Michelle Spear
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 4
- Latest publication
- Sep 22, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Scroll.in
- Top 500K sites
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- Jul 8, 2026
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How lunch and sleep pressure can cause the ‘3pm slump’ (opens the original)
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You’ve just finished eating lunch and you’re back at your desk, ready to dive into the rest of the day’s work. Yet by 3pm, you find your eyes starting to droop. Before long, the only thing you can think about is how much you’d like to take a nap. The “afternoon slump” (also sometimes called the “3pm slump”) is a common experience. It’s that distinct drop in energy that tends to occur in the mid-afternoon hours. While it’s tempting to blame this sudden urge to snooze on what you’ve eaten for lunc
Why you keep buying books you don’t read – and why it feels so good (opens the original)
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At busy times, I find I simply cannot read as much as I would like to. Life has a habit of filling every available hour with work, meetings, emails, chores, errands and deadlines. Standing in one of my natural habitats – a bookshop – it is frustrating to see so many things I want to read while knowing I do not have the time. My usual consolation is to buy the book anyway and let a small, satisfying pile build up, looking ahead to the next quieter stretch when I might finally open them. It is odd
Why are you exhausted but your brain is fired up? (opens the original)
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The clock reads 2.13am. You are exhausted. Your eyes ache, your body feels heavy and the alarm is already beginning to loom over the night, yet your brain refuses to let go. Instead, thoughts arrive in waves. Did you send that email? What if you forgot something important? Perhaps now is also the perfect time for your mind to replay a conversation from 2017 with forensic precision. Many people recognise this frustrating state of being “wired but tired” – the paradoxical feeling of being physical
How can you be tired yet wired? Blame your stone-age brain (opens the original)
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The clock reads 2:13am. You are exhausted. Your eyes ache, your body feels heavy and the alarm is already beginning to loom over the night, yet your brain refuses to let go. Instead, thoughts arrive in waves. Did you send that email? What if you forgot something important? Perhaps now is also the perfect time for your mind to replay a conversation from 2017 with forensic precision. Many people recognise this frustrating state of being “wired but tired” – the paradoxical feeling of being physical
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