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I know, "the supreme court is boring" "I'm a college student, I don't need to care about government until I'm old!"  I used to say these things, too.  If you're in fact thinking, "Damn, this is cool" then you're already more mature than I was at your age . . . two-ish years ago.  Enough sounding like I'm old.

Alright, so this might not be the most interesting application of the material to you, but it's fascinating!  We all know that the supreme court is incredibly important to the US judicial system.  The supreme court has a lot of major changes facing them.  Gay marriage, legalization of marijuana in California (the right for a state law to trump federal law), and many other permanent changes to this country will be influenced by their decision.

Now, the assignment: find any resource you want and comment about the post.  If you bought a psychology book, this might be a good time to reference it.  If you need a book, I have to intro books and a social book that I can lend you.  Just let me know.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/time-out/201010/will-be-the-most-intelligent-supreme-court-ever

I chose this article because it pertains to a lot of what we're talking about: the influence of drugs upon the body, dreaming, and sleep.  The three subjects are interwoven through the article, and it's interesting to see the direct connections they have upon one another.

The article actually goes into more detail about certain aspects of the subjects that we haven't covered yet, and I found it to be a pretty fun read.

Feel free to look into detail about any of this information.  Sleep cycles, circadian rhythms, the University of Chicago (huge Psychology school) and their sleep research, etc.

Try to make the posts expand on the given information, so someone else might be able to comment about your comment, also.

Finally, have fun.  This is a topic that affects us all.  Whether you only need 5-6 hours of sleep each night or if you would prefer to have about 9 like Kim said, sleep is VITAL to your well being.

That reminds me, you can look into the negative results of not getting enough sleep over a long period of time.

PS - You should probably try to relate this to reducing stress.  I'm trying to make these topics related to each other, so they're all more memorable.  =D

-Nile

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-teenage-mind/200906/marijuana-sleep-and-dreams

http://www.howlifeworks.com/health_beauty/brain_training/?cid=7077aa

Hi all,

Call me silly, but I'm a big fan of self-improvement.  Thus this article seemed wroth while to me.

I've actually already been to the site that they refer to - Lumosity, and I bought the iPod Touch app for it.

For this activity, either find more research to support or refute the idea that regular brain training can increase intelligence OR play around on lumosity.com and write about your experience with it.  (It's absolutely free for new members.)

Whether you liked it or not, feel free to post about it.

An alternative would be to download the free iPhone app and try some of their games that way, too.

Enjoy,

-Nile

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