are saying “Avoid strenuous activities in the sun” and “make sure to keep cool”. They also offer going to churches or museums because…
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On Caribana’s Noise Pollution and Geeky White Noise Solutions
Reading Time: 3 minutesLast night was the first night of the Caribana and for the most part it was quiet. It was quiet until 23:30 when one of the less competent sound gremlins got to the audio mixing desk and made it tremendously loud. So loud that I could hear the music clearly. If I…
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On Heatwaves and Getting Up at Dawn to Run
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe are entering the first Canicule of the summer today from Thursday and towards the 23rd of June. During this heat wave Minergie buildings, will climb towards 32°c plus, as will apartments. Cities will gather more and more heat energy and radiate it it. That’s when noisy music festivals can have deadly…
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A Birthday Party Nearby and Good Sleep Before Cycling
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Sunday I want to do a bike ride that I have been thinking of doing for months, at this point. It’s an 81km loop that begins in Nyon and ends in Nyon, going via Montricher. The challenge with this ride is that it has 1100m of climbing. A Slight Let Down…
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Cough Radar
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning, for the first time in months I used Sleepcycle manually to mark the start and end of my sleep and I noticed that they added the Cough Radar. This is a quick and easy way of seeing whether there is a lot of coughin in the region where you live,…
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The Noise Pollution of Caribana and Other Music Festivals
Reading Time: 3 minutesSummary In the 21st century technology exists that could make music festivals sound good for festival goers, whist not ruing the night of sleep for neighbours of the festival. I would like EPFL and other academic groups to work towards finding a way to make music festivals more considerate of neighbouring humans,…
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Sleeping in an Air Raid Shelter
Reading Time: 3 minutesI volunteered in an event that I saw us sleeping in an Air Raid Shelter. Usually, when participating in this event we sleep in an empty summer camp as it has free rooms before the summer activities start. From the summer camp, we have nice views from the balcony and rooms for…