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What Caffeine Actually Does To Your Brain
For all of its wild popularity, caffeine is one seriously misunderstood substance. It’s not a simple upper, and it works differently on different people with different tolerances — even in different menstrual cycles. But you can make it work better for you.
Sleeping Like Superman: I Witnessed One Man’s Journey Into Madness
Last week, Kotaku Australia editor Mark Serrels set out to accomplish something massive: to adjust his sleep schedule from a solid eight hours per night into what’s know as a polyphasic sleep schedule. That is, to go from sleeping eight hours a night, to having 20-minute naps every four hours. It took a week before the the experiment was called off, and what I witnessed during that time was one man’s slow descent into madness.
Waking Up To The Future: The Cool World Of Cryogenic Stasis
I’ve always thought as a hardcore technology addict that I was born in the wrong era. I was born in 1988, and based on the average life expectancy (assuming nothing goes awry before then), I’ll live until the year 2067. Not a bad innings, but there’s still so much awesome stuff I’ll miss after I die, and that got me thinking. What if I didn’t die? What if I could preserve myself and return when technology truly is amazing? Turns out I can. It’s called cryonics, and it’s here now.
How Close Are We To Recording Our Dreams?
The human brain is the world’s most impossible machine. It contains immense processing power that science hasn’t even begun to fathom, and recreating it is near impossible. But instead of building a computer that matches the power of the human brain, how close are we to recording what comes out of it at a conscious or subconscious level?
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