Category: “Hmmm…”

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If Getting That Sleep Were Only So Easy…

After thirty years of intensive research, we can now answer many of the questions posed earlier. The recycle rate of a human being is around sixteen hours. After sixteen hours of being awake, the brain begins to fail. Humans need more than seven hours of sleep each night to maintain cognitive performance. After ten days of just seven hours of sleep, the brain is as dysfunctional as it would be after going without sleep for twenty-four hours. Three full nights of recovery sleep (i.e., more nights than a weekend) are insufficient to restore performance back to normal levels after a week of short sleeping. Finally, the human mind cannot accurately sense how sleep-deprived it is when sleep-deprived.

written by Matthew Walker PhD, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

(via themedicalstate)

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Quote of the Day

Libraries literally aren’t just a place to obtain books for free. They’re one of the few public spaces left in our society where you’re allowed to exist without the expectation of spending money.” ~ Amanda Killian

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Quote of the Day

If Iranian hackers want to pull off some big-dick energy shit, they should wipe out US Student Loan debt. Poof! Make it disappear. If the debt disappears, the US will lose this debt as leverage to recruit for the military.” ~ Unknown

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Prophetic

Chernobyl came out on HBO just over a year ago, and a popular center-right talking point was that it showed how communist misgovernance inevitably led to preventable mass casualties (up to 16,000 deaths across Europe have been traced to that disaster).

Anyway, just thinking out loud.