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How Mendeleev Invented His Periodic Table in a Dream
How Mendeleev Invented His Periodic Table in a Dream

“Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.”

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The Science of Why We Sleep and What Happens Inside Our Brains When We Do
The Science of Why We Sleep and What Happens Inside Our Brains When We Do

What your brain’s chemical lullaby has to do with how screens are making you perennially tired.

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Tell Me What to Dream About: An Illustrated Ode to Where We Go When We Go to Sleep
Tell Me What to Dream About: An Illustrated Ode to Where We Go When We Go to Sleep

Because who doesn’t want to be eating teeny-tiny waffles surrounded by teeny-tiny animals?

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Nabokov Gets Food Poisoning and Flees from the Hospital via Fire Escape: History’s Most Entertaining Account of “Homeric Retching”
Nabokov Gets Food Poisoning and Flees from the Hospital via Fire Escape: History’s Most Entertaining Account of “Homeric Retching”

“I returned to my microscope around two. Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began.”

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Famous Writers’ Sleep Habits vs. Literary Productivity, Visualized
Famous Writers’ Sleep Habits vs. Literary Productivity, Visualized

The early bird gets the Pulitzer … sort of.

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Bruce Lee on Self-Actualization and the Crucial Difference Between Pride and Self-Esteem
Bruce Lee on Self-Actualization and the Crucial Difference Between Pride and Self-Esteem

“The less promise and potency in the self, the more imperative is the need for pride. The core of pride is self-rejection.”

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Bruce Lee on the Power of Repose and Yielding as an Act of Strength
Bruce Lee on the Power of Repose and Yielding as an Act of Strength

“One should be in harmony with, and not rebellion against, the strength of the opponent.”

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Mark Strand on Dreams: A Lyrical Love Letter to Where We Go When We Go to Sleep
Mark Strand on Dreams: A Lyrical Love Letter to Where We Go When We Go to Sleep

“Something nameless hums us into sleep… We feel dreamed by someone else, a sleeping counterpart…”

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What the Science of “Sleep Paralysis” Reveals About How the Brain Works
What the Science of “Sleep Paralysis” Reveals About How the Brain Works

How a neurological nightmare illuminates the wondrous workings of the brain-body connection.

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The Art of “Creative Sleep”: Stephen King on Writing and Wakeful Dreaming
The Art of “Creative Sleep”: Stephen King on Writing and Wakeful Dreaming

“In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.”

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