Alertness

IT IS a cornerstone of Gladstone's resource boom, but shift work isn't a gig for the faint-hearted.

A new survey of Twitter trends shows people all over the world begin their day on the right foot, but cheerful moods quickly turn sour as the workday progresses.

In the digital iTunes era, most of us are familiar with making playlists even if only -- as in my family -- to separate one person's downloads from another's. (My kids don't want their father's Bruce Springsteen or Meat Loaf on their iPods.)

Sociologists at Cornell University have turned to Twitter to study the collective mood of Americans, finding that people tend to cheer up by breakfast time and gradually taper their sentiments by late afternoon, before rallying again near bedtime. The res

Washington, Sept 30 : A new research has claimed that people all over the world awaken in a good mood but the cheer deteriorates with the commencement of the workday.