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

Cool Stuff Daily · Dec 28, 2020 · 16m

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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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…