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What shuffling a deck of cards actually means [🎞️ lisarqrsedb / vsauce] x.com/fluxfolio_/sta…

Hidden deep in Venezuela’s jungle, Salto Duruhuaya is a striking waterfall known for curtain-like cascade over granite rock. Far from the usual paths, it remains a quiet, lesser-known natural gem 📹 christpheer

Squirrel trying to scare off a bird

@sleepdiplomat @maximumpain333 What’s your opinion on the Uberman Sleep Cycle?

If I could, this post Is dangerously wrong on numerous counts: Claim 1: “8-hour sleep was invented in 1938 by Simmons Beautyrest” False. “Eight hours’ rest” dates to Welsh reformer Robert Owen in 1817 and became the 19th-century labour movement’s rallying cry. Simmons launched its Sleep Research Foundation in 1946, focused on mattress comfort, not sleep duration norms. The 7–9 hour recommendation comes from an AASM/Sleep Research Society panel that reviewed 5,314 scientific articles across nine health domains (Watson et al., Sleep, 2015). No mattress company involved. Sorry. Claim 2: Biphasic “4+2+4” sleep was universal for 200,000 years = distorted. Historian Roger Ekirch documented pre-industrial “first/second sleep” — but the waking interval was roughly one hour, not two, and blocks were ~3–4 hours, not 4+4. This was documented primarily in higher-latitude, long-winter-night Europe — not universally across all human populations or time periods. Claim 3: Shakespeare wrote 1–3 AM; Mozart used “The God Hours” Both invented. No historical record documents Shakespeare’s writing hours. Mozart never used the phrase “The God Hours.” A famous letter portraying divine inspiration is now widely considered a 19th-century forgery by Friedrich Rochlitz. Claim 4: Kleitman faked studies, funded by the mattress industry = defamatory fabrication. Nathaniel Kleitman is the universally recognised “father of modern sleep research” — he established the first sleep laboratory. His archived funding sources: National Research Council, University of Chicago, Ovaltine’s manufacturer. Zero mention of mattress companies. What the epidemiology actually says re: how much sleep you need to survive and thrive…the evidence is overwhelming and drawn from millions of participants: ∙Cappuccio et al. (Sleep, 2010) — 1.38 million participants: sleeping under 6 hours raises all-cause mortality risk by 12%; the lowest mortality is consistently observed at 7–8 hours ∙Itani et al. (Sleep Medicine, 2017) — 5.1 million participants: short sleep raises diabetes risk 37%, cardiovascular disease 16%, hypertension 17%, obesity 38% ∙Shen et al. (Scientific Reports, 2016) — 1.5 million participants: mortality follows a U-shaped curve, lowest at exactly 7 hours, rising sharply below 6 and above 9 ∙Van Dongen et al. (Sleep, 2003): after 14 days at 6 hours/night, subjects performed as poorly as those totally sleep-deprived for 48 hours — and were unaware of their own impairment ∙Spiegel et al. (The Lancet, 1999): 4 hours/night for 6 nights reduced glucose tolerance by 30–40%, producing a pre-diabetic metabolic profile ∙IARC/WHO: night shift work — which chronically disrupts sleep — is classified a Group 2A probable carcinogen The optimal window is 7–9 hours of consolidated sleep, supported by the largest population studies ever conducted. Why waking at 2 AM is the opposite of creative: Sleep inertia is worst when waking from slow-wave sleep, which dominates the early night (Tassi & Muzet, Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2000). Waking at 2 AM places you at the circadian temperature nadir — prefrontal blood flow takes up to 30 minutes to recover, meaning executive function and creativity are maximally **impaired**, not enhanced. Fragmented sleep is also metabolically harmful even when total duration is preserved: Stamatakis & Punjabi (Chest, 2010) showed it drops insulin sensitivity by 20–25%. Calling insomnia a superpower ignores that it doubles depression risk (Baglioni et al., Journal of Affective Disorders, 2011), raises hypertension risk by 350–500% (Vgontzas et al., Sleep, 2009), and involves chronically elevated cortisol. CBT-I — not embracing 2 AM waking — is the evidence-based treatment, recommended by AASM, the American College of Physicians, and the European Sleep Research Society across 50+ RCTs. Bottom line: This post takes a real historical curiosity and wraps it in fabricated quotes, a defamed scientist, and medically dangerous advice. 🤷‍♂️

The most dangerous lie in human history isn’t about food. It isn’t about medicine. It is about sleep. For 200,000 years, humans did not sleep 8 hours. That number was invented in 1938 by a mattress company called Simmons Beautyrest. Before that campaign, the average human slept in two shifts. Historians call it “Biphasic Sleep.” You would sleep for 4 hours, wake up for 2, then sleep for another 4. During that 2-hour window, people would pray, have s*x, write, think, and connect with their families. Some of the greatest works in human history were created in that sacred middle window. Shakespeare wrote most of his plays between 1AM and 3AM during his second wake period. Mozart composed entire symphonies in what he called “The God Hours.” Then the Industrial Revolution needed workers on a fixed schedule. You cannot run a factory on biphasic sleep. So they hired a psychologist named Dr. Nathaniel Kleitman to “prove” that 8 consecutive hours was the biological standard. He faked the studies. He was funded entirely by the mattress industry. And the medical establishment adopted his research without question because it aligned with the factory model. They turned the most creative 2 hours of human consciousness into a “sleep disorder.” They called it “Insomnia.” They medicated it. They gaslight an entire generation that 8 hours of continuous sleep was healthy. They pathologized the exact window of consciousness that produced some of the greatest art, music, and literature in human history. You are not an insomniac. You are experiencing the most natural form of human consciousness. And a mattress company convinced you it was a disease. Stop medicating your genius. Wake up at 2AM. Write the thing. The “God Hours” are calling. ✨🙌🏾💫 © Andre Gonzalves

Still one of my favs

Errr guys did you know humans are about to fly the FURTHEST INTO SPACE EVER in two days?! Yes things are drama rn, but this Artemis mission deserves way more media coverage than it’s getting surely!

@Ash__Kardash_ Here… Turns out my mental health improves dramatically when I stop trying…and just start being 😉

Turns out my mental health improves dramatically when I stop trying to be the bigger person and start telling people to kiss my ass

Genius!!!

Tell me your favorite line from a baseball movie.

😂 😂 😂

Debatably, one of the best games ever made.

If this dropped today yall would’ve sworn it was A.I. RIP Keenan Cahill

@MikeMcDonald89 @JoyceanNoia Snatch?

@JoyceanNoia Have about 10 I really like. If I had to pick 1 maybe American Beauty. Fight club, dune 2, pulp fiction, joker, knives out, American history x, whiplash, the usual suspects, memento, old boy, the matrix, trainspotting some others

I never really realized this- but there's hardly any super highly rated PG movies. At a glance it looks like Project Hail Mary is top ~5 highest rated PG movies of all time according to IMDB?

@WilliamShatner Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) wanted to quit Star Trek. MLK, a huge fan, convinced her at an NAACP event to stay. Her role as a strong, intelligent Black woman on the bridge was changing TV forever. She stayed & later did the famous Kirk/Uhura interracial kiss . Iconic! 🖖

During the first airing of my Star Trek series where a kiss was objectionable; many southern stations pulled the episode & condemned the show. Using today’s vernacular it would absolutely be called“woke DEI crap”because it went against “norms” of society for its time. Not a lot seems to have changed.🤷🏼😑

@ThrillaRilla369 M.A.S.K.

Age yourself with a Toy from your childhood that today's kids wouldn't know.. 🤔

@kershfax54 Absolute garbage two-year run for baseball… First the cheating ass trash can banging Astros, then the dirty BoSox. Kershaw threw 51 breaking balls. ZERO swing-and-misses on them. Game 1, he dominated the same lineup with 11 Ks. Kershaw got robbed of 2 more rings. 😡

3 way tie: John Starks goes 2-18 costing Patrick his ring Rams lose SB36 Dodgers lose Game 7 to the cheating Astros

I love this!!! It’s such a great ancillary benefit.

@VegasHayls Start researching frogs → realize he needs friends → suddenly deep-diving fish species → then aquariums, water parameters, alkalinity, temperature, setups… Hours later I snap out of the research black hole, completely exhausted… and still have zero frogs, fish, or aquariums.

@BlaiseBourgeois If he’s capable of having 2’s then why is it a fold pre?

(Yeah this is a fold pre but I'm not folding anything I open vs this specific guy IP and that sizing)

I woke up with a screaming hangover and got my ass off the couch only got this to happen the very first hand of Day 2 of the Main Event 😂😂😂😂😂

@NickGlowMindset We lose our curiosity… Never lose your curiosity!!!

Man to man: If you’re feeling lost, go back to what you loved as a kid. It usually leads you back to yourself. That version of you wasn’t trying to impress anyone or survive, just exploring. When you tap back into it, things start aligning again not perfectly, but honestly.