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Mon. 12/13 - Science-Backed Nap Hacks From Salvador Dalí

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Need a creative boost? Try this napping hack from Thomas Edison and Salvador Dalí––research from this month says it actually works. The woman who successfully traded a bobby pin for a house. And Swedish towns are trying to reclaim their names from IKEA products. Sponsors: GiveWell, Have your donation matched up to $250 by entering Kottke Ride Home at check out at GiveWell.org Tentree, Use code KOTTKE to get 15% off at tentree.com Links: Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí really works (Science Alert) Spark Creativity with Thomas Edison’s Napping Technique (Scientific American) Edison was right: Waking up right after drifting off to sleep can boost creativity (Science.Org) Just 10 Minutes of Moderate Running Can Boost Brain Activity, Study Shows (ScienceAlert) Salvador Dali (Hallmark Art Collection) From hairpin to house: woman who mastered ‘trading up’ realizes dream (The Guardian) 05/27/21 episode about the bobby pin project (Kottke Ride Home) Sweden reclaims place names from IKEA (CNN) Sweden wants to reclaim the names behind Ikea’s toilet brushes and trash cans (Fast Company)  Discover the originals of Sweden (Visit Sweden) 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Subject to availability ends 14th of february welcome to the khaki ride home for monday december 13th

0:29.4

2021 i'm jackson bird today need a creative boost try this napping hack from thomas edison and

0:36.9

salvador dali Research from this month

0:39.7

says it actually works. Plus, the woman who successfully traded a bobby pin for a house,

0:46.5

and Swedish towns are trying to reclaim their names from IKEA products. Here are some of the cool

0:52.9

things from the news today.

0:57.2

Thomas Edison was one of those people who didn't seem to require as much sleep as most of us,

1:02.3

or at least claimed not to. Like my hyperactive 70-year-old APUS history teacher,

1:08.5

Edison insisted he only needed four hours of sleep a night to function.

1:13.5

However, he did take naps. And I don't include that detail to say, well, actually, he did sleep

1:19.3

for more than four hours. In fact, his naps weren't very long at all. That's because as soon as

1:25.1

he started really falling asleep, he would wake himself up again.

1:28.6

And he did this by going to sleep holding a ball in each hand, one of which would hopefully

1:33.0

fall on the floor when he became unconscious and the noise and vibrations of them falling

1:37.3

would rouse him. And when he woke up, he claimed that he could remember all of those

1:41.9

great creative thoughts that sometimes occur to us

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