Chad Aaron Hall
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Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
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Most of us are familiar with the brain fog that comes with not getting enough sleep, but the exact processes going on in there remain mysterious. In 2012 scientists made a huge breakthrough in the field by discovering the glymphatic system, which cleans out toxic waste products from the brain during deep sleep by flushing it with cerebrospinal... See more
Brain-cleaning sleeping cap gets US Army funding
When adapting a book to a movie, you lose the narrator—even with voiceover. With that, you also lose the internal knowledge the narrator provides the audience. The intimate scenes between characters become more important for maintaining emotional pull. If you cut these as well, you are left with nothing but a vapid chain of events.
Winter Journal by Paul Auster
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Slow Media are distributed via recommendations not advertising : the success of Slow Media is not based on an overwhelming advertising pressure on all channels but on recommendation from friends, colleagues or family. A book given as a present five times to best friends is a good example.
Lanre Dahunsi • The Slow Media Manifesto | Lanre Dahunsi
The challenges of many small towns in the US have been well documented, in some cases being nothing less than a fight for survival. Leckey commonly hears that the need for affordable housing, broadband internet, day care, and economic development, as well as the toll of the opioid crisis, are among the key struggles facing small communities. But he... See more
David Karas • One man's mission to revitalize small-town America
The Third Planet from Altair by Edward Packard
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These days, among two million Americans, around 20,000 have ankylosing spondylitis (an autoimmune disease I have that can lead to a crooked spine), 50,000 are mentally retarded,112 at least 50,000 are schizophrenic,113 35,000 have dementia (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, etc.),114 10,000 are severely autistic, and 650 are deaf-blind.115