Trendspotting: Snoozing and Losing
Babies and young children need 12 to 15 hours of sleep every night, says a new study, but very few enjoy that much shut-eye. (No one does, really.) This varies a bit across the globe; Japanese children tend to stay up late studying, whereas Australian kids log about an hour more sleep than American kids, [...]
Trendspotting: Joy to the World
It’s intangible and difficult to quantify, but happiness nonetheless has become a burgeoning field of scientific study. The thing about happiness, like sex, is that everyone wants it, especially after the Great Recession emptied our pockets and sent us pursuing pleasures that money can’t buy. This dogged pursuit of happiness has become a movement. See [...]
Trendspotting: Rx for Zzzs
Always a hot topic, the problem of insomnia factored heavily in our 2011 American Audit; it turns out people are carrying the problems of their days into their (sleepless and worry-filled) nights. In the U.K., too, one in three is plagued by sleep problems, now the most widely reported mental disorder. Mothers, it seems, are [...]
The Online Erogenous Zone
Originally posted on the Huffington Post. This is the fourth in a series of four. See Euro RSCG Worldwide PR’s latest white paper, “Love (and Sex) in the Age of Social Media,” for more analysis about how Americans think about online romance. Whether or not, like Woody Allen, you’ve experienced sex as the most fun [...]
