“Mention posture, and people conjure antiquated images of stiff-backed children with books balanced on their heads,” writes Catherine Saint Louis in this week’s Thursday Styles section of The New York Times. “But today there is a new focus on standing tall that is less a matter of etiquette than a strategy for keeping aging bodies supple and pain free.”

There’s a great little article in last week’s New York Times, Down For The Count which overviews recent scientific research on sleep.

“Sleep has attracted a tremendous amount of attention in science, but we really don’t know what sleep is.”