A small part of me is skeptical about the conclusion that the author's friends weren't actually being kept awake from concern about Trump or the Muslim ban because their Google searches were about work, etc.<p>While they might be concerned also about work, very often when people are kept awake by things they are worried about, they pass time focusing on something that is anything <i>but</i> what they are concerned about, and then go back to bed with their mind on whatever different topic than the concern that was keeping them awake.<p>I don't think he is wrong, per se. But the conclusions might be skewed by a bias of his own.