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The Case for Napping at Work

Most Americans don't get enough sleep. People are exhausted. It's time for a wake-up call. It's time to embrace the office nap.

The Selfless Gene

Olivia Judson The Atlantic
It’s easy to see how evolution can account for the dark streaks in human nature—the violence, treachery, and cruelty. But how does it produce kindness, generosity, and heroism?

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James Randi: Homeopathy, Quackery and Fraud

Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing indictment of irrational beliefs. He throws out a million dollar challenge to the world's psychics to prove what they do is real.

How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain

When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout.

Friday Nite Videos -- October 24, 2014

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Google VP Leaps From Stratosphere

Alan Eustace, a senior vice president at Google, set a new world record today by completing the highest-altitude free fall yet--parachuting from 135,908 feet (or 25 miles) above Earth.

The record was previously held by daredevil skydiver Felix Baumgartner, who leaped from 24 miles above Earth in October 2012.

To put that in perspective, scientists say you officially enter space at 73 miles above Earth's surface. Eustace largely self-funded the project on the cheap, with a minimalist approach to technology.

Friday Nite Videos -- October 17, 2014

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