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How your brain takes out the trash while you sleep. The English man who crossed the Alps on a space hopper. And a subreddit where over half a million people pretend our world is just one big MMORPG.
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Links:
Deep sleep drives brain fluid oscillations (Science)
During deep sleep, the brain does housekeeping (Reuters)
Brain pumps comment (Christopher Mims, Twitter)
Experience: I crossed the Alps on a space hopper (The Guardian)
The Extraordinary Steven Payne Documentary Official Trailer (Regijus Simkevicius, YouTube)
What if life were a video game? These 650,000 people imagine it that way. (Washington Post)
Outside: The free-to-play MMO, on reddit (r/Outside, Reddit) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter
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How your brain takes out the trash while you sleep. The English man who crossed the Alps on a space hopper. And a subreddit where over half a million people pretend our world is just one big MMORPG.
Sponsors:
- BitTrust IRA, Waive your signup fee BitTrustIRA.com/kottke
Links:
Deep sleep drives brain fluid oscillations (Science)
During deep sleep, the brain does housekeeping (Reuters)
Brain pumps comment (Christopher Mims, Twitter)
Experience: I crossed the Alps on a space hopper (The Guardian)
The Extraordinary Steven Payne Documentary Official Trailer (Regijus Simkevicius, YouTube)
What if life were a video game? These 650,000 people imagine it that way. (Washington Post)
Outside: The free-to-play MMO, on reddit (r/Outside, Reddit) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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