Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Tue, 6 Dec 2011 17:00:00 PST Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110826/01360415701/dailydirt-when-you-sleep-what-do-your-fingers-know.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110826/01360415701/dailydirt-when-you-sleep-what-do-your-fingers-know.shtml besides one Vietnamese guy sleeps. Some medications to help people sleep have led to weird sleep-walking behaviors, but there are plenty of other strange things that people do in their sleep. Here are just a few examples.

• Lee Hadwin is somewhat productive while he sleeps and becomes a decent sketch artist while he's unconscious. He started sleep-drawing while he was 4 years old, and he got better and better at it over the years. So apparently, the 10,000 hour rule for mastery also applies to unconscious learning. [url]
• Swiss researchers are studying how sleeping in a hammock changes people's unconscious brain activity. Gentle rocking motions seem to induce a different kind of sleep -- measurable with scalp electrodes. [url]
• Scientists at UC Berkeley have found that Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep can help relieve painful memories. Memories seem to be reactivated during REM sleep, and understanding this phenomenon may help treat post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. [url]
• To discover more interesting articles on the human mind, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]  

By the way, StumbleUpon can recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.

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]]> urls-we-dig-up http://www.techdirt.com/comment_rss.php?sid=20110826/01360415701 Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:13:00 PST Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090306/0311554021.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090306/0311554021.shtml attention, as Satriani accused Coldplay of ripping off one of his songs. Of course, Satriani's claims were greatly weakened when people turned up other songs from well before Satriani's that sounded quite similar as well.

It looks like REM and Warner Music may be in a similar situation. Michael Scott points us to the news that Warner and REM are suing the Danish pop band Hej Matematik, claiming that the band's song Walkmand copies REM's 2008 song Supernatural Superserious. There's just one (somewhat major) problem. Walkmand is a cover song. The original was by another Dane, Michael Hardinger, and was called Walk, Mand!!, and was recorded in 1981... seventeen years before REM's release. In fact, Hej Matematik got permission from Michael Hardinger before doing their version. I'm guessing REM did not. Feel free to compare all three songs below:





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