How one person “cheated sleep”

Polyphasic sleep is a method of training your body to requiring much less sleep by taking multiple short naps throughout the day instead of one long sleeping time at night. Over at Quartz, science-trained journalist Akshat Rathi reports on his year-long experiment attempting to “cheat sleep.” Read the rest

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Tie your shoes the Ukrainian way

The “Ukrainian lacing” method puts a pair of loops in both sets of top eyelets, cross-laces to the bottom, and anchors the laces with a pair of hidden knots, so that you can slip your foot into a “tied” shoe, then tighten it and tie a perfect bow with no loose ends. Read the rest

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