Dec. 28, 2020
Mon. 12/28 - What If 2020 Was Just One Big MMORPG?
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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