[lbo-talk] UC London study: Job-related stress literally can killyou

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Jan 24 13:00:43 PST 2008


John Thornton wrote:
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> I bought myself one of those alarm clocks that offers Nature Sounds, a
> CD, or regular alarm along with a ramping up effect for volume.
> I use the sound of birds with the ramp up effect and waking up is a much
> more natural process.

I would guess that during the period 1 million to 100,000 bp when our nervous systems were being formed our ancestors were regularly awoken by far more alarming sounds than an alarm clock or even a fire alarm. The most natural process might just be to wake up screaming and running like hell.

Carrol



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