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Commercial Breakers
Posted by CarloBoutwell67 on Oct 26, 2009 in Break Time Currency, BreakTimers Philosophy, Breaktime Stories, Breaktimers Manifesto
Commercial Breakers from Douglas Haddow on Vimeo.
Collapse Barcelona 19-20-21 of March 2009
Collapse in Barcelona: this week end 19-20-21 of March 2009:
we’ll be there!!
Collapse
Collapse is a festival where artists, students and professionals of architecture and other disciplines meet up to discuss, experiment and debate on the new scenarios arising from the collapse!
Collapse
eme3 COLLAPSE es un festival que reunirá durante tres días a pensadores, artistas, estudiantes y profesionales de la arquitectura y otras disciplinas, para que reflexionen, experimenten y debatan sobre los nuevos escenarios surgidos del colapso.
Sleep well…… and the economy will take off!
Posted by breaktimer on Jan 20, 2009 in Breaktime Stories, Breaktimers Manifesto
AMSTERDAM (Holland). This is the result of a research on the cerebral mechanism during sleep, conducted by the Dutch neurologist Ysbrand Van der Werf, at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) in la Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam.
They demonstrated that good sleep is beneficial not only to the individuals but also to the economy! This is because people who sleep well are more productive and perform better.
Sleeping nearby a motorway, a railway or an airport causes problems with remembering information and learning and organising new ones.
We already knew that a bad sleep made us very grumpy to say the least, but what Van der Werf demonstrated is that we will also have productivity problems.
Apparently (according to the professor’s study):
“Sleep before learning benefits memory encoding through unknown mechanisms. We found that even a mild sleep disruption that suppressed slow-wave activity and induced shallow sleep, but did not reduce total sleep time, was sufficient to affect subsequent successful encoding-related hippocampal activation and memory performance in healthy human subjects. Implicit learning was not affected. Our results suggest that the hippocampus is particularly sensitive to shallow, but intact, sleep.”
The hippocampus affects the way we remember old memories and store new ones.
Van der Werf discoveries question the current trends of sleeping in noisy cities and fewer and fewer hours.
As BreakTimers, we feel it’s part of our mission to encourage people to sleep more and better!
Professor Van der Werf provide us with a strong scientific argument that will help winning the argument for more rest: it’s good for the economy (your company and general) too! So in a period of crisis it should be our duty to make sure we sleep enough and well.
Van der Werf’s results are published in the internet magazine Nature Neuroscience. We propose Professor Van der Werf and his team as Great BreakTimers!
sleep well
Horace
The BreakTimers Manifesto
Posted by breaktimer on Oct 1, 2008 in Breaktimers Manifesto
We need to take a break and to do it now…. its’ later than we think!
BreakTimers believe that
“Wasting time is investing time in yourself”
Happiness and success also depend on the ability to waste time.
As a matter of fact, people must take enough breaks to be able to live a happy life and deliver some smart thinking.
So:
– Waste some time….. you know you want to!
– Carpe Diem…, seize the moment, do it now, its later than you think!
– Change the world!?
Our philosophy is based on an analysis of the great philosophers and thinkers from the past and presents. (The Great BreakTimers)
Who is the BreakTimer?
A real BreakTimer is somebody who knows how to enjoy wasting time….
A Breaktimer is also able to do things that could change the world!
Please contribute to shaping our philosophy by writing on this blog!
Here is an inspiring video for you breaktimerzzzz
Philosophy of Life
