Month: July 2017

Dandelion is a startup company incubated under the vigilant attention of Google’s parent company Alphabet. The company is seemingly named after a weed and may be it too will flourish across suburban landscapes providing renewable heating and cooling.  Dandelion, which just announced this week that they are now an independent company, has begun selling their geothermal heating and cooling systems to homeowners, starting in the northeastern US market. How Home Geothermal Technology Works The target audience for these products are locations where the summers are hot and the winters are very cold.  But even in these harsher climates the...

Good sleep can do us so much good.  But you might not know that while you sleep and go into something called sleep spindle periods, our hard working brain keeps working on all the data we absorb during the day to be filed away in memory.  Sometimes referred to as “sigma waves,” sleep spindles typify duration’s where the brain is suppressing activity to keep the sleeper in a tranquil state.  Combined with K-complexes they are tell tale characteristics of, and signal the onset of, stage 2 sleep.  Sleep spindle activity has been correlated with the transition of new information into existing knowledge[1]...