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Traditional Chinese Medicine experts are suggesting that people sleep one extra hour each day during hot weather periods, according to Shanghai Daily. Generally, sleeping between midnight and 4am is best, since the organs need that time to rest, and an one hour nap at noon can decrease the incidence of cardiovascular diseases in seniors. Personally, we'd love to take that allotted one hour nap time (especially considering the temperatures these days)... unfortunately, noon's about the time that the endless construction around the city - and our building - starts. Do TCM practitioners have any tips for sleeping through drilling noises so loud they shake our apartments?

This week, escape the Shanghai rainstorms by exploring Norwegian electro funk, learning about traditional Chinese medicine, or trying to score some free booze by playing pool and beer pong. Just don't forget to stop by the Shanghaiist Happy Hour on Tuesday, when we pay our tribute to the late John Hughes.

50 year old Wei Shengchu has loved traditional Chinese medicine since young. On 25 Sept 2002, he read on the papers that a Canadian man had stuck 420 needles on his rigt and left arms and successfully clinched a Guinness record for himself. Wei was very surprised since he thought this was no great feat at all, and 420 was not a particularly big number. According to Wei's calculations, if he worked on both disinfecting the needles and piercing them at the same time, then he would be able to stick between 5-7 needles per minute. If all the needles were to be disinfected first and consecutively pierced, then he would be able to stick in 12 needles each minute. That would be the maximum possible speed. Through repeated research, trial and error, Wei decided to stick the needles in his face and head, working his way up from 1380 needles all the way up to 2100. He began to develop great confidence in his technique and even went in public to perform.

Shanghai Daily tells us that the Shanghai Health Bureau has shut down three clinics in the city for "faulty practices", albeit just temporarily. They are namely - Shanghai Zhongtai Hospital, Shanghai Shenguang Clinic and Shanghai Hong'an Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic.

One of the nice features on Google Calendar is the ability to add the lunar calendar on top of the western one, which helped us verify that today, Thursday, is indeed the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar.

China's hospitals and in particular, Chinese hospital food, do not necessarily have the highest of reputations. Now the whole scare factor of heading off to a Sino hospital has just raised that little bit more with the recent story that a poisoner is at large in a Harbin hospital restaurant.

After reports of 121 skulls being found in a remote ravine on the border of Qinghai and Gansu provinces, western China was already starting to look a little creepy, even if the skulls may have actually been a part of a Tibetan Buddhist ritual, as the unlinkable South China Morning Post reports: