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THE INVITUSITY DARY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2015
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If i had $100 for every time someone complained about tuition, I still couldn't afford tuition.
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Can't believe how different booty calling and butt dialing are.
woke up this morning w/ a cup of water and a note next to my bed saying "for hungover me." I took a sip and it was vodka... drunk me is such a jerk.
As an architect, LEED credits can essentially be bought. Try the Living Building Challenge instead
Was anyone else really upset that Wisconsin couldn't pull it together at the end of that game??
Every time you kill a spider,
you are making their gene pool
sneakier and more deadly...
I like my classes like I like my women... Curved. ;)
Can't tell if Wescoe smells like weed or skunk.
The Underground: where you can work on German while eating and listen to various conversations about volcanoes, Russian and how the digestive system works.
Nothing says "I respect you"
quite like a 2 a.m. "what's up?"
text.
The world needs a 3rd machine after the washer and dryer that folds all of the laundry.
Choose a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life because that field isn't hiring.
My gym game has been too strong! #feelingood
When you're hungover, that first sip of water tastes like it's right from God's pond.
There's nothing better than being with a group of people that make you forget to check your phone
Burun 1,200 calories yesterday.
Forgot to take the pizza out of
the oven...
Used to live in the friend zone but now I'm in the bae area.
Do you ever bring your pet up to a mirror and you're just like "that is you?"
Can't believe college basketball is already over... this year is flvin!
I bought a velcro wallet so the ladies hear me spendin'.
Can we just confirm that I watched your snapchat story, not because I'm interested in your life, but to get rid of the little notification?
EARLY BIRD VS. NIGHT OWL
PRO CON
Early risers happier healthier, according to university study
Jenny Stern
@jenlikeswhales
The early bird gets the worm... and better grades, more exercise and increased levels of happiness. There has always been a division between the so-called early bird and night owl, but recently science has been showing us that waking up with the sun may have more benefits than just getting to see a colorful sunrise
Kendry Clay's study at the University of North Texas showed that early morning risers consistently had higher GPsAs. Clay's advisor went as far to say that chronotherapy, a practice that slowly shifts sleep schedules by making small changes each day, could be beneficial to convert self-described night owls into morning people to improve academic performance.
Principal investigator Kelly Glazer Baron, Ph.D., at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University in Chicago, found in her study that "night owls reported more sitting time and more perceived barriers to exercise, including not having enough time for exercise and being unable to stick to an exercise schedule regardless of what time they actually went to bed or woke up."
For the night owls out there, no need to fret on your natural preference. While practicing a morning-person lifestyle is relative ly rare for a young demographic, it becomes increasingly common as we get older. Frederick Brown's research outlined on LiveScience attributes the commonality of staying up late and sleeping in to hormonal changes and increased socialization.
If you're interested in rising with the sun before college ends, there are small things to do to help ease the pain of waking up early. CNN offers some tips such as coming up with meaningful goals for getting up early, visualizing the best things you'll do that day or shifting your schedule 15 minutes at a time.
My most successful exercise plan was when I committed to sleep in my running clothes and left for my run right after I woke up. Utilizing my affinity for mornings helped me stick to a schedule before I could use a long day as an excuse not to stay healthy.
A 2012 study published in the Emotion, an American Psychological Association journal, found that early risers are happier and that the effect only increases with age.
By becoming a morning person, that 8 a.m. class won't sting as bad and you'll find yourself with free time to enjoy this beautiful spring weather while the sun is shining.
Researchers suggested that our society is structured for,a schedule of a morning person. The study also found that the older the person, the more significant the difference is in happiness, so the best is yet to come.
Jenny Stern is a junior from Lawrence studying ecology and evolutionary biology
"BY BECOMING A MORNING PERSON, THAT 8 A.M. CLASS WON'T STING AS BAD..."
Being a night owl may benefit you, lead to higher overall IQs
There are two types of people in this world: the early birds and the night owls. Being a night owl, I have had to deal with my fair share of early risers, specifically my dad. In the morning he insisted on being overly enthusiastic and talkative, but my lips needed to touch coffee before I could speak to another human. As kids we were taught to go to bed early and get enough sleep. However, studies have shown that those who stay up later tend to do better academically.
"IF YOUR BODY AND MIND STOP WORKING AT 10 P.M., THIS COULD KEEP YOU FROM ATTENDING LATER SOCIAL FUNCTIONS, AS WELL AS MAKE TIME-CONSUMING TASKS MORE DIFFICULT TO COMPLETE."
If you are a morning person, it is safe for me to imply that you go to bed early. Think back to all the times in movies, TV shows or even your own job where people complained about their bosses making them stay late versus how many times their boss made them come in early. If you have to be in bed by a certain time in order to wake up energized, the nights that you don't may screw up your whole day. Life is unpredictable and late nights will be unavoidable. If your body and mind stop working at 10 p.m.,
tnis could keep you from attending later social functions, as well as make time-consuming tasks more difficult to complete.
As college students we are, mostly, goal-orientated. Personally, the later I stay up, the more productive I am. When I wake up the next morning, it's as if the day is wiped clean for me to accomplish what the current day has for me. However, by going to bed early and waking up early, whatever tasks I didn't complete the night before I would try to accomplish as soon as I woke up that morning. I would try to accomplish whatever tasks I didn't complete before. This drags yesterday's work on top of more work in the new day.
Staying up late has its negative effects, but what doesn't these days? Our world isn't ideal. It's demanding and will require late nights and high productivity. With a better chance of getting all the day's tasks completed in that one day instead of having to wake up early to finish them, being more flexible with sleep scheduling and higher IQs, the early bird worm now belongs to the night owls of society.
According to an article in Psychology Today, individuals who have nocturnal habits tend to have higher IQs than those who go to bed early and wake up early. Counsel & Heal also published an article stating "people who preferred to stay up late at night scored higher than morning people on inductive reasoning... a good predictor of general intelligence and academic performance.
Night owls also had a greater capacity to think conceptually and analytically. Researchers said such abilities are associated with innovative thinking, better occupations and better incomes."
Anissa Fritz is a sophomore from Dallas studying journalism and sociology
Growth limitation is a problem we must solve
Gabe Sprague
@SpragueGabe
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Projections of population, resources and output according to the 1972 book "Limits of Growth" written by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers and William W. Behrens III.
People often debate whether humanity is headed toward extinction because of its own actions, and there is a large amount of evidence backing this argument. In "Limits of Growth," a 1972 non-fiction book written by a team of scientists, researchers introduced and examined a computer simulation that mapped the limits of the earth's finite resources in relation to humanity's exponential growth. Given the increase of world population and the increase of industrialization, global warming and resource depletion, the book predicts that global collapse is likely to occur by the end of the 21st century.
The earth's population, which the United Nations projects to be 9.6 billion by 2050, is becoming unstable. The law of supply and demand dictates that as the supply of the earth's resources decreases (and the need for these resources increases due to population growth), the price of these resources will increase. The more expensive these resources become to extract, the less money is available to spend on the industrialization that produces the materials and
goods that people want and need. More money will be used to extract these precious resources, decreasing funding in other areas, such as agriculture.
The decrease in spending on agriculture will result in a decrease of food production per capita, which is problematic as the population continues to rise. Combined with a decrease in funding for health and education services, the global population will decrease by 2020, according to "Limits of Growth." To avoid losing society's current living situations, the government should put limits on industrial growth by creating laws restricting big business' industrial growth. A law restricting how many children families should also be considered.
The resulting strain on the atmosphere from extraction of resources and industrialization should also be considered. Although there are people who dispute that global warming is a reality, there is an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence that the earth is warming. According to a 2011 brief from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, since the industrial revolution, atmospheric CO2 concentrations have increased by 40 percent. Other greenhouse gas
concentrations have also increased substantially. The brief continues, stating that an increase in greenhouse gas concentrations results in less agricultural production, more distribution of airborne disease and illness and weather extremes, all of which affect human health. If we do not find solutions to decrease our emissions, the planet will decrease the human population itself.
Limiting the growth of industry and population could solve this problem. Some optimists dispute that a global collapse is inevitable, stating that technology will provide the efficient means of sustaining an increased population. However, as an article from The Guardian shows, through a study conducted by NASA, an
increase in efficiency of consumption often results in increased consumption as well. An increase in productivity of agriculture or industry will also result in increased resource throughput, resulting in less life-sustaining resources. Scientists and private industry should concern themselves with how to efficiently produce goods and resources without increasing consumption. People should also consider the idea of not having children, as the increase in population will certainly lead to unsustainable population levels.
The NASA study cited in The Guardian article states "collapse can be avoided and population can reach equilibrium if the per capita rate of depletion of nature
is reduced to a sustainable level, and if resources are distributed in a reasonably equitable fashion." Funding reallocation for renewable energy research and agriculture, as well as restructuring society for better allocation of resources are also possible steps humanity could take to save our civilization. Better distribution of resources could be seen as an alternative to a population-control law.
Even though the predictions cannot be 100 percent certain, the entire world should be focused on this problem. If we do not address these problems now, who knows if today's civilization will exist in the near future.
Gabe Sprague is a junior from Concordia studying English
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