Sleep on It

Professor Jim Horne of the Sleep Research Center at Loughborough University in England says Britons need more sleep. “Even in our leisure lives, sleep is seen as a waste of time,” he says. “Young people go clubbing. An early night is not cool.” Losing just one hour of sleep out of eight, he says, knocks up to one point off a person’s IQ. After a week of too-little sleep, people could be temporarily dumber by up to 15 IQ points, he says. For the average (IQ 100) person, a drop to 85 means they’re “borderline retarded”. (Reuters) ...Aw, that’s nothing to lose sleep over.