More on the sleeping air traffic controllers, the headline on this piece read

Odd Work Schedules Pose Health Risk.  (note the employment of the word odd, which seems an odd choice of word to describe a nightshift, since there’s relatively little that’s “odd” about working nights, it’s standard for many jobs. Cities could not function without night workers.)

“Reports of sleeping air traffic controllers highlight a long-known and often ignored hazard: Workers on night shifts can have trouble concentrating and even staying awake.” Read rest here

Penguins do not sleep ever. They nap.  There’s a piece in the latest NYRB about a book The Great Penguin Rescue that describes a penguin rescue from an oil spill in South Africa. In one paragraph the aquarist, Dyan diNapoli who wrote the book describes arriving and seeing all the penguins ripped from their mates and shoved into random pens in an enormous warehouse, “serving as an improvised penguin rescue centre.” I think there were 16,000 penguins. My first thought on reading this description concerned the napping arrangement. If there are 16,000 of you in pens and none of you sleep — how can you possible negotiate napping? We struggle to reach consensus on two couches.

I shall read and report.

I am completely down with the penguins. Keep it Penguin.