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Wednesday 24.05.17 ‘I never really grasped what big pop gigs were for until I saw one through my daughter’s eyes’ By Alexis Petridis 12A uards SecuritySecurity guards Shortcuts get 40 struggle to get 40udy Ge man st winks, a Germanurnali studysts says, but journalists ested ... are wellare wel rested ... Sleep But sleep surveys rarely take professions into account. Perhaps Which workers the biggest comes from the US, where, last March, the Centers get the most for Disease Control and Preven- shut-eye? tion published sleep data in its morbidity and mortality weekly report . Analysing surveys of almost 180,000 working adults ore striking than the in 29 states, they calculated the M slim variation across percentage of people who got professions in a sleep zz 6.27 fewer than seven hours a night survey published this week is SECURITY GUARDS HOURS across various demographics, the headline result: Germans get including profession. Overall, quite a lot of it . 36.5% of people reported not The research, carried out in 6.35 getting enough sleep, rising to a Germany for newspaper Frank- zzz high of 58.2% among “communi- POSTAL AND DELIVERY WORKERS HOURS furter Allgemeine Zeitung, with cations-equipment operators”. data from the Berlin-based By category, production workers Institute for Economic Research , 6.41 (including food processors and found that no one got fewer than zzzz steel workers, for example) got BAKERS HOURS six hours and 16 minutes a night. the least amount of sleep on aver- This is below the recommended age. Again, you may not fi nd that minimum of seven hours , but not surprising , but it is worth noting by enough to keep us, well, awake zzzzzzzz 7.16 that all such surveys show that at night (the average fell just shy JOURNALISTS HOURS sleep deprivation rises as wages of seven hours). fall – challenging the assumption Can you guess who gets the about highly paid bankers burn- least amount of sleep among 7.21 ing the midnight oil. the 100 professions surveyed ? zzzzzzzzz HOURS Before we put this subject LECTURERS Security guards, that’s who. to bed, let us consider a survey Unsurprising, perhaps, given the conducted by mattress company rigours of shift work. Similarly, 7.24 Sealy earlier this month. Again, it delivery workers and bakers zzzzzzzzzz found that transport, communi- SHOP ASSISTANTS HOURS reported nights of less than six cations and construction workers and a half hours. get bad sleep (more than 20% And the best-rested workers? reported sleeping for fewer than Shop assistants, who reported To the extent that we can UK reported getting 6.8 hours fi ve hours a night ). However, it an average of seven hours and 10 take seriously self-reported a night in a survey for the Royal included a role not featured else- minutes a night. They were closely time counts, these results Society for Public Health last where that happened to come out followed by – and this will raise seem positive in the age of year. Again, not far off the magic worst – more than a quarter got some eyebrows among the people distracting smartphones and seven hours, albeit some way fewer than fi ve hours of sleep a bringing these words to you – brain-grinding anxieties. short of the 7.7 hours respond- night . The job ? “Mother.” journalists. Actors did well, too. The average person in the ents felt they needed. Simon Usborne Herbal remedies relaxation aids and “natural the benefi cial eff ect. You might S a g e energy drinks ... have been actually get some rosemary Moss has also studied sage. Why students popular this exam time as oil that isn’t having any He found “ performance enhance- alternatives to caff eine”. benefi cial eff ect.” ments in aspects of memory are hitting the Molecules in rosemary It is also worth and also attention – the speed at rosemary hard oil have “been shown remembering, perhaps which you can attend to some- previously [to] have the aided by a cup of thing. They are small eff ects, ability to interact with the rosemary tea, that evidence but they seem to be benefi cial ”. brain’s neurotransmitters ”, for the benefi ts of herbal tudents might be known according to Mark Moss, remedies mostly comes from Ginkgo biloba S for dabbling with mind- head of the psychology small-scale studies . In any Th is supplement, extracted from altering herbs, but the department at Northumbria case, here are some other the leaves of the ginkgo tree, is latest tale of herbal experimenta- University. Compounds are remedies that might be believed traditionally to give tion doesn’t quite tally with the absorbed into the blood useful to students . cognitive benefi ts, but one review stereotype. Following a report by inhaling the aroma. found no compelling evidence that rosemary may improve “ They interact with what Peppermint that it was helpful in healthy memory, students have been is called the cholinergic Last year, Moss presented young people. “Sometimes we seeking it out to give them the system, which is involved fi ndings that showed that have found benefi cial eff ects edge in exams. in memory ,” he added. volunteers who drank and sometimes we have n ot ,” Health store Holland & Barrett Herbal remedies, says Moss, peppermint tea before says Moss. Perhaps no amount of has reported a 187% increase in are not a “magic bullet”. “ Y ou tests had better memory and supplements and herbal teas can sales of rosemary oil in the past need the right molecules in the alertness than those who were make up for rest and revision. year. The store also said that right proportions in order to get given camomile tea. Emine Saner 2 The Guardian 24.05.17 Big on the internet ... BTS; (below) Selena Gomez Pass notes No 3,860 Justin Johannesson BUY YOU A DRINK? Music it hit No 26 , the best position Age: 41. ever for a K- pop album. Appearance: Risque. Meet BTS, the The pop industry is a tightly Ooh, who’s he? A Scandinavian novelist, good controlled big-money game in for 800 pages of psychologically acute detail K-pop kings of South Korea. But BTS were the suff used with an overwhelming sense of social media accidental product of a smaller foreboding? Or the star of a new Scandi-noir independent record label, who series, good for 800 hours of psychologically spotted a market for a slightly acute detail suff used with an overwhelming more thoughtful tone within Drinks are a safe bet sense of foreboding? Neither. n an age when the charts the exhaustingly energetic on a first date – but Is he the inventor of hygge? Is he a new Ikea have become an algorithmic world of K-pop: the band have what you order can wardrobe? No – he was best man at Pippa I determine whether spaghetti of streaming plays, included songs about loneliness Middleton’s wedding to James Matthews . And you get a second, radio and downloads, the purest and gender politics. Their label according to dating he’s Icelandic, on his father’s side, incidentally. way of measuring who is up and was the fi rst to embrace the app Hinge. You’re Oh, I thought she looked lovely . That Giles who is down in pop might be the messy, unvarnished nature best off with a bloody Deacon dress . Kate’s earrings . The glass Billboard Social 50 , a sub-chart of social media, allowing the mary ( 57% success marquee . Those arms she borrowed from that measures reach across band to reveal more of their real rate), followed by Madonna . All ruined by the best man’s speech. social networks. personalities. Plus, BTS run only an old fashioned Surely not. Yes! Reportedly lewd, crude and At last Sunday’s Billboard one group account for each plat- (35%) and a beer went down like a lead balloon . (27%). Steer clear of music awards , its output was form, giving them cyclonic power What did he say? He took to the microphone tequila, which came refl ected in the category of with which to dominate the web. bottom (20% ). at 11.30pm, after a fi ve-course meal ... top social artist . This included With seven members, they Uh-oh … And compared Pippa to a dog. four of global pop’s usual are petite in K-pop terms. Their How awful! Has anyone dared repeat this suspects: Justin Bieber , Selena rivals EXO have 12 members, split calumny so that we may be fully outraged on Gomez , Ariana Grande and into two sub-groups. Their other her behalf? Yes . Apparently, he said : “Now to Shawn Mendes . The winner, rivals, the girlband Twice, have the love of James’s life : beautiful, energetic, loyal, though, was none of the above. nine members. Both appeared soft-mouthed, comes on command, great behind. Instead, it was the group who higher on Forbes’ Korea Power But that’s enough about James’s spaniel, Rafa. ” have topped the Social 50 for 31 Celebrity list this year , but BTS ’s That’s it? That’s not really comparing her to a weeks in the past year: BTS. Army has allowed them to dog , is it? It is. Yes, BTS, everyone’s favour- break borders. He wasn’t calling her a dog, though. He was just ite seven-boy South Korean The band also have looks doing that misdirection thing. It’s a crime against pop act. Yes, BTS, the most- on their side. At the Billboard comedy, not against the bride. Wait till you hear retweeted artist on Twitter in music awards, band what he said next.