Quotes of the Day

The goal of online dating is to get offline as quickly as possible. [2013] - Amy Webb

Valium and benzodiazepine have been shown to suppress slow-wave sleep. This is an unfortunate outcome for someone wanting to feel better the next day. For sleep to have an impact in your life, it needs to include a robust amount of deep sleep and all of the restorative things that go along with it. Simply sedating someone doesn't produce this effect. Ambien (zolpidem), a drug introduced in 1993, seemed to feature only a sleep-promoting effect without all the dirtiness associated with benzodiazepine. Despite this new drug, people continued to have insomnia. [2017] - W. Chris Winter

A home equity loan and a home equity line of credit are similar but have a few major differences. The loan is typically taken out all at one time and paid back in installments until it is paid off, much like a typical mortgage or car loan. The interest rate and payment are generally fixed for the life of the loan (but they don't have to be). A home equity line of credit is a revolving account that works much like a credit card. You can borrow as much as you want, up to the limit, pay it back, and then borrow again These lines of credit generally have lower interest rates than home equity loans, but those rates are generally variable and so can rise or fall. [2015] - Brandon Turner

Insomnia usually goes along with depression. Sleep lab studies show some changes in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep: It tends to start earlier in the night, and there's more than usual in the first part of the night. The amount of deep (slow wave) sleep is usually reduced. With some types of depression, a different pattern occurs-one of hypersomnia (excessive sleep). For example, with seasonal affective disorder, which is depression that occurs with winter darkness and lifts with longer hours of daylight, people often sleep more than usual and have trouble waking up in the morning. [2021] - Judith R. Davidson

Speak slowly for nonnative speakers. [2009] - Leil Lowndes