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Back on another edition of the Cool Stuff Ride Home podcast, Marcus Paff and Reggie Rizzu here with you, as

always, bringing you some of the more interesting stories of the day on today's episode how much would you pay for your own private island we'll tell you what you need plus the animal that sleeps in four second increments and a big development in the medical world as there's a new pacemaker that uses the human

heartbeat to recharge itself.

All that plus this week in history coming up on Cool Stuff Ride Home.

Reggie, as a parent, you might relate to this first story.

Citing a report in the journal Science, the AP profiles a new discovery that chin strap penguins of Antarctica

actually take thousands of short naps each day in order to stay alert and protect their young.

Each quote unquote nap lasts approximately four seconds. That's it.

Four seconds, these micro-sleeps, as they've been dubbed, actually total around

11 hours of sleep per day and are apparently enough to keep the parents going for weeks.

I don't know how when you break it up in that manner. Per Niels Rattenborg, a sleep researcher

and co-author of the new study, quote, these penguins look like drowsy drivers, blinking their eyes open and shut,

and they do it 24-7 for several weeks at a time.

What's surprising is that they're able to function okay and successfully raise their young,

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