R.E.M. debuts new video clip at concert

Michael Stipe thinks the music video is a "dead medium" — but the R.E.M. singer still wants the band's songs to be accompanied by some kind of visuals.

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R.E.M. Inducted Into Music Hall of Fame

The four original members of R.E.M. gave a rare performance Saturday night as the group was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.

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In a paper published last month in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Dr. J. Allan Hobson, a psychiatrist and longtime sleep researcher at Harvard, argues that the main function of rapid-eye-movement sleep, or REM, when most dreaming occurs, is physiological.

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"It helps explain a lot of things, like why people forget so many dreams," Dr. Hobson said in an interview. "It's like jogging; the body doesn't remember every step, but it knows it has exercised. It has been tuned up.

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A coalition of top musicians, including R.E.M. and Pearl Jam, want to know if their music was used by the U.S. military as part of controversial interrogation methods at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

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As the blur between sleep and wakefulness becomes more widely accepted, researchers are devising techniques for capturing the brain's fleeting lapses and vacillations.

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With the news that some in the White House are considering a "trigger"—a delay tactic designed to kill the public option—it's more important than ever to get the word out that we simply can't afford to wait for real reform. Send the video to your friends today.

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...a nap that included REM sleep resulted in nearly a 40 percent improvement over the pre-nap performance More Articles

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What's your favorite "happy" song?

I have a favorite song. It's really a stupid song, when you think about it. But, whenever I feel a little down, it just makes me so happy. Mine is here: . Care to share your own silly, happy song?

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"It's not that you've forgotten. You haven't," he says. "It's a memory of an emotional episode, but it's no longer emotional itself."

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It's the end of the world as we know it...

A number of years back, in the 90's, a local radio station here in the Twin Cities one weekend played the song "It's the end of the world as we know" by REM on a continuous loop. If I recall correctly, I think it was the DJ's protest at a format change.

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IN NOMINATING John Holdren to be director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy - the position known informally as White House science adviser - President-elect Barack Obama has enlisted an undisputed Big Name among academic environmentalists.

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Even though I remember a lot of my dreams, I tend to get hung up on the ones I don't remember. I'll sit up in my bed, trying my best to remember what I dreamt before it fades away.

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It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain. This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of REM's latest release "Accelerate" inadvertently entered the "LP" code instead. Soon boxes of the big, vinyl discs showed up at several stores.

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The American rock band R.E.M. has released all the songs on its new album for free streaming online this week, becoming the first major band to do so on a social networking site.

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REM have become the first well-known rock band to release a new album on a social networking site. Fans can now listen to all 11 tracks from the album Accelerate, a week before the CD is available in the shops on 31 March.

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Going public was a little easier when he realized it might inspire people to change their views about homosexuality. "I didn't always see that," he says. "But I see now, of course that's the case, of course that's needed.

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R.E.M. have announced that they will debut their forthcoming album on the iLike internet application used on social networking site Facebook. The American band will release Accelerate as a stream available for sharing on March 24 - a week before the album hits shop shelves.

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Their last three albums dismantled their reputation as the world's greatest band, but REM are returning to full speed with a new record, Accelerate.

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REM have followed the announcement of their highly-anticipated new album with confirmation of major live dates in the UK this summer.

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You've heard the thirty second clip, you've seen the trailer and the behind the scenes footage from the video shoot of Supernatural Superserious. Now it's time to listen to R.E.M.'s next single in its entirety.

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Rem have announced their 14th studio album

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New research underscores a vast transformation in the way scientists have come to understand the sleeping brain.

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This Article Could Save Your Life

I have a confession to make: I snore. The truth is, the word "snore" does not do justice to what I do while sleeping.

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The best of REM's lesser known music -- a must for REM fans

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Napping can be a great way to catch up on sleep, increase productivity and become more creative. Napping puts the body in a relaxed state, which counteracts the effects of daily stress. Studies have shown that napping can actually decrease risk your of dying from heart disease.

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Why the obsession? And what, exactly, is sleep for? A little more than a half-century ago, most scientists believed that sleep was an inactive state, a kind of parenthesis in living.

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