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While We Sleep Science Pick of the day

Michael Finkel | National Geographic | 20th July 2018
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Report on the current state of sleep science, full of healthy and hedonistic reasons to sleep more. “REM sleep is when we are our most intelligent, insightful, creative, and free. It’s when we truly come alive. The real wonder isn’t why we sleep; it’s why, with such an incredible alternative available, we bother to stay awake. And the answer might be that we need to attend to the basics of life — the eating and mating and fighting — to ensure that the body is fully ready for sleep” (5,700 words)

What Does Childbirth Feel Like? Life

Nell Frizzell | Guardian | 18th July 2018
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“Pushing out a baby, the final stage, was – and please believe me when I say this – wonderful. After two days of contractions, the almost unbearable wait punctuated by unrelenting crashing waves of pressure, to realise that I was finally going to evacuate was brilliant. Suddenly, I didn’t care where I was, who was with me, what happened. I could have pushed that baby out in the middle of a Lidl car park. This pushing was familiar, innate. Not unlike a shit, of course, but somehow phenomenal in its scale” (1,400 words)

Bad Romance Money

Sarah Jeong | Verge | 16th July 2018
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How authors collaborate and compete to game readers and extract royalties from Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited programme. “Readers pay $9.99 a month to read as many books as they want. Authors are paid according to pages read, creating incentives to produce massively inflated and strangely structured books. The more pages Amazon thinks have been read, the more money an author receives. Every time a reader reads to the end of a 3,000-page book, the author earns almost 14 dollars” (6,900 words)

Video of the Day: Fired On Mars

Poignant tale of a man who gets fired from his corporate job on Mars, and strikes out alone, a colony of one (6’30”)
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite

Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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