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Architects: RichardHO Architects
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Structural Engineer: J S Tan & Associates
M&E Engineer: Wistec Engineers & Associates
Quantity Surveyor: Faithful & Gould
Main Contractor: THL Building Construction Pte Ltd
Interior Contractor: West Point Interiors
Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Vineyard Productions

Our initial survey of the property revealed the building’s good bones. The house’s original condition was quite good but its configuration did not suit modern living. A primary concern was that the kitchen and bathrooms were located at the back of the house, away from activities of the living and dining rooms and inappropriate for entertaining.

We retained the building envelope and reconfigured the layout to create a single, seamless living-dining-kitchen volume, taking special care to maintain the hierarchy of space so central to the design of pre-war shop house. The resultant scheme is a distinctly modern take on a traditional shop house. It received an instant stamp of approval from the owners. “I love the fact that when you enter, you can see straight through the back, but know that the various areas are designed for specific purposes,” says the owner.

To recreate the shop house essence, we redefined two characteristic features of shop house architecture – the skylight and the air well. To emphasise the importance of this space as the fulcrum of the house, we introduced a water feature and koi pond and made the staircase wind around this water feature. Where the air well was once exposed to the elements, it is now equipped with a retractable glass roof and independently operated blinds that reflect 75 percent of the heat back into the atmosphere, keeping the internal temperature comfortable. Depending on the extent to which the blinds are retracted, the time of the day and the intensity of the sun, the shaft of light streaming in cast shadows in varied patterns. On moonlit nights, the glass roof can be fully retracted to take in the view.

The second storey has one wing housing the master bedroom and ensuite bathroom, and the other containing the nursery and daughter’s bedroom. We custom-designed and installed a series of child safety doors at strategic locations, which can be removed once the owner’s daughter comes of age. The master bedroom is a self contained volume reminiscent of a luxury hotel suite: a divider at the entrance doubles up as the bed’s headboard, while a bank of wardrobe in a high-gloss white finish line walls on either side. The piece de resistance is the master bathroom, with its view of lush greenery that whisk one away from the hustle and bustle of city life.  

The guest room on the attic level functions as the owners study when there are no visitors. Here, an enormous 4m high glass door and glass wall are used in place of the usual timber and brick counterparts. We wanted to enhance the sense of space. If you open the door, air can flow through and ventilate the space. Our rationale resonated well with the client, who picked this as his favourite room in the house. The room is large with high ceilings and a real ‘loft’ feel. Sitting at my desk, I can look down into the kitchen and my family room”, says the owner. A surprise awaits intrepid visitors who make the journey all the way up to the rooftop: an outdoor terrace with an infinity edge pool and a panorama of green, the same view shared by the master bathroom.

This is one of the most contemporary shop house we have done so far. But it has the unmistakable feel of a shop house, because we do not believe in creating space in a conserved house that does not have memories of its past. It would be like a person with amnesia. The owner agrees. “I love the clean feel and while the house is very modern, there is no question about its origins:, he says. Asked if the house suits his family’s need, the owner replies, “Very much so. There are spaces we can do things as a family, and there are spaces we can do things separately. It is great for entertaining but also quite intimate at the same time.”

128G Cairnhill Road / RichardHO Architects originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 17 Apr 2013.

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Jorge Roberto Lopes dos Santos, an industrial designer with the Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia in Brazil, is giving doctors a new way to print sonograms for their patients — as life-size replicas.

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It's been known for some time that alcohol in beer, wine and liquor, consumed in large enough quantities, can trigger the release of dopamine in the brain. But a new study reveals that the mere taste of beer, in the absence of any alcoholic mechanism, can touch off a dopamine surge, as well.

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New trendy design for this season's hottest fashion? Nope, it's lung surfactant:

The snapshot is a microscopic image that used fluorescent dye to reveal the patterns made by lung surfactant, a soaplike material that covers the inside of the lungs. Without surfactant, the lungs would collapse.

"During the breathing cycle, as your lung is compressed, it will form this pattern," said Prajna Dhar, the creator of the striking microscopic image. [...] The researchers took the patterned surfactant image as part of a study investigating how nanoparticles affect the body.

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Pega just unveiled a new WindUp Chair at Milan Design Week that charges your smartphone as you sit! Simply wind up the oversized clockwork mechanism incorporated in the chair’s wooden backrest and plug in your phone – as the flywheel unwinds, it charges your device.

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Police in the Spanish city of San Sebastián de la Gomera have cordoned off an abandoned house after finding a 22-foot-long wasp nest.

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Usually, when someone gives you the hairy eyeball, it's just a figure of speech, but this tumor proves the term is sometimes literal.

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Did someone mess up physics? The size of proton, long thought to be understood, turns out to be wrong according to new research:

Speaking [...] at the April meeting of the American Physical Society, researchers said they need more data to understand why new measurements of proton size don't match old ones.

"The discrepancy is rather severe," said Randolf Pohl, a scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. The question, Pohl and his colleagues said, is whether the explanation is a boring one — someone messed up the measurements — or something that will generate new physics theories. [...]

The proton is a positively charged particle in the nucleus of atoms, the building blocks of everything. Years of measurements pegged the proton at 0.8768 femtometers in radius (a femtometer is a millionth of a billionth of a meter).

But a new method used in 2009 found a different measurement: 0.84087 femtometers, a 4 percent difference in radius.

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Tomorrow night's episode of The Simpsons will open with a tasty tribute to Breaking Bad. Of course, it's Marge's baked goods that are the true addictive substance here. And for a change, the key couch doesn't belong to the Simpson family.

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Charismatic criminal Redoine Faid escaped from prison on Saturday, after a "brazen" breakout from a French penitentiary that including holding four guards at gunpoint, and then detonating a series of explosives that blasted through five doors and led him to freedom. His whereabouts are now unknown. More »

Architects: Moon Hoon
Location: Gangwon-do, South Korea
Architect In Charge: Moon-Hoon
Design Team: Kim Suki, Jo Jeong Ho, Lee Kyung Ho
Area: 47,194 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Moon Hoon, Yong Kwan, Yeum Seung Hoon

Rock It Suda is a name for the pension and it’s concept. The client is a base guitarist, a member of the amateur rock group named Rock It Suda. On regular basis, they perform live, at the pension.

The site has a dry river, and an open view in front, and the other sides are, surrounded by the mountain range. The 6 ways of capturing the beautiful scenery gave birth to spatial contraction, expansion, and compression, then themes such as Spain, Barbie, Stealth+Ferrari, cave, and Korean traditional house were added.

Play_architecture is born, when giant soft hammock, shaped like tails are attached to hard secured architecture. It is hoped that, the wind, and movement made by people playing in the hammock, expresses the desire that architecture is not secure and unmoving.

Architecture is alive!: moving beyond it’s limits…also, living in the realm of imaginations.

‘Pensioning’, as it’s referred to in Korea, it a term one used in this country only to describe a foreign activity. In continental Europe, a pension(pronounced ‘paan-shi-on’) is a boarding house or small hotel. Its Korean counterpart emerged as a new breed of accommodation earlier this decade. With the gradual embrace of enthusiasm for leisure and recreation, people started flocking to the suburbs to spend their nights relaxing, barbecuing and enjoying themselves. For city dwellers, in particular, the experience proved to be a liberating though temporary break from the daily grind and suffocating high-rise apartment buildings. Associated with exotic weekend getaways, Korea’s new pensions are built to resemble wood-framed, European, countryside cottages or theme park chalets. A small number of pension designs represent high-end luxury and architectural sophistication. Altogether, pensions are fantasy spaces, exaggerated yet accepted.

‘ whereas an apartment or house is often the result of the conflicting interests of its builders and occupants, this short-stay accommodation is a theatrical overstatement, ‘says architect Hoon Moon. A master at combining fantasy and reality, Moon is an outspoken architectural fetishist who has welcomed with open arms the populism ans commercialism that typify Koreanized pensions.

One of Moon’s clients, the 40-something leader of a band called Rock It Suda, wanted a pension that would double as a super playground. He asked Moon to discard the signature wooden-weenkend-house formula. The rocker’s suggestions for the project were inspired by the intense and mesmerizing impressions he’d brought back from his trip to Spain. ‘I could’ve gone metaphorically with the Spanish theme,’ says Moon. ‘But this image of big horns, like those you’d see at a bullfight, suddenly popped into my mind. I wanted to turn it into a collage and apply it directly to the structure.’

Of primary importance to the architect is spatial design that includes the surrounding landscape. The Rock It Suda project is on the outskirts of Jeongseon, a small dilapidated mining town bordered by a beautiful forest. The pension is between a main motorway(to the rear) and a slope (at the front). Rising from a low platform that covers part of the dry riverbed found at the site are six intriguing ans colorful holiday units, each with a distinctive shape, A separate café is at the back, a few meters away.

‘To create a different scene for each unit, I worked from the inside out. The exterior was done last. The average Koreanized pension for two occupies 33㎡. By extending and compressing this standard floor area, I produced various spatial configurations.’ Moon gave each volume a clearly discernible identity – car, plane, bull, Barbie doll – accompanied by a vibrant colour that gives the unit its name: Ferrari Red, Stealth Black, Spanish Blue, Flamenco White, Barbie Pink and Oriental Gold.

The units include various objects such as nets, hammocks and thick ropes. Suspended from the ceiling, some of them are in tapering extensions that resemble the tails of birds gliding on the wind or fins undulating in water. This clever invention not only adds to the poetic, dynamic nature of the complex but also portrays the pension as a living organism.

‘The moment I mounted those giant horns on the walls, I felt as if the entire structure had come alive,’ says Moon. ‘I’m intrigued by virtual space. I like the think of buildings hovering above the ground, flying around. Take a look at the nets and hammocks I’ve installed inside these structures – I call them “softies” or “action architecture”. They have a great potential for movement, interaction, evolution.’

The tails symbolize a transition from the physical to the virtual, which transforms the gravity-bound architecture into imaginative entries that evoke images of a flying jellyfish or some equally mysterious organism. Moon hopes his design will challenge the viewer’s perception of space and dimension. His goal is always to create ‘a three-dimensional architectural experience’.

A house whose exterior is wrapped in red curtains, a hospital-themed interior oozing sexual fantasies, a church decorated with the explicit image of a cross – Moon’s earlier designs are salaciously red, blatantly honest, provocative and often erotic. ‘I’m an ass who loves women’s derrieres and fishnet stockings,’ he admits. ‘But my superficiality has its own virtue, a kind of naked truth. Without this shallowness, how much more tedious and rational life would be. I like absurdity; it gives life a chace.’ Indeed, his self-proclaimed ‘absurdity’ is so absurd that it conveys purity, a purity that he translated into the animated, cartoonish vivacity of the Rock It Suda pension. Arguably the smartest realization of Moon’s pop-art concoctions, this is a commercially viable building based on an outrageous imagination.

In the Korea architectural community, notorious for its ascetic modernism, Hoon Mooon is a rare breed. He relishes his provocateur’s instincts. But the goal of his architectural creativeness is not to showcase racy work but to communicate emotional energy. He aspires to see the drab urban landscape burst with flamboyant exuberance and to witness people ‘tremble with the energy of emotion’.

‘In architecture, anything is possible,’ Moon prattles on. And the aphorisms continue:

‘Architecture should be void of limitations.’

‘when you’ve done away with all the no’s, you see new possibilities that can be interpreted in a positive light.’

‘Now that’s something to think about as you lie on your Barbie Pink day bed.

Rock It Suda / Moon Hoon originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 15 Apr 2013.

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The book suggestion of this week is about typography. The book is titled The Anatomy of Type by Stephen Coles. This book is an excellent reference because the author write sin details about 100 popular fonts including, FF DAX, FF Meta, Adelle, Frutiger, Mrs Eaves (one of my favorites) and of course Neue Helvetica. From the foundry to the anatomy of the font, this book is essential to any designer or type enthusiast.

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Students and professionals in any creative field can benefit from a good typographic eye. The Anatomy of Type (The Geometry of Type in the UK) is all about looking more closely at letters. Through visual diagrams and practical descriptions, you'll learn how to distinguish between related typefaces and see how the attributes of letterforms (such as contrast, detail, and proportion) affect the mood, readability, and use of each typeface. Nutritional value aside, the spreads full of big type are nice eye candy, too.

The 100 typefaces featured in the book are hand-picked by the author for their functionality and stylistic relevance in today's design landscape. Along with several familiar faces (Garamond, Bodoni, Gill Sans, Helvetica), you'll also discover contemporary fonts that are less common -- and often more useful -- than the overused classics.

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My favorite part about the weather slowly turning warmer are more opportunities to eat together with friends, preferably outdoors. Potlucks are the easiest way to go about that, and lucky for us, there's a whole world out there beyond potato salad. 

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This video by BuzzFeed looks at what might happen if the world lost oxygen for five seconds. Among the possible consequences: the daytime sky would get darker, everyone would get sunburns, and untreated metal would spontaneously weld on contact with other metals. The video also looks at what would happen if atmospheric oxygen suddenly doubled. The video is based on this hypothetical question on Quora.

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You would think that of all film genres, Science Fiction would be the one least likely to feature real buildings. It stands to reason that production designers would want to avoid connections with things so grounded in reality. But in fact, there is somewhat of a tradition of using modern architecture as a foundation for the creation of fictional film worlds.

Science fiction relies on an audience believing in the world they are presented with. Clever camera work, perspective design, and temporary materials can only do so much. What often tips the balance in favour of using real, Modern buildings – rather than a temporary set – is the authenticity and atmosphere they provide the Science Fiction genre.

Read about Modern architecture in Sci-Fi films Blade Runner, Gattaca, Aeon Flux, and more, after the break…

In the past, set designers have had to choose between building a temporary set or finding a suitably cinematic existing space. But there was always a trade off: a purpose built sound stage is expensive and the scale is limited, but shooting on location is always problematic due to time pressures and permits. Then there is the problem of not just what to build but how to build an environment of the future.

Luckily those in the architectural profession busy themselves with this very conundrum on a daily basis and occasionally an architect will come up with a solution so radical and unconventional that it is also fit for Hollywood. This was the case for Woody Allen’s 1973 sci-fi comedy Sleeper, which featured a revolutionary structural experiment by Charles Deaton.

This experimental house (he called the ‘Sculptured’ house) projects the kind of purist simplicity that is associated with buildings of the future. The Sculptured House’s white molded forms suggest a level of streamlined structure, integrated services and advanced materials that hadn’t yet been achieved by the industry, let alone the ability to imitate it on a sound stage. The solidity of this permanent structure gave a credibility to the set design, which would have been difficult to achieve using temporary mock ups.

Ridley Scott’s 1982 release Blade Runner, a film whose oppressive built density forged a new era of production design and spawned a whole generation of computer games graphics, featured the distinctive architectural language of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House (a building which has a list of TV and film credits to rival any of those on the Hollywood Walk of Fame), using the house’s Mayan-inspired textile blocks to create a world which spoke of ancient decay and a civilization past its prime. The hugely popular film Gattaca, also incorporated a Frank Lloyd Wright original – this time the Marin County Civic Centre, which stood in as headquarters of a futuristic aerospace corporation. A surprising choice, considering it was completed in 1957.

Of course, the (relatively) recent emergence of animation technologies means that there are now a host of digital alternatives available to production designers to create fictional worlds – which you would expect would reduce the reliance on tangible structures in film. While this may well be the way things go, we are still seeing a prevalence of modern architecture in contemporary sci-fi films.

Aeon Flux, released in 2006, made use of Berlin’s Baumschulenweg Crematorium (also seen in 2011′s Cloud Atlas) and the Tierheim Animal Shelter to create a home for a future utopian society – glossy and calm on the outside but greatly troubled beneath the surface. These buildings’ characteristic simplicity was emphasised by the production team to create a sense of artificial calm in this carefully manufactured society. The absence of hustle and bustle, the lack of clutter and disorder here creates an unnerving disquiet. Again, the authenticity afforded by these fully realised structures gives credibility to Aeon Flux’s world.

Contemporary architecture can even be seen in big budget films which make full use of CGI technologies. Michael Bay’s 2011 release Transformers 3 features Milwaulkee’s beautiful Art Museum by Santiago Calatrava, surrounded by animated action scenes on a colossal scale. The polished sculptural space provides some aesthetic relief from the grisly mechanics of the Autobots and certainly the operable brise soleil gives Optimus Prime a lesson in grace.

These unique pieces of contemporary architecture sit easily within a vision of the future because that is exactly where they were intended to reside. They are the result of unnerving questioning of conventions and the extension of conventional boundaries. They also provide the films in which they have featured a level of authenticity and realism which convince and engage an audience.  Although in most cases these buildings are involved with a future gone wrong – from the dark foreboding environment of Blade Runner to the clinical and menacing world of Aeon Flux, the regular referencing of modern architecture in Science Fiction can also be taken as a compliment. It shows that contemporary design is seen as having a part in our future and acknowledges that the architectural profession is an important leader in shaping that future.

Through the Lens: Sci-Fi & Architecture originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 12 Apr 2013.

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I used to spend most of my work day sitting at a desk on my computer. Two years ago, that changed when my wife gave me a FitDesk X for my birthday. It is easily my most used birthday gift ever.

The FitDesk X is an upright style stationary bike with a comfortable saddle that also has a padded desk area on which to place your laptop or tablet, allowing you to work (or surf) and get a workout at the same time. The FitDesk utilizes electromagnetic resistance which makes it incredibly quiet so the rider can even be on the phone at the same time (as long you don’t sound winded). The bike is relatively light (about 40 lbs), folds up, and is easy to move. Besides using it during my work day, I pedal while watching my favorite TV show or when reading a book.

When traveling for business, I seek out the hotel’s gym to use their bikes. While I can read a book, watch TV, or use my iPad on these stationary bikes, I really can’t get any work done since there is no platform to hold my laptop. I look forward to getting home and back on my Fitdesk where I can ride for hours. There is an odometer to keep track of total distance traveled.

If you want to get fit (or stay fit) and your time is limited, the Fitdesk is a great solution to work and exercise at the same time. As an added bonus, this USA based company has excellent customer service.

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After living 17 years in the ground, a swarm of cicadas ominously called "Brood II" is set to come topside. And if you live on the Eastern seaboard, you're in for a treat, as billions (that's right) of Magicicada will swarm and mate, and, of course, "sing" loudly at night.

Buy some earplugs so you don't have to say goodbye to a good night's sleep, then read on for some neat 17 year cicada facts, from Dan Mozgai's very cool Cicada Mania website:

They’ll attack land on you if you’re using a power tool or lawn mower. Cicadas think the sounds made by power tools and lawn maintenance equipment are made by cicadas. They get confused and will land on the people using the equipment!

Cicadas have five eyes: Cicadas have two, obvious, large, compound eyes, and three ocelli. Ocelli are three jewel-like eyes situated between the two main, compound eyes of a cicada. We believe ocelli are used to detect light and darkness. Ocelli means little eyes in Latin.

Cicadas pee: Yes cicadas pee, so wear a hat when walking under trees if that sort of thing bothers you. Cicadas drink tree fluids, and then expell the excess fluid they do now need. People call it “honey dew” or “cicada rain”.

There are billions of them: there are literally billions of 17 year cicadas. Why? One theory suggests that the large number of cicadas overwhelms predators, so predators are never able to eat them all and cicadas, and many always survive to mate. This is a survival strategy called “predator satiation”.

Stragglers: Periodical cicadas that emerge in years before they are supposed to emerge are called stragglers.

17 and 13 are prime numbers. Scientist speculate that one reason why these cicadas emerge in 17 or 13 year cycles is because those are prime numbers. The fact that 13 & 17 are relatively large* prime numbers makes it difficult for predators to synchronize with them. (*Relative to the average lifespan of an animal.) Annual cicadas (cicadas that arrive every year) often have wasps specialized to prey on them; periodical cicadas have no such wasp because no wasp could evolve to synch with it.

17 year and 13 year broods co-emerge every 221 years. Cicada Broods usually don’t overlap geographically, and it is very rare when they emerge in the same year. The next time Brood II (the brood emerging in 2013) will co-emerge with another brood will be in 2115 when it co-emerges with Brood XIX. You might need a time machine to see that happen.

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At 30 large this isn't a watch any of us mortals will be buying anytime soon, but the design of the Ressence Type 3 is fascinating enough that you'll want to take a look. First off you'll notice there's no crown; all adjustments are made on the back of the watch, which is actually a series of concentric dials.

As if that wasn't cool enough, take a close look at the display:

It practically looks like the graphics are projected onto that curved surface, no? Reading the description of how they pulled that off clues you in as to why the price tag is so lofty.

The indications and their mechanisms are mounted inside a bubble crafted from extremely tough, anti-reflective sapphire crystal. The complication and indications follow the shape of the crystal. The mechanism (28 gears, 57 jewels) is enclosed in an upper compartment filled with a naphtha-type liquid that has a more similar index of refraction to the sapphire crystal than air does. Refraction bends light when it passes from one material to another, e.g. air-to-glass or glass-to-air. With the fluid-filled dial indications, refraction is greatly minimised, which tricks the brain into seeing the dial in two-dimensions rather than three. A thermal valve automatically adjusts for any expansion or contraction of the fluid.

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Mali gave Hollande a camel as a thank you for sending troops to repel Islamist fighters from the country. Unfortunately that camel ended up a stew.

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Russian photographer and economist Andy Prokh has captured a series of black and white photos that shows the sweet friendship between his 4-year-old little girl Catherine and her cooperative tomcat Lilu. PetaPixel describes the series aptly, “The photographs all have a similar grungy aesthetic, and although some of them clearly have a touch of Photoshop trickery, most of them rely on chance and capturing the right moment in which Lilu decides to ‘play along’.” You can see more of the series at Prokh’s online portfolio or at PetaPixel.

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Patients at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit are the “lucky” first to wear new gowns designed for greater comfort, a bit of style, and a shred more decency. Worn like a robe, the new patient gown is securely closed in the front and back, and has a v-shaped neckline so it doesn’t look like you’re wearing a bedsheet.

Developed by Henry Ford Innovation Institute in collaboration with Michigan’s College for Creative Studies, the new gown was made to be warmer using thicker material, works using snaps instead of straps, and is made for easy access when working with IV lines.

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It may be tempting to seek solace in slumber after a traumatic event, but a study from the October 2012 issue of Neuropsychopharmacology found that sleeping too soon after trauma might lead to increased post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. Two groups of rodents were exposed to a predator's scent, a traumatic event for a mouse. For six hours afterward, one group was prevented from sleeping, whereas a control group was not. The sleep-deprivation group displayed fewer physiological markers of stress than the control group and less PTSD-like behavior, such as freezing and a heightened startle response.

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