The Diode was a clear transparent polyhedron that you knelt before and told how much sleep credit you wanted to charge.
We did a sleep survey and got students to say whether they were in sleep "credit" or "debt" depending on how they answered the questions.
Mika and Joe ended the show as they always do, by asking, "What have we learned today?" I said I'd learned that if you have sleep credit in the bank, you can occasionally get away with missing your goal -- especially if you're having fun.
Further reading: View image of Read more: The five things that ruin a good night's sleep (Getty Images) (Credit: Getty Images).
Admittedly, in a presidential debate it is hard to explain to a general audience, without putting them to sleep, how credit-default swaps and other highly sophisticated financial products with only a tenuous connection to reality led to billions in the pockets of a few, the collapse of the financial system, and your neighbor's losing his house or his job or both.
If sleep were a credit card company, many of us would be in deep trouble.
This abstract time came to shape everything – work and play, sleep and waking, credit and money, agriculture and industry, even prayer.
There are blood pressure monitors (iHealth), bathroom scales (Withings), physical activity monitors (Jawbone), sleep monitors (Zeo), credit card readers (Square), security cameras (iZon), remote-control helicopters (Parrot) and, of course, about 73,001 speaker systems.
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Archer and Hearn credit "Sleeping Astronauts" as "one of the most enchanting pieces Gray ever wrote", and state that the soundtrack, which has never been released commercially, evokes a "traditional Hollywood feel" that is in contrast to the 2069 setting of Doppelgänger.
Mike Figgis, who has an executive producer credit on Sleep Furiously, is delighted with its impact.
