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A new report was unveiled today that found that U.S. mothers do not get enough sleep!

Um... did they really need a study to figure this out? Have the sponsors of this study not met any mothers before?

Well, upon further investigation, it appears that the study was sponsored by a pharmaceutical company that wants to encourage sleepless mothers to talk to doctors about prescription sleep aids. And guess what? That paraceutical company happens to sell prescription sleep aids!

They have a website called Sleepless Moms with tips on how to get more/better sleep, but none of the tips really address the societal reasons mothers are pulled in so many directions that they don't have time to sleep.

What strategies do you use to balance work and life and still have enough time to get a good night's sleep? Leave a comment and share your experiences.

Technorati Tags: insomnia, work life balance, busy mother

I am going to file this one under, "Yikes!"

AOL recently released three months worth of search data to researchers. To "protect the privacy" of the searchers, their names were replaced by identifying numbers. Of course it isn't too difficult to narrow down the identity of an "anonymous" searcher by looking at what they searched for. The author of this article in the New York Times did exactly that.

AOL has since taken down the data and apologized, but the damage has already been done. It has been copied and spread all over the internet now.

The point is that our privacy is slipping away. There are records of everything you do and it doesn't take much for these records to get out. Be careful. Be outraged.